Walls melted, roofs began to rot away, and the earth around them began to collapse into miniature bogs filled with murk as the monster fired countless attacks, destroying the village as it tried its best to kill Kay. Destructive beams of magic were mixed in with exploding orbs that spread the ess...
2024-01-12 01:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Middle Triumvarate" isn't even the working title, it's just a placeholder I'm using to ID the story in my own files. Once a working title and/or final title get picked I'll go back and replace the chapter names, but until then...
Also, for thes series/overseries I'm going to try and do mor...
2024-01-08 21:19:02 +0000 UTC View Post“We’re getting close. We’ll be able to see the edge once we clear these trees.”
The differences between the two local guides Kay had had the opportunity to follow recently couldn’t be overstated. Dev was an older, experienced, elven man who gave off an air of confidence. The young...
2024-01-08 21:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostSo! I was sick(ish) this weekend and spent the weekend mostly lying down. Saturday's chapters are going up right after this.
Additionally, the poll for which "Side Project" I start hasn't had any new votes in long enough that I feel like it's time to close it. To those who's favorite choice...
2024-01-08 20:58:44 +0000 UTC View PostNote: Patreon defaults to one vote per person (Did not know that) and won't let me change it mid-way. This is just a repost with the correct settings so people can vote the way they want to.
This isn't invalidating or going against the poll that determined which series in the Shattered Five...
2024-01-05 02:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostKay swung his halberd like a felling axe and beheaded the last boar monster he’d been fighting. He glanced around to see if anyone needed help and saw things were well in hand. Eleniah’s suggestion of just going out and leading parties to kill monsters and deal with problems ended up being th...
2024-01-05 01:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post“This is…” Eleniah gazed around the training area with pure amusement and a little added spice of amazement at the varied simulacra all performing different tasks, “So cool!” She eventually cheered before rushing off to thoroughly trounce one at chess. The specific one practicing chess ...
2023-12-31 00:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostMetal sheets, rocks, uncut gems and crystals, and other materials, raw and processed, clanked and rattled against each other as faceless red humanoids carefully held samples of various resources up to their eyeless faces and inspected them before dividing them up into different categories and sor...
2023-12-29 01:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostVivien Edrasco had gradually become less and less enthused with the campaign her father’s liege lord had dragged her along on, and she had started with zero enthusiasm. It had only been a few months since the momentous meeting that had finally given her husband the clue he needed to find his ...
2023-12-24 00:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post“Right.” Kay laid the stylized droplet onto the table with a quiet thud. The reddish-black object looked more like a paperweight than anything, shaped like an upside-down drop of blood with a flat base. It was almost a foot tall, with almost seven gallons of blood compressed into its form, th...
2023-12-22 01:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostI didn't post anything on Saturday. I don't remember anything from Saturday at all, but I definitely didn't post like I should have, I'm doing two chapters for everyone today to catch us back up, just letting everyone know.
2023-12-22 01:08:29 +0000 UTC View Post“This feels wrong,” Kay muttered as he stared at the bracelet he’d received as loot from the Many Trial Rooms dungeon. The bracelet had an enchantment that let it change its appearance to match the colors around it, and Kay was still working on transferring that magic using his Blood Melder...
2023-12-22 01:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Fire in the hole!”
“’Fire in the hole!’”
Stepping over the clearly marked line behind the multitude of signs informing anyone who could read that this was the test firing range, that it was dangerous to be here, that no one should be here without authorization, and severa...
2023-12-15 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhat had been a secret complex buried underground with a village built over it was now a growing industrial complex that had eaten the village and now had a new one off to the side. The original plan had been to keep everything involved with the development of firearms and the training programs t...
2023-12-10 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTook a nap forgot to post whoops
Also Patreon changed the posting layout again? Why do they keep doing this I liked the old version!
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Azred, [Threat From the Air], eldest of his generation among his family, esteemed warrior, and, most importantly, husband to th...
2023-12-08 04:34:04 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s mine!”
“No, it’s not!”
Eleniah and Kay quietly clashed, their forks dueling as they battled for the most decadent of prizes, the last bite of their dessert. The simple-looking cake was a moist, delicious treat sitting in a small pool of cream and topped with sweetpee...
2023-12-03 01:02:27 +0000 UTC View PostAs more time and effort went into developing the cliff face into valuable real estate, the higher-up portions of the space became more and more expensive. The actual top of the cliff face was still bare, with the exception of bunkers built around the edge to support the walls that were going up o...
2023-12-01 00:54:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Nothing?” Kay repeated.
“The last link in the chain led to an empty apartment,” Isla confirmed. She shifted deeper into the tiny chair on Kay’s desk. “Whoever our quarry actually was, and we can confirm that she wasn’t a traveling Bannerthrust merchant, she’s vanished.” 2023-11-26 01:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Kay let the last two simulacra dive into the fight against the armored assassin before heading toward the mage. In a duel, getting help was a faux pas at best and an admission of loss at worst, but this wasn’t a duel anymore; it was a fight to the death against a team of assassins. Getting the ...
2023-11-26 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostKay tried not to sigh as he deflected another attack from Quenrev’s sword, once again pushing the blade upward and past him before throwing a few blows of his own out at his opponent. They were all deflected or dodged with varying levels of ease, and Kay started to get bored. The duel was devel...
2023-11-17 18:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis is Thursday's chapter, and tomorrow's chapter is going up right after this b/c I'll be out of town
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The duelist was a tall man, and the added height from him standing on top of a fountain had him literally looming above Kay as he walked past the cordon of guards and stop...
2023-11-17 17:57:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe closest healer in the palace was quite close, and he was not happy with Kay when the full explanation of what had happened to Kay’s arm came out. Kay was quite happy when the healer shifted his lecture to Eleniah for allowing him to perform a dangerous experiment without a healer being on s...
2023-11-12 00:40:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Sir, the Itarian representative is here.”
Edric Ravenhome turned away from the window in his office. “Who did they send?”
“High Crusader Vexler.”
Edric grimaced, “Damn, I was hoping we’d get Rian.” He shook his head and waved his secretary off. “So be it; br...
2023-11-10 01:24:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Ready?” Kay looked at Eleniah with a level gasp.
“Yeah, but start slow. This isn’t something to rush into.”
Slowly and carefully, Kay drew a dagger down his arm, letting a thin trickle of blood ease out of him. He moved the blood off to the side as it flowed out so they cou...
2023-11-04 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View PostAt the end of the performance, where only half of the participants knew that there was a script, a troop of guards marched through the entrance doors to the throne room and began arresting the people Kay had separated from the rest of the group. Of the collection of fools and annoyances, only a s...
2023-11-02 23:52:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, forgot to mention this, but my schedule and workload has improved enough that we're going back to two chapters a week. This time I'm in a lot better position personally and mental health wise to get this going sustainably, so we're doing it! Yay! Also, the first day that's happenin...
2023-11-02 23:51:25 +0000 UTC View PostAmanda, Prime Minister of Avalon, watched, outwardly dispassionate, as her lord lectured the assembled throng of wretched wastes of space that called themselves “nobles” and “successful merchants” and other such crock. If they actually were nobles or truly successful at anything, they wou...
2023-10-29 00:21:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe site that became Avalon City was originally a small camp set up by Kay and Eleniah in the valley where a majority of the traditional buildings of Avalon City now sat. At one end of that valley was a large lake that Avalon’s small inland fishing industry depended on. The lake and the mountai...
2023-10-22 00:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Technically, nothing's gone wrong,” Lauren told him as they marched deeper into the palace. A squad of Blood Guard bodyguards were gathered around Kay, forming a small cordon around him as they headed toward Kay’s secure office. Deeper inside the complex.
Kay stuttered, stepping as h...
2023-10-15 17:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of their first run of the dungeon wasn’t anything to write home about. There were some puzzles, there were some monsters, and there were questionable aesthetic choices everywhere. Kay continued to get more loot of debatable usefulness, ignoring the fact that he could use it to practice...
2023-10-07 20:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post