As befitting an undead siege, the event started not the next day, but the next night. As the last rays of the sun vanished below the trees, the first shamblers pulled themselves from the ground. Ye...
2025-01-22 19:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostGem rolls their eyes, “This situation is completely different! The monster below us doesn’t know we’re here this time. Makes things a lot easier. No, the real question should be, where are we...
2025-01-21 01:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostMore time had passed and Doyle was ready to start his next floor. Both Ace and Jim had returned to the last floor with their teams multiple times at this point and he was getting antsy. Not because...
2025-01-17 18:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostJim was settling some issues with the recent change in the dungeon when the ground moved. The movement was subtle. He felt more when a fully loaded merchant cart would rumble by outside. So subtle ...
2025-01-17 18:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next five days, things go into overdrive for the town. With a System backed prophecy and the bandits handled, they begin to harvest. Early? Yes, but better harvest than frosted.
And ...
2025-01-15 16:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnd despite expectations to the contrary, the town guard manages to clean up bandit travellers. It wasn’t like they were talented travellers or anything. After all, if they were actually talented...
2025-01-15 16:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostAce sighs, that had been more of a meeting than he had planned for. Though really, it came back to the same thing it always did these days. Power and the projection thereof.
Ace shakes his he...
2025-01-11 05:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe guards can hear the moment that the enemy notices them. Seems the bandits have no concept of maintaining silence when things go down. Though it isn’t completely unreasonable. Lily hadn’t be...
2025-01-08 14:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostLily hopped around the field, nibbling on the various stalks. She wasn’t supposed to, but they didn’t actually care about the stalks themselves, anyway. It is a shame that she couldn’t hang o...
2025-01-08 14:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday is the last days of the Kickstarter and we're only $91 away (as of my writing this post) from hitting the goal! I am a little worried about it though, so if you'd be one looking for an eboo...
2025-01-05 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month.
June glances around, trying to figure out an idea. “Umm, we can. Hmm. Oh! Water. We don’t have to outrun them or guide them into someone else. We just need to escape their notice.
“Ther...
2025-01-03 09:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle and Ally settle down. Without a new floor to make and people they need to watch, there isn’t much that needs done. Well, obviously all the observational stuff still needs work, but this end...
2025-01-03 09:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle turned to Ally, ‘I have indigestion.’
Ally slowly turned to face his core and raised an eyebrow, ‘The what? You’re a dungeon core. You don’t “eat” in a way which could do ...
2025-01-03 09:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostA year has passed and during that year I managed to write 12 short stories, finished Banished Talent, started SoulDive, wrote 78 chapters of Dungeon's Path, and 104 ...
2025-01-02 18:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s breathing is even though showing signs of strain. He had been at his tenth meridian for hours now and it was almost clear. The intention of this session hadn’t been to clear an entire m...
2025-01-01 13:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostHalina claps, “That’s the ticket! Now just give the council a few more hours and they’ll probably settle on that.”
Jason sighs, “You already suggested banishing them for the duratio...
2025-01-01 13:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at th...
2024-12-31 16:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostOn the 19th of October 2017, it was a normal enough day on an Earth similar to our own. Just like us, they spotted an interesting extrasolar object that had just passed by the sun 40 days before. `...
2024-12-31 15:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe first signs of being in a new territory was the thinning of underbrush. Though once that happened, it didn’t take long for Gem and June to spot a new variety of monster, deer with rocky antle...
2024-12-27 10:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostSusan, “Even if the kobolds made the trap, it will have been placed with a skill. Me and my husband have been keeping track of instances of kobold traps. We haven’t quite nailed it down. I pers...
2024-12-27 10:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe team squeezes their way through the crowded street for a moment, before realizing that it was only this street that was crowded. So, with only a medium amount of embarrassment, they take a side...
2024-12-25 13:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe group was back in the settlement and forced to be a part of a quite dull meeting. It was a gathering of the town’s leadership going on and on about what to do about “the situation”. Thoug...
2024-12-25 13:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman raises an eyebrow, “How about we Introduce ourselves first?”
Gem nods, “Ah, gotcha, same thing? Anyway, you can call me Gem! I’m the They/Them causing May/Hem!”
The ...
2024-12-21 11:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, no one returned to the 17th floor before Kelly figured out how to make other kinds of tokens. Though over those days, many of the inner circle made their way to the 16th. All in search ...
2024-12-20 12:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle watches with rapt attention. The town had already started on figuring out external magic items, but what little loot they did get from the kobolds included lizard tokens. Tokens that Kelly ha...
2024-12-20 12:41:34 +0000 UTC View PostJason snaps out a kick to the right, slamming the dwarf’s shield back. All the while he has to bend his waist to the side to avoid the enemies’ back row thrusting their spears at the same time ...
2024-12-18 15:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a small pebble under the left side of his hip. However, Jason remained still. This was a stakeout and he had been chosen to be the closest to the fields.
Well, that doesn’t really...
2024-12-18 15:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostGem looked down at their new ring and was mildly shocked, though they had been expecting something after Crystal called attention to it. So yeah, it now looked like a stylized frog, because of cour...
2024-12-13 10:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle was interested in how they would handle the leather and kept an eye on it. Well, some of it. Most of the untreated ashen cattle hides
Doyle was interested in how they would handle the l...
2024-12-13 10:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post