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Weaponsmith - Big Frog

I forgot to share this image with you guys here on Patreon. I posted it on the last RR chapter =)

It's a little early, since we haven't really met her yet, but I was excited and wanted you to see it!

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The black hair is actually a wig, she's bald. BIG FROG also has a wooden leg and a finger prosthetic on e...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 378: We're not so bad in our own personal opinion

Fresh hums as she works, spinning a metal cylinder around inside of another bigger one, in order to let the grooves in the metal lock into place with each other.

She’s setting up the big telescope, upstairs on top of the tower.

“I still think it’s a waste of time,” says Jubilee.

Fresh turns her head, looking at them, sitting on the railing of the upstairs platform, indifferent to her warnings that it’s unsafe. They aren’t helping ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 377: Day to day concerns

Fresh pops her head out of the hole in the ceiling, looking around the city.

She stops, a dozen pairs of eyes looking her way from all around herself. Slowly, Fresh’s eyes wander to the birds that have nested themselves on top of their roof. She yelps, ducking back down as the flock flies off, startled because of her sudden disturbance.

She blows her tongue, getting the feather stuck on it out of her mouth. “Jubilee!” she calls down the tower to Jubilee...

Weaponsmith - Chapter 45

One-two-three.

Hineni moves to the left with his left foot, his right foot following after. One-two-three. Then he steps back, his other foot following after. He moves back again towards the right as they move around in a square, always practicing the same movements of the slow waltz.

He’s in that place again.

The man stares around at himself, staring at the giant, empty ballroom that he finds himself in. It might perhaps be grandly built a...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 376: The cake

“You’re moving in on my territory,” warns Jubilee, turning their head towards Basil.

“Oh, don’t make such a fuss about it,” replies the priestess, shuffling past Jubilee. “I just want to make something.”

Jubilee raises an eyebrow. “It’s my turn to make breakfast today, Basil,” they reply. “Get lost.”

Basil sighs, bending down to grab some flour from the sack. “I’m not making breakfast. I’m making some stuff.”...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 375: So-so

Fresh sits at the edge of the cut-off space, the glow of the entrance to the farm washing over her face as she sits there and stares at it. Lifting a hand, she pokes her finger into the mist.

It just feels kind of cold, honestly. Well, no, not even cold. It’s just like walking through the fog. It’s a little damp and the consistency of the air feels different because of the moisture. It’s magical, of course. But anything more exact than that is really hard to say.

...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 374: Household oddity

Fresh slides the tarot card out of the stack, setting it carefully down onto the spot it belongs at on the table. She stares at the card’s back for a moment, before lifting her eyes towards the customer.


“Are you sure?” she asks. “It could be bad.”


They nod in return, wide eyes nervously staring her way. Fresh nods in return, flipping over the first card.


The fool.


“You’ve made a mistake somewhere along the way,” she says, looking at...

Weaponsmith - Chapter 44

Today is the day.

Hineni sits on the foot of their bed, staring down at the well-trodden boards which lead up towards his place of rest. As his foot taps against the boards, he wonders, how many feet have walked this way? How many people have sat where he now sits? He’s a little nervous, honestly and his mind is running rampant. Are any people actually going to be showing up? If so, how many? Are they going to be overwhelmed with a flood of interested customers? Or eve...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 373: Sick day

It’s hard to say whether the day is beautiful today or not.

Fresh lays on her back, feeling the soft grass moving beneath herself as it sways, together with loose strands of her hair in the gentle breeze of a new morning.

Her head is still aching and sore, but she feels like it’s doing her some good to be out in the fresh air. She closes her eyes and sighs in relief, her spread out fingers curling together from lack of tension in her muscles.

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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 372: What goes around

“Delivery is all set up,” says Jubilee, coming back inside of the house.

Basil looks up from the counter, looking over towards them. “That was fast.”

“They’re all business,” replies Jubilee, shaking their head. They had been outside at the orichalcum forge, making arrangements for the heating sphere to be picked up. “Didn’t even get past the front desk, it was in and out,” they explain.

Basil nods. “It makes sense. They�...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 371: Morning philosopher

So many days have come to pass and not one was like any of the others. Every morning when they get up to have breakfast, like on every other day, the smell of the air, the taste of their food, the directions of their conversations and morning games are always different. The push of the breeze, the shine of the sun, the droplets of rain, which may or may not be falling on that particular day. Whether here in the center of the world, at the roots of the world-tree or in the holy, mercantilist c...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 370: Sunwater

Sunlight shines in through the hole in the ceiling. Fresh has opened up the retractable, sliding covering to let in the glow of the outside world. She squints, covering her eyes with her hand for a moment as the unexpectedly bright light of the morning sun blasts through the shield and straight down onto her face.

Fresh turns around, blinking a few times as she gets everything ready. Looking over the tower for a second, she watches as Jubilee and Shamrock hustle around the ki...

Weaponsmith - Chapter 43

The air in the corridor feels much thicker, much heavier than it did only a moment ago.

The dust particulate, drifting through the dark, stone corridor with no windows feels like it is coming together all by itself to fill the space between the two of them with something, now that the kinder, happier, softer presence which they had brought with themselves in to this secluded area, seems to have vanished in only an instant.

“At this point,” says Hineni. �...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 369: The road to home is a circle

Voices surround her as she sits outside on the bench, watching groups of people walk by in all directions.

It’s late in the morning and Fresh is out in the city by herself, having gone on a grocery run. But during her way, while looking for a new baker to try out, she got lost. It’s not that there was anything wrong with the baker that they always get their stuff from, but it’s just that she wanted to do something nice and to surprise everyone by bringing home something...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 368: The highest tower in the land

Now, this wasn’t really the original intent for the space, but it seems to be an efficient use of it nonetheless.

It is late at night and Fresh is building the telescope platform for their upstairs area. Given that the space upstairs is essentially two stories high, the construction in the middle of the room is planned to be a sort of cylindrical tower with a spiral staircase that goes up to a platform, which itself is just below the roof. On this platform, beneath the hole...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 367: Red sunshine

“None of the stuff has really been helping,” says the red-wizard, sitting at their library table.

Fresh sits on the other side of it, doing her best to calmly sip a cup of tea that Basil has made for her. It’s a simple fruit tea, but the priestess had brewed it to be extra strong. She had said that the sharp taste helps one’s senses from getting stuck on other things, as it always ‘shocks’ one back into normality.

She doesn’t know if that makes ...

Weaponsmith - Chapter 42

“Put it over there,” says Hineni, pointing towards the side of the restaurant seating area, to the empty space between the front desk and the adjacent wall. The man nods, waving over his two employees, a pair of orcs, who come inside carrying a large cabinet. It’s an equipment stand, for adventurers who come in and want to leave some of their more cumbersome gear by the front desk, rather than taking it to their tables or rooms.

“It’s really taking up shape,” says...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 366: Work in progress

“Hey,” says Fresh, staring at her reflection down in the water of the mineral bath. “Thanks for helping me last night,” she says. “That was a really bad dream.”

“Right?” asks her reflection, shrugging. The girl in the water drifts around, floating upside down. “I know it’s easy to say, but we have to put that all behind us eventually.”

“Mm…” nods Fresh, staring at the reflection for a while and her reflection stares towards her. 2022-02-16 07:10:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 365: The ways I have gone

It’s raining outside. So heavily in fact, that it almost sounds like she’s underwater.

Fresh exhales, watching her breath visibly leave her body, as she lays in her old, unmade bed all by herself.

It’s cold in the room, like it always is and the several layers of soft, fluffy blankets that she lays on-top of, rather than beneath, do as little to keep her warm as the set of unwashed elephant-pajamas that have become soft and thin, not from care and from ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 364: Strong.

Rain continues to fall outside, but that isn’t really a big issue for the four of them as they’re heading into the dungeon.

After Fresh’s demonstration of her cursed dagger the other day, they had gotten to a significant depth in the dungeon, as she can essentially just cast one spell to kill the majority of monsters on a floor and those who are left alive, if any, are in such a state of disarray from the stacked effects of her curses and the applied bleeding that they�...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 363: Faith

“So what kind of stuff are we looking for, Jubilee?” asks Fresh, wandering after Jubilee as they go down another street that is perhaps somewhat shadier than the last one that they were just in. It’s not as dramatically shady as the red-light district in the east, but it’s still, by the standards of the central-city, pretty shady.

“Shut up and keep walking,” says Jubilee, looking into another window. Jubilee had said they were going into the city this morning to l...

Weaponsmith - Chapter 41

Ringing hammers strike away, their calls bouncing around the house together with the buzzing of many saws. Carpenters are at work, running around and inspecting every joist, joint and jutting beam of the house, replacing those that are misaligned or wrong.

“Over there,” says Sockel, pointing up to the rafters. Towards the horizontal beam that had sagged back when Obscura sat on it, during the frog’s attack. “That one up there needs to be looked at.”

Weaponsmith - Poll 2

The rebuilt guild is slowly starting to take shape and form again. However, money, time and resources are still limited. As such, priorities have to be set in what operations should be re-opened first.

What do you think?

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 362: Of slimes

Fresh stands outside on the marketplace, staring into the window of the odd store that she’s never seen before.

A few people are running around inside of it, running the day to day.

Bending down, she looks at the products on display. There are some medicines, made by an alchemist. There are winter clothes, made by a tailor. There are crude magical weapons made by some sort of carpenter or craftsman. Looking to the side, there are even hand-drawn dungeon map...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 361: Spry spriggan spy

“Pat-a-cake! Pat-a-cake! Baker’s man! Bake me a cake as fast as you can~!” chants Fresh, bouncing up and down in the kitchen behind Jubilee. They push her to the side, waving her off with a hand as they go to where she was just standing, bending down to grab a baking form.

“Will you get lost?!” barks Jubilee. “You’re in the way. Like always,” they grumble.

Fresh frowns and takes a step back. Then she clenches her fists and starts over again wi...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 360: Contract negotiations

Soft starlight shines in through the dusty windows of the library. Despite their best efforts to keep the house free of pollen and particulate, it seems to be an impossible task to master. Even with the magical feather-duster that they use on a daily basis, by the same time tomorrow, it’s as if all the dust and pollen had never been removed. As if it all was just as a foundational part of their connection to the dungeon as the plant-matter and the giant, twisted roots of the world-tree them...

Weaponsmith - Chapter 40

Hineni sways from side to side, his legs moving in a surprisingly coordinated fashion, considering that he’s never danced before in his life, let alone with another person, with someone who is holding his hand. He lowers his gaze, looking at the soft tufts of hair that are beneath him, coming from the head that presses itself sideways against his chest as they move, swaying through the sickly moonlight. It shines in through the tall glass windows that line the structure, far and high out of...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 359: Social proof

Rain strikes noisily against the stones, the sound of thousands of small strikes coming to Fresh’s ears to remind her that such a thing could exist.

- Rain.

She stares out of the window, wondering how it could possibly be raining?

The shield is still up.

But the rain comes from inside of it. Lifting her eyes, she follows the trunk of the tree, awash in the glowing, warm lights of the city below, until her eyes land on the s...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 358: Of trust

Trust.

Trust is a strange thing. The sureness of it, the absolute certainty that the thing you hold to be true is exactly that. That the faith held in another person is so strong, that you’re sure that you can see into the future, that you know exactly what they’re going to do, when they’ll do it and how. When you ask something and you can be as sure that it will be done, as if you were to do it yourself, with your own two hands.

Real trust, true trust ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 357: You won't take me alive.

The feathers bends, its soft form giving way to the pressure of the warm wind that leaves Fresh’s lips. Its body sways from side to side, the bristles of its single strands splaying and coming apart along the edges.

She watches it, watching as it slowly rises back up between her fingers, as her breath leaves it, as she runs out of air in her lungs. The feather returns to its former stiff position in her grasp, but it’s different now. The edges are different now. They’re...