Hello there,
I took most of a week off from writing because I was having some hand pain/inflammation. It was partially from writing/other computer use but another part was because I hold my phone weird when reading and I read a lot. Swapped to tablet so I'm not actually holding anything. An...
2025-02-03 14:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostMT 232 - Surgery Prep
Xim, Grotto, and Throne fucked off to the Third Layer and I wished the Xor’Drel tribe all the best in dealing with that trio. Xim would do some research on how to manage the flow of Divine energy on a vastly greater scale than she was normally capable of, whil...
2025-01-31 15:48:29 +0000 UTC View PostMT 231 - Barely an Inconvenience
Varrin ended up being the easiest person to map once we figured out that his ancestral soul clone was unaffected by whatever was happening. It couldn’t talk, had a very limited capacity to remember anything, and could only make decisions based on th...
2025-01-28 06:50:00 +0000 UTC View Posta/n: Seems like my thing lately is doing double on Monday. Anyway, I have another one coming later today!
MT 230 - Working Out the Kinks
I followed Etja’s directions and honed in on one of the deepest layers of Xim’s spiritual essence.
This level of soul diving...
2025-01-27 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMT 229 - Change of Plans
“Soooo,” Xim chimed into our thoughts. “What do you want to ask the Dread Star next?”
I was once again strapped into a harness below Varrin, who flew us northward above the flat, frozen tundra. We whipped over the ground two...
2025-01-24 21:35:18 +0000 UTC View PostMT 228 - The Best Option Comes First
I thought over Etja’s claim, calling to mind the other times I’d seen a Deific ability. Yaretzi’s Thunderdome had been Deific, but I hadn’t ever found out what it cost the Littan to use the skill. It seemed like the kind of thing he was re...
2025-01-21 00:09:53 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: There'll be another chapter out in 12 hours. Cheers!
MT 227 - Dimensional Magic 40
Congratulations! You have cleared Delve 1156: Throne of Hubris (Formerly known as Throne of Zng)
This was a Platinum Expansion Delve!
MT 226 - The Boss We Deserve
With a wave of the Elder Lich’s hand, the six remaining collectors exploded. Tons of frozen debris rained down, but another swipe of the hand swept it all aside to land clear of the soldiers. Spiritual energy funneled from the wrecked devices, flowing i...
2025-01-16 21:27:26 +0000 UTC View PostMT 225 - Lich in a Ditch
“Stay alert, we aren’t done,” I thought to the group. The Demilich’s soul thrashed and escaped from the corpse, fleeing up through the mound of bodies held at bay by my Elemental Barrier. I noted that Nuralie’s Spiritual poison was sti...
2025-01-14 05:31:43 +0000 UTC View PostMT 224 - Handling It
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SYSTEM ADDENDUM ADDED BY: DELVE CORE 9963
ADDENDUM NOTE: Those bastards.
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Core 9963 watched the Delvers work in shock. She couldn’t believe what she was seeing, so she reset her sensor arrays and even did a soft reboot of her oper...
2025-01-12 07:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostMT 223 - Please Die
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SYSTEM ADDENDUM ADDED BY: DELVE CORE 9963
ADDENDUM NOTE: Sometimes it’s better to cut your losses.
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Delve Core 9963 had come online after a brief, eighty-year nap to discover Phase 2 had been implemented. She’d been surprised it ...
2025-01-09 21:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostMT 222 - 1,518
The legion was spread out in a large chamber that looked like it might have once been an outdoor field. The side where Nuralie and I perched had windows and large doors that gave the impression of a building’s exterior wall. The observation platform was about three s...
2025-01-06 18:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I wanted to make a post detailing some of the work that was done on Volume 2 after publication on Patreon and RR and to provide a couple of scenes that got added during our review of the volume.
Substantively, there is only one change in Volume 2 of n...
2025-01-06 03:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostMT 221 - How Many Zombies in a Horde?
Instead of experiencing the abstract concept of instantaneous movement on the soles of my boots, I felt something slippery.
Despite not focusing on Agility, my score of 10 still placed me into the superhuman category for balance and coordin...
2025-01-05 01:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostMT 220 - Delving Through the Snow
Ayama was an ecological impossibility. It was a verdant nation established in the center of the Wastes. A century prior, the space it occupied had been as barren as everything else around its borders. Godking Ayamari had spent decades performing magi...
2025-01-02 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHappy New Year!
2024 was a pretty transformative year for us here, and hopefully it brought some positive things into your life as well. I wanted to take the opportunity to mention some stuff that'll be happening in 2025.
Volume 1 is getting an official la...
2025-01-02 05:16:33 +0000 UTC View PostMT 219 - Implant or Eccentricity?
Etja gave us all a long look while we waited for Grotto to join us. The Delve Core was allegedly unaffected by the outside influence and was coming to assist Etja in judging us. Grotto teleported into the room, wearing his little man disguise. His c...
2024-12-31 16:53:32 +0000 UTC View PostMT 218 - Offer on the Table
“That sounds like quite the opportunity,” said Etja. “We haven’t had the chance to pursue any Dungeons, given what little time has passed since returning from Deijin’s Descent. We are interested in them, of course. However, like the matter of you...
2024-12-30 12:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostMT 217 - Cognitive Biases
I was compromised.
I didn’t know how it happened. I didn’t know what kind of danger I posed. All I knew was that my mind couldn’t be trusted.
And it wasn’t just me. It was almost everyone in the party.
Three hours after handing Hyst...
2024-12-28 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMTB3 Epilogue
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SYSTEM ADDENDUM ADDED BY USER NAME: [ERROR: REDACTED]
ADDENDUM NOTE: Two months after the founding of Closetland
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Brae’ach seethed as he grasped the table, and the air shuddere...
2024-12-24 19:47:00 +0000 UTC View PostMT 216 - Intentional Nation Building
I undid a swath of slots at the Icon’s feet. The moment the floor was released, it crumbled away, reduced to tiny chunks like something had been taking a sledgehammer to it every day for a month. As the floor collapsed to reveal the plant beneat...
2024-12-24 03:04:30 +0000 UTC View PostMT 215 - God Wranglin'
All of us were experienced enough to wait for the kill notification. Predictably, we didn’t get one.
“I’ll be honest,” I said. “I’m not sure how to double-tap a puddle of burning goo.”
“More fire,” Nuralie offered. “I have some a...
2024-12-24 00:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
I've got three chapters ready to go, with at least two of them dropping today. I've been working them as a group to make sure everything is lined up the way I'd like since these are the final few entries in volume 3. I'm going to try and run them over with SRK a final time today ...
2024-12-23 13:01:27 +0000 UTC View PostMT 214 - Lockdown
The shockwave pushed me back a step, and a dense web of cracks appeared in the inventory slots below our feet. I was momentarily stunned by the sight but tore my eyes away from the now-wiggling vines when metallic plates along the golem’s arm began to open.
...
2024-12-19 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMT 213 - Unworthy
Hysteria flipped the chalkboard over, revealing a cartoonish image of a castle.
“A disaster like an earthquake is a classic example of an external threat with well-defined boundaries,” they said. The castle cracked down the middle, then crumbled. “In thi...
2024-12-17 08:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostMT 212 - Divine Cowboy
“Sorry for making you look bad,” I said to Hysteria, filled with regret. “I’m an asshole, and I deserve a good spanking.” I hung my head in shame.
“He is,” said Xim.
“It is true,” said Varrin.
“And you,” said Hysteria, po...
2024-12-16 10:29:15 +0000 UTC View PostMT 211 - Chat Room
“Brae’ach!” said Hysteria, clapping their hands together. “Buddy, friend, pal, guy, when have I ever called you for something that wasn’t important?”
The hulking Davahn stared at the avatar, what little I could see of their face devo...
2024-12-13 03:43:41 +0000 UTC View PostMT 210 - System Call
Please provide additional context.
I took a deep breath and formulated my argument.
“Delve Core 1156 has suffered significant damage to his chassis and has become non-responsive,” I said. “The perpetrator is suspect...
2024-12-10 08:45:11 +0000 UTC View PostMT 209 - The Plant Dimension
Using Coordinated Thinker to find a valid teleport location for Shortcut was a bit like groping about blindly with a big phantom hand. I didn’t ‘see’ the spaces I was searching through, but I could get a feel for their structure and dimensions. ...
2024-12-09 11:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostMT 208 - Shared Fate
I was blinded for several terrifying seconds after the beam hit. I kept a spiritual eye on everyone with Soul Sight, but the wastelanders seemed to be as fucked as I was. When the afterimage cleared from my vision, it was just in time to see a massive section of ...
2024-12-05 09:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post