Eventually, we got access to a bookshelf for the base, something the System offered that stocked a rotating selection of Earth literature based on the tastes of the reader. I think Sean felt ba...
2024-01-21 20:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the Apocalypse System wants nothing more than for you to enjoy yourself while experiencing the places and things it creates, it’s obligated to note that your enjoyment is not the actual...
2024-01-20 20:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, neat,” Sean said. “I have something like that too. Weapon-wise, I mean. It will be cool to see how you use it.”
The orc gave a war cry as a response and started moving in.
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2024-01-19 17:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostTyr: FYI We are now transitioning to 5 chapters a week. Aka Mon - Wed - Fri - Sat - Sun.
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I should have seen it, really. How long had Sean been ...
2024-01-17 19:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Holy shit! He materialized hard!” Brady yelled.
Justin looked over at her, slightly exasperated.
“What does that even mean?”
“It means the rest of you came out...
2024-01-15 18:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostEventually he stopped keeping track of the individual animals he had fought. There were dozens of them. Probably. His mind wasn’t working right anymore. He could vaguely remember that the plains ...
2024-01-14 23:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post“It should be any second now. Once it drops, we bolt,” Brady said.
“Do you think the walls will drop before the general notification?” Spike asked. “If there’s any delay, it might...
2024-01-13 18:42:29 +0000 UTC View PostYou might think that a soda machine wouldn’t be that big of a deal. That it wouldn’t be the single most important purchase we made. Or that it wouldn’t come in clutch in the biggest of po...
2024-01-12 20:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostBy then, I had managed to get a little bit of intel on all the races in the competition. It wasn’t that hard. I was a craftsman, and so were almost half of the shopkeepers. There was a rappor...
2024-01-11 20:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostTyr: FYI we're changing the structure to match other sites. This is now Chapter 79. Ill be retroactively changing the other chapters too
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Balls with spikes. Balls with blades. And ba...
2024-01-10 19:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Wake up, you bastard.”
“Wha? Brett?”
“How have you survived this long? You sleep like a drunk brick. It took me five minutes to wake you up.”
“I’m just lucky, I t...
2024-01-09 17:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostTeam Competitions, Collaborative Efforts, and You
Team competitions and collaborative-effort missions award competitors based on multiple variables. The largest, most heavily wei...
2024-01-09 16:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post“So to be clear, you won’t be able to afford anything better than you have right now.” The youngish, surprisingly ripped girl behind the counter at the blacksmith’s shop said, glancing at t...
2024-01-09 16:53:34 +0000 UTC View PostRules Governing Inter-Competitor Combat
“Here it comes. Finally,” Sean said.
“Sean…” said Brett.
“What?”
“You shouldn’t get excited over the next version of death-traps the system is going to throw at ...
2024-01-08 20:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostSean blinked.
Three fucking levels? That’s… double. Two times as many levels. Fuck.
Scrambling nearly every moment of one’s life and spending the rest of what little spar...
2024-01-07 17:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Holy hell. These are the bad rewards?” Sean was incredulous. Some of these improvements were massive despite seeming small. Slightly improved ranged attacks? Absolutely a big deal, especially ...
2024-01-06 17:19:43 +0000 UTC View PostNo, it shouldn’t have worked. It was dumb.
The Big Book of Brett, PG. 23
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Sean ran around in a circle. Jogged, really. Brett had rigged up the tub well enou...
2024-01-05 19:15:08 +0000 UTC View Post“So what you are telling me,” Brett said while filing away at the last remnants of the steel block. “Is that he was pretty much like every other offworlder ever.”
Sean had slept longe...
2024-01-05 19:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostSean’s first attempts at throwing the apples weren’t great. They were sticky, which was something he could deal with, but it made throwing with his gloved hands very, very hard. However, the sa...
2024-01-05 17:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostI’ll always be kind of thankful to that squid.
Here I was, alone in a building with no entertainment besides that weird guide, on my third shower and second nap of the day, and...
2024-01-04 22:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Dammit, yes, but plans change as situations do. You almost got yourself killed.” Sean wiped the blood away from his rapidly mending nose as Stitch Up’s post-fight buff pulled it bac...
2024-01-04 22:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostHalf the area meant, naturally, double the density of enemies. And while Sean had expected to need a few more adjustments to the size of the area before the density started to be a serious problem ...
2024-01-04 22:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sean reached the final boxer, it had almost caught up to the squid. That said, it was only the cephalopod’s excessive slowness that made this possible. Its psycho-kinetic strikes had absolut...
2024-01-03 19:17:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, that worked. It’s incredible how useful that is on the apples.”
Sean’s biggest problem dealing with the Tells’ homing beacons was the fact that they would stick to any object...
2024-01-03 19:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a weird time. Sean came from the generation of people who had proved too soft to deal with the Apocalypse, and I always got the feeling that he was above-average soft even for them. It w...
2024-01-03 19:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi Gaians and Earthlings,
Hope you guys had a great Christmas and New Years! We're excited to be back writing for y'all. And what better way to show our joy than a small mass release? Three n...
2024-01-02 22:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostSean was so far into the process of admitting that he didn’t really understand how his leveling worked that he didn’t even think about it much anymore. Cowering under a Tell, he felt the gnawin...
2024-01-02 22:39:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing that I eventually realized about Sean was that, despite whatever failings he might have, he was from the era that the Apocalypse System grew up on. In a way, they were the same genera...
2024-01-02 22:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis is, at best, a basic guide. Sooner or later, you are going to go to places I haven’t been, see things I haven’t seen, and have life and death fights with them. It’s just how it is. E...
2024-01-02 22:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post