With Karalti keeping the infantry busy, I ran for the door of the Keep, glancing over my HP and Adrenaline. The door was smashed into the dense barricade of furniture the defenders had piled up behind the door. Some of it had been shoved back by Karalti, but not all of it – not enough that I co...
2021-01-14 01:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: The version you guys are reading here is still subject to edits/changes as we build into the final stages of production and publication. I encourage all of you to submit major editing issues to me in the comments, or by PM here or on the Archemi Discord server. I definitely wan...
2021-01-14 01:04:37 +0000 UTC View PostMy own experiences as a paratrooper had drilled a set of images and smells into my memory: the cavernous spartan troop carrier, little more than a big flying tube with rows of folding seats down the length of the plane. Every seat held a grim-faced soldier. Some feigned relaxation. Some meditated...
2021-01-11 22:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostNow that we had confirmation that our parachutes worked the way they needed to, it was time to start the preparations for our mission: prying Bas County out of Zoltan's greedy hands.
Operation Girlpower was far from the first mass combat quest we’d taken on, but The Last of Her House<...
2021-01-11 22:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostTrue to her word – and thanks to the miracle of videogame crafting – Rin had the parachute ready by the afternoon: a near-replica of the HI-5 ram air chute used for free fall jumps, except it was made from bright blue and red silk instead of olive drab ripstop.
Suri cocked an eyebrow at...
2021-01-11 22:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostTraining always began with a brisk 3-mile run in full gear, accompanied by wholesome songs about patriotism, duty, and sacrifice.
“Airborne Ranger was a hell of a man! Walked through the bar with his cock in his hand! Shit on the table and pissed on the floor! Wiped his ass with a forty-f...
2021-01-11 00:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostI went with Rin to the smithy, where she'd set up her quarters. It was still fairly chaotic. Rin's workspaces were neat - organized by shape, size and color - but her personal belongings were heaped on her bed in a pile.
“Hi, ladies!” She sang out as she opened the door. I hung back as ...
2021-01-11 00:16:35 +0000 UTC View PostA quarter of an hour later, me, Suri, Kitti, Rin and the commanders of my army had gathered around the dining table offside the Great Hall, listening as the scouts delivered their report with the aid of maps spread out on the wooden surface.
"The biggest problem is this road," Corporal Bogn...
2021-01-11 00:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we reached the stairs, Jacob’s screams of rage gave way to sobbing as our footsteps faded. Suri and I climbed the stairs without saying anything to one another, but when we reached the surface, we both took deep, grateful breaths of fresh air and turned to look at one another.
The next morning, Suri and I woke early: her in the bed, me in the sandpit. We skipped breakfast, huddling together on the sofa with small cups of dark, strong coffee. The sun was just starting to rise by the time we picked our way down to the dungeons. They were part of a small cellar complex dr...
2021-01-05 04:21:45 +0000 UTC View PostHours later, I stirred in the warm covers, half-asleep. Suri was out cold, snoozing softly to my right. By the soft lamplight from my study, I was able to see the results of two hours of enthusiastic, rambunctious lovemaking: the messy hair, the tangled sheets, the bruises from my mouth. At Suri'...
2021-01-05 04:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post"I can't believe it." Rin balled her fists on top of the table in front of her. "The Warsinger... he destroyed her?"
The five of us were seated in the dining hall: me, Vash and Suri on one side of the table, Rin and Istvan on the other. We had plates of torkany in front of us, the ...
2021-01-04 02:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe Queen of the Sands was recognizable only because of her size. The Level One Hundred and Fucking Twenty [Voidwyrm Empress] was now as black as coal, jerking and writhing oddly as she exploded out of the sand.
A tic started beside my eye. This was Not Okay. The new and improved S...
2021-01-04 02:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostTwenty minutes later, we were in the air and ready to jump back to Dakhdir. I hung on to the saddle without any tie-downs, as relaxed as a surfer kneeling on his board. Suri, who hated flying, was strapped to the saddle with her chin down and her shoulders hunched.
As my dragon beat her win...
2020-12-29 09:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostA.N: There might be a bit of a delay between this chapter and Ch. 14, as we progressively edit the manuscript :)
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I lost track of the room around me, my body, and the sounds and smells of the present. Mentally, sensorily, I was back in the desert, m...
2020-12-23 02:31:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I did after returning to my quarters was to go into my KMS and spend almost all of our hard-won money on the three things we needed to make Myszno one of the wealthiest provinces in Vlachia.
A little over 30,000 olbia got us two destroyer-class airships from Litvy, medium-si...
2020-12-23 02:25:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Plague?” I unconsciously gripped the armrests of my throne. "Just the one?"
"Yes, my lord.” The Mayor bobbed his head. “The Hospitallers are trying to find out if she had contact with anyone other than her family, but with half the city in ruins and many still living in tents as th...
2020-12-20 23:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, I - Dragozin Hector, formerly Hector Park, Private First Class - had ended up in charge of a Vlachian province large enough to be its own small country. The fantasy of ruling a nation was pretty common in the gaming world, and if you were able to put the game down and go eat some Cheetos...
2020-12-19 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThanks to the fact that Karalti could now carry about a thousand pounds of stuff, we were able to pack in a LOT of treasure. I threw out every item I didn't need from my own Inventory, and we crammed in everything we could loot. And then, with the protective spells over Lahati's Tomb deactivated,...
2020-12-18 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAll of the lava flows in this mountain range emptied into the antechamber of Lahati's Tomb. Directly across from us was a black glass bridge that arched over the lake of fire far below. As we entered, I looked to my left and saw the small door I'd used to enter this place the first time: a door t...
2020-12-17 21:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe pair clashed chest to chest, foreclaws locked as they strained against each other. Karalti began to pump her wings, using the draft generated by the huge membranes to drive her and her enemy forward along the ground. Claws shrieked and sparked against stone as she pushed the slavering, mutate...
2020-12-16 19:25:30 +0000 UTC View PostI had to flatten down so Karalti could crawl through the hole in the cave wall. She got down on her belly, using her front claws to pull herself forward, and paddling the dirt with her back legs and tail. We emerged into a narrow geode corridor, bluecrystal spires jutting out crazily in all direc...
2020-12-14 12:34:03 +0000 UTC View PostSorry about skipping a day: I was bedridden with a lupus flare for about 48 hours T__T. I'm posting Ch. 5 and 6 as well today to make up for it.
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As we got closer, I revised my opinion. The tunnel wasn’t line...
2020-12-14 12:33:18 +0000 UTC View PostMy first stop was the sacrificial well. Karalti hung back while I hopped up onto the altar, then sprung onto the edge and held a torch out over the abyss. Like the well I’d used to get into Lahati’s Tomb a month or so ago, it looked to be bottomless.
“Jumping into one of these worked ...
2020-12-10 16:17:22 +0000 UTC View PostI woke again: this time, to the deep, comforting sound of two thunderous hearts beating against my back.
“Shh… you’reokay.” Karalti shifted on the floor. She was laying like a resting lion on her belly, her tail curled around us, her wing covering me. “Take it er…al...
2020-12-08 00:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post[SEED#: NUMBERFETCH 00-001A-TypeNew[HeraldOfMT]_PARAGON: Hector Park.]
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[Hector Park]: Thank you for your contribution to [Learning Cycle 3944390-SI: Anomalous Malware Activity Resulting from Corrupted Player Data and Data Fragments.] In response to a serio...
2020-12-07 23:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostFinally! The final-final Chapters 1, 2 & 3! A chapter every 2 days to follow. Thanks for being patient with all the revisions, etc. Chapter One is the absolute bedrock of this story in a lot of ways, with details and dialogue that had to be refined many times to make the book work.
Vash sighed, and closed his eyes to try and gather his words. He was silent for nearly a minute before he began to speak. “I was born in the plateau country about a week’s ride south-east of Doba, the town which is the center of Tuun life in Vlachia. My family was wealthy, with a thousand hea...
2020-11-12 16:18:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone - this isn't a chapter update, more of a frank admission.
At risk of being overly personal, I've been dealing with some shit. The long and short of it is that current (US political) events are triggering some bad, bad headnoise, PTSD from my rather rough and unpleasant childhoo...
2020-10-06 22:31:59 +0000 UTC View PostFor the first time, I am revealing some of the machinery behind the curtain: the math and formulae that go into the making of a LitRPG.
LitRPG is a challenging genre to write, not least because it involves keeping track of a whole lot of numbers. So, if you were ever curious how the sausage...
2020-08-31 11:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post