My first stop was, naturally, Truso the Genuda Military Contract Manager. I was expecting a sharp operator. What I got was a sack full of broken glass and lovingly knapped obsidian arrowheads. He d...
2024-12-21 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTraveling with the family tomorrow- headed up to Vermont for the Christmas school vacation. Should be nice- Southwestern Vermont is almost unbearably quaint at any time, and we are finally past sti...
2024-12-20 02:18:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Othai, can you still not tell me about Genuda?” I slapped my forehead. “Let me rephrase- do you have anything you do want to tell me about Genuda?”
“N...
2024-12-18 17:25:49 +0000 UTC View PostMy Toad milking operation was over before it started- the acid was strong enough to melt glass. Like sugar in water. The glass just vanished under the corrosive power of the acid. I h...
2024-12-16 17:26:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle had reached a grinding phase. The tower had become the central shaft of a meat grinder, and the screw was Carousel and the Blue Roses. Around and around they go, and as the Final Revel d...
2024-12-13 17:04:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe training wheels were officially off- ranged units were now in play. We now had stealthy, explosive stealthy, thrown stealthy, speedy, basic, armored basic, armored throwing basic, armored heavy...
2024-12-11 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI took a long look at Rache, trying to sort out what I was feeling as well as what I was thinking. Rache was willing to talk about things related to scouting, if I remembered correctly. She was a l...
2024-12-09 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe demons of Hidden Moon Mountain were, as I expected, more like Yokai than the denizens of Hell. Think… monsters and evil spirits. Like a three tailed cat that turned into a demon...
2024-12-06 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostMy new hat was big. Bigger than my biggest fedora. Not quite sombrero sized or the size of Carousel’s hat, but pretty big. Black, with a round brim and a bright purple ostrich feather sticking ou...
2024-12-04 19:10:09 +0000 UTC View PostArguably the single most unique piece of loot I had acquired from any of my adventures was the music box we got clearing Madame’s Bar in the Gradden March Floating Quarter. It was a complex mecha...
2024-12-02 17:04:59 +0000 UTC View PostEvery damn time I come in here, I read something that makes me upset. Every single time. Not to be all whiny, but what the actual Hell? Can the Devs just chill for once in their unnatural lives? Ca...
2024-11-29 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe Tenth Wave… I could feel the game world unsubtly pulling its gloves off. Every Gacha gamer knows this moment. The game got you invested. It’s showered you with endless boxes to open and fre...
2024-11-27 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Funny. I thought we would get at least one more round of lightning out of it. Maybe we triggered a change when we killed enough of its mobs. Or maybe it resets after we beat the Hell out of it....
2024-11-25 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Pomoroi, shoot that damned thing.”
“Pomoroi, by Imperial Decree!” There was a blast, the cannonball sailed out, and smashed into a formerly invisible shield around the flo...
2024-11-22 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the spot for comments, feedback, what you liked and didn't like. The number one question for me, of course, is "Do you want to find out what happened next?" "Is this something you would rec...
2024-11-20 17:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMortimer didn’t consider himself a good person. He didn’t think he was a bad person either. He existed in a liminal corridor between unasked for life and undeniable death. Good or evil meant a ...
2024-11-20 17:25:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The bug slurped the bile up. Its chubby legs splayed out, letting it lower its body right down to the ...
2024-11-20 17:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
No need to creep- those bug things were huge and dangerous, but they were deaf and blind. Given the wa...
2024-11-20 17:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The thing flowed across the floor with alien grace. Like two bears fused by a hateful, alien god. Long...
2024-11-20 17:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Mortimer Snerd was driving the I-70 through western Kansas again. It was enough to break a man, and it...
2024-11-20 17:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe rain muffled my ears and blocked my eyes. But the monsters always seemed to know exactly where the Tower was.
“Miyuki sees the snake hidden in the grass!”
Slumrat was explicitly a satire on Xianxia novels. Weeaboo is doing game lit dirty, and generally making fun of tower defense/gacha games. So... what would you guys like to see me take on next? Cli...
2024-11-19 19:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Synopsis: Mortimer Snerd is a mess. Drowning in debt, trapped in a job he both hates and doesn't u...
2024-11-19 19:27:36 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to congratulate everyone! I am congratulating everyone! We did it! We built ourselves an absurdly over-fortified gatehouse and wrapped our wall around the base of the Tower. We even inclu...
2024-11-18 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI clapped my hands together, then rubbed them for maximum effect. I was renewed by a divine night’s… an order times…
I was renewed by sleep! Time, as an illusion, was t...
2024-11-16 03:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe chapter due on the 15th will go up on the 15th, but it won't be at my usual time. Today just got utterly stomped into a hole in the ground in terms of getting things done, and tomorrow morning ...
2024-11-15 04:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post[[Author's note]] Apologies for the late post- family business ran into a doctor's appointment and then continued out the other side. 'Tis the season, or at least, it's coming fast. All the...
2024-11-13 22:50:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a remarkably long time for my brain to start working again. What had been that monster at the end? What was that… skull-moon? Usually when there is a creepy skull, it’s a human skul...
2024-11-11 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t think I’m stupid. You have to be a little smart to earn your own way in Manhattan. Got to have at least a bit of moxie, a bit of hustle and creativity. Or a lot of it. Usually a lot of ...
2024-11-08 17:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostDay ten. And for my efforts, for having survived this long, and in no way a naked bribe to players to stay engaged with the game for longer, I would be rewarded with a new top-of-the-line Six Star ...
2024-11-06 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post