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Descending Dragon - Prologue and Ch 1

Prologue/Intro

Truth is, I was supposed to be dead now anyway.

When I was fifteen I’d started coughing something fierce, waking up drenched in sweat, and damn near lo...

One week off TGG, interim chapters, Update

Hi guys, three things:

1. I'll be taking next week off posting The Great Game for kiddo birthday/holidays/catch-up. However!

2. I'll instead be posting five chapters from my eventual no...

Chapter 530: Hard things

The ‘Abyssal Hunter’s’ room was somehow built like a spinning gear, or the world’s worst fair ride. The walls and the attached chains turned around the central platform, the dangling metal ...

Chapter 529: Abyssal Hunter

Mason and the other players slowly slaughtered their way to the open cavern and connecting halls. Everything around them and behind them was coated in demonic ‘mud’ and ichor. When he looked ba...

Chapter 528: Don't worry, pretty girl

Mason’s sword-Claw cut straight through the first mud demon’s face, somewhere around where its nose would be. It growled and slammed a fist into his chest. He staggered back a step and ripped t...

Chapter 527: Arrogance

Turned out goblin forts taken over by demons didn’t smell great. Mason wasn’t sure if abyssals or infernals were worse, but it was a bit like choosing if you’d rather drown or starve.

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Chapter 526: Ready for anything. Again.

Mason and Blake had once gone with their adopted parents to Japan. Well, at least the airport. A subway station, then a hotel.

They were supposed to stay a week but their father had ended up ...

Chapter 525: Goblin City

Mason’s new goblin friends weren’t interested in any talk of ‘not’ becoming their king.

“Is decided,” said one of their leaders, whose name might have been ‘Uck’. “...

Chapter 524: Long live the king

The giant, angry spider dropping from the ceiling started casting a spell. Possibly several spells.

Welcome to the post-apocalypse, Mason thought wryly, almost activating his Earthso...

Chapter 523: Sixth Sense

Mason and the others stepped through surprisingly cool, dark passageways, doing their best to follow Wayfinder and the king’s map. The only sounds were dripping water, and the breaths and footste...

Chapter 522: The Captives

Mason stopped when he heard a rasping breath from near the goblin throne. He turned and stepped over, not sure he wanted to see, knowing what he’d find.

The near dead goblin king lay on the...

Chapter 521: The Watcher

Even Mason couldn’t block four swords. He parried two and stopped a third on one Sleeve, but the fourth slashed into his hip with a wet thud. He growled and attacked, ignoring the pain and grinni...

Chapter 520: Take a pounding

The goblin king’s throne room was even crazier than Carl’s description. The first thing was the color and tabards—big, cloth curtain-like coverings hung from the ceiling separating the hall i...

Chapter 519: No more mercy

‘Ikit’ the goblin turned out to be a wealth of information. His geographic descriptions were exact enough it actually filled in some outlines in Mason’s Wayfinder power; his knowledge of the ...

Chapter 518: The pretender

Every platform across the ‘lava cavern’ had some kind of challenge. But after the demon under the grate, they definitely got easier. It felt more like…shock troops. Filler. Trash. Just someth...

Chapter 517: The Optional

Duality of Strength flared as Mason pulled at the demon’s chain. Phuong ran past him and jumped into the pit, and he could hear Garet and Carl shouting and the demon roaring as he heaved and stra...

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Chapter 516: A forgotten power

Tommaso’s acid potion burst as it hit the iron grate. Mason listened to the liquid drip and hiss, the growls grow from underneath.

“It’s coming,” he said. “Get ready.”

The p...

Chapter 515: Here we go

Mason’s series of shots blasted away chunks from the demon-dog’s left head, his scatter-burst of Crippling Strike lacerating a leg. He could hear the small ‘explosions’ from his Reverberati...

Chapter 514: Razor Mountain

In a last minute change of plans, Mason decided to do a quick check on the animals in his menagerie before the teleport and dungeon ahead. He found the elven beastmaster, Kitya, relaxing just insid...

Chapter 513: Augments

It’s not real, lord.

Dariya’s voice echoed over a burning grassland of smoke and ash. She sounded close to an eye roll. Mason had to admit he was disappointed.

“This is �...

Chapter 512: Beneath the mists

Mason, Carl and Phuong debated ‘teams’ for the third round. It was mostly just for organizational purposes, and possibly a few ‘group’ buffs like Mason’s Strength of the Pack. He didn’t...

Chapter 511: The Whispering Wood

Mason was so busy chasing Stag through the winding paths of the fey, he hardly realized everything had changed. The ‘Unseelie’ lands were a shock to the senses.

Just as Stag said, the sur...

Chapter 510: More like your Patron every day

Mason stood around the map of the world in his Scout’s Enclave, listening to his human, elven (and goblin) scouts argue.

“Elves so stupid about simple things,” Cliknik the goblin grumbl...

Chapter 509: For the sake of others

Mason found his key players and civilians all in the Nexus meeting room. Or at least milling around outside of it, eating Haley’s cookies.

“There he is,” Carl said around one said cooki...

Chapter 508: Looking stupid

“Demi?”

Mason warped into the young great tree of Nassau where he’d left his newest player, and hopefully newest girlfriend. He and ‘mushroom girl’ had met in the Neutral Zone. He�...

Chapter 507: We're coming

Mason walked along the Nexus paths a hundred feet above the settlement of Nassau, his mind busy with thoughts of the future. Yet again the game had changed, ‘roboGod’ rattling humanity’s cage...

End of book 11, and moving to 4 chapters a week

Book 12 begins Monday! We have some big things coming up, including the mixing of the continents, a large new dungeon, the progression of the phase/planes...

I mentioned this before as a pos...

Chapter 506: Destiny

[Congratulations, players and civilians, on surviving the first wave of phase 3. You have made it to the main portion of the Great Game.]

Blake glanced up from his latest project—a delight...

Chapter 505: I left a woman in a tree

Mason waited on the slow lift down to the ground level, mostly as an exercise in patience. The urge to leap off the side and climb, or maybe just fall, was a lot like the urge for a woman or someth...