Patreon billing remains paused.
Everyone's physical health is good. Anna is doing good and even through she is on low doses of various pain medications she's probably going to have a long process to get off them.
Mentally for me I'm very up and down at the moment. I'm focusing most of my energy on family and trying to get fit and lose weight.
Some writing is getting done and I'm going to try and force myself to spend six hours in front of the computer every day. If I do t...
2025-08-22 00:01:16 +0000 UTC
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I'm going to be leaving billing on pause, I have to do it manually so I might miss the timing and I'm happy to refund it that happens.
Nothing is particularly wrong in my life.
Anna is better but not fully recovered, I'm probably slightly depressed, but mostly I'm suffering writers block.
I'll return to publishing when I have a 15 to 20 chapter backlog.
Sorry all.
2025-07-20 02:04:34 +0000 UTC
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Basically my wife has had a few bad periods and shocks.
Nothing life threatening through she has really bad tremors which could indicate some nasty underlying condition but probably is not medically significant. All the nasty stuff like parkinsons and MS has been ruled out. Despite that it is still very distressing and depressing for her. Imagine having low level hiccups 24 hours a day and you get an idea of what she's goign through.
I'm spending a couple of hours either keepin...
2025-06-30 00:03:28 +0000 UTC
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Tom bowed his head, overwhelmed by the clashing emotions. The fluttering of uncontainable joy he felt on behalf of Baptiste and the depressing reality not of the wador’s plan, but of its implications. It was like a collision of two hundred metre high tsunamis creating rip tides and swirling crushing currents beyond comprehension.
It was great.
No, it was the opposite. This was the end of existence.
But… but… the hope the wador would bring to the diminished civili...
2025-06-06 08:55:11 +0000 UTC
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The main dining hall had been rearranged after lunch. The tables had all been removed to create extra floor space and each cohort, all seventeen of them, had been directed to sit near one of the piles of colourfully wrapped presents. Volunteers swarmed the room, and they weren’t doing things by halves. There were over forty of them and they had big smiles on their faces and all of them were wearing funny hats, which were far more elaborate than anything he had ever got in a Christmas Cracke...
2025-06-05 00:08:34 +0000 UTC
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It was a month since he first broached the idea and only two weeks since the news had spread beyond the small working group, but spread it had. It was like an out-of-control wildfire, and not a Californian one but an Australian one such was the enthusiasm of the volunteers. He had been expecting to only impact the main dining hall and maybe the dorms, but so many people wanted to contribute that a team had even swept through the obstacle course. No where in the orphanage had been spared.
<...
2025-06-03 22:02:00 +0000 UTC
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AG. Sorry for the delay I did give a warning on discord.
Tom stretched and sighed. Weeks had passed since he had started working on Insanity Guidance or at least the precursor skills. His complete lack of progress, despite his affinity, made it abundantly clear that it would be literally years before he would be able to create it. Given that at least in the eyes of the system he would become an adult in less than three years and start his tour shortly after, i...
2025-05-22 02:46:57 +0000 UTC
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The day preceded as normal. That was lots of disk carving and magic practice in the divine champion’s trial while his avatar did the usual twelve-year-old stuff. He had made considerable progress, and each disk now took less than an hour to create and more importantly he had eight spots where he could safely stop his transformation of the wood. He used each of these natural breaks to spend a few minutes consuming his fully regenerated mana pool to practice his spells. Expert Danger Sens...
2025-05-19 22:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Tom looked across at his assigned training partner for the evening. It was his first time with her and it had been over a minute and she was still introducing herself. Wordlessly, just to see if it would cause her to break her monologue he paid her the coin that the session cost. It didn’t even slow down her rapid fire barrage of audible dribble.
“I hate that I have to charge you for this. It’s a quaint silly system that we’re working under. It’s better in my people’s stone ...
2025-05-15 05:55:24 +0000 UTC
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AG. I paused billing two weeks ago the moment I realised I wouldn’t be able to deliver the 10k plus words a week I want to deliver. It will be paused for a full month giving everyone an extra month, annual subscriptions will be extended from 12 to 13 months.
The good news is that I’m writing again but chapter delivery is going to be erratic for a little while. I would like to claim I’m fixed, but I’m not. It’s probably just a random virus, but I ...
2025-05-13 04:51:53 +0000 UTC
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AG. Two audio files. For awhile I thought I would do this in one chapter, then two and finally put it back to one. Fair warning there is a good chance next weeks chapters will be delayed. I have celebration of life for my dad this weekened and on Monday / Tuesday I'll be spending most of my time in hospitals supporting my wife as she gets her back looked at.
Having said that I'm over 14k words this week and that was with two visits to emergency in middle of ni...
2025-04-25 22:00:10 +0000 UTC
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His special ritual disk landed heads up and he smiled. That was it. Finally, after three losses in a row he was getting a live duel. A battle that once he won, it would give him the last sixteen coins he needed. After that, he’d be able to go straight to the shop and buy the precognition skill pack that had appeared on his curated list. While happily recalling what had been included and with his tier three spear in one hand, he stepped through the door that would result in no GOD’s shield...
2025-04-23 22:00:11 +0000 UTC
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AG. Second of Two. If you haven't read the first chapter today then go back and read it.
Prepared as he was ever going to be, he checked the first question that he needed to ask.
Does the attached list of classes contain a class that, if I obtain it will be within ten percent effectiveness of the best class that I’m likely to identify before I turn fifteen?
Then there were the definitions of each of those keywords which would force the oracle qu...
2025-04-21 22:05:01 +0000 UTC
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AG - First of Two. They're each about 2500 words but were initally written as one chapter so kind of had some annoying cliff hangers.
He was still recovering, so he read the gazette while pacing around. The sweat dripped from him and as the seconds passed, the breaths, he sucked in were less and less frantic. The newsletter had a slightly altered layout from usual with the first couple of pages dominated by an in-depth analysis.
Does the Dragons and ...
2025-04-21 22:00:10 +0000 UTC
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They were sitting at dinner laughing together. Kang giggled away as he waved his one good hand demonstratively from where he sat in the wheelchair. He opened his mouth expectantly and a blob of jelly of the size that would fit on a teaspoon floated from the tray and into his mouth.
Kang sucked it down a broad grin on his face.
Not for the first time, he found himself admiring the tray that his friend was eating off. It did it all. Fed him, cleaned him and itself. Tom, or very occa...
2025-04-18 22:00:16 +0000 UTC
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Tom hesitated before responding to Dimitri’s question. There were lots that could benefit him, but they were in a war and anything he got, robbed someone else. He had to restrict himself to what he truly needed.
“Nothing’s changed. I want to do a full tour, upgrade my bloodline as far as it can go, and to do that as soon as possible.”
“I’m working on that. Gathering all the required regents is difficult.”
“Beyond that, I don’t really have a need for anythin...
2025-04-16 22:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Tom sat patiently outside Dimitri’s office.
The volunteer had collected him to be ready right on time for the appointment, but Dimitri was running things like a doctor’s surgery.
If the wait was only thirty minutes, he thought, it would be a win. Not that he cared about wasted time. His avatar waited impatiently and moved from seat to seat channelling the absolute essence of boredom while his consciousness spent the time ensconced within his system room.
<...
2025-04-14 22:00:10 +0000 UTC
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AG. The half of two and half (No audio file because it'll sound shit
Even before he started reading he focused to make sure the truly broken abilities he had were underlined to reinforce their importance and the skills. Abilities that fed into the underage skills were also underlined to help him determine which was what.
Classes: None
Attributes.
Strength: 12 (+2)—...
2025-04-11 22:06:01 +0000 UTC
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AG. Second of 2 and a half
With a sigh, he continued on and focused on the two new entries of which only one of them was a surprise and it was not something he would ever have been able to guess.
Skill: Fate Suppression – Tier 3
Once every sixteen days you can target someone with less fate than you and suppress all fate protecting or aiding them for the duration the skill lasts.
This has zero cost and lasts for six seconds....
2025-04-11 22:03:01 +0000 UTC
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AG. First of 2 and a half.
Eloise’s mum held out her palm upon which rested four stones evenly split between skill and spell options. From the elaborate whirls and details in them, they were all high tiered at least in reference to what he managed to acquire in his first life.
“Don’t cry kids. You can take your pick. I think the order you finished in the tournament is most appropriate. We have to reward excellence after all”
Tom bit off his smile. Sh...
2025-04-11 22:00:12 +0000 UTC
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The next day was a bad one.
He pretended it was the same as any other. Deep down he knew it wasn’t and every minute of the day dragged. He spent the hours alternating as usual between real life and training in the trial, but somewhere and at some random point during the day, Corrine had packed up and left for her tour. She would collect her attribute per level titles, then go through various trials and then with a foundation that basically everyone in Existentia would be jealous of. A...
2025-04-09 22:00:07 +0000 UTC
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What your thoughts about this versus current book 1 cover.
Existing book 1 cover is here
https://www.amazon.com/Fate-Points-unique-LITRPG-Fields-ebook/dp/B0DK6R4NQ3
2025-04-07 22:53:24 +0000 UTC
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Mr Cricket moved.
Tom was pretty sure that nothing as exotic as teleportation was used, but it still crossed the distance between them too quickly for Tom’s perception to follow.
In less than a blink, the ball of arms went from a comfortable conversational distance away to hovering next to his shoulders. Hands, arms, appendages were suddenly draped over him, restricting his movement. He tried to move, but it was like he had been encased in steel.
There was a click.
H...
2025-04-07 21:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Tom lounged in the seat next to Kang’s bed. They were both in the real world and he was reading a treatise on magic out loud. It was nothing particularly profound and almost certainly not anything Kang was interested in. Hell, even before he suffered the mental damage he had, this was not a topic that he would have voluntarily dedicated time too. The intricacies of mana affinity in different spell structures were relevant to Tom, but not to any of his friends. That disconnect didn’t matte...
2025-04-04 21:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Tom collapsed on the floor and covered his eyes with his hand. A scream bubbled about inside him, trying to force itself out, but his discipline kept it contained.
“Why, Kang, why?”
His body thrummed with imminent violence. Energy coursed through him.
“Why the fuck, did you make that choice?”
He struck the ground, then looked around for something to throw. He wanted to extravagantly indulge in violence. But there was nothing, not a plate, not a chair, not a scr...
2025-04-02 21:00:06 +0000 UTC
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They all stared at Kang with mixed degrees of horror. They could all remember how his organs had been splayed out everywhere. The body lay motionless apart from the chest that went up and down in an almost hypnotic fashion.
Corrine shook his shoulder. “Kang, can you hear. Move an arm. Blink, do something.”
To Tom’s senses Kang felt like someone in their system room, a person turned into a lifeless doll with the chest rising and falling rhythmically..
He was unresponsiv...
2025-03-31 21:00:12 +0000 UTC
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As he wasn’t dying and his opponent only had a partial shield, none of his wounds were healed as the magic removed him from the arena.
Between one moment and another, he reappeared in the common area, still facing Baptiste like he had been when the duel had started. His positioning flipped from sprawled on the ground to standing. In other circumstances, the shift would have been agonising, but there was no pain because he had used a spell to block it. Nevertheless, he wobbled. His ent...
2025-03-28 21:00:09 +0000 UTC
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AG. Audio file attached.
Tom casually met Briana’s eyes and pretended to fumble the completed Danger Sense ritual disk. It flew out of his hands to kind of fall between them. She startled and attempted to snatch it out of the air, presumably to save it from falling and breaking.. She was way too slow, but an instant before it touched the ground, he sent it into his inventory.
He grinned at her astonished expression. “Nice trick, right.”
<...
2025-03-26 21:00:35 +0000 UTC
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Tom stretched in preparation as they entered the gymnasium. His mind running over the lessons they had received over the previous two weeks. There hadn’t been much new for someone like him who had actually used the techniques in a previous life, but the training on how to incorporate highly variable attacks, defences and buffs into your fighting style and the way fate could influence them were spot on.
Like most things that the orphanage had set up, the lessons demonstrated the thorou...
2025-03-24 21:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Tom stared across at the innocuous looking two metre long worm that only came up to his ankle. It represented WADOR and had six kills to its name. Apparently it was more than capable of murdering him, and he was very glad he had a full shield.
It also had made no attempts to communicate.
The countdown reached zero and Tom reacted.
Everything sped up as it focused on him, and he received the enhanced attributes. A burst boosted him further and then faster than someon...
2025-03-20 21:00:08 +0000 UTC
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