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[NR] Magic Doesn't Like That - Chapter 613

And enough it was, at least while within Jason’s body. The natural flexing of space around the planet, especially while within a place currently being annexed from the Deep Wilds, was a little much. However, space seemed to be almost entirely relative and so the space inside his body was calm enough for the frayed threads to hold the d20 globe knots in place. All that was left? To replace every System line.

This certainly wasn’t going to be a quick process and while Jason was proud ...

[NR] Using A Globe Knot - Chapter 612

As with most things, the way an immovable rod works was simpler than most would assume. Jason had spent hours following the theorized changes that each step of the crafting process caused. This process was, of course, nowhere near optimized. In fact, the default pattern was wasteful.

What it had going for it, was the fact it used techniques that had a low failure rate and materials that were accessible. So while one step might do something only for it to be undone later. It all added up...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for July 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] Humanity Meets System

“Hey Joe! Does this look like what I think it does?”

Joe looks over the shoulder of his friend Tim at a blue screen. “Looks like a text prompt? What kind of nonsense did you get into? This whole ‘system’ nonsense has been all voice commands and buttons.”

Tim shrugs, “Well, I was playing around with the bonus language list.”

Joe sticks his tongue out, “Blegh, why would you be looking at that? Just having the so called Standard language forced on me was bad e...

[BT] Oozing Venom - Chapter 17

My first challenge though, was to get through the monster build up. I could have waited for them to all rush down, except I’m in their way. So better to attempt it while they were still building up than to wait for the avalanche of monsters to come at me.

So I climbed upwards. My fingers and toes splaying outward to better grip the uncertain terrain around me. If it wasn’t for the fact that numerous monsters had already climbed down, I would have needed to be even more careful about...

[D'sP] The System Isn't Being Vague - Chapter 377

Over in the more ravaged area, the kobolds aren’t doing so hot. While the healer has managed to keep most of his team upright, they already had lost two of their numbers. It wasn’t even to monsters, which at this point were well below their level. In fact, the monsters would probably be the easiest part of the entire trip.

No, they were losing in the most embarrassing way for a kobold to lose. To traps. Though to be fair to them, they weren’t technically traps in the traditional s...

[NR] Breaking It Down - Chapter 611

The free pattern for an immovable rod had the most basic set of materials, but depending on so many different conditions what was needed could change. Either drastically with entire new materials being added and occasionally replacing others or as minor as needing to reduce the amount of one ingredient by less than a percent. Worse, with each technique used it added an extra layer of changes that needed to be made and so many steps had alternate techniques you could use.

Just the spell ...

[NR] A True Rod - Chapter 610

Now, while pondering the secrets of the past and the System’s purpose was heady stuff, Jason still needs to solve that one last step. How to suspend his own lines so as to replace the old with the new.

Jason studied not just the lines, but a number of papers that had been written about Space within NeoRealm. It was a pretty hefty topic and even then, what he could get ahold of was only the most surface layer information. After all, Space is directly connected to things like teleportat...

[D'sP] MagiTech Wand - Chapter 376

For all the teams except a couple idiots, the first night passes peacefully. Those idiots, on the other hand decided they didn’t need to stick close to their camp or the whole team decided to start exploring right away. What they found was that while there weren’t monsters nearby, that didn’t mean there was no danger.

Some died to simple things. For instance, going into a military base with little thought? Well, the security system isn’t going to turn down the free kills. And of...

[D'sP] Just A Wink - Chapter 375

Over the next two weeks, the entire world readied itself. Ace sorted out the teams that would go in first. Doyle worked on swapping out fully realized kobolds until most of his team had the scavenge skill. None were quite sure when things would finally go down.

Then it happened. All over the world, just outside of every settlement, a gate rose out of the ground that looked sort of like a Torii, except made of a strange yellow-ish green crystal with a heptagonal cross-section. Once fully...

[NR] What The System Wants - Chapter 609

Now, knowing the basics of what the System has done with the lines and what it was attached to, Jason simply has to figure out a way for him to apply it to his homespun lines. For the System, being a computer-like entity with the powers of a deity, it likely just has a one-size-fit-all intent it stamps on everything until it proves a need for something more. Which would also explain why his pinky was fixed after his death, despite staying frayed until then.

Death represented an entirely...

[NR] Remembering What Energy Is - Chapter 608

Jason had been meditating over the last week on his realization. The fact that the lines placed by the System were attached to the space a person occupied and not their body, mind, or soul. Which when he thought on it deeper, was strange. After all, in theory, when you move space itself isn’t actually moving, your body is moving through space. So, why does it work?

Jason very much doubted that the System was adjusting the lines with every twitch of a muscle someone made. That meant th...

[D'sP] Why The Low Attendance? - Chapter 374

Ace gathered his council together, though even this early on he felt the gap caused by not having representatives from the deerkin and raccoonkin. He also realized that this feeling was coming from his connection to the town as the official leader. A connection he has thought was more one-way than this. Though that would be something for later.

Once everyone quieted down, Ace sighed, “I guess the good news first. With the information we have gathered, the actual quest event should be ...

Author Notes: Blarg (but not sick)

Was a good bit late with the NeoRealm chapters today. There is a reason for that. I'm not sick, but my wallet is. Took my car in yesterday for an oil change and complimentary tire rotation, wherein they found out my brake pads aren't quite there anymore (and a brake light was out). Can't exactly leave that to rot, so of course I got them changed. Why this made me late is because the oil change was at 10am which meant I didn't sleep as I've been going to bed in the mid AMs and wouldn't be able...

[NR] Deep In The Deep Wilds - Chapter 607

Deep In The Deep Wilds

Shshhhshsssshhss Alulmaa slithered through the new lands that appeared near his pit’s pyramid. They shifted, but this shift came at an odd time. That meant someone had been challenging the Forest and winning. Not that it mattered. Iä Slanthosss Fell Dweller, Lord of Venom which melts the spatial dimensions, and the Other God his people had worshiped since before time immemorial would keep the other fell powers at bay.

Despite that, not al...

[NR] An Unrelated Evil Elsewhere - Chapter 606

An Unrelated Evil Elsewhere

In a small mountain range, bitter winds whip through deep icy canyons. A foul smell being carried by them to the fearful farmers down below. None dare enter this place, not even travellers, for a foul has taken up residence there as of recent. They are yet weak, though considering they naturally break through to level 25 upon “maturing” that is only relative.

However, it isn’t their level that scares others away. For what lives on...

[D'sP] How They Became Refugees - Chapter 373

Now, while most of the inner circle wasn’t all that interested in the bricks, one person very much was. Jimmy understood what it meant for most buildings to be made of them. A simple thing to figure out by looking at how buildings were made in history.

Sure, the rich and powerful would do stuff like make castles and such. However, most buildings are made from the cheapest stuff that is readily available. One country is particularly rocky? Lots of rock houses. Another one has all the t...

[D'sP] What The Refugees Saw - Chapter 372

An old guy babbled on about how he had been stuck in a brick house. Or as he put it, “Well, it wasn’t quite brick. More of a quartz type of feel. Not red either, but bricks don’t have to be red, I guess. Just doesn’t feel right. Anyway, it was a brickish sort of house. Close enough to a house, anyway. Weird circular beds, let me tell you! Don’t quite get how they would have slept on those things. Though I guess they wouldn’t be quite human? Or maybe they were? Kind of hard to tell...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for June 2024

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 end of the month.

• MMORPG AI - is convinced that there's nothing stopping the Endgame NPCs from invading the Early game regions

• Cloudy With A Chance Of Soul - A lost soul gets stuck in a cloud and panics knowing that the next rain will result in them dying ag...

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[NR] The Forgotten Fool Of A Dwarf - Chapter 605

The Forgotten Fool Of A Dwarf

Jame’s raged! His whip slick with blood as he “punished” the unfaithful. Things weren’t going well for the cult. Which was annoying for him because he felt ready to take some revenge on that original party of his.

But no, the cult had to go and develop a schism in their beliefs! Worse, it was the belief that truly mattered, that his family was divinely appointed to be in charge of their religion. Such nonsense could not be all...

[NR] A Kingdom’s Past Planning - Chapter 604

A Kingdom’s Past Planning

Orveul Ryl, the current king of the Ryl kingdom, which had been in his family for the past five generations and over a thousand years was frowning at the map in front of him. “Can we trust the information?”

A man in black with a covered face, the kingdom’s greatest information analyst, spy, and general all around gossip shrugged. “Within the next 100 years, at least one of our neighbors in that direction will attack us. There is...

[BT] Smile - Chapter 16

My eyes opened halfway and with great effort. I must have dozed off at some point. The boulder had protected me and my aqua gel nature seemed to remove any nasty side effects of sleeping on literal rocks, but I clearly still needed to rest despite how much had changed at this point. A slight problem with that being I didn’t seem to get tired, so much as instantly lose consciousness once in a safe place.

So yes, I did just get knocked out; again. Thank goodness for my scentless nature!...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for June 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] Collector Of Rare Princesses

This was not happily ever after!

Jogrand Fire of the Mountains, shining flames in the dark, ruler of the Alkazoh ash lands, Gem Scale Master, and most importantly, the collector of rare princesses. Well, he considers the last one the most important. Others tend to focus on the Master bit or maybe the fact he owns land if they’re new to HappyAfter.

He honestly prefers just going by Rand when talking to his fellow collectors. Were there some people that considered him a stereotype...

[D'sP] Invitation Time - Chapter 371

Ace managed to have the big meeting. The problem was that only Bennett town saw eye to eye with him. So while it was nice to actually meet everyone, the politics ran thick and not much got done before, after a week, everyone dispersed to return to their own settlements before the event.

After that, time passed as all over the planet, people plotted, planned, and prepared. This would be the first truly worldwide event since the coming of magic and the system. While the fallen community w...

[NR] Mom Is Offered The World - Chapter 603

Mom Is Offered The World

Jenny smiled like a shark, or maybe a lawyer. Not much real time had passed since her outing with her son, but in the fast pace of NeoRealm there was more than enough time to be fed up with her company. Because, of course, they would just accept what she had said in that first meeting.

Were they wrong to assume she held something back? No, but it also wasn’t their right to know what was being held back. Jenny had held to the word of the ...

[NR] Andrew's Backstory - Chapter 602

Andrew’s Backstory

A frown graced Andrew’s face as he tried to scry on his favorite boy and companion. It had been interesting to see them handling mundane things in awkward ways. After all, who would force their way through a dungeon with four people? And then, when they neared the end and met up with an impossible trap, they forced that as well instead of waiting for it to be cleared!

Except now his scrying failed. Sure, he had expected it. They were heading...

[D'sP] You're Not A Space Station - Chapter 370

Ace sighs, “Stories about the deep ones and their ilk only showed up a hundred or so years ago.”

Camila, “Well, maybe that means they’re further away from here than my old planet? After all, they’re practically a part of my culture’s creation myths.”

Ace, “The problem is the shared myths in the first place. Nevermind that at least here, they’re considered to be from ‘beyond space and time’. The fact we have any shared stories at all means that souls from a pl...

[D'sP] I Had To - Chapter 369

When it came to the system, Ace didn’t believe in coincidences. Though he wasn’t sure what significance having the list of people they could invite showing up the day of the first freeze would have. Some others joked about it being a reminder that winter was coming and to not be too ambitious on who they invited. Others just shrugged as they felt the system was probably being a bit more hands on with the planet during integration and was doing some things in batches for efficiency or some...

[NR] The Void Of Space - Chapter 601

Later that night, Jason was holed up in his meditation room. Rosha had given him more than enough food for thought, as well as a bunch of random nonsense ever since she had arrived back at the clearing. Though the first bit about him repelling dirt and dust stuck with him the most.

So, he meditated on his current self. As while a passive field keeping him from getting dirty was neat, it also represented danger. There was an enormous difference between detecting someone through their pow...