TL:DR- I wrote a new book. Not "am writing." It's written. Which means a very long overdue cleanup of the tiers. Weeaboo will lose it's specific tier in the future and will be available at a discounted rate.
So! Per the poll, other than Isekai'ed into a werewolf romance (wh...
2025-03-01 04:34:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe ships sailing up the river made me smile. They probably shouldn’t have, I probably should be horrified or something, but honestly, they made me smile. Because the truth is that, no matter how sadistic, evil and monstrous a nation you are, the ocean does not care. You need to maintain your b...
2025-02-28 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostI stood outside the building, looking up at that blue Verton sky. I can understand the sky being different shades of blue at different times of the day and at different times of the year. Winter Afternoon Blue is not the same as Summer Afternoon Blue because the sun is further away in the winter....
2025-02-27 21:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostI found a quiet spot to sit and let my feelings wash over me. Four choices was an insanely luxurious lineup by the standards of gacha game quests. It strongly implied that the different routes would be at most superficially different, all leading to the same events. Presumably there would be subt...
2025-02-25 03:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe young man was called Saccio and he was full of fire and idealism. Verton was a city on a hill, the shining light of the world. If it could free itself of foreign oppression, it would hoist a light for all of humanity. It could be the lighthouse of the world. Bringing light to all the dark pla...
2025-02-24 04:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostCombo of travel and being sick. Ever have one of those things where you are lying down thinking "This is dumb, I should be up and doing," then you stand up and immediately remember why you were lying down in the first place? Like that. Expect it on Sunday. Hopefully I will have something to share...
2025-02-22 03:33:05 +0000 UTC View PostOthai didn’t collapse to her knees in relief. She didn’t pound the earth or scream her triumph. I kind of wished she would.
“Clean up the battlefield. Confirm there are no survivors. Usual reward for intel stands. Nobody get brave and jump into the water- We ain’t p...
2025-02-20 04:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostYou know what I didn’t ever need to see? Long pikes skewering floundering soldiers as they tried to escape from a river. The story of this game, over and over, was hunger. The image of fishermen with spears was inescapable. The helplessness of it…
Well. If they had succ...
2025-02-18 04:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve never eaten a bitter almond, but the bad did smell ‘almond-y’ and there was a bitter, acrid tang to it and if I was mailing Truso a large sack full of what felt like powder…
“It's cyanide, isn’t it?”
“You haven’t even opened the letter, my ...
2025-02-15 02:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostI had to figure the plan was compromised. Everybody seemed to know everything the second anyone said it, so I’d be crazy to think this would be any different. Gacha nonsense or not. I certainly wouldn’t trust my life to the dev’s laziness. It was time to implement my plan. And with a little...
2025-02-13 03:53:49 +0000 UTC View Post[AUTHOR NOTE- short one today. For some reason, wrapping up this arc has been an absolute bear. It's past midnight. I'm heading for bed.]
Once we were boots down in Verton, I ran a quick check on my quest givers. Truso didn’t have any new jobs for me, but hinted strongly that I was close ...
2025-02-11 05:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe hat was not particularly exquisite. It could be assembled by our hattiers not named Hatty. It was, to my profound satisfaction, a bucket hat. It conferred zero stat bonuses, but buffed my mood fishing by at least 15%. Maybe even 20%. I can’t see my stat sheet. I just know that a fisherman s...
2025-02-08 04:39:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s not an exploit. Really. It’s not. If you think about it, I’m just doing what the whales do- using an established system to fully appreciate the game without the tedious necessity of grinding every last little thing.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
... 2025-02-06 03:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostAny question I might have had about the monsters being driven by some compulsion was answered immediately. The fall to the bottom of the moat snapped already dissolving bones, shattered skulls, it sounded like the hideous things were vomiting out their own organs. All while neon yellow acid debas...
2025-02-04 02:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe monster’s vanguard were the Toads. I understood the logic. What harm is there in shoving the ranged units out first when their death is arguably more useful than their life?
“Versai, Mrs. Hungry, stand by near the rear gate. You may need to deploy shortly.”
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2025-02-01 00:10:10 +0000 UTC View PostI returned from Verton with mixed feelings. On the one hand, we were teeing up well. I was getting a handle on the systems the setting used, figured out how to make best use of Othai, even figured out some minor exploits. All good stuff. We knew betrayal was coming, and it was just a question of ...
2025-01-30 00:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostGames have themes. It’s not always logical or even coherent, but they have themes. This, of course, is to help them sell stuff. What that theme is varies wildly. The Spirit of Rebellion in the Persona games, and the core mcguffin of the Fate series is the Grail, which can grant yo...
2025-01-27 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“What does “sic ‘im me- ghruk!”
Rikka was on top of Yellow Feather, popping out of the shadow of the hill and leaping on him like an outraged spider. She yanked one of his arms to the side, making him shoot far wide. The other arm drove her kunai up and into his lungs. On...
2025-01-24 19:48:09 +0000 UTC View Post“How many dogs is “a whole bunch,” Rache?”
“Roundabout thirty.”
Presumably the dogs can scramble up the slope just fine, and obviously pack tactics are going to be highly effective in pinning down individual combatants. They probably aren’t counting...
2025-01-22 18:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostIt simply wasn’t possible to exist here and not be reminded that the enemy were monsters. It seemed almost insultingly simple to say- that the people here should have expected monsters to act like monsters. But this was notionally the work of a human empire. I could see boot marks stil...
2025-01-20 20:30:30 +0000 UTC View Post[[Author note- Putting a trigger warning for horror at this point is a bit absurd, but if you are feeling sensitive, I'd skip this chapter.]]
Black water crashed through the door but I was already on the roof, looking for a place to jump as the powerlines fell spitting and snarling i...
2025-01-18 02:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostI shook off the emo thoughts. Mopey doesn't get things done. I took another look through the wall into the resort area. There were plenty of lower-star Awakened in there. You could spot the simpler costumes and repetitive movements. They weren’t the majority. To my quiet shock, most of the play...
2025-01-16 00:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post[[AUTHOR NOTE- Slowly, painfully, I'm back. I'm going to try to get things back on schedule.]]
“A valid target, just not one in range. So you deliberately miss. But how-” Othai wasn’t getting it. Mrs. Hungry was looking with deep interest at her hooks, but she wasn’t making a move e...
2025-01-14 01:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostI am really sorry about this. The holidays were lovely, and I got a festive flu in the spirit of the season. That kind of thing where you feel fine, but you are tired all the time, then cough like you are trying to evacuate a chunk of lung and if you can't you will actually die. And sleep become...
2025-01-06 04:34:11 +0000 UTC View PostI tried to spot a toad on the battlefield. It looked toad colored. A sort of yellow/green with bits of brown mixed in. It didn’t start becoming bright yellow until it built up a bellyful of acid to spit. Don’t really know what else to say about it, other than it being a horrifying chimera tha...
2025-01-06 04:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostI was standing on a dock. The dock was floating on a big pond. I had a chair, a bucket filled with water, and a fishing rod. At the end of the dock was a little shack with more rods leaning up against it, as well as some nets, and an old man enjoying the sun. The pond smelled fresh. I don’t kno...
2025-01-01 20:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post[This is the chapter that should have posted Friday. I'm still playing catch up, and joy of joys, I have a Holiday Cold to go with the Holiday Cheer. Hoping you all are well.]
I sat in the dirt, looking up at the sky for a while. Nice blue sky. Fluffy white clouds in aesthetically pleasing ...
2024-12-30 17:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post“We have you trapped like rats in a box. Surrender! Lay down your arms and you will be allowed to leave with your lives!” The raider bellowed. He was wearing a fancy hat. Guess we found the officer.
“We are Genuda Mercenaries. You know how this will go. Stop being a coward ...
2024-12-27 19:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post[[Author's Note- Monday's chapter. Merry Christmas and/or the midwinter festival of your choice!]]
“We have a saying where I am from- “Nothing is as expensive as ‘Free.’” That being said, exchanging favors and making friends are two of my very favorite things.”
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Real talk- right now I have the available attention span of a squirrel with a severe meth solution in a small town in Appalachia after Wallmart did a BOGO on .22LR ammo and 45% off on baby's first varmant gun. Which is to say, none. I don't expect to miss any chapters, but I am very sure they wil...
2024-12-23 05:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post