The demons didn’t just look like smoke. Arrows pretty much zipped through them without doing much of anything. And Mason was starting to realize they weren’t still forming. They were completely formed and waiting. Probably for him.
Their bodies vanished and morphed, swirling away from Mason’s Claws, too, escaping on the...
2025-02-13 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason crushed another demon in his bare hand, smirking as the portal started to close. These creatures stunk in living and dying. They looked horrible and sounded worse. But killing them was extremely satisfying.
First of all, they made a subtle kind of…popping sound. Or they exploded. Or melted. Or turned int...
2025-02-12 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAyet screamed and closed her eyes.
“Stop that nonsense,” Dariya snapped, flashing with another torrent of light so bright it was clearly visible through Ayet’s eyelids. “You’ll embarrass me in front of the humans.”
“I’m sorry.” Ayet swallowed bile and forced her eyes open. The demonic hound that had charged them was...
2025-02-11 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Ebook/Audiobook/Paperback are all available now, and the book is also available on Kindle Unlimited.
It's been a long time coming, and I'm very excited to get this story out there in the wider world. As ever, thanks for all your support, I wouldn't have written all this without you.
How to get th...
2025-02-10 15:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostCarl lost count of his kills. He and Seamus had found a kind of deadly rhythm, where the fire wizard blew up or fried the first round of spawning shadows, then as the rest tried to kill him, Carl warped out and cut them down.
“Y’all don’t even need me,” Becky said with a frown, standing near the wizard. “Maybe I should, I dunno, ...
2025-02-10 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMason sprinted towards the people coming out of the gate, trying to get close enough to the charging demons for his bow. As he slowed to shoot, the nearest creatures vanished in a blast of white light.
It looked like the old seer had done it, which was vaguely concerning. But Mason didn’t have time to look a gift horse in the mouth. He s...
2025-02-07 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMason sighed with relief as he and the other players closed the portal in Nassau. The grass all around it was dead, a few buildings looking aged by about a decade. But since the town was empty, no one had been hurt. Not that any demons got out of the circle anyway.
By far the best thing to do was to reach a portal before the creatures star...
2025-02-06 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCarl was definitely too old for this shit. God damn demons popping out of the sky like rain clouds. God damn life being sucked out of the trees.
‘How’s the weather, Carl? Oh, not bad, Bob. Windy, a little cool, a slight chance of demonic invasion.’
At least this time he was going in with a t...
2025-02-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason charged towards Nassau’s wall, glad nearly all his people stayed up in the (hopefully out of reach) tree-city levels and the Nexus above. He didn’t know exactly what was happening, but his paranoia was bleeping like a fire alarm.
A specific ‘event’ from the new phase? Planar teleportation magic? He assumed it meant invasion.<...
2025-02-04 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostQuite a few civilians showed interest in becoming scouts. At least at first.
But by the time Mason, Orlon, and Kiaan really started explaining what it looked like, and that the civilians wouldn’t always have player guards, interest…dwindled.
“You’ll usually have guards,” Mason said. “Just not <...
2025-02-03 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re not leaving any guards?”
Even Phuong and Carl looked surprised. Mason had all his players around the circular table in the communication beacon. He’d been able to ‘ping’ them all through it, and felt a momentary stab of a pleasure Blake probably enjoyed all the time. Power was definitely a hell of a drug.
“Every...
2025-01-31 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMason woke feeling more relaxed than he could remember. And also slightly dehydrated. How many times, exactly, and for how long, Thea had tried to suck out every drop of his ‘magic’, he honestly didn’t know. And he was pretty sure he’d technically ‘won’.
At some point, the nymph had stood up and wandered off like she was drunk,...
2025-01-31 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBlake told Annie and Seul-ki he had some ‘power changes’ due to the tournament. He had no interest yet and maybe ever in describing his new relationship with Psion, and was pleased when neither girl asked any questions.
Annie didn’t because she believed him, and also because she didn’t care. Seul-ki, he had no doubt, because she re...
2025-01-30 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTL:DR - I can't post chapter 441: Moon Riser to Patreon. If you didn't get a chance to read it, just send me a message with an email address, and I'll send it to you.
The explanation/rant:
I have violated the 'community guidelines' of another website with the particular order of my dangerous language squiggles. I sup...
2025-01-29 18:02:50 +0000 UTC View PostBlake opened his eyes to white walls and a familiar sound of tinkering. He sat up to see the goblin engineer Pliny, fiddling with some device in a corner of his laboratory in the orcish white tower, hammering away, oblivious.
Seul-ki sat up from a couch nearby. Annie sprung up from the floor to leap at Blake and bury her head in his chest....
2025-01-29 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post(Just an FYI that I somehow skipped a chapter. 441 will be posted tomorrow.) “Alright.” Mason eased the half naked nymph away from his back
(Just an FYI that chapter 441 got blasted by the Patreon censors. Message me and I'll send it to your email.)
“Alright.” Mason eased the half naked nymph away from his ba...
2025-01-27 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The time has finally come! The First Great Game will officially be releasing on Amazon/Audible on February 10, both as an ebook and an audiobook (through Royal Guard, with both male and female narrators).
So. Book 1 will become a stub here on that date (Amazon has exclusivity publishing clauses), and I intend to release a ...
2025-01-27 01:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostThea (and Ayet) were soon watching Mason thrust into Naya on the edge of the pool. He’d lifted her up out of the water, pinning her against the stone as he took her, too horny to let discomfort stop him.
His elven bride’s face was flushed, her legs spread around him, her lips sucking at his tongue whenever he kissed her. She seemed obl...
2025-01-23 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Taking his elven wife to a sex-fueled fantasy creature wasn’t how Mason had expected his evening to end. But such was life in the post-apocalypse. And he wasn’t exactly complaining.
How it would go when he arrived he honestly had no idea. The most likely scenario seemed that Thea would help them, that Naya would g...
2025-01-22 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason realized he had more to fear inside Nassau than anticipated. These elves were trying to assassinate him through stomach bursting. But like everyone else, they would find him a hard man to kill.
“More cake, lord?” said another beautiful brunette who’s name Mason couldn’t remember. He nodded and she leaned over to serve him, an...
2025-01-21 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostNaya actually asked for his permission to go see the elves and get things prepared. He definitely hadn’t adjusted to her far more conservative culture, and as he stared at his closet trying to pick something to wear, he’d mostly just waved a hand until he realized she hadn’t moved.
“You don’t need my permission,” he said, which...
2025-01-20 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostMason kind of expected to ‘warp’ back to Nassau, the system deciding now that he was finished it would end the side-track. But apparently Cerebus had actually disrupted the teleport.
He had to make his way back through the Fey, hoping the different ‘time’ speed of the nature plane would mean he didn’t show up a few hours late. 2025-01-17 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Cerebus shook his horned head as he looked Mason up and down.
"Your armor offends me. Remove it."
"It was a gift," Mason said, tapping a finger on Eve's breastplate with a grin. "I'm told I look...intimidating."
Cerebus snorted, holding out a clawed hand. A thousand fireflies rose from the swampy ground all around them, swirlin...
2025-01-16 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMason yawned and woke with a comfortable stretch. He sat up from his booth in the house balcony, a bit surprised he'd managed to sleep. Everyone seemed to be staring at him.
"Mason?" Haley came forward slowly and with a gentle tone, like he was a wild animal. He saw all his players behind her like a shield, clustered together, staring like...
2025-01-15 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostApex Predator and First Blood were flaring red with warning. Mason felt (and smelled) Blake's magic probing, wrapping around his senses like
Apex Predator and First Blood were flaring red with warning. Mason felt (and smelled) Blake's magic probing, wrapping around his senses like a poisonous fog.
He wanted to pretend he was surprise...
2025-01-14 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBlake did not, in fact, have a 'Plan b'. ‘Plan A' was already pretty sketchy. It went something like this: 1) make Mason really angry to sel
Blake did not, in fact, have a 'Plan b'.
‘Plan A' was already pretty sketchy. It went something like this: 1) make Mason really angry to sell their fiction about a falling out; 2) do everyth...
2025-01-13 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostMason raced up the curved wall towards his brother and the platforms. He knew his climbing speed up the hand and footholds would be ridiculous, but for a moment his brain tried to contrast his time on earth against his current ability, and just about shut down in amazement.
He practically flew up the wall, instinctively grabbing the holds ...
2025-01-10 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a long hour before Mason's final match against his brother. Haley and Becky offered to...distract him, maybe even go get Rosa and Lexi to help...but Mason didn't want the oblivion of beautiful flesh.
OK, he did. But with all four girls an hour wasn't enough. And he didn't want to meet Blake feeling anything except the currently coo...
2025-01-09 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostTommaso did what he always did when he needed to feel better. He went to find a woman.
The latest and possibly greatest was Farah. After assuring everyone he was fine, Tommaso left the House balcony and went to his lover's room, who'd left him a standing invitation for the final days.
The elevator dinged, and the scent of jasmine and...
2025-01-08 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPhuong and his team came out of the final six man match looking five years older. They all collapsed around a table, a few putting their hands to Alex or Phuong in silence before they started to grin a little.
"Christ Jesus that was close," Seamus said. "Bein’ honest, I don't even fecking know what happened."
Mason hardly knew eith...
2025-01-07 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post