That's a longer chapter edited. AR and SoK chapters are done, just needing edits. I'm trying a slightly different schedule today, and it feels like it's working in upping productivity, but it means a slightly later PW chapter.
“I’m not sure why this feels different, but it does.“ Astrid said as the party strode into the passage between the third and fourth floor. “It just feels like we’re going to an entirely different Dungeon branch for some reason. ...
2025-08-12 22:54:47 +0000 UTC
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“What? What’s wrong?” Tessie panicked as TJ’s voice dropped. “Is there a monster? A—”
“Calm down, Tessie.” TJ cut her off. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have said what I said. It’s not enough to worry so much about. Ask the System what’s going on.” He’d already done as much and waited for the four teens to do the same.
You are suffering from a Minor Disorientation (Copper (I)) affliction. Recalling the direction from which you came, maintain...
2025-08-12 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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A little shorter while I get back into AR. Sorry. Still, new chapter!
“We must control the supply lines, because there’s only so much that the MistI Hawar will be able to do to keep themselves fed here in the Shandise. If we’re able to hold back any supplies from them, we can continue to give ourselves more time to better build up our numbers. Much of our focus is going to be on giving ourselves as much time as possible. If we’re able to get to spring, ...
2025-08-12 03:12:41 +0000 UTC
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After getting ten votes, I took the results to the random number generator, which resulted in the winner being number 7. The seventh person on the list was Torus!
I'll be reaching out through DMs for information about signature, address, etc for the copy. Thanks for being excited, people!
2025-08-12 01:44:08 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, Astrid had been expecting for everything about delving to have changed overnight. She wasn’t sure why, given that, to her limited knowledge, everything that happened in the Dungeon with regards to change happened gradually and over time, but she’d expected that the moment they stepped onto the third floor today, there would be a pair of irregulars waiting for them. Given that the Guild, through Klara, had specifically told the party that they could pile irregular corpses in the p...
2025-08-11 20:10:17 +0000 UTC
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The party ribbed Benedict a little as he flushed all the way to his neck. Once he was able to get his emotions under control, he talked a big game about how he was so proficient at storytelling and so on, but he was unable to fool any of the watchers. Regardless, Astrid just grinned, happy to see that her companion was able to, at least in the heat of the moment, get over his difficulties with performing in front of people. Of course, that wouldn’t be lasting in any way, but it was a first ...
2025-08-08 20:52:48 +0000 UTC
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For a moment, TJ thought it was himself that they were worrying over, but it only took him a second to realize that there was, in fact, something else coming through the bushes towards the teenagers. He rushed through the swamp towards them, calling out to ensure they didn’t attack him as well, “It’s me, TJ, coming for you from over here! I’ll keep an eye and bail you out if you need the help, stay focused and show me what you can do!”
A chorus of cries filled the air as the t...
2025-08-08 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Just as an announcement, I've edited chapter 54 on RR, there's an extra 500 words or so there that clarify some debt things. If you wanna, you can check it out there.
Astrid felt her heart clenching in her chest as flashes of weeping families in Schteldt’s Guild’s inn filled her mind. Remembering Guinevere‘s tear-streaked face as she begged for help, and how, despite her best efforts, Astrid hadn’t been able to do anything for her friend. Before she cou...
2025-08-07 20:35:51 +0000 UTC
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The will-o’-the-wisp sacrificed itself and its fellow disappeared while the bunyip remained under the water. No more ripples approached, and though TJ kept his attention on the surroundings, there was only so much he could know for sure. Despite everything, he was quickly recovering his resources, and didn’t feel any particular sense of danger from the Bunyip, especially since it wasn’t an elite nor of a level notably higher than his own. While he thought about it, he slowly pulled the ...
2025-08-07 15:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Just btw: I changed the name of Benedict's healing Skill. That's also present in yesterday's chapter, just forgot to announce it.
“That debt was heavier than anything else I’ve ever carried.“ Astrid grinned widely as they passed over the last of the silver to pay off Aarta. “Really, that just… It made it hard to breathe, you know?”
Skandr laughed as he happily patted Astrid on the back.“You’re telling me. I’m the one who felt like he was...
2025-08-06 21:42:34 +0000 UTC
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Without any third party in the background bringing packs of gnolls to ambush them, the five delvers shredded through several hundred gnolls that day. Even with so little downtime, Astrid found herself having to pull Benedict out of episodes of panic that made him lose his focus on the things that were right in front of him. When he was left to his own devices, he could be found spiralling—his eyes flicked everywhere, his shoulders tensed, and his brow flecked with sweat, despite not having ...
2025-08-06 06:00:57 +0000 UTC
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“Get moving! Fight or die!“ Astrid internally cursed herself and her relaxation as she hurriedly strapped her shield onto her left arm while she threw herself to her feet. “Muti! Kill the bastard, gut them and get back to us!“
The Barbarian didn’t respond, but she continued to scream her rage at their ambusher as she disappeared from view. That she wasn’t using her Stealth at all was enough of a testament to her insensate rage, but the sound of her pounding through the field...
2025-08-04 22:02:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey--just a quick thing. I realize I didn't say here as well as on RR that I'm going to be posting weekdays on PW for now. Just a small reduction while I get back into the swing of things. It's hard, to be honest. I worked myself into a great schedule, and now it's all fallen apart. Ugh. Still getting better every day, though!
Warning: Currently has spoilers up to the latest published chapter, and will always be updated to reflect the current latest chapters. Whenever new ch...
2025-08-03 04:47:10 +0000 UTC
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Author note at bottom.
Astrid almost gained enough experience to hit level 10 on their way back up to Kznietch. Over a dozen gnolls burst from the fields to ambush them as a pack composed of at least two individual packs as the party got close to the exit from the third floor. Unlike the last time something like this had happened, the party was ready, and there were five of them now, so Astrid refused to flee to the next floor. That said, their frontliner was e...
2025-08-01 23:49:25 +0000 UTC
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“I always loved singing for my family growing up, but the first time I performed in front of people, my voice squeaked and I got too embarrassed to continue. The girl I liked was there, and she laughed at me. I tried to get over it, but the next time I tried to play in front of a group, the flute had a little problem with one of the connections between the different parts. I know and knew it wasn’t my fault, but it stuck with me.” Benedict flushed, grimaced, and generally looked really ...
2025-08-01 06:12:54 +0000 UTC
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TJ involuntarily sent his tongue flicking out of his mouth as he took his measure of the marsh under the bridge. Again, this terrain reinforced the fact that the world from before the Integration was no more. He was born and raised in the Valley, and there was nothing like a swamp that could be found anywhere within 100 miles, so far as he knew. Right here, though, where the only body of water anywhere nearby was manmade, there was a whole marsh, with cattails, chirping frogs, and hundreds of...
2025-07-31 17:02:04 +0000 UTC
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Note: This text is identical to the other post. It's just the poll, since I can't do the image and the poll in the same post because, as you might have already known, Patreon can be big stupid sometimes.
In writing news, SoK chapter 182 is scheduled to go up at the regular time. AR chapter… should be up tonight. Still kicking my butt, tbh. But I’m grinding away at it.
In the regular news, I got first copies of this! Book one is edited and done and will be coming out on Septemb...
2025-07-31 04:53:49 +0000 UTC
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In writing news, SoK chapter 182 is scheduled to go up at the regular time. AR chapter… should be up tonight. Still kicking my butt, tbh. But I’m grinding away at it.
In the regular news, I got first copies of this! Book one is edited and done and will be coming out on September 18. However, I want to raffle this to one of you lovely people that I so completely appreciate. Honestly, without you guys, I wouldn’t have this in hand. And by the way, what a tome. Over 800 pages, haha.<...
2025-07-31 04:53:03 +0000 UTC
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Sheesh I've been out of practice. There's been tons of distractions, but honestly, most of my lower productivity been bad self-discipline. Gotta get that Self-Mastery attribute higher. Gonna try to make sure everything goes to plan for the rest of the night. No promises, because I've felt really crappy about making promises in the hopes that that'll help me be more productive.
“Usually, I’m of the opinion that each party member gets a fair share, wit...
2025-07-30 19:42:15 +0000 UTC
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“I feel like Stanton would like this.“ Despite himself, TJ‘s first thought as he looked at the fields was about his old crotchety friend. He smiled, thinking of how Stanton would correct TJ’s thoughts about this just being “tall grass” all around.
“Yeah, the geezer would somehow make this into either a weird grove of sentient trees, or a giant field of spinach. That’s what he was doing in Pine, at least.“ Sarah picked out a couple of the strands of wild grass growing i...
2025-07-29 15:00:18 +0000 UTC
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Astrid settled her shield more firmly on her arm as the party walked into the second floor of the Dungeon. She’d kept all her equipment secured their entire time since they entered the Dungeon and monsters would be everywhere around them, but now that they were going to be fighting, she wanted to be ready. Regardless of what she’d become accustomed to, though, it was going to be Felix‘s time to prove himself as a Bodyguard frontliner, not her time to hold through the attacks of the gnol...
2025-07-25 08:03:11 +0000 UTC
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Sorry if I've flagged your excitement. I was planning on coming back to regular posting today. That isn't happening. There's a couple of reasons for that, such as real life stuff, publisher negotiations (audiobook coming for PW? Maybe late this year/early next year? Still in negotiations, so... But Successor of Kukulkan's Amazon page is live at the link provided Here, launching September 18! Ashlani's Reincarn...
2025-07-24 21:08:08 +0000 UTC
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TJ could vaguely remember what the land across from Tempe Town Lake had looked like before the Integration. He hadn’t ever really thought about it, since it was just the ground underneath the freeway that he drove over and never gave another thought to, but he could remember that it was a slightly overgrown desert terrain. Sand and rocks, maybe a palo verde or two? More than that, he wasn’t sure, but he was positive that what was there now couldn’t be even remotely compared to what it w...
2025-07-22 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Hey! Been busy. Family's in town for the brother's wedding, so it's been nice to get a bit of a break. Got an SoK and PW chapter written today, so the SoK chapter'll be out in a couple hours. Scheduled to go up at the usual hour. No AR chapter tonight, though. It's 1am, and this editing was hard to get myself to do.
Astrid smiled widely in as nonthreatening a way as she could manage as she put her hand out to shake with the two men who’d entered. One wore a s...
2025-07-22 07:58:16 +0000 UTC
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As the last of the Misti Hawar in the meeting place were hunted down, I was distracted by a flashing in the corner of my eye. Right when I acknowledged the [System] notification, I felt my frills move involuntarily.
[Quest progress updated.]
I opened my [Status].
[Status:
Name: Ashlani
Race: Sonic Keel Zak’Tal
Titles: Voice of Nievtala
Killer of Redael
Fahvalo of the Moonchildren
Keel Progenitor
Current quests:
2025-07-20 05:38:44 +0000 UTC
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“Ran into another irregular today?” The guards at the gate asked as Astrid carried the party’s fifth irregular into the city. Another week had passed, and they were pushing themselves as hard as they ever had, their goals to hunt at least 100 gnolls every day. Three days after the ambush of Markus‘s party, they’d run into another irregular, this one being, again, a brawler. With it all alone, it was simple to dispatch, and nothing more than a quick and easy bonus. Today, though, the...
2025-07-17 22:25:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey. Patreon has, once again, changed everything. I don't mind the patron mobile page reverting, but this is way worse to use now. Sorry if any tags or whatever got borked. Let me know and I'll try to figure out the stupid system.
Astrid rolled to her feet, though she struggled with every movement she made, her muscles exhausted, and sore. Just above them in the stairway was a man wearing tight, dark leathers. Something about the equipment seemed to be magical,...
2025-07-17 18:36:41 +0000 UTC
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***
TJ whipped around, looking for the source of the heat, but as he looked up, two pairs of wings buffeted him and clawed at his body. His scales held under the initial assault, but he quickly realized that the source of the heat was not one of the two creatures that was scratching and pecking madly at him. Looking up, somehow there was a ball of lightning that didn’t crackle or fluctuate like lightning. Instead, it almost looked like a sun, but with his own familiarity with heaven's...
2025-07-16 15:00:16 +0000 UTC
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***
Early? Someone call the pigs down from up there. They're gonna hurt themselves.
“… That is not at all what I expected.“
Astrid’s quiet admission was echoed silently by her party members. Looking forward at the green lump some 50 meters off, there wasn’t a single irregular, but two. Fortunately, both were curled up together in a small heap, so the party wasn’t forced to engage with them immediately, but what had been a nearly guarante...
2025-07-15 20:50:19 +0000 UTC
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***
With a pack of 24 hunters comprised entirely of Khatif and Keel, we followed the general instructions that we’d pried from our prisoner. In a valley two days’ travel south of Nievtra, we found the subtle markings he’d advised us about—scratches in the bases of trees. Funnily enough, they weren’t too dissimilar from the markings that keelish left on anything they could scratch to mark their territory. Again and again I was seeing similarities between my people and the Misti...
2025-07-15 04:55:26 +0000 UTC
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