Tunnel Rat Chapter 139 Rough Draft
**PING!**
"YO! Sledgemonkey! You going to answer that damn pingitty ping or just ignore it for the 3rd time." Two-screws was having a bad time coming up with a winning hand, and that damned...
**PING!**
"YO! Sledgemonkey! You going to answer that damn pingitty ping or just ignore it for the 3rd time." Two-screws was having a bad time coming up with a winning hand, and that damned...
Suzette opened up the tavern, and her first customer walked in. He was a well-dressed gnome that she had seen a few times in the village. He bowed, and seated himself at one of the tables. "Hello, ...
2022-11-15 00:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostClass was mentally exhausting to Milo. It wasn't hard to teach, the students sat still and listened, perhaps because Professor Cremona was standing behind them. But he had to keep making his explan...
2022-11-14 19:13:58 +0000 UTC View Post"Can't do it. And before you ask, it's because we are a White Circle. Using part of someone to track them isn't White, grey at best and probably Black. That's part of his breath in there, stolen by...
2022-11-14 01:27:39 +0000 UTC View PostAfter three hours of trading electronic components, fixing old video games, and eating two bowls of something called 'dumplings', Milo stood up and said he had to go. Five of Butch's gang waved or ...
2022-11-13 04:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe beeping of a priority message broke through to Milo in his game. He had set up a system to be alerted to anything important happening in the real world. Broken pipes, exploding electrical trans...
2022-11-13 04:23:13 +0000 UTC View PostI spent most of the day getting to hold my new grand daughter and traveling. Just amazing to finally get to see her. So I'm really tired, but had ideas I needed to get down. This is pretty ro...
2022-11-11 03:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostI thought I'd give an update on things. It's currently Writathon and I'm going to do 55, 555 for both Butcher and Tunnel Rat. Tunnel Rat started as a Writathon story and then I just didn't wa...
2022-11-09 22:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostWoodrat came awake as something held him by the back of his coat and shook him. He didn't want to wake up. He was hot, and sick, and wanted to go back to sleep. Abruptly, something forced his teeth...
2022-11-08 02:13:42 +0000 UTC View PostBilly sipped from his flagon of beer as he sat across from Bob in the tavern. Twitterberry had briefed Billy on the rules a fae lord had to follow. He could talk to Bob about just about anything, a...
2022-11-08 02:12:31 +0000 UTC View PostMilo was exhausted and he wanted a bath.
Two hours of sparring with both Larry and Gilad after a day of dueling had worn him down both physically and mentally. But strangely, he felt better...
Normally, it was good to be the Duke of the North, Carl thought to himself. But not so much on petition day.
On this day, all worthy people of the rank of Knight or higher could bring a petit...
2022-11-07 03:17:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe outline for this chapter ran head first into a pot of coffee and got a lot bigger this morning. Nearly 2000 words bigger, so I'm reposting it.
Milo was glad he had stayed for dinner. The...
I realized I was missing a chapter and found the unfinished draft of an idea. I wrote way too late the other day, doing about 10k words in the day. This chapter is immediately after the duels, and ...
2022-11-06 05:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostReally rough. I started writing and about three thousand words later this was on the screen. It's 2am, and I'm getting some sleep.
Captain Woodrat
You have slain a beast of the ...
2022-11-04 05:44:29 +0000 UTC View PostLarry had fun today. Puffcakes for dinner. Two sneaky-guys made friends and promised to be not-sneaky. That made them into not-prey, and Larry didn't feel like chasing them anymore. That was good, ...
2022-11-03 17:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostBleusnout was watching Larry carefully. He'd been stable for so long, that he had mostly quit worrying about him. His decision to let Larry stay in the Hollow after his transformation had not been ...
2022-11-03 15:57:55 +0000 UTC View PostMilo was glad he had stayed for dinner. The after effects of dueling had gone away and his belly was full. He planned to check on Larry, and then get some sleep, or log out and check on his various...
2022-11-03 04:58:22 +0000 UTC View PostOzzy was getting flashes of panic from the pod of porpoises as they realized a shark was nearby. They a tight group around the young to scare off the predator. They were so near the Splinter 2022-11-02 04:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post
As Woodrat looked on, Ozzy was trying to form a harpoon out of smoke. He had the general shape down, and his captain was instructing him on how to move the smoke into the creation and strengthen it...
2022-10-31 22:46:54 +0000 UTC View PostBackground, world building, things I'll share here with you all.
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12 years ago, in Endless Questing Online 2...
MOZART: We have a problem tha...
"Here you go, Squealer. This is the last bit of crap we got off the bodies." The two minions dumped out their bags on the floor, making a pile of spare socks, food, water bott...
2022-10-31 04:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostBaron William of Gadobhra dressed carefully. This was going to be an important meeting, and he wanted to look his best. He was dressed all in leather from an Elite sedge beast called Ironhide. True...
2022-10-30 17:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostTweedle and Larry wandered into the mess hall whistling and looking innocent which immediately put Master Bleusnout on alert. They were dressed in the normal work clothes of mushroom hunters and he...
2022-10-29 00:47:28 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow I forgot to post this after it was written, apologies for that. It went live before showing up here. Probably I just missed hitting the final button to upload
As Tallsqueak walked aw...
Note: Part of this was used in another rough draft. That one is getting broken up and moved around.
"Toss the little bone-gnawers four barrels today, looks like feeding time is popular with ...
Cremona studied her opponent. Arlothe had spoiled her fun by making it a formal duel. She had looked forward to testing both this newcomer and herself. She had little experience fighting someone ph...
2022-10-27 20:08:42 +0000 UTC View PostAs annoyed as he was, Milo pondered the situation. The students of The Tower of Strife certainly lived up to their name. They must fight constantly with each other. The crowd was excited and he saw...
2022-10-27 18:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostOzzy had never thought that fishing could be complicated, but he'd also spent little time doing it. Never in real life, and rarely in VR worlds. But watching Woodrat pull in fish after fish as he s...
2022-10-25 00:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Rough draft was a mess, and paragraphs got left out. This is the version that will go to RR.
It's a known fact that the best seats in a classroom are next to a window. That way instead o...