Posting earlier in the day because I'm off to hang out with my family who do celebrate Christmas. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate and happy holidays to everyone who doesn't!
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Martha felt the thing puppeting her body twist her neck a bit too far as it suddenly started listening to something she couldn’t hear. It was a novel event to Martha. The thing had often react...
2024-12-24 22:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post"This isn't an adventure." Sindri whined pitifully from atop Dryth's head. Well, his head was on top of Dryth's head, the rest of him was trailing down Dryth's shoulders and back.
"I did try and warn you." Dryth pointed out.
After they'd left the first woman's office, they'd headed to the floor she'd told them to go too and found a man who...
2024-12-24 19:09:31 +0000 UTC View PostThey arrived in the same shuddering jolt combined with the sensation of Dryht's stomaching dropping out from under him as the time Ewan had teleported them to his house. When the bright light cleared and Dryth felt safe opening his eyes he saw they were in the same room they'd left the Association campus from. Ewan was already striding out the door looking as chipper as ever as Dryth recovered ...
2024-12-24 19:08:25 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas Eve to those who celebrate and happy holidays to those who don't
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"Good!" Ewan cheered as both Dryth and Sindri demonstrated their pure casting of Produce Light. Two tiny balls of light briefly illuminated the room from the tip of Dryth's finger and Sindri's tail. "Excellently done, the both of you. Now I want you to keep practicing that until you feel like ...
2024-12-24 19:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostEwan sighed in disgust and threw the letter he'd been reading over his shoulder. "Well, it seems that there is no conspiracy among the Association trying to weaken the kingdom's mages for some mad reason, so none of us have to worry about that."
Sindri glanced up from where he was swallowing a boiled egg, which was a sight Dryth was still getting used to, while Dryth himself looked ...
2024-12-23 19:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe unforeseen discussion with Sindri about what currency was, how it was acquired, and why hunting random animals and monsters in the wild was not going to work long term to keep Sindri fed once he got to a certain size was interrupted by Ewan dramatically bursting into the room.
"Greetings, my dear students! It is time once again for another breathtaking lesson about...
2024-12-23 19:30:21 +0000 UTC View PostReady for a chapter barrage? To make everything meet up so you'll have the correct number of chapters ahead of RR, where Soulbound Contractor is now live, you'll be getting three chapters a day till Friday where everything will balance out.
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"Let's go exploring! Or adventuring! Or we could hunt something interesting, that'd be good too!"
Dryth did...
2024-12-23 19:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I am happy to announce that if I convert the chapters into word first then the italics and bolded text get copied over when I copy and paste. Which they don't from the program I actually type in. That would have been a night mare there are so many italics for dialogue.
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The white and gold snake curled up its body into a compact spiral, as it continued staring into Dry...
2024-12-19 22:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostGoing to dinner tonight and the timing of it is going to get right in the way of our normal chapter time, so I'm doing everything a bit earlier today.
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“You made an artifact and it got you up to a new tier five Class?” Eleniah watched Kay playing with the blood map artifact while she pouted a bit. “That’s so unfair. The rest of us have to work our butts off to get t...
2024-12-19 20:21:06 +0000 UTC View PostHere's chapter 9!
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“I see…” Helix ran a hand through his hair while he looked through a clipboard full of pages he’d pulled out of thin air. “That is a bit of a conundrum. There aren’t any individuals that I have on roll that would be interested in a contract with a Contractor who’s so new while the contract is also…” He glanced awkwardly at Dryth, “…S...
2024-12-18 01:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhoops, totally forgot to do anything at all yesterday. Here's 8 and we'll do 9 in just a sec when I'm done doing Blood Shaper posts all over. In other news, Soulbound Contractor starts on RR on Monday. After the one-a-day posting up until chapter 15 goes live on RR I think we'll go to two days a week Wed-Fri to not compete with my own story.
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“Demons?” Dryth asked with...
2024-12-18 01:31:59 +0000 UTC View Post[————————————————————]
Class: Master of Unnamed Enchanted Artifact (Combination of Expert Mapmaker + Expert Cartographer + Blood Manipulator + Blood Shaper + Blood Melder, Additional Requirement: Owner of Unnamed Enchanted Artifact)
- Though rare there exist Classes that devote themselves to cer...
2024-12-18 01:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostAh crap I got distracted sorry.
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Contrary to Ewan’s ominous words, there was no violence the next two days Dryth spent learning from him. There was certainly a lot of frustration, but no injuries or brushes with death. Ewan was a good teacher, if an exacting one who wasn’t a fan of some of what Dryth had learned over the last few years. Apparently the generic education ...
2024-12-14 04:47:39 +0000 UTC View PostOnly one chapter today, because I'm waiting on my editor getting back to me about some things before I start going to RR and I don't want you guys having a huge gap of no new chapters. Once I've got it settled exactly when I'm starting the story on RR (Next week or the week after) I'll quickly run y'all up to fifteen, and then beyond once RR starts.
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“I- You...
2024-12-13 02:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostSorry folks, this one gave me a hard time with what the various combinations should be and what their Class Skills did. I just finished it.
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Kay blinked down at the notification. He’d thought there were at least one Skill in both Expert Cartographer and Expert Mapmaker that hadn’t reached level thirty-nine and neither of those Skills were related to making a magical bl...
2024-12-13 02:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis is where the $5 tier people are going to sit until we start up on RR, but that should be soon at the current pace and scheduling
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Dryth did his best to not look impatient as he waited in the room he’d been directed to. After having his reveal he’d been directed to a dormitory to wait for his mentor to be assigned and then located. He’d been informed that he might ha...
Sorry for the later in the evening post, had a great meeting that ran a bit longer than planned.
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Dryth stared at the card without really seeing it as he processed the revelation. He was a Contractor. That was… within expectations. He’d never expected to get one of the incredibly rare Classes that turned people into national heroes or immediately paved their way to imme...
2024-12-12 03:15:34 +0000 UTC View PostAn oblong, egg-like shape floated in the air. It was red, since it was made out of blood, and it slowly expanded until it was about the size of a human head. Pieces of it began to stretch out and twist, becoming branching structures that pointed in multiple directions with smaller pieces branching out even more as they traveled outward. Then in one smooth motion, the object shrunk back in on it...
2024-12-11 01:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostAnd chapter three! I won't be subjecting y'all to these repeating which chapter it is after this, but this is where a few people lose access so I'm saying that. Hello Partisans and Supporters, this is where you start to pull ahead.
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There was a table in front of him, a desk, with a single face down card laying on it. That was supposed to be the most important thing about wh...
2024-12-10 02:04:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2! Experimenting a little with release timing since I have way more free time after moving to full time writing. Is later better for most of you? Is earlier?
Also, talking with my editor and others, apparently Soulbound Contractor is a better title, so we're going with that as final series title.
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There was an interesting dichotomy to Dryth’s o...
2024-12-10 02:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostHere it is! The first chapter of Soulbond Contractor which is the second series in the Shattered Five Saga
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“Hurry up!” A frustrated voice grumbled and Dryth felt a hand land on his back and push. He stumbled forward and knocked into the girl standing in front of him even as he tried his best to keep his balance without touching her.
She turned around to glare and...
2024-12-06 21:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s no need to rush,” One of the figures huddled in a shadowed spot between tents whispered to their fellows. “Why are we being pushed to move this quickly?”
“It isn’t like there’s actually a threat to deal with,” Another agreed, “We’re going to stomp on some backwater little ‘king’ who thinks they’re big enough to demand terms from the Order after some li...
2024-12-06 00:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostHello lovely Patreon readers! Quick little update for y'all before we get to tonight's chapter.
I've been working on the series to follow Blood Shaper, which will be wrapping up in book six, which is the next series in the Shattered Five Saga, following Kay and his friend's in their varied adventures in new worlds that they end up in. The next series is called Soulbond Contractor (or Sou...
2024-12-06 00:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostFirst posting day at my new workspace/desk! My crappy laptop is way slower than my PC, but the fact that I have a space where I can go "I'm at work now" is sooo helpful for production and staying on task!
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Eleniah lounged on a bench against the far wall, watching Kay as he exerted himself. “Aren’t you pushing yourself a bit too hard? If you exhaust yourself training you...
2024-12-04 01:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostJust as a heads up, there will be no second chapter this week as I'm hosting Thanksgiving in my new apartment for some reason. I have no idea why my family wants to do it in the smallest area we have access to, but whatever.
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The number of vampyr approaching Avalon increased as time passed and singletons and small packs became less and less common as larger swarms and group...
2024-11-27 00:55:05 +0000 UTC View Post“We believe we’ve found what the vampyr are planning.” Isla’s illusion of a man that served as her stand in told the assembled meeting solemnly. “Or at least, a major move they’re making that we cannot allow.”
The illusion gestured and aides started handing out documents to the assembled leaders of Avalon and the allies they had available. Zeia was obviously there, as was H...
2024-11-22 01:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostAnd this is today's.
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“That’s done,” Kay muttered as he tossed another ream of paperwork into his outbox. He had no idea where the idea of Earth inspired filing systems and methods to control paperwork had gained popularity on Torotia, but he cursed that place under his breath regularly. He didn’t want an outbox or an inbox to toss papers in and take them out from w...
2024-11-20 02:45:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis is Thursday's chapter.
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Even facing against a horde of nightmarish monsters most likely led by an incredibly powerful, if mad, antagonist, Kay’s job was not “go and pick fights with the enemy”. One single person capable of overwhelming power wasn’t going to be able to wipe out several cities worth of vampyr, not all at once at least, and Kay throwing himself in...
2024-11-20 02:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostHey everybody, sorry about missing Thursday, I'm not doing fantastic right now, though I am recovering. There'll be two posts tomorrow, but also here's the link for you guys for the free copy of book 5 before it comes out tomorrow.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/mbr6j00tph
"See" y'all tomorrow
2024-11-18 18:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s time to move on to full testing,” Zeia said as soon as her meeting with Kay started.
They were in one of the many meeting rooms available in the palace, specifically one of the ones deeper in the complex that were easier to secure. The fact that they were working on countermeasures to the vampyr taint wasn’t a secret, in fact it was a useful morale booster to let the news sp...
2024-11-13 00:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post