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Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty-Three. Rising waters.

"Zero percent," Dave reported happily.

"Just in time, too. We've got maybe thirty minutes before we start seeing monsters from the other Dungeons show up," Mike added.

"Let's head up to...

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Three Hundred and Eighty-Two. God Damn it.



Lara and Gualla were looking somewhat dazed as Bob finished explaining the basics of the System.

Laura was still half-buried in Monroe, both of them napping away the day...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty-one. Not good.

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Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty. A brief introduction to the System.

Quest Complete!

Meluben has been overrun by monsters! The rituals that prevent the volcano above the city from erupting are in danger of failing!

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Nine. Now we really don't have a choice.

"Our world is infested with these beasts?" Gualla asked, aghast at the idea.

"Overrun would probably be a better way to describe it," Bob replied.

"And we're not actually in our world?"...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Eight. Urlinad

No excuses, I just sucked this past week.

Url, and the Urlinad, are from a campaign I wrote over twenty years ago.  I was running a 3e game (3.5 hadn't been released yet) in...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven. Lord of Blight.

Bailli smiled as she heard Bob reassure the person closest to them.  She'd determined early on that Bob was a good man if badly damaged.  She'd already heard about his heroics against the...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Six. Something's happening here.

They were within eight feet of the walls when the attack began.

Monsters rushed through the jagged opening in the wall while others poured over the wall itself.  There were two different...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Five. Welcome to Url.

My twin cracked a bit.  Turns out she can really only handle Mom for about two and a half weeks.  I actually feel a little vindicated, you know?  I've been shouldering the load f...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Four. A Brave New World.

Still feeling good.  No reason I can't get a chapter a day done.  Hopefully more, but I'll take one a day for now.


Bob had spent quite a bit of time thinking abo...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Three. Conversations and exploration.

My back feels so much better.  I was able to sit down for an hour at a time today before I needed to get up and move around.  I didn't need to lay down at all.  Happy happy Jahx....

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-Two. Escaping Earth.

I hate the fact that I keep having to say I'm sorry, but I'm sorry.  Having my twin here was supposed to ease things up on me, and physically it sort of did.  Unfortunately, I had all...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy-one. Stowaways.

Getting better, slowly but surely.  Managed a thousand words a day the past two days, and a bit over five hundred so far today.  Going for another thousand, maybe more.   View Post

Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy. Meet the Wrights.

This chapter was written in fifteen to twenty minute bursts over the past couple of weeks.  Luckily my twin has arrived, and while I did need her help to get out of the car (eight hour rou...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine. Tyranny.

Sorry for the delay folks.  I've had this half written for a couple of days, but I made a few mistakes and wound up out of commission.  On a positive note, I built raised garden beds ...

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Three Hundred and Sixty-Eight. One project done.

"Such bullshit," Mike grumbled. "It took us how many months to find a planet that wasn't covered by a tentacle monster or a frozen wasteland?"

"To be fair, I'm pretty sure there is more than ...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Seven. No choice.

This one fought me and I'm still not completely happy with it.  I think I rewrote the first thousand words half a dozen times.   But great is the enemy of good, or in this case, ...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Six. An introduction to Dharavi.

My apologies to my Indian readers.  I'm aware that Dharavi has improved significantly over recent years, however in this alternate universe, the integration caused so much damage that thin...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Five. Water.

"Well, the good news is that Alex is going to score us some upgrades," Jack reported. "DARPA has a few racks of decommissioned servers that are significantly more robust than what we currently have...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Four. Space race.

Alex tried to stand still as Bob began casting the ritual that would bring them up to the freaking spaceship they had in orbit.

It was really hard. He was bouncing on his he...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Three. Let that which does not matter, truly slide.

"It looks like Bob is having a good time with his friends in Hawaii," Taylor reported, presenting her tablet.

She had facebook open to Bob's page, where a new picture of Bob being dragged thr...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-Two. Alex.

"You need to recognize that this is a problem," Amanda said.

"Just once?" Bob asked.

"We're on vacation," Amanda repeated.  "Now when you saw all those people wasting away...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty-One. Vacation time!

Bob shook his head as he swept his gaze from the cerulean sea, up the pristine beach, over the treeline, finally focusing on the ruins of the resort atop the hill.  "I'm surprised it hasn't be...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty. Not your problem.

Bob was awoken from his slumber by a massive paw tapping his nose.

With a yawn, he sat up, swinging his legs over the edge of the bed and resting his feet on the floor.  He opened his ey...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine. Failures.

"Mr. Whitman!  Mr. Whitman!"

Bob blinked and shook his head as he looked up from the man he'd just finished reincarnating.

He wasn't entirely sure how long he'd been at it, but day...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight. Fix the problem in front of you.

"This is Bob. I need to talk to the President," Bob said when his call was connected.

Alejandro and Maria exchanged glances.

Bob had never had a sibling, but he'd seen people who were c...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Seven. Executive decisions.

"Fuck," Bob muttered.

Growing up in Watts, Bob hadn't ever bought into the whole 'California Paradise' idea.  It wasn't until he'd gone to UCLA and moved closer to the campus that he'd h...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Six. Returning to the fold.

The Freedom appeared four million miles away from Earth, exiting the portal smoothly.

"And we're back," Bob reported as he tapped the screen in front of him, raising the masts to bri...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Five. Four long months later.

"Any chance we can steal her?" Elania asked, lifting her eyes from the folder.

"I'm afraid Ms. Gupta is being drowned in accolades by her own country," Taylor replied dryly.  "If she had...

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Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty-Four. Never enough points, and never enough time.

The nature of the path the System had provided for him was almost insidious.

Path of the Consummate Summoner.

Path created for user Robert Whitman.

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