Mind awash with conflicting emotions, there was only one thing Tyron could do to distract himself and he threw himself into it wholeheartedly. The thought that he might be responsible, even partially, for the potential disaster that was unfolding right in front of him was enough to drive him to a...
2022-03-22 20:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostCorun, Torrina and Granin all stare at me with glittering eyes after they reveal that it's the Ancients who've stuck this hook in me rather than the Dungeon itself. At times like this I have to remind myself that despite their intelligence, these three are cultists who essentially worship a giant...
2022-03-20 10:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not sure what anyone on the other side of the gate was expecting to see, but catching a glimpse of 'the Eldest' as I soar gracelessly through the air probably wasn't it. After I hit the ground I roll several times, legs flailing wildly as I try to slow my momentum.
Dammit Tiny! Was it r...
2022-03-19 11:53:04 +0000 UTC View PostI strain. I push. I fight with every fibre of muscle and every strand of brain matter to get my body to move forward! Nothing. As an experiment I try to move backwards and find no resistance, but once I move forward again, no dice. I'm frozen in place as long as I attempt to move forward.
T...
2022-03-17 10:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there folks!
For those of you who've been hanging out for the audiobook of Volume 1... it's not ready. BUT Jeff Hays of Soundbooth theatre will be livestreaming his first read through starting in just a few hours!
This is also your first chance to experience the fully edited versi...
2022-03-16 19:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post"They found WHAT?"
Pulled aside by Sloan during a break in the fighting she drops some heavy ordinance on me.
"Tier eight demons," she repeats grimly, "fighting in the deepest layers of the third stratum, right beneath the land claimed by the Colony."
Pants. This is the last thi...
2022-03-16 09:41:37 +0000 UTC View PostBit wordy and heavy. Plenty of action coming up.
"I'm telling you kid, if I were you, I'd get the fuck out of here."
Dove's normally flippant manner was gone, replaced by this grim faced man who looked as if he hadn't rested in days. Tyron had a sense of th...
2022-03-15 06:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostBurke skulked with all her Skills working to the fullest, her stealth enhancing mutations humming as she slipped from shadow to shadow, creating patches of darkness where none existed and blending into the rock behind her as her carapace shifted and moulded itself to match the surface she stood o...
2022-03-13 11:59:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis period of history became known as the Great Expansion, the first of several large spans of aggressive land claims made by the Colony. What differentiated these from the manner of conquest utilised by the sapient races of Pangera was our unusual 'top down' approach. When the Colony claime...
2022-03-12 07:55:24 +0000 UTC View PostSo close to the halfway mark!
Arranging a meeting between two cult members wasn't easy, especially given the current conditions between the Colony and the Ka'armodo. Granin grumbled at a constant rate as he and he fellow triad members trekked across the dangerous terrain of...
2022-03-11 11:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostChecking in with a few other folks.
Magnin grit his teeth as a fresh wave of pain wracked his body. It was unimaginable agony. Every nerve was on fire, every inch of his flesh burned. It felt as if his eyeballs were mellting.
"How the fuck is it hitting my eyes?" he g...
2022-03-11 00:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt might be obvious, but Granin is one of my favourite side characters. Hope everyone is having a great weak! I'm hoping to get back to five Chrysalis this week. I've been too slack!
[I thank you for your cooperation.]
[To you as well. I hope that you're research if o...
2022-03-09 06:45:30 +0000 UTC View PostHe's on the march.
A bedraggled, wild eyed Tyron stood over four neatly arranged skeletons on the ground. His hair was messy and beginning to knot, the dark circles and the bloodshot streaks of his eyes evidenced his lack of sleep. For two straight days he had laboured. Wit...
2022-03-08 07:15:27 +0000 UTC View PostThere weren't too many times in his centuries of life that Rassan'tep had truly feared for his life. He'd been outnumbered and surrounded during a wave defence in the fourth in just his fifth decade, barely out of the nest. Only the intervention of an Old One had saved him from the jaws of a rave...
2022-03-06 12:04:46 +0000 UTC View PostWho can say, truly, how many termites were defeated, down in the dark? Amongst the roots of the world tree we hunted and were hunted in turn. The fighting was vicious, brutal in the extreme.
In some ways it was a good thing that our non-monster allies were unable to join us, de...
2022-03-05 10:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostShocking developments.
The grind of an ongoing melee was a very different type of combat that the thrilling and domineering charge of the Immortals. The mass that had propelled them through the ranks of the enemy now bore down on their back. Leeroy welcomed it. I...
2022-03-02 23:38:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt was almost as if Leeroy had died and entered some sort of paradise. Except, frustratingly, she still clung to her mortal shell, along with the other Immortals. Despite this, she revelled in her current existence. The release she sought, the glorious end she strove to experience, had never felt...
2022-03-02 05:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostThis one took ages and I would through several iterations of abilities and feats before I was happy. Hopefully it all makes sense and nothing seems out of place. Love to hear your thoughts on everything so make sure you drop a comment.
No promises of a second ...
2022-03-01 10:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey there folks. Nova reached out to me for an interview talking about Chrysalis and all things webnovels, something that he hopes to do with a series of authors over the coming weeks.
He's agreed to provide the video to you lucky folks a week before it goes live on his channel (this version i...
Damn termites. What the hell are those kaarmodo doing over there? They seem to pop out reinforcements just as fast as we kill them. I refuse to believe they can spit out tier four and five monsters so quickly without incurring some kind of cost. After all, the Colony has been doing this for month...
2022-02-27 08:16:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhat? No! It can't be? But it is! BOD chap two for the week suckas!
Tyron collapsed with a groan, the bones wrapped in his old blanket rattled within his pack and slumped to the ground. He desperately wanted to sleep immediately, even for someone used to going se...
2022-02-26 04:14:06 +0000 UTC View PostIn the first place, what does it mean to be a monster? It's a question that has special significance on Pangera, a world under constant threat from monster attacks. Whilst the sapient races of the planet are fully capable of monstrous acts, visiting great violence upon each other for petty or...
2022-02-25 11:31:20 +0000 UTC View PostBack by popular demand. It's Isaac!
"Well, isn't this the plops."
Isaac Bird looked out over the vast, smoke filled expanse of the third stratum and sighed. After his first trip here, he wasn't sure he'd ever be back, and yet here he was, back fighting alon...
2022-02-23 23:12:52 +0000 UTC View PostSorry I'm late.
He couldn't do it, in the end. There wasn't much he could do, but he did his best to bury Cilla a short distance away from the site of her death. Even with the help of his skeletons, it took hours to shift enough dirt, not that their bony hands were much hel...
2022-02-23 05:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the floor of the third stratum, four giant pillars were rising. Compressed stone, marked with grooves, rotated upward from an enormous base of gathered material. Around the base of each laboured a thousand earth mages, combining their will to enable the great working, shifting thousands of t...
2022-02-20 12:21:06 +0000 UTC View PostDeath.
"Minerva, you're gripping too tight."
"Oh, damn."
The pressure eased just enough for Morrelia to gasp down a breath of air. The darkness receded long enough for her to raise her hands and pat her mother on the back.
"Nice to see you too, mother," she rasped...
2022-02-19 03:52:29 +0000 UTC View PostBit of an odd one, but fun to write.
"She did what?"
"She cut ties between the Legion and the Ka'armodo, completely."
Titus nodded with a satisfied expression on his face as he confirmed the news whereas Morrealia could only sigh and bury her...
2022-02-16 10:04:50 +0000 UTC View Postoof.
Three and a half thousand this time. Too long!
I might be starting to get used to this.
After another few days in the wilderness, sleeping in his bedroll and enduring the isolation his profession had forced on him, he wa...
2022-02-15 06:32:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe door was shaking on its hinges.
A piece of Legion history, the door to the Consul Chamber had stood for three thousand years. Abyssal steel, forged during the Rending, formed the core of the massive doors, which stood over ten metres tall, covered in potent enchantments of hardening and...
2022-02-14 09:46:47 +0000 UTC View PostMy father, and even at this early juncture I must apologise for every one of my writings circling back to the man who raised me, was the first to ever mention the fifth stratum to me.
He described it as a world of endless and profound noxiousness. A place where every particle o...
2022-02-11 09:45:14 +0000 UTC View Post