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A Gamer's Guide 302

“The goal of this trial,” Hunter says, “is to reach that mountain over there,” he points at a mountain in the middle of the island, surrounded by thick foliage, “and climb to the top!”

 

Even though the walls of the c...

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A Gamer's Guide 301

We’re in a classroom. I don’t know which of the gods it is that designs these floors, but whoever it is, they should get fired into the sun. There’s a blackboard, seats for everyone, a striking lack of windows, and anything else you might need to make people like me have an anxiety attack. ...

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A Gamer's Guide 300

“I do have one question, though,” I say, rubbing my chin. “What the heck is a geckomancer?

 

“Honestly?” Her smile widens, ear-to-ear. “I have no clue!”

 

“Do you summon lizards?”

 

“Seldom.”

 

I...

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A Gamer's Guide 299

Most likely, they didn’t spot me, and just went over here to get away from everyone else. But why would they do that? What kind of person escapes a warm fire and hot food? For what reason?

 

Curiosity claws at me. With the way the lake is shaped, considering the place they sat ...

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A Gamer's Guide 298

Fish in hand, I begin wading towards the other side of the lake along the edge. 

 

I can do this. This’ll work out fine. I’ll just step up to them, say ‘Hi, I’m Kitty! I look forward to working with you all!’ and then I’ll eat my fish, make a stupid...

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A Gamer's Guide 297

I hear them first, because all of a sudden they splash down into the water a few paces away from me and Hunter. 

 

“Oh my God, holy shit, I’m—”

 

“Calm down, we’re fine, the water is shallow!”

 

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Small Dailies Announcement

Okay so I got caught up in a second honeymoon phase with this story and now have half of book 5 written but basically none of it proofread, so to Survive, I'll be posting a chapter daily until my proofreading catches up with what I'm actually writing. Aside from the three I just posted I got over...

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A Gamer's Guide 296

<Success!

Hell Challenger Lo Fennrick

is now assembled into

Divine Network.>

 

<Attempting to grant

Administrative Rights…>

 

{::w::}

 

<Attempt failed.

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A Gamer's Guide 295

<The God of Cowardice

nervously checks His cue-cards.>

 

<The Goddess of Want

punches

the God of Cowardice

in the gut.>

 

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A Gamer's Guide 294

My feet plunge into ankle-deep, glittering water. The sudden brightness blinds me, and I stumble back, falling into the water.

 

It’s… warm. Beneath the glistening, bright water is a layer of smooth, sleek sand. I press my fingers into it. Soft. When I drag my hand through it...

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BINGEFEST End + Book notes

Heyo! BOOK 4 IS FINISHED WHOOOOOOOOOO

Hope y'all enjoyed it! I'm very happy with how the ending turned out, and especially glad that I decided to move the cocytus section from book 5 to book 4. Good stuff!

Before I go into everything, I just wanted to say that I'll be taking a small ...

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A Gamer's Guide 293

<Tutorial stage,

Hell Difficulty Thirty-Fourth Floor:

Cocytus, step four: Judecca.>

 

<[Clear Condition]

Move on.>

 

I continue moving. As the temperature drops and the air becomes colder and colder, the fog begins to fade. ...

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A Gamer's Guide 292

I stand up again, wiping the perspiration from my nose.

 

A status message pops up to greet the next part of the stage.

 

<Tutorial stage,

Hell Difficulty Thirty-Third Floor:

Cocytus, step three: Ptolomaea.>

 

<[Clea...

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A Gamer's Guide 291

The black ice stretches on. Further and further. I move slowly, robotically, across the endless expanse.

 

<Tutorial stage,

Hell Difficulty Thirty-Second Floor:

Cocytus, step two: Antenora.>

 

<[Clear Condition]

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A Gamer's Guide 290

The sensation of moving straight from the cold, barbed cave to somewhere somehow even colder is disorienting, to say the least. Not appearing in the lobby feels strange. Downright alien. Not that I’ll miss it, of course. However, the sight before me is well worthy of reconsidering my choice of ...

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A Gamer's Guide 289

Well in the lobby, I sit down. The floor beneath me is WHITE. My shadow is BLACK. 


Purely by routine, I slit a line across my palm. RED drops of blood drip down between my legs.


RED, WHITE, and BLACK.


RED, WHITE, BLACK.


RED...

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A Gamer's Guide 288

Emil watched the dawn that wasn’t a dawn and knew that soon, the shadow would come for him, too. 


Is this how Simel had felt all those years ago? 


What a fool he’d been, to try to argue with him. To try to take the shadow’s side and justify his sl...

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A Gamer's Guide 287

“Hey, Moleman, there you are,” I say, entering his room. Or maybe it’s an office. We never did decide on that. Either way, it’s piled with stacks of paper and letters—most of them unread. It’s not like he had to sign off on too many, anyways. Funnily enough, now that I’m looking, th...

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A Gamer's Guide 286

“Hey there, Rat,” I say, stepping inside. “Today’s the day. I brought a few sweets, thought you might like it.”


“Unh. Unh. Unnhhh,” he says, rocking back and forth with each sound. It’s a little impressive.


“I’m sure he will,” Mitt says, acc...

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A Gamer's Guide 285

Sure, it’s not like Moleman made it look easy or anything, but running a city is absolutely not something I’m fit for. Trying to keep everyone on the same page and up to date is a logistical nightmare, and combined with the fact that I’m simply not good at talking to people, it makes things...

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A Gamer's Guide 284

“We’ve run out of rations, but I’ve been going into dead houses and eating all the corpses and transforming them into rats, so I was thinking I could distribute those? Would that be fine?”

 

“Sure.”

 

“A lot of people have connected me to t...

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A Gamer's Guide 283

So, another room had been converted. It looked pretty good.

 

“I’ll take care of things in your stead. And Mitt will ensure that you’re kept up to date. As far as I can tell, you aren’t sick with what Rat has, so that’s, you know… good.”

 

The room ...

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A Gamer's Guide 282

At seven, he ate breakfast with his last friend.

 

At nine, he spoke with the Judgess of Krizia regarding her house’s rations and the possibility of increasing manpower through her funding.

 

At eleven, he had a lunch meeting with the leaders of the departments...

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A Gamer's Guide 281

“You aren’t immune,” I say, deliberately.

 

“Nonsense. I haven’t—”

 

“You aren’t immune,” I say again, a little louder this time, “because you have been sick. But… But when Plus donated his heart, it got healed. You were safe, and...

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A Gamer's Guide 280

I saw the light fade from his eyes. His mouth slacked open, and his arm went a little limp. But he wasn’t dead, and he wasn’t brain-dead.

 

“Uh… uhh…” Rat muttered. A little bit of drool went down his chin. “Muh… Mommy? Mommy. Hello. Uhh… Muhh… Help. Hello?”...

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A Gamer's Guide 279

He woke up to the sound of something snapping. A little twig or something, he was sure. And still, he decided to open his eyes, just in case.

 

Everything was dark. The fire had burned out, but a few cinders were still glowing in its heart. Unfortunately, this singular light sour...

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A Gamer's Guide 278

She died only five days later. 

 

After the first visit, Jarne hadn’t been able to muster the strength to see her again. For some reason, he always felt assured that she’d live a while longer. Dragon plague was a slow and cruel disease. Depending on the way it was treate...

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A Gamer's Guide 277

It didn’t even take a week. 


“I can’t recommend visiting her. She’s completely delirious. Kitty tried to visit her, but she screamed and shouted at him, even throwing things. Horrible! It’s nothing new, unfortunately. Plenty of other patients have the plague reach ...

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BINGEFEST Announcement

TLDR: DAILY CHAPTER POSTING TO FINISH BOOK 4 AS HYPE FOR BOOK 1 RELEASE WHOOOOOO

Heyo all!!

As you might have noticed, I'm posting a lot! This is because I'm WRITING a lot! Like, a lot-lot. And that's because I'm excited twofold! For one, I've finally finished writing book 4 and am a...

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A Gamer's Guide 276

“No. No, that doesn’t… How the fuck does that make any sense? You can’t seriously think that simply because her divinity resistance rose, that means that this literal plague was caused by magic. And even if it was, who’s to say Mole did it? There are plen...

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