Lord S’fashkchlil took a deep, raspy breath as he laid in his bed, stewing in his misery. It was all that depths-shunned Outsider’s fault.
Soralash had found the human, half-dead and coll...
2021-05-07 15:07:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Just a reminder that this will be the last chapter for a week, as I am in the depths of my last-ever Finals Week and will be graduating next Saturday. In other words, I'm not going to have...
2021-05-06 16:08:47 +0000 UTC
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As a reminder to everyone, Chapter 35 will be the last chapter put out before my week-long break, so then future weeks can be nicely split and it's easier for me to remember who's supposed to get w...
2021-05-05 15:59:01 +0000 UTC
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In the end, it took about an hour for Lefi to successfully bungle his way through enough of the underground corridors to find where his gear had been kept. One he had found the pile of his...
2021-05-04 15:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Just a reminder that my break will start this Friday. I had a typo on the poll because I apparently can't add, but my graduation week is next week, so there will be a little over a week between the...
2021-05-03 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Vinstead didn’t look much like a proper fantasy city, in Edwin’s clearly expert opinion. While they were waiting to enter the gates, he took the chance to look around at the nearby buildings. T...
2021-04-30 05:42:45 +0000 UTC
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Tara rose, her full suit of armor materializing around her. It took longer than dematerializing the armor and wasn’t as fast as the silver walls had been in her fight against the bandits, but it ...
2021-04-29 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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At her declaration, Edwin immediately started panicking. He just escaped captivity, he didn’t want to go back into any other kind of forced working situation! No. He would run into the woods and ...
2021-04-28 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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So, due to a frankly overwhelming number of responses on RoyalRoad that want me to take Saturday/Sunday off, despite the surprising popularity of Wednesday/Friday here, I will indeed be taking week...
2021-04-28 05:09:58 +0000 UTC
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As soon as the fight was over, Edwin started scrambling down from the top of the wagon. It had only been a minute or two at most, Aerfa would probably still be alive and he might even be able to sa...
2021-04-27 16:01:03 +0000 UTC
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The next two days passed in essentially the same way as the first day. Edwin kept being invited/sent to the front carriage, where Forala would spend the next eight to ten-ish hours talking at him, ...
2021-04-26 16:01:03 +0000 UTC
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Edwin woke to a beam of sunlight worming its way through a miniscule gap between two boards on the side of the wagon and directly onto his closed eyelids. He grumbled and tried to fall back to slee...
2021-04-25 20:53:43 +0000 UTC
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Edwin found himself milling around awkwardly as the caravan crew started loading up frankly ludicrous amounts of lumber into the wagon train (turns out the covered wagons also had spatial shenaniga...
2021-04-25 16:30:29 +0000 UTC
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Edwin jolted awake as the shouting penetrated his unconscious state, yanking him to wakefulness. At first, he panicked, thinking he was about to be attacked or shipped back to Clan Blackstone, but ...
2021-04-24 16:46:37 +0000 UTC
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It took Edwin nearly a week, but he eventually managed to limp his way out of the forest. It hadn’t been easy, not by any stretch of the imagination, but he had done it. Every day, he’d walk as...
2021-04-24 16:01:10 +0000 UTC
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Level Up!
Seeing Level 15→16
Flexibility Level 11→15
Athletics Level 23→25
Visualization Le...
2021-04-24 02:02:19 +0000 UTC
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It had seemed like such a good idea at the time. He needed to get away, really fast, from the Citadel, before any sort of pursuit could assemble and apprehend him. All he had left of his armory was...
2021-04-23 19:19:49 +0000 UTC
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Time seemed to freeze as Edwin’s bag of high explosives clattered to the ground. He spared a panicked glance at the axe-wielding dwarf, who looked at him uncomprehendingly. Freed of some thirty p...
2021-04-23 15:41:58 +0000 UTC
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Today was the day.
Edwin had a hard time falling asleep, even when activating his skill, but he managed it eventually, and he woke up well-rested. He didn’t have much of an appetite, but ma...
2021-04-22 15:36:54 +0000 UTC
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Hi all!
As probably comes as a surprise to absolutely nobody, I can't quite pull off 7 chapters/week. It just doesn't give me any room for days where I just can't quite get a chapter wr...
2021-04-22 03:38:48 +0000 UTC
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It took Edwin three days of throwing rocks at the wall whenever he could and five levels in the skill before Edwin’s complete lack of talent was offset by whatever bonus he was receiving from Thr...
2021-04-21 16:48:32 +0000 UTC
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Edwin fumed in his cell, peeved about his ‘meeting.’ He wasn’t a miracle-worker, he didn’t even know what Blackstone was made of! It was presumably some variant of concrete, but that was st...
2021-04-21 02:18:19 +0000 UTC
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Due to the incredible amounts of heat the Infused plaster powder (he needed a better name for his Infused materials) generated during its creation, Edwin wasn’t able to physically get close enoug...
2021-04-20 15:35:09 +0000 UTC
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Edwin was laying on his bed, playing with his latest notification. Sleeping wasn’t his highest-level skill by any measure, but it did have a fairly steady growth, which was appreciated. Maybe it ...
2021-04-19 23:11:41 +0000 UTC
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Edwin paced restlessly in his new room. It may not look much like a prison cell, but that was apparently what it was, as the notification he was currently upset with testified.
Congra...
2021-04-19 20:29:03 +0000 UTC
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Edwin and Rashin rambled on for a few more hours, mostly about their respective worlds. Rashin, for his part, seemed quite entranced at the sorts of materials Earth had on hand, especially various ...
2021-04-19 05:12:30 +0000 UTC
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“You speak English?” Edwin blurted out, followed promptly by him choking over his own words and descending into a coughing fit. Smallbeard- Thrandin?- said something in Dwarven, and the librari...
2021-04-19 04:20:49 +0000 UTC
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Edwin stared. It was such a radical departure from what he had seen the past few days, he had to rub his eyes and check again to ensure he wasn’t hallucinating. Then, he carefully inched his foot...
2021-04-19 03:31:50 +0000 UTC
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The storm was still blowing fiercely outside when Edwin came to. He was honestly surprisingly warm for being in the middle of a blizzard, his body heat having been almost entirely trapped inside th...
2021-04-19 03:31:11 +0000 UTC
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Edwin woke up shivering. At some point overnight, it seemed that the cloud cover had returned and, combined with his higher elevation, what would have been a light drizzle was instead a dusting of ...
2021-04-19 03:29:39 +0000 UTC
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