Thresholder, ch 55, Stories, pt. 3
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The next world I visited was not far off from the world Perry comes from, what he would call modern, a place of concrete and electricity. U...
2023-08-15 01:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Thresholder, ch 54, Stories, pt. 2
Sorry for the late chapter. The update schedule should probably be Monday/Thursday, but then there's less room for the occasional bonus Fr...
2023-08-10 18:20:47 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 53, Stories
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No one seemed to have noticed Perry’s nighttime trip down to the dungeon. The big risk was that they were just pretending the...
2023-08-07 20:55:19 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 52, Grasshopper
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Perry watched the video closely, for the fourth or fifth time. The shadow woman snuck into the armory, opening the door only a fraction. If...
2023-08-02 20:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 51, Worm Food
Thresholder, now twice a week, at least for a bit!
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Perry surveyed Cicada Temple from a distance, using the cameras to zoom in as far ...
2023-07-31 17:58:54 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 50, Turnaround
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Maya was gone, vanished, as though she’d left Moth Lantern Hall and then never so much as thought about returning to Crystal Lake Temple....
2023-07-28 00:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, Epilogue 4: Bib [Final]
This is the final epilogue, so this story is now considered "complete". There might be more, as I feel like it, but it would be in a different direction and with a different cast, and I'm mostly just leaving myself open to the possibility her...
2023-07-25 18:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe Exclusionary Principle: PDF
The wonderful bacontime has made a very professional PDF version of The Exclusionary Principle, with a clickable map of exclusions, table of contents, and everything all in one place. There's also been some additional material written to fill have the pages look properly packed. These are: a note from Grak on the MNEZ, excerpts on Manifest (ICEZ), and several "Did you know?" additions about exclusion tourism, diplomacy with enpersoned exclusions, imperial policy of forge frenzy, and ...
2023-07-22 17:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 49, Shattered Promise
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Perry was going to kill her. He was going to pin her to the ground and beat her face into a pudding of blood and brains, he was going to br...
2023-07-20 17:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostWorth the Candle: The Exclusionary Principle is now complete
The Worth the Candle exclusion zones splatbook is now complete. You can read it on AO3 here. Additionally, there's a post mortem for the project on my website here. The whole thing clocks in at 87K words, along with a bunch of AI art, some good, some not so good.
There will be a proper PDF v...
2023-07-18 16:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, Epilogue 3: Pinion
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Pinion was happy to be back home, though he’d been gone for long enough that everything felt a bit off-kilter. Lambria felt l...
2023-07-17 20:22:09 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 48, Moths pt 2
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Lingfeng accepted Maya readily enough, even though she said too much almost right away.
“I was waiting in the bushes,...
2023-07-12 20:14:23 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, Epilogue 2: Marsh and Hannah
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Travel entads were weird. Inter had become a series of disconnected places to Marsh, separated not by distances but by whatever...
2023-07-10 18:02:36 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 47, Moths, pt. 1
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Perry was carrying as much of Marchand as he’d been allowed to, which had taken some conversations with both Luo Yanhua and t...
2023-07-07 01:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, Epilogue 1: Grig
Another late chapter, sorry, personal stuff got in the way. Thresholder will be Thursday instead of Wednesday.
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V...
2023-07-04 18:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 46, Time Enough
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“Alright,” said Perry. “Try to hit me.”
He was in Moon Stance, one of the most basic that Moon Gate taught: feet ...
2023-06-29 02:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 184, End of the Road [End]
This will be the final "proper" chapter of Dungeons. There will be a few epilogue chapters that I'm looking forward to writing, b...
2023-06-26 21:44:46 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 45, The Fall of the Grouse Kingdom
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“I was born in the Year of Sighing Trees,” said Xiyan. “My family owned a tea house, which had been in the family for nin...
2023-06-22 18:11:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 183, Influence
This chapter is a day late, sorry. The schedule will be shifted one day over, so Thresholder will be Friday rather than Thursday. I've gotten in the b...
2023-06-20 16:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 44, Buried Pride (Bonus Chapter)
Bonus chapter! You are now six chapters ahead of RoyalRoad.
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The next day, Luo Yanhua was impressed with his progress, and...
2023-06-17 02:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 43, Ghost in the Shell
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Maya was still outside, waiting for him. She was in conversation with a short woman with jet-black hair, conservatively dressed in cotton clot...
2023-06-14 17:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 182, Outside Interests
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The bloodwinds usually came in the autumn, sharp and pungent. The name was literal, but there was relatively little blood in them, just a b...
2023-06-12 17:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 42, Crossing Over to the Other Side
The battle to drag the posting schedule back to a standard 10AM Central is real, and I remain a perpetual half-day behind. Also, this chapter might ge...
2023-06-07 20:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 181, Two Worlds
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There was something enchanting about the new woman. It wasn’t any quality of her in particular, but the fact that she was a new ...
2023-06-05 22:02:18 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 41, The Peak
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It took another two days to get to Dragon’s Breath Peak, which involved a lot of arguing while they walked, more meat from the peasants, ...
2023-06-01 19:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 180, Cease Fire
Sorry for the late chapter, it was memorial day, so a day that's normally writing was taken up with picnics and yardwork with my wife and ...
2023-05-30 16:38:22 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 40, Distant Calamity
Hey, sorry for the one day delay, I'm weaning off caffeine and it's shocking how much my productivity and general well-being was being pro...
2023-05-25 19:19:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 179, The Other Creature of Myth
Sorry for the late chapter, I'm weaning myself off caffeine and it is not going well.
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The woman looked at them e...
2023-05-23 00:48:39 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, ch 39, Road Trip
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Perry wore the armor. This was both unfortunate and necessary, because there was no way to easily carry it and he certainly was...
2023-05-17 18:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis Used to be About Dungeons, ch 178, Creature of Myth
TUTBAD is back! I'd like to say that I'm back refreshed and recharged, but I'm not sure that the brief hiatus actually helped me that much.
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