Happy week! These five chapters mark the end of book three.
Originally the plan was to end the series here, and the ending is a nail in the coffin to how things started off.
You few who have stuck along for the ride will be the first to know that I plan on continuing the series! Albei...
2024-03-31 14:10:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy week! Chapters as below :>
3.57 - Fragments
3.58 - The Long Game
3.59 - Multiplication
3.60 - Carry the Remainder
3.61 - By His Design
Happy week! The next five chapters are attached!
3.52 - Second Breakfast
3.53 - A Flag Raised
3.54 - Tough and Tougher
3.55 - Rocked and Rolled
3.56 - Eight Nine
Happy week! Next batch of chapters attached!
3.47 - Thrice Bitten
3.48 - Time and Time Again
3.49 - A Place to Rest
3.50 - Finally
3.51 - Unanswered
Happy week! Chapters as attached :>
3.42 - One Eventful Day
3.43 - Invasive Species
3.44 - Pressure
3.45 - Flying Coach
3.46 - As Foreshadowed
On reflection, as I look back at the different passages of text within my diary… or memoirs? I haven’t decided on that. Everything has such a sour slant to it. I let the good days stay as memories, but allowed the bad times to paint these pages as if they were somehow more important. More...
2024-02-27 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe had swept up the broken shards of the first area and only slightly bloodied our hands on the sharp edges. Tore out parts of ourselves so the rough edges could gel together. More surface area so we could be the perfect Party. Still early days, and things hadn’t properly set before the sin...
2024-02-26 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy week! Here's the next five brain-eating chapters!
3.37 - Unskilled
3.38 - Key Boss Battle
3.39 - Acid Reign
3.40 - Unbroken Bond
3.41 - Against the World
Happy week! Here's the DotP chapters (:
3.32 - Brained
3.33 - Calm and Collected
3.34 - Already Perfect
3.35 - Falling STARs
3.36 - Smooth Words
That was the beauty of it all, really. Struggle, resolve conflict, rest and enjoy your life. Repeat. I wasn’t too keen on the repeating part. That’s what made us adventurers, though. Drawn to danger, wanting to overcome odds and carve a better world for everyone. It involved a lot of over...
2024-02-16 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe bigger they are, the harder they fell. That’s what they say, anyway. The problem for me was that my ego had gotten pretty big. I was under no illusion that my time was coming, and indeed there had been some close calls. You would think I’d be more humble after being nearly bested by g...
2024-02-15 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI can almost taste the blood as the sounds vibrated through my skull. Even now, the first time I had… it had always been something that could happen. The moment I stepped through the portal my fate had been decided. The death, the blood, the suffering I would both enact and overcome. Would ...
2024-02-14 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis section of my memories always gives me a headache. The smells, the sounds, the violence. Makes my brain feel clogged and smokey, desperate for fresh air. A prison of my own making, perhaps.
I wiped my hands off as I walked back up the stairs into the open air. Unsure at how I ...
2024-02-13 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt always amazed me how productive evil could be. When you cut corners and didn’t care who you had to step on to steal materials or labor, anything was possible. The knowledge that Crimson Shadows had managed to produce some manner of fortifications in however many short days was as impress...
2024-02-12 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all! Just wanted to say thanks again for all the support!
Chapter 65 comes out this Fri 16th and is the end of Book One.
I will be taking a week off if there's any feedback to give me whilst I recover!
Chapter 66, the start of Book Two, will come out Mon 26th and Patreon will...
2024-02-11 14:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy week! More system-eating-zombie chapters!
3.27 - Rising Steps
3.28 - Connections
3.29 - The Peak
3.30 - Back in Business
3.31 - Shuffle the Deck
They say to fight fire with fire, but the best method was to smother it. Deprive it of oxygen until the flicker of light died out. That was my dim view of how the Crimson Shadows should be dealt with. Violence was a part of my daily life now, but the cruelty and barbarism they showed toward t...
2024-02-09 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAnother gap in my journal here. I knew why and liked to pretend it was the looming battle for the bridge. I didn’t care to put into writing the actual reason, lest the unfaltering text altered the memories.
As soon as the town came into sight, part of me relaxed. The amber sky as...
2024-02-08 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThings felt good when you were on a roll. And roll we did. In a different time where the Crimson Shadow wasn’t a constant threat, we would have easily run circles around everything in the first area and sucked every mote of good loot from any Quest offered. Our time there was shorter than n...
2024-02-07 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t a demon, at least not in the traditional sense. There was some manner of blurred lines where I certainly had demonic abilities, but I still had a tight grip on my humanity. No growing horns or wings bursting from my back. Not so far, anyway. For the purposes of these memoirs, imagi...
2024-02-06 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostDown to business. The System certainly expected you want to continue to grow in power. Do Quests, level up, unlock new abilities, and travel to new locations. There were Players who had given up the rat race to varying success. Tried to settle into normal jobs or whatever closest proximity to...
2024-02-05 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy week! DotP Chapters attached!
3.22 - The Widest Smile
3.23 - Final Observations
3.24 - Entombed
3.25 - Unchained
3.26 - Tower Team
Rest and recovery were always worth the time spent. There was the temptation to go full speed constantly, but that just led to stretching yourself too thin. In this world there were dozens of things waiting in the wings for that to happen, just to snap you or pierce you through. On the flip s...
2024-02-02 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s a marked changed in my notes from the horse incident and onwards. Whether it was due to the brain injury, the near-death experience, or part of my apparent soul merge, I wasn’t sure. I still felt like myself and acted like myself. Well, that was the crux of it - some of my actions...
2024-02-01 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis page of my journal is just a crudely drawn picture of a horse with a cross through it, a little angry face with a top hat on the side. That might be me.
I took a gasp of cold air, pain and waves of numbness pulsing through my body. Immediately, I was enveloped in warmth. My ea...
2024-01-31 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostI kept reminding myself every so often that I wasn’t a gambler. Or rather, I tried to convince myself that was true. While I liked my tricks to have a certain amount of sureness to them, it seemed that time and time again I would put my life on the line and see how highly fate regarded my c...
2024-01-30 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the impressive things about fighting other Players was how slow they seemed to use their abilities. For the longest time, it perplexed me - as if they had some manner of a mental block like Wolf and could only use things innately and didn’t have a proper grasp of their class or how t...
2024-01-29 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy week! Jungle saga continues!
3.17 - Staff Meeting
3.18 - Classy
3.19 - Vacancy Filled
3.20 - Darkening Skies
3.21 - Ride or Die
Going into a situation with only half the necessary information was a cue to have the gaps labored with whatever the System deemed the most dire. A glass half full was all well and good until fate used your blood to top it off. Unfortunately, knowledge was scarce at the best of times, limited...
2024-01-26 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnother blank page lined my journal at this juncture, aside from a few stars I had doodled. I remembered it clearly, even without the visual reminder. That outfit. Her intention to become part of the show. Despite the slideshow of horrible images that ran through my mind, that time on the bea...
2024-01-25 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post