Then Jason is ambushed by a bunch of spiders, because of course he is. Ten dog sized spiders jump out of the foliage and trees. This would be quite the threat for most groups.
For Jason, though? Sure, his venom resistance might not be too up to snuff at the moment, but he has more than enough experience with paralytics and that is what jum...
2022-03-16 13:40:40 +0000 UTC View PostJason, having offloaded the two skins, leaves the town. Sure, it would have been nice to stay at an inn. The problem with that idea is more than enough people in the trade caravan will have thought the same thing. So since they weren’t exactly going to be thirsting after all the claws and teeth he had been gathering, Jason decides to move on. ...
2022-03-16 13:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostJim looks over his party and sighs. That last patrol didn’t end up dropping any equipment, not that they were depending on it doing so or even hoping that it would. Still, it would have been nice to get something to equip Jay with. Though admittedly, his leather armor was of better quality than everyone else’s normal armor, but at least for ...
2022-03-11 14:24:40 +0000 UTC View PostAs the last of the titan python’s health drains away, Jason is rewarded with a System prompt.
{Event Goal Achieved
1 hour until Event Space closes
Close Event Space early? [Y/N]}
A question that Jason easily answers yes to. While he could stick around in the event space to finish cleaning up the other monsters, with the...
2022-03-09 17:32:39 +0000 UTC View PostJason burst out of hiding, the trickster coyote wasn’t completely surprised by this, but that didn’t matter. Even though the coyote was prepared for the attack, it hadn’t actually seen him and so the assassin title was in full effect. Sure, he would have been able to eventually beat the coyote without it. Just would have been hard to do wi...
2022-03-09 17:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostTo Susan’s left Sammy and Jay crash into the shield kobolds, Sammy using her shield and Jay the haft of his poleaxe. Through their combined bulk, the two of them are able to rebuff the shield wall. Not by much as the kobolds had been ready for them. It was, however, enough.
Susan spun out of the hole left by the downed shield kobold and ...
2022-03-04 12:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostBack in the dungeon, Ally claps, ‘That was quicker than expected! I was going to bring it up in a couple years but I guess your world has stabilized more than normal.’
Doyle tilts to the side.
Ally laughs, ‘You ever notice how all the fantasy worlds had multiple races? That isn’t natural. Sure, sometimes you will get a world ...
2022-03-04 12:57:16 +0000 UTC View PostJason takes his time looking around the event space. While he does know where the fight is, that can wait while he plans. With his need to take down the coyote first, he will need to figure out how to approach it unnoticed so as to take advantage of the assassin title.
On the surface, this was stupid easy to manage. The System basically le...
2022-03-02 13:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostBack on the ground a good distance away Jason is taking some time to rub his arms. Not exactly his usual workout routine and his arms weren’t shy about informing him of that fact. Then the pain vanished as his cultivation’s ability, Untainted Core, kicked in.
Though Jason almost wishes it hadn’t. Stuff like broken bones went away cle...
2022-03-02 13:49:06 +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.
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 few thousand words.
Not many rules on what you can suggest at the moment. ...
2022-02-26 10:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostGregor crests the hill with his three friends and they spot their goal. Down in the valley below is an unassuming hole in the ground. His friend Jace, on the other hand, sees something quite different. While the hole doesn’t change, he can see massive plumes of mana being pumped into the atmosphere. He nods to Gregor, this dungeon hadn’t bee...
2022-02-26 10:51:39 +0000 UTC View PostAce had a headache. Over the last few weeks, the population of the town had doubled. Now, that wasn’t really all that much, all things considered. In fact, if it wasn’t for the source of these newcomers Ace would have been ready for them.
The problem was that these new people had just exited their tutorials. Not because they took a lon...
2022-02-25 13:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostUp the crook of a tree, Jason really feels the venom hit him. His elevated heart rate had really spread it around and now that he relaxed even the smallest amount he could feel his limbs tightening up. Good thing he didn’t need to move for the next part.
Jason dives into himself and focuses on the threads that make up his body. While it ...
2022-02-23 12:53:15 +0000 UTC View PostAt first things seemed to settle down as most of the snakes grew larger and tended towards being constrictors. In fact, Jason and Lily spent a number of relatively peaceful days, even managing to pass through the halfway point and into the coyote territory. While the constrictors had a very threatening bulk to them, only so many could live in an...
2022-02-23 12:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostHappy with the kobolds, Doyle turns to the 13th room, the five-sided square with strange furniture. The room is interesting because of the design that he just can’t figure out how to repeat, but otherwise the layout is simple enough. A bit of a problem, as that also means it doesn’t lean towards any specific set of monsters except maybe kobo...
2022-02-18 12:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe top most room of the eighth floor was easy. Just a copy paste of the monsters on the first floor. That also made figuring out the total points spent a breeze as well, after all, he did spend the full 1,000 points there. That settled, Doyle moved his attention to the first room.
A big room full of glass platforms and bridges. Yeah, that...
2022-02-18 12:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostWith that worrying combo monster, Jason sets a much faster pace over the next week. Even going so far as to travel well into the night. About the only thing that keeps him somewhat relaxed is that he had long ago gotten used to sleeping while in a sitting position and Lily gladly spent the nights curled up in his lap. If anything wanted to take ...
2022-02-16 13:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostAfter whatever that nonsense was, Jason was a tad bit fed up with things for the moment. Good thing the plan at the moment was to leave everything up to Lily. A task that might seem out of place. After all, a rabbit versus a bear? Though as she had already proven, once she gets on the bear, the equation changes.
A fact she is soon enough a...
2022-02-16 13:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a quick break Doyle dives back in and starts to work on the ninth room. A little tricky as in theory the entrance coming from the last room could pop up anywhere. Sure, he could make it so that hole was always in the same place.
Doyle however wanted to keep the feeling of continuity. Anyone that visits the floor should feel that they...
2022-02-11 12:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostOf course, after earning a new title Jason can’t help but test it and so the next hindbear the two meet suffers a similar fate. Only the next though, as Jason can easily tell the difference. For the very first strike of the knife to the temple, it goes in much easier.
While Jason wasn’t exactly all that skilled in daggers, but this did...
2022-02-09 13:07:15 +0000 UTC View PostSuffice it to say, despite how threatening the hindbears might seem, they very much aren’t. At least not for Jason. So it is a good thing that he doesn’t intend to personally use them for training.
Sure, the first couple fights had netted him a few ability points, but that wasn’t likely to hold out. Those points came more from experi...
2022-02-09 13:06:39 +0000 UTC View PostNow with the basic structure of the eighth floor set in place Doyle felt free to play with it and so turned to the first room. He wasn’t ready to go full Escher on it so left space itself alone for now. Instead, through the use of unnaturally tough glass, a number of platforms and bridges are formed. Each one is just clear enough that you migh...
2022-02-04 15:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostAlly rolls her eyes, ‘You’ve had more than enough time to think about what you want the floor to be.’
Doyle laughs, ‘True enough. Though I must admit I haven’t thought too deeply about it. I’m having a bit of a hard time judging my recent floors. How will the delvers react to my seventh floor? While the sixth floor has some non...
2022-02-04 15:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostWith the hindbear dead next to his campfire, Jason has no problems processing it. Though, to be honest, he is quite far from being able to take it for all it is worth. Just the hide itself would be worth a decent bit but is way too cumbersome to handle so instead he focuses on distinct features. For this particular hindbear, that meant three inc...
2022-02-02 13:53:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day passed peacefully for Jason so of course it was time to ramp things up again. There was a split in the path and it was easy enough to tell which way saw more people. This is a great indicator for him and so resolutely he turns and takes the road less traveled.
Though, unlike the previous bits of fun, Jason actually knows what ...
2022-02-02 13:52:46 +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 in February and will be available to all patrons. For the moment the stories will remain patron only as despite my thoughts last poll I've since become not sure if/when to make them public.
In the end, Doyle can only sigh and head off to continue his work on the seventh floor. He had other plans but with the increase to his debt he decided to scale back a little for the near future to start paying it off more actively. The upside is that once he stops spending his world energy on everything the amount of quintessence generated ends...
2022-01-28 13:39:59 +0000 UTC View PostBack on the road Jason takes one last look back at the ravaged area and shakes his head. The area it took up was too large for him to do anything much about, but he would pass it on to the next settlement he came across. While it wasn’t his responsibility to take care of, someone would probably care. At least enough to go and check it out if t...
2022-01-26 16:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it would delay him, Jason wasn’t exactly planning on speed running his trip in the first place. So with great care, he backtracked to determine the exact start of this strange area. Even just that though isn’t without trouble.
His guess that everything was fighting hadn’t been wrong as groups of small animals threw themselves a...
2022-01-26 16:03:20 +0000 UTC View Post