Being a human is weird. I have weird feelings. I have a weird body. I have weird hands and weird eyes. At least you’re here with me, guy. Looking up to the monk and then back to Madison, I wonder if this is what having a family is like. Just us four. Yeah, I think so. I had a family once, well,...
2021-03-24 08:14:39 +0000 UTC View PostWhen wielding a dagger: Allows you to sense where a monster’s heart is located.
Gain an implicit knowledge of low level botanical items.
You can move faste...
2021-03-23 10:48:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Thook-thook. Thook-thook. Thook-thook.”
I mouth out the sounds that I hear. My ear is pressed against her chest as she runs up the staircase. Hearts are a weird thing, you know? I pull my head away from her body and hold Madison to my other ear and listen to her body sounds ...
2021-03-23 07:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s a boss room,” says Jubilee. “There’s one after every sub-section of the dungeon.”
“Sub-section?” asks Fresh, wanting, but not daring to sit down again for fear of not being able to get up this time.
“Yeah, these few floors were baby’s fi...
2021-03-22 11:35:17 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not quite sure how long we lay here, surrounded by corpses. Something collapses to our side. A building giving way, as the charred support beams that held it up aloft, collapse as they burn through. A cloud of dirt and dust flies through the air. But we’re still here, we’re just kind of...
2021-03-22 10:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostFresh leans back against the wall. It’s been about ten minutes since her talk with Jubilee. Her bag is entirely full, stacked full of mushroom-caps and snail-shells and more goblin teeth than she is comfortable thinking about. They were becoming more common now...
2021-03-21 10:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostI think she’s mad at me. Pulling myself out of the rubble, I get back up and look at Madison. “You okay?” I ask the book clutched tightly in my hand, wiping myself off with the other.
She begins to speak. “Y-ye- IIAAAH!” Before she can finish, I toss her high up into th...
2021-03-21 07:37:10 +0000 UTC View PostFresh cries as she pulls her hands out of the goblin’s mouth and drops the teeth into the bag.
“This is what I’ll be doing every day,” says Jubilee.
Fresh looks up towards them, wiping her fac...
2021-03-20 11:26:28 +0000 UTC View Post*Dunnnng*
I tap the tip of the spear against a pipe
*Kaduuuung*
“What are you doing?” asks Madison with a muffled voice, her covers barely opening as I hold her there beneath my arm.
*Kaduuuung*
... 2021-03-20 07:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostWarning: Things get a bit dark here.
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Fresh looks at the adventurers around them, all carrying their loads on the large bags on their backs, as they all walk towards the dungeon to put in a new day’s work.
“How...
2021-03-19 09:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere will be two patreon chapters today as I uploaded 2 to RoyalRoad/ScribbleHub because we hit spot 32 in trending! I know I already ask a lot of you all already, but please consider rating the story there if you find the time <3
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Fresh lays in bed...
2021-03-19 08:57:35 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re confused, I know you are, guy. I run. But that’s okay. That’s okay! We all get a little mixed up sometimes, we get a little itchy in the brain sometimes, haha! Why am I here? I run through the darkness. Why am I here in this body, as this human, as this… person? Why did I bypass th...
2021-03-19 07:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s go!” says Fresh, her eyes gleaming with excitement.
“Uh? Like hell? Sit your pasty ass back down,” snaps Jubilee back at her. “You aren’t leaving this room until you have more than one health point.”
“Huh?” asks Fresh, somewhat let down...
2021-03-18 11:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re walking again, crossing back over the bridge of white-magic that the priestess made to span the gap. She knows how to make horizontal platforms, I’ll have to ask her some time about that. Though the ‘we’re’ part of ‘we’re walking’ is a bit of a stretch. The monk is still car...
2021-03-18 08:01:24 +0000 UTC View PostA flurry of snow and blurred rocks and white-buried trees flies past them as they dash down the sparsely visible winter-covered road that winds through the mountain-pass. A waving flash of color makes itself visible before them for a brief second, a piece of cloth from one of the way-markers that...
2021-03-17 13:45:16 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time since she was reborn, Fresh takes off her boots and sets them to the side by the door. Feeling a great sense of freedom and satisfaction coming over her tired mind, a yawn overpowers the smile on her face, as she wiggles her toes and gets back to work. Humming a tune that she r...
2021-03-17 08:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostI’m getting really tired of telling you this, guy. Honestly, it’s really starting to make me sick that you aren’t listening to me, even after all of this time. I really wish you’d get it together, you know? Like I have! Look at me, out here doing my best, putting in the work. But you just...
2021-03-17 08:17:47 +0000 UTC View PostFresh’s legs feel weak as their next task now stands before them. Her arms strained and shaking from the weight of the loot that she is carrying, as they stand together in front of the door to the adventurer’s guild.
She gulps, remembering the somber atmosphere inside. Will p...
2021-03-16 11:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s nowhere to go, they’re trapped with the cluster of houses just behind them that build an enclosed, tight half-ring. The only path available is one too thin for him to go through, thinks the man, very aware of his giant, clunky body.
“You need to hold on,” says Tan...
2021-03-16 10:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostI can’t help but feel like a bag of potatoes being jostled around, as she one-handedly carries me over her shoulder, sprinting down the long-hallway. I guess that’s a high level monk for you, not a care in the world. The black-water churns behind us and I watch in disgust as the haunted faces...
2021-03-16 08:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Hey, how do I get a class?" asks Fresh.
Jubilee looks at her, eyeing her up and down. "Ah... I don't know if you're cut out for it really..."
"Pleeeeeease!" begs Fresh, leaning in towards her only companion.
Jubilee rolls their eyes. "Fine, It's...
2021-03-15 11:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostObviously I died. The hydra got me good, guy.
I float.
But still, I had a lot of fun as a valkyrie. Though I don’t want to do it again so soon, truth be told. Made my brain feel a little itchy, you know? Like the whole time I felt like I wanted to take a scente...
2021-03-15 08:18:22 +0000 UTC View PostFresh looks at the blue-cloud gate of the dungeon that the two of them stand in-front of. It has grown to later in the day now, the afternoon having started about an hour ago and the city is as busy and as full of bustling life as ever. People walk all around them, entering in and out of the dung...
2021-03-14 11:15:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs we stare at each other, its giant eyes each the length of my full body enveloping me. As I stand before its lowered gaze, I can’t help but wonder; how do we pay to feed this thing? I never knew hydras were so biii-IAAAH!
The hydra shifts, moving its body around to get into a...
2021-03-14 07:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Huh?” Fresh looks around at the empty, square room, somewhat lost.
“Joining the guild makes you an official adventurer instead of just some schmuck from the streets. But the guild is serious business, dumb-ass! That’s why everyone who joins has to take the shot. So every...
2021-03-13 09:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostHallow, hallow! I am blessed, truly by the divine. Truly I have been chosen. I walk towards the edge of the pit and look down at the hole that so much sand cascades down into. There, deep down below I see the sand that falls down the edges of the pit, leaking away, down into a tiny hole in the ve...
2021-03-13 07:53:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you okay?” asks Tango, sounding worried. Pen grumbles under the jacket, the front of it shifting, as she crosses her arms beneath it. The glass bauble zooms around and her ears twitch at the noise, as she feels him stare down at her. She feels as if he were peering through the fabric of ...
2021-03-12 15:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostEverything is quiet. Pen opens her eyes, everything hurts again. Her head is pounding and her arms ache, she is sitting upside down, her neck tucked inwards, as her lower body presses down on her from above. Everything she sees is red and she wipes her eyes, thinking that they’ve been bloodied....
2021-03-12 15:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they breach the second floor, Fresh looks around at the odd space that is above the tavern below. She had expected perhaps some sort of hallway lined with doors, or maybe a large quarter filled with beds for rent for weary adventurers. That was usually what these things were like. Instead, t...
2021-03-12 10:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostI’m not sure for how long I sit there, clutching the legs of the skeleton who was sleeping eternally not ten minutes before all of this, only to be awoken by this particular mess that I am. All of the others are gone, drifted off somewhere into the wastes. The harpy has vanished to points unkno...
2021-03-12 08:01:56 +0000 UTC View Post