The goggles on Jason’s helmet are pulled down and over his eyes, activating their three effects. And so suddenly Jason can tell that the weather will stay clear for the near future and the slight...
2023-12-27 11:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Jason and Lily remain on guard outside after the wave finishes. This leaves Rosha free to assist Courtney in the building. After all, next to Courtney she is the one with the most knowledge on how ...
2023-12-27 11:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Heyo, yesterday's chapters did happen, I just messed up when releasing them. Huge thanks to Guilherme Silva and Tomáš Blábol for pointing this out to me!
As of late, Patreon has been chan...
2023-12-23 15:34:23 +0000 UTC
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Doyle shakes his core and focuses on placing some giant mushroom stalks. Well, he has been calling them mushroom stalks and some are. However, some of them he made to be a web of fungal growth, str...
2023-12-22 17:52:09 +0000 UTC
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Doyle looks out over the empty floor. It is true there isn’t a way to know a delver’s Strength score. Nevermind the fact that knowing it wouldn’t do much, anyway. Though maybe if he did somet...
2023-12-22 17:51:22 +0000 UTC
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Of course, even with proper weapons and armor, the first wave isn’t all that hard to beat, even if there are thirty of the goblins. They’re still normal goblins. It is the second wave where thi...
2023-12-20 15:23:41 +0000 UTC
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As the ritual plays out, a noxious haze emits from the undead abomination’s remains. That haze swirls and twists up into the air, constrained by the set boundaries. All the while a black velvet m...
2023-12-20 15:22:46 +0000 UTC
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It took me a solid minute to dig my way out of the tomb. That was more than enough time for Harold to hover his butt out and figure out where I would emerge. Good thing I wasn’t a complete idiot ...
2023-12-19 17:33:27 +0000 UTC
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Doyle decided to make the jump transitions look more natural. Well, make it look better to those of an appropriate level for the floor. There is nothing he can do about someone coming through that ...
2023-12-15 18:18:44 +0000 UTC
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In the end, all Jason and Lily could do was sit back and watch. At least Courtney could provide minor magical support in the form of healing and stamina recovery spells. If she tried anything more,...
2023-12-13 17:19:15 +0000 UTC
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The last wave brought only two monsters. Undead, of course, as that seemed to be the theme. Though the two were true and proper abominations. Well, most would see undead in general as abominations,...
2023-12-13 17:18:29 +0000 UTC
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Doyle sighs, ‘That sounds powerful in theory. Except it doesn’t actually give any sort of signifier for the magnitude.’
Ally shrugs, ‘If anything, I would point towards it being Daisy...
2023-12-08 14:26:09 +0000 UTC
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Daisy does end up entering the dungeon. In fact, she ended up delving much more than expected as everyone else was focused on their skills. Even Jim would have problems gathering a full team and so...
2023-12-08 14:25:41 +0000 UTC
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Jason, of course, spends a bit more time getting into specifics. Stuff like how to feel your own mind being physically warped by information and so on. Most of it is very niche, but you definitely ...
2023-12-06 14:35:24 +0000 UTC
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Rosha, “Well, that’s horrifying and total nightmare fuel. Though you said magical mind control is mostly benign. That was clearly an example of it not being the case, but what are the other met...
2023-12-06 14:34:18 +0000 UTC
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Since I'm removing the novel specific nature of tiers in the coming new year, I can have a little fun with the naming scheme. With that in mind, since I am a dragon, I'm going to name the tiers aft...
2023-12-05 03:55:45 +0000 UTC
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Below 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.
A bit ago I posted about wanting to change how tiers work. Specifically, I want to remove the fact that there are story specific tiers. As I noted then, THIS WILL NOT CHANGE HOW YOUR CURRENT TIER W...
2023-12-01 13:40:33 +0000 UTC
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Three days after his talk with Jim, Ace gathers all of the inner circle. Less than fifty people, though once gathered in one room it certainly feels like a lot. If he had been willing to talk to th...
2023-12-01 13:06:32 +0000 UTC
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From my maw, a primal snarl emerged. I knew I should be kicking the mantids to preserve my health. Instead, I lunged forward and bit the head off of the closest mantid while the bugs next to it sli...
2023-11-30 05:03:05 +0000 UTC
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Once 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...
2023-11-30 03:29:06 +0000 UTC
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The machine was prepped.
A special bronze plate was ready. Jerry had even gone as far as to get some scientists to do an in-depth analysis on what era and region appropriate bronze was...
2023-11-30 03:26:45 +0000 UTC
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Jason sighs, “I doubt the Deep Wilds are somehow planning these waves. Still, it is suspicious that two days in a row, the first wave was the most concerning. And speaking of ‘concerning’, Co...
2023-11-30 03:13:28 +0000 UTC
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The wolves are a little too close for Jason’s taste. So, in exchange for a swipe across his back, he quickly disables the last bear with a punch to the throat. The attached Energy blast collapsin...
2023-11-30 03:12:14 +0000 UTC
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Later that day, the Barrais get back home and news of the place up river being named Bennett town spreads. An interesting diversion, but compared to a tenth of the town vanishing one night, relativ...
2023-11-24 13:10:29 +0000 UTC
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Down in the dungeon, Doyle watches these big moves and worries. Not about the cultists or even those agents. Rather, he worried because of what it revealed of Ace, the Barrais, and the people who s...
2023-11-24 13:09:47 +0000 UTC
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Noon rolled around on the second day of the challenge and the team was ready. Rosha was on lookout, Courtney hidden in what would hopefully be a forward position, and Jason with Lily in front of th...
2023-11-22 11:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Overnight, Jason spent his free time setting up a platform for Rosha to snipe from. This turned out harder than he expected. Making the actual planks for it was easy enough, but figuring out how to...
2023-11-22 10:59:12 +0000 UTC
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Melonie shook her head, “I would have personally preferred if you had warned us, but I understand. They’re friends and maybe you didn’t think they would go this far. In fact, these twenty who...
2023-11-17 19:25:13 +0000 UTC
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Though the throne room was actually mostly loot free, barring the throne. No, all the really expensive stuff was in the place’s last room. Directly behind the golden throne was a final chamber wi...
2023-11-17 03:56:43 +0000 UTC
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