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12 Miles Below - Chapter 69 - In which To'Avalis rips his hair out
2026-02-12 18:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 67 - The fight at the heart of the church
2026-02-05 18:36:42 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 126
Play clapped her hands with excitement, "Look at that, it wants to talk to you too! Aw, it's lonely."
The quest itself was strange. Different. And Wade had a very strong feeling that if THE GAME was supposed to be one played with two entities, then maybe the messed up formatting meant it's non-standard. Maybe made behind the other's back? Or at least it wasn't part of the natural quest structure.
Which meant the other side could potentially skirt the rules in the same way.
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2026-02-01 01:00:31 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 125
Wade considered everything he knew.
First, the invader he'd beat up had been Nathir. Or at least not a human. The weird name the System reported as being eliminate was very much not human.
But that wasn't what tipped Wade off.
Not knowing memes was plausible, THE GAME had yanked people from all walks of life, there's certainly plenty of normies running around without any internet knowledge.
And just speaking Nathir, well that was odd but some boon ...
2026-01-30 05:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying Storefront Poll Options
Edit: Realized the temp boon upgrade was listed here for 1 coin when it's written down on the storefront chapter earlier as 3 coins - which is correct. Three coins is the cost for that one, but can't edit the choices here.
Edit 2: Poll closed!
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I'll work out the best combination from the top winners in this poll. I don't guarantee the top picks end up in the final draft, but I will be heavily influenced by the results of this poll.
Die Trying - Chapter 124
Author's Note: If you have not read the changelog to the System, please check this post first before reading this chapter!
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Successfully Extracted. Round ended.
Final Round Score: S-Tier
Enemies defeated: 17
Quests completed: 7
Difficulty Modifiers applied....
2026-01-28 07:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Extremely Important Author's Patch notes to the System 1.01
Before reading the next chapter of Die Trying (which will be posted up sometime after this announcement, once final edits are done) - there's some sweeping changes I'm implementing.
I'm doing a rewrite of the System (Slightly-ish) for the eventual swap between rough draft version to the KU polished up final version of this story.
The changes are there to add more fun, unlockable and predictable progression to it. The edits are not live because it all has to get swapped in one gi...
2026-01-27 23:25:11 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 65 (Part A and Part B) - The final war
AN: This chapter is almost three entire chapters long, but there wasn't any good spot to split it, so instead I'll post all of this week's chapters today in one unbroken bundle.
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Knight Geralt held onto the staff of the goddess, carefully cradling it. The airspeeder hummed under his boots, the pilot executing perfect maneuvers. There would be no mistakes allowed. It was more accurate to state the pilot had trained his entire life for this one ...
2026-01-27 00:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 123 (Cleaned up version for email readers)
AN: Prior draft released had an outline bullet point accidentally un-deleted while I was writing, which left it in the middle of the story, and I can't un-send an email notification. But I can delete and re-submit this chapter with a version that's not going to ruin the reading experience.
My bad gang, my ADHD writing style has finally bit me in the ass.
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Eri clicked his jaw, swinging his greatsword at the critter ahead.
It continue...
2026-01-23 22:18:45 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 64 - The signal
We watched the pair vanish, growing smaller the further they went.
This time they departed with a lot more finesse and stealth than my own trip out there. Although, to be fair to my own earlier trip here, I was thrown out the airlock with a bag and a sword and told to find the road in a snowstorm.
And my destination also didn’t get me close to Relinquished’s territory at all, so even seen from the digital sea, none of her bots would have reported it back home since it wa...
2026-01-22 22:13:38 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 122
Unable to move his legs, Wade lunged forward with his hands, trying to grab anything he could.
He had more stamina again, the water mastery boon increasing the regeneration and his empowered lungs cycling liquid mana in and out faster gave him a good amount of room to work with.
Was there even oxygen in liquid mana? Probably not. Wade guessed it was more a thing where the System said he'd have water breathing - as in being able to breathe and live in water - and so he wasn't goi...
2026-01-21 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 121
"Oh, it's the other way around completely." The bomb expert spoke. "A grenade exploding underwater is way more dangerous than in the air. Air is a good conductor of pressure waves. But liquid? Liquid's incompressible. Just about instant pressure wave at full strength."
He turned and then handed Wade the grenade bandolier, filled with the three modified grenades. "There's a reason they banned dynamite fishing everywhere in the world. If you're exploding a grenade underwater, make dead su...
2026-01-20 18:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 63 - Old history repeats
“You make a mistake in letting me live, progenitor.” The shard hissed, beaten to an inch of his life.
He was nearly blind now, feeble, and unable to even so much as lift his head. But he could hear the footsteps ahead as a man walked through the waters to loom above him.
“I have made many mistakes.” A01 spoke, “I prefer to see it as hope. You may be my greatest mistake, or proof that deep down we can change and be better. Is faith a mistake?”
He held ...
2026-01-19 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 120
"Let's do this. You and me." Wade hissed out in Nathir. "Unless you're a weakling coward that can't fight a half-dead human."
Whoever Not-Leon was, he was doing a pretty convincing cosplay of what Wade would have thought the Nathir would act as. So Wade decided to just lean into it.
Not-Leon laughed, "I will be gracious in victory and allow you to be crushed in my hands. I do not need your insignificant companions. Let them choke and die here without my mercy."
Not-Leon st...
2026-01-16 18:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post12 Miles Below - Chapter 62 - Return
“Please explain in more detail who or what this program is.” The Icon sent to me, almost whispering in a data package while she gave it nervous glances.
“When I first came to your strata, I was trying to get a hold of Wrath and let her know where I was.” I formatted up a quick data package of my own, bundling up everything I’d gone through. “I stepped into the digital sea through a terminal, called out for help and this guy showed up. Learned how to draw out a probe of...
2026-01-15 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostDie Trying - Chapter 119
Bael raised his head back up, slowly turning to face the enemy approaching.
A human. Large build for their kind. Well equipped, clearly comfortable with a blade and armor.
No arcanonaught suit, which meant this human was already resigned to dying.
Any other day, Bael would have been surprised to see such a thing. Today was not any other day.
And before Bael could think of anything else, Wade was already rolling off the ground in that strange insane way that he could...
2026-01-14 00:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post