Chapter 82
A Royal Duel
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 26 Days, 9 Hours...
“My my, so much hostility for just saying hello.” Camila, AKA the Red Countess said, as a malicious smile filled her lips. “Perhaps it is time we show them what it means to have diplomatic immunity.”
“Diplomatic immunity only works if you are not seen as having Necromantic powers.” A security guard said from behind the trio of Camila, her husband the Red Demonio, and...
2023-01-07 15:31:09 +0000 UTC
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Interlude I
The Ghost Channel
(Five Years of Viewing and Growing)
“To say that people weren’t instantly drawn in by the story of Cassiopeia, AKA ‘The Ghost,’ would be an understatement. At first no one wanted to even bother seeing another retiree throw away their life on an obvious suicide run. But now we are on her five-year anniversary, and we can see that her legend is only growing. Cass is now twelve years old in game, and on her last year of not being able...
2023-01-07 07:42:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 81
A Darker Breed
Monday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 26 Days, 17 Hours…
Sometimes monsters are easy to identify, they proudly wear their fangs and claws for all to see. They walk in aggressive manners that speak to having ruled areas for so long that they could not even understand the fact that someone would dare doubt their superiority. For predators like that, it is easy to identify them and get out of their way, unless of course your name happens ...
2023-01-06 12:14:30 +0000 UTC
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<<<<Author's Note: Thank you all for the well wishes yesterday, I really appreciated it. I do in fact feel better and am ready to start working again. Thank you all.
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Chapter 9
Reinventing the Wheel
In hindsight my delivering what was essentially a thesis on the speech and language patterns of monsters, as a seven-year-old girl, went about as well as one would expect, which is to say nowhere.
Wh...
2023-01-06 07:02:40 +0000 UTC
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Sorry everyone, I have a major sinus infection and cannot focus. I will attempt to take something for this and try again tomorrow. Thank you all for being understanding.
2023-01-05 04:31:00 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 80
Reintegration
Monday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 26 Days…
The ride back was just as odd as the time out, the only real difference again being that Alexa now had more time to ponder what made her trip unique. Was it the fact that her rank made it so she would remain mentally awake during these transit times, or if there was something more at play. For the life of her she didn’t understand what the difference was. She made a note to ask Mr. Mackie abo...
2023-01-04 11:36:20 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 8
Embedded Learning
Honestly, I blame myself for what happened next. In a way I should have seen such a chain of events coming. Most people’s general reaction to hearing about the unknown and a potentially invaluable resource like a previously unknown mechanical schema would be greed. I know that, and yet somehow, I failed to recognize greed as the primary motivator for any interaction.
Thus, when I went to the Mechanic’s Guild, when I spoke of a new device that ...
2023-01-04 07:32:46 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 79
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Alexa
Captain Rayne Johnston lead the distraction team. This was the auxiliary team of combat professionals who were all trained in various forms of combat. This was her team, hand selected from thousands of applicants, all with the express purpose of being able to adapt to a situation as it unfolds. All because a situation never unfolds the correct way. There is never a correct way to get into a firefight with armed combatants, there is never a c...
2023-01-03 11:02:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 133
When It Rains It Pours Blood?
As it turns out the term Herald of Oblivion means something entirely different in Beastkin mythology than it does in human. Who would have known, different species, separated by evolutionary divergence points millions of years apart, developing different languages, and developing in ways that are completely different from one another would in fact come to have words that are the same, but mean completely different things.
Wh...
2023-01-03 02:32:06 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 7
My Baptism
A right of passage for everyone on Biprism is the baptism of dungeoneering. This is a right of passage, sort of the introduction to the world as a whole. I of course spent the night at the Magician’s guild, where I intend to spend most of my nights.
But today is my first day of dungeon exploring, or dugeoneering for short. I might have mentioned before the dungeons and towers exists all over the world. What I might have neglected or glossed over was th...
2023-01-03 01:10:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 78
The Surge
Monday (Three Hours Earlier)
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 26 Days, 21 Hours…
Alexa felt the moment she entered the localized teleportation field. In a second she went from being in her full tactical gear, which consisted of her school issued uniform with a few added augmentations, at TSI headquarters. Then the next, she was being zipped through time and space. For most they consider this time in between to be dead time, as they are unable to ...
2023-01-02 12:59:41 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 6
New Schools And New Clothes
Surprisingly we land without many more hassles. There was a part where I had to register with the city, but Captain Redgrave herself took care of that. Joe, the mechanic, personally enrolled me with the Engineering guild and handed me my own set of steam punk goggles.
Holding them I felt a slight tremble, as I felt them become soulbound to me. Now soulbonding items in this world are a bit different than other places. Here only status ite...
2023-01-02 08:43:29 +0000 UTC
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<<<<<Author's Note: Happy NEW YEAR!
With the start of the New Year, I bring to you the first chapter from Book 3 of ALEXiThymiA. Thank you all for joining me on this ride, it has been so much fun to go this entire journey with you all by my side.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, a million times thank you, for you all make this so worthwhile. Thank you, and I wish you all a Happy New Year. >>>>
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2023-01-01 14:39:31 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 5
Blending In
“So I take it you two wouldn’t know a mechanical union rep?” I ask.
Hector pauses as he looks at me for a moment, then seems to come to a conclusion, “you trying to cover up your eyes?”
“Yeah.” I admit.
He nods to himself. It is a well-known fact that the way each guild identifies its members is by their swag, meaning you want pristine gloves, join the pistoleers. You want a wand or a walking staff, join the Magical academy. If...
2023-01-01 12:06:16 +0000 UTC
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Epilogue II
Ms. Lane Tutlidge
For two days in a row, she avoided her classes. Laney, or Lane Tutlidge, had gone out of her way to be as accommodating to the warrior woman. The woman who stared down a Tier V mage and caused her to cry in the staff bathroom. Laney knew firsthand how scary the girl was, she never even blinked. The entire time in her classroom, she would just sit there and stare her down with those cold blue eyes of hers. Eyes that spoke of an emotion...
2022-12-31 13:33:36 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 4
The Start Of My Future
The magical book was one of legends, and had it not been for the fact that I had to survive both a level 500+ Behemoth, falling and crashing into a plummeting island, then to barely survive, only to have to kill off a hive of upper end level 70 dragons, I would have thought this was out of my liege. But despite everything, this one item was worth it, my reward for surviving so much strife.
Magic Book Found: A Much Needed ...
2022-12-31 08:30:08 +0000 UTC
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<<<<Author's Note: I am thinking about using this for the end of Book 2, what do you think? Obviously there is a lot more that will happen, the more I write the more things just get deeper and deeper, but overall I feel this is a great logical stopping point for book 2. But I want your opinion, I have been wrong in the past.
Also know that there will be an Epilogue wrapping up this book and a prologue setting the stage for what will happen in the next bo...
2022-12-30 10:48:52 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 3
The Sky Is Falling
Sometimes you find yourself realizing that today is a terrible day. It started off so great; being chased by monsters, hours upon hours of exercises: deep knee bends, swinging about a dagger that could end me if it so much as touched my skin, thousands of squats, moving things with my mind for hours. Okay, that last one was pretty cool, not going to lie, magic in any world is amazing.
Unfortunately my time here in Biprism is coming to an...
2022-12-30 00:12:51 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 2
22 Hours In
I was exhausted. No, actually I was exhausted when I first got the new Skill: Second Wind. This of course was after I got the new skill Analyze once my Intelligence Attribute got to 5. I was twenty-two hours into this marathon workout slash torture session, and I was still nowhere near my goal of tens in every major category. In fact, other than my Mental Attributes, everything else was way lower than it should be.
Well, no correction they w...
2022-12-29 15:07:12 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 1
The Start
Within my first few seconds of life on Biprism, my old 72 year old body was discarded and I was remade into a blind seven-year-old who spontaneously appeared on the grassy noll surrounded by monsters and creatures of all kinds. Don’t worry though, I was safe, if only for the moment.
This was it, my first few minutes in the game world. A world that I had dreamed about experiencing for years. Just taking a deep breath was amazing to me, as my lungs worked...
2022-12-29 14:39:25 +0000 UTC
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Prelude:
The Price of Doing Business
The rest to Biprism Realm was finally available to me. A world filled with magic, portals, pocket realms, towers to eternity, monsters, and most importantly of all steampunk elements. Hordes and hordes of monsters constantly came surging through the world, destroying everything in their wake. Only the civilized societies and their technological marvels were capable of repelling monster waves. It was a world filled with memories of my p...
2022-12-29 14:29:51 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone I don't know if you have seen or not, but I have a new story up on Royal Road.
Cassie Cruise is a regressor, one who is caught in the world of her favorite gaming world, Biprism Realm. A world filled with magic, portals, pocket realms, towers to eternity, monsters, and most importantly of all steampunk elements. Hordes and hordes of monsters constantly come surging through the world, destroying everything in their wake. Only the civilized societies and their te...
2022-12-29 14:28:48 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 76
Dragon Trials II
An Unlikely Ally
Saturday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 28 Days, 1 Hour, 22 Minutes…
It had been a day. Well over a day, actually. Calendar wise she was just on the next day. Realistically she was over twenty-eight hours removed from when she gained Tier III insights and was told that by Tier V, she would be able to make chocolate.
She was a mess, her fingers twitched from lack of food and water. Her mind was so frazzled she...
2022-12-29 13:47:54 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 132
What Incarnation?
Now Entering Temple: 10020084
The system message appeared in my mind, and I instantly knew I was doing what I always do, avoid my emotions and try to hide form my responsibilities. Well I wasn’t really avoiding my responsibilities, not at the moment, seeing as my responsibilities were for me to first make a run of this temple on its hardest mode possible and then make a run as safe as possible. Then once I was done, I was to get out, ...
2022-12-28 20:49:49 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 75
Dragon Trials II
An Unlikely Teacher (1)
Friday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days, 7 Hours, 17 Minutes…
Alexa emerged from the doorway to find that she had not in fact started her sixth stage of he Trials of Ascension. Instead, she now found herself staring at a somewhat familiar, but ultimately unique wall of text.
WARNING: There is a 1 in 1 chance of summoning a dungeon with dragon as the sole boss.
2022-12-28 11:53:31 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 74
Stage V
Friday
Time Until Integration: 1 Month, 29 Days, 17 Hours, 52 Minutes…
Alexa had done it, her clothes were in tatters at this point, as each restart caused her to get close enough to the Death Lizard to cast her Hope at the creature. This of course meant that at least one volley of death magic would consume her each time. Even with all her precautions she still found herself getting splashed or damaged in some way. Fortunately for ...
2022-12-27 14:01:00 +0000 UTC
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<<<<Author's Note: Thank you all for everyone who followed this story through to this point. With this chapter I think I can gladly call an end to book 5 in the series. With it, I will also mark a temporary hiatus in the series.
I will still produce a final Epilogue to close out this story and answer a few lingering questions, but for the moment I will take a break from producing more of the series.
I have found that with three s...
2022-12-27 06:25:26 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 73
Stage Four (2)
Friday
Judging by the size of the Death Lizard and the fact that its eggs appeared to be near to hatching, Alexa figured the lizard was likely used as a means to encourage people to work faster through the given scenario. This thought was further confirmed by the hidden quest she received.
Quest Activated: Death Lizard Nest: You have identified a mother Death Lizard protecting her nest that appears ...
2022-12-26 10:04:12 +0000 UTC
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<<<<Author's Note: I just wanted to take a moment and say thank you all for reading. Happy Holidays, and I hope you have a great relaxing day today.
Also, I wanted to say thank you all for taking time from your busy schedules to join me in my telling of this story.
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Chapter 72
Stage Four (1)
Thursday Night – Friday Morning
Being forced to wait was never one of Alexa’s strong points. Whi...
2022-12-25 13:29:25 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 131
We’re Not Happy, Until No One Is Happy
“Hello.” Jess number 14, otherwise known as alternate Jess, said. As she spoke, she gave a somewhat nervous wave of her hand. This is the sleeping beauty Jess that I awoke at the beginning of this restart, since she was knocked out for the entire chain of events she slept through the times with my Jess and sexy alien Jess saved our three universes in rapid suggestion. I want to call her sleeping beauty, but thinking about it...
2022-12-25 01:40:56 +0000 UTC
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