Jason wasn’t certain what happened when the small beaver frogs grew up. Maybe they didn’t? It is quite possible that the young monsters needed to escape the control of the bigger monsters before they could grow. After all, if all of the smaller ones are literally just young examples of the bigger ones, there would be a natural disaster when ...
2022-08-10 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThough more interesting for Jason was the ecosystem as a whole. In the previous areas, sure, there were a bunch of animals, but overall there were the main monster species to deal with. He knew that his view on things was a bit warped. After all, he only really looked for monsters while in a danger zone, which tended to be characterized by the f...
2022-08-10 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe last month was hard on my wallet as I had a bunch of things happen all at once. Don't worry, it isn't "lose my apartment" bad or my "health taking a turn for the worse" bad. Honestly it was more just a matter of a bunch of yearly bills coming due all at once? Should be fixed for next year as I did some stuff to make it work better next year,...
2022-08-07 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostNot that Jim was against preserving the past, but he very much was of mind that it should stay exactly that, the past. This settlement, so close to his own town, was attempting to bring the past into the present and that wasn’t going to work. Even if all the pre-system hot weapons were still around, they would soon be meaningless if only becau...
2022-08-06 09:35:03 +0000 UTC View PostBack with Doyle and Ally, they are considering a certain thing Doyle had gotten from the second tier of his new class path. Ally looks over at Doyle, ‘So, are you going to spin the wheel now or wait?’
Doyle bobs a couple times, ‘Eh, a new monster with sapience potential is interesting, but I’m not really certain how the system judg...
2022-08-05 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. I'm going to run the poll for five days. The short story will be finished by the end of the month and will be available to all patrons.
Merchant Skill Battle - Two neighboring kingdoms have decided to sign a new trade agreement involving their resources, produce and servic...
2022-08-04 04:50:37 +0000 UTC View PostJason's only problem with suddenly realizing he had a treasure trove of runes, was that he would need to learn more about the local runic system. After all, his runes worked on a completely different foundation as far as he knew. In NeoRealm each power system had its own set of runes to work with. A ritualist would use Energy based runes, an enc...
2022-08-04 02:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostJason took a mental step back and frowned. Why would it be a surprise? He took it as a surprise because it was a direct replication, but was it all that surprising? It wasn’t the first thing he had brought over after all.
While not as direct as literally scribbling out a rune from his last life, his ethos of cultivation came from there. ...
2022-08-04 02:27:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo July's story took a little longer than normal. I'm going to let this run until August 2nd midnight so everyone gets three days.
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 th...
2022-07-31 09:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post*Soft tuneless whistling and the sound of some kind of leather material being rhythmically pierced over and over*
*The sound of numerous zippers being zipped and unzipped*
*A jet engine being lit off*
Jully Argyle smiles as her last commission due this month was handed off. It was a little complicated as JetSet wanted to use it...
2022-07-31 09:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle turns back to the choice between infinite or accommodation and flips a coin. Quite literally. He summons a silver coin and gives it a clip. Of course, the first flip was a bit of a whoopsie. Not the flip itself, but rather he had forgotten to assign which path went to which side. So with that fixed and another flip Doyle ends up with Extra...
2022-07-29 19:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the sighting of the other people, a group of what looked to be a small caravan of traders, the rest of Jason’s escape went smoothly enough. With Lily grasped in his hands, he continued fleeing until the monsters had all returned to the strange Mana and Qi supported grass forest.
Not that he stopped right away, instead continuing hi...
2022-07-28 01:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostLily just needs to hold out another half hour and Jason will have recovered enough to escape the grass forest. It didn’t look too good for her though as even with how many monsters she had beaten, more kept coming. Luck was on her side though as the monsters still in the grass began to falter. After all, it isn’t everyday that you see someon...
2022-07-28 01:12:53 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle nods in understanding and then turns back to his status and after confirming Awakened Dungeon Core II was an option, put the full nine points into it.
{9 points applied to the Awakened Dungeon Core II path...
5/10 - +10 Luck and +3 Luck/Level, Trap Designer unlocked, Companion dungeon fae already present, Instead adding +5 Boss...
2022-07-23 09:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostSo a bunch of stuff had happened, but finally Doyle had a bit of free time so he turned to something he had been putting off. Since just before the eight floor, he hadn’t really been looking at his skill levels and path points. It hadn’t mattered all that much since he was a little capped, but with a new level there was once again room to ad...
2022-07-22 11:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostA day passed for Jason, then another. Step, step, pause. His mind was slowly churning, not over anything in particular, just churning. He had spent some time thinking over the map. This area wasn’t particularly pointed out. It was a danger zone, but blended into nearby areas. Only a forest a good distance to the left had any kind of distinct b...
2022-07-20 10:27:29 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, even as Jason was considering how he managed to run for days, he could already feel how that wasn’t going to be possible this time. As he guessed more than once since the incident, even with whatever changed about him, there was still a limit, still a barrier to further progress. A feeling that if he tried it again so soon, he would...
2022-07-20 10:26:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe average worker ant doesn’t actually require anything from Doyle except time, something he is more than capable of providing. Though more appropriately, a good queen will need time to produce an average worker. With the start of a new nest, there is just too much to do. First a nurse or two to help with the eggs, then some diggers, and so o...
2022-07-15 11:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostWithout stopping to finish the three downed monsters, Jason begins to struggle through the grass back towards the road. As he reaches the halfway point, the first reinforcements arrive, another trio of the strange monsters, though instead of chasing him, they go to check on the downed monsters. Once there, they chitter away to themselves and the...
2022-07-13 22:53:45 +0000 UTC View PostJason really didn’t like the implications that came with the idea that his soul had been away from his body for too long. Especially since it hadn’t really been all that long, just a couple irl days, which meant it probably went off of subjective time. That or he was just so weak the amount of time he had was even more limited.
Either ...
2022-07-13 22:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostA few days pass and both the town hall and the Adventurers Guild are packed with people looking for answers. Answers which luckily both the System provided receptionists are able to answer. Of course that doesn't mean they have the answers that people want. For instance, no, the town doesn’t have control over the party size. Such answers howev...
2022-07-09 04:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn the town Jim frowns. He kept his desk for official Adventurers Guild work clear of paperwork. Yet despite that, there was now a paper on it with official guild letterhead on it. Official official, with proper gilt and everything.
So with only the slightest of a sour face, Jim sits down to read it. Though his face relaxes as he gets to t...
2022-07-08 20:27:10 +0000 UTC View PostJason took a while to make dinner. It wasn’t anything too fancy, but a proper stew needed time to, well, stew. Sure, throw some jerky in a pot of boiling water with some veg and you’ll get something stew-like and filling. Compared to a proper slow boiled stew made from fresh ingredients and a few spices? There isn’t anything quite like it ...
2022-07-06 23:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostSatisfied, Jason sits back to observe his plants one final time. The Gloom Weed had lost its gloom as not a single one of the fruits were left on them and so the need to redirect power was gone. A couple of the Energy Herbs still had a berry or two hanging on, but clearly not because of overcoming its limits and of course the rest of the Bloody ...
2022-07-06 23:49:49 +0000 UTC View PostBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. I'm going to run the poll for five days. The short story will be finished by the end of the month and will be available to all patrons.
Ally raises an eyebrow, ‘Huh, I would have figured that the workers would end up with the bonus for being commanded.’
Doyle nods, ‘A little odd, though If I had to guess, non-monsters likely don’t count for it. [System, please pull up the commander bonus thing I have.]’
{Monsters being commanded by other receive +1 to all s...
2022-07-01 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWith the campsite set up, Jason spent a decent chunk of time relaxing as Lily hopped around the area. It wasn’t the most exciting of places, but reminded her somewhat of her original home. Though the grass was way taller. In fact, some of the taller clumps of the stuff even extended above Jason’s head. Most of it though tended to be around k...
2022-06-29 21:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostJason watched as the poison cloud engulfed the threads within his body and held them still. While movement of the threads didn’t literally cause his body to move, it seemed that this poison somehow forcefully connected the concepts together and enforced its own reality onto him. He wasn’t even able to do all that much about it.
Still, ...
2022-06-29 21:24:37 +0000 UTC View PostOnce 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...
2022-06-28 11:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostI hate farming.
I really hate farming.
This, however, is a slight problem when you’re the son of a farmer, the only son. Oh, and that farmer is one of the bigger ones in the area with a certain amount of prestige to their name.
Not nobility levels of prestige, sadly. At least then, I could probably get away with divesting mys...
2022-06-28 11:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post