Hey everyone! It’s been a while since you’ve all heard from me, so I figured it was time to finally break the silence. I’ve wanted to for a while actually, but never wanted it to be a “yup, still alive, still going through it, still figuring things out” type message. It’s taken until now for me to have some concrete news I can share and actually be ready to share it, so I’m sorry if this is coming a little late.
Normally I’d get straight to the point, but I get ...
2025-01-01 09:55:33 +0000 UTC
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“The difference between an Undead and a living soul is that the living have the capacity to learn, to change. The undead don’t. Everything they learn is relearnt and every change is one that their soul had potential for in life.
Undead are to be pitied. They are creatures perpetually stuck in the past, reaching for the heights they achieved in life. And most pitiful of all is that they will never reach them. No mortal soul remains intact when torn from its home, and the...
2024-07-10 18:59:42 +0000 UTC
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This is a double upload, so if you haven't already seen the interlude below, please check that out first ^^
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Velrick wasn’t the type of man to waste his efforts. For that matter, he wasn’t the type to spend much effort at all and would rather use his limited time in this body getting more sleep than spending it in service to his duties. Oathbound or not, his duties as a guide were impersonal for him. Just tasks to be done and done with—and without lingering, lest th...
2024-06-05 07:10:33 +0000 UTC
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Once, beneath a sky that cycled evenly between night and day, within a valley untouched by the mists of lost souls or the scourge of undead, sat the town of D’lorn. A lively place, with a river of crystine water that dripped from its northern mountains and a great mansion that crested its highest point. Each morning, house wives would do their laundry by the river streams, well worn tunics and beige gowns. And each, their gossipy chatter, or the laughter of children not far off, would coast...
2024-06-05 07:03:48 +0000 UTC
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Heeeey, this is a quick update post to correct some accidental misinformation. But unless you read chapter 18's after-chapter update before this was posted, you can disregard that part. I figure a separate post for this might also help get it some visibility for those who need to see this.
In short, I forked up.
I just said that I wanted to keep payments paused until I figured out whether I want to set deadlines for myself again, but I overlooked something. I hadn't realized un...
2024-05-22 05:29:42 +0000 UTC
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Quick Authors Note:
I’ve changed a minor character’s name, but to mention it here would be a spoiler. Will elaborate at the bottom, but if something feels off when you get there, that’s why. Sorry for the wait, and please enjoy!
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“On the last page, I chronicled the methods — as best I know them — to acquire the [Blacksmith-Warrior] Class. But our time with the StoneDance Clan does not end there. It did not end there, not for me.
2024-05-22 04:27:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey ya'll. This one's not going to be a fun post to make so I'm gonna keep it short for my own sake. But frankly, I've been discovering a pattern in my writing. Each chapter now, it seems, or perhaps just these upcoming ones, there's been decisions I've had to make that will affect countless variables of the story down the line. Whether it's Alex's path of progression, or worldbuilding that is key to the central plot of System Reset.
The main reason I delayed last week's chapter is bec...
2024-05-08 05:18:03 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys, sorry for the late notice but there won't be a chapter this week. I'm almost done with chapter 18 but I think I'm going to keep this chapter as personal backlog rather than releasing it, as there's many aspects to it that I still need to consider or I want to sleep on. And in general my chapters come out more polished/thought out when I do that so it'll be nice to get one ahead.
I think I've covered most of what I have to say in previous posts so I'll keep this one short and ...
2024-04-30 11:46:30 +0000 UTC
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Alex didn’t feel the warp of space as he was summoned. Instead he was simply in one place one moment, and somewhere entirely different the next. Normally, instantaneous transport like that might leave him nauseas and dizzied, but it spoke of Nightmare’s exorbitant budget that there was none of that.
Regardless, his mind spun.
[Room 0 - Holy Grounds]
His mouth lolled ajar its lower jaw and he’d just been about to ask the undead blacksmith what… ...
2024-04-25 09:21:20 +0000 UTC
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Integration, 15th Year
Uern, Dykriest Region
3 Weeks before System Reset.
For a planet so rich in mana and essence, the underground cities of Dykriest lived far from prosperously. The region’s surface—frigid and uninhabitable—wouldn’t terraform until the 100th layer of its cavernous dungeons were cleared, and so its inhabitants faced a simple choice: Continue until death, or earn their way out.
In the skies far...
2024-04-20 06:25:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey Guys!
Last of these types of posts I’ll be making for a lil bit, I swear, but listen up cause this one’s pretty important (and it’ll be as long-winded as usual, so my resident TLDR readers, if you exist, please look at the text in bolded brackets. Then at the art).
First and foremost, for those of you wondering where the chapter, it’ll be up sometime tomorrow (100%) and it’ll most definitely have a floof pic along with it this time. This one’s been alm...
2024-04-19 10:54:36 +0000 UTC
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The Pool scene in Seattle hadn’t been anything so grand like what you’d find further out into the country or even in shit-hole Orange County, but when a place did have a table you could always count on finding someone on the other side of it. The bar Cameron worked at had been like that, and Alex and a few others had often lingered around waiting until he got off. Well before Alex had turned twenty-one if he was being honest.
So when Luan had switched his Snooker table...
2024-04-14 10:11:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey yall, Elessar here.
Sorry to be coming out the gates with some bummer news today, but there won't be a chapter this Tuesday unfortunately. Yall've been giving a whole lot of support, and I've seen a ton of comments on the last chapter that's made me feel really happy and confident in myself, so thank you for reading this far.
To get straight to the point, the TLDR of this post is that I won't have an upload this Tuesday, and the next chapter will come on Saturday instead. This...
2024-04-09 14:51:59 +0000 UTC
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At Velrick’s insistence, Alex stepped through the portal’s obsidian gate…
…and into a world without light. Strange, that.
No, not strange. Wrong.
“I lied,” Velrick said, “We’re not late, we’re ahead of schedule actually. About three minutes, give or take. Mind your step, it’s a straight walk but if you cuff my heels I’ll break you.”
The entrance closed behind them, creating the sort of dark that was no different from total b...
2024-04-07 00:04:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey yall, just in case you haven't seen my post before this, I had to make one or a few retcons to chapter 12 unfortunately that might add more context to this chapter, so I'd suggest checking that out first. Sry :c
Enjoy!
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Alex grunted, pulled himself out of the river’s stream as the sun barely rose in the sky.
It was nary more than a creek really, where it ran shallow through the town’s southern outskirts, but it still reached up to his knees to wet his pan...
2024-04-02 22:23:40 +0000 UTC
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Hey ya'll quick note in case you're reading the title of this post and thinking there might not be a chapter uploaded today, don't worry about that. I'll be working on formatting it through Patreon's pain in the arse client as you're seeing this, so it should be up shortly.
Aight, it's past my bedtime, so I'll make this quick and straight to the point. I kinda screwed up a lil with the last chapter (chapter 12). I was over-exerting myself a little to get it up by the time I promi...
2024-04-02 21:59:11 +0000 UTC
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Alex felt surprised by his own actions. He wasn’t the type to take unneeded risks, neither was he the type to rush into battle blindly. And even now, his mind was running precise calculations on his chances of victory and just when he’d need to run, playing catch up with his decisions over the last few seconds.
But what he didn’t do, more than anything, was let emotion cloud his judgment while heading into battle.
Alex kicked in the guild hall doors feeling more ...
2024-03-29 17:38:35 +0000 UTC
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The intercom crackled to life overhead and Jun’s cabin light winked on.
“Hey, folks! This is your captain speaking. It’s Eleven-fifty-five, Seattle local time, and it looks like we’re in for a midnight landing tonight! We will be descending now, so please keep your seatbelts strapped in, tuck your tray into the seat in front of yours, and—oh, please put your devices on airplane mode if you haven’t already. Thank you for traveling with American Airlines, we will be arriving s...
2024-03-29 17:29:57 +0000 UTC
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It’d been close to thirty minutes since the Scenario had started, and the effort Alex had put forth in dividing the undead’s attention—though it had led nowhere, showed clear results now. He watched the house containing the cellar from where he hid in the shadows. And despite the house’s relative proximity to the plaza, there were much less undead patrolling this block than there otherwise would have been.
Which he was grateful for at the moment.
The Adventurers patrolled ...
2024-03-29 00:13:39 +0000 UTC
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“...while I try to chronicle all that I can about the rarer Class-requirements and Skill Paths I come across, it is only inevitable that the more secretive ones evade detail. This next one is no exception to that trend. After the fall of the evasive Stonedance Clan on Ovsha centuries past, too many of their secrets died with them—and even had they not, I doubt my speculations on the matter will help many accomplish what they did.
As it so happens, the [Blacksmith-Warrio...
2024-03-26 15:43:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey there! If you're seeing this you've either started supporting me before I have chapters uploaded or you've scrolled down to find an exclusive picture of my cat, Sophi!
Both are noble purrsuits and I'm grateful for your support :)
(First 3 advance chapters will be uploaded sometime this week, from which-point uploads will come twice weekly, exact days still pending, until patreon is 10 chapters in advance of RR)
With all that out of the way tho, here's the good fluff:...
2024-03-22 10:24:48 +0000 UTC
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