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Grand Game 319: Seeds of Corruption

Your elemental absorption has increased to level 85.

A frost ent has died.

You have reached level 165!

Less than a minute after ...

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Grand Game 318: Iced, Chilled, and Frozen

Multiple hostile entities have failed to detect you! You are hidden.

The battle had not progressed much in the short time I’d been away. Dropping into a crouch, I studied t...

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Grand Game 317: The Reek of Corruption

I examined the three corpses as carefully as I had the first, but my investigations revealed nothing new. Whatever had slain the ents had done so without taking any apparent losses of their own. View Post

Grand Game 316: The View from Above

DAY THREE IN THE DUNGEON

You have slept 6 hours. Stamina, mana, and psi reserves have been fully restored.

Your Dexterity has increased to rank 58. Other modifi...

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Grand Game 315: The Gift of Sight

Chapter updated 27 May 2023: The increase in his telepathy skill modified.

You have activated a trap!

16 level 111 swarm vipers’ deathwish abilities ...

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Grand Game 314: A Million and One things to Slay

A little later, I was at the rim of one of the craters, looking down.

This crater, like the others in the cauldron, had been formed by the stone golems tossing around their boulders. But ther...

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Grand Game 313: Round Two

It took me longer than I expected to find the tunnel entrance.

From the outside the narrow slit leading into the swarm viper’s den looked no different from the hundreds of other crevices ri...

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Grand Game 312: Lessons in Spellcraft

This time around, I forwent blinking into the cave Ghost had found for me and took the long way down into the ravine. Reaching the bottom, I looked left and right.

The long-ago waterway that ...

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Grand Game 311: The Dungeoneer’s Rewards

Chapter updated 27 May 2023: Spell description modified.

You have killed a level 226 stone golem.

You have reached level 161 and rank 16!

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Grand Game 310: Moving Mountains

Before leaving the tunnel mouth, I cast my buffs, more out of an excess of caution than anything else. I’d yet to decide whether to engage the rock giants.

You have cast heightened ...

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Grand Game 309: The Better Part of Valor

It was not all bad news, of course.

There were some definite benefits to facing two weaker creatures instead of one higher level foe, especially since the ‘new’ vipers weren’t elite-ran...

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Grand Game 308: The Swarm of One

You have cast necrotic spike.

The final spike materialized beneath the serpent and, just like I intended, triggered immediately.

Necrotic spike activated! A swa...

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Grand Game 307: Meeting an Elite

Ghost drew to a stop before me. “The tunnel is empty,” she reported.

I frowned. “Empty?”

“Yes, Prime. I traveled its entire length. After about fifty yar...

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Grand Game 306: Lying in Wait

Before leaving the cavern, I wrapped myself in shadows but didn’t cast my buffs yet. On this, my first venture into the tunnel, I only intended on scouting.

Time was of the essence in more ...

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April Mishaps...

Hi ppl,

April has been a disastrous month for me writing-wise, and I got very little done. 

Unfortunately, I don't have a backlist of chapters so when things go awry, they go very ...

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Grand Game 305: Draven’s Reach

Transfer through portal commencing…

Leaving sector 18,240. Entering the Endless Dungeon.

Journe...

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Fantasy and Sci-Fi Promos

Hi all,

As all of  you probably know, Book 4 of the Grand Game is out, and so far, seems to be doing well! Thank you to everyone for your feedback during the release of the early chapter...

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House Wolf, Grand Game Book 4 out now.

Hi all,

House Wolf, Book 4 of the Grand Game is out now on amazon.

You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/...

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Michael at the End of Book 4

Player Profile: Michael

Level: 154. Rank: 15. Current Health: 32%.

Stamina: 7%. Mana: 0%. Psi: 13%.

Species: Human. Li...

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Grand Game 304: The River to Somewhere (last chapter of Book 4)

Multiple hostile entities have failed to detect you! You are hidden.

In the wake of the stygian overlord’s attack, the flying serpents launched their own assault, streaming...

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Grand Game 303: The Big One

The river was a raging torrent.

The moment my body hit the water, I was swept away, and the hundred dark minds swooping down on me disappeared from awareness.

Limbs windmilling, I tried...

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Grand Game 302: Success and Failure

You have entered sector 18,240 of the Forever Kingdom. Reminder: This region is under assault by a young void tree that has taken root in the heart of the sector. Remaining time until the s...

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Grand Game 301: A Fatal Impulse

A portal has opened.

I rose to my feet. “I’m going in,” I said through the farspeaker bracelet. I padded forward, eyes trained on the luminous curtain before m...

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Grand Game 300: The Bridge to Nowhere

You have entered a safe zone.

Aetherstone bracelet deactivated. Remaining stored locations: 2. Charged and unetched gems: 2. Uncharged gems: 1.

I emerg...

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Grand Game 299: The Responsibilities of an Alpha

Head down, and with my hands in my pocket, I left the safe zone at a fast walk. Anriq was my last bit of unfinished business in the city, and once I’d seen to him, I would be free to return to th...

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Grand Game 298: A Choice of Paths

For a drawn-out moment, I stared off into space, dumbstruck by the options the Adjudicator had presented me with. Then, my thoughts started churning, and I began analyzing the choices on offer from...

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Grand Game 297: A Negotiated Price

You have entered sector 1 of the Forever Kingdom.

A shield generator is in place around the city, preventing portals from opening anywhere except in the designated te...

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Grand Game 296: A Primed Discussion

“Primes? Never heard of them,” Cara replied offhandedly.

I nodded. “I’m not surprised. Few have.”

I’d come to Cara mainly because I needed a mage—someone to open a portal ...

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Grand Game 295: Departure

Hours later, the pack council and I finished our planning. The challenge was twofold: one getting the pack to their destination, and two, surviving the destination.

I’d spent much ...

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Grand Game 294: Ghosts

Duggar growled, and I glanced in his direction to find all four elders staring at me. It took me a moment to realize why. With my mind fully shuttered, I couldn’t hear them.

I lowered my mi...

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