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Author's Note: Gave up on Ko-Fi

Heyo, some of you might remember me mentioning in the past that I was going to get a Ko-Fi set up. Well, I tried. It was infuriating to post my chapters there. I got D'sP and like, half of NR up and was posting the weekly D'sP chapters there for a while now. It took so much more time.

I was trying it for two reasons. The practical, that of having an alternate income stream aside from Patreon. And also because I know not everyone wants to use Patreon and so it would be an alternate solut...

[D'sP] The Lakes Are Too Small - Chapter 395

Doyle went over the math a few times before he believed it. This floor could have four digits in kobolds on it. Even if split evenly between the five lakes, there would be hundreds in each group.

It started to make sense why a dungeon would pay the cost to have some monsters at a higher level. Yes, each level higher costs the same as placing another of the monsters, but it seems you’re going to have points to spare if you stick to the cheap ones. Which turned his mind to something els...

[NR] Mend To Dry - Chapter 635

Courtney sighs, “No, that isn’t someone traveling to see what is out there. I wonder if I can filter those reports to remove mandatory trips like that?”

Jason only has to raise an eyebrow for her to sign again, “Of course not. That would reveal something they’re clearly trying to keep under wraps. How do you even know this?”

Jason shrugs, “I guessed. Most kids ignore it, but when a field trip is literally just a round trip on a train and with how they parade us aroun...

[NR] Field Trips Never Change - Chapter 634

Jason sighs, the System has so many angles it is working from to limit Energy use. Now, some might suspect that means Energy is some sort of higher power compared to Mana and Qi, but Jason doesn’t think that is the case. Rather, it is simply the method that the System uses to control things and what the world itself seems to be powered by.

It would be like making a language go extinct so your officials can use it to talk openly about secrets. Lazy and prone to error. The System is jus...

[BT] I Salute You - Chapter 25

My tail couldn’t help but wag as I pounced in Harold’s direction. As I sailed through the air, my body shifted into the quadruped form I had used down below. My fore-claws hit the ground as I turned the leap into a bounding charge.

I was on Harold before he could even process what I had just done and with a final pounce; I rended his throat with my claws. Bloody gashes obvious as I back away, returning to my bipedal form. The arena, silent.

Now, don’t think me stupid. I know...

[BT] Sub-City Arena - Chapter 24

Anyway, you know something they tend to leave out of stories when the “hero” makes some declaration or challenge? The time it takes for it to actually happen. After all, this isn’t some play or movie scene and the villain isn’t just off screen, ready to step into view.

I wasn’t really paying attention, but if I had to guess, it took a good hour and a half for Harold to show up with a bunch of mooks backing him up. Seems this still counts as a test for him so the elders of the ...

[BT] Blood Drinkers But Not Those Blood Drinkers - Chapter 23

And soon enough, my assumptions were proven correct as the tunnels narrowed down to just a single bare tunnel of stone. So in theory I could just walk out, at least going by the info dump to the brain I had received. I was... a bit cautious about it.

After all, the place I got this information from had been abandoned for quite a while. Maybe that was how it was supposed to work, but I didn’t know if it still did l. And so, I tried to sneak up on the thing.

Uh yeah, that didn’t...

[BT] Them Plants - Chapter 22

I could now leave at any time. Since the guardian chimera wouldn’t attack me as I left, all I’d have to worry about is getting there. A thing I literally just did.

Yeah, not going to do that quite yet. After all, if getting in here requires you to fight that thing? Well, if that stupid mage was able to come get me I’m doomed . Better to take some time to improve in a way that doesn’t involve throwing myself at the monsters down here.

So I sat myself down and spent most of ...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for October 2024

Once again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.

Not many rules on what you can suggest at the moment. That will mostly be figured out as we go. Besides that, the short story will come out before the end of the next month.

Rules for prompts:

[Short Story] Waking Up While Drunk In A Dungeon

The realm was in an uproar. A famous dungeon, unbeatable by even the greatest of heros, had been cleared. Now, those in the know weren’t too shocked. This was a HappyAfter server that catered to those looking for a power fantasy. Though the LAIs acting as locals didn’t know that and didn’t remember the last time it happened, which was all that mattered.

Locked AIs however weren’t the only ones surprised by this turn of events. The admins and other superusers of this instance wer...

[D'sP] Rather Not Know - Chapter 394

Ally sighs, ‘I really wasn’t properly prepared for this. Not anyone’s fault. My instructors couldn’t have known I’d be assigned to you. Better to prepare dungeon fairies for what they’re going to experience and not a one off bit of nonsense like our situation.

‘Just the fact I got assigned to a dungeon on a newly integrated world is odd enough! My classmates on fully integrated worlds will have easy access to the instructors. And here I am, unable to even call my mom whene...

[D'sP] Just Kobolds - Chapter 393

Ally orders the elder kobold to do a few stretches and jump around, getting a feel for how it can move. ‘Well, at least they aren’t unathletic. The Agility from their theoretical time as a kobold gives them base human level athletic ability, maybe a touch more. However, I feel this might be a good chance to really lean into runes and power use in general.’

Doyle pops down a male elder, ‘Well, we can manage some magic if need be. Though this guy looks even pudgier. I guess it mak...

[NR] A Little Gardening - Chapter 633

Back in the clearing, Jason is worried. Courtney had messaged him outside of the game to say they’re fine, but the System didn’t let her say more about what was happening in NeoRealm. So while he knows they’re okay, if something changes he wouldn’t know.

There was nothing to do but turn his mind to other matters. In particular, after spending so much time focused on the book, his garden needed some pruning. Though he figures spending a day to do a general overview of the entire ...

[NR] The Worth Of A Book - Chapter 632

Five days later, and a bunch of frustration on Courtney’s part, a deal was struck. The negotiator from Rosha’s family did a decent job and managed to get a number of concessions. Of course, since a lot of what was traded had been knowledge and not things like actual skill books, it made things easier on the kingdom.

Whether the manuals they secured for Jason would be directly useful or simply something to use as a reference was left to be seen. More important, though, is that this k...

[D'sP] No Reversing That - Chapter 392

Doyle, ‘Now, before we get too lost in the design, maybe I should summon a kobold elder? We know what their stats are like, but not the kobolds as a living creature. A normal goat with a thousand Wisdom isn’t going to be a sage among men. It is still a goat, after all.’

Ally nods, ‘Yes, let’s see what we’re working with. To be honest, I don’t even know exactly what to expect. My origins mean that the kobolds I have the most experience with are the fae variants.’

Do...

[NR] More Of Everything - Chapter 631

Rosha and Courtney are brought to a small house with clear signs that it had been hastily rented. There were bits and bobs of the family that would normally be living there forgotten in the corners and edges of rooms. It was clearly a family’s home. Though most obvious being the visible enchantment plates.

All around the inside of the house, at least a couple to each room, were metal plates with a number of enchantments inscribed on them. Above and beyond that, the duo was guided into...

[NR] A Little Family Help - Chapter 630

While Jason ponders on how many immovable rods he should ask for, things are happening out in NeoRealm proper. That wave of magic that was riled up by him finishing his tome was spreading outward. It wasn’t too fast and likely would have taken a long time to propagate across NeoRealm. Except the place is chocked full of spatial tunnels.

Whether it was from the System itself to maintain the world and make sure monsters, like the first boss Jason had fought, could pop up where needed. O...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for September 2024

NOTE: This month I will be taking whatever Prompt gets chosen and doing another story in HappyAfter VR setting. For those who don't remember, it is a high tech & fantasy setting where when you are going to die, you can go post biological instead and join any number of servers in a digital after life.

Below are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the en...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for September 2024

NOTE: This month I will be taking whatever Prompt gets chosen and doing another story in HappyAfter VR setting. For those who don't remember, it is a high tech & fantasy setting where when you are going to die, you can go post biological instead and join any number of servers in a digital after life.

Once again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in ...

[Short Story] Never Ending Tutorial

It all started with some dead gods on the moon. Yes, specifically gods. Over a thousand years ago, the world had magic and things like deities, dragons, nymphs, demons, and so on made the planet their home.

As for why the modern civilization that had grown up after those times, couldn’t find any proof of this? Well, the magic went away and things that require magic to exist literally fade away or revert to a non-magical form. There were no dragon skeletons lying around because any tha...

[D'sP] Just Do The Inverse - Chapter 391

Ally, ‘And with that in mind, I’ll note the “elder” in elder assassin vine and in elder kobold represent different things. The assassin vines is simply an elder of that species. Whereas with the kobold, it represents the Akashic connection they have to dragons.

‘Now, you have monotreme kobolds and so I don’t know how many of the dragon age categories they’ll have picked up, but the more the better. As it is, we only know they can become elders, but I’ll cross my fingers ...

[D'sP] Seventeenth - Chapter 390

Ace was wrong. He seemed to be cursed to keep having to dip into the wizards tower more and more often over the next few days. To be fair, most of this was needing to tweak settings and such. It was honestly inevitable, given what the source of this tower model was. While they had special privileges, the people from the inner circle were not nobles in the traditional sense and so many pre-set rules based on that assumption needed changing.

And all of that required talking directly with ...

[BT] Thank Goodness For Murals - Chapter 21

Well, not much else besides a ton of hand?prints on the back wall like those cave paintings. Some were obvious enough, being humanoid in appearance. Though quite varied. From a handprint that was so close to human as to not matter to prints that if you squint, look like they have a thumb or so, plus fingers maybe.

Then there were those I could not see as hands. Hoofprints of all sorts, odd blobs, and a few spots that looked like they just painted the wall except for hints that there mig...

[BT] Getting Lost To Find My Way - Chapter 20

The plants, gone. The water, gone. Even the dirt, gone. All that remains in the tunnel was rock walls. And that is correct, “tunnel” singular. All of the branches had eventually met up into a single large tunnel that swayed back and forth through the rock. Which is super frustrating as it didn’t let me see what was ahead!

Though I guess I can’t say they were completely empty. It was here that I found the most signs of outsiders, delvers, adventurers. Markings from a campfire, ho...

[NR] The Tome - Chapter 629

{The Exhaustive Guide on the Crafting of an Immovable Rod by Jason the Willful Survivor

Description:

A Tome written by a traveller named Jason. Within is a well laid out guide to the creation of Immovable Rods, including ways to substitute any material or step. Along with some already determined substitutions, this book has a near exhaustive Guide on how to determine if new materials or techniques will work. The vellum and leather was crafted from young water hors...

[NR] A Title To Use - Chapter 628

Jason frowned in concentration. It had taken him longer than he had expected. His calligraphy was, honestly? Quite decent by modern standards. However, that means for someone using a mechanical pencil and a decent eraser.

Thankfully, while not as simple as an eraser, you can erase mistakes on vellum. You just need to get some really fine sandpaper or similar and then sand the mistake off of the vellum. At which point, you can go and try again.

Of course, since this is a subtractiv...

[D'sP] Plank To The Face - Chapter 389

After their assurance that everything is fine, Ace leaves the coup and starts to dig into what exactly the options are for the wizard tower. While the messenger’s coup was a standard build, with apparently options for the person running it to customize the place. The tower would be something for Ace to customize.

And once he begins to dig into it, that appears to be true. It seems that the system isn’t the one making the wizard tower, but a conglomerate that is focused on providing ...

[NR] Double Drumsticks - Chapter 627

Jason slept for the entire night. While he personally thought he was perfectly fine on just a few hours of sleep and some meditation. He also admitted that he might not be the best judge of it and so didn’t put it to the test. Once he started writing the manual, he wasn’t going to stop for anything besides food and sleep.

His hidden room under his house was full of various supplies. Rosha and Courtney knew and would be taking shorter trips so they could check in more often. Oh, and ...

[NR] Two Inks - Chapter 626

Jason frowns as he looks over his 33 pieces of vellum, the 34th had predictably been ruined. All of the vellum is still on the wooden frames, but there is really only one step left. He needs to cut out the actual pages.

Now, that isn’t exactly hard. You just examine the hide and split it up so that the various inherent marks don’t mess up the page. Except, Jason was looking at it from a higher level. He knew the information the book would need to contain and the basic layout. Given ...

[D'sP] Material Placement - Chapter 388

And while Ace was having problems deciding where to put a couple of buildings, Doyle had his own placement problems. Though for him, it was how to distribute the new loot. Not only had he gathered a bunch of stuff during the quest, but the system then went and told everyone he had been given them. That means he can hand them out with no one getting suspicious.

Doyle flips through his various monsters. ‘I think the golems would be a good monster to drop the polymer. They already incorp...