Truth lightly sighed and made his way down into the city below. He was quite sure Starbrite wasn't here, but he had to start somewhere. He had the nagging sensation that he was missing something. There were some elements of what he was seeing that didn’t add up. That usually meant he was either...
2024-03-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRache was waiting for us when we got back to the Tower.
“Watcha got for me, Rache?”
“Riding wild and free, boss!” She tossed me a map update. And… that was that, apparently. The limits of One Stars were really starting to grate. I trudged...
2024-03-29 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t know how long we waited, in that broken-time place. It really didn’t matter. Versai sat on the floor, hugging her uncle’s body. Whispering to him, now and then. Shivering. I explored the building a bit. I found the safe he mentioned, but I had no idea what Versai’s birthday was. T...
2024-03-29 01:50:01 +0000 UTC View PostMy summons whipped around, as did Versai. And then they froze, not sure what to do. I noticed the lights dimming. Just around the edges of the room- our little stretch of hallway remained in the light.
“I think you all know not to move.” A very dry voice. Very steady vo...
2024-03-29 01:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe queued up outside the second door. I had put myself at the end of the stack this time, and bumped Mika up ahead of Pammy. This was the last unexplored room, so I wasn’t worried about being attacked from behind. What I was worried about was what the hell was going on here.
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Kim summarily presented a small heap of Rune Bones as well as a cosmetic hat usable by scouts. It was a sort of fez looking thing. It would look awful on Rache. Eternally banished to the depths of the inventory, instantly, no hope of freedom.
“So where is this ‘best loo...
2024-03-29 01:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t bring myself to look at Mika’s character sheet. Somehow I knew that whatever I read, I would become violent. The Blue Roses too- would they be described as dancers? Entertainers? Somehow I doubted the developers would acknowledge that they were so Ride or Die for their boss, death ...
2024-03-29 01:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostI still had a couple of summons left, but after a Four Star, I mean, sure, better to have than not to have, but my expectations were nil.
And met. Barely a WoooWooaaaoooaiii in the “heavenly” music for the summoning. Just a big oof. Like, oh yeah, someone has to be a follow u...
2024-03-29 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe trooped upstairs. The door to the Records Hall was open, but I skipped it for now. More pressing concerns. Once more, I had kept all the monsters out of the tower, and all my summons alive. We killed a hidden boss. The Tower Rewards, the level clear bonus, would be enormous.
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Radz fired for effect. Kim kept her buff refreshed, but with the speed that this was closing, I wasn’t optimistic that she was scoring hits.
”Kim, I’m expecting a big one to close in pretty soon. Debuff as soon as they are in range. Keep the Mikas buff...
2024-03-29 00:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was that feeling. The feeling when you are crossing the road, and Truck-Kun is coming straight at you, but it’s not your time yet. You think. You aren’t sure if Truck-Kun knows that. Will he stop? Or are you getting Isekai’ed the hard way? Do you have enough time to jump forward? Backwar...
2024-03-29 00:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI was going to hold off on the bulk update until tomorrow, but the feedback I am getting is that delay is confusing/frustrating, so I'm going to bulk update tonight. So. You know. Be prepared.
2024-03-28 22:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostI glared at the three incoming smoke signals. There was a case for picking one and having Radz pound it. There was a case for splitting her fire and trying to slow the columns, break up their rush. It came down to how fast she could adjust her aim, and how long it took her to fire. Forty five sec...
2024-03-28 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth hadn’t even made it to the other end of the village before he was forced to confront an inconvenient truth- Snakes generally don’t travel at high speeds while clinging on to other animals. Perks was doing his best, bless him, but he literally wasn’t built for this.
Tr...
2024-03-28 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFirst- I apologize. I thought I had unlocked everything when I was setting up the tiers, and clearly I did not. This was my mistake. The problem was brought to my attention and should now be fixed. If I missed unlocking any chapters (and god knows that's a real possibility, thank you Patreon's bi...
2024-03-28 13:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostTruth walked down the road. Forty kilometers was a casual hour’s stroll, he wasn’t pushing the pace. He wanted to puzzle at Earth Folding Step a bit as he went.
Just how mentally diseased was this… Supreme Elder?
It was, he felt, a very fair ...
2024-03-27 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe basics of the basics of tactics- disperse your enemies’ strength, concentrate your own. This maxim has been proven by time. Consider the legendary techniques of “Let's you and him have a fight,” or “You hold him, I’ll hit him.” One must also consider the corollary “You go high, ...
2024-03-27 04:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostI stared ferociously at the stacks of lumber. Eyes narrowed. Killing intent gathered. Eye beams charging…
It did nothing. Zero inspiration. Plainly cursed wood. Fingers crossed it would infect the oncoming horde with its dark sin of evil doom. There was an awful lot of lu...
2024-03-26 16:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostTruth looked up through the humid summer sky at the burning heavens above. Each little dot of light a being so utterly beyond him as to defy description. Each moving dot is another being of impossible scope and majesty. For example, the one he was laying down on.
Kind o...
2024-03-26 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI lay on top of the palisade, flopped on the firing step and stared at the blue sky. The cotton-bud clouds drifted slowly, long pillow-coated barges of comfort. Did the Goddess and all her Doki-Doki Angels live on those clouds? Probably not.
This was the land of th...
2024-03-25 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Iron Horse steadily crossed the mountains; “steadily” being one of those tricky words that sounds objective but is actually subjective. Truth, for example, considered it quite reliable. There might be a bit of front wheel wobble, and some excess vibration as it came up to speed, and if he...
2024-03-25 16:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the TLDR- Doing my best to ensure any existing members get the promised benefits, while new members get access to what they paid for with minimal pain and confusion. Expect teething problems, especially for the new Weeaboo Tiers.
Longer version- Rolling out the new tiers. If t...
2024-03-25 15:22:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Versai, what do you know about the Blue Roses of Gradden March?”
“I don’t want to talk about it.” Which was a funny thing to say, given the way the limpid, cerulian ponds of her eyes practically begged to talk about it.
“Can you talk about any ...
2024-03-22 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth had become something of a connoisseur in the fields of dissociation, alienation, persistent feelings of unreality and a general sense of the inherent wrongness of the world. He could, with remarkable particularity, specify whether he was the source of the alienation, or the situati...
2024-03-22 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe monster flowed like a dancer drifting across the stage. It looked like… well, a dancer. A beautiful woman’s figure- slim, long legged, her pleated skirt reaching just below her knees and the sleeves of her long sleeved shirt stopped just before her delicate fingers. The cuffs of the shirt...
2024-03-21 16:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostI froze. The numbers sprinted through my head. Five orders, then it’s night and the battle starts on its own timer. I have used two orders- one to have the Judith's clear trees and make cut boards, one to have Rache go explore.
I needed at least one, and probably several,...
2024-03-21 16:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostOne thing the Onis army had over Starbrite? Their bases had signs. Nice, easily read, prominently located signs. Which way to the latrines? Follow the signs. Need to find First Company? Sign. Quartermaster? Second left then first right. Follow the signs, you can’t miss it.
Truth noticed a...
2024-03-21 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI finished off what few missions the board offered me, and examined the loot. It… wasn’t much, if I was honest. Stone tapes, resource packs and a few collectable tokens that would eventually become hats for summons I didn’t have. Woo. There were materials too- Monster hide, monster claw, mo...
2024-03-20 16:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostNobody volunteered. Apparently, none of my Awakened Souls had Golden hands. Though, I was curious to try something.
“Versai, do the monsters vanish as soon as you touch them?”
“Pretty much, why?”
Damn. Well, this would be a challenge. Time...
2024-03-20 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth’s Iron Horse sped down the highway. Not a lot of traffic in the best of times, and these were anything but. He wasn’t moving much faster than he could run, but after running several ultra-marathons in a row, he was ready to let a demon do the sweating. At Level Five, his concealment sho...
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