The Murder Baboon’s camouflage was as impeccable as always. I could only vaguely sense they were on the battlefield by looking at how some of the monsters moved- the occasional dodge for no reaso...
2024-11-04 17:00:21 +0000 UTC
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That thing I've been working on? The thing that wasn't quite clicking, but I had a minor breakthrough and now I'm turning the Alpha readers loose on it? I'm going to call it Project Abilene for now...
2024-11-03 03:59:29 +0000 UTC
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“I had expected there to be a monster hiding somewhere. It felt inevitable. But candidly, I didn’t see the Woodcutter or his Wife being it. And if one of the two was going to be the monster, I...
2024-11-01 16:00:22 +0000 UTC
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I looked around, trying not to look like prey. Rikka was right- the tray for incense was empty, and the little sand holder for the incense sticks was empty. Something clicked.
“A...
2024-10-30 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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“No, absolutely not. Versai, slow her down. Rikka, set traps behind us. Miyuki, pick me up and run to the Temple. Everyone, we are falling back to the Temple. Right now.”
2024-10-28 20:53:48 +0000 UTC
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Visiting my baby niece ate up most of yesterday. In a nice way, but still. It will be up today, just a bit later than usual.
2024-10-28 14:33:57 +0000 UTC
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Sebastian had prepared ten bottles of Ghost Touch Potion. It didn’t last long after being applied to weapons, and he and I agreed that it was far better to be safe than sorry.
2024-10-25 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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I got myself together. I don’t know how long it took. A while. Not forever. I was becoming more used to the horror, though far from immune. My God. The scope of it. Feeling like a particle of dir...
2024-10-23 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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I didn’t shout. Shows a lot of emotional maturity, I think. I’d say that I’m on a really positive path as a leader and human being. I just closed my eyes and visualized the Principal versus D...
2024-10-21 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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“Rache, report! What kind of monsters were they?”
“Dunno their name, Boss. They have armor, but they look shorter and heavier than the armored ones we usually see.”
<...
2024-10-18 16:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Whistling arrow Miyuki- so long as the creature she shot was still alive, her arrow would make a horrifying whistling sound. So horrifying, it scared the monsters. The more monsters she nailed in p...
2024-10-16 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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“I am told the law changed four hundred years ago. At that time, if someone was ill, their family took care of them, and if they were addled, their family minded them, and if they were mad, their...
2024-10-14 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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In retrospect, “recruitable” does not explicitly mean “friendly.” Lots and lots of games have you fight some god-tier enemy only to recruit them afterwards. Inevitably, they still have all ...
2024-10-11 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Jujustu Kaisen has its problems. Their commitment to jumping the enemy and group beatdowns is not one of them. It was always Naruto that was weird on that one. Early on they ...
2024-10-09 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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“Fall back on me! Rache, work around the edges, high speed attack runs only! Rikka, get around behind them and attack from behind. Rakim, stick with me. Keep ‘em off me! Miyuki, shoot to pin th...
2024-10-07 16:00:18 +0000 UTC
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I don’t know how long I stared up at the statue. My brain kept going around in a very small loop- It looked exactly like the hooded figure that grabbed me and sent me to the Tower. On the other h...
2024-10-04 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Do I stay or do I go? If I go, go where? And if I stay, how do I live? There is a ton of stuff in the hut, but so what? It’s just stuff. Just because I’m eating today doesn’t mean I can eat t...
2024-10-02 19:38:28 +0000 UTC
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I poked at the tablet, trying to figure out what was in there. It didn’t go great. I feel like they tried their best, but I didn’t speak the language or read the language so there was only so m...
2024-10-02 19:36:59 +0000 UTC
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I'm going to start rolling out Vol. 2 of Weeaboo on Royal Road. Fifteen chapters/five weeks ahead of the public release. I'll update the tiers to reflect where that puts everyone. Right now the tie...
2024-10-02 19:35:40 +0000 UTC
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TL:DR- Keeping the current chapter length and schedule, Vol. 4 of Slumrat comes out 5/20/25, and a literal "fuck around and find out" approach to story development.
We are now five weeks into...
2024-10-02 16:57:22 +0000 UTC
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The Fragrant Bamboo Inn was filled with contented sighs and nods of approval. I sat quite still, trying to process. Ms. Hungry spoke with a steady cadence, not quite flat, but calm. As though she w...
2024-10-02 16:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Fragrant Bamboo Inn was warmly lit from within, drawing us up the path towards it. There was a clearing around the inn, a little island in the bamboo shallows before you ventured out into the piney...
2024-09-30 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Alliana refused to be drawn further, claiming that this was all she knew about Hidden Moon Mountain that wasn’t immediately obvious. She packed up and headed out shortly afterward too. Which was ...
2024-09-27 16:00:21 +0000 UTC
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I leaned back on my throne, fingers steepled, eyes narrowed in thought. It’s a recliner, so the action was smooth and comfortable, if lacking in regal grandeur. My mind was circling things and dr...
2024-09-25 16:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Alliana looked annoyingly comfortable standing in my Throne Room. Her little cart was apparently magic, and had no problem shrinking to fit up the stairs. I had Versai and Rakim with me, just in ca...
2024-09-23 16:00:14 +0000 UTC
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One must never simp in games or life. The pay-pig is a figure of profound contempt, one of the few universal exceptions to the ban on kink shaming. And yet. For some reason. For some absolutely dis...
2024-09-20 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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I got back before the sky got all “Lovecraftian Apocalypse,” and took a quick look at the fortifications.
“Nice. Very Nice.”
I wasn’t ready to wrap...
2024-09-18 16:00:11 +0000 UTC
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“If Exploding Murder Baboons are going to be a regular part of our lives, and I have every reason to think they will…” My words drained off like piss into a sink.
“Tower Ma...
2024-09-16 16:00:19 +0000 UTC
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I locked up. I couldn’t process what I was seeing. I knew I had to take charge, start giving orders, but I just… couldn’t. Kim. Kim got torn apart and blown up. A bunch of other people up on ...
2024-09-13 16:00:16 +0000 UTC
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“And the morning and the evening were the sixth day.” The complex feelings in me seemed to call for that kind of language.
“Tower Master?” Carousel looked over at me from u...
2024-09-11 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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