I was supposed to have the surgery already, but ended up sick, and anything respiratory means you cannot be put under because it can alter how the anesthesia impacts you. So yeah, hopefully that will happen very soon.
Between being sick and anxiety about surgery, I have been much less productive than I would have liked. Still, I am working...
2025-04-03 20:08:31 +0000 UTC View PostBeen working on the some editing, and just got that posted to Royal Road. That would be major edits for the first half of Arc 2, up to 2.07. (And boy do they take so much longer than I think they should. Admittedly, I am trying to also create a database of everything so that I am keeping track of everybody's status, the timeline, and so on, but ...
2025-01-08 22:01:41 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my partners is going into surgery on Tuesday. Not life threatening, but with a recovery time of several months and, as you might imagine, lots of stress leading up to all of this. I've had time to write, theoretically, but absolutely no bandwidth to do so, just vegging in my free time.
I am hoping to fix that sometime soon(ish), bu...
2024-11-30 01:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this is a bit late. I worked on it last week, but didn't get as much done as I wanted. Vacation wore me out, haha. Also, might have been a little depressed from political things.
Still, here we go with a new chapter. Enjoy!
I’ve seen murderers who were kind to all, and saints that were misanthropes, secre...
2024-11-18 20:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostGoing to be on vacation for all of next week, so no chapter scheduled. Otherwise, things will resume after that. Also, I assume I was inspired by the season, and things became appropriate for Halloween. I hope everyone had a good one!
Flesh dungeon? No idea what you are talking about. You should know better than to believe wild rumo...
2024-11-01 23:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
Just so you all know, Patreon is trying to move to subscription billing, and I have set the settings for that to go ahead. Shouldn't change anything for anyone already subscribed, as things will continue as normal. New subscriptions, after November starts will automatically renew on the say day the next month, rather than just t...
2024-10-25 19:33:43 +0000 UTC View PostLove you all, thank you for reading. The last few days have been a challenge, but I wanted to get something up for all of you. So I hope you all enjoy.
And he stepped upon a tiny crack, which swallowed him up. The others simply nodded, for such was the fate of those that tempted the spirits.
-From Ugyath’s Tales for Chil...
2024-10-19 01:37:41 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we finally get into looking at that skill... which quickly gets weird. Spatial manipulation, when really thought through, gets very strange, very quickly.
True masters of spacial magic are rare. Gifted amateurs tend to die in a spectacularly messy fashion, unless they exercise extreme care. The best advice when fighting a spacia...
2024-10-11 18:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter, delivered today as promised. I had fully intended to delve fully into exploring Caden's skill, but then, as so often happens with writing, I was diverted by an area that needed to be better explored. Even still, I feel like I could have delved much further into the complexities of the vast ecosystems that had been formed. Still, I deci...
2024-10-07 18:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostJust dealing with some real life stuff. One of my partners has been suspended from work for more than a month... whole long story. Anyway, stuff coming to a head soon, and that, plus a bunch of other life stuff, has been adding some delay.
So, not ideal, but hoping to get the chapter done and up on Monday.
2024-10-05 04:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostWe return to your regularly scheduled episode of the "Overdramatic Dungeon"...
Long lived are the scars which we inflict upon ourselves. To forgive others is often easier, for we understand that they are merely mortal. Ourselves, however, well surely we must hold ourselves to a higher standard than mere mortal men. Re...
2024-09-27 18:19:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe title of this chapter, while a bit trite, does reflect one of my core beliefs. That life is meant to be lived, and that the experiences we go through are there to be experienced. My life is challenging at the moment, but there is still much joy that is there whenever I am willing to have it, to let it in.
Ahem, regardless, enjoy the c...
2024-09-20 18:45:46 +0000 UTC View PostYour regularly scheduled chapter has arrived again. So enjoy!
“Every employer deals with two mutually opposing paradigms. Giving your employees enough experience to level and grow, and therefore be more useful, weighs against both: sacrificing the levels and experience that could have gone to another, and the possib...
2024-09-14 04:47:31 +0000 UTC View PostYour regularly scheduled chapter is once again here. Decently sized chapter, at 3100 words and change. Also decided that the coins really ought to have names, so implemented that here, and will be writing that into the edits, as well.
Enjoy!
“Servants that fear the Master offer no resistance, but also volunteer no assistance. Those...
2024-09-06 22:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter ran away with me a bit, but in the best way. So a bit longer than my usual offerings at ~3800 words. Enjoy your schedule chapter.
“None of the wealthy and powerful that have come to me for answers have ever been happy when they talk to me about fate. I punctured their self-importance with the cold nature of rea...
2024-08-30 20:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I've posted this before, but I think some people missed it, and it does enhance the last couple posted chapters, so I hope you all enjoy it. Also, we first saw the slogi back in chapter 2.3, but Zidaun didn't think much about them, since he knew what they were and just thought of them as a convenient way to travel.
Also, they are just frea...
2024-08-23 05:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostA slightly early offering of your weekly chapter, enjoy.
“The skill of an artist is in this, how well they render in stone, paint, or note, the transitory ephemeral of flesh and feeling. Mere accuracy is the domain of the proficient. Meaning is the domain of the artist.”
- Irakkas Ovajad, prodigy multidisciplinary artist,...
2024-08-22 19:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt's Friday again, and so time for another chapter. Enjoy!
Pets are a universal in all human societies. Even those that barely survive will have children selecting tiny animals to care for.
-A’vim Unati, historian
==Caden==
After failing to completely think things through before extending my aura, and more than a...
2024-08-16 18:21:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Another Friday, another chapter. Thank you for all your support, and I hope you enjoy.
The little joys make life worth living. Life is hard, and you will find suffering and sorrow, but by taking the little joys, and fully savoring them, past sorrows shall blow away like ashes on the wind. Enjoy the moment, be happy, be free, and let...
2024-08-09 20:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostGetting things out early this week, because I am going camping over the weekend, and didn't want to deprive you all of the chapter.
Hope you enjoy it.
==Zidaun==
My heart burned with an unprecedented worship, a cleansing flame that erased all doubts, all fears. How could I feel anything else when confronte...
2024-08-01 18:36:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey, this chapter is actually here on time. Strange that.
Enjoy.
Under the heavens, there are more cruelties instituted by man, than enshrined in nature’s continuous war with itself. For man, with no thought of gain or advantage, will exercise petty tyrannies over their fellows, and revel in his insignificant power, delighte...
2024-07-26 16:59:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnd the promised chapter. Almost entirely dialogue, which is odd for me.
All adults that reach middle age, no matter how meager their class and position, will find themselves crossing the first threshold along the way. It is an event to be celebrated and honored, for it is a gift of the system, and, in turn, a gift from Yamash.
<... 2024-07-18 18:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostSorry things took a bit, but going to post two things, a chapter and this, the intro to the Arc.
That looks like a tree, let's call it a tree,' said Coyote to Earthmaker at the beginning, and they walked around the rootdrinker patting their bellies.
―Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
And there, ...
2024-07-18 18:47:06 +0000 UTC View PostStill going to try and keep up with one chapter a week, while squeezing in some editing here and there. Wrote quite furiously yesterday and today, and was able to get another chapter done, the first main character perspective of book two.
Still working on the dense lore bit that is supposed to be at the start of each arc, hopefully that wo...
2024-07-06 00:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostSorry this chapter took a bit longer for me to get up. I am still going to be working on editing, and there will be some new chapters written for book one as I do that (mostly fleshing out Sevso and Gnaeus'(Tam) journey.)
This chapter is one of the longest I have ever written, at over 4500 words. and is the prologue to book two. I decided ...
2024-07-03 19:28:54 +0000 UTC View PostI was trying to write another epilogue, and was struggling with it. I had a bunch of things I wanted to show the reader, but no good way to tell them. So I wrote out a tiny bit in third person, that was about 400 words. It was... fine, but not great. Then I realized I had exactly the right perspective to use canonically. Then I started to write ...
2024-06-20 18:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostSorry to be gone so long. One of my partners, John, had his father pass away a few weeks ago. Everything kind of went towards that. It isn't my first time feeling grief, but this is first time where I was the one supporting someone else through it.
I didn't really have anything left to deal with other things. Honestly, I am still tired, bu...
2024-06-07 18:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostGot into a car accident on Saturday. Got t-boned by another car. Not ideal. Went to doctor today, looks like I have some whiplash in my neck. Nothing too huge, hopefully, but I will be doing some physical therapy.
The only thing I did today was deal with stuff from the accident. From 10 am to about 6 pm. I already wasn't the largest fan of...
2024-05-07 03:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostWas hit with one of those nasty flu/cold like things this week. Hit me hard for a couple days and now I am just dealing with the lingering aftermath. Was only able to get about a chapter worth of editing done as a result, but was able to function well enough today to finish this chapter.
What money can buy, the absence of money can take aw...
2024-05-03 20:12:54 +0000 UTC View PostI do enjoy the interludes with Gnaeus.
CONTENT WARNING: The last third of the chapter discusses male prostitution. Feel free to skip it if you like. The chapter still reaches 2000 words even without the last bit, so there is still plenty of content.
Thinking I might write a sex scene relevant to this chapter, how many people would ac...
2024-04-25 23:54:04 +0000 UTC View Post