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Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 46 - As needs must - Part Two

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 46 - As needs must - Part Two

Four days had passed with only minimal changes in the Werrian Empire’s siege camp. Some attempts had been made at fortifying their walls, but the primary change was the steady stream of enemy combatants leaving the camp and returning in the direction of the Empire’s closest border. It was unclear if these soldiers were leaving under orders or their own volition, but enemy commanders seemed to be making no attempts a...

The Liche

So, I asked what bonus content at the end of the chapter people wanted to see, and what was going on with the Liche was the overwhelming reply.

I also said I would do a larger segment, and I have.

I was aiming for about 2x the usual bonus section word count of about 1k-1.5k.

It's at 3.5k    XD

I hope that it addresses some of the questions people have had regarding the Liche's motivations and actions.

Hoping to have the full chapter completed ...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 46 - As needs must - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 46 - As needs must - Part One

It had been one of the longest nights of my life. Gric’s telepathic updates had been frequent but unsettling. The Liche’s second invasion of Sanctuary was reported to have followed the same playbook as the first. While expandable undead and the Vampyr sought to create chaos and draw attention to themselves, the Liche and an elite cadre of powerful Vampyrs had appeared inside of the Grove without warning.

Only ...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 45 - The meat grinder - Part Two

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 45 - The meat grinder - Part Two

The outermost wall was lost. When the enemy realised they couldn’t take it, they resorted to making it completely inhospitable. Instead of boulders, the trebuchets and catapults launched burning pots of oil and tar.

As tenacious as the Asrusian soldiers and officers were, they weren’t suicidal. Unable to continue fighting while dying from smoke inhalation or burning alive, the majority of the soldiers retre...

The Tier Change

I am taking down the old Tiers in a couple of hours. if you still want to support my work and have access to the early chapters of Ogre Tyrant then by all means subscribe to the new appropriate Tier. If not, it has been a pleasure to have earned your patronage for a time and I hope you continue to enjoy the public release. :)

This is just a post specifically for those on the old more expensive tiers just so you have a record to explain things.

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 45 - The meat grinder - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 45 - The meat grinder - Part One

Rikit had secured the second portal in my absence and the females of her pack had briefly visited the first floor of the Laine Labyrinth. They had lingered just long enough to retrieve Khibi before being shepherded to Sanctuary by Rikit.

Fesk was wearing a suit of Asrusian armour. With a combination of padded cloth armour and steel plates, Fesk’s face was completely hidden beneath his helmet. However, despite...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 44 - Mustering for battle - Part Two

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 44 - Mustering for battle - Part Two

In order to shore up the metaphorical flank, Rikit had agreed to continue Conquering territories in the Laine Labyrinth with the bulk of the male Gnolls under her command. She had been insistent about sending the Ashfur females to Sanctuary, and since I saw no reason to refuse, Rikit was allowed half the day to settle them in before returning to the Laine Labyrinth.

A small garrison of soldiers was statione...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 44 - Mustering for battle - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 44 - Mustering for battle - Part One

Upon entering the second floor of the Laine Labyrinth, I immediately came to a halt when I quickly realised it was not the same as I had left it.

The existing central European-styled buildings were gone, replaced with the flat-roofed and somewhat middle-eastern style buildings I had seen the Orcs use in the barren desert. Made from what looked like hardened and thoroughly dried clay, I was still struggling ...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 43 - Violence solves everything - Part Two

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 43 - Violence solves everything - Part Two

The ravine floor was deeper than I initially expected. Close to a hundred feet deep, this immediately presented a number of problems. Most notably was Mortax’s crippling fear of heights. Assisting the terrified Aurochian down from the wall had been a labour all unto itself.

With no real time to spare, the decision was made to leave Mortax behind as a sort of elite reserve should the return Portal co...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 43 - Violence solves everything - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 43 - Violence solves everything - Part One

The Conquest was completed without any surprises. The mandatory quest had awarded another chest of eggs. The chest itself was made of intertwined branches in a wicker style and the five eggs inside were nestled inside of what looked like dusty bundles of loose hair. The eggs themselves were pale off-white and each had vibrantly coloured speckles across their surface.

With how much the chest and its in...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 42 - Out of sight - Part Two

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 42 - Out of sight - Part Two

The ‘not a minotaur’ was something of an odd duck. Possessing an almost childlike Intelligence and ability to articulate his thoughts, Mortax was the second most violent and sapient monster I had seen so far. What made it all the stranger was how quickly he had switched from dopey gratitude to homicidal rage and back again. Like there was a switch in his brain.

Despite not initially wanting to believe it, Morta...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 42 - Out of sight - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 42 - Out of sight - Part One

The Baron and his core forces had attempted to escape through a secret passage that would have taken them from the castle and out a secret entrance at the bottom of the mountain. The personal sacrifice of a pair of Enslaved Orcs had turned the escape attempt into a bloodbath.

As best as Gregory could piece together by observing the aftermath, the Orcs had feigned obedience until a situation developed where my condi...

OT almost done.

The next chapter of Ogre Tyrant is almost finished but I have to take a nap to rest my eyes. I am still aiming to have it finished and uploaded by midday (my time. under five hours) so I can push to get the next chapter done by sometime late tomorrow.

Thanks for your patience :)

Starting on two OT chapters for the week

Ahoyhoy

With the Mana Soul chapter settled for this week, I will now be moving on to write the two Ogre Tyrant chapters back to back that I want for this week to return OT to its original surplus. With my schedule now more open, I am hoping to get the first chapter done faster than the Mana Soul chapter, but we will see.

Thanks for sticking with me through the writathon, it's been pretty crazy hehe.

Writathon Update and plans for this month.

The writathon is now almost over (Yay)

Ogre Tyrant is on schedule for completing the challenge with change to spare thanks to some of the larger chapters.

Mana Soul is going to come up exactly 2400 words short.

Now, rather than trying to push through an entire extra chapter, which would just be unhealthy at this point. I am going to extend the chapter I released today by roughly 2500 words and then move on to writing next week's chapter. Once the extended section is comp...

Bigger than expected <,<

This next OT chapter is turning out a fair bit bigger than normal. It will def be done by the regular time tomorrow.

I have reached the 7500-word level I usually do, but I haven't finished the bonus segment yet >.> So it will be 9k or more once it's done.

As I said in an earlier post, with the writathon going on, things will be a bit chaotic and I will release chapters as I finish them rather than just the usual post day/time. So I am intending to continue with the next OT...

Writathon

Aiming to release another chapter for each series over the next couple of days in addition to the one's today and the one's next week.

If my math is right, I will need to write an additional chapter for each series during the next three weeks. Given the somewhat chaotic nature of the writathon schedule (Writing-wise) I will just upload here to patreon as I complete them.

Things will go back to normal after the writathon ends.

March Refund, because suspending payment apparently did something else.

So Neorem let me know that my intention of effectively giving supporters from march free access to April didn't work like I wanted it to.  It seems to have literally just 'cancelled' subscription or something similar to that effect. So I am going through and manually refunding March to accomplish the original intent.

"You can only refund pledges from the past 90 days. You cannot undo this action. Once a refund is issued it can take up to 5 – 7 business days to process. If this c...

Heads up! And future plans.

Chapters are going up in just a bit. I apologise for the wait, but it took me a bit longer to get into the swing of things are my break, then I got a bit too into things hehe OT will be a little longer this week, about five hundred words more in the bonus section.

With the RR writathon now upon us, this will mean that both OT and MS will have ATLEAST one extra chapter released during the next five-six ish weeks in addition to normally released content. The reason I am bringing this up ...

Taking a short break

Hi guys and gals. I have had a bit of a rough week and it didn't leave me much time to get writing done. So rather than both chapters being late (And burning myself out), I have decided to take a couple of weeks to recharge and do some more storyboarding and other prep work for the next writathon in early April.

I have paused the April billing cycle, so everyone currently subscribed gets April 1st to May 1st free of charge. Even though those two weeks of content will be caught up durin...

Ogre Tyrant: Delayed Chapter Almost Finished

The delayed Chapter is almost finished, just have to write the bonus content at the end and do the standard listen through, grammarly, spellcheck etc. Might take another few hours, maybe a bit less depending on writing flow.

Besides the update, I am curious about whether any of you guys and gals have a particular character's perspective you would like to see. usually, I pick a character that is involved in the chapter's ongoing events in some way, but it's not an ironclad rule.

...

Ogre Tyrant Minor Delay

I lost a lot of writing time over the past couple of weeks due to an injury and needed to take time for it to heal. So, unfortunately, Ogre Tyrant is looking like it will be at at least one day late this week, two at most. It sucks, but that's how it is. I will schedule it for release at the usual time once it is finished. so about 27 hours from now if I get a wiggle on.

On the subject. This week's content will have a rather confronting moment earlyish in the chapter. You can technical...

Weekly Release and a 1 week break.

Becoming a bit of a trend <,<

Mana Soul will go up as per the usual schedule, roughly five hours from now.

Due to stuff going on IRL, and going through my additional backlog when I was ill and recovering from being ill, Ogre tyrant will be delayed by a day and should be good to go same time tomorrow.

On the same subject, I will be taking one week off after posting this week's Mana Soul and Ogre Tyrant content. Since losing my buffer it has been increasingly stressfu...

Christmas!

Merry Christmas and happy holodays!

Things have been a bit crazy at my house in preparation for Christmas and recovering from my lung infection. so I didn't get my final edits done as quickly as I had hoped. Mana Soul is ready and will be put up momentarily, but Ogre Tyrant will take a little longer. At the absolute latest, Ogre Tyrant will be up at the usual time in roughly eleven hours, hopefully sooner.

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 32 - One must fall - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 32 - One must fall - Part One

After defeating the first Fire Dancer team, I was surprised and disappointed by the poor performance of the next two teams. While they seemed to recognise the tricks and basic ploys I had used against the Fire Dancer’s, they showed no noticeable attempts at countering them.

Given the superior number advantage every team had over me, I was doing my best to avoid being bogged down in any protracted fights. Not onl...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 31 - The Exp Cap - Part Two

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 31 - The Exp Cap - Part Two

I made a point of waking up before midnight and waiting beneath the olive tree in the centre of the village. I kept the majority of my attention on the looming gateway woven from tree roots and branches. The girls had said Lash might be coming back tonight, and I didn’t want to miss her.

The remainder of my attention was diverted towards more fully exploring the capabilities unlocked through the Capital Settlement...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 31 - The Exp cap - Part One

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 31 - The Exp cap - Part One

Stalking amidst a field of corpses, I lashed out at anything that moved. With the Hulking Boar keeping its distance and the disappointingly small evolution of the Vulpine Bat battling for its life in the sky above, I didn’t have to worry about accidentally striking an ally.

All the respawned monsters in the immediate vicinity were already dead. Those that remained were being drawn by the scent of blood and the evo...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 30 - Opportunity in disaster - Part Two

Sorry for the 'delay' I did say it would be up a full day ago, but I overstrained my eyes and had to wait to do the rough editing.

GDRIVE Link
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qQBi6L7RpOnAf050eNVSSdaORHKmNHKR04MTkom6yzU/edit?usp=sharing

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 30 - Opportunity in disaster - Part Two

It took about four da...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 30 - Opportunity in disaster - Part One

Second to last all Patreon early access chapter for the RR writathon. The last one will be released sometime later today. I might release another, but that is more dependent on how much progress I make on the other chapters I am still working on.

GDRIVE Link for edit suggestions

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gruys89zKCcEicG1yoBP1TvwdEDRRLiOG6W...

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 29 - Space and time - Part Two

GDRIVE LINK
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ItvuLUHYm6lViizgiidNKcAhRn76U1k67pqV_G-1Y2o/edit?usp=sharing

Ogre Tyrant: Chapter 29 - Space and time - Part Two

Looking at the changes to the village, I was reminded of the good I could accomplish with my position as a leader. Granted, there would be more violence in ...