Ahhh almost at 100 chapters. That's wild.
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Eliza DuFont gazed pensively at the sky, dark but still smeared with a reddish haze along the western horizon. From the Spire she could clearly see the Wall, and her enhanced Perception could even make out the specks of Guilders rotating through their shifts. It was hours past midnight and ...
2020-08-21 02:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostSo I'm hitting a crossroads at my day job. With public school starting up here in a couple weeks, I'll have to stay home with my daughter to both watch her, and help her with remote learning. This means that I'm going to have to leave my day job.
I'm currently in talks to do an intermittent schedule (maybe) and work part time, but as of this moment, I will be home 5 out of 7 days.
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2020-08-21 00:27:15 +0000 UTC View PostSo far so good. My experiment, as most have guessed, is writing shorter chapters. My goal is to write chapters closer to 2,000-2500 words and post more often. This week I'm attempting to post a new chapter every weekday. (This one counts for Wednesday so I'm a little ahead of the game). This one is also more like 2700, so whoops.
However, so far so good. Writing these feels a little ...
Early Chapter! Enjoy!
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Armored Skin is level 42!
Relentless Charge is level 11!
Shadow Whip is level 27!
Corrosive Strike is level 27!
Blind Fighting is level 22!
Dodge is level 26!
Relentless Charge allowed Felix to leap up atop the nearest building, making his already sizable jump into a gravity defying display. He w...
2020-08-18 04:11:16 +0000 UTC View PostShorter chapter today (~2200 words). I'm experimenting with something here. Bear with me :D
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SCREEEEEE!!
Dust and debris filled the air, while residents of the Dust scattered in a panic. Cries of pain and fear were everywhere, nearly drowned out by the screams of the monstrosities. Heva Groktis tried to still ...
2020-08-17 03:46:12 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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A few minutes later, the four of them were all assembled in the empty room. Felix had used his Voracious Eye on all of them as they came in, something he had neglected when he arrived. Evie was level 23, while Harn and Cal were level 39 and 42 respectively. His his new senses and Skill, Felix could even tell that both Harn and Cal were beyond the...
2020-08-14 22:21:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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Early morning sunlight streamed into the warehouse, dusty beams that promised of greater heat in the afternoon. Moving through that light, Evie ducked a thrown blade, landing in a low crouch before springing up into a sideways somersault. She relied on her legs and right hand, her left whipping her spiked chain in a spiral around her body. Coming ...
2020-08-13 14:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 94 is running late. The day job has been changing for me and this particular chapter is a bit of a trick to get right. Been writing all evening (EST here). I'm hoping to have it up tomorrow morning (8/13).
Chapter 95 will be up on Friday as well.
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After catching up, Felix made sure to keep a solid distance between himself and the group. The Wall Quarter was busy, though it mostly seemed to be revelers passing by than laborers or Guilders. Shouts and catcalls echoed from the street corners, and the constant press of bodies was a distraction. Felix found himself wanting to pull away from anyo...
2020-08-11 00:50:29 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for posting later again. Getting harder to work on these during my day job. They started cracking down on the websites we can use, including Google and others.
Regardless, I hope you enjoy the story.
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The crates were easy to open, though the crowbar seemed superfluous. Felix just grabbed and lifted the tops off with his bare hands. Inside we...
2020-08-08 05:26:50 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Fifteen minutes later, Felix found the smithy. A wide but squat building, built of dark, heavy stones, it was unlike the rest of the mostly wooden buildings around them. The roof was tiled with red clay, and a lacquered signed hung from a peg above the door. It featured a series of squiggles below a huge furnace filled with a blazing white flame....
2020-08-06 02:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The bell above the door chimed as Felix left the tailor's shop, proud new owner of a brand new suit of clothes. Gone were the ratty pants and stained tunic, and in its place were a pair of black cloth pants, looser than his leather ones. His new tunic was a dark blue-grey and fit across his broad shoulders more comfortably than any clothes since h...
2020-08-03 21:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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Step forward.
Foot angled toward the enemy, spear up. Keep your spear up!
Twist. Foot strike! One! Two!
Faster!
Faster!
Vessilia panted, sweat streaming down her forehead and back, soaking her padded training garb. The spear, a wooden one with a lead center, was slick in he...
2020-08-01 14:20:03 +0000 UTC View PostFeeling better, thank you for the well wishes. Still got a chest thing, but the asthma's eased up, thankfully.
Hope you enjoy.
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He slept like the dead. No dreams, no sudden monster attacks. Peace.
Finally.
He woke up only once, and that was to retrieve two dishes left at his door on a beaten tin platter. They were piled high with meat a...
2020-07-30 01:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the wait, I've been under the weather the past few days. Asthma and chest colds kick my butt.
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Felix didn't exactly know how to answer the shopkeep's question. Unknown? Is that what she saw with Analyze?
He narrowed his eyes and held a Skill loosely in his mind. "What do you mean, Unknown Race?"
"Tsk. Done anything strange recently?...
2020-07-27 20:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostThis one took forever. Deleted and rewrote the entire thing twice.
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Oh thank god this is working, Felix thought with relief. The Skill wasn't as effective here on the Continent as in the Void, but it camouflaged him enough that when he'd run to the wall and out of line of sight, it compensated. Lafei didn't even glance in hi...
2020-07-25 04:44:33 +0000 UTC View PostTried to post this earlier but I couldn't connect to Patreon at my dayjob. Sorry for the wait!
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They walked in silence while Felix chewed over his thoughts. Mervin walked silently to his side, and Pit trotted just ahead. Felix's thoughts were...uneasy, to say the least.
Mervin had explained that the Inquisition was pretty much what it soun...
2020-07-22 20:04:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
EDIT: changed the details on Mervin's Analyze Skill.
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The sky lightened with the hesitant touches of dawn, and while nocturnal creatures had long gone to sleep, daylight creatures were waking to a new day. The temperate forests of what was once the Foglands rustled with a cool breeze, but one that heralded an oppressive heat soon to come. It was a cal...
2020-07-21 01:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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A titanic bellow shook the Void, and teeth the size of buildings clashed and chomped only three hundred yards away. Captain Nokk finished cutting down another Harrowing and looked out over the prow of his ship to see a tremendous Narhollow writhe and glut upon the entrails of another.
By the Deeps, Nokk swore, cutlass nearly falling fr...
2020-07-17 02:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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The Harrowings flew silently, perfectly hidden from their prey as they wheeled through the Void. Their flesh was one with the nothing around them, their eyes as inky black as the Void from which they were born. Their minds were clear, only concerned with food, blood, and Mana. The truth of their existence was infallible: eat, or be eaten....
2020-07-15 19:46:14 +0000 UTC View PostAllllmost done with the Void.
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Felix was still lying on the floor when the Maw appeared in the room.
Ugh. What do you want? Felix still hadn't bothered to reactivate his Manasight, but the Maw was clearly visible even in the darkened room, untouched by the shadows. The creature looked at him like he was a bug beneath its...
2020-07-13 03:15:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The night wore on.
Felix wasn't sure if was night time, but he was getting very tired. The party kept going, drinks served, shouts sounding, and music blaring. The various tables for dice and other gambling expanded as more pirates sought out its pleasures, while other members disappeared into back rooms. Presumably for other delights.<...
2020-07-10 04:23:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Pit was full.
So full.
The big folk had brought so much meat and he had eaten it all. Pit had not had such abundance in what felt like many many days.
Weeks. The word is weeks.
Thoughts had been coming easier to Pit ever since Felix had saved him under the mountain. It was like a whole new world opened up, one where Pit could explore and fight and e...
2020-07-09 02:31:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Two dozen over-sized ballistae fired at Felix, some from no farther than thirty feet away. Felix's high Perception tracked the projectiles as they exploded toward him, but there were too many. Flaring his Willpower, Felix dove aside and evaded the first few, but he also had to worry about protecting Pit. Twisting away from huge arrows the ...
2020-07-07 02:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostLittle late on this one! Holidays and family kinda threw me for a loop.
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He was wrong.
It was way more than six.
They were impossible to count as they flew toward him deceptively fast; not only were they practically invisible, they didn't move like natural creatures at all. Their wings flapped rarely, but they sped up and slowed down abruptl...
2020-07-04 05:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the wait! Enjoy!
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Pit squawked in alarm and Felix stumbled back, putting as much distance as he could between himself and the Maw.
It appeared before him as a statuesque woman with long black hair and vivid blue-green eyes, the form of Lhel, a Nymean woman from two thousand years ago. However its face was cadaverous and gaunt, as if it had...
2020-07-02 04:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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The earth shook and trees toppled all around them, forcing Harn to pull a few of the slower Guilders out of the way of a massive rotten trunk. Screams echoed all around him, both from the Guilders and the creatures in the fog.
"What in Avet's name was that?" Harn turned, pulled off his helmet and squinted into the distance. They had climbed the foothill...
2020-06-29 21:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostOne more left after this one to wrap up this arc.
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Exploration is level 25!
Congratulations! You have reached Apprentice Tier in Exploration!
You Gain:
+3 INT
+3 END
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Rare Essence Draught Detected During Formation!
[Essence Draught of Dragon's Wing]
Choose a...
2020-06-26 20:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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The air quaked and the stone beneath his feet shook as Felix regarded his Bastion of Will. His visualization of it was breaking apart, piece by piece, while the howling in his guts reached a fever pitch.
Crimson wind caressed his skin, pulling Felix from his mental construct back to physical reality, the Maw's face only inches from his own. It purred at him.<...
2020-06-25 02:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post4339 words!
This one was tough. A lot of rewrites over the course of three days.
Enjoy.
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Bloody, crimson Mana surged all around them as Lhel breathed it out like steam. Sickly and rotten, it made Felix gag even from a dozen feet away. It clouded his senses for just a moment, and when he could see her again, Lhel's face had...cracked, spli...
2020-06-22 23:51:50 +0000 UTC View Post