Sean didn’t exactly wake up. Waking up was something you could feel happen, something that was at least gradual-enough that there were in between zones, timings where you weren’t-quite-consciou...
2023-12-12 05:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostIn these trying times, everyone has to look out for themselves. That’s the rule. If you can save someone, you do. But if shit hits the fan and a wave of monsters is about to sweep over everyo...
2023-12-12 05:51:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit. Shit.” Sean tried desperately to slow his descent down the sides of the canyon and failed miserably. It would have been one thing if he had just slipped and fallen. Instead, he had tried...
2023-12-11 17:40:49 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving the woods at a different angle, Sean expected that he might end up pretty far from home. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Instead of disgorging him at an unknown location, th...
2023-12-10 17:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Apocalypse System will kill you dead and not bat an eye. It isn’t your friend, it won’t feel your loss, and to the extent it writes anyone obituaries, they come in the form of wry littl...
2023-12-10 10:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostA long time ago, literally and figuratively, before his string of jobs, Sean had been a student studying to be a teacher, in Physics.
There were a lot of arguments about why it was necessary ...
2023-12-09 05:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostAchievement Unlocked: The Three Spectral Bears
Once, in the woods, there were three bears. The first bear was a killer. He loved to stalk through the for...
2023-12-08 01:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostOverestimating your own strengths can be dangerous, and can get you into messes you can’t get out of. I know, I know. You are tired of me telling you to be careful. I get it. I grind that par...
2023-12-06 21:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, you look much better than this morning, at least.” Cedarhelm creaked as he shook back and forth a little, entering what Sean was starting to think of as his active mode, where he went fr...
2023-12-06 20:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostSean couldn’t change any of his tactics. He simply flared Hard Time as much as possible and hoped that it would be enough to buy enough time that his strike would land first. In that mom...
2023-12-06 20:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostNot every single Apocalypse Beast is outright evil. It would almost be better if they were, because the mere fact that you might someday have to murder a T-Rex who would have been pretty good l...
2023-12-05 17:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Sean woke up, it was already well into the morning. He didn’t even remember falling asleep. He had been fully planning on recovering his wind and doing something, anything to make him...
2023-12-05 17:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostEating Capon was entirely out of the question. There was something uniquely off-putting about a truly jacked rabbit that Sean just wasn’t about to get around. But he still had to eat, and lentils...
2023-12-03 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe trees showed no signs of thinning. Sean should have arrived at the edge of the forest after an hour of running, but nothing changed. Something system-ish was happening, for sure, but he had no ...
2023-12-02 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Thump!” Sean vocalized, just before the Trash Compactor made the same sort of noise on the chest of a garbage man. He frankly loved the thing. It did damage. Sometimes that damage came in the ...
2023-12-01 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTyr: This be a new series, as stated in the previous announcement. Don't confuse it with Deadworld!
2023-11-30 21:17:17 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys,
As your favorite announcer, I, Tyr, am here to present you with advance chapters from the new series R.C. has been working on~
You may have seen recently a certain story called ...
2023-11-30 21:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostOne of my favorite things about writing is trying to anticipate how various people will react to what I’m writing. In part, this is just part of the job description; if I don’t think a sad part...
2023-11-28 06:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe system instance was efficient. It was persuasive. It had a fundamental understanding of every intricacy in the planet that it ran. And it had the means and brainpower to accomplish its goals. B...
2023-11-28 04:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostIf you could call being in a coma “sleep”, Matt had slept for quite a while after Derek had caught him. Now, he felt sure he didn’t need any more rest. Without talking much, he and Lucy watch...
2023-11-26 20:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe trickiest part about figuring out what to do with the demon hearts was realizing that, whatever might happen, they were no more dangerous in the basement than they’d be if Matt kept them clos...
2023-11-26 01:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe demon lord turned and walked to one of the walls, one made almost entirely of what appeared to be glass. “I want to put your mind at ease if I can. I know it’s you who’s been wasting my h...
2023-11-25 00:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Matt had been falling into the hole he created, it looked like he was descending into pitch-black darkness. Now that he was at the bottom of the hole, it was a different story. It was st...
2023-11-23 00:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Your mole digging skill is really overpowered, Matt. That was close,” Lucy said.
“Yeah, no kidding. I’m going to go deeper.” Matt had not taken terrain into account when he had beg...
2023-11-20 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Matt said anything, he made everyone move a good distance away. Then, he activated his digging skill and bore a tunnel into an entire hill. As an added precaution, he asked Brennan to also s...
2023-11-19 23:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe main system sat on top of the laws of the universe like a tattoo sat on top of skin. It colored every aspect of it, manipulated how people saw and thought of it, and was very, very hard to remo...
2023-11-18 15:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I know that since a lot of you guys read ahead on Patreon, some of the RoyalRoad announcements might not really come through. So, if you haven't seen it already, we recently lau...
2023-11-17 22:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostCobblestones, Matt decided, were one of the best things about being strong in a society that ran on medieval aesthetics. Or at least they were for someone who was a super-strong mole-enhanced diggi...
2023-11-17 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post