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Dialysis Book: Chapter 19: A honest adventurer


I stood before the massive guild hall and couldn’t help but be impressed.  I’d seen my share of stately buildings back on Earth, but this one had by far the best landscaping. ...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 18: A day in the garden


It cost 30 silvers and about ten years of my life to go those 20 minutes.  Gloria dropped us off right at the sidewalk in front of the guild hall and it was all I could do to not ...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 17: Dominus


I had been lied to, or maybe I lied to myself.  Clearly, my beliefs as to what Otherworld was capable of was wrong.  I was expecting some sort of medieval village tucked away...

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Chapter 22 – Something Wicked


The shadow was bored, so very bored.  It was almost used to the boredom now, but the time spent down here was just unappetizing.  There was nothing to kill.

The foe was k...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 16: The Joy of Flight


I exhaled, my white breath vanishing through the open windows the moment I breathed.  The icy chill blasted over me and for a moment I forgot where I was when the entire airship b...

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Dialysis book: Chapter 15: The airship


“This vacation is going to be awesome,” I said.

“It will be better than that, we are going to eat all the food and paint the town gray,” said Shade.

“You paint th...

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Dialysis Book: Part 4: The Elven Dominion


The ancient castle stood tall, built in the ancient style that predated even the legendary Dominion.  It had withstood assaults, from within and without and through it all preserv...

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Chapter 21- Dungeons and More

The inside of the dungeon looked surprisingly like it did back on Ordinal.  The entrance and exit both fed through the same area, but the exit was typically closed unless someone had defeated ...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 14: That’s one big lizard.


Everyone stopped at the entrance to the lizard’s cave.  Spivy was working her magic on Shade, who seemed to have a few minor cuts.  I pulled out one of our precious healing...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 13: Invading the Goblin Warren

(notes, the Flash Skill was redefined as a spell so I could explain how those work, long and short, spells work outside your essence bubble while skills rapidly fade.  Flash is technically a ...

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Chapter 20 –Puma Strikes Back


“Puma Check, quadrant two,” cried Shart, blasting the area with magical darts.  A limb shattered and one of the drop pumas slammed to the ground where Badgelor pounced.

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 12: Preparations


You could tell it was noon from the sunlight streaming in from the small holes in the roof.  I'd been asleep for less than 4 hours, probably much less, but somehow that was enough...

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Dialysis Book: Part 3: The goblin Warren


A bleary eyed Eggard frowned at his incompetent assistant, “You said it was lightly guarded.”

“Yesterday it was,” Savina replied hotly.  “I was just here and there...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 11: Back to the Guild


Even with the essence reinforcing my mental fortitude, I was exhausted.  Killing rats, which is what we were doing to the small ones, was tedious work when all you had was a spear...

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Chapter 19 – A Whale of a Tale


“Wake up, dum dum,” said Shart.  I jostled awake.  Sleeping on a Shadow Whale was strangely comfortable if I had to be honest.  The flesh of the creature was kind of s...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 10: A journey into Darkness


We went back in through the sewer in a particularly stealthy manner.

“You don’t need to carry me,” said Shade.

“I have boots, you have paws.  I don’t want yo...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 9 : A class act


The street was in the middle of town and there were a number of decently sized buildings all around me.  Most looked residential, and a few looked like they might have been apartm...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 8: Doing the job right


Spivy, for all of her many, many faults, was the adventuring coach I should have always listened to.  She quickly and competently assessed the situation and started putting everyt...

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Chapter 18 – Windfall blues


“It’s yours by default, you are going to have to wear it,” said Julia uncomfortably.

Fenris looked at her, “I’m certain I misheard you.”

Julia sighed, looking dow...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 7: the Moonstruck Inn


The inn was two stories of solid timber with a country flair that I found entirely comforting.  It looked so in place in this tiny rural town, that it just screamed come in here a...

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Dialysis Book: Part 2: Adventurer in Training: Interlude Moonstruck Inn

Structurally, I'm dividing this book into parts like I did with Fifth Era.  That's mainly to keep everything easy to reference, but it also allows me to put book ends on the parts sort of lik...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 6 - The Guild

(This is a shorter chapter setting up part 2 of the book.  Also Shadow got renamed to Shade because him having a shadow core and a shadow form was getting confusing, so Shade) (Plus I named h...

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Chapter 17 – Flying through the Shadow Filled Skies


“Ready,” I yelled and Shart continued waving his hands around.

“Not yet, air currents are going to be a bitch,” he yelled.

“Hurry up, those shadow chickens brought ...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 5: Darven, the Town of Trees


As we approached Darven the land started looking a lot more settled.  The open forest gave way to well tended fields.  Fields full of crops I did not recognize.  For som...

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Thank goodness for modern medicine

So Sarah's condition was untreatable a few years ago, but modern science laughs in the face of things like kidney failure and she's got maybe 10 years to live.  There is a treatment path for S...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 4 - The Overworld of Otherworld


We left the warrens and emerged into a forest that looked like it could be right out of anywhere in America.  We ran downhill until I was about to collapse, and Shadow was panting...

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Dialysis Book: Chapter 3 - The Criminal Mastermind


"What are you? Public enemy number one?" I yelled as we started running through the caves.  I had no idea where we were going but the tunnel I was sure led back to earth no longer...

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Chapter 16 – Awakening of the Dark Overlord

He let the last one suffer, feeding it too much mana but not quite enough to cause it to explode.  The bug wasn’t stupid, just conditioned.  The bugs needed mana to survive.  This ...

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The Dialysis book: Chapter 2: My talking dog and me.


So it turned out talking dogs were way higher on my weirdness scale than goblins.

“Since when can you talk,” I yelled, scrambling back as best as I could with one lame leg. View Post

The Dialysis book, Chapter 1: A Friendly Meeting

(Author's note, so I have to drive Sarah to the dialysis clinic 3x a week and it gets real boring there.  When I get bored, I write.  I'm not in a good headspace at the moment, but I'm j...

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