61. Adversary
I propped the small mirror from my inventory on the desk as I tried to get the last of the mud off of my face. I had changed out of my filthy clothes and now stood in the cell the monk had assigned to me wearing only my...
2023-05-28 03:15:14 +0000 UTC
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60. Shovel
“Wait, the hounds are still out there!” I protested as the monk began unbarring the door.
“I am aware,” he said patiently, and he continued on his course of action. I analyzed him, and I saw that he was level...
2023-05-27 22:24:25 +0000 UTC
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59. Motivation
I had come full circle. My adventures had begun with going through a strange portal and ending up in an area where I didn’t know where I was or how to get home, and here I was again. Except, of course, I had gr...
2023-05-27 15:58:46 +0000 UTC
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58. Lost
“Hey, so is it cool if I, like, edit that and post it on the forums?” Corinth asked just as we were returning to the foyer. “That whole thing was epic!”
I froze. “You were recording that?”
“Ye...
2023-05-25 16:42:58 +0000 UTC
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57. Fortitude
“So I guess you didn’t just grow taller,” Corinth said as we were shown into the parlor.
“Excuse me?” I asked.
“Oh, just commenting that you seem to have a massive pair of balls,” the older boy comme...
2023-05-25 14:21:50 +0000 UTC
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56. Protocol
The strange sensations of displacement and movement that accompanied fast-travel faded, and I found myself standing outside the market in the eastern districts. I was promptly enveloped in a powerful protective shield ca...
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“What do you mean, you can’t read it?” I asked, my voice full of anguish and despair.
“I mean it might as well be written in ancient hieroglyphics,” Zimmer answered, still holding the parchment that I had spent ten minutes writing....
2023-05-25 07:56:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone, thanks for sticking around. I just got permission to share with you all these sketches by the amazing artist who will be doing the cover for book 1.
I have to make a decision by Friday. If you see this before ...
2023-05-25 05:15:51 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone. I'm sorry that I've been a ghost. I'm not dead, I just needed to get away from everything for a while. The pressure of having TQG blow up like it did sort of got to me, and I needed a while to calm down. That ...
2023-05-04 12:58:44 +0000 UTC
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Unoro sighed as the port came into sight. He vowed to never, ever, leave the comfort of land again. The Kastazee had been wonderful and welcoming to the captives, going so far as to sail them each to their original destinations after a...
2023-04-14 13:36:55 +0000 UTC
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54. Traps
“It’s a trap,” Malkios declared.
“Obviously,” Tarisha agreed. “The question is whether to spring it or avoid it. Daemon, your thoughts on the matter?”
“I’m afraid I’m not adept enough i...
2023-04-08 16:29:56 +0000 UTC
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It's kind of heavy on the info dump, but here you go. It's going live on RR tomorrow.
53. Reunions
The door crashed open, and the sound of it slamming against the wall waking me. I lifted my head off the desk, a piece of ...
2023-04-03 18:54:16 +0000 UTC
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I've had a rough couple of days. I've been off of work, trying not to go into the hospital due to manic symptoms again. Unfortunately this means that everything I write is crap atm. It's the stress building up, but hopefully I'll...
2023-03-30 14:11:22 +0000 UTC
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52. Alive
I returned to the world in the temple of Thedum in Zhesa city. Specifically in the rectory, appearing in a swirl of white motes of light right in front of a young novice, who screamed out “Oh I’m sorry Thedum, I didn’...
2023-03-23 12:44:42 +0000 UTC
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Just checking in and holy crap have a lot of people joined. Nice to see you all, I'm glad that you enjoy my writing enough to support me.
I had a zoom meeting with Podium today. I think it went fairly well. Their editorial ...
2023-03-22 00:51:06 +0000 UTC
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Note: So I know I said I'd be working on SoF this weekend but after a week of editing and getting contacted by podium I can't stop thinking of TQG. So here's chapter 1 of the next book.
51. Goodbye
I spent six weeks ...
2023-03-18 13:00:47 +0000 UTC
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Holy crap. They want to make TQG into an audiobook.
2023-03-18 01:26:02 +0000 UTC
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Just letting everyone know I'm alive. I'm currently editing the manuscript of TQG book one, which I have decided to put on KDP. The paperback will release first because I really want to have one in my hand.
Eventually I'll be put...
2023-03-17 13:51:46 +0000 UTC
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Sorry if that wasn't clear from my last post. I have some ideas already and they're sort of gestating in the background at the moment, I need some time for them to crystalize, and I need to do some planning. If you're worried about me ...
2023-03-15 17:21:26 +0000 UTC
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With chapter 50 complete of The Quest Giver, I am officially calling it a completed novel.
Man, I need to start publishing this stuff.
Not quite sure what I'll do with myself next. I plan to write 5-10 new chapters of Soldier of ...
2023-03-15 09:50:38 +0000 UTC
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Gideon was having a very bad day. He had begged out of being a part of the big reward ceremony for closing the raid by signing up to lecture a bunch of kids about the realities and pitfalls of professional gaming, only to have everything go ...
2023-03-15 05:46:55 +0000 UTC
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“Lewis, it is time for you to awaken,” the digital voice said kindly. “You have reached your destination.”
Lewis grunted sat up in the car, looking around. In The Gates of Tirniki, he was known as Laurant Basak. ...
2023-03-15 05:46:06 +0000 UTC
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I had the sensation of disembodiment, of displacement. Of moving without moving. It was similar to fast travel, yet different. When the sensation faded, I was back in my body, back in my childhood room in the castle, wardrobe and...
2023-03-15 05:45:08 +0000 UTC
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After avenging my grandfather and giving him his funeral blessing, I was exhausted. I collapsed into the mobile throne which had been placed upon the stage for the ceremony, uncaring that I was violating protocol quite severely. The pe...
2023-03-15 04:51:47 +0000 UTC
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“Thedum, no! Send me back!” I pleaded to the white nothingness.
“If I send you back as you are, you will simply die,” the sad benevolence said. “I will not consign you to that fate.”
“I have to save him!  ...
2023-03-15 04:50:34 +0000 UTC
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“She’s better off being a rogue than an assassin anyway,” Tarisha said, demonstrating the next sequence.
I tried to copy her, spinning and leaping and losing my balance. I landed wrong and fell on my bottom, losing one health. &n...
2023-03-15 04:20:00 +0000 UTC
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I walked through the empty caverns that had once been the [Gemos Caverns] dungeon, Tarisha and the party of players who had first rescued me from becoming a kebab for goblins following close behind. The cave structure remained unchanged from...
2023-03-10 13:33:44 +0000 UTC
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So I work night shift the next several days and likely won't be posting many chapters. I am however still on track to keep up with Royal Road updates for the foreseeable future. TQG book 1 will soon be completed.
I am expecting T...
2023-03-10 13:07:28 +0000 UTC
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The popular item of this boss was another vanity pet; a miniature wardrobe according to the item description. The argument about its distribution was fierce. Finally it was decided that Father would hold onto it until a guild meeting c...
2023-03-10 02:11:27 +0000 UTC
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The keep was filled with Living Statues dressed in livery and pomp. Some of them resembled the courtiers and servants who had once walked these halls, while others had faces that were simply blank stone. The raid sliced through them li...
2023-03-09 12:38:36 +0000 UTC
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