Your elemental absorption has increased to level 85.
A frost ent has died.
You have reached level 165!
Less than a minute after I fled the field the elite died. Of course, no loot chest appeared. I’d not killed the frost ent m...
2023-06-02 08:06:33 +0000 UTC
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Multiple hostile entities have failed to detect you! You are hidden.
The battle had not progressed much in the short time I’d been away. Dropping into a crouch, I studied the combatants.
The target is a level 217 frost ent. He is severely injured.
2023-05-30 06:04:29 +0000 UTC
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I examined the three corpses as carefully as I had the first, but my investigations revealed nothing new. Whatever had slain the ents had done so without taking any apparent losses of their own.
“We should return to the clifftops,” Ghost said suddenly.
Glancing at her, I ...
2023-05-29 05:08:08 +0000 UTC
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DAY THREE IN THE DUNGEON
You have slept 6 hours. Stamina, mana, and psi reserves have been fully restored.
Your Dexterity has increased to rank 58. Other modifiers: +24 from items.
You have etched an aetherstone with the aether coordinat...
2023-05-25 05:48:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter updated 27 May 2023: The increase in his telepathy skill modified.
You have activated a trap!
16 level 111 swarm vipers’ deathwish abilities have been triggered.
32 level 101 swarm vipers’ deathwish abilities have be...
2023-05-24 05:58:05 +0000 UTC
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A little later, I was at the rim of one of the craters, looking down.
This crater, like the others in the cauldron, had been formed by the stone golems tossing around their boulders. But there was something else special about it, too. Before luring the elite swarm viper out of its den, I’...
2023-05-23 04:23:15 +0000 UTC
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It took me longer than I expected to find the tunnel entrance.
From the outside the narrow slit leading into the swarm viper’s den looked no different from the hundreds of other crevices riddling the cauldron floor, and in the end, I had to resort to asking Ghost for help.
It got me...
2023-05-19 14:35:30 +0000 UTC
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This time around, I forwent blinking into the cave Ghost had found for me and took the long way down into the ravine. Reaching the bottom, I looked left and right.
The long-ago waterway that had formed the dried-out riverbed had wormed through the underlying rock, exposing an untold number ...
2023-05-18 05:46:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter updated 27 May 2023: Spell description modified.
You have killed a level 226 stone golem.
You have reached level 161 and rank 16!
For achieving rank 16, you have been awarded 1 additional attribute point and 1 Class poin...
2023-05-17 05:18:12 +0000 UTC
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Before leaving the tunnel mouth, I cast my buffs, more out of an excess of caution than anything else. I’d yet to decide whether to engage the rock giants.
You have cast heightened reflexes, increasing your Dexterity by +8 ranks for 20 minutes.
You have cast...
2023-05-11 06:18:28 +0000 UTC
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It was not all bad news, of course.
There were some definite benefits to facing two weaker creatures instead of one higher level foe, especially since the ‘new’ vipers weren’t elite-ranked monsters anymore. That not-insignificant fact was what had allowed me to analyze the clones.
...
2023-05-09 08:21:11 +0000 UTC
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You have cast necrotic spike.
The final spike materialized beneath the serpent and, just like I intended, triggered immediately.
Necrotic spike activated! A swarm viper has sustained nether damage.
The serpent flashed into sight once more, this ...
2023-05-04 08:42:50 +0000 UTC
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Ghost drew to a stop before me. “The tunnel is empty,” she reported.
I frowned. “Empty?”
“Yes, Prime. I traveled its entire length. After about fifty yards, it straightens out and continues that way before coming to an end two hundred yards later.”
2023-05-03 16:13:05 +0000 UTC
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Before leaving the cavern, I wrapped myself in shadows but didn’t cast my buffs yet. On this, my first venture into the tunnel, I only intended on scouting.
Time was of the essence in more ways than one. Safyre and the pack were waiting for me back in the arctic tundra, as were Loki’s a...
2023-05-02 04:13:20 +0000 UTC
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Hi ppl,
April has been a disastrous month for me writing-wise, and I got very little done.
Unfortunately, I don't have a backlist of chapters so when things go awry, they go very awry. I know many of you have been disappointed by the lack of updates and for that I apologize.
...
2023-04-27 15:05:55 +0000 UTC
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Transfer through portal commencing…
Leaving sector 18,240. Entering the Endless Dungeon.
…
…
Journeying through a portal was instantaneous.
You stepped into a shimmering gateway’s depths in o...
2023-04-07 03:39:27 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
As all of you probably know, Book 4 of the Grand Game is out, and so far, seems to be doing well! Thank you to everyone for your feedback during the release of the early chapters. And while you're waiting for Book 5, you might want to check out these fantasy promos:
2023-03-03 09:00:32 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
House Wolf, Book 4 of the Grand Game is out now on amazon.
You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKR2PPCX
I'd appreciate it if you share your thoughts and leave a review ...
2023-02-28 22:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Player Profile: Michael
Level: 154. Rank: 15. Current Health: 32%.
Stamina: 7%. Mana: 0%. Psi: 13%.
Species: Human. Lives Remaining: 2.
True Marks (hidden): Pack-alpha.
Fal...
2023-02-23 06:54:59 +0000 UTC
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Multiple hostile entities have failed to detect you! You are hidden.
In the wake of the stygian overlord’s attack, the flying serpents launched their own assault, streaming before, behind, and even through the descending magical projectile.
I was safely hid...
2023-02-23 06:51:45 +0000 UTC
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The river was a raging torrent.
The moment my body hit the water, I was swept away, and the hundred dark minds swooping down on me disappeared from awareness.
Limbs windmilling, I tried to right myself, but the current was too strong, and I was pushed beneath the frothing surface. Icy...
2023-02-23 06:46:53 +0000 UTC
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You have entered sector 18,240 of the Forever Kingdom. Reminder: This region is under assault by a young void tree that has taken root in the heart of the sector. Remaining time until the sector is pulled into the Nethersphere: unknown.
Warning: You have entered the...
2023-02-23 06:45:33 +0000 UTC
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A portal has opened.
I rose to my feet. “I’m going in,” I said through the farspeaker bracelet. I padded forward, eyes trained on the luminous curtain before me, but around the corner of my eye, I noticed Safyre’s summons stiffen.
I paused and swung t...
2023-02-22 16:25:59 +0000 UTC
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You have entered a safe zone.
Aetherstone bracelet deactivated. Remaining stored locations: 2. Charged and unetched gems: 2. Uncharged gems: 1.
I emerged not in the center of the village as I expected but on its northern edge. Hmm, I thought,...
2023-02-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Head down, and with my hands in my pocket, I left the safe zone at a fast walk. Anriq was my last bit of unfinished business in the city, and once I’d seen to him, I would be free to return to the valley and shepherd the dire wolves to safety.
The streets of the plague quarter were as des...
2023-02-22 15:02:18 +0000 UTC
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For a drawn-out moment, I stared off into space, dumbstruck by the options the Adjudicator had presented me with. Then, my thoughts started churning, and I began analyzing the choices on offer from the—albeit meager—information the Game had provided.
The similarities between the paths w...
2023-02-22 12:27:12 +0000 UTC
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You have entered sector 1 of the Forever Kingdom.
A shield generator is in place around the city, preventing portals from opening anywhere except in the designated teleportation zones.
You have entered a safe zone.
I kept walkin...
2023-02-22 09:36:01 +0000 UTC
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“Primes? Never heard of them,” Cara replied offhandedly.
I nodded. “I’m not surprised. Few have.”
I’d come to Cara mainly because I needed a mage—someone to open a portal to the hidden sector and keep the nether at bay while the wolves transitioned to the guardian tower...
2023-02-22 08:34:47 +0000 UTC
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Hours later, the pack council and I finished our planning. The challenge was twofold: one getting the pack to their destination, and two, surviving the destination.
I’d spent much of the time making sure the elders understood what to expect. The tundra was not just cold, its snow...
2023-02-21 21:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Duggar growled, and I glanced in his direction to find all four elders staring at me. It took me a moment to realize why. With my mind fully shuttered, I couldn’t hear them.
I lowered my mind shields to half-height.
“Finally!” Sulan growled. “It took you long enou...
2023-02-21 16:14:31 +0000 UTC
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