Hello and good morning.
Today, System Overclocked 2 has been released. This book is a Darren book and contains the content you would expect in it, without anything being removed.
You can pick it up here: https://www.amazon.com/System-Overclocked-2-Randi-Darren-ebook/dp/B0CKS2GYHY
The audiobook will be handled by Podium of course. :)
Next book to be r...
Hey everyone,
I'm sorry for the odd, weird, and delayed updates.
I've been trying to do this audio update thing, and it's taking a bit of more effort than I expected to get things moving quickly in the same direction.
I'm hoping to have the weird delays fixed up relatively soon, but I wanted to ask you all a question.
Is it worth waiting for audio chapters going forward, or do you prefer to have the text uploaded, then the audio replacing it when it's available?...
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Steve rushed headlong for the giant demon.
Who had froze in place, their eyes turning down to the approaching human. Watching in curiosity and what was likely shock.
After all, what human would dare to rush The Hungry One.
It was the very definition of outside of expectations.
“What?” murmured the Null off to Vince’s side. “Seville?”
“His name’s Steve,” Vince replied off-handedly.
A hand pressed to his back a...
2023-10-13 03:41:28 +0000 UTC View Post<Reload with audio>
Checking on his dad one more time, Vince gnawed at his lip.
He didn’t want to leave him here like this, but there really wasn’t any other options. The best they could do was all that they had already done.
Miles was tucked away into a warm corner with a blanket, hidden away from prying eyes. There wasn’t anything else to be done.
“Come on,” called Melody as she and Felix began moving off.
Rubbing at his jaw Vince followed after th...
2023-10-13 03:40:09 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the link to the Wild Wastes 6 sixth chapter.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/90684072
2023-10-10 14:37:11 +0000 UTC View PostVince stood in the center of the Dryad grove of Galicia.
The walls had been knocked down and moved back a considerable distance. Expanding it considerably and pushing out the boundaries until it was easily six times the size of the original grove.
There were trees everywhere as well.
Living trees that were growing and very well and without harm.
“This grew very well,” Petra remarked, one of her ant-legs reaching out to lightly tap at a tree. “It’s a good sign o...
2023-10-10 14:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostVince felt like his head was full of nonsense.
Somehow he’d gotten through the meeting with the Dryads without difficulty. In fact, they hadn’t even asked him to contribute, speak, or respond in any way.
They simply told him about everything that was going on in their city and their lives. Everything that’d changed since Yosemite had shown up and everything that was going on with the Dryads of Europe.
Dea hadn’t offered anything further and he felt like she had been ...
2023-10-06 02:07:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re an idiot,” Felix muttered while looking at Melody.
She grinned at him, showing her teeth, and then shrugged.
“Maybe. But it worked! I now have a harem!” Melody declared. “I’ve got it whenever I want, on tap. It’s like having an eternal buffet at the ready. Sausage, clam, whenever, whatever.”
With a groan, Vince closed his eyes, then coughed, and started to laugh. He put his hands to his head.
“I want to comment or… or… say something… b...
2023-10-03 03:33:21 +0000 UTC View Post(Reloaded with Audio)
“Okay, sorry, right. Edmund! Edmund,” muttered Runner. Vince got the impression he was being moved somewhere again. “Originally you were going to act the part of the body-guard. To stick to him and make sure he’s fine.
“Realistically, that really isn’t needed anymore. Edmund is able to protect himself and has a few people around him to make sure he’s safe.
“For now, you’ll just need to act as a vanguard. Be the front of the pack. Tip ...
2023-09-29 06:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post(Reloaded, though with Audio)
Seville stared at Vince’s hand.
Or more accurately, the recorder in his hand.
His brown eyes were locked to it as if it were a weapon pointed at him.
“It’s just a recorder. I was told to just play it for you,” Vince said, closing in on the man quickly. “Is that okay? It’s just a little girl singing. Singing for you. Okay?”
Seville’s eyes widened and his nostrils flared.
The man’s shoulders straightened Vince ...
2023-09-28 17:55:55 +0000 UTC View PostHello! There's an interesting program that's come out that allows for some audio files to be made.
This wouldn't take the place of an audiobook or narrators, but I know there are those out there who can't -read- Patreon chapters. This is the best I can do for them.
It's not perfect, it's honestly pretty weird, but hey, if you prefer listening than reading, this is at least better than most of the text-to-speech reader extensions.
That and if it adds a positive to t...
A while back I had put out a call for an apprentice.
I had a number of people sign up, I reached out to a few people, and got turned down a few times as well.
Eventually, I stumbled across someone that I felt I could work with.
This individual is named Victor and they've released their first book that I assisted with today.
Now, I should qualify this.
I didn't write this book.
I helped with it and quite a bit, but the work itself was/will be done by ...
The Axe Falls: Map: The Axe Falls- Map! (All names redacted) | William D. Arand on Patreon Chapter 1-T1: The Axe Falls -CH1- | William D. Arand on Patreon
Chapter 2-T1: The Axe Falls -CH2- | William D. ...
Cultivating Chaos 4 the Audiobook, is out now.
https://www.audible.com/pd/Cultivating-Chaos-4-Audiobook/B0C8ZNXWH8
Alrighty!
System Overclocked 2 is done.
The whole book is up.
I'm also going to upload the conclusion to "The Axe Falls" now. It's also done.
We'll be pivoting to Wild Wastes 6 and start loading chapters for it.
Likely this week!
The explicit chapters will of course be included. :D
Sitting at the edge of the glass in their Hab, Wrench, Seventh, Stripe, and Tickaht were all watching Talker work at a small workbench he’d put down in front of them.
The Tongsta had several boxes in front of him, and was using at least seven or eight tentacles to build and take apart communicator boxes.
He was actively working to fine tune them so they could use them. Talker took his role as the “Hume Partner” very seriously.
“Tickaht, what do you think. This is a b...
2023-08-17 16:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostWrench shivered, grunted, then shifted forward on the bed. Reaching out he found Tickaht and drug her back into his chest. Slipping his arm between her upper and lower breasts he hung on tight to her.
She let out a series of soft clicks and pushed back into him. Then she snatched up the blanket at their hips and pulled it up and over them to the shoulders before going still.
Except Wrench was now fully awake.
The blanket that was now covering them had prodded his brain into ...
2023-08-12 17:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostWrench gave up on his thoughts, or Tickaht’s fleeting rear-end, and flew ahead. Shooting straight toward his target.
A Tongsta working at a semi-mechanical console on the far side of the bridge. One tentacle was tapping at things on a screen while another was submerged in the Tongsta-like goop of a different device.
The sudden scream of a Tongsta in pain cause the one Wrench was closing in on to flinch and pull away from the consoles.
“Oh my xxhht!” shrieked a Tongsta....
2023-08-12 17:16:10 +0000 UTC View PostWrench was now bored.
He’d been lurking in the Tongsta corpse for a bit now.
Other than moving it over to the side of the bridge it’d been completely ignored since then. No one had bothered with it otherwise.
It was somewhat surprising as he’d genuinely thought they’d move the corpse somewhere for safe keeping. For Hume it was the filter so that there wasn’t any future issues.
Apparently Tongsta didn’t have those concerns, or these Tongsta in particular did...
2023-08-10 13:47:00 +0000 UTC View Post“What’re you doing? What’s… what… xxhht!?” asked the Tongsta as they rushed into the room. “What’s going on? Oh my xxhht!”
Wrench let the access point tumble away and open. Holding tight to the tunneler he shot forward as if he were an arrow from a bow. Blasting forward out of his hiding space.
“Xxhht?! What— aaggh!” screamed the Tongsta as the tunneler fired off and began doing it’s job. A heavy stream of Tongsta blood shooting out of it.
No sooner...
2023-08-10 13:46:02 +0000 UTC View PostWrench let out a sigh and leaned back against the duct wall.
It’d been two weeks or so since they’d gotten onto this rebel ship.
At least that’s what Wrench guessed given that they didn’t have a clock. Without a clock, calendar, or a Hab system, he had no idea how long they’d been here.
For all he knew, it’d been one week, or three months.
All he knew was that his days were spent hanging out with Tickaht, watching the Tongsta, breaking things, and a great d...
2023-08-08 14:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post<Tickaht NSFW Scene Here>
Wrench shook his head and once again lamented the fact that they couldn’t actually check the room for a Tongsta before hand. They simply had to hope that there wasn’t anyone in the compartment when they opened the maintenance door of the tank.
“All you can do when walking into an ambush is be prepared for that,” Tickaht advised from behind him. A hand was placed ...
2023-08-08 14:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, Patreon had some payment oopsies.
You might have to dig around and make sure everything is copacetic.
I had two people report it up to me so I thought I'd make a post. :)
Peeking out of the crate, Wrench could see they were in a warehouse like room. All around them were crates and other goods.
Looking upward, he saw that much like the two warships he’d been on, this one also had an access point for gases.
“We can get to a duct access point,” he said quietly. “I think we should do it. We might be able to move around a bit.”
“I like that. Maybe we can find an area we could flood with atmosphere we can breathe? I ah… I really need ...
2023-08-03 04:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostTickaht pushed Wrench to one side and spun him around. Nimbly, she clambered up onto his back.
Her legs wrapped around his center and she draped her arms around his front. Her helmeted head was pushed up against his own.
The two of them hung there in the upper portion of the cargo bay as the pirates tried to tend to their wounded. Those that’d been bathed in flames were surprisingly the Tongsta that looked more likely to survive.
Those that’d been clubbed, stabbed, or sh...
2023-08-03 04:04:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Reporting in. Access point reached. Tongsta present. Injured Tongsta. Triage. Major medical. Medical used.”
“Understood. Do you need more?” Talker asked.
“Affirmative. Affirmative.”
“Two more?” confirmed Talker.
“Affirmative.”
“Sending it,” Talker reported.
“You know, he wasn’t very useful at first. But now he is,” Tickaht reckoned with a chuckle. Then she hopped down off the device and looked down out of the access point. “...
2023-08-01 03:46:15 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s a wreck,” Goodie murmured. “Or at least. It looks like it. They must’ve caught them completely unaware. Was there any sign of return fire?”
She was currently suspended in the Nav-cerer’s harness in the middle of the work-room. Put up on one wall was a display that was clearly where they were supposed to go.
“Definitely caught them unaware. As to return fire, yes, and yet no. A different ship chased them off. Pretty certain they’re still engaged in combat, a...
2023-07-29 04:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, Wrench. Are you ready? Are you okay?” Goodie asked. He was in a special carrier made for only one Hume. It felt ridiculously luxurious and he’d actually enjoyed the ride. “I know I said it’d be days away. I didn’t think for a moment they’d be ready so soon.”
Wrench shrugged his shoulders.
It didn’t matter to him that he’d literally woken up on top of Goodie by one of her assistants. Only to rush off to this location.
Thankfully the Carrier was incr...
2023-07-29 04:15:15 +0000 UTC View PostGoodie was hold the carrier still against the air-lock as the four got into it.
It had two rows of seats, each able to fit ten people. Each had a four point harness and were actually rather comfortable.
The sides, top, and bottom, were all see through and there was even an attached environmental unit on the bottom. The temperature of the carrier was lovely.
“I got this from a really sweet round-one and a manufacturer they own,” Goodie continued to explain the carrier the...
2023-07-27 01:47:04 +0000 UTC View PostWrench had discovered that Tickaht was incredibly chatty.
No sooner than they could have basic conversations, then the translation game they’d been playing had become almost secondary to talking.
Though to be fair, Wrench couldn’t deny that the conversations were providing them with all the inbetween words.
Words that didn’t have easy to share and translate.
Like and, in, an, a, the, it, of, as examples.
“—then Sccsccc said you just dirty animal,” Tic...
2023-07-27 01:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post