Magic!
So... yeah, we see the foundations of magic here. I think that this is a pretty cool system? But I'd love feedback on it. Obviously, MC is gonna test things out at home in the next chapter. Probably won't learn too much, since... well, no teacher or guidance except for some text documents, but still. A few hours of practice might help!
My goal with rank-E magic is... mostly party tricks and really weak stuff that eventually leads into actually, minorl...
2025-07-12 04:03:21 +0000 UTC
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I am soooo tired.
Nn. More... idk, more about magic next chapter? Or I skip past that and don't explain anything. idk. We'll see how I'm feeling.
Chapter Twenty-Two
“Ah, everyone, this is... well, you can present yourself,” Damien said.
“Hello, everyone,” I said before bowing slightly. It felt like the right thing to do. In many ways this group was made up entirely of my superiors.
Damien had guided me to a room on wha...
2025-07-11 18:56:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Thirty
They spent the night scouting, for a certain definition of the word. Emily was just happy that they made it back without being caught.
Still, it hadn’t been a fruitless endeavor. She’d gotten the opportunity to walk all the way around the base that the HRF were occupying. Not from too close, but from near enough to make out some details.
They didn’t have a good idea of what the guard patrols were like, or how many people were
2025-07-11 13:44:54 +0000 UTC
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This chapter ended up a smidge short, but it was covering something kind of boring, and I didn't want it to linger too long. Anyway! MC ranked up~ Almost? She's on the cusp!
Now... let's meet some of her new coworkers and maybe learn a little more about how magic works!
Chapter Twenty-One
I woke up bleary and early the next day, did a quick check of my surroundings, then suffered through my new morning routine of squats and pushups and stretches...
2025-07-11 06:47:02 +0000 UTC
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Heh
Posted that interlewd early this morning! It's restricted to Patron members only, I'm afraid. But I swear it's worth your $5!
Yesterday morning? Well, whatever. Have the night after. Next chapter will be MC's first day on the job! Progress time!
Chapter Twenty
Jane bent over the side of her bed and fumbled with something while...
2025-07-11 04:16:29 +0000 UTC
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Only a few days late!
Added Save Scumming to the list.
Ah, but that's all that's new, I think? Mhm!
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bAS4VA0qi2Sk38MgPP3j3eV34Ey3cEbAgg2HgvCKSA0/edit?tab=t.0
2025-07-11 04:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Three
The preparations for the Grand Tournament began slowly and quietly. There were several meetings, but these were private and out of sight of the common person. Then, the announcement came.
Handed down by the newly crowned Empress (though there hadn’t really been a coronation, which certainly got some tongues waggling) was a decree to be read and spread across the fledgling empire.
The people of the empire were still getting used to the rathe...
2025-07-11 01:51:09 +0000 UTC
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Contains Jane having a clothing fetish, some cunning linguistics, and the MC being hella pent up. Interlewd - Not-So-Plain-Jane Jane’s face
Contains Jane having a clothing fetish, some cunning linguistics, and the MC being hella pent up.
Interlewd - Not-So-Plain-Jane
Jane’s face lit up even as my stomach sank. This might have been a very bad idea. “Really?” she asked.
“I mean, it depends. What did you, ah plan on doing?” I asked....
2025-07-10 08:40:31 +0000 UTC
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More Jane! I like her, she's goofy to write!
Chapter Nineteen
I walked into the MommaPops and blinked as I discovered the same zit-faced boy behind the counter. For some reason, that felt very funny to me.
I... may have been a little more tipsy than I had previously thought. That, or the taxi ride over to here hadn’t helped the alcohol settle. Weren’t D-rankers supposed to be a little more tolerant of alcohol?
Then again, I was bar...
2025-07-10 05:22:21 +0000 UTC
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Rewrite! The old prologue wasn't doing it for me. Too much information that was fluff, not enough angst and action. Lemme know if this one's better?
NEW Chapter One
It was widely accepted that magic was complicated.
It was one of those ‘no duh’ kind of facts that people just took for granted because it was so obvious. Rain is wet, fire is hot, magic is complicated.
Magic being complicated didn’t explain the situation I was in.
2025-07-10 03:22:04 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Fifty-Seven
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I got back home a bit after Lucy and discovered her slumped back on the couch, looking exhausted.
“You good?” I asked.
“Hmm,” she replied before cracking one eye open. “I gave a speech.”
“Was it good?” I asked.
“It was great,” she replied.
I smiled. “I wish I was there.”
“Nah,” she said with the laziest little wave of her hand. “You’re too... you. People wouldn’t ...
2025-07-09 14:16:28 +0000 UTC
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I hope my regular readers aren't annoyed by all the chapters of this coming out. I... imagine it's a LOT of emails.
Chapter Eighteen
“Hey, you’re... you never gave me your name, now that I think about it.”
I paused mid-push, then slowly lowered my arms down, taking the weight I was pressing upwards with them until there was a heavy clunk. Well, heavy-ish. I was bench-pressing eighty pounds within this fancy machine that was meant to k...
2025-07-09 08:19:13 +0000 UTC
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Psilocybin Two
Going from the pristine Academy back to the slums was always disconcerting. First, the city didn’t make any efforts to make it easy.
The trolley system through the city didn’t lead into the worse parts. It, in fact, made a point of going around. I’d seen one stop simply be removed from the map when the area around it became a little less glamorous and clean.
I wondered if soon there wouldn’t be any trolleys at all.
The ci...
2025-07-09 06:29:01 +0000 UTC
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Poor MC... Deadline won the name. And I think we all liked 'Coda' as a family name. Which makes her... Elise Coda? No, that lacks Gravitas...
Elise Anastasia Coda?
Elise Octavia Coda?
Elise Genevieve Coda?
Chapter Seventeen
I woke up feeling like I’d slept for an entire day, and that wasn’t too far from the truth.
“Urgh,” I said as I turned over and checked the time. It was noon-thirty. I had burned the morning away al...
2025-07-09 03:11:38 +0000 UTC
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Heeeere's Mizu!
Interlude Mizu the Angry Flame
She hated this kind of low-level work.
Not that it was beneath her, exactly, it just chaffed. She had ambition enough to see this entire shithole city burn, and yet she, like all the others, had to climb the ladder one rung at a damned time.
The anger simmered in her slow, boiling, like a kettle not yet ready to whistle.
Her master at the dojo had said that it wasn...
2025-07-08 12:09:50 +0000 UTC
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Chapter Five Hundred and Forty-Seven
Apparently I’d ‘captained’ too much for one night, so my friends and crew told me to take a day off.
That wasn’t to say that I could just lounge back and do nothing all day. Though it was certainly so warm that I felt like I might just melt. It was so warm that my ears weren’t sticking up straight and kept flopping down in front of my face, like limp noodles.
I made a circuit of the Be...
2025-07-08 09:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Okay! Art's done~ Look at this!
Now... one chapter from Mizu's perspective, and then one more from the MC's, and this early 'arc' is done! I hope it was a fun read so far?
Chapter Sixteen
I was pissed off, obviously. So many runs, so many loops, wasted.
Was it because I was too slow? But no, I’d timed the Bright Ligh...
2025-07-08 04:55:27 +0000 UTC
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Got to use a weird weapon <3 Also, poor MC...
Uh... we still need a name for her, lol!
I think her next few loops will be all about perfecting the run, then she'll learn how to fight the real boss. That is, a team of D-rankers!
Chapter Fifteen
The seventh loop proved that I didn’t quite have what it took to take on the boss just yet. Eight... I tried something different.
After clearing the opening room...
2025-07-08 00:25:32 +0000 UTC
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Sporemageddon is on Amazon!
Mango Media just put it up on Amazon Kindle! This is, of course, the first of four that'll be going up on Amazon, probably one every few months!
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Sporemageddon-1-RavensDagger-ebook/dp/B0FG88N7NN
2025-07-07 22:41:07 +0000 UTC
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I did a lot of reworks on the Gdocs for the early parts. The MC needed more personality. So... I made her more of a (horny) punk!
Highlights include:
I stood up with a bounce. I was feeling twitchy, and it felt like my adrenaline was spiking even though I wasn’t doing anything.
I had always been an underachiever. I wouldn't deny it. Some of that had been an extreme and well-honed talent for ignoring one problem by focusing on anothe...
2025-07-07 13:17:34 +0000 UTC
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Interlude Lucy - School Days Part Three
She was here thanks to Cat.
At the moment, with a knot of stress forming in her stomach, she wasn’t sure if she was pleased about that or not.
No, she couldn’t think that way. Her beloved might not usually be able to think more than a few days ahead, but Cat did always think about Lucy.
Lucy... knew that their relationship wasn’t the healthiest. She knew herself. She knew that she wasn’t the perfect...
2025-07-07 11:18:18 +0000 UTC
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Look, a chapter that isn't the new story! Hope no one was too bothered by all the chapters yesterday! I was trying to beat my all-time 'most words in a day' record... and I did! It's now up to a whopping 9346 words!
Chapter Fifty-Six
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We rejoined Gomorrah at the same cafe, and I discovered a fresh drink waiting for me already. Good service. I made a mental note to leave a good review as I said down across from Gomorrah. Nya spun a seat around and...
2025-07-06 09:48:12 +0000 UTC
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Not a bad number of chapters! I might consolidate these for the final release? Squish them together? Or maybe not? Who knows!
Anyway, that's all for today! 9346 words! New record!
Chapter Thirteen
I succeeded!
I was on the ground, breathing hard and staring at the ceiling. There were two dead kobolds next to me, and a painful cut in my upper thigh where one of the little bastards had outright stabbed me.
All three were dead... w...
2025-07-06 04:07:20 +0000 UTC
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I feel like I could spend a long time just exploring the dungeon, but that... eh, it's not that fun to write? How many repetitions do you think our intrepid MC will need to get good? Hopefully not too many, because high-octane fight scenes suck to write after a while.
Chapter Twelve
I paced before the space the portal had opened in last time, waiting. I had set my Save to when I entered the building, but didn’t dare set it any earlier than that...
2025-07-06 01:31:30 +0000 UTC
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Minigrix coming back with some colour~
Chapter Eleven
I made it home, flung those damned shoes off, then swore to myself that I’d never wear them again.
I had a few hours until that portal opened, which might as well be forever for me, but I didn’t want to risk being mentally tired. I was certain that I wouldn’t succeed on the first run-through...
2025-07-05 22:50:53 +0000 UTC
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Our girl is down horrendous.
What'd you think of the magic talk? I'm not revealing how it all works in one go, but am spoonfeeding it as I go... because I'm still figuring it out too!
Chapter Ten
I had nothing to worry about. The meeting proceeded more or less as it had last time. It started with the ‘tell me about yourself’ and went on with the ‘can you walk you through your resume.’
I padded things a little, here and there, made myself...
2025-07-05 09:54:52 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to my job as a writer, I haven't had to sit in on an interview in a long time.
Thank goodness.
Anyway, gonna skip ahead in the interview to the point where they test her abilities, then show the differences from 'last time' even though we didn't see last time. More fun that way!
Hmm... how should they test her Rank?
Chapter Nine
The next morning came, and I awoke after a solid nine hours feeling like I’d only slept for six...
2025-07-05 07:03:59 +0000 UTC
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I have the day off!
So, my all-time record for most words written in one day is 7.6K, from like, a year and a half ago. Let's see if I can't beat that? A new story with lots of inspiration is the best for that, yeah?
Also, the premise of this story lends itself really well to lewd side-stories, and if I'm going for a more sexy MC, then I might want to maybe explore that. Would people enjoy that, or would you personally bounce off of it? Idk, I guess the positive reactio...
2025-07-05 04:50:57 +0000 UTC
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Been a minute!
Only have some small, minor updates on this one. Mostly I've been fixing up as many typos and small mistakes as I could. I think I'm happy calling this one a 'mostly done' project.
Could it be better? Yup! If I gave myself another month I'd love to draw up art that explains how different skills work with like, infographics and the like, but that feels like a lot of work a...
2025-07-05 04:38:01 +0000 UTC
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EZ dress-up chapter is ez. Plus Jane was fun to write! She comes off as strong and obnoxious, but that makes her fun and easy to play with!
Chapter Seven -
Not-So-Plain Jane was rather... a lot for someone who may or may not have been a criminal.
“So, what’re we talking here? Some B&E, you gonna merc an ex-lover? You don’t look the gangster type,” she said as she walked around me. “Damn, you have the potential girl.”
“U...
2025-07-04 10:20:32 +0000 UTC
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