We're on the home stretch now - or all downhill from here, depending on how you look at it. It's an interesting challenge for me to write characters that are not exceptionally clever people. Noodles in particular is... well. Let's face it. He's a four-legged himbo. He's not terribly bright, b...
2024-04-22 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe blast threw me, Lulu, Angel and Solomon away from the gatehouse and across the dirt. Lulu took the brunt of it, her high Defense the only thing that saved her from evaporating under the intense heat. The humans went flying. Even I rolled a couple of times before springing back up to my feet, ...
2024-04-21 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI broke into a loping spring back toward the mines. Getting there took less than five minutes at a flat sprint. It was still too long. I skidded to a stop at the edge of the quarry, looked toward the west, and saw the army marching for the gates.
There were at least five hundred Centurions....
2024-04-20 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNot dead, just sick. But doing a lot better. Now with 100% less expelled blood!
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By dawn, the Centurions were massing outside the walls of Camp Ironside. But not advancing. Ten of the most resourceful rebels had te...
2024-04-20 01:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostAhaha... so the illness I was experiencing turned out be a kidney infection. I woke up at 5am this morning with blood coming out of places blood should ideally never be lost from. I was able to get to an urgent care and they gave me the heavy-duty antibiotics. I'll live, but I really hope I n...
2024-04-15 21:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostUrrgh, I got sick. Doctor tomorrow, but I'm uploading the remaining edited chapters tonight.
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“Solomon! You’re in charge of the ground forces!” Angel, still voicing, turned to me as shouts of alarm rang out from our makeshift platoon. “Noodles. ...
2024-04-15 02:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostAethon Books has optioned I Am Legion!
To get straight to the point: Aethon, a publisher of some amazing sci-fi and LitRPG, has made an offer on I Am Legion. I'm thrilled to be working with them.
Aethon also work with Soundbooth Theatre and I'm determined to let them have a go at brin...
2024-04-13 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostFor the sake of not alerting every single Centurion in the mines all at once, Angel switched her rifles for a bow. She nocked an arrow and and drew it back as I banged loudly on the door. A freckled face appeared. A teenage prison guard, maybe nineteen at the most.
I launched the points of ...
2024-04-11 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of mineshaft triangulation basically relied on smell. The land was criss-crossed with highlighted scent tracks, most of them left by the Centurions patrols who ranged these hills. But the mines themselves had a scent: the smells of beaten rocks and unwashed humans, metal slag and spen...
2024-04-10 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith the three of us pooling our lootboxes together, we had enough metal for a lot of weapons. A LOT of weapons. By the time we were done, we had an arsenal capable of outfitting seventy players. We had guns. We had traps. We had two brand-spanking-new [Vickers Machine Turrets] to replace the jun...
2024-04-09 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI found Angel at her workbench, planing wood to make gun stocks. She was surrounded by several new material storage boxes, and looked both excited and anxious while she crafted.
“Hey… Angel.” I nearly ended the casual greeting with ‘babe’ and checked myself. “What...
2024-04-08 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostClive lowered the rifle, his weathered, thin face unusually serious. When he wasn't putting on the crazed barbarian act, he had the look of an old soldier - even with the tusk piercings and face paint. "You got five minutes, Mister Reaper. Sentient or not, you're just a damn beast. I can have fif...
2024-04-07 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe all felt odd about just leaving the dead to rot. Not that they'd know if we buried them, but in a place as heartless as this one, any little human act felt more meaningful, while every act of callousness chipped away at our souls a little more. And every time you lost a piece, it was some part...
2024-04-06 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe volcano had erupted to the south-west, and the formerly lush jungle around Camp Goldrush was now a blackened hellscape. Entire roads and settlements along the warfront were drowned in creeping worms of crackling lava, heavy and unstoppable. Smoke turned the air hazy, limiting visibility. Mile...
2024-04-05 23:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post"RRAGH!" I bellowed aloud as I kicked off from the raft with all my strength. Powerful hind legs launched us up into the air... but the combined weight of all three of us kicked the edge of the raft down into the waves once I reached the limit. I knew instinctively that it wasn't enough power, ev...
2024-04-03 14:22:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Ohhh lord. Oh fuck." For the first time since the beach, I had no idea what to do - other than try to attack. But attack WHAT? Karkinos was spraying its own body down with jets of boiling water, filling the arena with foul-smelling steam. No matter where I looked on it, every part of th...
2024-03-31 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn't sure at what point I'd gone from resenting the viewers to feeling proud we had so many. Maybe it was the dopamine rush of looking into my video window and seeing all those comments and messages flying. Maybe it was the stream of goodies entering my Inventory. Or maybe it had finally sunk...
2024-03-30 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAbout twenty minutes later, we found the second [Juvenile Yeti Crab] and the second pump. There was a different, but equally nasty trap in front of the mirrored door. This crab used Earth attacks instead of Air ones, but was otherwise identical to the first. We overwhelmed it with sheer force, cr...
2024-03-29 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Lulu has taken 250 damage. Your Lesser Legion has been Impaled. 50 damage every second.]
"Lulu!" I took a step forward, mouth open, but the damage was done. The Limne wriggled frantically, cloudy bursts of ichor rippling through her mass as she tore herself on the spear hafts.
"She's...
2024-03-28 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI was ready to swim, but nothing could prepare me for the sheer power of the whirlpool. There was no control. My ears and nostrils sealed against the pressure as the fist of God caught my body and dragged us down in a tight, crushing spiral.
Explosions boomed distantly overhead, lighting th...
2024-03-27 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't have to wait long for our activities to bear fruit. The first cannon blasts rang out at four in the morning, a distant rolling BOOM that shook the walls of our base and sent dirt raining onto our roof. I startled up with a snerk, instantly alert. But as the rapport continued, t...
2024-03-26 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI ran down and shredded the first Centurion in our path. Two more charged in with spears. I nailed them with tentacles before they could close and threw them over the burning corpse of the wagon. One man crashed into one of his buddies, taking him to ground; the other ragdolled into the side of t...
2024-03-25 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Halt! You're trespassing on Iron Centurions territory!"
The voice ran out on a megaphone from the treeline as three [Warbred Raptors] came bounding out on the other side of the crevasse. The dinosaurs and their riders were armored: bronze and leather barding on the dinosaurs, full-face hel...
2024-03-24 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been picking up drawing again, and sketched these two last night. A little bonus content :3
2024-03-24 17:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostPhase Two of Noodles' Master Plan involved the hardest challenge of all - patience. The timing was important. Now that we'd struck at the Pigs, we couldn't hit the Centurions straight away. Four days passed while we watched and waited to see how the Hell Pigs would react. Fortunately for us, they...
2024-03-23 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAngel was still awake when I arrived back at the Crystal Cavern, writing into a journal. She glanced up as I padded in, closing the book and leaving it on her lap so she could sign. “How did the recon go?”
“So… I’ve got a theory.” I went over to the hearth and lay down ...
2024-03-22 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Primordial Forest was downright magical at night. I surfaced into a cloud of fireflies that ghosted over the surface of the pale, glowing water. The full moon cast a soft golden glow through the lacework of branches overhead. Slowly, quietly, I moved through the cut-up patchwork of light and ...
2024-03-21 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostCRRRRRACK! "Timberrrrr!”
The towering mahogany tree keeled away from us, smashing into the ferns and moss in its path. It was a good haul: Angel would be able to mill about a hundred and fifty pieces of [Shaped Lumber] from the trunk, which, if we were lucky, would be all she nee...
2024-03-20 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDespite their words, I knew Lulu and Angel were tempted to stay in Eden. It made sense. They'd been stuck in the Jungle a long time. They were both starved for sane human company. Me, though, I was pretty sure I’d never been sane to begin with. This place didn’t feel like a refuge to me. It f...
2024-03-19 18:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt stormed during the night, and the thundering of rain against the roof was like morphine. The three of us slept like the dead, and when we roused, it was to clear peach-colored skies and a field of thick ground mist blanketing Eden.
We got ourselves breakfast - beans and rice and fried eg...
2024-03-18 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post