Hey everyone,
I'm in every author's favorite place: caught between two projects! Now that Dungeon Devotee is just about ready to fully fall to once-per-month, I have two different options for what I'll write next. Rather than doing what a normal human being would do and carefull...
2022-06-14 00:51:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: Clear the Air
Edmund emerged to false sunshine and a warm breeze and the rhythmic crash of lapping waves. His boots sank into loose sand. His eyes glimpsed a dark cliff to his right, a calm sea to his left, and a golden haired girl with fierce green eyes in front of him.
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2022-06-08 19:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: Up in Smoke
Edmund trod upon not rough but sturdy stone nor packed earth nor soft soil, but carved and springy wood. The fresh smell of sap and pluming leafage just barely snuck past the overwhelming acridity in the air to reach his nose. There seemed to be more smoke than norma...
2022-05-27 22:12:35 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 19: Across the Frozen Lake
Edmund emerged into howling wind and biting chill. The world shined white all around him, a flurry of snow blown about by the unceasing gale obscuring all but a few feet ahead. All Edmund’s eyes could make out were two steep hillsides walling him in, for...
2022-05-01 20:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: A Different Kind of Field
Edmund fell backwards out of the entrance, landing hard on his backside upon a cool metallic floor. The azure fox was nowhere to be seen. Well aware of the rules about safety in entryways, Edmund’s first instinct was to open his constellation and view...
2022-04-22 23:53:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 17: For I Must Scream
Edmund emerged onto a narrow platform of porous black stone. Waves of heat wafted both from over the platform’s edge and through the stone itself, drawing beads of sweat from his brow. Dark storm clouds roiled above, threatening yet failing to deliver on thei...
2022-04-16 20:48:04 +0000 UTC View PostHappy April Fools! You can read part 1 here, or continue on to your regularly scheduled chapter.
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Edmund had grown mostly certain the...
2022-04-01 15:47:37 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude: Into the Darkness
Edmund stepped into a white room. Its walls stretched no more than twenty feet apart, its ceiling hanging but three above Edmund’s head. Across it stood the exit, already open, the darkness behind it already beckoning to him. First, he had to get past the room...
2022-03-31 21:28:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: The True Value of a Cup of Ale
“A word of advice,” Liam’s voice greeted Edmund the moment he set foot on the hardwood floor, “don’t drink the ale.”
Edmund blinked as the words mingled in his ears with the chorus of laughter and singing and conversation that sat...
2022-03-26 18:34:58 +0000 UTC View Post[I think this is my favorite chapter so far. I hope it's as much fun to read as it was to write!]
Chapter 15: The Unreal Touches Back
Edmund emerged into a cramped and gloomy chamber, a cave by any definition of the word. Rough, natural-seeming stone made up the walls and ceilin...
2022-03-18 21:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 14: Slings and Arrows
Edmund stepped into a room lit partially by a smokeless torch on either side of the entrance, but overwhelmingly by the pale light of day blasting through the doorless doorway opposite him. He squinted as his eyes struggled to adjust to the bright outside and t...
2022-03-15 22:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13: Among the Charcoal Trees
Edmund stood upon a bed of ash.
Woodlands stretched out around him, trees of all shapes and sizes littered the flat landscape, sparse enough to allow free passage, yet dense enough to obscure his vision more than a dozen yards away. No branch bore ...
2022-03-04 21:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12: A Field of Blades and Blood
Edmund found himself alone in yet another stone room, lit by yet more smokeless torches, casting yet more dancing shadows upon the dark corners of the space. So ended the similarities to previous floors.
Instead of an enclosed beginning chamber ...
2022-02-25 22:05:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11: Hints of the Past and Inklings of the Future
Edmund emerged to noise and light and heat.
The noise of humanity cascaded through the air, the all too familiar clatter of people buying and selling and laughing and lying. It sent a wave of relief coursing through him, a sense...
2022-02-18 21:17:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 10: Don’t Fall
Immediate relief washed through Edmund’s mind as he felt the soft scratch of loose soil beneath his boot. He exhaled. It’d been some time since he’d stepped onto a floor and known he’d have a way to use his rootmother’s sigil. Not having to worry about how...
2022-02-09 22:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 9: Through the Fingers of the Crimson Hand
Edmund emerged into a narrow hallway, his shadowhide boots stepping softly across even floor. Carved and mortared stone lined the walls and ceiling, its gray surface cold and uninviting. The smokeless torches hung in sconces, their tops dec...
2022-02-04 21:14:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone!
As This Quest is Bullshit! comes to an end and Dungeon Devotee picks up, I want to take a moment and talk about the future of this patreon. My original plan for Dungeon Devotee was to build up a backlog of 16 chapters before posting 1-6 publicly and keeping the remaining...
2022-01-31 22:40:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8: Across the Basalt Steps
Edmund found himself standing upon a large, uneven surface, surrounded by walls on three sides and empty space on the fourth. Foot-wide hexagons made up the floor beneath him, each some inch or so higher or lower than its neighbors, resulting in a treacher...
2022-01-26 23:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 7: No Lost Little Girl
Edmund stepped out into a cave. That is, having never actually seen one before, he stepped out into what he assumed caves looked like. A rough path of solid stone stretched out ahead of him, stalactites hung from the ceiling above, just out of reach, and dull ...
2022-01-15 01:40:49 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6 - Signs of Life and the Azure
2022-01-07 19:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5 - Chasing Shadows
Edmund emerged with his knees bent, his stance steady, and his weapon poised. No target presented itself. Unwilling to lower his guard, he kept close to the entrance as he surveyed the level around him.
The walls were the same packed-earth with which he’d...
2021-12-28 22:35:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4 - Widows and Wagers
“I hate this level,” Liam greeted Edmund the moment he stepped out onto the third floor. The hallucination had apparently been waiting for him.
Edmund blinked, casting his gaze to both sides in search of danger before daring reply. “You hate it why?...
2021-12-15 22:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 3 - That Which is Hidden
If the first floor had been a cellar infested with rats, the second was one abandoned.
Edmund stepped from the darkness between levels to find himself standing in a narrow hallway, lit in the dim orange of a single torch. Instead of wooden paneling cov...
2021-12-10 21:52:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2 - All There Was to Take
Only once his stomach had calmed and the bleeding had stopped and the agony of his broken rib had faded into a dull ache did Edmund allow his thoughts to turn towards his rewards. He’d let the pain run its course, forcing himself to experience it in full ...
2021-12-07 22:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 1 - Deadliest Day
Four queues stretched across the unimaginatively named Dungeon Square, one for returning adventurers picking up where they left off, one for the gatherers come to reap the plentiful herbs and ores from the upper levels, one for the well-equipped wealthy newcomers u...
2021-11-25 19:14:07 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogue - Life Quest Complete
Eve sat back in her chair, taking a few moments to catch her breath and sip from her glass of vintage champagne as the party continued around her. She’d needed this. They’d all needed this. For all involved but for Eve, Wes, and Preston especially, the pas...
2021-11-25 19:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 178 - Into the Fire
Eve’s body, armor, and underclothes all disintegrated into a cloud of Mana the moment she came into contact with the firestorm. The blaze rushed to meet her. She fought to keep herself as tightly-packed as possible, struggling to reduce the surface area at whic...
2021-11-24 23:47:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 177 - A Footrace with Apocalypse
Eve raised the cup to her mouth, scowling and wrinkling her nose as the fiery liquid within crossed her tongue. She groaned.
“Why does Gregory buy this stuff, anyway?” she asked, glancing down at the cheap bottle whiskey. “Yo...
2021-11-24 23:46:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 176 - It’s Never Over
For the first time in gods knew how many millennia, the sun shined down upon the face of the Man of the Mists. He made for a sorry sight.
The corpse was blue in the face and bruised around the neck where Eve had choked the life out of it. His s...
2021-11-24 00:41:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 175 - The Man of the Mists
Warm moisture beaded and dripped down Eve’s face and the leather of her armor as she landed on soft grass. No mistlers attacked her. No monsters lurked in the fog. No high-level Unique started monologuing. She was alone.
A notification ale...
2021-11-23 22:55:24 +0000 UTC View Post