I'll leave the poll up for a few days more. We have a clear winner but what comes in second does matter since that will also be done!
As I keep stuffing my face, Granin and I discuss my various body parts and what might qualify as a good option for a 'reset' in m...
2021-01-25 10:24:10 +0000 UTC View PostThis is one huge pile of food… there's no way I can fit it all in! I kind of want to call my pets over and have them indulge as well, but I feel bad about it since the Colony has gathered all of this for me. I guess I'll dive in and if there's any left when I'm done I'll make sure the others ge...
2021-01-23 10:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostI know this is well overdue and I apologise for that. But I've thought long and hard about what might be interesting to add to the poll and I've consulted with the patrons on discord to come up with a definitive list of what you, the readers, really want to see.
I haven't done a poll every ...
2021-01-22 23:06:49 +0000 UTC View PostDouble chapter release baby! Boom!
With the level milestone achieved, I take a quick break to celebrate and high five (with antennae) the team, before we begin the journey back to the nest. With the wave in full swing, we end up having to resweep most of the tunn...
2021-01-22 03:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe death of the spider, along with all the 'cleaning' my pets and I had done on our journey was enough to push me to level 76, tantalisingly close to the goal. I was keen to get back out and hunting for experience, but the remains of the big spider were right in front of us and I refuse to let B...
2021-01-21 23:09:40 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised the new chapter of Necromancer has been added to the google doc.
In truth, the establishment of the Core Shapers by the Eldest proved over time to be a master stroke. At first, there many who decried the resources being sent to the caste instead of being use...
2021-01-20 09:43:03 +0000 UTC View PostSorry folks, not a chapter (will be late, I'm so sorry! Chapter tomorrow, plus Necromancer to make it up to you.)
Just a reminder that the QnA with AgroSquerril will be on tomorrow. The stream link is right here: 2021-01-19 09:32:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Tiny was more than happy to abandon his post for something more exciting and I think Crinis was just relieved she able to return to me without something dramatic occurring, such as me being sucked through a black hole into the hundredth strata, if that even exists. With the gang assembled, we set...
2021-01-18 04:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostI've been out here for hours and I still haven't levelled up. Oop, here comes another one. Thirty metres down the tunnel, the dirt bulges before crumbling away to reveal a newly spawned shadow crawler. Despite having six legs, I really can't approve of these things, their faces look like a mosqui...
2021-01-15 04:54:33 +0000 UTC View PostWhen word finally came back from the satellite nests the sense of relief in the Colony was noticeable. Burke herself was the first to receive the message and made sure to pass it on as quickly as she could. The smaller nests had held up well, suffering no more than a few probing attacks intended ...
2021-01-14 08:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostThey'd done it. The mage caste had put themselves through the ringer during the siege, their mages had battered their minds against the invaders until they bordered on shattering. It had been a painful regime of brutal mental warfare. What had made things even more difficult for the brainy caste ...
2021-01-13 04:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe conversation with the bruan'chii Grove Keeper was disappointingly short, but enlightening. There was precious little time before the wave and the tree-people didn't want to be caught out in the open. Apparently the 'mother tree' wasn't able, or didn't want to, maintain all the vegetation that...
2021-01-11 08:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostDiscussions progressed at a rapid pace after my initial, rather embarrassing speech. There was a ton of things on the go around the Colony and still too much that we didn't know. The status of the two satellite nests was still unknown, how exactly we were going to handle training the surge of hat...
2021-01-09 09:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of 'peeling', or 'folding' Dungeon veins in order to create low mana density zones within the Dungeon was possibly the most important technique developed in the history of sapient habitation of the world below. Without this method, it would difficult enough to live at any depth du...
2021-01-07 10:08:49 +0000 UTC View PostIt's here people. Chapter 700 is just around the corner, and that means QA - revenge of the squirrel, is on the cards.
It'll be held on the 20th at 2pm AEST. Which is 3am GMT.
If you don't know him, the wonderful Agro Squerril, who creates a ton of audio books for web series (wi...
2021-01-07 09:49:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy reaction must have given something away, Granin was always quite good at reading me. Amazingly so considering I don't have facial muscles and therefore no expression to speak of. Perhaps his many decades of experience working with monsters has given him some sort of sixth sense.
[What's ...
2021-01-06 01:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostLegs are something I grow back easily enough. The cracks and damage to my carapace is going to take significantly longer, especially considering how I'm totally out of juice in my regeneration gland. The inner plating will help a ton though and before too long, I'll be back on my feet and out the...
2021-01-05 07:14:05 +0000 UTC View PostTitus was relieved to find Morrelia had been returned as promised not an hour after the Legion had withdrawn from the battle. The instant the surge of mana had arrived, Titus had stood down in his fight with the Keeper and the bruan'chii had stood aside. The purpose of the tree-people had been to...
2021-01-05 03:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis one was hard to write. Hopefully it came out ok.
By Gandalf I'm tired.
BAM!
Stop hitting me, dammit!
DOOM CHOMP!
Just like every time I activate the Skill, a team of Legionaries with heavy shields leap forward, activa...
2021-01-04 06:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostReaaaaaally wanted to end the arc on this one but just couldn't fit it in. I think you'll see that the chapter has a satisfying end. At least I hope so.
Grove Keepers were unreasonably strong. How exactly they were born, the Legion wasn't sure. They weren't monst...
2021-01-03 09:50:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the gates finally fell, they fell with a resounding 'boom' that echoes from the walls of the tunnel. Might seem a little excessive to knock the damn things off their hinges, but that's what the Legionaries decided to do anyway. Perhaps they felt the width of the nest entrance was a reasonabl...
2021-01-03 04:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe massed ranks of my siblings can only watch as the gate bulges and buckles under the immense weight of the pressure the Legion is applying. Exhausted and weary, the last fighting fit ants on this side of the nest stand ready for the final conflict. Once those gates come down, this will be the ...
2021-01-02 06:40:35 +0000 UTC View PostTitus watched the battle unfold from the rear of the formation. The irregulars had formed up once again and begun to execute another charge. Using them as shock troops, charging, pulling back, charging again, was a brutally effective tacti the Legion had long made use of. It was hard on the half-...
2020-12-31 10:39:49 +0000 UTC View PostRAGE! RAAAAAAGE! That damned worm! How could he do this to us?! After everything we did for him?! He's food. FOOD I TELL YOU! If I ever get my mandibles on that worm I'll feed to him the larvae myself! The mere thought of the brood being destroyed by the golgari makes the mana in my body boil lik...
2020-12-30 07:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostBrendant dashed into the depths of the next, the emergency pheromone trails screaming against her antennae with every step. The brood was in danger! The Queens were under assault! Every nerve in her body was on fire with desperate rage. There wasn't a single ant in the Colony who wouldn't put the...
2020-12-28 05:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post"Something isn't right," Sloan suddenly scented out loud.
Coolant looked askance at her sister as the two of them continued to hang outside the second gate facing the golgari invasion. She could tell the general wasn't discussing with her but thinking out loud, so she remained silent and wa...
2020-12-27 10:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostAt least those crazy malformed humans were good for experience. Whatever the Legion did to turn them into… what they were, they certainly seemed to lack the finely tuned discipline of their more regular compatriots. After I'd demonstrated the ability to rip into them using my Doom Chomp, cuttin...
2020-12-26 10:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostGrey and his opponent, the High Blade Kooranon Balta, studied each other, their experience and observation Skills provided a constant stream of information as they continued to feel each other out. Using his rank five Keen Eye, Grey could see every muscle twitch, every exhalation of breath in exc...
2020-12-23 09:16:05 +0000 UTC View PostCoolant and Sloan watched, gobsmacked as the fight unfolded before them. At first it seemed as though everything had gone well, after Grey had walked out and spoken with the Golgari, the kneeling form of the Shaper, Granin, had risen to his feet, had his bindings broken and painfully jogged his w...
2020-12-22 12:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostTitus watched the battle unfold from the rear ranks of the Legion column, his experienced eye catching numerous flaws in execution that any outside observer would fail to notice. He couldn't prevent the slight twitch of his eye at the sight. They can't help it, he reminded himself, his Legion was...
2020-12-20 11:45:20 +0000 UTC View Post