When everyone is ready, the team sets out to finish the floor. This ends up taking a bit of time though as after another tight squeeze, they have to climb through two more pits, thankfully empty. Before the last fight, this wouldn’t have taken too much time, but now the group is a wee bit more cautious when descending into the things.
Th...
2023-05-29 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostJim was the first to react. He wasn’t on the side the Guard was attacking from, but that suited his combat style anyway. It would almost seem like an unfair match. Jim didn’t have magic.
Except he didn’t need magic, though he didn’t just depend on normal strength either. Rather, he had a secret he hadn’t meant to have. Everyone e...
2023-05-27 15:00:41 +0000 UTC View PostI will try to get both chapters up late today or early tomorrow, but life happened and I'm currently running on no sleep and will be calling off sick from work as well because this gosh darn headache isn't letting me think straight. Even if it does go away, it isn't like I trust myself to drive to work without sleep. Sorry if this is a little ra...
2023-05-26 12:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostBack with Jason, despite each hit pushing him back, it was the tardigroid’s fists that failed first. The cracks spread far enough that the chitin shattered, leaving the monster with jelly-like hands. This forced the boss to switch to using their buckler-like chitin guards on its arms to defend itself.
Except in doing so, the boss had giv...
2023-05-24 15:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a reason for the saying about a lion using its full strength, even when hunting a rabbit. Jason isn't sure if it is literal, but in this case, the boss was finding the literal part of that saying. Though comparing Lily to a normal irl rabbit isn't exactly fair.
Lily is a small ball of sharp energy looking for an outlet and the bos...
2023-05-24 15:39:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, the group wasn’t as lucky while descending. The myconids in the pit managed to spot Jeremy as he climbed down. It wasn’t on purpose or anything, just dumb luck that one of them looked over at the right time to notice.
So as Jim and the rest of the team are making their way down, Jeremy is doing what he can to keep the area b...
2023-05-19 15:06:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe dungeon boss wasn’t just one body melded to another. There was no jarring line that went from tardigrade to humanoid. Rather, the front section of the torso simply raised upwards, freeing the front claws to act like arms.
As if a pill bug in reverse. Except the changes went deeper. Chitin formed sections of defensive plates on the ar...
2023-05-17 14:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostBright and early, Rosha returns to the trap. With the fronds taken care of, she could pass through on her own. However, she wasn’t looking to get a solo beat down from the dungeon boss.
That meant she needed to handle at least enough for Courtney to get through. While it felt a little mean to single her out, Rosha was certain that Jason ...
2023-05-17 14:17:43 +0000 UTC View PostOf course the prepared mycelium pseudo-wood was a wonderful thing as well. Though that kind of stuff would be left to others to care about. Jeremy didn’t really have a hand in building the actual town so ready made building supplies aren’t exactly in his remit.
Still, whether it was the food or the building supplies, the group only too...
2023-05-12 11:13:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the party wasn’t 100% on board with continuing, in the end they had come prepared to scale a cliff or two so turning back now would feel bad. In particular, Bill pointed out the fact they should have already known all of this coming in today. Nevermind the fact that no one had really considered what the cliff actually meant for the group...
2023-05-12 11:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostEach tuft a delicate puff ball of fibers. Shaped unnaturally so that even the slightest movement would be magnified. All towards triggering a trap with the only limits being the dungeon’s low level.
Even though Rosha’s experience with this sort of trigger was quite low, she could already see improvements that were possible. A lighter m...
2023-05-10 12:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes Rosha over ten minutes to touch anything. While she is relatively sure that the triggers for the trap are only located where she can see stuff, well, she can’t see the other parts to determine otherwise. This time was spent trying to peek through the foliage at the edge of the path.
Then, once mostly certain instead of just rela...
2023-05-10 12:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post![[D'sP] Landscape Drawing of Eleventh Floor](https://img5.samukata.com/storage/3/ma/ao/4e9b88-019e87b6-1e5e-7d10-ae4f-98c7844de450.png)
I only drew one herd of goats and a single aquatic cow. Also, the mushrooms would be thicker, but I wasn't going to draw them all.
2023-05-09 04:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostNext morning, it is safe to say the town noticed the new instances on the sixth floor. Jim was thankful that he had been burning the midnight oil last night after the delve and caught it. That allowed him to get ahead of it and come up with some sort of story.
Not that the story was all that good. Jim had basically blamed his party reachin...
2023-05-05 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNeither Jason nor Rosha really had a response for what Courtney had said, so they all settled in to heal up. While only Jason had been hurt by the monster, you don’t exactly come away unscathed when you throw yourself at the ground in a rocky cave. That and a bit of magic on Courtney’s part gets the party ready for more.
And more wasn...
2023-05-03 12:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe irl day passes, quickly for some and much slower for others. Some of that doesn’t even have to do with one day becoming five while in VR. Still, by the time Rosha is able to log back into NeoRealm, everyone is in a place to continue their delve. Maybe not perfect, but who ever really is?
However you slice it, the three of them and Li...
2023-05-03 12:20:34 +0000 UTC View PostBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month and will be available to all patrons.
Once again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
Not many rules on what you can suggest at the moment...
2023-04-30 10:29:02 +0000 UTC View PostJack had a problem. It wasn’t the fact they were dead. That was old hat by now. While their civilization couldn’t claim to have 100% solved death, they knew quite a bit about the soul.
The problem was that they weren’t dead in the right way. You always heard stories. Some friend of a friend knew a guy who slipped through the cracks a...
2023-04-30 10:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostJeremy sighs, “The question is, do we want to risk climbing down this wall?”
Kellinger takes another look over the side. “So I’m guessing you wouldn’t have any problem climbing down, but I’m just as likely to fall and break my neck.
“Which thankfully isn’t quite as much of a death sentence as it used to be. However, w...
2023-04-28 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostJim stretches as Jeremy finishes what should be the last Udoroot. They’d been keeping count and knew that there were only 20 of the things on the floor. Not that knowing this makes them any less dangerous and they certainly weren’t going to let their guard down in case of a rare spawn or some similar nonsense.
Still, this one had been ...
2023-04-28 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRachel stared up at the ceiling. She had died, though this wasn't the first time. Rather, while playing space games she had died an uncountable number of times. After all, deep space in a more realistic setting isn't the most hospitable of places.
However, this was the first death in NeoRealm. That meant a few things, though luckily not a ...
2023-04-26 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostCourtney sighs, she had spent so many resources on so many strange things. Though she had to admit, it likely worked to confuse Rachel's dad. He was likely trying to find what she was really researching since stuff like the soul wouldn't exactly help. After all, even with the secrets about NeoRealm that Courtney did know, there wasn't even a hin...
2023-04-26 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle and Ally turn their focus to the newer bags. Those, while still easily felt, weren’t free from problems. If the old bag felt like it was covered in a fog, the new bags had the barest wisps of mist.
Still there though, which meant figuring out what was going on ramped up in importance. Doyle started by comparing all the bags in town...
2023-04-21 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs Jason cultivates and his mom wonders what is going on, Courtney has her work cut out for her. It took a good while to pep up Rachel, but that was still in VR so she still had a few days to work with. The first question she faced was what needed to be done?
There was not some enemy to research. The dungeon had simply gotten out of hand f...
2023-04-19 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason stretches and yawns. He had been clearing out his meridians for a few hours now and the progress was nothing to sneeze at. Though he was still in his prime for initial cultivation.
Way too many stories he has read made it sound like you have to begin cultivating as a young child. Now, Jason would never deny that doing so helps in som...
2023-04-19 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAlly sighs, ‘I won’t deny. A good elemental focus or intent for a monster will increase the power it has. However, the names can sometimes be almost coincidental.
‘And of course, you can be strong without anything fancy. Even this early on, some of the stats will have gone past what is possible without outside help. Human regeneratio...
2023-04-14 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWith all the monsters for the eleventh floor placed, Doyle mentally takes a step back and looks it over. The design plan he originally had was a little lost. While you could see that the ceiling was the cap of a giant mushroom, technical reasons forced him to make things less clear.
On the other hand, the planned fight for the floor should...
2023-04-14 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe strawberry blond lady bigfoot guild official sighs, “Though I don’t blame you for your outlook. Since you made it to the end of the ninth floor, your group shouldn’t have had too much trouble completing the dungeon. If not for the nonsense, that is.”
Jason nods, “A bit of a disappointment, that. What can you tell me?”
Courtney laughs, “This isn’t comparing you to anyone you could think of as normal. A normal person, especially the locals, spend most of their life not even breaking through to level ten. Players admittedly tend to reach 24 and many even manage beating a dungeon by the time they’re 30. Then there are the rich who if they manage to beat a b...
2023-04-12 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post