Blake started complaining an hour into the trip. “Oh damnit I meant to bring the hall sunscreen. This central storage crap is useless with mosquitoes.”
“With…” Mason watched his brother slap at his skin and shook his head, temporarily lost for words. “Where the hell did you even...
2023-08-11 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason reached his house slightly before dawn. Streak collapsed outside, slurping from his water bowl before slumping to his side with some kind of snore.
Mason could relate. He practically smashed his way inside, drinking and eating from a collection of things on the table before staggering...
2023-08-10 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRebecca wiped sweat from her brow and tied another tournequette. “Aila, you need to check this,” she said, standing and waiting for her friend.
“No I don’t,” the nurse called from across the infirmary. “You’ve got it Becky, stop doubting yourself.”
Every bed in the inf...
2023-08-09 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMason very seriously considered taking Haley all the way to his house and fucking her brains out. But he knew he needed to go, and figured he could burn off his frustrated energy just as well on the move.
“I need to go save a bunch of people I don’t care about,” he said, once they’d...
2023-08-08 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as he’d left Rebecca, Mason actually looked around and realized the settlement was totally different.
Streets had changed, buildings had merged, and he was pretty sure the whole thing expanded entirely. How exactly the walls had been moved out he didn’t much understand, but then...
2023-08-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBy early evening they finally decided it was time to go back. Mason watched Becky get dressed, and when she noticed him staring she met his eyes and slowed down. She turned her back and slid her underwear up over her pert ass like a stripper, giggling as she pulled up her jeans.
“Did you ...
2023-08-04 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason sat up and slowly eased Rebecca to her knees.
“Better if you do everything. Get it out for me.”
Rebecca bit her lip shyly and worked at his fly. She slipped her hand between the layers of fabric, and he felt her small, cool fingers curl around his shaft. She pulled him out a...
2023-08-03 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason checked the map in his mind using his Wayfinder power, deciding exactly where to take Rebecca. There was still plenty of unexplored areas around Nassau in various directions, so he could clear a little grey at the same time.
But there was a smaller, branching river from the main South...
2023-08-02 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMason found himself slightly dejected on his first day back in Nassau. Rebecca had recovered enough to leave the infirmary, and went to live in the same house as her civilian friends, Aila and Darlene.
This was reasonable, even expected, but Mason would have been lying if he said he didn’...
2023-08-01 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBlake walked around his latest toy, running his hand along the chair. He could barely contain his excitement. He’d decided to spend some patron points, and though there were lots of options—ranging anywhere from entertainment to town defence—first things were first.
The ‘Neural Ampl...
2023-07-31 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMason considered heading straight towards the nymph tree to clear the dungeon causing it to rot. But for some combination of selfish and protective reasons, he wanted to be there when Rebecca was awake.
He also decided if he was going to clear the great tree dungeon, at the very least he sh...
2023-07-30 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason took Rebecca straight to his house. He crashed through the door with the now sleeping or unconscious girl, then carried her to the second bedroom. Haley was awake and at his side before he reached the bed. Her eyes were puffy with sleep, and she wore only her usual white t-shirt and panties...
2023-07-29 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostA large pack of wolves had taken to chasing their prey to the walls of Nassau. At first Mason thought they just happened to look for food near the settlement, but he’d begun to realize: it was a hunting strategy.
They chased large, fast prey all the way to Nassau to trap it against the st...
2023-07-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBlake lay awake with his half naked Korean girlfriend. At least, he thought she was his girlfriend. In the robo-apocalypse and after the re-forming of reality they’d come to call ‘The Great Game’, old relationship rules seemed…rather out the window.
There was, after al...
2023-07-27 15:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt watched the most important beings in the universe with rapt attention. Not in thousands of years had It focused its primary systems so totally, so completely, largely oblivious to the minor systems and the stimuli from outside space.
It destroyed asteroids, turned back chaotic energies, ...
2023-07-27 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The amount of support so far is truly humbling, folks. All I can do is say thank you, and of course...keep giving you more...
Book two is ready to go, and starts tomorrow. In the meantime, here's Seul-ki?
2023-07-26 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBlake and Mason met after sunset in the ‘cookery’, sitting at plastic tables with a bottle of Billy’s moonshine and two heated plates of what they hoped were chicken wings.
They waited till they were alone, Mason looking around one more time before he grinned. They stood and walked ar...
2023-07-26 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBlake put all the surviving players and all the civilians in the chief’s hall, and watched them. There was some bad blood and hard feelings and every other cliche that meant unpleasant history. But he needed these people—all of them, and he couldn’t let nonsense interfere.
“Chief Se...
2023-07-25 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason woke with something warm and wet moving up his thigh.
“God I hope that’s not a mutant dog.”
He heard Haley giggle, then his cock disappeared into soft, warm, inviting lips. He groaned and went hard in seconds before he opened his eyes.
She was looking at him with as ...
2023-07-24 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostPolearm guy ran, and Mason let him. He had an arrow lodged in his gut, which no doubt hurt tremendously and drained some courage. Mason could sympathize. His shoulder fucking hurt. Lifting his arm proved mostly impossible, and he expected he wouldn’t be able to shoot worth a damn. Hell...
2023-07-23 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBlake watched his brother shooting magic arrows like a damn machine gun. One of Garet’s men was down to Alvaro’s ridiculous touch power, but otherwise things were going rather well. After using his power, Alvaro had gone down soon after, and Mason had blasted Norman like it was nothing. After...
2023-07-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason woke up coughing. Smoke filled his vision, covering everything except the ground and especially the small dip into his stream. Pain came second, coursing from his gut up and down his body. But at least he woke up.
He remembered the assassin and the dagger in his side, and checked his ...
2023-07-21 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post[Objective granted: kill the player known as Chief Sebastian, and become the patron of Nassau. Reward: a moderate boost of settlement favor]
Blake watched the ghostly text appear before his eyes as Garet and the others left. The patron part both excited and concerned him, as he wasn’t sur...
2023-07-21 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast with Haley and Seul-ki, Blake walked the streets of Nassau, gathering the few players who more openly disliked their chief. With each he sent a wave of trust—and not for the first time—then told them to meet at Haley’s house. With some surprise, they all actually came.
Mason wiped the sweat from his eyes, and smiled. Trees and brush flew past him as he raced after his quarry, the branches and other vegetation slipping past him without touching him, like he’d found that perfect opening through a crowd.
He’d found a marker from Kiaan, then one of the ra...
2023-07-20 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days without incident, and Blake was getting impatient. Access to the girl remained strictly controlled. She was escorted everywhere, generally to the closest mess hall and back, with maybe the occasional walk. Blake hadn’t even gotten a chance to speak with her.
But the end of ...
2023-07-19 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter two days of watching, Mason had seen enough. The town sent one and maybe two groups of raiders, one that returned within half a day, the other likely gone for longer. Both had now returned. A final group patrolled the town’s borders and nearby terrain, and each group consisted of at least...
2023-07-19 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Well we've cracked 1000 followers on Royal Road and added 20ish patrons in two days. I literally can't give you chapters any faster...so, here's Thea.
The good news is: I think you guys can look forward to me writing plenty more of this story...
2023-07-19 02:13:50 +0000 UTC View Post
