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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 215: Sea-breeze

Fresh stands there, holding her hair out of her eyes as she stares out over the ocean. The sea-winds pressing against her face throw her long, sun-bleached golden strands around behind her. Ships move across the horizon. Large, wooden vessels with giant sheeted-sails. She and Shamrock are standing on the lowest raised tier of houses above the beach. A single staircase separates them from the shore, but Fresh resists. She had promised Basil that she would wait. Still, her fingers are tapping a...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 52: Edacity

“Demon-king, huh?” asks Sister, listening as Alleluia finishes explaining their story. “Sounds like the outside world really blows these days.” it sighs. “It used to be better, you know?” it asks.

Alleluia nods. “My husband told me. He used to be alive then too.”

Sister tilts its head. “Used to?” it asks cautiously.

“I came back from the dead,” says Canta. “Life is funny like that sometimes,” he notes, doing anothe...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 214: Take it easty

The four of them, after unloading the rest of the cart and storing the boxes inside of their room, had then washed up and essentially all fell asleep into a newly formed heap like that one. Any serious talks that were left to be had were postponed for another time, as this talk had already been exhausting enough in a really hard to explain way. There’s something about opening up in a true manner, when one hasn’t done so in a long time or even ever, that makes it a very tiring thing to do....

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 213: Feud

Fresh falls down onto the single bed inside of their room in the eastern adventurer’s guild, landing on the pillow face-first. The bed sits tucked into the back-right wall, like the one in their original room in the northern guild. She has arrived here first and by right of conquest, the bed is hers.

Not that she even wants it, one of the others can have it to sleep in. But she just wants to lay here for a second. She still has her boots on, but they’re dangling off the f...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 51: Demand

“It makes me sick, you know?” asks the odd figure, lurching closer towards Canta with odd, janky and quickly snapping movements that only ever appear together with the vibrating sensation of the strong heartbeat, that Canta can feel down in his feet, coming into his body through the ground. Its head tilts left and right with sharp ticks, like that of a twitching lizard or bird observing them, the limp arm drags the long lance behind it through the dirt as it approaches. “It makes me sic...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 212: No such thing as 'free'

This is a subject matter that Fresh not only wasn’t expecting in the least, but also has literally zero experience with. So, taken aback by the barkeeper’s direct request for her help with such a thing, she simply doesn’t really know what to say, in all honesty and just kind of stares at her in awkward silence, occasionally looking around at her friends. Basil seems to catch herself first.

“Set her down, Shamrock,” asks the priestess and Shamrock obliges. Rather tha...

Membership goal reached!

Hello everyone, we've reached our first membership goal and a huge milestone of 100+ patrons! Thank you all so much for your continued support! *-*

As such, I will be increasing the DIS chapter backlog from 10 to 15 chapters and commissioning a cute picture of Fresh!

The extra chapters will be available by next Friday at the latest! (01.10.2021) =)

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 211: Afraid together

They run out into the carriage-house, full of empty carts and carriages. Thankfully, the other anqas here seem to be asleep in their pens and aren’t looking at Fresh. “Get back on the cart!” barks Jubilee at Basil, who is already untying Thyme from his reins. “We’re leaving. Now!” they say, looking around. “Where is everyone?”

“What’s wrong?” asks Basil. “The fairies left,” she explains.

Fresh blinks, looking around. “Huh? Just lik...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 210: Shanty

Fresh stares out of the cart in wide-eyed bewilderment, as the desert wind, carrying a circulating heat, pushes against her face as they ride into the city. The wide open road quickly tightens up, as they enter past a giant gate, adorned with two westward facing statues on the outside of it. Both of the giant depictions of some people of note, long since left in the past, wear light cloth and leather raiments and carry elegant weapons to match. The gate, as always, is unguarded, except by the...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 50: Conviction

Canta exhales, lifting his torso body upwards, his hands are locked behind his head. His breath leaves him, visible in the cold air present outside now here in the empty night of the far, north-western region of the world. He lowers himself back down, getting ready for another repetition of sit-ups.

It has been a week since their escape from the fake-city. A week since the smell of smoke and burning flesh had come to his nose, a month since that deafening silence that followe...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 209: Slog

The desert is hot.

Fresh lays there, splayed out over the bench of the cart and several boxes, her right leg is kicked up one way and her arms dangling the other, swaying limply as the cart rolls on down the road, as if she were already dead. She has given up fanning herself with the paper-fan that she had made only the day before. It’s too hot. Using the fan just somehow made her even warmer.

One of the fairies has access to water magic and another one can...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 208: Journey

It is the morning of the next day.

The cart continues rolling eastward, now at a slow and steady pace. The fun, jovial nature that the trip has had up until now is gone. Rather, everyone seems to sit in awkward silence in their usual spots. Fresh, not wanting to be in the back had asked Basil if it was okay for her to sit next to her today. The anqa, Thyme, seemed unfond of this prospect, but after some convincing by the priestess and a few extra portions of feed, it seemed t...

New story - Chapter 2

I made really good tables for this story, but they of course look like garbage on patreon. Sigh.

Chapter 1 has been updated, but only some cosmetic changes. https://www.patreon.com/posts/56001034

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The constant, rhythmic striking of the hammer landing against the strip of metal shines out through the enclosed, dark, stone-walled room. The space i...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 49: Compulsion

“We should just go,” whispers Alleluia in a hushed whisper as she holds the two large, greasy barrels over her shoulders, staining the fabric of her dress with leaking human-fat that had been collected during likely several ‘harvesting’ processes. Canta shushes her, looking around the next corner towards the staircase.

“No. Not until we’re done here.”

“But… are you sure?” she asks. Canta doesn’t answer, gesturing for her to follow after ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 207: The bad-thing

The cart, entirely quiet and void of any voices, rolls to a stop a while later, their tempo having slowed now after they lost the wolves. Basil looks back at everyone and then jumps off, going to the panting anqa to lavish it with praise for its hard work and to check on its condition. Fresh gets up to climb off as well, rubbing her burning eyes.

“Sorry,” says Shamrock, letting her pass. She nods to him, even if her body hurts a lot where he had arm-barred her, she knows ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 206: High stress

It is late at night, shortly before midnight.

“I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO INTO THE FOREST!” shouts Jubilee as the cart thunders down the road. Fresh flinches, covering her head instinctively with one hand, even though she isn’t the one being yelled at. Her other hand holds on to the cart as they ride down the way at full speed. There is a crack of leather and the anqa sprints faster. “TARJA!” yells Jubilee. Tarja nods at the unspoken command and hits Pentii over the head ...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 48: Impulse

It is several days later.

It turns out that his theory about the lizard-demons was correct.

Alleluia stands by the door of their room in the adventurer’s guild, pressing her shoulder against it, as furious fists hammer on it from the other side. “Honey! What are we going to do?!” she asks, as Canta starts to shove the cabinet over.

“Look out!” he says, pressing his foot against the wall and pressing his back against the large piece ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 205: Just a moment

A heavy wind pushes through the open cart, the breeze following the flow of the open road as it surges along the way, like water through a channeling basin. Fresh feels her hair blowing to the side, as the calming breeze moves over her face, heading down the road that they themselves had come from. Not sure what it is that’s she looking at, she turns her face to look in that direction.

Now that the storm has passed, the weather has turned deeply mild and comfortable. The su...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 204: Make a right

The next morning is surprisingly mild-weathered, in comparison with the quickly passed storm of the previous night. Fresh is deeply relieved that those unfortunately-timed, heavy clouds left just as quickly as they had come. Now, the cart is rolling again along the wet road, water and a bit of mud splashing around as they ride over the mixture of dirt, gravel and cobble-work. The sun shines into the cart very brightly from above, its heart-lightening rays breaking in through the sparse clouds...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 203: Basilisk

“Hey! Hey! What’s this?” asks the fairy from the back of the cart. They had been flying around it the entire time. Fresh turns her head and then yelps, flailing her hands as she jumps back at the sight of the dead snake. A group of fairies has carried it inside the cart.

Jubilee, who has their feet kicked up on a box and their hands behind their head, turns their gaze and lazily points at them with a single hand. “That’s a snake. They eat fairies.”

New story - Chapter 1

Tags: Crafting, Mystery, LitRPG, Fantasy, Progression, Base/Guild-building, Pact with a diety

[I accidentally hit on the evil owl-god and now we're making a guild together]

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Living in the big city is really very lonely.

Sure, there might be people everywhere. People to the left, people to the right. You can’t take five steps without running into another person and each and every one of t...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 47: Pruriency

So far, so good. Nothing seems out of the ordinary just yet, well, apart from this entire city in and of itself, but that’s a different matter. It’s been a week since they had arrived, but Canta still spares wary, lizard-eyed glances at every passing shadow and silhouette. But nobody has tried to eat them or their souls just yet.

Everything is fine.

The two of them, using the considerable funds that they had collected from monsters during their roughly tw...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 202: On the road

“Look, see?” asks Basil as she holds out the crushed, wet leaves in her hands. A deeply floral, sharp smell fills the inside of the cart, which is once more parked by the side of the road. It is the morning of the next day and they have stopped for a few minutes, because Basil saw some useful herbs on the side of the path. “You crush them while they’re still wet and all of the oils really start to come out,” she explains, setting the damp, ripped up pieces of the flower down onto an...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 201: Fireside

The wooden boxes in the cart rattle as they move along the road, which they have decided to take after all. Jubilee seemed untrusting of this plan, but the convenience of such easy travel seems to outweigh any potential risks in their mind. Fresh keeps herself busy by playing games with the fairies, most of which end up annoying Jubilee.

“I spy with my little eye…” says Fresh. “- something green.”

One of the fairies pops up from behind Jubilee’s h...

Sin-Eater: Chapter 46: Fancy

“Right!” shouts Canta, ducking to the side. A metal foot flies over his head, leading up to a dry crack which rings out through the air, as the skeleton is shattered into a thousand pieces. All of them fly across the landscape, smashing into the many rocks that surround them. After a few days of smelling nothing but the virtue in the air that he could never find, Canta was driven to the edge of his wits, saying that it was time for them to go. Now, several days after that, they have arriv...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 200 (!!): Fortunate moon

Fresh stands out on the balcony and stares out over the city. It’s time.

All four of them know it and so, all four of them stand there in silence, staring out over the world which stretches on before them, nigh-boundlessly. The houses which dot the mountain are all open and their doors ajar, the light escaping their windows paints the rock with a yellow-hue. It is as if the entire mountain were glowing with more than just the radiating moonlight that washes over the world, ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 199: Tidbits

Several days have come to pass, each consecutive one seemingly shorter than the last and the nights feel much the same.

Excitedly, the children run around the store every day, much to Jubilee’s annoyance and constantly line themselves up and ask when the four of them are leaving. Jubilee threatens them to not push their luck, or they’ll cave the stone house in, before they go.

This threat usually works to get them to calm down, at least until the next day...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 45: Appetence

The two of them have been staying in the ruined city for a few days now, having found an old house outside of the large dungeon-gate, which stands in the center of the ruins. The furniture has all long since rotted and broken away, the windows long since crumbled and shattered by time and the elements. Only the bare skeletons of the heavy stone foundations and walls, together with some bits of very rusted metal, remain to give proof of the fact that people had once lived here.

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 198: Squawk

Fresh leans her forehead to the side. Shamrock obliges and dabs her sweaty face with the cloth that he’s holding. “Thanks, Shamrock,” says Fresh, continuing the last of the work on the bunk-beds. In essence, she just added an iron and wooden frame to the three of their beds and then had Shamrock help her add a second platform on top of each one. She’s busy fastening the last screws now for the ladders, so that the kids can climb up.

“You know, we’re already giving...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 197: Make it weird

“Come on, chop, chop,” barks Jubilee at Shamrock as he passes by and heads out of the front-door with several boxes in his hands. He spares a glance down to Jubilee, opting not to say anything as he loads the contents into the tiny half-carriage. Dried provisions,  materials, blankets, all sorts of those traveling necessitates that they’ll need on the road have already been bought by Jubilee and loaded into the small wagon that they’ve also arranged.

Basil is in ...