“Actually, could you just hang on to that for me for a few minutes?” asked Terry.
He’d gotten so caught up in the idea of making Captain Crossbow pay for the hat that he’d neglected to deal with the rest of ambushers. He thought most of them had run away, but there was always that <...
2024-07-26 06:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostTerry couldn’t believe it. He just could. Not. Believe. It. He’d finally, finally, gotten another rice hat, and some walking dead man had put a hole in it. For that brief moment, he felt like this new world of his was truly conspiring against him. He hadn’t had grand ambitions. He ...
2024-07-25 06:58:14 +0000 UTC View PostOne rank two identification and a meaningful pile of money later, Terry was stomping his way out of the Adventurer’s Guild. He wasn’t mad at anyone in particular. He was just mad. He’d tromped over the rules of the Adventurer’s Guild like a drunk elephant and expected to get away with it ...
2024-07-24 07:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe Adventurer’s Guild Hall turned out to be a modest affair. There were just a few scattered tables with a bare smattering of people sitting around them. Terry was surprised to discover that while they all tried to look tough, none of them gave him that sense of danger he’d come to expect fr...
2024-07-23 02:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostTerry found himself almost glaring at the gates of the town they were approaching. He didn’t mean to do it. He’d just had such crappy experiences in cities and towns so far that he was not excited about spending more time than absolutely necessary in another one. He definitely wanted to get f...
2024-07-21 04:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next week, Terry noticed that the group started to find a rhythm with each other. It started with the monster attacks. Those happened with a frequency that he found both annoying and suspicious. He usually hung back with Haresh and let Jaban and Ekori handle them. He didn’t have anythi...
2024-07-20 05:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostCarrying Ekori wasn’t difficult, so much as it was tedious. Terry was used to having his arms free, and she was light enough that he kept forgetting about her. Then, he’d go to point at something or grab something that looked interesting and find his arm encumbered by the unconscious person h...
2024-07-19 02:26:51 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, well, the results are in.
43% of responses favored pausing billing.
57% of responses favored leaving billing on.
There were 382 votes, which is approximately a 1/3 of all paying subscribers. I don't know if that's what pollsters would call a representative sample, but I su...
2024-07-17 21:03:23 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing as how he hadn’t really done anything in the fight except provide a brief if important distraction, Terry let the other adventurers handle the boar corpse. Of course, that came after what passed for field medicine. Jaban was banged up, but Ekori was still bleeding a lot. It was enough th...
2024-07-17 20:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostOkay. So, I'm in a bit of a conundrum. There are people here subscribed to tiers that only get Unintended Cultivator chapters, which I'm not writing right now. But there are also people subscribed here who seemingly want chapters of anything I care to write, and I am still writing. Part of me fee...
2024-07-16 20:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I'm not sure how much I've complained about this to you guys, but I've been been in the same tiny apartment for four or five years. And when I say tiny, I mean TINY. It's less than 300 square feet. Wait, you say. Aren't your books selling well on Amazo...
2024-07-16 15:10:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Should we intervene?” asked Terry.
“Not yet,” said Haresh.
“You sure? It doesn’t seem like they’re doing well.”
Haresh nodded in a sagely, teacherly way, even as a muted cry of pain wafted their way.
“This is how adventures—” Haresh paused to ...
2024-07-15 03:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostTerry discovered that taking a road trip on foot with other people was irritating in different ways than doing one in a car. There were no radios, streaming music services, or even MP3 devices, so no one was arguing about music. However, Terry might have welcomed that argument if it meant he coul...
2024-07-14 18:43:55 +0000 UTC View Post“How can you only be rank three?” Ekori almost, but not quite, demanded.
Terry looked across the campfire at her. While Jaban and Haresh didn’t chime in, he could see them both looking at him intently and clearly interested in hearing the answer. Terry did a mental facepalm. I sho...
2024-07-13 21:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostTerry tried to decide on a strategy as he closed the distance with the man-goat thing. He didn’t have a good sense of how intelligent it was, but it hadn’t immediately charged at them. That didn’t necessarily make it smart. There were four of them. Five of them if you counted Drumstick, whi...
2024-07-12 21:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostTerry was happy to discover that once the talking had started, it generally flowed pretty naturally without a lot of input from him. Not that the other three talked that much about things he specifically cared about, but he picked up little tidbits like what inns were generally safe, and which pl...
2024-07-11 14:37:54 +0000 UTC View PostTerry had never been much for group road trips in the halcyon days before Chinese Period Drama Hell. He didn’t hate traveling. He actually liked seeing new things. Well, he liked seeing new things when there wasn’t a constant implicit threat of being attacked and eaten by something dredged fr...
2024-07-11 02:46:27 +0000 UTC View PostDusk, Terry soon learned, was an attention whore. Not only did the kitten let the woman pet her but almost immediately abandoned his shoulder to crawl into the woman’s hands. Terry shot the kitten a look.
“Traitor,” he muttered.
“Oh, she’s not a traitor,” cooed the woman w...
2024-07-09 22:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostSince I know I am an endless fount of mystery to you guys, I figured I'd let you in on what kinds of things I've been up to recently. Today, at the grocery store, I bought sweet potatoes so I can try oven roasting them. Why? Well, apparently roasted sweet potatoes are a thing in Korea, and I saw ...
2024-07-08 20:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, one more. Enjoy because it'll probably be a little bit before i write any more with these characters.. ~Eric
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There was a blurry moment when Andric was suspended between unconsciousness and wakefulness, then the moment snapped and all that f...
2024-07-07 22:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostSince a lot more people than I expected were interested in this, here's another chapter. ~Eric
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Varant eyed the woman suspiciously. Her being here, now, when all of this happened, was a little… No, it was far too convenient to be m...
2024-07-07 16:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe trio of people chasing Drumstick slowed to a walk as they approached Terry. The lead was someone Terry would have pegged as middle-aged based on the gray streaking his hair, but he didn’t trust that assessment. People in cultivation and LitRPG stories always seemed to age slower or have way...
2024-07-07 11:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostTerry had honestly expected to find himself being chased and confronted by Church crazies, the annoying rich girl, or even the stupidly pretty people. However, he could admit that last one seemed progressively less likely the longer he went without seeing them. It didn’t mean he wouldn’t see ...
2024-07-07 06:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that they did have cats in that world or something pretty close. At least a dozen of them came racing out of the alley like a silent feline tide before dispersing into the night like shadows. They weren’t exactly like the cats that he remembered from home, what with ...
2024-07-06 08:18:39 +0000 UTC View PostTerry turned to glare daggers at Kelima. She visibly wilted beneath the look for a few seconds before she drew herself up.
“What?” she demanded.
“You know what,” growled Terry.
“Enough, children,” said Heletina. “There’s no time for this. You two need to get movi...
2024-07-06 04:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter everyone had sat down and some food was brought out, Terry finally had a chance to get his bearings. That process took a while during which he pretended to eat, but mostly just shuffled food around his plate. He didn’t get evil poisoner vibes from the baronet and his wife, but wasn’t th...
2024-07-05 05:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostSen sat with his legs crossed and eyes closed. The sun would rise soon, but it wasn’t up yet. It was a quiet time, when the night creatures had retreated to their lairs and nests, yet before the day creatures had roused themselves to go about their sunlit activities. He let that gentle hush was...
2024-07-04 21:13:16 +0000 UTC View PostTerry had stormed halfway across the room before some things registered. Almost everyone in the room was staring at him with looks that ranged from horrified shock to disapproval and even one look of absolute glee. Being stared at by any group of people for any length of time was high on Terry’...
2024-07-04 03:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostTerry wanted to stab himself in the eye. That would at least give him an excuse to leave. He hadn’t recognized the fancy dinner trope until he was escorted into the room for the schmoozing before the eating. He’d seen variations on it enough times to understand that he was out of his depth. S...
2024-07-03 07:10:33 +0000 UTC View PostThere were some hiccups getting the audiobook live. There's always a margin for error when you have to rely on other people's people to do things. The Volume Three audiobook fell into that margin this morning. However, it is live now!
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