Chapter 356 – Report
Finding the Safe Room on this floor was troublesome, since it was supposedly hidden, somewhere that would not be immediately obvious to most adventurers making their way through the dungeon. However, that was fine. They’d planned on mapping as much of t...
2024-10-14 21:05:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 151 – Live Show
Jack Harris was a bit nervous, and more than a bit excited. That was understandable, of course. The last time this guest had been on his show, terrorists had attacked, only for her to stop bullets midflight and then rip their souls from their bodies, a...
2024-10-09 22:03:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 355 – Rewarded
Ricardo’s skills got more than enough chance to shine as they moved forward. Spears shooting out from the side, scythe blades arcing through the air at neck height, sometimes a steel spike thrusting up from below, in an attempt to impale someone? The ...
2024-10-07 20:58:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Prologue – Trade Chat
(Magical World Disharmony Server, General Chat)
UsualSuspect, manoutoftime, muon, MewTwo, Avariel, Chummer, Golddigger, CrazyCelt, Blaze, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, MacD, Inquisitor, OrangeQueen, Lizard, RedFox, SemiSo...
2024-10-02 14:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 354 – Into the Pyramid
Getting past Shai-Hulud was both easier and harder than she had thought it would be. Easier, since the Mass Flight spell did not, in fact, call the worm, which made crossing the desert child’s play, even if they were forced to stay barely abov...
2024-09-30 22:57:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 353 – Group Meeting
Gracie Dixon looked around at her team as they all slipped into the hot spring bath in the thirteenth floor of the dungeon. The Azure Flames were some of the best adventurers in Swamptown. At Level 25 in Tier 2, they were in the running for one of ...
2024-09-23 20:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 352 – Preparing
“All right, settle down folks. We all know why we’re here.” Peter Franks said. He was the head of the little satellite office of the Miami Adventurer’s Guild here in Swamptown. He didn’t know how they arranged things in the rest of the world,...
2024-09-16 21:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 351 – Options
As expected, the first day after telling the world about a new difficulty mode being added to the dungeon, the adventurers were out in force. Most were the locals and regulars, the ones who usually dropped into the dungeon at least once a week. They had ...
2024-09-09 22:16:24 +0000 UTC View PostFair warning, this week is Dragoncon. Like every year, I won't be posting from Wed to Tues, because this is my main vacation for the year. If you're going to the con, say hi if ya see me.
Prologue – Trade Chat
(Adventurer’s Guild Official Forums, Miami Branch)...
2024-08-26 18:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostI'll admit, this one was a lot of fun to write.
Chapter 41 – Inquisitor
Inquisitor Forthwind the Hammer frowned as his retinue approached the outskirts of Windwater Towne, seat of Windwater Barony in the Kingdom of Dascora. That they had to travel as mere travele...
2024-08-23 20:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 103 – Running the List
The next name on the list was Deus, real name Biagio Cardo, an Italian national and supervillain. He was actually one of the biggest threats that Serafina fought against, back before he went into quarantine and I turned the angel into my pet. Hi...
2024-08-22 20:19:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 147 – Underground
The next morning, Safar met me at the hotel after breakfast. Just the two of us set out for the site. The others stayed behind. The volunteers needed to practice for the ritual, and I had expressly forbidden the mortals from coming along. Out of all ...
2024-08-21 19:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 191 – In-Flight Chat
Any shuttle I stepped foot on, by Ceresan law, was temporarily named Ceres One. Yes, I stole the idea from how any plane the US President is on becomes Air Force One, or any helicopter they’re on becomes Marine One, but that bit of pageantry was...
2024-08-20 21:45:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Epilogue – Elsewhere
(Nighthold, Knightmarch, Bluemountain)
The former soldier breathed in the air of an alien world as he stepped through the portal. It had been morning, in Miami, when he set out, but it was clearly the middle of the night here. Looking a...
2024-08-19 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Prologue – Hatred
“Run, Ailuin. Run, and don’t look back.”
Ailuin Helecan groaned as his eyes opened, the screams in his nightmare echoing through his head. Those were the last words his mother had told him, the day the city fell. Before that...
2024-08-16 13:59:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 102 – Fabricated
Next on the list was Fabricator. Real name: Nina Keyserling. One of the female reality manipulators, she was something of an echo to Warpsmith, in some ways. Her powers were mostly focused around the creation of gadgets and machines that should not wo...
2024-08-15 21:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 146 – Goddess
The leather-clad goddess of the hunt smiled, and said, “Yes, my child. You have done well. And it is well that you did as I said in placing the site as close to the Seal as possible. You would not know this, as it is still too early to meas...
2024-08-14 22:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Prologue – Trade Chat
(North American System Information Exchange Forum, formerly Community Building and Civil Defense Chat)
abby_gail, bento, RainyDayze, GringottsGoblin, DoritoMan, D.VaLuvr69, Carion, RadicalEdward, FusionGal, NotACop, Scholar, RamblingWr...
2024-08-13 19:26:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 350 – Interview
(Conference Room, Miami Adventurers Guild Headquarters)
Miguel Sanchez smiled happily as the adventurers walked into the conference room at the Miami branch of the American Adventurers Guild. Rising to his feet, along with the other ...
2024-08-12 21:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Epilogue – Elsewhere
King Sewell Skysword, third of his name, King of Dascora, was troubled. Twice, in less than a tenday, the Voice of the World had given notice to the entire world about the death of a Hero. The first time, it was likely a farmboy, who got in over his head ...
2024-08-09 14:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 101 – Adjudication
Lady Abstract’s induction to the fold was rather simple. I didn’t want her return to the world to be known for a while, but I certainly enjoyed ravishing her, along with Huinnalge and Bulkkoch. The fact that we were doing it on what was her bed,...
2024-08-08 20:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 145 – Dedication
Of course, I couldn’t go directly to the temple for the dedication. As the one commissioning the temple’s construction (or reconstruction, in this case), I had certain responsibilities to fulfill. This was a temple to the Goddess of the Hunt, afte...
2024-08-07 22:17:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Epilogue – Elsewhere
(Count-place, Foodplace, Greenplace)
Cret was smart. Not bug-god smart, but smart. He could count four hands of fingers without using fingers! That why bug-gods make him in charge of giving food to people. Make sure all well fed, for wh...
2024-08-06 19:23:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 349 – Stakes
Of course, if I was making the raid a battle for control of the city, I had to have a reason why this battle was constantly ongoing, rather than being a one and done affair. Even spoiled nobles wouldn’t accept the kind of cycle of death that would happe...
2024-08-05 21:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 40 – Return to Windwater
The morning after the feast, I was one of the few who weren’t suffering from hangovers. Of course, most of those lucky souls simply knew their limits, and did not overindulge. Darren, a tanner who worked with the leatherworkers in town, simp...
2024-08-02 21:11:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 100 – First Interview
Before entering the interview space, I took a moment to assure my pets that I wouldn’t be needing their services as bodyguards to help talk down or beat down an angry reality controller. They were, understandably, quite relieved at that. Huinna...
2024-08-01 20:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 144 – Teaching
Once the newborn ghouls were fed and set to training so that they could learn to use their mana in this new form, I used another spell to clean the room. This was a hotel, after all, and it would not do to leave what looked like a murder scene behind. F...
2024-07-31 22:10:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 190 – Future Plans
With the basic skeleton of a deal in place, we moved on to actual numbers. There was some back and forth, there, but, eventually, we settled on a final deal. North Korea would be getting a full squadron of X-Pattern Hunters, and multiple squadrons o...
2024-07-30 21:19:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 348 – Raid Composition
As far as I knew, no other dungeon on Earth had put together a Raid. The concept itself wasn’t entirely unfamiliar to people from Earth, since the MMORPG genre had made raids a staple of end-game content for decades, to the point where even no...
2024-07-29 20:48:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 39 – Victory Feast
With Earth mages helping to clear the way, I wasn’t surprised to hear that the mine head was clear a few hours before the evening meal was set to be served. Which was good, since I knew that the children and elderly in the mines likely did not wan...
2024-07-26 17:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post