I don't think I can really count this as early ... but it is indeed on time!
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“Serenity?” Aide’s voice rang in Serenity's mind before he was even really awake. Adrenaline - or whatever his body now used that served the same purpose - shot through Serenit...
2023-09-30 22:54:50 +0000 UTC View PostI am currently expecting the next chapter to be on time. Early would be nice but I can't promise it.
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“Red agrees with you.” Russ frowned and shook his head slightly at the deconstructed trap. “What about the wood thing with a monster core?”
Ser...
2023-09-30 06:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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A neon pink thorn brought back memories. They weren’t good ones, but at least they made it fairly easy to figure out what the monster had to be. It had to be a Demon of Pain, a Thorn Demon.
It was a hard decision, but Serenity had to trust that Earth’s ...
2023-09-29 06:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Lesser Demon of Wrath was incredibly cute, far cuter than the Lesser Demon of Sorrow. Serenity was pretty confident that other people wouldn’t think so, but there was something about how tiny and aggressive it was that made it positively endearing.
As...
2023-09-28 05:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Where did the Lesser Sorrow Demon come from?
The question bothered Serenity. It wasn’t the only question that bothered him, but it was the one he couldn’t resolve just by asking Aki. She didn’t know where it came from; Russ didn’t have any idea either. ...
2023-09-27 04:12:33 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Legion told Serenity about the trapped package a few hours after it happened.
Russ waited until Serenity was back on Earth to fill in the details. All of the details. “...six trapped packages that day. We’re lucky that only two of them were opened by th...
2023-09-26 03:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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This time, Serenity saw Elder Lizven’s eyes follow his to the planet above them. After a moment, she lowered her gaze to meet his, wrinkled her brow, and asked “Just who were you?”
Somehow, even though she directed the question at him, Serenity didn’...
2023-09-24 23:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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As far as Serenity could tell, the enchantment on the rope binding his hands was simply to make it sturdier. He’d checked and that was all he could see. :I seem to be fine. I can get out of this whenever I want to; it’s strong, but that’s all. Nothing to st...
2023-09-23 21:32:25 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The portal guard led the group to a building that was clearly grown in the side of the large tree that was closest to the portal. Even so, it wasn’t all that close. If this was where the guards’ station for the portal was, it was surprisingly inconveniently located....
2023-09-22 21:44:25 +0000 UTC View PostCurrently coping with covid. Chapters may be late. Sorry. This should have been out hours ago.
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Becca left work at the Adventurer’s Guild at three that afternoon. She was happy to be working the early shift; the evening shift was usually when the entitled delver...
2023-09-21 23:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There were no hellhounds on the way to the first reported incident. Russ was grateful for it; he’d stiffened up in the time he spent watching the video of the hellhound summoning, and while he made certain to stretch before he got into the car, he just knew he...
2023-09-20 22:54:51 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Quincy stayed with Russ through his entire round of medical treatment. Between the deep puncture wounds and burns, Russ decided to pay for magical healing; without it, he would probably have had to stay at least overnight but magical healing had been around for long...
2023-09-19 22:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“It’s not a bomb,” Brown told Russ. “There are no signs of any explosives at all. Here, let me show you the X-Ray.”
Russ was lucky Brown got along so well with the local police; if he didn’t, this entire exercise would have been far more difficult. ...
2023-09-18 23:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Rube nodded at the security guard, Jim, as he headed into the elevator to the underground area. It still surprised him that something as simple as finding a discarded but colorful box led him to work at a museum, much less the Metropolitan. Not only did he not ha...
2023-09-18 00:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Shopping meant that Serenity didn’t manage to make it to the Guild hall until the next morning and then it was afternoon before he, along with Raz, Blaze, and Ita, entered the nearby dungeon. Riss, Legion, and the rest of the entourage were back at the market; Sere...
2023-09-17 04:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Tsallin was a city built at the mouth of a river. At Tsallin, it was called the Tsa; Serenity knew the river had other names as you traveled upstream. They wouldn’t matter, because the trip from Tsallin was a sea voyage from Tsallin to Kvellin. In Kvellin, they’d...
2023-09-16 05:11:45 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Russ needed a vacation. Most years, that wasn’t an issue; he worked when he was needed and was on call the rest of the time. Where possible, the other Guardians took his cases; he was mostly retired, after all. Despite the sheer size of the territory he covered, t...
2023-09-15 01:22:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
Edit: Managed to get Patreon to display the image instead of the page it's from.
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He was halfway done with the mapping project when something about the small shattered ley line areas attracted his notice: they all emanated from the points where the lines crossed. Th...
2023-09-13 23:37:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The MANIC device didn’t make any sense.
Human tilted it at someone else in the crowded area and got yet another nonsensical result. This time, it said Tier Three but she could immediately tell that the woman was only Tier One and definitely wasn’t maskin...
2023-09-12 23:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity and Russ were eating breakfast when the world shook. Serenity could hear Gaia’s jubilation, so he immediately knew what had happened: Earth had advanced to Tier Four. That was insanely fast; worlds were supposed to be slower than people, not faster!
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Human was not in the van.
Once again, Death debated abandoning her humanlike form to find the Beast-God and once again, she rejected the idea. Not only was it not necessary, this was interesting in a way she hadn’t seen in a long time. Probably ever. 2023-09-10 22:23:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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Serenity felt a lot more relaxed as he climbed back up the stairs at the dungeon’s exit. He might not have gotten the workout he wanted, but he had gotten some food and time with good company instead. It helped.
The good feelings were a little hurt when he h...
2023-09-09 23:12:53 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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When Serenity returned to Aki’s dungeon, he found Raz in his draconic form teaching a young woman about dungeon management. That had to be Nadia Davis, the niece of the helicopter pilot who’d taken him to the island with the Well of Souls. She was so intent on R...
2023-09-08 23:23:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Why was he here, watching while the enchanter was questioned?
Serenity really didn’t have anything to contribute. He could just as easily have watched this later or even heard the details from Russ, but Russ wanted him here. Serenity wasn’t sure why. It wa...
2023-09-08 02:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Not allowed?” Blaze frowned at Russ. “You can enforce that?”
“If we catch it,” Russ admitted. “We try, and I like to think that something this overt is always caught eventually, but sometimes they go for entirely too long. Once upon a time … it...
2023-09-07 04:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Everything was more or less back under control when Russ finally called Serenity and asked him to head back to New York City. It wasn’t quite an afterthought when Russ asked Serenity to bring Blaze and Ita but leave Rissa behind.
They met at a strip mall, in...
2023-09-05 23:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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During the weeks after the fight on A’Atla, Serenity kept busy putting things back together. He was busy enough inside the tunnels that he wasn’t with the first group that reached the dungeon. He heard about the encounters with the snakes; they ran from the Lamia w...
2023-09-04 21:58:49 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Becca looked up from her phone when the door chimed to let her know someone had arrived. She tucked the phone under the desk. Maybe she would take up Kerr’s offer of paying for training; it would give her something to do between customers other than ...
2023-09-03 19:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostCharacter List of Deep Blue Sea
This list includes people mentioned in all Arcs to date.
It does not include people with only a single mention or the “people” from the Story Dungeon; they are specifically for that Story. If I missed anyon...
2023-09-02 21:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThere's a section here that was requested yesterday ... it fits well so I put it in today's epilogue and moved the bit I had planned for that section to the prologue that will come in a couple days. It sets stuff up for the next book anyway.
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Letter from H...
2023-09-01 23:18:07 +0000 UTC View Post