Dungeon map! It's... kind of crappy, but I think it works!
I'm thinking the dungeon boss will be something deceptively easy? Maybe an undead knight or something?
Fighting skeletons turned out to be both hard, and kind of easy. 2025-07-19 14:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post
That's all for today, folks! But I think I can try for about the same number of chapters tomorrow. Sunday's a bust, tho :(
Oh! Uh... once we start posting... I'm debating between twice daily for a full month, or once a day for two months. Which do you think would work best? Like, if you were reading this on RR, which would make you happier? Same amount of chapters (about 60-i...
2025-07-19 01:28:07 +0000 UTC View PostI can't believe we've gotten to 40 chapters of this! I think I'll aim for 60 chapters by the end of the Month!
Also, I need to start thinking of a good 'arc end' for this. Obviously, we're not going to make it to the Big Breach in one volume. We're 60K words in and only 1 week has passed of the 9 months, though the rest of this in-story week will have a few skipped days. 2025-07-18 20:26:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Trinity grinned. All on her? Well, there was a lot of her, so she was sure she could handle it!
The first thing was getting across to the next building over. The zipline was taut when she tugged on it. “I’m ready,” she said.
“Good,” Big Sister Emily said. One of you will tell me what you see that isn’t picked up on the ca...
2025-07-18 14:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostOh-hohohohoho! It's Miss Ojou! (she doesn't actually laugh like that... yet)
I woke up with a splitting headache and a wet feeling on the back of my skull. Then I heard metal grinding on metal and the clang of a door shutting.
“Stay right the fuck there, bitch,” someone growled.
I blinked, trying to piece together what ...
2025-07-18 11:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, second... third attempt at the cover's typography. Thoughts?
This time, I went in with my full gear. Not changing beforehand was... stupid of me.
I took a taxi to a block over from the warehouse, only making a quick stop al...
2025-07-17 21:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostI'll be taking the first week of August off. Half to prep for the launch of Save Scumming (I might write a few cheeky chapters!) And half to prep for the Hope//Punk Kickstarter on the 15th. Both take time, and I think I'd be best served if I had a few full days to dedicate to the task!
Also, cover WIP:
2025-07-17 19:51:06 +0000 UTC
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Is there a realistic way to knock someone out for like, an hour or two? Or will I have to be... creative?
I woke up at six-thirty something, feeling super awake and more than a little refreshed. Turns out, keeping my magic use to a minimum and reasonable amount, getting more than eight hours of sleep, and maybe the massage right after a...
2025-07-17 15:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, I see, so this is the place?” I asked.
“Indeed, your boneliness. After conducting a full geological survey of the region as well as calculating distances to and from Yu Xiang proper, and of course testing the ambient magical energy in the air, this location was determined to be the best. Further surveys conducted at greater ranges may yet d...
2025-07-17 11:30:27 +0000 UTC View PostBit of a split-POV chapter. Wanted to give you a ride through Fran's head for a bit, rise the stakes. Hopefully it's not too jarring? Tried to be clever about it... that sometimes works, lol!
I had time... like, a lot of it. Almost a whole day, in fact.
I decided to spend it somewhat productively and hit the gym. Unfortunately, N...
2025-07-17 09:01:27 +0000 UTC View Post***
“So, uh, your sister was saying that you’ve been staying pretty quiet?” I asked. It was the first conversational thread I could think of. Knight gave me an unreadable look, and I hoped that she didn’t think I was throwing her under the bus.
“Yeah,” Princess said, sounding a bit sad. “It’s been a while since we really got out...
2025-07-16 19:19:18 +0000 UTC View PostHmm...
So, we kind of designed the look of Jane and the Mc together. What should Our dear Miss Ojou look like? I mentioned her being blonde here, but that's an easy thing to change. What kind of look we going for? The... classic?
Jane had p...
2025-07-16 14:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostBeen thinking about doing this foreeever! so, this is the alt-POV for Vol 5 of Sporemageddon. The Detective. The one who will be finding clues and slowly hunting Mushie down.
It's a race!
(Plus I get to indulge and write long, Noir!Style segments here and there, hehe)
Several Weeks Prior
He’...
2025-07-16 11:25:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Ohhh, I need to learn how to time skip some more! I'm thinking... MC will try some stealthy stuff, realize she sucks at it, and then will spend a full day practicing until she sucks less at it. Then realize that she doesn't know silent takedowns, and have to go practice those as well.
Ahhhh, I wanna write moooore!
I Re...
2025-07-15 18:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back! Slept for 9 hours! Crazy! First time I do that in a while, recently it's all been 2-3 hours max per night. Anyway! New chapter!
Next one... hmm, how much time do we wanna spend on prep? And can our intrepid heroine even take on a D-ranked dungeon?
A week was a long time, and part of that week felt like it dragged 2025-07-15 14:56:24 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.amazon.com/Stray-Cat-Strut-Cyberpunk-LitRPG-ebook/dp/B0DZJ5JHJG/
The Weakling’s Rest came up ahead of us, and it was a strange sight to see. If Come Here and Die was a metropolis, then the Weakling’s Rest was barely a polis.
Or something like that.
The town was hidden within a sea of dunes. Far, far to the west were the mountains we’d been keeping to our side, but ahead and...
2025-07-15 09:41:17 +0000 UTC View PostAlllright! So...
Not for the Long Week, but for... uh, during it? Anyway!
I'm thinking it'll be time for Deadline to make a second and third appearance. Once in another E-rank portal. Then after that... I was thinking she foils a heist of some sort? I want to show her being really badass in public, doing something semi-heroic in a vigilante kinda way. Punk heroism. Go a little Batman...
Bit of a small fight, but the MC wasn't really that involved in it, so I guess it's just the way it is!
Thanks for all the feedback, btw! Really encouraging to see people enjoying the story <3 Makes me want to write more!
The big room took a solid hour to clear.
Dharti’s lure spell was invaluable at gett...
2025-07-14 16:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostSo... hmm, it's not here yet, but I was thinking the MC would pick up two 'mainstay' cantrips. One for Nature-adjacent magic, one for Void-adjacent magic.
You've seen a few cantrips already. They're generally kind of weak, and with them being adjacent, that means that they'll mostly be non-physical.
Got any good ideas I can steal for those?
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I tried not to sigh, but... yeah, I sure felt it.
Princess reached out, almost as if to grab me, then hesitated before she could. “Oh, come in! Please, please, make yourselves at home. Oh! I should get changed! I’m not dressed for guests!”
Wait, so this was how she dressed normally? She had pajama pants under her tutu...
2025-07-14 09:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so... first, I made a change to the previous chapter. Added this description to the armour section:
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As for gear, I had a holster for my Myalis Feline9, room for three extra magazines, an IFAK, a pouch with utility gear, and a light backpack with a standard set of tools. Mostly rope and glowsticks and the like.
Armour-wise, o...
2025-07-14 05:33:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Taa-daa! New chappy! Next one is the Portal run. Very different from the first since... well, they're a little overqualified for it.
Anyway, AI art of the MC in tactical gear:
Hmm... AI still ain't that good. But maybe I can get Mingrix to draw something? They're on anot...
2025-07-13 13:48:22 +0000 UTC View PostHome was home.
It was maybe a little more deteriorated than it had been in prior years, and maybe some of the neighbours had left only to be replaced by others, but the essence of it was the same. It was home.
I wouldn’t say that I was proud of my home.
Maybe if I was more of an optimist I’d say something like ...
2025-07-13 08:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
Kuroi just launched the music vids for three new SCS fansongs! (My fave is Spot the Model, it's goofy) Thought I'd share!
MAKE IT CAT https://youtu.be/RIb-VdHtzSA
BE NOT AFRAID https://youtu.be/kKF-CTmOhfo
SPOT THE MODEL 2025-07-13 06:47:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Felt a bit silly :3
He sat upon his cushiony throne and observed as his servant paced.
She had changed recently. For one, she was leaving the house for extended periods, which was unacceptable and rude. He did not like this. For another, her scent had changed, more stress, more... heat, more nervous.
He ...
2025-07-13 06:05:57 +0000 UTC View PostNot a very exciting chapter. But the next one should be! It'll be from Mister Couchtop's POV, I think. That feels fun~ After that, the next portal, and after THAT, we can look into some other stuff that I'm far more excited about!
I created a Save as soon as I entered the gym.
This wasn’t the same training area that I’d used w...
2025-07-13 03:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostAh, here's a version for you weirdos who use Dark Mode instead of allowing your pretty eyes to burn like us superior Light Mode users:
Subject to change on my whims~
Now... more magic talk. Then I think I want to skip ahead a smidge. The next big event is the next da...
2025-07-12 19:50:43 +0000 UTC View Post***
The next couple of days were surprisingly quiet. I went to school, cuddled with Lucy, ate lots of good food, chatted with Nya and Gomorrah and stood next to Shy while she refilled her social batteries.
It was nice, but there was still the looming threat of something awful on the horizon.
Not the conference. That was taking...
2025-07-12 16:21:20 +0000 UTC View PostOh, here's a terrible diagram!
Also, more magic. Lemme know if this feels cool and somewhat realistic-ish? I'm trying to find a good middle ground for the MC's rate of progression compared to anyone else's.
Work ended kind...
2025-07-12 06:08:30 +0000 UTC View Post