Eventually, we got access to a bookshelf for the base, something the System offered that stocked a rotating selection of Earth literature based on the tastes of the reader. I think Sean felt bad for me being stuck in the Shanktuary so many hours a day, or something, and he popped for it inste...
2024-01-21 20:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the Apocalypse System wants nothing more than for you to enjoy yourself while experiencing the places and things it creates, it’s obligated to note that your enjoyment is not the actual purpose of these things. As you’ve gathered by now, the purpose of a metered, organized end-of-wo...
2024-01-20 20:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, neat,” Sean said. “I have something like that too. Weapon-wise, I mean. It will be cool to see how you use it.”
The orc gave a war cry as a response and started moving in.
“Not much of a conversationalist, I guess. That’s fine,” Sean said. “There’s still a kind ...
2024-01-19 17:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostTyr: FYI We are now transitioning to 5 chapters a week. Aka Mon - Wed - Fri - Sat - Sun.
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I should have seen it, really. How long had Sean been away from his normal life? A month? And the whole month, people had been trying to kill him. He had ...
2024-01-17 19:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Holy shit! He materialized hard!” Brady yelled.
Justin looked over at her, slightly exasperated.
“What does that even mean?”
“It means the rest of you came out sort of soft and smooth and he splatted out of space-time like spilled pudding.”
“That do...
2024-01-15 18:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostEventually he stopped keeping track of the individual animals he had fought. There were dozens of them. Probably. His mind wasn’t working right anymore. He could vaguely remember that the plains were supposed to be for something or to be on the way somewhere, which didn’t make sense. As far a...
2024-01-14 23:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post“It should be any second now. Once it drops, we bolt,” Brady said.
“Do you think the walls will drop before the general notification?” Spike asked. “If there’s any delay, it might not even be worth getting out there first.”
“I think so. Or at least at the same time,”...
2024-01-13 18:42:29 +0000 UTC View PostYou might think that a soda machine wouldn’t be that big of a deal. That it wouldn’t be the single most important purchase we made. Or that it wouldn’t come in clutch in the biggest of possible ways and wouldn’t, in fact, be the crux of the longest-shot chain of events I had ever seen...
2024-01-12 20:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostBy then, I had managed to get a little bit of intel on all the races in the competition. It wasn’t that hard. I was a craftsman, and so were almost half of the shopkeepers. There was a rapport there. We were the same kind of people, same kind of jobs, and same kind of history dealing with c...
2024-01-11 20:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostTyr: FYI we're changing the structure to match other sites. This is now Chapter 79. Ill be retroactively changing the other chapters too
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Balls with spikes. Balls with blades. And balls with short range laser beams that became two-inch orbs of eviscerating death.
The game of ...
2024-01-10 19:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Wake up, you bastard.”
“Wha? Brett?”
“How have you survived this long? You sleep like a drunk brick. It took me five minutes to wake you up.”
“I’m just lucky, I think. And I don’t sleep outside much.”
“Well, thank the heavens for this base, I guess. ...
2024-01-09 17:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostTeam Competitions, Collaborative Efforts, and You
Team competitions and collaborative-effort missions award competitors based on multiple variables. The largest, most heavily weighted variable is simply whether or not your team wins or if you and your collaborators are successf...
2024-01-09 16:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post“So to be clear, you won’t be able to afford anything better than you have right now.” The youngish, surprisingly ripped girl behind the counter at the blacksmith’s shop said, glancing at the weapons strapped to various parts of Sean’s body and trying not to grimace. “Not that what yo...
2024-01-09 16:53:34 +0000 UTC View PostRules Governing Inter-Competitor Combat
“Here it comes. Finally,” Sean said.
“Sean…” said Brett.
“What?”
“You shouldn’t get excited over the next version of death-traps the system is going to throw at you. It’s weird.”
Sean supposed that wasn’t wrong. Whatever the system was sending his w...
2024-01-08 20:29:29 +0000 UTC View PostSean blinked.
Three fucking levels? That’s… double. Two times as many levels. Fuck.
Scrambling nearly every moment of one’s life and spending the rest of what little spare time he had left passed out from exhaustion didn’t leave much time to meditate on the nature of ...
2024-01-07 17:35:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Holy hell. These are the bad rewards?” Sean was incredulous. Some of these improvements were massive despite seeming small. Slightly improved ranged attacks? Absolutely a big deal, especially as he built up his ranged arsenal. Full, unqualified improvement to footwork? Gigantic.
Even i...
2024-01-06 17:19:43 +0000 UTC View PostNo, it shouldn’t have worked. It was dumb.
The Big Book of Brett, PG. 23
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Sean ran around in a circle. Jogged, really. Brett had rigged up the tub well enough that the flow of powder was pretty uniform. Brett had accumulated quite a bit of powder over the ...
2024-01-05 19:15:08 +0000 UTC View Post“So what you are telling me,” Brett said while filing away at the last remnants of the steel block. “Is that he was pretty much like every other offworlder ever.”
Sean had slept longer than he meant to, but being clean, dry, and rested felt much better than the inverse.
“I m...
2024-01-05 19:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostSean’s first attempts at throwing the apples weren’t great. They were sticky, which was something he could deal with, but it made throwing with his gloved hands very, very hard. However, the same wasn’t true of his spear. The tooth that made up the tip of the spear could pierce the apples j...
2024-01-05 17:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostI’ll always be kind of thankful to that squid.
Here I was, alone in a building with no entertainment besides that weird guide, on my third shower and second nap of the day, and Sean was out there fighting for his life. I had no idea what was wrong, outside of the fact that Se...
2024-01-04 22:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Dammit, yes, but plans change as situations do. You almost got yourself killed.” Sean wiped the blood away from his rapidly mending nose as Stitch Up’s post-fight buff pulled it back into the correct position. “You almost got me killed. These things hit hard, and you le...
2024-01-04 22:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostHalf the area meant, naturally, double the density of enemies. And while Sean had expected to need a few more adjustments to the size of the area before the density started to be a serious problem for him, he was wrong. It was almost immediately a big difference in both good and threatening, dang...
2024-01-04 22:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Sean reached the final boxer, it had almost caught up to the squid. That said, it was only the cephalopod’s excessive slowness that made this possible. Its psycho-kinetic strikes had absolutely shredded the boxer’s thighs and calves, restricting it to a snail’s pace relative to Sean’...
2024-01-03 19:17:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, that worked. It’s incredible how useful that is on the apples.”
Sean’s biggest problem dealing with the Tells’ homing beacons was the fact that they would stick to any object he used to bat them down. He couldn’t find enough branches to sacrifice like that, and using anyt...
2024-01-03 19:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a weird time. Sean came from the generation of people who had proved too soft to deal with the Apocalypse, and I always got the feeling that he was above-average soft even for them. It wasn’t the kind of thing that you could just tell him to stop doing. He had grown up different than...
2024-01-03 19:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostHi Gaians and Earthlings,
Hope you guys had a great Christmas and New Years! We're excited to be back writing for y'all. And what better way to show our joy than a small mass release? Three new chapters are waiting for you.
Our goal for January is to bring the advanced chapter count a...
2024-01-02 22:42:37 +0000 UTC View PostSean was so far into the process of admitting that he didn’t really understand how his leveling worked that he didn’t even think about it much anymore. Cowering under a Tell, he felt the gnawing feeling of a pending level and checked it out. Not only did he have another six stat points to wor...
2024-01-02 22:39:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing that I eventually realized about Sean was that, despite whatever failings he might have, he was from the era that the Apocalypse System grew up on. In a way, they were the same generation. They had watched the same TV. They had read the same books. They even knew the same references...
2024-01-02 22:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis is, at best, a basic guide. Sooner or later, you are going to go to places I haven’t been, see things I haven’t seen, and have life and death fights with them. It’s just how it is. Even if I really had seen everything, and I haven’t, the world is constantly changing. The Apocalyp...
2024-01-02 22:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post