So I've accidentally started writing a third book
Added 2019-10-09 10:02:00 +0000 UTCBefore I knew it I was 5 chapters into it. Going to start releasing chapters for it on Fridays to all patrons and once I have a nice backlog there will probably be a tier for it specifically or some such. In this case a 'nice' backlog can be taken to mean around 21 chapters. The plan is to flood RoyalRoad and ScribbleHub with releases for a weekish to attract attention to it in those places then settle into a weekly release schedule.
As for what this new book is about? Well the name is "Dungeon's Path". It will combine the dungeon core genre with the path based systempocalypse genre. The first few chapters are set up and so it takes a little for him to actually become a dungeon but don't worry, it happens. Also each chapter will be about 2k words long so thats a thing. Anyway here is the synopsis:
So the world ended. Whoopsie? We didn’t even see it coming. Quite literally as it came at us faster than the speed of light. Don’t worry though, it got better. Also, I am not joking about the world ending. Most people say that and mean humans are inconvenient for some reason. Nope, all matter disintegrated at the atomic scale there for a few moments. Apparently the local universe wasn’t actually stable? Don’t ask me to go into too much detail. It would require both of us to have a few more college degrees than sense and I at least lack them (both the degrees and the sense). Anyway, the energy/matter/wibbly wobbly strings were at a local minimum and not the universal minimum. Basically, what we took for sea level was actually a nice little mountain lake and when the dam busted so did, well, everything.
Now here is where things go a bit off track with what normal meant before. You see magic is real, qi is real, gods are real. Not on old Earth mind you but souls don’t pay much attention to time and space so we dreamed of it. In fact, the closer the shift in reality got to Earth the closer our dreams got to the new reality. This is basically me tip toeing around the fact that it was a ‘System Apocalypse’. Reality became a video game, I became a dungeon, and this is my story.
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Doyle Huxley just wanted a normal life but as the above might clue you in on that just isn’t in the cards. He gets to experience a “Path Based System Apocalypse” and some early paths he takes, both literally and figuratively, lead to him becoming a dungeon.
Cursing will be avoided and no naughty adult action will take place in the story.
Oh and his name actually has a meaning (or at least google has told me it does). Doyle is of Irish origin and means either 'dark stranger' or 'foreigner' and Huxley is of English origin and means 'inhospitable place'. His name is thus a bit on the nose if you know this.