As befitting an undead siege, the event started not the next day, but the next night. As the last rays of the sun vanished below the trees, the first shamblers pulled themselves from the ground. Yes, from the ground!
The classic zombies that made up the first wave died easily. Not that anyo...
2025-01-22 19:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostGem rolls their eyes, “This situation is completely different! The monster below us doesn’t know we’re here this time. Makes things a lot easier. No, the real question should be, where are we going after getting out of this situation?”
June looks over to the side and points, “How ...
2025-01-21 01:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostMore time had passed and Doyle was ready to start his next floor. Both Ace and Jim had returned to the last floor with their teams multiple times at this point and he was getting antsy. Not because they were coming close, Doyle actually wanted them to see his core.
No, rather, they weren’...
2025-01-17 18:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostJim was settling some issues with the recent change in the dungeon when the ground moved. The movement was subtle. He felt more when a fully loaded merchant cart would rumble by outside. So subtle that Jim wasn’t even sure he would have noticed it before the system.
He didn’t doubt what...
2025-01-17 18:09:55 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next five days, things go into overdrive for the town. With a System backed prophecy and the bandits handled, they begin to harvest. Early? Yes, but better harvest than frosted.
And on the fifth night, only a day after everything was harvested, the first freeze happens. The town wa...
2025-01-15 16:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostAnd despite expectations to the contrary, the town guard manages to clean up bandit travellers. It wasn’t like they were talented travellers or anything. After all, if they were actually talented they would have been out with a proper team instead of in such a large group. While the System didn...
2025-01-15 16:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostAce sighs, that had been more of a meeting than he had planned for. Though really, it came back to the same thing it always did these days. Power and the projection thereof.
Ace shakes his head. It wasn’t like things were any different before the system came. The major difference being th...
2025-01-11 05:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe guards can hear the moment that the enemy notices them. Seems the bandits have no concept of maintaining silence when things go down. Though it isn’t completely unreasonable. Lily hadn’t been able to report the actual numbers, but there was a lot. Three to four teams worth with another te...
2025-01-08 14:12:23 +0000 UTC View PostLily hopped around the field, nibbling on the various stalks. She wasn’t supposed to, but they didn’t actually care about the stalks themselves, anyway. It is a shame that she couldn’t hang out in the roughly harvested fields. There were a lot of actual crops left on the ground for her to t...
2025-01-08 14:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday is the last days of the Kickstarter and we're only $91 away (as of my writing this post) from hitting the goal! I am a little worried about it though, so if you'd be one looking for an ebook version of my story, Banished Talent, 2025-01-05 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Below are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month.
Human have become the grand master of the universe to the point that it's a war crime to use human ...
2025-01-05 06:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostJune glances around, trying to figure out an idea. “Umm, we can. Hmm. Oh! Water. We don’t have to outrun them or guide them into someone else. We just need to escape their notice.
“There should be some kind of river next to the city, if only to provide water and trade. We just need to...
2025-01-03 09:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle and Ally settle down. Without a new floor to make and people they need to watch, there isn’t much that needs done. Well, obviously all the observational stuff still needs work, but this ends up being more like sitting back on a couch and watching Internet videos.
Because goodness kn...
2025-01-03 09:17:54 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle turned to Ally, ‘I have indigestion.’
Ally slowly turned to face his core and raised an eyebrow, ‘The what? You’re a dungeon core. You don’t “eat” in a way which could do that.’
Doyle shakes his core, ‘Seems to not be the case. I did some mediation or whatever ...
2025-01-03 09:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostA year has passed and during that year I managed to write 12 short stories, finished Banished Talent, started SoulDive, wrote 78 chapters of Dungeon's Path, and 104 chapters of NeoRealm. I don't have an exact count, but that means I wrote over a quarter of a millio...
2025-01-02 18:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostJason’s breathing is even though showing signs of strain. He had been at his tenth meridian for hours now and it was almost clear. The intention of this session hadn’t been to clear an entire meridian.
However, it has been partially cleared already and he is so close now. Besides, Court...
2025-01-01 13:07:37 +0000 UTC View PostHalina claps, “That’s the ticket! Now just give the council a few more hours and they’ll probably settle on that.”
Jason sighs, “You already suggested banishing them for the duration of the event?”
Halina smiles, “I can’t take all the credit. Me and my brother spent th...
2025-01-01 13:06:38 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
No...
2024-12-31 16:01:07 +0000 UTC View PostOn the 19th of October 2017, it was a normal enough day on an Earth similar to our own. Just like us, they spotted an interesting extrasolar object that had just passed by the sun 40 days before. `Oumuamua, a red-colored cigar-shaped object between 300 and 3000 feet (100 and 1000 meters) long, bu...
2024-12-31 15:56:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe first signs of being in a new territory was the thinning of underbrush. Though once that happened, it didn’t take long for Gem and June to spot a new variety of monster, deer with rocky antlers. So, of course, Gem ran right towards them.
Those first deer ran away up on seeing the boar...
2024-12-27 10:54:16 +0000 UTC View PostSusan, “Even if the kobolds made the trap, it will have been placed with a skill. Me and my husband have been keeping track of instances of kobold traps. We haven’t quite nailed it down. I personally suspect some floors have hidden kobolds, but the ratio of kobolds to their traps never goes t...
2024-12-27 10:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe team squeezes their way through the crowded street for a moment, before realizing that it was only this street that was crowded. So, with only a medium amount of embarrassment, they take a side street and are soon making much better time towards the admin building the Mayor has told them to d...
2024-12-25 13:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe group was back in the settlement and forced to be a part of a quite dull meeting. It was a gathering of the town’s leadership going on and on about what to do about “the situation”. Though the trio weren’t the only ones done with it all.
Helina was slumped in her chair, grumblin...
2024-12-25 13:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe woman raises an eyebrow, “How about we Introduce ourselves first?”
Gem nods, “Ah, gotcha, same thing? Anyway, you can call me Gem! I’m the They/Them causing May/Hem!”
The woman bridles, “I didn’t get here by accident! It was just that there were too many people and I...
2024-12-21 11:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, no one returned to the 17th floor before Kelly figured out how to make other kinds of tokens. Though over those days, many of the inner circle made their way to the 16th. All in search of more ashen cattle hides.
This was actually the first time in a while where all of the inner...
2024-12-20 12:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle watches with rapt attention. The town had already started on figuring out external magic items, but what little loot they did get from the kobolds included lizard tokens. Tokens that Kelly had already noticed and was going to be checking them out right now.
They received three of the ...
2024-12-20 12:41:34 +0000 UTC View PostJason snaps out a kick to the right, slamming the dwarf’s shield back. All the while he has to bend his waist to the side to avoid the enemies’ back row thrusting their spears at the same time to catch him.
With him thrown off balance, the other defender goes in for a shield thrust to k...
2024-12-18 15:51:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a small pebble under the left side of his hip. However, Jason remained still. This was a stakeout and he had been chosen to be the closest to the fields.
Well, that doesn’t really cover it. He was IN the fields. Sure, one of the fields on the edge that stuck out, but it was the ...
2024-12-18 15:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostGem looked down at their new ring and was mildly shocked, though they had been expecting something after Crystal called attention to it. So yeah, it now looked like a stylized frog, because of course it did. “Cool. So what needs to be done now?”
Crystal shrugged, “You need to escape? ...
2024-12-13 10:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle was interested in how they would handle the leather and kept an eye on it. Well, some of it. Most of the untreated ashen cattle hides
Doyle was interested in how they would handle the leather and kept an eye on it. Well, some of it. Most of the untreated ashen cattle hides were being ...
2024-12-13 10:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post