We lay low in the Dungeon for hours. The dirt and stone that surrounded us meant that we heard nothing of our pursuers, even if they passed within ten metres of us. The constant warfare amongst the regular monsters remained constant, as it always way when they...
2019-07-04 08:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
As if the hounds of hell were on our tail, or perhaps the crocodiles of the damned, we fled until my poor ant legs ached with the strain and my antennae drooped low from exhaustion. Into the village, up into the church and then down in the still open Dungeon e...
2019-07-03 12:08:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I can't be exactly sure but the shape of the basin and the terrain around the robed figures' feet gives the impression of liquid being brought up from below ground and running downhill to be collected. If they are bringing a liquid up f...
2019-07-02 12:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The city was in ruins. Forget about a hurricane, earthquake or other natural disaster, this level of destruction was far beyond that. It looked as if a meteor hand landed on the city, or if a god had stamped down with its heavenly foot. If the latter had occur...
2019-07-02 11:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post
After a long period of stop-start running through the forest we eventually made our way clear of it and into the open fields. The once neat and organised fields that had been planted with crops or contained docile herds of animals were gone, trampled into the ...
2019-07-02 06:16:23 +0000 UTC View Post
After we left our little slice of Dungeon, cores fully charged and feeling fresh, we began to make our way toward the capital in earnest. We'd done a few sweeps out this way before but had resisted the urge to push too close to the city in the event we attract...
2019-06-30 10:47:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here now at the end of the world, what do we have to say to those that we destroyed? I'm sure it's not something that would cross the mind of most on my side of the divide. Would we even say anything, if given the chance? I don't believe so.
We saw this ...
2019-06-28 11:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostI think we are back to regular programming folks. I'll behind a bit, but I hope to catch back up shortly now that i can move my fingers again! :)
Since leaving Midum, Isaac and his fellow survivors had made good time. Isaac found it was ...
2019-06-27 11:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Once Tiny, Crinis and I had refilled our cores and Morrelia had snacked on her travel rations we set out once again, this time moving slower and taking more care as we moved. We weren't trying to chase anyone down and stumbling under the eye of big momma Croc ...
2019-06-25 11:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, updates are going to be a little slow this week. I cut my hand and needed some stitches in it, which makes it a little tricky to type.
Bandages come off in a day and stitches out in five. I'm hoping to get a few chapters done over that time but we'll have to see how it...
2019-06-23 22:53:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I've managed to amass over two hundred Biomass since my last big spend, not a heap, not when compared to the last haul, but still healthy. With this I'll be able to get three more mutations to +15, bringing me so close to the perfect full mutation for...
2019-06-20 11:10:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Around the scene of the battle I could see the oversized footprints pressed into the ground all over the place. It was clear that they approached from the direction we had pursued the commander, meaning they had come from the direction of the capital city, Lir...
2019-06-18 04:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Leaving behind my three co-adventures I made my way back along our trail as quick as I could whilst keeping a low profile. I was on my own this time, I didn't want to stumble into a fight that I couldn't handle.
It felt unnerving to be exposed on t...
2019-06-17 08:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post
We ran as if the devil himself we behind us liberally applying a pitchfork to our most tender commercial interests. Tiny was significantly slowed by having to carry his Biomass burden but I didn't consider leaving him behind for long. We eventually made it bac...
2019-06-15 11:48:25 +0000 UTC View Post
That growl was so low, and so powerful, I could feel it rattle my external bones. What in the name of the ever loving ant queen is going on?!
Tiny, Crinis and I froze in place the moment we heard that unearthly rumble, still locked in our moment...
2019-06-14 12:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Slowly at first, then with increasing speed, the Garralosh Commander tilted to one side before it came crashing down to the dirt.
BOOM!
The ground vibrated under the weight of its frame as it slammed down, rattling my legs and sending me scrambling...
2019-06-12 12:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Not long ago I contacted the incredibly talented Kevin Glint (https://www.deviantart.com/kevin-glint) about producing a piece of art for Chrysalis and eventually I decided on asking him to draw a new cover for us.
... 2019-06-12 04:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
When my dish of curated agony arrived at its destination the Croc responded much as I would have expected, with unabridged terror and anguish. The sheer terror and pain of ones' core being drained is unique experience and I'm glad I had the chance to share it ...
2019-06-11 11:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dazed, my minds went blank for a terrifying moment before clarity returned to me and I focused my awareness on the mind bridge that connected the Commander to me. What the hell had just happened?!
Somehow, in the midst of all that it was enduring in this...
2019-06-10 08:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I had to give it to Tiny, he'd tried. He'd given it a red hot go. His untameable hunger for battle is well known. I can still remember him as a not yet full sized ape when he threw himself onto a giant rabbit that reeked of the putrid scent of un-death. Even t...
2019-06-09 05:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post
What exactly has my mana become? What is it that I have unleashed?! The Gravity Bomb that I unleashed is smaller than my previous efforts but is far more menacing. Reality itself seemed to groan under the weight of this, thing that I had made, this sm...
2019-06-07 11:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post
We gained on our quarry with every passing second but they weren't aware of us in the slightest. I could see them clearly now, twenty to thirty Croca-Beasts at various stages of evolution surrounded by a similar number of other, first strata Dungeon monsters. ...
2019-06-05 11:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Tiny, Crinis and I hauled ourselves out of our temporary respite home to join Morrelia on the surface.
[What happened to the survivors of Midum?] I queried.
[They're getting their stuff together and heading south as quick as their legs will carry them. It migh...
2019-06-04 21:13:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy mother of all that is good and gracious in this world, puh-lease let me make it alive! I'm burning up! The light is fading! My soul is running before the light! Is that you mum? What is that you say? You wish I’d never been born? Get the hell out of my ...
2019-06-04 11:16:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I've started to come around to the general idea that I'm stupid. I mean, I'd considered that perhaps I was a little impulsive, Gandalf knows my decision making 'process' could, when written down, fit on the back of stamp with enough room left over for a drawin...
2019-06-03 08:10:34 +0000 UTC View PostHello there folks!
First off I wanted to say thanks so much to each and every one of you. Being able to earn money through writing, directly from the readers is just amazing and I'm super grateful to all of you.
When we started I think I had $50 the first month and I was blown away. T...
2019-06-03 00:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
"This is a right ploppin', that's for sure" Isaac Bird growled as he fell back from the cracks in the door.
The water he'd seen had sliced through monsters as if they weren't even there, not to mention the other monsters he'd seen as they battered ...
2019-06-02 11:50:53 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a factor of the Dungeon that I find has been curiously understudied, the fact that the denizens of that place, the monsters in all their various forms, change over time. One hundred years ago the tower lead a detailed study into the menace of the Scorpion...
2019-05-31 12:32:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The city of Midum was burning at an impressive rate as we approached. As we drew closer the sound of combat began to ring in the distance, roaring monsters, shouting people and the clash of steel on claw. In a lucky break, the gates of the city were already de...
2019-05-29 08:24:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Damn … I need some mana.
After running around the surface, we've managed to find a whole heap of nothin'. Ruined buildings, burned out farms and abandoned homes. All the while my core is leaking mana into the air. Checking my MP told me that I st...
2019-05-29 04:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post