And enough it was, at least while within Jason’s body. The natural flexing of space around the planet, especially while within a place currently being annexed from the Deep Wilds, was a little much. However, space seemed to be almost entirely relative and so the space inside his body was calm e...
2024-07-03 21:58:49 +0000 UTC
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As with most things, the way an immovable rod works was simpler than most would assume. Jason had spent hours following the theorized changes that each step of the crafting process caused. This process was, of course, nowhere near optimized. In fact, the default pattern was wasteful.
What i...
2024-07-03 21:57:57 +0000 UTC
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Once again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
No...
2024-07-01 04:37:27 +0000 UTC
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“Hey Joe! Does this look like what I think it does?”
Joe looks over the shoulder of his friend Tim at a blue screen. “Looks like a text prompt? What kind of nonsense did you get into? This whole ‘system’ nonsense has been all voice commands and buttons.”
Tim shrugs, “Wel...
2024-07-01 04:27:33 +0000 UTC
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My first challenge though, was to get through the monster build up. I could have waited for them to all rush down, except I’m in their way. So better to attempt it while they were still building up than to wait for the avalanche of monsters to come at me.
So I climbed upwards. My fingers ...
2024-06-30 07:18:17 +0000 UTC
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Over in the more ravaged area, the kobolds aren’t doing so hot. While the healer has managed to keep most of his team upright, they already had lost two of their numbers. It wasn’t even to monsters, which at this point were well below their level. In fact, the monsters would probably be the e...
2024-06-28 18:25:39 +0000 UTC
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The free pattern for an immovable rod had the most basic set of materials, but depending on so many different conditions what was needed could change. Either drastically with entire new materials being added and occasionally replacing others or as minor as needing to reduce the amount of one ingr...
2024-06-27 00:59:48 +0000 UTC
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Now, while pondering the secrets of the past and the System’s purpose was heady stuff, Jason still needs to solve that one last step. How to suspend his own lines so as to replace the old with the new.
Jason studied not just the lines, but a number of papers that had been written about Sp...
2024-06-27 00:59:11 +0000 UTC
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For all the teams except a couple idiots, the first night passes peacefully. Those idiots, on the other hand decided they didn’t need to stick close to their camp or the whole team decided to start exploring right away. What they found was that while there weren’t monsters nearby, that didn...
2024-06-22 02:46:11 +0000 UTC
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Over the next two weeks, the entire world readied itself. Ace sorted out the teams that would go in first. Doyle worked on swapping out fully realized kobolds until most of his team had the scavenge skill. None were quite sure when things would finally go down.
Then it happened. All over th...
2024-06-22 02:44:44 +0000 UTC
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Now, knowing the basics of what the System has done with the lines and what it was attached to, Jason simply has to figure out a way for him to apply it to his homespun lines. For the System, being a computer-like entity with the powers of a deity, it likely just has a one-size-fit-all intent it ...
2024-06-20 01:22:18 +0000 UTC
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Jason had been meditating over the last week on his realization. The fact that the lines placed by the System were attached to the space a person occupied and not their body, mind, or soul. Which when he thought on it deeper, was strange. After all, in theory, when you move space itself isn’t a...
2024-06-20 01:21:36 +0000 UTC
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Ace gathered his council together, though even this early on he felt the gap caused by not having representatives from the deerkin and raccoonkin. He also realized that this feeling was coming from his connection to the town as the official leader. A connection he has thought was more one-way tha...
2024-06-14 10:59:20 +0000 UTC
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Was a good bit late with the NeoRealm chapters today. There is a reason for that. I'm not sick, but my wallet is. Took my car in yesterday for an oil change and complimentary tire rotation, wherein they found out my brake pads aren't quite there anymore (and a brake light was out). Can't exactly ...
2024-06-12 22:39:49 +0000 UTC
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Deep In The Deep Wilds
Shshhhshsssshhss Alulmaa slithered through the new lands that appeared near his pit’s pyramid. They shifted, but this shift came at an odd time. That meant someone had been challenging the Forest and winning. Not that it mattered. Iä Slanthosss Fel...
2024-06-12 22:22:47 +0000 UTC
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An Unrelated Evil Elsewhere
In a small mountain range, bitter winds whip through deep icy canyons. A foul smell being carried by them to the fearful farmers down below. None dare enter this place, not even travellers, for a foul has taken up residence there as of recent. Th...
2024-06-12 22:22:44 +0000 UTC
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Now, while most of the inner circle wasn’t all that interested in the bricks, one person very much was. Jimmy understood what it meant for most buildings to be made of them. A simple thing to figure out by looking at how buildings were made in history.
Sure, the rich and powerful would do...
2024-06-07 11:18:01 +0000 UTC
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An old guy babbled on about how he had been stuck in a brick house. Or as he put it, “Well, it wasn’t quite brick. More of a quartz type of feel. Not red either, but bricks don’t have to be red, I guess. Just doesn’t feel right. Anyway, it was a brickish sort of house. Close enough to a h...
2024-06-07 11:16:20 +0000 UTC
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Below are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month.
The Forgotten Fool Of A Dwarf
Jame’s raged! His whip slick with blood as he “punished” the unfaithful. Things weren’t going well for the cult. Which was annoying for him because he felt ready to take some revenge on that original party of his.
But no, the cult...
2024-06-05 22:20:50 +0000 UTC
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A Kingdom’s Past Planning
Orveul Ryl, the current king of the Ryl kingdom, which had been in his family for the past five generations and over a thousand years was frowning at the map in front of him. “Can we trust the information?”
A man in black with a covered...
2024-06-05 22:20:24 +0000 UTC
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My eyes opened halfway and with great effort. I must have dozed off at some point. The boulder had protected me and my aqua gel nature seemed to remove any nasty side effects of sleeping on literal rocks, but I clearly still needed to rest despite how much had changed at this point. A slight prob...
2024-06-01 20:25:21 +0000 UTC
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Once again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
No...
2024-06-01 19:10:50 +0000 UTC
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This was not happily ever after!
Jogrand Fire of the Mountains, shining flames in the dark, ruler of the Alkazoh ash lands, Gem Scale Master, and most importantly, the collector of rare princesses. Well, he considers the last one the most important. Others tend to focus on the Master bit or...
2024-06-01 18:59:02 +0000 UTC
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Ace managed to have the big meeting. The problem was that only Bennett town saw eye to eye with him. So while it was nice to actually meet everyone, the politics ran thick and not much got done before, after a week, everyone dispersed to return to their own settlements before the event.
Aft...
2024-05-31 10:54:16 +0000 UTC
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Mom Is Offered The World
Jenny smiled like a shark, or maybe a lawyer. Not much real time had passed since her outing with her son, but in the fast pace of NeoRealm there was more than enough time to be fed up with her company. Because, of course, they would just accept wha...
2024-05-29 10:21:13 +0000 UTC
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Andrew’s Backstory
A frown graced Andrew’s face as he tried to scry on his favorite boy and companion. It had been interesting to see them handling mundane things in awkward ways. After all, who would force their way through a dungeon with four people? And then, when th...
2024-05-29 10:20:45 +0000 UTC
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Ace sighs, “Stories about the deep ones and their ilk only showed up a hundred or so years ago.”
Camila, “Well, maybe that means they’re further away from here than my old planet? After all, they’re practically a part of my culture’s creation myths.”
Ace, “The problem ...
2024-05-24 05:02:59 +0000 UTC
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When it came to the system, Ace didn’t believe in coincidences. Though he wasn’t sure what significance having the list of people they could invite showing up the day of the first freeze would have. Some others joked about it being a reminder that winter was coming and to not be too ambitious...
2024-05-24 05:01:04 +0000 UTC
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Later that night, Jason was holed up in his meditation room. Rosha had given him more than enough food for thought, as well as a bunch of random nonsense ever since she had arrived back at the clearing. Though the first bit about him repelling dirt and dust stuck with him the most.
So, he m...
2024-05-22 16:12:57 +0000 UTC
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