Hi there!
I've got another idea cooking up. I felt like writing something cozy, slice-of-life, but with a twist. A Victorian-era, Clockpunk world (so think 1850's Britain for inspiration) whi...
2025-01-22 02:55:42 +0000 UTC
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Jace rocketed across the snowy landscape. He could see the sleet, snow, and ice accumulating along the ground at a faster rate than the last time he was there. When Jace mentioned it to Ollie the o...
2025-01-21 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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The usual morning routine came and went, and Tristan met Obadai along with the fairy dragons responsible for their horses in front of the Queen’s Wood.
The Matriarch walked over in her tall...
2025-01-20 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Jace felt the projectile coming at him and turned on Void Shield (Rank 6) just before it impacted, nullifying the shot. Wheeling around, he spotted the large, armored drone flying with some type of...
2025-01-20 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Tonda, the shrouded sniper, lined up the head shot perfectly, counting down the seconds until the shot was supposed to be taken. Once the governor stepped up to the podium, and began his speech, To...
2025-01-19 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Jace shook off the remainder of the assault on his ears and got up into a ready stance. The doors had been ripped out towards him, and the Inner Sanctum was open. His dark vision was not able to pi...
2025-01-18 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Jace rocketed across the tundra on the hypercycle. The energy canopy surrounding his vehicle was constantly making a fzzth noise as it instantly evaporated the sleet, ice, and rime th...
2025-01-17 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The book Tristan was holding was not like the spell primers from before. There was no fluff at the front, no author introduction. It was the basic components of the spell type, and a table of conte...
2025-01-17 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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“It is a five-hundred foot tall mobile fortress,” Ollie stated. “A vehicle that can house a population for years upon years if managed properly. Xera looked through the purchase log; seems li...
2025-01-16 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Tristan transported the trio and the horses to the Fey Realm. After handing off Onyx and Midnight to their fairy dragon handlers, Obadai went off to his assigned abode, while Tristan went over to t...
2025-01-15 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Jace walked through the whole facility, having Ollie dust every single thing possible. Sadly, the robots were not dust-able, but they did visit the printed record archive, where Ollie flew from boo...
2025-01-15 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The skittering horde moved to Jace, and his instinct was to throw the sword, but he stopped himself. No, I don’t want to do that because I can’t recall it. He gripped it tightly, ...
2025-01-14 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The group was led over to a medium-sized building with two floors. The first floor had a sign hanging out near the road’s edge which read “The Alchemist”, and the top floor appeared to be som...
2025-01-13 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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“I like the idea of something that can come back from the dead,” Jace said. “Something that implies I came back to life.”
“Dumb,” Quinn replied as she sipped something from a stra...
2025-01-13 14:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Xera glanced at the monitor looking out at the Starlit Sea and saw a worried Ollie. She knew he was worried, because he was not swimming about – instead just floating in place. “He’ll be fine...
2025-01-12 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The facility Jace descended into had some lights that were a deep, orange color that seemed to indicate a power-saving mode. The dim brightness was enough to illuminate the path in front of him, an...
2025-01-11 14:00:32 +0000 UTC
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Tristan was woken up by a soft hand touching his face. Blinking his eyes open, he saw Felicity staring at him. “Hi,” she softly said.
Tristan smiled, “You’re alive. You risked your li...
2025-01-10 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Jace was thankful for the weird energy canopy that thrummed around him and kept the barrage of sleet and ice from reaching him as he raced across the valley floor. If someone had come...
2025-01-10 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Jace got upstairs and began talking to Shhiv, pulling her away from Missy’s business for a few hours. He told her everything that happened with Xera, how he had been manipulated, and his genuine ...
2025-01-09 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Tristan felt his heart sink, and if he had the breath he would have screamed. But he was barely sucking in enough air to fight to his feet as is. He felt rage in his gut. Anger. Pure, undiluted hat...
2025-01-08 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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[Jace, this is urgent.]
[I think Xera is playing us.]
[Think about it; she’s been manipula...
2025-01-08 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Jace rode at the low speed through the evening, waiting on the power cells of the vehicle to charge for full speed. The predators that had once threatened his existence months prior steered clear o...
2025-01-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Spinning his essence crucible as fast as he could, Tristan slammed his fist into the ground. “Ich beschwöre eine Wand aus Eis herauf.” (I summon forth a wall of ice). He saw the ice b...
2025-01-06 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Dee was ecstatic as she continued to prepared Demolisher’s Devastation with the [Trap] Skill Evolution. She had planted all types of acid, ice, hyper-abrasive silicate...
2025-01-06 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Jace sped over the shattered landscape of the broken highway on an alien world. The same world he had left behind a few months prior. The same place of his Aspirant Trial, and where he lost both of...
2025-01-05 14:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Blurb:
A world of danger can hold great reward
Jace Seren has been assigned his next task for the Dark Between Stars: visiting a rogue planet that was flung out of its ...
2025-01-04 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Tristan transported the two to the Fey Realm, and Obadai gasped. “My…gods above…this is astonishing!”
Felicity bad claw-paw biscuits on Tristan’s head, “Yup! It’s a fantasti...
2025-01-03 14:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The party had been a few days ago, and the group of Dark Between Stars Signers and their significant others had been lounging about for a while, just taking life easy. There were no pressing threat...
2025-01-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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DMA Schedule - Update:
I'm swapping to 5 days a week (Monday to Friday) on February 17th.
This is both for Patrons and Royal Road readers.
First, there’s going to be level-ups for the B-team and also Boon uses – so lots of ‘crunchy’ System-side stuff in the start here.
Second, some party slice-of-life style ...
2025-01-02 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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