And there went her vacation. Daedalus the Dungeon Core was going to war, and Director Frye had voluntold her to lead the charge … but it wasn’t like she wouldn’t have volunteered had she been given the choice.
Now, was that a reason to get mad, though? Did he actually know her well enough to have made that choice without consulting her … or had he just gotten lucky?
No, he...
2025-06-16 21:30:35 +0000 UTC View Post“… We now know for certain who was responsible for trying to kill you. We have proof. Please don’t start World War 3.”
Thomas stared down at the man standing in the entrance hall of the Natural History Museum, his expression a combination of exhaustion, apprehension, and … glee? Granted, that last one was fairly well-hidden, but it was there.
An odd mix of emotions, and co...
2025-06-14 21:50:34 +0000 UTC View Post2106, June 4th
Potential side effects to getting a custom-built capital ship precisely suited to your needs include, but are not limited to: heavily overcomplicated sourcing for replacement parts, machinery perpetually stuck in the prototype state, and inducing a homicidal rage in any logistics officer even remotely related to said ship.
Captain Maximilian Amos couldn’t even blame...
2025-06-10 12:36:38 +0000 UTC View Post2135, Milky Way, Union Star System, Chimera Station
In many ways, Alexander Braun was an exemplary soldier. He was disciplined, he obeyed orders, he more than surpassed the skill requirements of his position, and on top of everything else, he was in it for the long haul. A career military man, through and through.
Yet, looking at him, one might think the whole affair was a bad joke....
2025-06-07 19:11:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Will flatten mountains for food”
An interesting slogan to be wearing on one’s chest, something that would be considered boastful or humorous on most people.
Yet Sun Wukong meant every word.
Give him a mountain to flatten, be it a living beast of titanic proportions or an inert hunk of rock, and he’d deal with it. And woe to those who failed to follow through ...
2025-06-05 15:18:19 +0000 UTC View Post2097
Humanity had united in the wake of the System’s devastation, only for that unity to fall apart almost immediately as they reached for the stars.
There were many worlds out there, with many different people. Some worlds were shared the same way Earth was, albeit inhabited specifically by people who preferred that kind of diversity; anyone who didn’t would hardly choose to mo...
2025-06-02 19:51:34 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, now, what did this thing do?
Thomas absorbed the Hunger’s heart and began to look through its stats.
It had, in fact, been an absurdly powerful monster, but the dungeon core portion of the gaol beast had apparently been destroyed when it had died, leaving him with just the powers of the Komodo Dragon, which were so varied that he was pretty certain he was looking at the r...
2025-05-30 18:24:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Goal beast,” Elias said flatly, as he watched the goings-on via the screen Thomas was projecting onto the screen.
“What?” Thomas asked, causing the fairy to sigh.
“It’s a gaol beast,” the fairy repeated, as though that were supposed to mean something … only to remember that he was the one with the answers around five seconds later. “It’s a monster that...
2025-05-30 18:19:42 +0000 UTC View PostJust because the world was supposed to work a certain way didn’t mean it wouldn’t “randomly” work the exact opposite way on occasion.
Such as the time a light cruiser wound being the ship actually being exported, and its escort being a pair of aircraft carriers.
Or rather, the Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales, along with most of the United Kingd...
2025-05-30 10:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostMythic Spirit Bond: Lernean Hydra
The Legend of the Lernean Hydra now empowers you, granting the following benefits:
- Primordial Regeneration (constantly heal when injured, even repairing things a normal human would not be able to recover from)
- Toxic Blood (your blood will damage your enemies, and only your enemies, upon contact, blood will lose all toxicity after two minut...
2025-05-28 18:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostOne month later
Jaclyn let herself flop back into a chair in the forward base, while the others headed off to do … whatever they wanted to do. But she had something that needed to be done right here, right now, or else she might vibrate herself apart from sheer excitement.
This was a system message that she desperately wanted to address.
You have reached the peak of...
2025-05-28 18:35:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe HMS Belfast peeled itself out of the gloom of the jungle like a titanic beast, each piece slowly coming into view as Thomas’ monkey champion got closer.
It was a grand old ship, four massive turrets with three barrels each, ones wide enough for his champion to fit into, capable of freely rotating and delivering death to any point in the transformation zone … had they not ...
2025-05-28 18:32:51 +0000 UTC View Post3 months later
Jaclyn groaned internally, cursing the her of five minutes ago for not just flying over here. Because while there were plenty of shit jobs, there were also shit jobs. The kind everyone hated … but just because running away would have been understandable didn’t give her a free pass to abuse her power and run the other way.
But ultimately, it wasn’t like ...
2025-05-28 09:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostThomas eyed the report he’d just gotten with distaste, for multiple reasons.
For one, it acted as though the world were mere hours from entering World War three, though he doubted it since chances were that if that were the case, he’d have also heard it from sources other than the report itself.
Which left him with an explanation, and a second reason to be annoyed. This report w...
2025-05-27 06:48:57 +0000 UTC View PostJaclyn glanced up at the lettering that now loped across the top of the doors. Knowing that Daedalus was doing something special for Halloween made her slightly less apprehensive, but the warning nevertheless put her hackles up.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons, even death may die.
The quote was familiar, or at least she was certain that she’d...
2025-05-25 19:59:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt had happened so quickly, to the point where he’d almost missed it.
A group of mercenaries had been hired to do the panacea run, gone in at full tilt without a system, relying on flashbacks and light machine guns to get through anyway … and then one man had gone over the side of the winding bridge that first floor, straight into the water that had replaced the floor there, and the s...
2025-05-23 07:01:31 +0000 UTC View PostJaclyn hadn’t been to the British Museum in over a decade. Well, she’d visited six months ago with her daughter, but they’d left after ten minutes because Eve had seen the cat mummy and started bawling.
Technically, she could have stayed and inflicted her inconsolable child on everyone else the way she’d seen others do, but people who did that were assholes and terrible p...
2025-05-23 07:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostBook 1 of Outrage of the Ancients will release tomorrow on amazon (2025-05-19 08:06:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 1 of Outrage of the Ancients is finished, formatted, and ready for your enjoyment.
https://dl.bookfunnel.com/ms5sqmv4v2
The Book will release on May 20th, and a good review would be greatly appreciated.
2025-05-06 19:40:25 +0000 UTC View PostThomas was getting better and better at reading his delvers.
Not only was he starting to recognize rank insignia by remembering what other people were calling the wearers, but he could also, quite easily, peg who was military, whether or not they were experienced, and what their general specialty was, assuming they had one.
But also who wasn’t military. Becaus...
2025-05-05 14:47:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere were certain things you’d never see in nature.
Such as a grizzly bear fighting a honey badger.
Though were such a battle to come about, it hardly mattered how much raw audacity and willpower the badger had, the bear could win that fight in an instant just by sitting on its opponent … though it really, really, shouldn’t use that method, as the badger ...
2025-05-04 08:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostThomas wasn’t too sure how much time he’d spent tricking out various versions of his tank, but by the time a new group of first-time visitors distracted him from his work, he’d completed two separate iterations, and days had passed.
His first creation had obviously been the standard enhanced version of the Tiger tank.
He’d started out by replacing every ...
2025-05-02 21:23:22 +0000 UTC View Post“So, how are you going to convince them to let you harvest the anchor monsters, exactly?” Elias asked.
“I’m going to make it look like it’s not what I’m after, and I’m going to bribe them,” Thomas sent along with the mental impression of a shrug.
“And let’s for the sake argument, assume that somewhere in the chain of command there is some jackass who ...
2025-04-29 18:33:33 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many kinds of loopholes.
Technicalities that let you get away with chicanery without legal repercussions, but nevertheless caused chaos and were decidedly amoral.
Shortcuts that let you do things more easily while maintaining the quality of the final product. Those, she really liked and likely wouldn’t have been able to do her job without. After all, the Dir...
2025-04-27 09:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostThomas was doing one of the things he loved the most. Although, nowadays, he rarely did anything else. Being a dungeon meant that there wasn’t all that much in the way of chores, leaving him with a different issue. How to avoid ruining things for himself by doing the same task over and over until he eventually grew sick of it.
But he’d managed to balance things out thus far. Mon...
2025-04-27 08:08:35 +0000 UTC View PostI have an upcoming holiday in May. I'll keep writing, but depending on internet availability, uploads may become sporadic.
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“Hello,” Jaclyn greeted … whoever had spoken. There were a lot of manatees in the water, somewhere between twenty and forty, and considering the fact that they were so...
2025-04-26 07:34:34 +0000 UTC View PostThomas was busily messing around with some of his creatures, watching painted dog puppies play and run around below his core, playing tug of war with the various toys he’d sprinkled around.
And then someone said something stupid.
Well, less “lacking intelligence,” more “easy to tease about,” but that didn’t matter.
“And now, we start our Dark...
2025-04-22 12:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostJaclyn gazed thoughtfully at the window of the airplane, barely aware of the surrounding area. Not out the window, which would have been perfectly understandable considering the fact that they were rapidly approaching one of the transplanted magical realms that had appeared on Earth, but the window itself.
The window she’d nearly broken at Heathrow, when she’d been trying to get...
2025-04-18 21:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Rough size and location of each transformation zone, figured you guys might like it.
2025-04-16 14:53:23 +0000 UTC View PostIt was near midnight, and he was still in the office, working on yet another issue that had cropped up while he’d been diving through the dungeon.
Granted, it was also the last one, the power gained at the dungeon would mostly compensate for the lost sleep tonight, and going forward, he should be able to start getting the full amount he still needed, but he still felt like he’d ...
2025-04-15 13:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post