Just as he was passing out or dying in some hidden cave, Milo flicked his tail and logged out of the game. He had too much to do in the real world to be wasting time lying in a dusty cot. He did enjoy sleeping in the game now and then, especially when that would be what he was doing in the real w...
2022-09-13 01:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostMilo didn't like the idea of trying to just keep his two adversaries busy while his partner looted the rare mushrooms. Every scenario seemed to end badly for him. The spiders could use the ceiling and walls as well or better than he could. They were too big to draw them off the way he came, and h...
2022-09-12 20:25:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the situation was explained to them, Sven, Jon, and Cham volunteered to handle the task of hiding Ozzy's bag. All three of them had a STR score over 12, and Sven was at 15. His job was cutting and moving the huge blocks of granite and marble used in constructing the new fortress and most of ...
2022-09-12 18:20:47 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, thank you all for the suggestions for building Billy and Layla. Greatly appreciated and I'll have their character sheets ready soon. This chapter is a bit out of order. I started it, stopped, started, worked on their character sheets with your advice.....and then somehow a big fight with a...
2022-09-12 15:25:29 +0000 UTC View PostThis story comes between the time Ozzy floats off after his fight with the Ghoul Lord in Gadobhra, and when the story picks up again with him in the smoke. It deals with a shipwrecked deck hand name Woodrat, trying to stay alive as he drifts across the smokey waves.
Woodrat looked at his c...
Milo passed through the large cavern, noting the types of common mushrooms and vegetables that were being grown here. All of the plants were grown in raised beds with water carefully poured in by the bucketful. A large water cart went to each field where water was poured into the buckets and then...
2022-09-09 01:08:02 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn't happy with the first version and the first half grew in revision. So here is the final version.
Work has begun on the Ozzy solo arc in The Smoke. I will be posting some new game mechanics up with some background soon.
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The fight had not gone unnoticed.
After his third time telling Larry his story, Milo got away by promising to tell it again at the next meal. Larry was in a better mood, still singing the song from the story. The map showed the caverns that made up Limburger Hollow, and showed all the exits. The exit he needed looked to be in a c...
2022-09-07 03:32:42 +0000 UTC View PostMilo followed behind the Cheese-Master and a very nervous Riftkin. A small side room was unlocked, which turned out to have only a staircase in it, leading downward. Milo could smell all sorts of interesting scents coming from below: mushrooms, spoiled milk, damp earth, and many types of cheese. ...
2022-09-07 00:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight had not gone unnoticed. Rolly and Squirmie weren't to the village yet when the Suzette's first spell lit up the early morning darkness. He arrived as Layla was trying to keep Suzette alive and threw himself into the effort of healing her. The huge gash across her back slowly started to ...
2022-09-05 04:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter just happened. I started writing, and didn't know all of this shit was going to pop it. It just did. Sometimes when I write, it just flows. Other times, especially with dialog, it gets down painfully a sentence at a time.
Today, stuff just leaped into the story unplanned. Thi...
Cheese class with Master Bleusnout was interesting. He had had no idea that cheese was as much a part of rat-kin culture as beer was in dwarven culture. It was an ingrained part of every rat-kin's life, and how a hollow managed their cheese determined much about it.
"Greetings young ones...
The fighting arena was filling up as Milo arrived. Like the day before, some seemed to be players just starting up new characters. Several were sparring in the center area, punching and slapping with their tails. One of these approached Milo as he put his pack down. "Hey, want to get in a round b...
2022-09-01 16:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, a day off! I lost my weeked to a silly trip to the beach where I endured salt, sun, saltwater taffee, pizza at Mack and Mancos, and other delights of the Jersey shore. Fun, and I wrote stories in my head while relaxing. I'll have at least one more chapter tonight/tomorrow. Lots more of t...
2022-09-01 01:40:37 +0000 UTC View PostPosting this, but it needs some work. First runthrough to get ideas down. I'm a bit behind from a trip to the beach. Needed my salt water taffee and macaroons. All my kids are tired and sunburnt. Successful weekend.
Your curse will have to be something special. Are you re...
2022-08-30 04:40:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis takes place after chapter 177 of Butcher of Gadobhra.
It was sometime in the waning hours of night that a lone figure moved through the ruined city.
The Dregs in Hungrytown had settled into their crypts, fearing to be caught when the sun came up. The endless dance hadn't ende...
Sadly, character sheets go up poorly, and Billy and Laylas are only partially done. But for reference, lets reveal that ACME also had a special build for their 'Worker Liasons' like Billy, Layla, and Sammy. They didn't expect them to ever be players, just watch over the workers, and spend half th...
2022-08-30 00:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostApologies. Hard to make this work in Patreon. All the riddle answers will be hidden in spoilers in the regular story
Rolly could tell that something was wrong with his pet. Squirmie was hesitant to go into the Beast Woods tonight. "What's wrong bug?"
<The Beast Woods a...
Milo felt a small bit of regret as Brutus tucked his cheese into a large pouch, but the sound of Larry begging for cheese was enough to convince him ten times over. "You mentioned some classes? I think I need those. But I've never been in a hollow before, can you give me some advice on what to do...
2022-08-25 04:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostA hellish chapter to write, mostly dialog :) This will get at least one more look through before putting it up. If something bothers you, let me know.
Before the first time he logged into the game, Ozzy had done some research on his new manager, William Horvacs. He liked to know who he was...
About half of this was in the old chapter, some got moved elsewhere, and more got added.
A group of contract workers, finished with their daily chores, having labored from sunrise to sunset, were traveling through Gadobhra to do even more work for their Baron. Tonight, they were going to ...
Pushing a couple of things off again to finish up the 'Fae Upgrades'. It seemed better to do them at once than to interspace them with other chapters.
Lord Hound had begun his busy day the in the realm of Alwyn, a minor Lord of Summer. His courier was sound asleep after a night of drinking...
"Wow, I can smell the mushrooms from here! I'm starving. You've got to have worked up an appetite with that fighting. Nice job by the way. It's not easy laying a tail on old Gilad. That guy's was fighting for decades before he retired to teach combat to the new whelps. My grand pappy said he serv...
2022-08-18 17:54:47 +0000 UTC View PostA tough chapter, and will get a bit of polish. Try describing a fight. Now try describing a fight with tails.
Milo collected himself. The older rat-kin had said that they would go a few rounds, but his stance was neutral and non-threatening? Was he in a fight? Looking aroun...
2022-08-17 23:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostI realized I wanted to get out a couple of small chapters before the bigger one that deals with Ozzy talking with Billy, and Layla having fun hacking meat. So what I had said was chapter 174 now gets pushe further off, and this is the new 174.
As he usually did each morning, Jasper Fentrix...
To the north and west of the village of Sedgewick was a small forest of Ironwood Hickories. Long under siege by the mighty army of the oaks, they now dwelt in peace, guarded in part by their new allies in the village. It's easy to find their once hidden glade. Just follow the trail oak stumps.
Milo wondered how his second life had gotten so hectic. After some thought he decided to blame the eels. They always seemed to be up to something. At least he got double experience and skill points from them. Being part of the group that killed the hydra had given him 10 more points. Of course, t...
2022-08-16 20:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostMilo had taken advantage of the relative calm in Harry's area to attempt a visit to his Arcane Library. It was more difficult now. Instead of logging out and getting an option to go to the library, he now had to do a ritual in game that took roughly fifteen minutes. He inscribed a rough circle, a...
2022-08-16 17:42:11 +0000 UTC View PostCham had gone to sleep, by himself, in one of the older trees at the edge of the glade. He'd learned the hard way that trying to get some rest anywhere near the younger dryads was impossible. Blossom or Petal or Honey would try to sneak over to him and get caught by one of the old women, and then...
2022-08-16 01:15:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt took a few days for Harry to grow until he was roughly human sized and his huge arm to shrink down to the point, he could drag it along behind him. A day later, he asked for Milo's help in taking it off. Despite Harry telling him it was just fine; Milo was a bit squeamish about the whole thing...
2022-08-15 02:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post