I know getting the return date delayed sucks, but the outpouring of positivity coming in my direction is enough that it feels like I've moved to Tuscany, leaving my life as a harried businesswoman behind, and met a nice man.
I haven't responded to every message as there have been so many of...
2022-08-03 02:46:21 +0000 UTC View PostTL;DR:
Book 9 PDF bundle. Book 9 is currently incomplete, and will end up being a whopper. Probably the second-largest, after book 1.
2022-06-30 03:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe crash of wood smashing apart and stone being pulverised filled the air with noise, dust and splinters as Jason dashed through it. He dodged falling sections of ceiling and leapt through holes in once-intact walls, his cloak deflecting much of the debris filling the air.
“You’ll try ...
2022-06-29 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs the night moved closer to dawn, the most likely time for a messenger attack grew imminent. Jason floated, cross-legged and eyes closed, over the roof of the cloud hospital as he projected his senses through the Shade bodies scattered around the city. His eyes shot open when he noticed somethin...
2022-06-28 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDon't make rushed Patreon posts at 7am when you've been up all night, kids; test your links.
Q&A starts in a bit under 2 hours, and this might might well get you there:
https://disc...
TL;DR:
One building on the Adventure Society campus of Yaresh was older than all of the others. It had been the entire headquarters for the Adventure Society in the early days of the city, and the defensive measures built into it were formidable. As Yaresh grew, and its branch expanded from a building t...
2022-06-27 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHana Shavar let out a happy moan as she stirred in half-slumber before her head cleared as she came fully awake. Despite herself, she couldn't help but stretch out, luxuriating in the cloud bed that felt far too light to support her weight, while doing so perfectly, moulding to her body.
Pr...
2022-06-24 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJes Fin Kaal was not prone to nervousness. As a messenger, confidence was ingrained. More than that, she was a Voice of the Will; a representative of her people’s most powerful beings. But as much as she might have tried to bury the memory, she remembered the sense of inferiority that had defin...
2022-06-23 23:00:51 +0000 UTC View PostTo celebrate the launch of book 6, Heath Miller, our fine audiobook narrator, and myself, our adequate author, will be doing a live Q&A on discord.
Working under the not-entirely-reliable assumption that I set it up correctly, it will take place on launch day, June 28th, at 4pm Pacific ...
2022-06-22 23:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason looked at the orb in his hand, given to him by the Healer. He wasn't certain exactly what it would do, but with the power of his soul space, he was certain he could figure it out. He was tempted to do so immediately, but instead, put it into his inventory. There would be time later, and he ...
2022-06-22 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe PDF for 667 was accidentally not attached it is now, as well as here for those who missed it.
2022-06-22 01:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostFrom his room overlooking the camp, Jason watched a combination of Adventure Society enforcers and Magic Society functionaries take away five cylinders on a floating platform. Each cylinder was a stasis pod, containing a worm host that could be vaguely made out through the blue liquid in the pod....
2022-06-21 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason stood in an empty room, looking through a window wall down at the evacuee camp. It was far more than just the few dozen people from the town Jason and his team had gone to, as towns across the southern region likewise had adventurers investigating. It had started with seven teams and expand...
2022-06-20 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the town filled with fallen elves and annihilated parasite worms, Jason looked off to the distance. Something had pinged his aura senses, somewhere out in the rainforest, and he withdrew his magical perception. It was a gold rank adventurer, leaving Jason unsure if he had been noticed...
2022-06-17 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason didn’t linger downstairs with the others for long. He had no interest in facing the town filled with dead, but didn’t want his aura restricted by the underground facility. His aura could somewhat escape the workshop’s inhibition magic with the doors open, but it still greatly impeded ...
2022-06-16 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSophie was taking a firm stance against studying the worms rather than eradicating them on site.
“Do you want some lunatic researcher trying to do what the messengers did and use them as a weapon?”
“It’s a good point,” Belinda agreed. “Imagine what Evil Clive could do if h...
2022-06-15 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostNeil was checking the low-priority patients at his triage station. The more critical cases were already stashed on bunked recovery beds, with the remainder those who were comfortably self-mobile. These were the people that had endured the best and gotten the most from what Sophie and Humphrey's a...
2022-06-14 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostG'day all. Firstly, book 6 comes out on the 28th, ebook, audiobook and paperback.
Sorry about the lack of notice (I've been an unpleasant combination of sick and busy) but the free-release and Patreon chapters for book 6 have come down from all official sources.
2022-06-14 14:25:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn the worm-breeding facility hidden under the town, Jason and his team gathered around as Belinda prepared to open the hidden door. Inside could be anything from an empty room to a wildly dangerous entity, so they were prepared to spring into action. When she finally triggered the door, a whole ...
2022-06-13 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe messenger Jes Fin Kaal was hovering just over the flat roof of a circular tower in a messenger stronghold. She was looking out over the rainforest contemplatively when another messenger floated up through the round hole in the middle of the roof. It was the dark-skinned and silver-haired Hess...
2022-06-10 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason emerged from his soul space, cloak and hood back in place. In the tunnel beneath the town, Clive was looking at the empty space where the messenger had died. There was no visible trace after Jason’s execute spell left not so much as a single drop of blood. Instead, there was a pile of dir...
2022-06-09 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostClive winced at the grisly sound of chewing that filled the tunnel. The worms were being merrily devoured by toothy leeches that grew in number as they ate. The sound of fleshy consumption was accompanied by a muffled screaming that came from the largest pile of leeches, under which the messenger...
2022-06-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs she pelted his familiar with metal feathers, Pei Ves Kartha watched as the unnerving man opened his eyes. He rose to his feet, not by pushing himself up but tilted on an invisible slab. She could sense the way he moved with his aura, and it was not the crude inefficiency of an essence user. He...
2022-06-07 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBuried beneath a town where the populace had been body-snatched by parasitic worms was a hidden chamber. The messenger, Pei Vas Kartha, had been operating there for months, luring the town elders into what they had believed to be lucrative-but-ordinary treason. They had helped her to magically ex...
2022-06-06 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNervousness was not a normal sensation for a messenger. When the adventurers arrived, Pei Vas Kartha had been in her hidden underground lair, as usual, managing the worm implantations. She was confident that they would not sense her presence, as any non-messenger perception would be firmly but su...
2022-06-03 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Humphrey was only adequate as a personal participant in the battle against the parasitised elves, his contribution was still large. This came through the other assets he brought to the combat, starting with his cohort of summons.
Humphrey’s dragon-bone soldiers, the spartoi, had bee...
2022-06-02 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe team only had a brief respite from the worm-host elves that were inundating them, rushing from every street and building in the town to hunt them down. While Humphrey and Jason quickly discussed Jason’s departure, Clive drew out a ritual circle. Golden lines were left behind by the edge of ...
2022-06-01 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason's team exploded out of the rainforest as inhuman screeching came from the town ahead. Sophie was nothing more than a flickering blur while the others thundered over rice paddies, the terrain barely hindering the superhuman pace of silver rankers. Following them out of the rainfor...
2022-05-31 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post