I mentioned earlier that I would need to go on a break after Chapter 20 to rebuild my backlog. While that break is still happening, Chapter 20 ran really long, so it got split up and no longer acts as a good stopping point. You'll get Chapter 21 in a few days on-schedule before I descend into the...
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2023-10-05 04:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostHoo boy. Imagine my surprise when I sign on tonight to post the next chapters and find that Patreon has changed a bunch of shit, including fucking with their HTML to the point where italics no longer work. Even with posts that were already posted.
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2023-09-28 04:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostImportant Author's Note:
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After speaking with all of the suspects, Adam couldn’t shake off the distinct feeling that he may as well not have bothered. Despite taking his time each of them, he didn’t get much out of them aside from a word here or there – although he was still willing to take something over nothing.
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2023-09-18 04:05:51 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, Ragnavi was smart enough to recognize that people needed time to cool off after her outburst. She sequestered herself elsewhere in The Village – alone – as everyone waited for the Dragonkin retinue to arrive.
Small comforts.
With the Village tour canceled, and Rob ta...
Inside his dream, Adam was awake.
The mysterious voice jolted him to awareness. A second later, he located its source – a strange gentleman, standing tall and seemingly unbothered by the heavy downpour falling on him. It’s raining, Adam noted absently, studying his hand. Water...
The street erupted in a line of dirt and cobblestone, as if a tornado had rushed straight down. Dozens of pitch-black tendrils – each over fifteen feet long – were whipping through the air in a blender of destruction. The Blight-creature had become a shifting mass with no discernible shape, n...
2023-09-11 04:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostNot long after speaking with Ferrero, Adam got his chance to talk with Serena, the master of communications. However, this conversation was far more brusque and rushed than the previous one. It started when the heavily-cloaked woman suddenly approached him, holding one arm to the side as if brand...
2023-09-07 19:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Village was exactly as Rob remembered it. Once-bustling streets were empty and quiet. Buildings lay crumbling, like they'd been abandoned for decades, the result of unchecked Corruption degradation. Distant memories of the Elves that used to live there – many of them now dead – were swept...
2023-09-06 23:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostTwo Days Later
The teleportation energies faded around them.
Rob stumbled for a moment, yet only a moment. He was well-accustomed to the aftereffects of teleportation magic. His allies...less so. A cacophony of unhappy groans serenaded him, and several pairs of eyes...
“You’re the detective,” Adam said, after a long pause. “You tell me. What do you think happened to those missing people?”
Valeria tapped her lips with her index finger, then looked upwards in a parody of deep thought. “My lord, my lord...how could a humble peasant such...
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Rob's legs trembled as he leaned his back against the alley wall, letting himself gradually slide down into a sitting position. ...
“How much of that was an act back there?” Adam asked Solara once they were alone in their cabin. “The constant insulting of Dragon Puppets, I mean.”
Solara didn’t immediately respond. Instead, she closed the latch of their door, then began to walk around the cabin, seemingly chec...
The next few days were spent on last-minute preparations. While it would've been nice to stick around the capital city for a bit longer, help rebuild its fractured government, the Blight wasn't inclined to wait for them to unfuck Elnaril's handiwork. They'd just have to trust that the remaining c...
2023-08-27 23:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostDetective.
That single word was enough to momentarily send Adam into a state of shock, although only just for a moment. So what if she’s lying about her profession? he reasoned. I didn’t come here on a casual visit – I came here expecting tricks, treachery, and ...
Author's Note:
Chapters 4, 6, and 7 all ended up much longer than average, so I split this one to give myself and the backlog more breathing room.
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Riardin's Rangers went looking for Meyneth and Vul'to as soon as they got back to the capi...
2023-08-24 04:11:10 +0000 UTC View PostLevel 92.
Level. Ninety. Two.
WHAT. THE. FUCK?
All sense of noble propriety was flung from Ragnavi's mind. She could only stare in utter disbelief as her worldview was forcibly altered into something fundamentally different. The Human was here, and he was Level 92.
Two things left to do before leaving to meet with the Dragon Puppets.
Adam wasn’t sure if he trusted Solara or if he trusted his paintings – but either way, the result was the same: he’d confirmed her support. She was, for the moment, extremely unlikely to betray him. It was ...
2023-08-19 05:16:47 +0000 UTC View PostSo my cover art guy came back with some sketches for a possible Book 6 cover art. Wanted to ask you guys which version you thought looked the best. Here's the framing possibilities they gave:
There are few worse sensations in the world than feeling rage – pure, unbridled apoplectic rage – and having no outlet for it.
Rob produced a longsword from Spatial Storage. He held it in his left hand, knuckles turning white as he clenched, imagining that his fingers were tig...
