This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 27, Too Much Talking
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“You’re not in a guild, are you?” asked Mizuki as they walked away from the warp point. “I guess I assumed you weren’...
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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 26, Liberfell
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There was a language to entads, though Alfric spoke it only poorly. They were unique, always, but there were commonalities to t...
2021-10-04 15:33:47 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 25, A Post-Dungeon Pickle
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“I want to get this out of the way now,” said Alfric, as they sat and recovered. “We shouldn’t have fought the bear. Th...
2021-10-01 15:03:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 24, 10% Dungeons by Volume
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Isra drank from her waterskin and tried her best to rest her arm. There were limits to how many times she could draw her bow in...
2021-09-29 15:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 23, This One is Actually About Dungeons Too
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The entrance to the dungeon was the same as it had been before, a tube of packed earth, but when it opened out into the first r...
2021-09-27 15:47:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 22, The Journey More Than the Destination
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Mizuki was finding that she didn’t actually like traveling that much. Six miles was a long way to walk, especially if you wer...
2021-09-24 14:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 21, Sitting in a Song
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It was Mizuki who thought to invite Isra to the Fig and Gristle, for which she was grateful. There was a part of Isra that felt...
2021-09-22 14:47:42 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 20, Temple Politics
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They got the party channel exactly seven days after the party had formed. Hannah was pleased, but she...
2021-09-20 15:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 19, I Suppose You're Wondering Why I Gathered You Here
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Alfric and Mizuki walked together. He was following behind her as she went down a trail behind her house, one that had clearly b...
2021-09-17 15:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 18, The Next Day's Weather
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Isra moved through the woods, following a path the deer normally took. The world was looking different to her, and she didn’t...
2021-09-15 15:17:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 17, The Blacksmith's Apprentice
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When they were leaving to go shop, Mizuki debated how much money to take. She had a small crock that she kept some spare rings ...
2021-09-13 14:49:11 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 16, Notions from Elsewhere
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Verity sat in the backyard, surrounded by the wild plants and the struggling ones that had once upon a time been cultivated. Th...
2021-09-10 15:12:55 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 15, Good Next Steps, I Suppose
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“How is she?” asked Alfric once Hannah came back downstairs.
“Nevermind that,” said Mizuki. “Look at this cat....
2021-09-08 15:20:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 14, Cracked Tiles
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Five was an annoying number, in Hannah’s opinion. There was very little symmetry to be had from it. Five could have rotational...
2021-09-06 15:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 13, The Nature of Travel
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When Isra woke up, it took her a moment to realize where she was. It was h...
2021-09-03 14:28:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 12, Overgrowth
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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 10, Second Breakfast
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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 9 [An Unwanted Civics Lesson]
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Isra ended up renting a room at the Angry Plum, the larger of Pucklechurch’s two taverns, taking a room across from Alfric. ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 8, Late Meals in a Quiet Kitchen
Effective today, This Used to be About Dungeons will be moving to a three times a week schedule, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. If the backlog, which is currently twenty chapters, slips below ten chapters, I'll probably scale back to twice weekly, but there's at least a month before that happens assuming that I do basically no writing. Because of this, chapters will instead have a 24 hour window of being early rather than 48, in order to keep non-patrons from being permanently behind, wh...
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2021-08-12 14:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 4 [Three Raccoons] + Worth the Candle Q&A
Normal posting has started! As a friendly reminder, please keep discussion on Discord to the #earlybirds channel.
Also, the Q&A for Worth the Candle is ongoing on my subreddit, so if you have any lingering questions, stop by and I'll try to answer them.
Worth the Candle, epilogue 7-8
And that's the end of the epilogues. I hope you enjoyed them for their indulgences.
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2021-08-06 14:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 1-3
This Used to be About Dungeons is a comfy slice-of-life adventuring story that occasionally features dungeons.
Mostly it's about walking in the woods with a friend, looking for mushrooms to put in your soup, or haggling with the guy selling squash, or taking care of a neglected garden. It's putting some jam on shortbread biscuits. And yes, sometimes you go down into the dungeons with your friends, and you kill monsters there, or disarm traps, but when you come out, you realize ...
2021-08-05 20:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostWorth the Candle, Epilogues 4-6
Epilogues 7-8 will be up sometime on Friday. Thanks for reading! Additionally, I'm planning the first three chapters of This Used to be About Dungeons to be put up quite soon, in part so that there can be some cross-promotion.
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... of a planned eight.
I think that the story as it stands prior to these epilogue chapters is "complete", and it would be perfectly fine to have stopped there, both for me as an author and you as a reader. That said, there were still things that I wanted to pick at, and elements I wanted to interrogate, and I do think it's nice to have everyone have a known trajectory when you finish, so they're not just floating in liminal space.
The rest of the epilogue chapters will be out t...
Worth the Candle, Post Mortem and Apocrypha
The post mortem for Worth the Candle is here, if you'd like to read it, and gives my general thoughts on how things went and what went wrong. tl;dr: pretty good
I'm not sure the Apocrypha is worth reading, and would caution you not to think of it like "more" Worth the Candle.
You can instead think of this like being deleted scenes from a DVD (boy do I miss DVD extras)...
2021-07-21 14:35:05 +0000 UTC View PostWorth the Candle, ch 246 [Reflections at the End]
Well, here it is. There will likely be some epilogue chapters after this, but I'm not entirely sure about that. Barring any abrupt changes in my plans for the future, the next serial will start roughly a week after the final epilogue chapter, or after I've finished some of the side story stuff I was planning to do, if I do it. As far as outstanding obligations, I still need to write most of the exclusions doc, which I've been languishing on, in spite of having put in the work on an extensive ...
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