Sean didn’t exactly wake up. Waking up was something you could feel happen, something that was at least gradual-enough that there were in between zones, timings where you weren’t-quite-conscious yet. This was something different. He had blacked out and then seamlessly found himself fully cons...
2023-12-12 05:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostIn these trying times, everyone has to look out for themselves. That’s the rule. If you can save someone, you do. But if shit hits the fan and a wave of monsters is about to sweep over everyone, you need to take care of yourself. It’s not just me that’s telling you this. It’s an accep...
2023-12-12 05:51:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit. Shit.” Sean tried desperately to slow his descent down the sides of the canyon and failed miserably. It would have been one thing if he had just slipped and fallen. Instead, he had tried to jump away from the attack coming from below, one that had been lifting up the ground itself as h...
2023-12-11 17:40:49 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving the woods at a different angle, Sean expected that he might end up pretty far from home. Nothing could have been further from the truth. Instead of disgorging him at an unknown location, the woods appeared to have accounted for the weird different-dimension feel of the space inside the wo...
2023-12-10 17:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Apocalypse System will kill you dead and not bat an eye. It isn’t your friend, it won’t feel your loss, and to the extent it writes anyone obituaries, they come in the form of wry little anecdotes attached to an equipment’s flavor text. For all the jokes it tells, the system created...
2023-12-10 10:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostA long time ago, literally and figuratively, before his string of jobs, Sean had been a student studying to be a teacher, in Physics.
There were a lot of arguments about why it was necessary for teachers to pay some school a bunch of money, then intern at an entirely different school for fr...
2023-12-09 05:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostAchievement Unlocked: The Three Spectral Bears
Once, in the woods, there were three bears. The first bear was a killer. He loved to stalk through the forest and take down unsuspecting prey. The second one, that bear loved killing too. The third one was,...
2023-12-08 01:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostOverestimating your own strengths can be dangerous, and can get you into messes you can’t get out of. I know, I know. You are tired of me telling you to be careful. I get it. I grind that particular point a lot. That’s because it’s important. I’ve watched over-eagerness kill more peop...
2023-12-06 21:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, you look much better than this morning, at least.” Cedarhelm creaked as he shook back and forth a little, entering what Sean was starting to think of as his active mode, where he went from looking like a big lump of dirt to an alive-looking big lump of dirt. “Happier. And you’ve ga...
2023-12-06 20:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostSean couldn’t change any of his tactics. He simply flared Hard Time as much as possible and hoped that it would be enough to buy enough time that his strike would land first. In that moment, the skill seemed to be working better than it had before. It wasn’t a massive difference, and...
2023-12-06 20:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostNot every single Apocalypse Beast is outright evil. It would almost be better if they were, because the mere fact that you might someday have to murder a T-Rex who would have been pretty good lunch company is the kind of thing that encourages hesitation. Unfortunately, waiting to act is often...
2023-12-05 17:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time Sean woke up, it was already well into the morning. He didn’t even remember falling asleep. He had been fully planning on recovering his wind and doing something, anything to make himself more secure. Apparently, he had been a bit more nappish than he thought. But the fact that he w...
2023-12-05 17:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostEating Capon was entirely out of the question. There was something uniquely off-putting about a truly jacked rabbit that Sean just wasn’t about to get around. But he still had to eat, and lentils weren’t going to cut it after the day he had. Keeping the fact that apocalypse beasts were never ...
2023-12-03 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe trees showed no signs of thinning. Sean should have arrived at the edge of the forest after an hour of running, but nothing changed. Something system-ish was happening, for sure, but he had no way of knowing exactly what.
Do I just… keep walking? It doesn’t seem like the trash g...
2023-12-02 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Thump!” Sean vocalized, just before the Trash Compactor made the same sort of noise on the chest of a garbage man. He frankly loved the thing. It did damage. Sometimes that damage came in the form of its spikes digging into a target. Sometimes, the sheer weight and momentum of the weapon dra...
2023-12-01 16:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostTyr: This be a new series, as stated in the previous announcement. Don't confuse it with Deadworld!
Chapters 1-25 are available on RoyalRoad.
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2023-11-30 21:17:17 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
As your favorite announcer, I, Tyr, am here to present you with advance chapters from the new series R.C. has been working on~
You may have seen recently a certain story called “2023-11-30 21:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favorite things about writing is trying to anticipate how various people will react to what I’m writing. In part, this is just part of the job description; if I don’t think a sad part is going to make you feel a little sad, I need to rewrite it. If someone is supposed to be a jerk a...
2023-11-28 06:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe system instance was efficient. It was persuasive. It had a fundamental understanding of every intricacy in the planet that it ran. And it had the means and brainpower to accomplish its goals. But, due to circumstances outside its control, its fate was unfortunately sealed. The main system wou...
2023-11-28 04:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostIf you could call being in a coma “sleep”, Matt had slept for quite a while after Derek had caught him. Now, he felt sure he didn’t need any more rest. Without talking much, he and Lucy watched the sun rise over the scorched, leveled remains of the demon city. From what Lucy told Matt, afte...
2023-11-26 20:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe trickiest part about figuring out what to do with the demon hearts was realizing that, whatever might happen, they were no more dangerous in the basement than they’d be if Matt kept them close. If the demon lord set off one, they’d all go off. Matt would have to somehow get to ground leve...
2023-11-26 01:07:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe demon lord turned and walked to one of the walls, one made almost entirely of what appeared to be glass. “I want to put your mind at ease if I can. I know it’s you who’s been wasting my hearts and just demolishing my troops lately. Don’t worry about that at all. I can always make more...
2023-11-25 00:41:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Matt had been falling into the hole he created, it looked like he was descending into pitch-black darkness. Now that he was at the bottom of the hole, it was a different story. It was still dark, despite the best efforts of the light streaming in from above. But it was dark in the way ...
2023-11-23 00:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Your mole digging skill is really overpowered, Matt. That was close,” Lucy said.
“Yeah, no kidding. I’m going to go deeper.” Matt had not taken terrain into account when he had begun this particular tunnel, and the ground had apparently been at a slight downward slope towards the...
2023-11-20 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Matt said anything, he made everyone move a good distance away. Then, he activated his digging skill and bore a tunnel into an entire hill. As an added precaution, he asked Brennan to also set up the tent. And finally, he felt safe enough. One by one, each member of the team entered the te...
2023-11-19 23:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe main system sat on top of the laws of the universe like a tattoo sat on top of skin. It colored every aspect of it, manipulated how people saw and thought of it, and was very, very hard to remove. But as much as it could manipulate those laws, its abilities were still limited. It could make s...
2023-11-18 15:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
I know that since a lot of you guys read ahead on Patreon, some of the RoyalRoad announcements might not really come through. So, if you haven't seen it already, we recently launched a new novel titled 2023-11-17 22:07:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Cobblestones, Matt decided, were one of the best things about being strong in a society that ran on medieval aesthetics. Or at least they were for someone who was a super-strong mole-enhanced digging specialist trying to make his way quietly under a heavily guarded military weapons storage facili...
2023-11-17 21:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post