Almost there.
Also, hey, if you need other stories to read while you're waiting for me to drive this story off the cliff? Go check out The Roads Unseen. It's on RoyalRoad, it's written by someone I know, and it's pretty fun fantasy that has a lot of the same style of humor that ...
2021-08-14 08:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post“I dreamt like a war machine // and woke like a child.” -Lo Kwa Mei-en, Arial-
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The girl who’d been with Alanna was named Katie. Ragged blonde hair, a razor thin nose, and a layer of dirt that had given way to reveal a series of scrapes and scratches after sh...
2021-08-06 22:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostI lied about taking this week off. I felt like I might have needed it, but then I started writing, and felt pretty good. So, if my mental health holds, we'll just stay on our normal schedule. Oh, also this one's early, so enjoy that extra bonus.
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“What if ...
2021-07-29 21:55:08 +0000 UTC View PostI will be taking a break next week for mental health reasons. No need to worry, just need a slight reprieve.
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“War isn’t hell. War is war, and hell is hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse. For one thing, there are no innocent bystanders in hell.” -...
2021-07-24 07:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostNothing special to say this week.
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“To quote a great sage, ‘Answer unclear. Try again later’” -A. Lee Martinez, Helen and Troy’s Epic Road Quest-
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“Not even a little okay with that thing being out here.” James was shaki...
2021-07-18 00:00:33 +0000 UTC View PostRoad trip!
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“I‘m not in denial, I’m just selective about the reality I accept” -Bill Watterson-
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The contrast between the roadways of the Midwest and the alien landscape of Route Predation were just as stark the second time as on James...
2021-07-10 06:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostI dunno if I wanna write narrative anymore. I think I want to go back to just writing emails and documentation. Is this how campaign settings get started?
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“Those who play with the devil’s toys shall be brought by degrees to wield his sword.” -Buckminster Fu...
2021-07-03 15:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, yes, I know we left on a cliffhanger. But I needed to take it a little easy this week, so here's something that's not exactly plot.
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“We were all in it together, though. Every stranger you ever met, they were fighting the very same fight you were. Of course, you...
2021-06-25 10:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostMiddle length today!
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"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon -
Reality was still dark as they drove out into it, despite having spent well over twelve hours in the dungeon.
Once again, they parked by the side of the ...
2021-06-19 03:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostYou know, the road dungeon was, like, the first one I brainstormed after the Office? It's actually been hinted at existing since before they even met El, and it's one I thought would be one of my favorites. And now that we're *here*, well past when I expected to have gotten around to ...
2021-06-11 23:42:23 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't slept more than six hours in the last three days, and I dislike this a lot. I thought getting vaccinated was supposed to give side effects that made you feel like you had the flu. I want to feel like I had the flu! I didn't sign up for insomnia, *again*.
Anyway e...
2021-06-05 12:58:06 +0000 UTC View PostI'm really not happy with this chapter, and I can't put my finger on *why*. It does the job I need it to of advancing time and showing a few small things that are actually important. But I fear it drags on a little. Maybe I'm just overthinking it, I dunno. I'll feel better...
2021-05-29 08:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostI am very tired.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
“Do we have everything?” Anesh asked, for t...
2021-05-22 00:31:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis ended up being longer than I expected. Al
2021-05-08 23:35:21 +0000 UTC View PostGo vote for your favorite dungeon idea. Voting closes Sunday. I'm harvesting ideas from all of you, like some kind of combine machine but for nerd thoughts.
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“They say ‘a lie can get around the world before the truth has got its boots on’. Well, now th...
2021-04-30 11:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostI know I said I might take this week off. But
2021-04-24 05:33:25 +0000 UTC View PostI may need to take next week off, but I don't want to say that out loud in case I can manage to *not* take next week off. Further bulletins as events warrant.
Also, I've aged up! Yesterday was my birthday, and I am now slightly older than I was previously. Incrementa...
2021-04-18 03:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post"Normal" is an illusion.
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“We’re all the time confined to fit the mold. But I won’t ever let them make, a loser of my soul.” - Metric, Synthetica -
It was a matter of scale.
James could understand the scope of the problem when it was just ...
2021-04-10 20:23:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe perk of having worked really hard the last couple of weeks is that depression no longer slows down release schedules. Which, in a neat twist, takes a lot of pressure off me, and makes it easier to break out of a depressive spiral and go back to writing.
I should have tried this ye...
2021-04-03 14:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostShort chapter next week. Seriously, this time.
2021-03-27 02:13:17 +0000 UTC View PostEarly chapter this week for you guys, because I am mildly busy tomorrow, and mildly impatient right now.
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“You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” - A. A. Milne -
“There’s a wikipedia dungeon!?” Momo bu...
2021-03-19 23:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostI lied last week. Long chapter this week. Sho
2021-03-13 03:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostLong chapter this week. Short chapter next wee
2021-03-06 19:48:09 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we're back!
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“So what does a perfect person do with unlimited strength? They get better. And they get stronger.” - Matt, Superman and the Utility Of Strength -
Morgan woke up in an actual bed, for the first time in a week. And despit...
2021-02-28 02:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostI am going to probably take next week off, to recover a bit. I might try writing something, or I might just lay in bed for a whole day reading blog posts about goats or something. Either way, I need to reset my brain a bit.
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“Down these mean streets must go a ma...
2021-02-15 01:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Shandification of my work begins.
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“Each meeting occurs at the precise moment for which it was meant. Usually, when it will have the greatest impact on our lives.”
-Nadia Scrieva, Fathoms of Forgiveness-
Every two weeks, there was a meeting.<...
2021-02-07 00:27:53 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for being a day late. My eternal bout of single combat with depression continues.
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“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it.” - Agent Kay -
“Ughh.” James let out the noise as he lay half-sprawled across...
2021-01-31 20:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostI imagine that if you told start-of-the-story me that he would eventually be disappointed for 'only' writing seven thousand words, he would roll his eyes at you. But here we are.
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“This is the dream of small minds: a gentle place ringed in spears. But I do not think t...
2021-01-24 05:47:52 +0000 UTC View PostBack in the thick of things!
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“The strong do what they will. The weak suffer what they must.”
- Thucydides -
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Once upon a time, James had dreaded high school.
If this came as a shock to anyone he knew, he’d been exceptionally surprised. &nbs...
2021-01-17 06:43:15 +0000 UTC View PostI am not a hundred percent, but I am not dead. Let's get this started.
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“Arm yourself, because no one else here will save you.”
Chris Cornell - You Know My Name
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James hated this building, right now.
The not-so-young-anymore man sat in his car,...
2021-01-10 00:32:46 +0000 UTC View Post