William Oh once got his head latched onto by a mind-controlling crab. After a week of mind-bending hallucinations…the hive-mind was under his control.
- Jazon Salazar
Strangely enough, The Last Chance Inn was much harder to sneak into than the smuggler’s dock, for a variety of reasons.
The entire boat was well lit, there were tons of carousing witnesses, and nearly as many high-level bouncers with st...
2025-01-08 20:14:33 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a couple places they had in mind to check for dark secrets: Abandoned docks, like Reese had suggested And the church of Granesh, because they had such a fine time breaking in the last time they went for a walk, and if there was a secret demi-human plot against The Flotilla, the church of Granesh would be the ones who would be most interested in finding out.
Aside from…everyone else who liked a juicy conspiracy.
“Not a lot to go on,” Will mused as they walked down ...
2025-01-07 00:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostFighting William Oh is like fighting a tornado. A force of nature. I personally witnessed no less than fifty men violently tossed around and battered with furniture, all the while grasping at nothing but air. Then he came for me.
-Bill Brion, level 30 Bartender.
A wet cough erupted from Will as he limped along the pier, followed by a sharp pain through his chest that froze him in place until he remembered how to breathe.
Will gingerly poked his ribs, trying...
2025-01-03 17:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostWe all have an idea of how it turned out, but i was wondering how disappointed you would be if I skipped to the morning after?
2025-01-02 18:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostParagraph 82, subsection 3: On Knife Fighting.
Mutually agreed upon knife-fights are legally binding for settling disputes between Party Leaders. They are to be confined to indoor areas, as bleeding into the water is forbidden. The blade itself may measure no more than 2 inches for the safety of the fighters. Fights will be determined by first blood. Climbers failing to yield promptly after first blood are required to be beaten by any and all specta...
2025-01-01 19:34:52 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam Oh arrived at The Flotilla on a ghost ship, carved from the bones of a dead leviathan and piloted by ghosts.
Once they docked, tales spread like wildfire of deckhands and voluptuous chambermaids that seemed to appear and disappear, never allowing others to get an accurate grasp of how many souls were on board. Some nights it seemed like hundreds were on board, while other nights, only a single window would flicker with lamplight revealing about a dozen people, beggi...
2024-12-30 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe first time William Oh ever went fishing, he caught ‘The Big One’ without a fishing rod or bait…one handed.
And blind.
…Technically he was the bait.
- Nathan Oppy, level 16 Climber
“Will! Get out of there, you idiot!” Loth’s voice crossed the rolling waves, reaching him just as Will was about halfway to them.
Will took only a fraction of a seco...
2024-12-27 17:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Travis.”
Travis’s eyes snapped open, the light of early morning peeking over the edge of the raft edge beside his head. “Shit.”
“Indeed.” Loth said, from where she loomed above him. “The rest of the Party forgot you existed when they went exploring this morning. Do you have some kind of mnemonic camouflage Ability upgrade? And do you perhaps use it to avoid taking watch at night?”
Oh, right, she has the highest Focus in the Party.
William Oh’s first meal on the Sixth Floor was comprised of King Crab and Flying Caviar that stretched as far as the eye can see. He ate so much expensive fish in a single sitting, that if it had been released to the public, it would’ve crashed the economy of The Ring.
- Jason Salazar
William Oh
Resourceful Climber Level 25
26+ 5 S...
2024-12-23 17:32:48 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam Oh conquered the entire Sixth Floor and never once got wet. And yes, I’m including the underwater nation of Gabben Sa’luud.
- Jason Salazar
When all was said and done, Will had picked out three more Relics to add to his Build.
Shortsword of Perserverence
+8 Acuity
+8 Resistance
It was a pitted and worn s...
2024-12-20 18:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostSo I wasn't even sure myself what this would do for Mason. I'm dabbling with a handful of ideas, and was wondering what you guys thought was cool.
regardless of which one we pick, his skin is going to take on a faint mother-of-pearl look.
#1 Large bonus to physical power. Since resistance is a multiplier of your base toughness, this effect will raise his base toughness, making him naturally inhumanly tough/strong. This option is kind of basic, but reliable.
#2 Hollow ...
“Punth me in the fathe.” Reggie said around the mouthguard.
“I believe you.” Will said, holding his hands up. “Just because it says it reduces damage to your nervous system doesn’t mean there won’t be any. I’m not gonna give you brain damage to test it.”
“Aw heck, I’ll do it,” Bee said, stepping forward and winding up a tiny fist.
“Wait, Bee-“
There was a small explosive sound as the shapeshifter’s fist hit the Tank’s jaw at superhuman s...
2024-12-18 18:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post“This…this is more than we’ll ever need.” Travis said, his gaze crossing the pile of loot in the center of Bee’s abandoned warehouse. Rare sacrifices, weapons, and jewelry was piled up in the center of the room with casual disdain for their value. Of course none of it was weak enough to be damaged by the rough treatment, but it still felt weird.
“More than we’ll ever need? No. Not even close. More than we can use? Definitely.” Thea Oilton said. Their Decoy’s socialite ...
2024-12-16 16:47:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, so I started writing Chapter 84 which is right around where we are starting book three and the exploration of Floor 6+, and I realized I need to come up with A LOT of new Relics for the party and it's slowing down the chapter designing and balancing. I've separated them into 4 categories if you wanna help. I even wrote in a basic guide for how I'm designing them.
#1: We have auction items. these are Sacrifices or Relics with 10-20 total stat bonuses, 1-3 affixes, and these ite...
They took him to a private room in the palace and Will was once again surrounded by people he was fairly sure could end him in the blink of an eye. Ghoul, Bakton, and Luis, who had been waiting for the three of them.
Luis gestured for them to sit, and Will did so, heart hammering in his chest.
“So about the auction -” Will said before Luis held up his hand.
“We arrested several vassals of Frederick Wyrd that had been subdued by the auction vault’s defenses. Obviously...
2024-12-11 16:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post‘They say William oh singlehandedly saved the city of Akul by wrestling four kaiju to the ground at once. There should be nose hairs, He had one nose hair in each arm-‘
‘That’s dumb, he rode a black dragon into battle and leashed the kaiju together, so he should be riding one and have a lasso-‘
‘No, it wasn’t singlehanded. He broke time and space to be there more than once. There were thousands of William Ohs, climbing over the kaiju, he should ...
2024-12-09 20:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostDanced with the Rotwitch.
- Climber idiom for ‘died horribly’
Will’s stats were very good…for a level twenty-four.
His Acuity was particularly excellent, so he was able to perceive about half the things that happened in the next fraction of a second.
Taking advantage of the heartbeat Will had bought, the Baron encased his son and grandson in living shield and shot them through the wall, the...
2024-12-06 22:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhen more than one god has a claim to a truly exceptional soul, they try to outbid each other, offering incentives to the soul to join their afterlife, raising the god’s power and prestige.
William Oh cheated the system by arranging for every god to have a strong claim on his soul.
When he finally died the first time, he declared that he could only serve in the ‘greatest’ god’s afterlife.
As they bickered over which god wa...
2024-12-04 20:37:49 +0000 UTC View Post“So what are you in for?” Void asked, leaning up against the wall and staring at the prisoner in the cell across from him. The emaciated prisoner had disheveled brown hair and a wild look in his blue eyes. He was relatively tall, maybe a hair over six foot, with the frame of a man who’d eaten well in his youth, only for his luck to turn sour.
A bit like the two of us. Only two of our group left. Just me and Arms.
That was a good thing, because after this debacle was...
2024-12-02 21:28:47 +0000 UTC View PostA forty-foot long snake coalesced out of the miasma in the air, its serpentine loops pooling around him and nearly blocking Will’s sight of his opponent.
The snake’s head reared high above Will and oriented on his opponent with an unnatural intelligence.
Shove her off the platform or deal lethal damage to her. Either works for me. Will thought, pointing.
The snake nodded, it’s eyes flashing cyan to iridescent green as it began moving toward Carrie.
...
2024-11-29 18:37:36 +0000 UTC View PostI got cooking and cleaning today, family over tomorrow, so chances are I won't have time to write a chapter. Expect the next chapter to be on Friday-sat.
I will do some writing today, but when my wife is 100% awake, I'm obligated to pitch in.
Since we have a bit of an extended absence, I'd like to do some brainstorming with you guys to make sure the time isn't wasted.
So we're approaching the climax of what will be book 2 when it's published, and I'm trying to make sure a...
Will’s eyes narrowed as he took in the slightly built girl in front of him.
“What better way to settle who’s the better Phantom thief once and for all than a tournament?” Bee said, gesturing to their surroundings where thousands of fans of violence were screaming bloody murder, hoping they would tear each other apart in the arena.
“I could think of a couple ways,” Will said over the din before cocking his head. “How did you beat Mason anyway?”
“After he hit...
2024-11-25 20:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostOne may be excused for believing that William Oh can see the future: He can’t. He has an outstanding capacity to recognize patterns, which, to the untrained eye may SEEM like he is predicting the future.
He has however, on occasion, been documented telling the future what to do, which is totally different.
- Jason Salazar
“May I?” The Artificer Archetype asked, his bushy white...
2024-11-22 20:38:01 +0000 UTC View PostI saw William Oh get mad once. It was just a bit scary.
- Tracy Manon, level 35 Announcer
“Frederick, Welcome to Akul.” Stephan said, offering a hand to Frederick Wyrd. The Thorns-build could probably kill him with a handshake, but Wyrd didn’t know that.
“I’ve always thought it was childish to name a Stronghold after yourself.” Frederick said, glanc...
2024-11-20 17:59:28 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s said that Lumesh finally found William Oh one of those nights of searching for his missing jaw. He possessed one of William’s servants, a black dragon, prince among his kind, aiming for revenge against William Oh.
The god of Death leveraged his power to dominate the will of the dragon, which resisted with its ancient raw will. Through the conflict, the lines began to blur, the two fused to become something…more.
That’s why Loth the Luminary is of...
2024-11-18 18:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostThere was one upside to fighting two matches in one day:
Will didn’t have to do anything but rest the next day. He vaguely suspected a setup, but when they marched him and the debuffer out onto the stage, Will’s opponent forfeited without a fuss.
Sure, people weren’t happy about two let-down matches in a row, but again…he wasn’t there to entertain people. Plus, breezing through his matches without revealing his limits to the other competitors was ideal. Eve...
2024-11-15 20:21:10 +0000 UTC View PostTheres no such thing as a ‘fair fight’ with William Oh. Merely being his opponent has already put you at a disadvantage. What did you expect? A fight where either side has an equal chance of losing? William Oh doesn’t lose.
- level 15 Climber in a second Floor Inn.
“Alright, where are the drugs?” Ria demanded, grabbing the Ear Collector’s hands and twisting them up behind ...
2024-11-13 18:44:37 +0000 UTC View PostBron Gilder, the level 50 Bishop of the church of Granesh clicked his tongue as Hiro Tomaki walked out of the arena into the contestant’s area, his body stiff and trembling with shame as he struggled to blink the sand out of his eyes without damaging them.
“Send someone with a skin full of water to tend the boy’s eyes. I’d rather not Granesh lose a Paladin Archetype over this. Hopefully this will serve as a reminder to him that Climbers are a different beast altogether.”
We're gonna have six rounds and I'd like a few of the other contenders have a few surprises/gimmicks of their own that Will has to think on his feet to defeat.
I'm interested in interesting Abilities, and cool synergies between Relics and Abilities, I.E. Builds.
Tragic backstories not necessary, but welcome.
The day of the tournament marched towards them, but Will didn’t sit idle. Motivated by the fact that his life was on the line, he channeled all his energy into three things:
#1: Power. Will bribed/coerced a few solo Climbers into giving up their spot in an upcoming Kaiju hunt. It was impressive standing at the knee of such monolithic beasts, but looking back on it, the fights were kind of boring. The mercenaries had developed a nearly flawless method of subduing them, strapping...
2024-11-10 23:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post