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Hey all,

Usually around now I would start on a big 3-4 chapter release for Sunday, but I just can’t do it this week. my last two weeks of working at this place look to be the most brutal >.<.

I’m really, really sorry. Hold fast with me two more weeks to get to the writing promised land.

Ill do my best to make it a big post Monday.

Chapter 754

When Randidly finished, the torch was extinguished. But even though he was faced with blackness when he opened his eyes, Randidly only laughed. The runes were perfect. With the vision, he had been able to construct the inverses of those that constituted the prison easily. They were shallow and weak things, but they weakened the prison immensely.

Well, perhaps not immensely. But it was enough.

For the first time in three weeks, Randidly pressed himself upward. With a g...

Chapter 753

With actual vision, Randidly had to blink several times to force his eyes to focus. They did so slowly, and then all at once. He grinned without humor as he stared up at the ceiling. Damnit, he would need to burn Stamina to lean up and get a view of the place, wouldn’t he?

This fucking shit prison…

It took Randidly a while to shimmy away from the flickering torch. The worst case scenario was for him to knock it over and snuff it out. Not that he couldn’t make an...

Chapter 752

Jesus, so it will be three chapters, but this one is kinda long, and number three is super long. Basically two chapters. What a day. I feel so hype to share this with y'all.

Might touch them up for pacing again. Still wanted a little more flow.

Randidly was instantly hit with a flood of Aether constructs listing off information for him. At first, it didn’t make sense, but then Randidly looked at the slowly growing emerald flame. In that ...

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Want to finish this in one big chunk for consistencies sake. Should be 3-4 tomorrow.

Chapter 751

In a way, this is the chapter that I've been wanting to right for the whole trapped arc. Or rather, the next chapters are. But those will be for tomorrow~

In the darkness, Randidly smiled.

During the time in his Soulskill, he had left behind this place. The strangeness was gone, luckily, the sense of dissolution of self. But now he was even more aware of the crushing restrictions on his Stamina and Mana usage. It was completely maddening. Yet, even so, Randidly...

Chapter 750

 Haven't decided how much of this to show, but I wanted to plant a few seeds here.

Alta spat out a mouthful of dirt and slowly pushed herself up from the muck of the ground. Although the logical part of her mind knew that she was trapped in the strange dreamworld of the highest Land and buying into it would do nothing to help her advance, there was something oddly compelling about the figure in front of her.

The two were standing on a vast muddy plain. The...

Chapter 749

Actually got home in time to make a chapter today. I think moving forward, Saturday will be my break day, not Monday. But only one tonight. Tomorrow, I hope to finish a bunch of Rand stuff all at once. So look forward to it.

Naffur just looked at the tree boy, wondering what he could say to convince him. “You really refuse to go toward those lights…? It looks like a festival. And I don’t know about you… but I haven’t bathed in weeks…”

The slightly...

Chapter 748

Randidly stopped as Kurag raised his hand. Rejt also paused. They exchanged glances in the dimly lit stone corridor. Then, as one, all three listened.

“Paths emerge because you look for them. For too long, we have chased the same dream without questioning its validity. So much is possible right here. And you would have us go a-conquering to another world? No, Talim. The same dream elsewhere is still useless. It is time for us to imagine other dreams. Perhaps then our peop...

Chapter 747

“If the money was so important, include a fucking note.” Allica hissed. To have Talim blame her for something she had no control over was bringing up the deep history of aggravation that the two had shared. “And don’t expect me to come with you now to clean up whatever mess you find yourself in. I know that’s why you are here. The war is over and now you need help, eh? Must be of great importance.”

Talim stepped toward her desk. His hands clenched into ...

Chapter 746

“It’s not a big deal,” Rejt insisted. “They don’t hate you, they are simply pack creatures. Since Tessa was afraid of you, the rest of ‘em.”

Randidly grinned, in spite of his bleak mood. “They aren’t ‘pack creatures’, Rejt. They are kids.”

“Dangerous and swarming, I agree,” Rejt said with a thoughtful tone.

The group of children who had been watching Tessa had wandered over, attracted by the noise of the wind descending. Seeing Rejt s...

Chapter 745

Sorry for the late post, and only one chapter for yesterday. This one went long, and was difficult to resolve in a satisfying manner. Hopefully you enjoy.

Being a god was something like being an artist, Randidly thought idly. But the overtly genius kind, like Mozart. No, to be a god was to be Jackson Pollock. You take simple actions and there will be some that deem it trash. And yet there are others that see the simple moves you make as representative of...

Chapter 744

Probably a day or two more of Soulskill-centric before we need to return to the darkness. Randidly needs to put together all the pieces he's been assembling.

From the shadows of the corner of the chapel, a tall and gaunt figure walked calmly out to face Randidly. His face was twisted in a slimy smile, and his skin itself seemed to ooze a strange sticky substance.

Randidly felt an entirely different sort of headache coming on. He was really just in ...

Chapter 743

I think these two chapters will be touched up a bit tomorrow. Too much dialogue and too little sleep and I begin to drift a bit. But this little arc is mostly about Randidly searching himself, so I think its still useful and enjoyable.

“The resemblance is uncanny,” Alta muttered to Lucretia. “Are you sure it’s not him?”

“Quite sure,” Lucretia said quietly, eyeing the Randidly look alike. He had the same short black hair and sinewy physi...

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Nothing tonight, but only because my girlfriend is sick. 

But I do want to just be more detailed about the schedule. I'll be moving to a goal of twelve chapters a week during December.  Monday's off. Two every other day. To make up for missing today, I'll do three Saturday and Sunday.

One more month of this day job. It's seriously so soul crushing.

So What If I Have a Henchman?!?

To keep this from spamming people who are uninterested, I'll just edit this post in the future to add more chapters. But I'll not in LoRG chaps if I post anything new. Feel free to make fun of me for my bad jokes.

Chapter 1: A Fateful Meeting 

“Brother Gai, do you think…” The man began anxiously, but he couldn’t find the words to continue. They were sitting on a dirt road of the capital, looking anxiously toward a simple wooden hut.

The two men both...

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Hey Y'all, just wanted to throw some things out there.  First, damn, I hate breaks. After one day off I had so many ideas that I wanted to write up. But I forced myself to really give myself a few days to just breath. And it was so boring.

For the new Patrons, thanks for your support. For the old Patrons, thanks even more! I haven't talked about this much this month, but starting in 2019, I'll be writing full time.

I think that I will be aiming at 14 chapters a week, keepin...

Chapter 742

“Ah, there is one more thing,” Reynark said as he was about to leave. He paused at the door of the tent, then finally shrugged. “In the monster capital… hostilities have broken out. There was a coup. But… the Monster Prince is missing. And without him, the Royal Faction is being hunted down and killed. And without them-”

“Who knows whether the remnants of the monsters will follow the armistice,” Allica finished bitterly. She rubbed her eyes. Damnit,...

Chapter 741

Break over. After posting these two chapters, I'm gonna put up a bit of Status, to make sure we are on the same page.

Rejt looked up sharply at the sound of footsteps, then smiled at the approaching figures. “Ah, softskin, you have made me more money than I can spend in the wilds. Truly, you have become a vexing figure in my life.”

Randidly’s face twitched as he an walked up toward Rejt. Although he had been scowling for around six hours, the...

Chapter 740

Kurag chuckled without humor. “Is responsibility always such an accurate predictor of men? By that logic, the Progenitor himself would come down and solve all of our problems… But of course, that does not happen. In this world, the only thing that one can count on is their own strength. The fact that I had to be saved just means that age…”

Kurag trailed off. With great care, he pulled himself up on the shatter stone stalagmite into a standing position.

At Kura...

Chapter 739

Decided to go with quality instead of quantity. Hopefully you enjoy.

“Why do you seem so infuriated?” Lucretia asked, somewhat amused by the raisin-like form of her mistress’ current face.

“Bah, and how can you be so chipper about this? Are you seriously suggesting that we agree?” Alta hissed as she stared at the letter in her shaking hands. “They don’t fear me enough to hide. It’s humiliating.”

Lucretia kept the smile on her ...

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Something came up at work, so I had to stay an extra few hours today. Not enough writing to post. I'll probably have to stretch it to Saturday to finish this last six. 

Also, big thank you for everyone who has commented about their opinions on story lines. It really helps me know where I should be working.

Chapter 738

Only one today. Have a weird problem that I want to juggle Rand in the darkness, Rand in Soulskill, and this little aside with Naffur. I'm not sure which parts should come first.

“Is it possible?” Dozer rumbled, considering the boy in front of him.

Nathan squirmed, but not from the observation. “Well yes, it is possible. You have purposefully kept yourself at Level 49, so the switch can still be made, but… it will require an energy. More than...

Chapter 737

Allica frowned at Kurag. “What do you mean?”

“I mean that his Strength is too high. I did not see or hear him moving rock. Yet when I came to inspect his path, it was completely clear. No rubble was left. All was cleanly tossed into the chasm. And he had cleared almost twenty… no, closer to thirty times as much ground as Kejt. He has Strength enough to have been in the High King’s Court-”

“Do not say that title,” Allica hissed. “Not even here, just a...

Chapter 736

Randidly was shocked by the power of the winds. He had arrived in the refugee camp by simply willing himself there, but since arriving in the Earth Golem Land, he had fully intended to move everywhere the old fashioned way.

Within ten minutes, Randidly was reconsidering that decision.

The refugee camp was built in the middle of some low hills, so the winds outside of the buildings there were annoying, but manageable. But following after the grim faced Allica, the two ...

Chapter 735

A brief reminder that I'll be taking the first three days of December off writing as a bit of a break after November. So Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.

Perhaps it was the darkness, perhaps it was isolation, perhaps it was the lack of capability that he was so suddenly afflicted with, but in the wake of burning his… of creating his new image for a Phantom, he felt strange. To himself, he felt suddenly alienated.

It was the same feeling that one exp...

Chapter 734

There was one step of this plan of Randidly’s that was the most difficult. It was not the construction of the array to free himself from this prison, and it wasn’t creating a garden to grown kindling so he could see what was going on.

No, of all the tasks, the one that seemed the most difficult to Randidly was to create the spark that would light that fire.

At first, Randidly had completely overlooked this as an issue. After all, even if he was weakened, he had se...

Chapter 733

For the first several days in the suppression chamber, Randidly had felt enveloped by an inky darkness that flowed like liquid around him. Part of the problem was moving was simply displacing the dense dark liquid that he lived suspended in. It was heavy as lead and twice as toxic. But those toxins weren’t physical, but mental. For in the face of darkness, a human’s natural instinct is to feel fear.

Paranoia from lack of knowledge is the mental disorder that people evolve...

Chapter 732

“You want me to pick these?” Naffur asked, incredulous.

The treant creature hadn’t been able to answer Naffur, as it couldn’t speak, but it could gesture to indicate that it wanted Naffur’s help. That was why it was so happy when he had shown up out of the blue. With the hand/ branch signals, plus the surprising amount of expressiveness in the treant’s face, Naffur’s caution fell enough that he followed the curious thing.

The treant nodded emphatically, po...

Chapter 731

Although it was strange, Naffur immediately produced a knife from his interspatial watch and slashed his own leg. Blood began to pour out and down his legs. Inwardly, Naffur wondered what others would think of him if they saw how bloody he was. If Mareen-

WHITE. WHITE. WHITE.

Naffur hobbled away toward a bend in the game trail, but he didn’t bother to actually tire himself out with speed. One thing that Naffur had learned from his Skills was the power of ti...