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A Gamer's Guide 173

Courthouse, exterior. Crowd is even bigger than yesterday. More signs, more shouting, more things thrown at me, more guards trying to suppress the rioting with less faked enthusiasm.

The only major difference would be in the addition of an anti-riot, consisting of a whole two people. When I...

RRL AD + random stuff

Anthrax bought me an ad spot so I drew this to fill it with! And then there’s a bunch of random stuff. Nothing of much interest or value. Typical, standard art. 

Gamer's Guide Books 1 and 2 pdf's

Here are the first two books (chapters 1-76 and 77-153 respectively) in pdf format, as promised. Hope you enjoy!

By the way, and this should go without saying, but please don't spread these around too much, I know it's not a request I can monitor in any way, but this is currently my only re...

Cover for book 1 + various sketches and stuff

finally getting back into drawing this dude. been so long i kinda forgot what his face was supposed to look like…

A Gamer's Guide 172

I wake up. I’m in… a hospital, of some sort.

Not dead. Alive.

But I died.

And before that…

Cheering explodes across my skull and I press my hands against my head, hoping to silence it, if only a little. Wait. Hands? Yeah, now that I look at it, I’ve got ha...

A Gamer's Guide 171

It feels strange. Life continues. Somehow, I didn’t expect to survive until lunch. Or, at least, that if I were to receive lunch, it would be in the form of my final supper. Instead, I’m looking into a bowl of clear broth, a piece of bread in my hand, and my own face staring up at me. I don�...

A Gamer's Guide 170

When we arrive for the trial the next day, there’s a crowd outside.

Where did they come from? Why are they here? I don’t know. What I do know is that a lot of people are shouting very loudly that I ought to be hanged. Moleman mutters something under his breath about word of mou...

A Gamer's Guide 169

The shower wasn’t exactly a shower, but it was warm water that fell onto me, so I had no reason to complain. I took my first proper shower in… two years, technically speaking? Then again, I wasn’t much of a shower-goer even before that, so it could have been longer.

It was ni...

A Gamer's Guide 168

Swords slash, spears stab, arrows fly, magic magics, and I take it all. One spear goes into my stomach, an arrow stabs into my shoulder, a sword slashes my forearm, and a bit of magic bounces off me harmlessly. To the people around me, it must have seemed like I willingly took it, which I did. Ho...

A Gamer's Guide 167

Lunch was good. Need I say more? We stumbled around for almost a full hour, moving around the entire circumference of the market district. We saw pubs, grander restaurants, small shops for armor and weapons and even magical items, alongside the whole of the marketplace itself. It was actually rea...

A Gamer's Guide 166

While I’m still reeling, Logghammer continues, each word he says being carefully written down by one of the many people in attendance. “To preface this simple trial, we are not following the laws of any specific country, or of any specific server. Each server has their own rules and correspon...

A Gamer's Guide 165

“My username’s BeatriceTheAngel, but I’d prefer it if you called me Rice. All the other parts are so needlessly grand, and Rice is pretty similar to my real name, anyways,” she says as she shakes my hand.

“Kitty,” I say, shaking hers. “PrissyKittyPrincess.”

“And your...

A Gamer's Guide 164

“...Everything appears to be in order,” Patty says with the same gravity as someone reporting on the death of a beloved family pet. She only lacks the mournful shake of the head, the wiping at the eyes, or any other shows of humanity. “The floor eighteen all-skirmish will be at a quarter pa...

A Gamer's Guide 163

We smile at each other. Isn’t life awfully simple sometimes?

“But, before that,” he says, as though a thought hit him only now, “have you signed up for the tournament yet?”

“The tutournament?” I parrot. “No. I only got here just now, and then I saw you being harassed�...

A Gamer's Guide 162

I leap at them. Wide eyes meet me but before my claws can meet their arteries, a club-like staff meets with my face and I go tumbling.

Ah, a worthy opponent! Allow me to lick the blood from my nose in a sinister manne—

…Moleman?

As his brows furrow, Moleman’s grip on the s...

A Gamer's Guide 161

It’s dark. It isn’t cold, but the water and the humidity makes it feel colder than it really is. I’m… underground again? But not in a cave. There’s dirt below me, and also above me. I can’t hear much of anything beyond this, but I can see a pale stream of light fluttering in through a...

A Gamer's Guide 160

I appear in the lobby, carrying both a strange weight in my chest, alongside an even stranger emptiness. A kind of heavy weightlessness, as paradoxical as it sounds.

Sixteen positive responses.

…But I didn’t completely clear the stage.

Should I pull out my hair or pray to si...

A Gamer's Guide 159

Days pass comfortably. Like, unsettlingly comfortably. Just as the beast of fraud said—weird name, I agree—the dogs started willingly dragging themselves out of the water, more and more, with greater frequency over time.

And you know something interesting I learned?

The beast of f...

A Gamer's Guide 158

I look at the beast. My voice is even as I speak and say, “I’m still going to kill you. You’re useful to me now because you can help kill the dogs and you can bring me down into the abyss but after that…” I almost smile. “Doesn’t that bother you at all? That you’re looking at your...

A Gamer's Guide 157

My eyes flare open and I fly to my feet, briefly disoriented before keeling over to regurgitate two lung’s worth of disgusting dark water.

Haah, haah, haah, I’m… alive…?

<The next time you try that,

you won’t be quite so lucky.>

I turn to ...

A Gamer's Guide 156

<To repay your debt,

your inventory has been sold

for 0 points.>

<Current debt:

137 075 points.>

I paint the lobby. I stare at the RED. I wonder where it all went wrong.

I didn’t die.

I lived.

I killed so that I could live again.

A Gamer's Guide 155

That’s where you’re wrong, buster. I can’t fight for your divine hineys if I’m dead!

<To repay your debt,

your inventory has been sold

for 3 119 points.>

<Current debt:

105 075 points.>

Aaaaaand there it is. Right. Okay, yeah. I was...

A Gamer's Guide 154

I’m not in the lobby. The status box lied to me.

I’m… I don’t know where. To be completely honest, I know where I am, but I don’t want to say it. If I admit that I’m in the play area of my old kindergarten, I’ll have to admit that I can even remember what that place looked lik...

A Gamer's Guide to Reading A Gamer's Guide to Beating the Tutorial

Yo! It took two weeks, but I have now finished proofreading both books!! Yippie!!! I had originally intended for it to only be one book, but then it would've been way too long, so... yeah. Two books! And it only took two weeks of mind-melting labour!! To kill my procrastination, I also went strai...

Some more art for the tutorial before I sink fully into proofreading

So yeah this is what Ho-Jae looked like by the final chapter! Yippie! Somewhat, at least, I drew this kind of choppily cuz it was just like a fun sketch until i decided i wanted to do more gore and blood practice. I’m actually very happy with how his face turned out, gore wise! I still have muc...

Tutorial Rewrite Announcement (We're goin Original!)

Hello, my beloved readers!

At this moment, assuming you've been following the latest updates here, I'm sure you'll be thinking to yourselves, "Wait, what the heck? Finale? Epilogue? But the story isn't over yet!" And you would be most correct--it isn't!

We are, simply speaking, goin' ...

Tutorial Rewrite Epilogue

Just like last time, just like before, just like in his memories and just like in his nightmares, the creature disappeared, leaving only a pair of bloody footprints in its wake.

And still, although he knew that the creature was gone, that it had been taken back however briefly to the hell i...

Tutorial Rewrite 153 (Finale of Fanfic Version)

Mutters ripple through the courtroom again, silenced by the banging of a gavel. The arch-judge’s eyes train on me, alongside probably every other pair of eyes in the entire room. “You admit to your guilt, human?”

I shrug and point a finger at Simel. “You’ve got a good witness for ...

Tutorial Rewrite 152

I didn’t fight back. They put chains on me, around every limb I have, and then they dragged me down to the dungeons, to the black of the down there, and they chained me there.

Only when the gate to my cell closed and locked did I finally snap out of it.

…What is happening?

W...

Tutorial Rewrite 151

“Do I look good? It feels kind of tight…” I tug at the frilly skirt a little. “And why does it have to be WHITE? I’d be more okay with a pink dress, honestly.”

“A pink dress? Don’t be silly, your highness. Such cheap, half-dyed articles could never properly fit your gracious...