TL:DR- I wrote a new book. Not "am writing." It's written. Which means a very long overdue cleanup of the tiers. Weeaboo will lose it's specific tier in the future and will be available at ...
2025-03-01 04:34:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe ships sailing up the river made me smile. They probably shouldn’t have, I probably should be horrified or something, but honestly, they made me smile. Because the truth is that, no matter how...
2025-02-28 20:22:01 +0000 UTC View PostI stood outside the building, looking up at that blue Verton sky. I can understand the sky being different shades of blue at different times of the day and at different times of the year. Winter Af...
2025-02-27 21:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostI found a quiet spot to sit and let my feelings wash over me. Four choices was an insanely luxurious lineup by the standards of gacha game quests. It strongly implied that the different routes woul...
2025-02-25 03:34:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe young man was called Saccio and he was full of fire and idealism. Verton was a city on a hill, the shining light of the world. If it could free itself of foreign oppression, it would hoist a li...
2025-02-24 04:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostCombo of travel and being sick. Ever have one of those things where you are lying down thinking "This is dumb, I should be up and doing," then you stand up and immediately remember why you were lyi...
2025-02-22 03:33:05 +0000 UTC View PostOthai didn’t collapse to her knees in relief. She didn’t pound the earth or scream her triumph. I kind of wished she would.
“Clean up the battlefield. Confirm there are...
2025-02-20 04:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostYou know what I didn’t ever need to see? Long pikes skewering floundering soldiers as they tried to escape from a river. The story of this game, over and over, was hunger. The image of fishermen ...
2025-02-18 04:20:09 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve never eaten a bitter almond, but the bad did smell ‘almond-y’ and there was a bitter, acrid tang to it and if I was mailing Truso a large sack full of what felt like powder…
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I had to figure the plan was compromised. Everybody seemed to know everything the second anyone said it, so I’d be crazy to think this would be any different. Gacha nonsense or not. I certainly w...
2025-02-13 03:53:49 +0000 UTC View Post[AUTHOR NOTE- short one today. For some reason, wrapping up this arc has been an absolute bear. It's past midnight. I'm heading for bed.]
Once we were boots down in Verton, I ran a quick chec...
2025-02-11 05:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe hat was not particularly exquisite. It could be assembled by our hattiers not named Hatty. It was, to my profound satisfaction, a bucket hat. It conferred zero stat bonuses, but buffed my mood ...
2025-02-08 04:39:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s not an exploit. Really. It’s not. If you think about it, I’m just doing what the whales do- using an established system to fully appreciate the game without the tedious necessity of grin...
2025-02-06 03:53:25 +0000 UTC View PostAny question I might have had about the monsters being driven by some compulsion was answered immediately. The fall to the bottom of the moat snapped already dissolving bones, shattered skulls, it ...
2025-02-04 02:46:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe monster’s vanguard were the Toads. I understood the logic. What harm is there in shoving the ranged units out first when their death is arguably more useful than their life?
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I returned from Verton with mixed feelings. On the one hand, we were teeing up well. I was getting a handle on the systems the setting used, figured out how to make best use of Othai, even figured ...
2025-01-30 00:23:55 +0000 UTC View PostGames have themes. It’s not always logical or even coherent, but they have themes. This, of course, is to help them sell stuff. What that theme is varies wildly. The Spirit of Rebel...
2025-01-27 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“What does “sic ‘im me- ghruk!”
Rikka was on top of Yellow Feather, popping out of the shadow of the hill and leaping on him like an outraged spider. She yanked one of his ...
2025-01-24 19:48:09 +0000 UTC View Post“How many dogs is “a whole bunch,” Rache?”
“Roundabout thirty.”
Presumably the dogs can scramble up the slope just fine, and obviously pack tactics are...
2025-01-22 18:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostIt simply wasn’t possible to exist here and not be reminded that the enemy were monsters. It seemed almost insultingly simple to say- that the people here should have expected monsters t...
2025-01-20 20:30:30 +0000 UTC View Post[[Author note- Putting a trigger warning for horror at this point is a bit absurd, but if you are feeling sensitive, I'd skip this chapter.]]
Black water crashed through the door but I...
2025-01-18 02:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostI shook off the emo thoughts. Mopey doesn't get things done. I took another look through the wall into the resort area. There were plenty of lower-star Awakened in there. You could spot the simpler...
2025-01-16 00:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post[[AUTHOR NOTE- Slowly, painfully, I'm back. I'm going to try to get things back on schedule.]]
“A valid target, just not one in range. So you deliberately miss. But how-” Othai wasn’t g...
2025-01-14 01:39:27 +0000 UTC View PostI am really sorry about this. The holidays were lovely, and I got a festive flu in the spirit of the season. That kind of thing where you feel fine, but you are tired all the time, then cough like ...
2025-01-06 04:34:11 +0000 UTC View PostI tried to spot a toad on the battlefield. It looked toad colored. A sort of yellow/green with bits of brown mixed in. It didn’t start becoming bright yellow until it built up a bellyful of acid ...
2025-01-06 04:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostI was standing on a dock. The dock was floating on a big pond. I had a chair, a bucket filled with water, and a fishing rod. At the end of the dock was a little shack with more rods leaning up agai...
2025-01-01 20:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post[This is the chapter that should have posted Friday. I'm still playing catch up, and joy of joys, I have a Holiday Cold to go with the Holiday Cheer. Hoping you all are well.]
I sat in the di...
2024-12-30 17:00:59 +0000 UTC View Post“We have you trapped like rats in a box. Surrender! Lay down your arms and you will be allowed to leave with your lives!” The raider bellowed. He was wearing a fancy hat. Guess we found the off...
2024-12-27 19:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post[[Author's Note- Monday's chapter. Merry Christmas and/or the midwinter festival of your choice!]]
“We have a saying where I am from- “Nothing is as expensive as ‘Free.’” That being...
2024-12-25 19:32:13 +0000 UTC View PostReal talk- right now I have the available attention span of a squirrel with a severe meth solution in a small town in Appalachia after Wallmart did a BOGO on .22LR ammo and 45% off on baby's first ...
2024-12-23 05:09:47 +0000 UTC View Post