#1: I need to figure out now what happens with class evolution @ lvl 50, before it sneaks up on me in 3 floors and I'm totally unprepared.
Things I want: I want the levelling to slow down after 10th floor. 3 lvls per floor, diminishing to 1 and then every other floor and so on, until we hit lvl 100.
I want some kind of Class Advancement options to present themselves @ lvl 50.
I'm tinkering with the idea of gaining a 3rd Primary skill as part of the package deal with the n...
2025-05-03 14:06:34 +0000 UTC
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Mark Wyrd felt like he was finally beginning to relax. The knots were coming undone, the tea from a rare flower that only grew on this floor had a mild sedative effect that managed to pierce a Climber’s Resistance.
And it didn’t taste half-bad either.
“This must be the most interesting wall in all the land,” Amanda Akul said, leaning close and following his line of sight to the blank stone wall.
“It’s not bad.” Mark said with a shrug.
“Would you like so...
2025-05-02 17:43:47 +0000 UTC
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Got interviewed by the voice actor and the Sound Booth Theater crew in anticipation of the release of book 2 of Industrial Strength Magic on Audible May 6th. It's out on pre-release right this very moment.
Worked on that skit last week, did the interview today.
For any of you folks interested in my pretty face.
I tried wearing one of my old Kamigawa...
2025-05-01 02:00:10 +0000 UTC
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3…2…1
BOOOOOM!
An explosive blast sent out a wave of compressed air, flattening the jungle around the lake for a hundred paces and disintegrating the top of the ziggurat.
Shrapnel cleaved through the platform of hardened air that they stood on, diverted off course by the angled layers just enough to not cause them any harm. Badur looked distinctly uncomfortable.
There!
Where there had once been an ancient ziggurat w...
2025-04-30 19:43:25 +0000 UTC
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Mark Wyrd was taking a much-needed break. Four months since he had killed his father and rescued his wife, and it felt like he hadn’t gotten a single moment to rest.
It wasn’t just purging the ranks of his father’s stooges and straightening out their extremely crooked finances, it was also defending his claim on the Wyrd Stronghold. When a Lord passes, everyone and their grandfather suddenly thinks they have a chance at the title. Literally.
The first month...
2025-04-28 17:40:25 +0000 UTC
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With no regard for his personal safety, William Oh didn’t hesitate a single heartbeat, charging into the ancient dungeon alone and headlong, eager to take on the raid boss that he knew in his heart was there.
Once he found Silverdeath, he stood his ground and challenged it to a fair fight, bouncing it’s piercing spikes off his blessed steel bracers before taking the monster apart in a long, grueling battle that tested his strength and Abilities to their limits....
2025-04-25 18:13:56 +0000 UTC
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William Oh won a coinflip against the God of Misfortune, who withered and died, having finally been released from his curse of infinite success.
- Jason Salazar
“Okay, we’ve got three Greater Healing Potions and six people.” Will gave Reggie and Mason one, taking the final one for himself.
“Nobody get injured more than half. That’s your budget for the trip,” Will said, scanning his team.
<...
2025-04-23 15:27:57 +0000 UTC
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“Okay so right there is where Akresh says the Raid Boss is.” Loth said, pointing out a spot near dead center on the map.
Will frowned, studying the X in the middle of a lake below a waterfall.
“This hasn’t been discovered in a thousand years?” Will asked. it was in the center of the map, partly between the Wyrd Stronghold and all the Key Sites.
“I’m sure it has, but it’s likely rare.” Loth said, pulling out a pen and laying it between the Stronghold and key...
2025-04-21 17:16:17 +0000 UTC
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Caddock heaved the arm-width rope over his shoulder, timing his tugs with those of other prisoners as they transported the star towards the cart designed to haul it out of the frozen wastes and down to Basalt.
Robbing the mostly empty frozen wastes of what little warmth they had in order to arm the Church of Granesh against the oncoming flood.
Caddock could see why it was necessary, he just wished it wasn’t.
He and the other prisoners had the technique down to an artform, ...
2025-04-18 17:58:04 +0000 UTC
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…And THAT is why we are not monsters, or demons, or anything but a proud race of warriors descended from the divine world-snake in ages long lost to the sands of time, waiting for the final battle, when Ouroboros will call his erstwhile molts back to him.
Unfortunately for Will, tongue-flicks didn’t require pauses for breathing, so this old man hadn’t stopped lecturing him in nearly an hour.
All the while his Party was creeping closer and closer.
...
2025-04-16 18:20:02 +0000 UTC
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Ouroboros was once attacked by a coalition of gods and men with the intent of subduing Chaos and bend The Tower to their will. In the midst of the battle, Ouroboros shed several skins of titanic proportions. These Immortal Serpents continued to fight on while their creator shrank down to the size of a humble garden snake, weaving between the hooves of cavalry and tromping of iron boots.
And so it was that humanity failed to bring Chaos to heel.
Ouroboros spen...
2025-04-14 16:29:10 +0000 UTC
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The days gradually went by more and more smoothly once they got a handle on the monsters, which seemed unending at first. The teeming life of the jungle slowly ran out of surprises.
Never completely out of surprises…but less.
Taking the extra time to level the civilians kept them much safer than they might’ve otherwise been, and had fringe benefits.
The food got better, with Badur’s preservation Ability allowing them to add more meat to the menu and stretch their store...
2025-04-11 16:40:36 +0000 UTC
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William Oh once found a turd on the side of the road, and on a dare, polished that turd until it shone…
It’s the centerpiece of Andover’s crown now.
- Jason Salazar
William Oh
Resourceful Climber Level 31
32 + 95 Strength
96 + 76 Resistance
93 + 106 Ki...
2025-04-09 16:43:21 +0000 UTC
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I was going through all my notes trying to add everything together for a character sheet splash, and I finally KNEW I had gotten to the point where making an excel spreadsheet that could automatically accommodate the shifting stats from Phantom Hand would be faster and far more accurate than doing it manually.
With the added benefit of being WAY faster the next time I have to do it.
It also fo...
2025-04-08 16:17:16 +0000 UTC
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“So, who was it?” Will asked, causing Ria to glance up from where she was helping to clean up after the attack. Ria smoothed her clothes and straightened, clearing her throat as he approached.
“Who was what?” the tall young woman asked, awkwardly leaning on a nearby wagon.
“Who died?” Will clarified.
“What?” Ria frowned, cocking her head to the side. “No one died.”
“…I saw you carrying a corpse.”
“Oh! That was Reese.”
“…Ah....
2025-04-07 16:35:40 +0000 UTC
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Will was still shaking off the fog of sleep as his body shot to its feet.
Three big blinks and Will was back, orienting on the sound of combat.
It wasn’t coming from the brush-cutting vanguard, but the rear.
Something smart enough to attack from behind, but dumb enough to think they could get away with it.
Climbers? Will thought, spinning and juking around his bedding atop the wagon, leaping off the wagon and sprinting through the air, creating a stairc...
2025-04-04 19:02:27 +0000 UTC
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“Gods, it chafes.” Travis complained, adjusting his pants for the umpteenth time as he walked beside the wagon. “You’re not chafing?”
“It’s the moisture in the air.” Will said.
“There was moisture in the air on the Sixth Floor, and it didn’t chafe.”
Will glanced down at the Master Decoy and shrugged. “I can’t really feel it. Aspect of the Goat covers environmental discomfort.”
“Of course it does.” Travis groaned. “Alright, I’m taking...
2025-04-02 18:50:52 +0000 UTC
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Author's note: Patreon not letting me edit access again for some reason. Will delete older one.
“Gods, it chafes.” Travis complained, adjusting his pants for the umpteenth time as he walked beside the wagon. “You’re not chafing?”
“It’s the moisture in the air.” Will said.
“There was moisture in the air on the Sixth Floor, and it didn’t chafe.”
Will glanced down at the Master Decoy and shrugged. “I can’t really feel it. Aspect of the G...
2025-04-02 18:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Author's note: This is the second chapter I've had to re-release manually because Patreon gave me a 'something went wrong' message when I tried to modify the access tiers. Nothing has been changed, for those of you who have already read it.
Welcome to the 7th Floor!
Miasma Acclimation: 7 days.
It is not advised to Ascend or Descend before the Miasma acclimation period has elapsed. Side effects of d...
2025-03-31 19:28:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 7th Floor!
Miasma Acclimation: 7 days.
It is not advised to Ascend or Descend before the Miasma acclimation period has elapsed. Side effects of doing so include fever, bulging bloodshot eyes, coughing, pustules, necrosis of the extremities, paraphilia, parasitic twin growths, and Death.
There is a Stronghold to your South, and a Key Site in need of clearing to your West.<...
2025-03-31 18:39:03 +0000 UTC
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Read the whole thing for details on how I'm considering the effects, for a better chance at your suggestion being chosen.
The middle finger that had Will's lifesteal sickle is now empty, and the Stormfists are dwarfed in power by the Coiled serpent amulet, giving us two free finger slots.
The undead servant wand is still useful for their intended purpose, and the ring of accuracy is of middling usefulness in the right situation. (a better ring of accuracy might be on the table.)<...
2025-03-27 18:34:50 +0000 UTC
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It was remarkable how quickly things grew when you weren’t paying attention to them. That applied to severed hands and organizations that treated you like a Lord.
By the time Will got back to the Fifth Floor, Thea Oilton, socialite extraordinaire and older sister to his Party’s Master Decoy, had liquidated a large portion of the Party’s wealth and repurposed it to create an organization specifically designed to…
Make Will feel important?
Everyone flinched or bowed an...
2025-03-27 17:55:18 +0000 UTC
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William Oh walks on frozen lightning, drinks the tears of the gods, breathes defiance, and stares giants in the eye.
- Jason Salazar
“I did it,” Jason panted breathlessly.
You have reached level 10!
Now that you have reached level 10, experience gain in the Hunting Grounds through the 2nd Floor have been nerfed.
If you wish to continu...
2025-03-24 20:06:47 +0000 UTC
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Author's note: Ch. 124 was resisting changing the access tiers for some reason, this is my attempt to bypass that resistance and get Ch. 124, to the $5 tier. No changes have been made, this chapter is not new.
William Oh walks on frozen lightning, drinks the tears of the gods, breathes defiance, and stares giants in the eye.
- Jason Salazar
“I did it,” Jason panted breathlessly.
You hav...
2025-03-24 16:57:00 +0000 UTC
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Jason blinked his eyes open, discovering a dimly lit ceiling above him.
I’m still alive? Or not?
“Am I dead?” Jason rasped, his voice coming out unexpectedly hoarse.
“I considered having someone to play that prank on you, but I resisted.” A familiar voice spoke beside him.
Jason glanced over and spotted Will and Loth seated at a table in the side of the room, a game board between them, lit by a flickering candle. Will had a cup, a bit of trash and so...
2025-03-22 17:43:22 +0000 UTC
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William Oh challenged Ouroboros, the god of Mischief and Chaos to a footrace.
The Hero and the God ran at a speed that made mortal men age from sheer proximity, causing distances to shrink and light itself to politely step aside as they passed.
Time itself sped past the two as the footrace continued, and in the absence of Ouroboros’s predations, humanity flourished and spread across the land.
Ages later, when he thought he’d finally caught ...
2025-03-20 16:59:30 +0000 UTC
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“How goes it?” Caddock asked as Orev took a deep swig of a healing potion while Maybin kept his ankle straight. A little time-out to catch his breath.
“He’s burning through Charge fast,” Orev gasped as he unsealed his mouth from the bottle. “But sir, I’m not sure if we’ll be able to pin him down in one place long enough to-“ Orev made a hammering motion.
“Don’t worry about that. As long as miss Thuy has parts of his Set, that’s about the second-best bait we...
2025-03-18 16:18:10 +0000 UTC
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People were asking what he could do, so I spent some time this morning putting this together by bouncing through and compiling info to create a character sheet. I tossed in a few of my calculations for various Abilities too, so they hopefully make more sense.
Some of this will probably go into a character sheet at the end of the fight, so if there are any glaring errors or things you find confusing, or feel were left out...lemme know.
Without Further Ado:
Macro’...
2025-03-16 16:31:52 +0000 UTC
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How the FUCK does he fight like that!?
- Orev Harti, level 57 Trickster Raven’s thoughts
Time to switch up the game of tag, Will thought, using the springy earth underneath him to propel himself out of the bloody woman’s reach, aiming for the feathered man.
The ranger’s eyes widened, and he vanished in a cloud of feathers long before Will even got close.
Will felt a surge of Cha...
2025-03-14 17:44:21 +0000 UTC
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Typically, Relics of limitless power carry their wielders through one shattering victory after another….
It doesn’t matter who starts the fight with the Relic of limitless power.
William Oh is going to have it by the end.
And the shattering will be your bones.
- Jason Salazar, level 22 Prophet of the End in a 5th Floor tavern
How the Abyss did he stay in the...
2025-03-12 16:44:32 +0000 UTC
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