Richard was not amused.
Which made the laughter all the more satisfying. Rhi must have thought so as well, as she hadn't killed me yet. The fires of her throne danced with each chortle. I wip...
2025-08-13 16:00:17 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to talk about the second arc in Stumbling Up. A lot has happened since we met our trio of losers and their slimy friend. But spoilers ahead... if you're not caught up to Chapter 43 STOP re...
2025-08-13 14:00:17 +0000 UTC
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Good day to you all! I am dropping a note about upcoming events in August.
First - On August 19th at 7 pm CST/8 pm EST, I'll be taking over ChattinStats to interview Doug Lohse on his series...
2025-08-12 17:35:35 +0000 UTC
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The howling grew louder, but I didn't see any hounds.
Meredeath and I struggled to pull Leo out of the reeds. Finally, we had him jump butt first onto the reeds, effectively distributing his...
2025-08-11 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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We started moving again, this time much slower.
I eyed Richard on his perch. This time, he avoided my look, not because he was ashamed of us, but because he didn't want to answer any question...
2025-08-10 14:00:07 +0000 UTC
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I never expected to survive the [Trial Dungeon], but I was still surprised when I realized we were all about to die. To be fair, Richard had warned us about Rhi Voss. As much as I wanted to, I coul...
2025-08-08 14:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Silence.
I didn't realize until that moment how much noise Richard created in my head. Like his slime, his thoughts tended to get in everything.
I'd fought my whole life for silence. <...
2025-08-07 15:47:09 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to give a formal thanks to all of you who are coming along on this ride with me. Did you know that a group of slugs is called a cornucopia? Well, congratulations, you're part of the Cornuc...
2025-08-07 15:44:45 +0000 UTC
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Tidemaws are giant leviathans who sit in river deltas and salt marshes. They slowly burrow into the ground, expanding their bodies and control over the local water. The creatures get their names be...
2025-08-05 20:25:23 +0000 UTC
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The thing about a skill that triggers on death is that there's no great way to test it.
The real problem is that the description of the skill was pretty frustrating:
[Cheat Death] is ...
2025-08-04 16:33:46 +0000 UTC
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"I'm not giving you Miss Chopportunity unless you tell me what you're going to do with her." Leo held his [Enchanted Axe of Singing] close, petting it lovingly.
Damn it. There was no way he'...
2025-08-03 04:37:57 +0000 UTC
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"It bit me! Oh my god, I'm going to die."
I don't know what I'd been dreaming, but Meredeath's panicked voice pumped adrenaline through my veins. I grabbed my hammer, triggering the [Molten]...
2025-08-02 00:01:12 +0000 UTC
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"So this is your childhood bedroom?" Meredeath asked, as we sat stretched out in the loft of the barn. The gambrel roof sat above us with several murals sketched out in grease and paint. "It's not ...
2025-07-31 16:00:00 +0000 UTC
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[Your Mom's Party] huddled in the corner, trying to formulate a plan while the 'dungeon monsters' ignored us.
"Why did you have to tell them?" I whined.
"Sorry, man, but it just slipped...
2025-07-30 20:53:45 +0000 UTC
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I hadn’t been home in months.
I had my reasons.
My family homestead had been one of the first successful farms in the early settlement days of Woodsten. My surname, Thornfield, had be...
2025-07-30 20:40:59 +0000 UTC
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Richard had a long string of very bad days. Today wasn't one of them.
"And what does my little banana slug think?" Rhi Voss asked in a cutesy voice as though Richard was nothing more than a ...
2025-07-30 19:39:41 +0000 UTC
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"Happy berth-day, Leo! Whar's Tandy?" Cole's voice rattled around Leo's head like a fly in a compost bin.
Where was Tandy? This was his twenty-fifth birthday, and even with her schedule and b...
2025-07-30 19:37:01 +0000 UTC
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"That... them... Artie's sh-uch a fo-ole," the woman said as she took another long draft from a brown glass jug. She stumbled as she walked behind the rows of fancy houses with their fancy windows ...
2025-07-30 19:33:22 +0000 UTC
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“So, can someone tell me what the big deal about Rhi Voss is? She’s a witch?” Meredeath asked, as we walked away from the crater of our last adventure.
I beat Tandy to the punch, "We wi...
2025-07-30 18:25:03 +0000 UTC
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"So now what?" Leo asked the question we were all thinking.
"Now, Richard tells us where we need to go to find Meredeath a [Sponsor]," I said it with more confidence than I felt.
We all...
2025-07-30 18:12:01 +0000 UTC
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[You have chosen [Dead Wrong] for your [Adventurer] class. [Cheat Death], [Alive, For Once], [Analyze], and [Improvised Damage] have been granted. You will retain [Party], [Stillpoint], [Heartbeat]...
2025-07-27 18:11:02 +0000 UTC
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I woke up. Guess I'll take that win.
Bear Ridge needed a new name. Corruption Crater? [Your Mom's] Mistake?
Everything was whiter than it should be. It was still bright out. The sun an...
2025-07-23 19:25:06 +0000 UTC
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Whatever Richard had planned, he didn't have time to trigger a skill before Tandy came flying out of the tree.
She jumped onto the corrupt guardian's head. That part with the deadly sharp tee...
2025-07-23 19:23:27 +0000 UTC
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My ex-girlfriend would tell you that timing wasn't one of my strong suits.
As I watched Meredeath's face change from a warm greeting to horror at the atrocity barreling down on her, I had to ...
2025-07-23 19:21:46 +0000 UTC
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The system banished Richard and, by consequence, me from the library abruptly. My heart panged in grief with the knowledge-filled stacks evaporating before my eyes as I was violently sucked into a ...
2025-07-23 19:08:33 +0000 UTC
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The three of us floated in the incorporeal ether of the portal. Tandy and Leo were sucked forward to an exit gate, but I was drawn in a different direction. Richard’s thread tugged me somewhere e...
2025-07-13 18:11:01 +0000 UTC
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Tandy's dagger felt strange in my hand.
I stabbed the Golgothan hard in the belly. Too hard. To my horror, I watched my hand and forearm sink into the creature. The cloth wrapped around my f...
2025-07-10 18:11:01 +0000 UTC
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Going to Litrpg Con and into animal companions? Check out this all-star lineup! Make sure to join us on Friday, July 18th at 10:30 am in the Sopris B room!
We'll be exploring inclusion in Lit...
2025-07-09 21:36:17 +0000 UTC
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"Where's Richard?" My voice was tight.
Meredeath gave me a flat stare, "Calm down, he'll join us in a bit. Unless you got a system notification that he died?"
I shook my head.
"It...
2025-07-08 18:11:01 +0000 UTC
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Schedule is out! Make sure to check it out! https://litrpgcon.com/
2025-07-08 16:29:51 +0000 UTC
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