Hey folks! Got something fun for y'all to read this weekend. It's the brand new Illusionist Novel, written by my good buddy D.J. Bodden. The book goes live on Amazon next week, but you get a chance to check it out before anyone else. This is an excellent story and a great continuation of the seri...
2022-03-11 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Well folks, Shadowcroft year three is officially in the works. Aaron and I have finished with the outline and are nine chapters into the book. It's going to be more fun than ever! Really excited with the story we have planned--the cover art perfectly fits the tone of Year Three--and I think it's ...
2022-03-10 20:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone. I know it's been quiet around here lately, which I feel terrible about. The end of the year is always so busy and this year has been busier than most. Wrapping up lots of projects and also dealing with an abnormal uptick in family health issues.
Thankfully, everyone is mostl...
Inga slept through the rest of finals and through the graduation ceremony itself.
Logan missed her, as he Marko and Treacle sat in the Golden Serpent Hall with the rest of the school. Everyone was giddy with the end of the year festivities.
Yullis Rockheart was the MC, and he was dres...
2021-09-13 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan, Marko, and Treacle were back in Shadowcroft’s office, only this time, they were there with the Threshing Turtle, Chadrigoth, and Professor Zantho, who had dark circles under her eyes. She’d been up for days, working on grades, proctoring finals, and trying to close out the end of the y...
2021-09-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was in trouble, but he wasn’t powerless by any stretch of the imagination.
One, he’d made it all the way into the inner sanctum. Two, Chadrigoth was still holding out, which was a small miracle. And, three, he had Tet-Akhat—one of the top dungeon cores at the academy—fighting ...
2021-09-08 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan and Tet padded into the cavern-turned-circus zoo, with that mad organ music played by the Marko puppet doing its best to drive them insane.
For a second, Logan thought about creating a digestion pit, but there was no time. Instead, he summoned six of his waddlers, all fierce-faced and...
2021-09-06 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTet vaulted through the air using her Feline Agility, and slammed a shoulder into Logan’s side, throwing him out of the path of the explosion. Plaster dust hung in the air, which made the old-timey sign look even more eerie. The only reason why Steve could have electric lights was because of Tr...
2021-09-03 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan watched as Steve tossed his helm to one of the chitinous Calflings, who snatched it from the air with a writhing tentacle. “Hold that, you big, delicious octopus minotaur bug thing.” Steve turned and headed toward the first mirror, regarding his own reflection with great curiosity. Pret...
2021-09-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan watched as Steve and his strike team considered the trap room.
The ornate puzzle box sat on a central pedestal that consisted of skulls carved out of the red stone. The skulls had been Chadrigoth’s idea. Logan missed Marko—he would’ve done something a bit more creative with the ...
2021-08-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLogan worked quickly. Steve’s minions were working to get past the downed statue of Chadrigoth in the entry room, and they were making serious headway. Chadrigoth’s current dungeon layout was far too linear, which simply wouldn’t do. Using the raging surplus of Apothos he suddenly had acces...
2021-08-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLogan couldn’t talk. Connecting to Chadrigoth wasn’t like connecting to Inga or even Tet. The abyss lord wasn’t just more powerful than him, he was worlds more powerful, and it wasn’t just his ranking, but rather the four knots he’d tied to optimize his core. Suddenly, Logan ha...
2021-08-25 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChadrigoth felt the symbiotic spores wrap tightly around him like an Aldaleeran python.
Invisible microorganisms invaded and permeated his cells while delicate crystal caps erupted across his black pebbled skin, lending him not only access to Logan’s unorthodox power but also to a host of...
2021-08-23 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostLogan crept out of the archway and into the Null Arena. He didn’t have much time, since Steve’s minions—a weird mixture of Inga’s, Marko’s, and Treacle’s powers—were hot on his tail.
However, Logan had to be careful. Steve was a powerful opponent with lots of tricks up his sle...
2021-08-20 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLogan Murray toured the gloomy Winterdark Halls noting how many ingenious things they’d added to the cold, dark dungeon, which was far dryer than Logan would’ve preferred. Yes, it was better suited for his spores than the Bloodrock, but it still wasn’t ideal. Logan was made for bogs and for...
2021-08-18 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe night of his Offensive Dungeon Design class, Prince Chadrigoth of the Diabolus Diaboli, of the Eritreus Elite walked through the stone corridors of the Bloodrock. Yes, he knew exactly why the fungaloid and his crew of freaks were fixated the dungeon. It was a place of rock, fire, and power. C...
2021-08-16 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Can you believe all this stuff?” Dizzy asked, holding up a metal breastplate with silver filagree. The Keeper of the Forge hadn’t dropped any loot to speak of, other than a hefty Beast Core, but the Armory was near to bursting with goodies.
“Nope, I literally can’t believe it,”...
2021-08-09 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe orb of magic stopped above the central platform and immediately ballooned outward, turning into a jet-black cloud that filled most of the cavernous room. Ink began to fall, first in a spirt and then in a great torrent, drenching everything below. The magma toads shrieked as the inky rain sizz...
2021-08-06 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright,” Dizzy said from the front of the party. “This is it, a chance to redeem ourselves. We ready to do this or what?”
Sam glanced away from the hulking doors that stood guard over the Irondown Forge and double checked his gear for the hundredth time. His Papier Mache Armor was...
2021-08-04 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, Logan got Treacle up early for their normal routine of working on their core in the morning. The minotaur was game, as happy as Logan had ever seen him. The night before had been rough. After their meeting with Shadowcroft, Inga had just wanted to go to bed, no planning, no sche...
2021-08-03 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSam worked for the next six hours magically infusing ink and chicken vellum, inscribing scrolls, prepping quills, and meticulously binding books. Thanks to hitting the Master Rank as a Bookbinder, he was ten-fold faster, but there were just so many things to do. He worked until his hand cramped, ...
2021-08-02 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSam stood in front of the double doors that let into the Irondown Library, arms folded across his chest.
“And you’re sure we can just take them?” Sam asked, stealing a glance at Bill, floating at his side. “Aren’t they sort of attached to the dungeon?”
“Sure. Technic...
2021-07-30 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan sat in a bench outside of Shadowcroft’s office with the rest of the Terrible Twelfth. The waiting room was dark, with a long bench crafted from dark mahogany and a bright red velvet cushion. The rest of the place was wood paneling and shadows.
Logan and Treacle sat together. Inga wa...
2021-07-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSam took a position near his core, legs straight, and brought his hands together, right hand curled into a fist that rested against his left palm. Bill took a position directly across from him and mirror the pose. They looked like two Judo opponents squaring off before a bout. Though Bill was nor...
2021-07-28 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next night, Logan and the Terrible Twelfth had created the perfect trap for Melvin in the Submerged Hell.
Logan had bonded with the rest of his cohort, so that they would be able to communicated instantaneously and at a distance. He and Inga had taken over the dungeon. Both their gems f...
2021-07-27 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey girl,” Sam said, trying to sound soothing as he crept toward the egg at the center of the nest. “It’s just me. Sam. We know each other. We’re buddies. Feel that?” He asked, stroking her feathers with his hand back in the real world. “That’s just me.”
The reptilian meg...
2021-07-26 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-07-24 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFingers of purple and gold were peaking up over the horizon by the time Sam and Bill got back to the Irondown burrows. They swung by the barracks and found the beds full with snoozing bodies, all except for Kai. That guy was a rockstar of self-discipline and not even a long night of hard partying...
2021-07-23 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan and the gang spent the next ten days on pins and needles. It wasn’t clear if Rockheart had actually talked to Chadrigoth or not. It wasn’t like anything changed as far as that situation was concerned. Chadrigoth ignored him, but there, the feeling was mutual.
Melvin did a lot of i...
2021-07-22 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostVelkan guided Sam and Bill away from the warmth of the firelight and the festivities of the night. Sam wasn’t at all surprised when the taciturn wolfman brought them past the O’Baba’s long house and to the carved fox totems that connected to the Wolfman marketplace.
“Ha! I knew it,...
2021-07-21 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post