Your party has gained the blessing of an earth nymph! This blessing persists as long as you remain within the Wandering Woods.
If the first two nymphs had put up a fight in their own ways, getting the earth nymph’s blessing proved to be a breeze -- or whatever th...
2024-10-03 18:36:22 +0000 UTC View PostIn the grand scheme of things, I hadn’t been offered that many quests since becoming a Protagonist. Still, I’d gained and completed enough of them to know that one usually didn’t receive a quest without any sort of inciting incident.
As I read through the quest description, it quickly...
2024-09-30 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe suggestion to brave another region wasn’t overly surprising. It was, after all, kind of the point if we ever wanted to get out of here. To do so without Cal, however, was significantly less expected.
More than that, it was less appealing, too. As the only one of us who could som...
2024-09-26 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostDrinking has reached level 14!
“Lady Tess,” Verin choked out, only her Etiquette level keeping her from coughing up a lung. “With all that you’ve built here, one wonders if we might install a still of sorts. Surely we would all benefit from rectify...
2024-09-19 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostGiven that I’d passed all of the thresholds for my stats, I wasn’t expecting anything too strange from the new level. Even so, I read through the notification first, curious to note what stats I’d gain this time around.
Congratulations! You have reached level 16! 2024-09-16 13:37:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Clear Skies II
Assist the Roc Lord in defeating Din’Ket the Usurper.
Rewards variable based on method of completion.
I was glad that the quest details were brief, as I didn’t have the luxury of set...
2024-09-12 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHi hello, all! It's a very big day for the series!
Book 3 is now live on Amazon. Woohoo!
As most of you will be aware, this book launch is a bit special, as it's the first book I've published sin...
2024-09-09 12:01:44 +0000 UTC View PostAnother day passed before we neared the grimy patch of air. Without much fanfare, we waded into it.
At first, we didn’t notice any serious differences. True, the islands we visited were a bit more dusty. Some patches of mud still clung to the island, having survived the journey through th...
2024-09-09 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHi hello, all!
Not too much in the way of updates except for one big one: Book three is up on Amazon! You can find it here.
For now, it's just out for pre-order. When I post the next chapter on Monday...
2024-09-05 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs the mud surged inwards, an all-encompassing gurgling sound filled the air, a disquieting precursor to its origin. Even the sound alone felt like it was gunking me up and slowing me down, but in reality, there was a much simpler explanation for my lacking speed.
Wrapped tightly in my arms...
2024-09-05 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe very instant the clouds consumed us, my body went haywire.
My feet were the first sign that something was wrong. Despite pushing more fire mana into them, Jet Step failed to activate, sputtering out. The briefest peek at my mana revealed I still had more than enough, but before...
2024-09-02 12:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostWith the benefit of understanding what we were up against, the three of us began to rush through the air region with ease. Each new island proved to be fairly similar to the first, with an aerial gem hidden away and an ensuing fight to charge it.
In terms of finding the gems, Verin’s prev...
2024-08-29 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHi hello, all! Still very sick and bleh, but had a few things of note for today.
Firstly, as of tonight, I will have finally finished editing book 3! I plan to send it over to the audio folks later today, and I'm sure I'll soon have updates on when the audiobook will be out. Truly, this too...
2024-08-26 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostA day later, after all of us were fully rested, we made our way to the end of the labyrinth. In an unexpected twist that made a lot of sense in hindsight, it turned out that the safe room had been placed in the center of the maze. Our trip out was thus just as long as our trip in, and now that we...
2024-08-26 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostYou have found a safe room! No monsters may enter the safe room, and no traps have been set within it. The safe room may contain beneficial effects to help you recover.
This is a permanent safe room. It will not disappear, and there is no time limit for...
2024-08-23 21:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostHaving sealed me in, the seer wasted no more time, its next barrage of attacks heading straight towards me. The very moment the inky arms burst from the monster, I was moving, a Spatial Step carrying me forward. Its aim fouled, the forsaken shrieked as all five arms slammed into the grou...
2024-08-19 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostFalling to my death had long stopped being a concern for me, and the very first thing I did when the ground disappeared was activate Feather Foot. Instantly, my fast descent became slow and gentle.
Which, of course, didn’t really solve anything.
A few Jet Steps bro...
2024-08-15 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stood alone at the entrance to the labyrinth, I turned back, spotting Verin and Cal in the distance. While the prior stood still and resolute, the latter cheerfully waved me off.
The argument to let me explore alone — if it could even be called that — had been far less fierce than ...
2024-08-12 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter getting caught in a sandstorm the first time we’d tried to clear the desert, it would have been nice to say that I was prepared for anything now. Naturally, though, this was a lie. I knew that the dungeon could throw any manner of strangeness our way, but in the end, there was no real way...
2024-08-08 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEven with a blank set of class quests and a daily buffet of powerful enemies, leveling was not a fast affair. Our next era lasted longer than all the time in the dungeon before it, as each of us settled into tried and true routines.
While it wasn’t as if I never saw the others, we spent l...
2024-08-05 12:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostHi hello, all! Some quick updates and a poll today.
August updates! Having quit my job, I was able to work up a pretty serious backlog of chapters, which let me take off pretty much the entirety of July just to edit book 3 in preparation for publishing it. Wanted to let everyone know that t...
2024-08-01 12:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor a time, enchanting was a godsend when it came to keeping me busy. The bulk of the time I wasn’t hunting with Cal or Verin, I was busy making new enchantment matrices, giving every spellform I knew a mud bath. On one occasion, I even recruited Verin to help place a matrix in ice. She was sui...
2024-08-01 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Verin and Cal’s resounding combat successes, none of us thought that rushing into a new biome was a good idea yet. With low levels and an almost completely blank slate for their class quests, both of the two could easily level a few more times without needing to take that risk.
Pr...
2024-07-29 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostLike most princesses, Cal had never had a particularly strong opinion on scorpion meat. Not until recently, at least. While the first few times she’d tried it had been enjoyable sheerly from novelty’s sake, it had quickly grown bland and boring after so much repetition.
In a strange way...
2024-07-25 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFrozen time was, in Verin’s opinion, always a strange experience. On numerous occasions, she had witnessed those around her entering their class spaces, or in rarer cases, choosing their class. While those experiences tended to last a while for them, to any observers present, they were...
2024-07-22 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostCal, not taking any chances, shot off from the others, making a beeline for the sundering gem. After all, who knew? For all that Verin talked about “etiquette this” and “etiquette that,” Cal wouldn’t put it past the noble not to honor the sacred right of “dibs.”
Then again, sh...
2024-07-18 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostLike the other two rooms in my class space, the Arcane Augmenter path consisted of a series of steps leading upwards. Unlike the others, each step in the room was home to only a single class skill, taking the form of a wearable item sitting on a pedestal. Even before I reached my new opt...
2024-07-15 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Absolutely not.” Verin was fast to nip the idea in the bud. “Normally I would begin by saying ‘explain yourself,’ but the notion is so far-fetched, I do not believe there is any need. We have devoted almost our entire time here to getting stronger. You would ask us to take what is like...
2024-07-11 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi hello!
Mostly just wanted to share that I got the (probably) final cover for book 3 back recently. Title may or may not change if I can think of something better before I release it, but the art beneath the text is definitely final. Decided to go with Tess's Dungeon of Tragedies door. L...
2024-07-08 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor whatever reason, it took some time to warm Verin up to the idea of sleeping on mummy bandages. It didn’t help that once Cal learned of what I’d done, she’d laughed about it for days, only adding to Verin’s trepidations. In the end, though, between a comfortable mattress and a...
2024-07-08 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post