“Balance of power” as a concept was interesting to Kay, especially as he’d become a person who both had power and could be considered a power. He’d originally begun to think about the topic at some level of depth after the deaths of his family. A self driving transport truck had hit his family’s car and killed his parents and little si...
2024-04-11 23:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostFirst post moving to tuesdays! No more saturday posts
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The celebration lasted well into the night and for some people several hours into the next day. Carousing and merrymaking went on for hours as people ate, drank, and partied. The massive feast inside the square was a rotating affair with people eating and then leaving to...
2024-04-09 23:52:46 +0000 UTC View PostKay waited for the cheers to die down, but they continued for several minutes and it eventually reached a point where he had to stop it. He raised one hand and stared out into the crowd as the sounds ebbed. Bit by bit the crowds watching began to quiet. When he was able to be heard again Kay started speaking.
“This is going to be a time ...
2024-04-07 00:11:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe throne room in the palace wasn’t large enough for everything that was planned for the coronation. Sure, the typical thoughts of a monarch being crowned invoked images of a king kneeling before their throne at the end of a long and luxurious carpet, usually purple with gold embroidery, the crown being placed on their head after they swore t...
2024-04-05 12:02:20 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, I messed up on Saturday again. Sorry about that. I'm now inspecting my schedule to see what day will work instead, because Saturday postings have had too many problems to continue as is. I'll let everyone know what the new day will be once I make a decision.
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Visitors arrived in drips and drabs of small groups as the d...
2024-04-01 22:15:26 +0000 UTC View PostHello all! Slightly earlier in the day today because I have a thing.
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It wasn’t much longer until what was left of the invading army marched away from Avalon. The now-independent factions moved away in drips and drabs, some of them banding together for protection as they left, but most watched everyone else warily and move...
2024-03-28 22:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostAmanda signed off on the last sheet of many in the pile of paperwork she was working on and handed it off to one of her many assistants without looking up. “Take this to the Treasury, please.”
“Of course, ma’am.”
Amanda was already working on the next stack. There was a lot of work to do in the aftermath of the very short w...
2024-03-23 23:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostStonegnawer Eahn, the dwarven Crusader General of the Itarian Crusade, was still looking a bit weak from the poisoned weapon that he’d been stabbed with during the assassination attempt that’d started the recent battle, but he was much recovered compared to how he’d been on the day. He was still a bit pale and was moving gingerly, like his...
2024-03-21 23:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostHello! Early chapter (time of day wise) because I'm going to sleep now. Enjoy!
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The view from high up above Avalon city was both beautiful and added a sense of scale to Kay’s thoughts. He was multiple stories above the ground, looking down at the city in an office he’d had made at the outer edge of the cliff face his pal...
2024-03-16 19:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostLast chapter of the book!
That being said, there might be a one day break next Thursday, it depends on how I feel, I'll let everyone know ahead of time.
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“It isn’t a turtle!” Kay screamed as he shot upright, jerking and thrashing as his body tried to escape whatever the fuck was happening. His memories were a gar...
2024-03-10 00:54:26 +0000 UTC View PostOnly one more chapter!
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Kay’s brain literally could not understand everything that was happening to him in that moment. The part of him that had anything resembling rational thought left wondered if he was processing even a millionth of what was happening. The human body wasn’t designed to interact with every piece of ex...
2024-03-08 03:57:12 +0000 UTC View PostIf one good thing could be said about sacrificial attacks, its that if you were on the receiving end and survived, you didn’t have to prepare for a follow up. With the scale flying around and generally acting more like living creatures than remote weapons, it was easy for many of the soldiers in the two armies to assume that they were a swarm ...
2024-03-03 02:10:07 +0000 UTC View Post*Edit: Brain dead moment gave it the right title
Book 4 Ends at Chapter 58! Almost there!
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Exhausted and terrified soldiers flocked in from the battlefield, and many of them looked spooked enough to keep running when they saw Kay looming above the camp, holding himself in the air with only his armor. Crusader General E...
2024-03-01 00:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about that y'all, turned out to be more of a problem than I thought it was going to be, but I managed to grab files from my original drive and restore everything, here's the chapter that should have been Saturday.
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With each footfall, the otherworldly leg warped everything around it. The air warped around it...
2024-02-27 03:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostSorry to the $10 Patrons, I'm out of ton and my laptop decided to be a complete ass. It startd updating and now it's just locked on a black screen. I brought my external hardrive with my files, but my friend's computer I'm posting from right now can't open the files from the word processor I use.I'l be posting the chapter for $10 people tomorrow...
2024-02-25 01:37:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe vampyr stood slightly elevated from his thralls as they worked to carve the sigils given to him by the Powerful One. The leader of the vampyr had given him a task, and he would see it through if only to gain from it and grow strong enough to overthrow the Powerful One. His thralls continued to carve the sigils properly as he watched, and the...
2024-02-23 00:41:36 +0000 UTC View PostFinally got this done! I've been stalling on it a bit, trying to figure out how things are going to go. I have a better idea for the first section now, so these should come out at a slightly better rate now, at least until I get stuck on it again.
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“Wait, wait.” Scarlett grabbed Maeve’s shoulder and pulled her back fro...
2024-02-22 20:51:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, here's the free copy of book 3 for Patrons.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x685595gcb
This link will be up for a few days before I take it down. Also, if you have KU, please go and grab the book there so I can get those wonderful page reads and jump in...
2024-02-20 16:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe guard patrols near Avalon’s palace were lighter than Edric had expected. He’d never seen a map of the city and hadn’t had too much time to explore while he chased after his subordinates through the semi-deserted streets of what was technically an enemy city, but the towering edifice built into the cliff face that loomed over a large sw...
2024-02-18 02:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe point of the golden lance passed over Kay as he ducked under it and rolled away from the reptilian beast Glowl was riding. The Blood Guard attacked while Glowl focused on Kay, a range of melee, ranged, and magical attacks lashed out at Nelam’s king. Most of the attacks bounced off his heavy armor, but a few of them elicited a response from...
2024-02-16 00:43:04 +0000 UTC View PostLess than ten chapters to the end of book 4!
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Kay slammed into the ground, momentarily restraining himself from making a superhero landing while he did, and started striding forward after his army of simulacra. Technically, they were made with the Create Blood Army Skill and not Create Simulacra (Blood), but he was going to ...
2024-02-11 01:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostFour red dragons battled in the sky over Avalon. Blasts of flame from the scintillating ruby dragon blew the blood-red dragons apart. His death-defying movements allowed him to grab the blood champions and tear them to shreds, and the insides of the three blood champions would suddenly swelled up, and they would burst into pieces, raining blood ...
2024-02-09 01:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter sucked to post to Patreon because italics and bold don't copy from my word processor and I have to put them in manually. Psychic conversations are going to be annoying in the future.
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“Dammit,” Kay muttered as he watched the almost-frothing orc descend in his direction, axes raised high above his head....
2024-02-04 16:38:27 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, Book 4 is done! At least the first draft is. I got it done thursday and decided to take the day off, but forgot to say anything. Right after this is yesterday's chapters, because I slept something like 16 hours last night starting at 4pm. Long nap.
Other than that, should hopefully have book 4 cover art for y'all to look at soon, an...
2024-02-04 16:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostAn uneasy murmuring rumbled through the assembled army at the base of Avalon’s wall. Most of the soldiers and leaders that had been recruited expected the campaign to be an easy fight they could half-ass their way through and reap glory from. It didn’t matter how easily you won if winning was a big deal, right? Very few of them had expected ...
2024-01-29 02:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostCrusader General Stonegnawer Eahn rode his construct behind ranks of soldiers, roughly at the center of the loose gathering of leadership for the campaign he led. The riding construct was one of the few luxuries he allowed himself while on the job. He’d been riding ponies for years since the height of a horse was a problem for a dwarf his size...
2024-01-26 00:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostThings were tense in the meeting room, not because of anyone there but because of the pressure pushing down on all of them. Months of preparations had gone mostly well; soldiers and adventurers had been trained, walls had been constructed, defenses built, cannons secretly installed, and Cindy had brought a small force of gunners to Avalon City w...
2024-01-21 01:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostGlowl sauntered into a room deep within the embassy complex that belonged to his Kingdom of Nelam. The issues a few years ago that revolved around that blasted elven woman they called the Impossible Fist or whatever had broken open a few cracks with the leaders of Tumbling Rapids, which had led to several changes, including downgrading the build...
2024-01-19 00:29:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey! Second chapter is done, so here you go.
Maeve staggered as the indescribable sensations ended, slamming her head into the door in front of her. It had been like the worst turbulence she’d even experienced on a plane combined with full body pain, along with feelings she struggled to explain. The sudden transition from feel...
2024-01-18 02:27:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe walls of Tumbling Rapids standing high above the plains made for a welcome sight. Months of marching, of having to act like part of an army instead of acting as the hunting teams they were used to, had dragged at the members of the Shatterplate Order, and as their leader, Edric had not only had to deal with his subordinates complaints and pr...
2024-01-14 01:17:10 +0000 UTC View Post