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Rinn's Run: Chapter 23 - Revelations

Banjin Colle clicked open his pocket watch and looked down at it. He was appalled to realize that even this wasn’t enough to lighten his mood. He clicked it closed and shoved the watch back into his pocket. He cursed his handler for at least the fiftieth time since this all began. The ...

Rinn's Run: Chapter 22 - Delivery

As Kalan walked away from the embassy, a deep sense of relief washed over him. While he liked the duke, he also felt wary about the man. The nobleman was too mercurial. He’d manipulated nearly everyone he’d encountered and, by all appearances, planned on manipulating his own government. At th...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 23 – Soaring Skies

“Wait! Where are you going?” the woman from the sect shouted as she ran down the road after Sen.

Sen kept walking as he pointed down the road and said, “That direction.”

The stunned silence that had followed Sen’s revelation that he was just a foundation formation stage cult...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 22 - "Elder" Sen

Sen made only two brief stops on his way out of the village. The first stop was at the small market to stock up on some extra food. Sen had acquired a bit of a taste for the local fish and suspected they might be hard to come by once he left. He’d also concluded that it was largely impossible t...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 21 – Restoring Balance

Sen procrastinated for almost two weeks. He didn’t call it procrastination, of course, and he made good use of the time. He helped Luo Min and Luo Ping in their fields, doing more heavy labor in a few days than any normal paid labor could have done in a month. He cleared land, taking a bit of s...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 20 – Settling Accounts, Part 2

Luo Ping was frowning down the road. “There’s a big part of me that wishes you had killed him.”

Sen gave her a sympathetic look. “I would have. Hells, I probably should have. At the end of the day, though, you and Min have to live here. I’m leaving.”

“Soon?” 2023-06-11 16:26:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 19 – Settling Accounts, Part 1

Sen breathed in and out, his mind guiding the ever-more precise execution of his cultivation pattern. Yet, for all that he had improved on using it, and all the flaws he could sense but not yet identify, Sen understood that this pattern could only serve him for so long. It might, might l...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 18 - Sect Business

As he lifted the cup of Dragon Well tea to his lips, Elder He Mingze took a moment to enjoy the warmth of the cup and the smell of the tea. It was calming in its familiarity. He knew that the next report he heard would prove troublesome, and so he allowed himself this moment of relative peace fir...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 17 – The Healer, Part 4

Sen made a point to put on a show of cooking for a few days. Somehow, he always managed to cook at least three times as much as he needed. Although, for Sen, it was only mostly a show. He did have a vested interest in making sure that Luo Ping got the things that her body needed to heal....

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 16 - The Healer, Part 3

Sen did know the next day. While Luo Ping’s leg hadn’t healed completely, nor had Sen expected it to, it was substantially better. Most of the inflammation was gone and Luo Ping herself reported that it felt markedly better. Whatever hesitation the woman had felt about him had also disappeare...

This Morning’s Chapter

Hey everyone. I'm dealing with an internet outage in my area this morning. I’m posting this from my phone. With any luck, they’ll get it resolved quickly, but it could be a few hours. Just know that the chapter is coming. 

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 15 – The Healer, Part 2

From nearly the moment Sen applied the poultice to the older woman’s leg, he was in crisis mode. It was a constant race between him and doom. He raced to make elixirs that would shore up the woman’s energy. He hurriedly threw together mixtures to combat her sudden fever. Then, he had to make ...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 14 – The Healer, Part 1

Luo Min made a few, very halfhearted attempts to refuse the money before she plucked the coins from Sen’s hand. Sen pretended he didn’t notice the way that a veritable mountain of stress seemed to evaporate from the young woman’s body. Sen expected that she was so busy being relieved by the...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 13 - The Luo Farm, Part 3

The inside of the hut was little more than one big open space. Some attempts had been made to establish areas of privacy with old, tattered clothes hanging from the ceiling. It appeared that the sleeping area was off to the right, while the kitchen and literally all of the home’s storage were o...

Rinn's Run: Chapter 21 - Stories

When Kalan stepped back into the hall, it wasn’t quite utter chaos. It was the next best thing to it. There had to be nearly two dozen people milling around Edmus. To the man’s credit, he was chatting, shaking hands, and being supremely gracious. Kalan gave serious consideration to simply sli...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 12 - The Luo Farm, Part 2

It was Sen’s turn to cock his head to one side. The question struck him as absurd, given that he’d said he would pay and there was silver in his hand at that very moment. He decided to start over again. He’d just explain from the beginning and, maybe, after he did that, they’d fi...

Unintended Artwork: Master Feng

Okay, so I got a little distracted this morning by the arrival of new artwork. The next chapter will arrive shortly. In the meantime, meet Master Feng. I feel pretty good about this image, but what do you guys think? Should I commission more art from this artist? Sound off in the comments. <...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 11 - The Luo Farm, Part 1

Sen passed a few hours at the small inn that seemed to pull triple duty as an inn, restaurant, and tavern for the locals. He finally managed to order and eat a hot meal that consisted of dumplings, fried rice, and some form of steamed fish he didn’t recognize. The fish seemed particularly fresh...

Food Porn: Behold the Taco Salad

It's a bit late and the lighting wasn't ideal, but this was yesterday's dinner. A chicken taco salad with homemade pico de gallo! 

Yes, it was awesome and delicious enough that I went back for seconds. 

Quick Unintended Update

For those of you who have access, I've uploaded revised versions of the Epilogue for Volume 1 and Chapter 1 2023-06-07 00:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 10 - The Road South, Part 5

Sen and Bigan spent one final night camping. Yet, the young man had become all but mute in the wake of the confrontation with the bandits. Sen supposed that the facts of the situation had shattered some fond illusions. Bigan clearly believed that being a cultivator was some grand adventure like s...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 9 - The Road South, Part 4

Sen was pleasantly surprised to discover that Bigan was far less chatty the next day. It seemed that the young man was struck by an unusual case of reflectiveness. It didn’t have the same kind of lost-to-the-world quality that his former daydreaming had, which gave Sen some tiny shred of hope t...

Unintended Artwork Update

Okay, it took me a bit longer to lock in an artist for this one than I expected, but Master Feng artwork is happening. Finger crossed, it'll be done before the end of the week. 

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 8 - The Road South, Part 3

For the first two hours, Bigan tried to talk to Sen. The cultivator indulged some questions, but mostly he just grunted noncommittal noises at the chatty wagon driver. The young man eventually figured out that Sen didn’t really want to chat about casual nothings. After that, he focused on drivi...

Rinn's Run: Chapter 20 - Statements

The ambassador ushered Kalan and Edmus into a private office and immediately banished his underlings. No doubt, he was hoping to take credit for anything the embassy did on behalf of Lord Alland. Kalan shrugged it off. He’d only come to offer whatever details the Kessellian government might fin...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 7 - The Road South, Part 2

Fixing the wheel turned into a much longer production than Sen had originally intended for it to be. Initially, he’d been set on just doing the work himself. After all, the faster it got done, the faster that Sen could just hand this kid back off to his Uncle. The image of Bigan just sitting in...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 6 - The Road South, Part 1

Despite his intention to simply sleep until he woke up, it was barely mid-morning when angry shouting brought him to full consciousness. For a moment, he thought that someone had discovered his location. Then, he realized that the shouting was coming from the direction of the road. It wasn’t ev...

Chapter Pre-Game

Oh yeah! A little spicy California roll pre-game before I write today's second chapter. 

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 5 – Misdirection

It took a little convincing at the gate for the guards to let him out. In the end, Sen made up a story about his sick grandmother, silently praying that Grandmother Lu never caught wind of the tale, and pressed a piece of silver into each man’s hand. Sen wasn’t sure if it was the story, the b...

Unintended Cultivator V2: Chapter 4 – Heavens’ Rebuke

While the man didn’t speak or leave, just sat there looking annoyed and put upon, Sen hovered on the very cusp of violence. He ached to just draw his jian and put an end to one of his frustrations in the fastest, deadliest way possible. Then, his eyes flicked around the room. He saw the genuine...