Some of the neighbourhood kids watched from across the river as Rufus and Jason sparred. Stripped down to plain pants, they matched their swordsmanship furiously until even their silver-rank endurance was spent. The children observed with fascination, some trying to imitate them, others engaging ...
2021-08-30 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI have a few announcements here, so like trying to explain litRPG to my Aunt Helen, I'm going to start with the specific and grow increasingly vague:
The royal family of the Storm Kingdom was very large. Every combat-trained member of silver-rank or above was gathered in a ballroom in the royal palace; one of the few rooms large enough to hold them all. From Zara and Vesper to Soramir and the Storm King, the only absent member of that group wa...
2021-08-27 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostBattle raged over the waters of the Storm Kingdom's northwestern reaches. The Builder’s underwater city had surfaced for battle, disgorging airships to meet those from Rimaros in the skies above. Many adventurers were not even in airships, free-floating in the air or even approaching through th...
2021-08-26 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe lumbering figure was only passingly humanoid, its massive body embedded with coral that jutted from its flesh like spiked armour. It was still some way offshore, yet the sea only reached up to the giant's thighs. What was above the surface was already a match in height for a five-storey build...
2021-08-25 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe office door of Havi Estos burst open to admit Havi’s stumbling, flustered great-nephew. Havi looked up unhappily from the accounting papers he had been concentrating on.
“Jono, what have we said about knocking?”
“Sorry, boss, but–”
He was cut off as a strong arm ...
2021-08-24 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Travis is supervising the construction now,” Clive said, shortly after arriving at the cloud house with Gary. They joined the rest of their teams, minus Jason, in getting ready to head for the Adventure Society. Farrah, Gary and Rufus would be joining with Jason’s team for the operation, w...
2021-08-23 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Dawn walked towards each other until they were face to face.
“No,” she repeated.
“Dawn.”
“I said no.”
“Yeah,” Jason said softly. “You did.”
She wheeled around, turning her back on him as she ran a frustrated hand over her face. The rest ...
2021-08-20 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason took the sound recording crystal out of the projector, stopping the music. He then returned the projector to his inventory. Vesper stood on the other side of the large, wooden-floored room, looking slightly flushed. She stood with her back to him, looking out the window. They were in the lo...
2021-08-19 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLiara, Vesper and the thus-far silent Trenchant Moore were sitting across from Jason and his team in an Adventure Society conference room. Liara tapped a folder on the table in front of her.
“The reason the society gave me so much leeway with the contract you all just completed was that i...
2021-08-18 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
My audiobook publisher is holding a contest in conjunction with the book three launch to give away some posters featuring Farrah. This is through Podium Audio and not patron exclusive, and there is no cost to entry. Anyone interested can jump in here: 2021-08-18 04:43:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Jason and his team arrived back at the cloud house, exhausted in ways no stamina potion could fix after two weeks on the road. There were some kinds of tired only rest could fix, however potent your potion supply was. The monster surge was now in full swing, with monsters spawning faster than eve...
2021-08-17 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHappy with his service to date, Soramir had Trenchant Moore assigned full-time to assist Liara and himself. While Trench could and would also assist Vesper, she remained a silver ranker and could not be given authority over a gold, even if she was a princess and he a royal guard. It was part of t...
2021-08-16 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason and Farrah sat on the balcony of his cloud house in the morning sun. As Taika and Travis came from inside, chairs made of cloud stuff rose from the floor.
“It’s time for the long version of how you two arrived here,” Jason told them as they sat.
“No worries, bro. It star...
2021-08-13 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs Belinda left Jason on the balcony of the cloud house, Humphrey came out to take her place, leaning against the railing next to Jason. Jason flashed him a smile before turning his gaze back out over the lagoon, shimmering with the light of twin moons.
“We’ve come a long way from that ...
2021-08-12 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason was disembarking from the airship that had just returned his expedition to Rimaros. He was moving with the group across the open-sided walkway stretching from the docking cradle to the port tower when he froze on the spot.
“Mr Asano?” asked the expedition leader, Jeni Kavaloa.
... 2021-08-11 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAutumn Leal was tired. In the course of what she had thought was an ordinary delivery run, she was ambushed by a team of Purity loyalists. Outnumbered and outmatched, she had thought she was done for until the guild team she hadn’t known were trailing her in stealth appeared. They captured and ...
2021-08-10 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I still say we should have fished whatever that thing was out of that fire lake,” one of the guild team members said.
“We weren’t there to kill monsters,” said Korinne, the team leader. “We were there to stop the Builder cult from prying the astral space off the side of our wor...
2021-08-09 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBook three is coming to Kindle and Audible. And paperback, if you want a copy you can still read after the high-protein yoghurt apocalypse has taken out the electrical grid. Just keep it somewhere dry.
Unfortunately, this means that the chapters from that book will be coming down from ...
2021-08-07 17:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe collared cultists were effectively non-threats without powers, but Jason wasn’t taking chances. Holding a hand out to the side, blood spilled out to take the form of Colin in his blood clone form.
“Watch the packaged meat,” Jason instructed. “If it starts going bad, eat it fast....
2021-08-06 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason looked at the vessels of the Builder arrayed in front of him. Yet again, the Builder was pushing the boundaries of its agreement with the other great astral beings, reinforcing their unreliability. It reminded him all over again that none of them cared about the welfare of one mortal. Their...
2021-08-05 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostJason knew from his map that the expedition had been portalled to somewhere in the north of Colombia, which in this world was in the southwest of the Storm Kingdom. They headed south, on the same wide, well-maintained roads Jason had travelled on during his delivery contract.
The group expe...
2021-08-04 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostTrenchant returned to Soramir’s balcony lounge after escorting Farrah away, finding the diamond-ranker mid-conversation with Princess Liara. He stood at attention, remaining quiet.
“I would have like to ask more on what she said about starting the monster surge,” Liara asked. “I did...
2021-08-03 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFarrah and Rufus watched Jason slump into the cloud house like a beaten dog. He didn't even use the doors, the walls opening in front of him and closing behind as he trudged in a straight line. They shared a look and got up, using the actual doorways to get to his room where they stood outside, k...
2021-08-02 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJason made his way through the basement levels of the Adventure Society complex until he reached the restricted areas. From there he was escorted to the Builder response unit’s area; a series of securely sealed rooms surrounded by powerful aura containment. His escorts led him to Liara’s offi...
2021-07-30 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostPrincesses Vesper and Liara were in a room with Trenchant Moore and Liara’s teammates, Jana and Ledev.
“Let’s start with you, Ledev,” Liara said. “What is your assessment of Asano?”
“He’s capable enough. Guild-level, and strong alone. His aura is… formidable. He exce...
2021-07-29 23:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason went down into the waterfall cave beneath his cloud house. The natural stone was hidden behind walls, floor and ceiling made from cloud stuff, leaving only the cave mouth with the water rushing past. Sunshine sparkled through it like a spray of diamonds, dancing into the room. The space was...
2021-07-28 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostGil picked up his fruit from the floor, lamenting that he'd been too startled to catch it when, normally, his gold-rank reflexes would have no trouble doing so. Then he realised that Soramir could also have caught them even more easily but quickly quashed his annoyance at that. He looked up sheep...
2021-07-27 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason felt the emotions play out in the auras around him. At the centre was the man on the other side of the tailor shop’s glass, Kasper Irios. A peak-level bronze-ranker, he was standing frozen, gripping the handle of the almost-closed door. His shock was as plainly written on his face as his ...
2021-07-26 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Rimaros was considered a single city, the islands that comprised it were spread over hundreds of kilometres. With three main islands and many sky islands that were themselves often sizeable, it was a city of many flavours, with each island having its own feel.
The most populous island...
2021-07-23 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post