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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 36: Open for business

Fresh stirs as the loud thudding comes from the other side of the door. Sleepily, the girl opens her eyes, feeling the morning light shine in through the dusty window. Looking up at it from the pile of blankets, she realizes that she still hasn’t taken the time to properly clean it yet. All of her work had been concentrated on the downstairs area and when Jubilee had cleaned upstairs, they didn’t do inside of this room. The girl wonders if they actually even did any of the other rooms, pe...

Chapter 189

- But we both know that’s not what happened.

None of it. Not the scorpion life, not us saving the fairy-mother, not us rising up to a beach and enjoying the nice view and warm air. No. I’m still floating. Still here. Still forgotten. I open my eyes, despite not having any and all I see is darkness.

I float, having never left limbo at all since my last life as a magic-tome.

Hello?

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Chapter 35: Montage

The rest of the day would come to pass without further event. Fresh sits inside of the house, processing the mushroom-caps that Jubilee had carried to the entrance of the dungeon for her to pick up and bring the rest of the way to the house, along with some other assorted loot. Fresh isn’t sure how deep down Jubilee can go on their own, but apparently there are plenty of mushrooms, thinks the girl looking at the stack of caps next to herself. Next to them are indistinct heaps on the floor, ...

Chapter 188

It’s humming. Can you hear it, the electricity?

My little legs scuttle over the stone brickwork of the electric floor, the floor designed like the number eight. Or maybe more aptly, like an infinity loop. Depends on your mood I suppose, guy.  But for now I scuttle. I’ve made it back up to floor eighty-three with little delay. The dark passage on floor eighty-five didn’t actually have anything in it. I’m a little let down. But that’s fine. Because I can hear it. Can you? I...

Twitch

Don't know if you guys care about this or not, but I want to try experimenting around with Twitch in a few weeks. I got a cute little vtuber purple robed cultist avatar and everything. Mostly gonna be creepy or dungeon-related stuff. Horror games, occult vibes, etc. Hoping to make it a nice place to chill with maybe some spooks now and then! =)

https://www.twitch.tv/dungeoncultist

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 34(2/2): Woven

The vivid sunlight shining in through the large windows inside of the store silhouettes the many dolls and mannequins adorning the space, all of them wearing all manner of cloth outfits that Range from simple dresses to ornate robes to plain trousers and button-ups. The air inside of the store is surprisingly cool and, while not damp, certainly on the edge of being called so. Fresh looks around the room, somewhat nervously, her joy from a second ago subdued by the two dozen odd human-like fig...

Chapter 187

“You can’t do that!” is at least what I imagine James is saying as he floats alongside of me, flapping his yap as I scuttle through the library. I swipe my tail at him and he flies out of the way. I click and snap at him. I can’t stand James. Nobody can. He dodges out of the way and keeps flapping his covers. But I can’t speak book, so all I hear is the sound of shuffling paper. Some of the others watch us, watch me, as I proceed through the library, having come up the secret stairs...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 34(1/2)

Fresh and Jubilee stand inside of the entrance to the dungeon. Jubilee had dragged her in here after her speech. Their eyes burn with the same intensity that they did when Fresh threw the bread at them. They make a noise as they begin to speak, a finger raised to point at her from a shaking, tense arm.

“I-…”

Jubilee doesn’t say anything, but doesn’t lower their arm either. Apparently entirely lost for words, but still angry enough to try.

...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 33: Marketing

Jubilee and Fresh walk through the busy crowd of adventures that is bustling like an excited hive. Groups of them run back and forth from the nearby houses, filling up as many pots and cups and old empty bottles from the fountain as they can.

“You think it’s an event?” asks a man in heavy armor, scratching his head.

“No, maybe it was the church?” whispers a girl in a hushed voice to him.

A tan-clan elf with a veiled face next to the...

Chapter 186

Walking through the treasury is a weird feeling, I spent a lot of time here, but now I’m just kind of passing through, doing my best not to touch any of the gold piles around me.

You might be wondering, guy, how did you get past all the stuff on the way here? The red dragon? The valkyrie battlefield? The zombies and the dead-light? You might be asking, guy, why isn’t the dungeon-master stopping you from going the wrong way?

The answer is that I’m a prof...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 32

The bags under her eyes offer a stark contrast to the sparkling gaze that is held inside of them. This one here. This is the best one. By far. She had saved this one for last. Fresh swirls the single low-quality minor antidote around in her hands. She had spent the night carefully using her magic to smooth the glass down into a shape that is nearly perfect. This bottle looks like one that you could buy a ‘real’ potion in, down at the alchemist’s, apart from the fact that the crystalline...

Chapter 185

*tskskskskt*

My mandibles click as I excitedly scuttle over the desert dunes, searching for new prey. Fine grained sand is blown all around me, propelled by the soft desert winds, piling it high atop the many dunes that seem to rise and fall like the waves of an orange ocean.

*tskskskskt*

I click excitedly with my pincers as I scuttle, looking for food. For prey. I wonder what I’ll get today? Maybe a lizard? Maybe some los...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 31: Moonwater

(Chapter edited - lots of 'bug fixes', no need to reread though.)

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Fresh sits on the floor outside of the front door, staring at the glowing dungeon gate that illuminates the plaza with a pale, cold glow that seems to amplify the chill of the night on her bare shoulders. She shudders, and rubs her arms for a moment, wishing she had a coat, before reaching down and pulling the box of potions closer to herself. It's dark outside. Well after night...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 25: When the snow falls

“Is it done yet?” Pen glares at the bauble suspiciously. She has a sneaking suspicion that this was all a ruse. He’s just trying to steal her food.

“It’ll need a minute longer,” says the man, as they walk through the forest.

Nervously, she leans forward in the seat, staring down at the sealed off compartment below, in which the crystal resides inside of. Pen bites the inside of her cheek. The man had told her to seal the bag tightly together and t...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 30: Paperwork

“Names?” asks the portly man, his hands running a quill over a large ledger that he carries with him.

“Jubilee.”

“Fresh.”

He raises his eyes, looking over the two of them. “Adventurer’s, eh?” His head turns, as he looks around the empty, but pristinely clean, space.

“What will you be selling?” asks the man curiously.

Fresh looks down to Jubilee, they look back up to her and nod.

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Chapter 184

Bmmmmm-

I feel it. I feel it. I feel it. I don’t have bones, but I feel it. I don’t have eyes, but I see it. I see the darkness all around me. The humming darkness of limbo. The buzzing energy that converges here, vanishing into the void, like sparks shooting from a cut wire, only to fade away into the black murk. Like shining stars sitting high atop the apex of the world, drowning in the pitch of the black-water night sky. Guy. Guy. Hold my hand, will you? I don’t care...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 24: Orange

“What’s your favorite color?”

“Orange. Yours?”

The bauble zooms in on the girl who is still laying in a ball, down in the seat, her back to the console.

“Because it’s the color of your hair?” asks the man. “Blue.” He adds on, answering.

The mountain has become gradually less steep here and they walk down the length of a very gradual incline, through a particularly thick pine forest that shields them from t...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 29: F is for [-----]

“Hey!” Something grabs her shoulder as she is jostled around. “Hey! Dumb-ass! Wake up!”

Fresh groggily opens her eyes, lifting her arms to yawn as she looks at the small figure standing above her.

“There’s a bed here, you know?” asks Jubilee, placing their hands back onto their hips as they stare down at the girl sitting on the floor.

“I was waiting for you to come back,” says Fresh, rubbing her eyes. “I didn’t want to g...

Chapter 183

I float.

Well, it was a fun ride while it lasted, guy. I feel kind of sad, but… now that I’m free from that body and its emotions I also feel just a little bit more unbound. Like a string that was binding my soul has been cut loose. It hurts, but at the same time, I’m me again. Whatever that means in this state. Like an animal chewing its leg to get out of a trap. I’m m-

I open my eyes. But I can’t see anything as my body fails immediately. I die. 2021-03-29 06:59:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 28: Dungeon math

Fresh hums as she works, her pale hands processing the small collection of glass vials. Making these potions uses more mushroom powder than she had thought they would, given their small size. They have eleven more vials in total, after the one Fresh drank before. But there’s still enough powder left for a few more potions than that. Fresh does the math in her head, tightly pressing her eyes closed as she does so.

If mushroom caps are worth five each, then these potions woul...

Chapter 182

Do you ever wonder what it’s all about, guy?

Not this dungeon stuff. I mean, like, you know, ‘it’. All of ‘it’. My boots thud up the stairs as I rise higher still, clawing my way out of the proverbial pit. Yet something in this body, some tightly wound thread that was laid in place by the seamstresses of fate, slowly pulls taut in my heart of hearts as I run further away from them, her.

Pragmatically speaking, it may have been a mistake to ‘let’...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 27

The girl sits cross legged on the floor of their room inside of the adventurer’s guild, her cheeks are puffed out as her hands hold the mushroom cap that she hadn’t finished shredding before her ‘fight’ with Jubilee the last time that they were here. Her hands glow brightly, as she focuses all of her attention onto the task before her. Her face is flush and happy though, as the girl thinks about how she can finally surprise Jubilee in a nice way. She smiles, humming as she works. Mayb...

Chapter 181

“Hey Madison, we’re going to get into trouble anyways, right?”

The book looks at me, floating around. “Yeah, probably,” she says, her voice drifting off as it always does, as if she gets lost in her own head at the end of every sentence.

“Can I ask you for a favor then? Can you channel some of that good, old fashioned dungeon-magic through you?” I ask her, finishing with a - “Pleeeeeease?” She stares back at me, responding with a deeply trou...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 23: Scary, scary monster

Tango walks down the mountain path. It had been exactly six hours and forty-seven seconds since Pen had fallen back asleep. He watches the clock closely, occasionally zooming in to her to make sure she was still breathing. Not that there was anything he could do if she stopped. The girl obviously had a concussion, hopefully just a mild one. Honestly her entire body was mangled and battered at this point. The man can’t help but think that she’s surprisingly resilient.

The ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 26

“You did what?”

Fresh clutches her hair, crying. “I had a dream about being underwater and I paid a magical spirit to give me a class because I went left!” shouts the girl a second time at the masked figure, who is standing there in the doorway leading into their dark room. A hastily gloved hand rubs the front of their mask to securely adjust it into place.

Jubilee stares up at her, lost. “What…?”

With shaking legs, Fresh falls ...

Chapter 180

Black-water splashes as I work, as my hands get close to finishing their hallow task on the face of the sleeping hero. I look back at the other two behind me, already done, and I hold my own face and laugh. I showed them. I showed them! Haha! I showed them how strong my CONVICTION is. The fingers attached to my hands grasp my face, pulling down on my lower eyelids so that I can see him better. So that I can see them better. So that I can work better. It’s really important, you know, guy? Ha...

TANGO Heavy - Chapter 22: Jerk

I just realized I'm behind on TANGO chapters, I've been so caught up in DIS. Apologies, next one will be here tomorrow =)

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A quiet groan is all that escapes Pen as light slowly returns to her eyes. Her body hurts. The red lights flicker around the cramped cabin, as she slowly pulls herself back upright, pushing herself off of the console that was down below her. Were they turned over again? She clutches her head, noticing tha...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 25

Fresh tosses and turns, rolling around on top the pile of blankets on the floor as she uneasily tries to sleep. Jubilee had said that she could stay in one of the rooms here, but they hadn’t mentioned that the rooms were completely empty and unfurnished. Fresh grabs one of the blankets that she’s laying on top of and wraps it tightly around herself, huddling together into a tight bundle. It’s cold in here. The walls basically stop the wind from blowing in from outside, but not much more...

Chapter 179

She snores, you know?

But apart from that, it’s such a lazy, sleepy mixture of sounds that surrounds us here. Cicadas buzzing in the waving, dry heat. Running water from the little crook that is babbling just next to us. I cover my mouth as I loudly yawn, my back laying on the lush green grass, as I stare up towards the distant ceiling. It almost looks like the sky. They really went through the trouble of painting it blue and everything, haha. Without getting up, I lift an ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 24

Several doors line the dingy corridor that they wander down, all of them seem as forgotten and untouched as everything else inside of the dilapidated building. There are no furnishings in the upstairs hallway, just as with the downstairs area. There is nothing at all to fill the space, apart from the sound of their dirty boots. Apart from the floating dust particulate that is held aloft, suspended in vague streams of an evening sunlight that lazily shines in through the windows, sneaking past...