The next day, Aaric greeted Simon with sweetbreads and more questions about what it was like to fight centaurs. Apparently, they were a growing problem in the region. Simon was careful not to be anywhere near the door that might or might not be a portal, and when the boy opened it, it was to Simon's ...
2024-03-11 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone, as my commentors no doubt noticed I haven't been around a lot this week. On Sunday, my wife had a medical emergency and was admitted to the hospital for four days. She is now home and resting comfortably. Tests are ongoing, and we still don't have many answers, but she's safe, and "fine" and that's all I can really ask for. ...
2024-03-08 15:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the setbacks at Banath, the Lich’s forces moved on. A small portion of its men and some imported chirurgeons were left behind to tunnel and triage, digging out what soldiers could be saved and building new constructs to fight from pieces of the old ones along with the corpses of those def...
2024-03-04 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I plan on slowing back down a little now.
2024-03-04 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostSome part of him considered killing himself right there on the peer as he watched the ship sail off into the distance. A Quick reset would definitely be faster than waiting around to catch the next ship, he told himself. Still, he resisted, grinding his teeth in frustration as he stormed his way bac...
2024-03-04 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum’s armies had only just reached the twin fortresses of Banath and were pausing to gauge King Borum’s response to its generous terms when its carriage was detonated in front of the city gates of Rahkin without warning. One moment, The Voice of Reason had been riding sedately toward the...
2024-02-26 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBook 2 has now been removed, and is now available exclusively at Amazon.
The next week was a frantic affair. Despite just returning, preparations were made in record time. Goods were gathered, men were assig...
2024-02-26 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere had been a guard at the door when they’d come out, but when Simon reached the side entrance they’d used before, he was missing. Had he joined in the defense, or was he part of the attack? There was no way to know that, but the psycho vibes that Kaylee had been putting out made him fear it wa...
2024-02-26 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, this last set of chapters is for my devoted readers and Brewing Bad patrons.
The four of them skulked from shadow to shadow as they made their way across the castle’s inner courtyard when they didn’t think anyone was looking. It was sometime before one, which was pretty mu...
2024-02-23 15:02:01 +0000 UTC View Post4 more chapters for all my patrons!
Lucas was frog marched back to the scene of the crime where he found the medieval version of a paddy wagon parked in front of the tavern. The Captain looked at him briefly, but didn’t even bother talking to him.
He just nodded to the wagon, wh...
2024-02-23 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to my latest story. I plan to launch it formally on RR/SH in March, but for now here is a teaser for everyone. Chapter 1 is available to everyone, chapter's 2-5 are available to all paying members of any tier/story, and chapters 6-10 are available to Brewing Bad and Devoted Reader tiers.
Additional chapters will follow in a c...
2024-02-23 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Though Golemancer was never my most popular story. I Am glad to finally see it cross the finish line. After half a month of polishing and editing, it is now complete. If you read it on RR/SH it is largely the same story, despite being 20,000 words longe...
2024-02-21 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the ebony carriage rolled through the gates while the last sun was still high in the sky, no one thought to stop it or inquire as to the business of the vehicle’s sole occupant. Why should they? The undead forces that assailed the land were utterly inhuman, and they only ever struck in t...
2024-02-19 15:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostThey traveled for only a few minutes. Just long enough to reach the first island of trees in the sea of grass near the city and the river. The elves helped Benjamin from the carriage, and as he wal...
2024-02-19 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe grimoire’s cover was burned badly enough to be unrecognizable, but the pages were barely singed at the edges, so the whole thing was readable. Simon breathed a sigh of relief at that, and using the minor word of light, he briefly inspected a few passages to see if anything had changed, but i...
2024-02-19 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the ambush in the woods, Tenebroum laid low. It was not out of fear of the moon, though, but caution. It had built a large bronze telescope with fine lens that had been made from the clearest glass in the cities that it had sacked, but other than studying the pock-marked surface of Lunaris’s ...
2024-02-12 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOnly a few of the assembled mages had succumbed to the poison that the four of them had poured so freely during Prince Agardian’s posturing, but all of them reacted slowly to the shock of being set free in a way they’d never expected. Benjamin didn’t blame them. It was an impossible situation. 2024-02-12 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This time, when they arrived, the miller was already hard at work, using the gusty winds to turn wheat into flour. He was an earnest, hardworking fellow, and he didn’t seem nearly as sinister with the sun out, and though he seemed a little concerned when Simon stepped into his windmill armed a...
2024-02-12 13:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum had built the grotesqueries as shock troops and cannon fodder originally. They were a mixed group of hairy, misshapen things that resembled nothing too much as a herd of spiders made from the cast-off parts of farm animals, with just enough pieces of human left in the mix to easily bind a t...
2024-02-05 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Simon realized he was back in his cabin instead of his sick bed back at the inn, he sighed and rolled over to go back to sleep. This was to keep away the parts of his brain that flickered to life with a persecution complex almost instantly more than any fatigue, though.
She o...
2024-02-05 14:58:02 +0000 UTC View PostThank you to everyone who got a copy. As I mentioned in my note yesterday, the first book of Broken System had a very successful launch, and that was thanks to you! I really appreciate it!
As a consequence, I will probably be increasing the pace of these chapters to 3 or 4 a week until the end of book 3 because the publisher wants to launc...
2024-02-05 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, so first the bad news: this week I got one of my books pirated for the first time. Well, not the first time. I have found copies of it on pirate web novel/translation sites before. This time, though, someone scraped Tenebroum right off of RR and posted it to Amazon as "The Darkening of Souls : A LitRpg Dungeon Progression Fantasy" to tr...
2024-02-04 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the full moon touched her waters, Oroza could feel Lunaris’s call. It was the first time since her brush with darkness so long ago that the moon sang to her rather than silently judging from its high perch. She could have resisted it, of course, but what would have been the point of that?
If the m...
2024-01-29 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAt long last, we have arrived in the promised land! Two chapters (but still no answers. Sorry about that.)
“Well, I’m never doing that again.” Those were Simon's first words when he opened his eyes to stare at the ceiling. Charging the drawbridge had been awesome in the heat of the m...
2024-01-29 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Trianna wrung her hands with despair and indecision as she saw yet another cloud of black smoke rising over the gray city that had seen so many troubles lately. Her city, well, her family’s anyway. Until this year, it had been a beautiful place for all of her young life, but now it wa...
2024-01-22 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this week is good news, bad news. The good news is that Death After Death is starting to post twice a week on RR/SH. The bad news is that currently the Patreon is 11 chapters ahead, so Patreon won't start getting two chapters a week until next week.
Almost there.
Also, speaking of almost there, I'm getting close to ...
2024-01-22 14:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, Benjamin and Raja eventually slept, though he left the connections intact on his spells so they could continue chipping away at the mountain of possible combinations for the whole night. It was not a restful sleep. Even before Matt woke him at dawn so he could disable his ad hoc network...
2024-01-22 14:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I get to the poll, I just wanted to mention a couple of things:
You can see the seamlines where I'm painting the source images together, but so far, I think it's coming out nicely. I like the image of it astride the world. I may have to incorporate a stone giant into a future ...
2024-01-15 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was Verdenin who thought of it. Tenebroum would have to credit the man with that much, at least. That was why he still had a pulse after all.
Because the priest loved power, and he had some wonderful ideas about how to get more, he’d been allowed to stay alive. That, combined wit...
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