With another infusion of cash and being at what is basically the forward operating base for the local adventurers, Jason decides to look around and find out if there is anything he might want. Instead, he ended up selling more stuff.
The next shop he went into was a more locally based store which dealt with buying and selling parts of less...
2022-05-04 10:00:06 +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.
Jim looks up at the ceiling before focusing on Susan again. “With all the strangeness going on the whole system-thing has probably been hard for you. The fact that a centerpiece of our new life seems to break the rules can’t be easy, either. That doesn’t mean you can be so reckless.
“Now, I’m not your therapist and you likely alr...
2022-04-29 18:15:46 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle pauses for a moment, ‘Now, there is just one final thing I want to ask about. What is up with that bit about your soul shell needing repair and your level limit being raised?’
Ally shrugs, ‘Remember, before this I wasn’t just a blank slate. I had a bunch of levels, skills, and paths. I’ve lived longer than civilization has ...
2022-04-29 18:15:21 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days, Jason spotted more than one giant electric salamander. Being the local apex predators they didn’t exactly hide. They weren’t worth the risk though and so Jason made sure to take the long way around. Not too much of a hassle and soon enough he had moved past the area with all the water features.
This led to an an...
2022-04-27 17:58:44 +0000 UTC View PostJason was tempted to continue hunting the Giant Electric Axolotls, only tempted though. He didn’t see any spark of sapience in their eyes, but as a whole were well past too clever. This could either mean some heightened instinctual teamwork or what Jason would actually bet on, something guiding them.
Not controlling them, mind you, but g...
2022-04-27 17:58:20 +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...
2022-04-26 19:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post[Main Story] Quest [12C1873] complete…
Alternate Completion Criteria Confirmed and [Completing Team] Labeled System Abusers…
Filing…
Pause Filing…
Deletion of all Accounts related to [Completing Team] Detected…
New Accounts with names exactly the same as [Missing Reference]...
The same as Completing ...
2022-04-26 19:52:25 +0000 UTC View Post{Name: Ally Huxley
Race: Autumn Court Dungeon Fae
Soul Bound: Doyle Huxley
Paths: [101] True Dungeon Companion II 10/10, Primal Magic I 10/10, Limit Breaker I 1/1, Autumn’s Jester 3/100
Level: 10
S[12] A[9] C[12] I[17] W[8] P[15] D[13] K[24] L[16]
Skills [5/5 Class, 1/5+1 General]: Tutor lv25 > 31, Primal...
2022-04-22 16:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs luck would have it, there was a giant electric axolotl to his left. Well, there were about five of the things. This lake really was jam packed with the things. That didn’t matter though as Jason focused in on the one closest to the forest. Those to the right started charging up another large attack, but the five in front of him all looked q...
2022-04-20 18:03:12 +0000 UTC View PostNext morning, Jason decided it was time to go and play with the axolotls. He assumed that their electricity producing and or storing organs would be worth a shiny copper or two. Though he also admitted to himself that those damn amphibians had gotten the best of him and he wasn’t going to stand for it.
With a deep breath, Jason curled hi...
2022-04-20 18:02:51 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle watches as the group leaves the floor and can’t help but laugh. ‘I didn’t intend for the myconids to do that.’
Ally shrugs, ‘It is kind of their main defense when in large groups. Though not really something mentioned. In the normal swing of things, myconids are one of the more peaceful monsters, even when not led by a sapi...
2022-04-15 10:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt doesn’t take long after discovering the first bit of warped space for Jim’s group to find many other examples. Though admittedly that mostly comes from Doyle spreading them around the floor for this exact reason. While he hadn’t meant it that way, this was an unconscious action on his part to warn delvers about it being a potential thre...
2022-04-15 10:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostAt this point, Jason is almost afraid to look at his other skills. While sub-skills can be powerful, that is for stuff like farming where there are just too many potential skills for it. No one has the time to train twenty different skills just to grow some beans so instead it gets lumped into one bag.
Here though, the System was strictly ...
2022-04-13 15:55:35 +0000 UTC View PostJason took half a day to figure out the combination of Desolate Traversal’s traction assist and powered grip. Not because it was hard to combine, but because he didn’t settle for the first solution that came his way. After all, the difference between the two was that assist used sub-point amounts of Energy while grip could only increase the ...
2022-04-13 15:55:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Jim and his new team are at it again, though this time they were able to skip straight to the sixth floor. The new starting location was a two-fold benefit for them. First was the fact that they didn’t have to fight through the previous floors and especially the boss fight. When the main thing that drove them off last time was fa...
2022-04-09 09:39:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Desolate Traversal Technique was, in theory, simple enough. It involved a foundation of parkour mixed with some interesting uses of power, Energy in Jason’s case. The problem with the skill is that even after all this time, it was still stuck at the top of apprentice rank. Sure, that is where most of his other skills are at, but he had got...
2022-04-06 14:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostSatisfied with the results of the skill alteration, Jason takes a slightly hasty step to test it. A quick slice of his nail with a bit of Energy opens a wound on his right palm. Then he pours whatever is left of the poison and venom mixture onto the cut.
“Boy, does that sting”, escapes his mouth before he can get his reaction under con...
2022-04-06 14:32:34 +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.
Starting on the first floor, because despite what Doyle had said he couldn’t help but check the floor in numerical order, he starts to give them all a once over. First floor? How can you improve on perfection? Second floor? Marvelous! And of course the third floor is random, so not much to do there.
Though at this point Doyle suspects so...
2022-04-01 11:17:40 +0000 UTC View PostAlly pulls up a bunch of screens and begins by pointing out the basics.
‘So you should already know their team setup. For instance, Jim is a ranger archetype, though tending more towards the nature focused scout side of things from what I’ve seen. However, from that alone, people won’t be able to tell what exactly he provides in a fi...
2022-04-01 11:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostJason recenters and focuses on how the poison and venom are being resisted. As he had previously seen, there wasn’t all that much of a difference. Now, though, he can tell that while the process is the same, the skill is treating them differently.
Of course, this would have been true no matter what. He had different levels of resistance ...
2022-03-30 11:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostFrom within, Jason can see both the substances begin to war with his body. They aren’t directly affecting one another. A thing he had been worried about as more than one high-quality poison was made by mixing other lesser poisons. Though if he was unlucky enough to stumble upon such a combination by chance, well, the System was truly just out ...
2022-03-30 11:30:24 +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...
2022-03-28 09:53:31 +0000 UTC View PostDeep in a tomb, forgotten by all, a man named Ven’or stands over an ornate burial mound. Yes, a mound and not a coffin. Quite the strange thing to find in a tomb. Though the wall art in the chamber was nice enough.
And it was definitely a chamber, if not some other term like “hall” or “auditorium”, definitely not any word that wo...
2022-03-28 09:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle turns away from Jim’s new group as they rest. They’ll take some time before moving onto the next floor so for the moment he can focus on other stuff. Most important of which is a question for Ally which had percolated to the top of his mind. ‘Hey Ally, even the wolfkin has mostly caught up to them. Though that likely has more to do w...
2022-03-25 11:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostAt first, Jason’s luck wasn’t all that good. While no more spiders ambushed him, there weren’t really any herbs along the way, either. This was honestly to be expected. After all, even if this was the path less traveled, it wasn’t the path untraveled so others would have picked anything at the side of the road.
It is only once he g...
2022-03-23 19:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostAs Jason focuses, there doesn’t seem to be anything happening at first. Despite this, he waits, dealing with venom not exactly being the best time to rush things. Then the System finally turns its back on what he is doing and his insides revert to being a void.
The venom, once contained in his stomach, spills out into his body. This prom...
2022-03-23 19:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt is unfortunate that Doctor’s disruption can only go so far. Good thing that after pointing out the effect he was having on the kobolds to Jim, things got a whole lot easier as arrows started to sprout out of the surprised mages. There weren’t any clean shots, what with the kobold mages hiding around the bend, but it did the job of easing ...
2022-03-18 10:47:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey don’t get much time though, as the cattle stampede into the alley. Not by chance though. It is a little hard to hear, but Jim is certain that some of the kobolds had guided them to attack.
He isn’t wrong either. Out in the plaza, the four remaining kobold goatherds have taken charge of the animals and created enough distance for t...
2022-03-18 10:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post