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[NR] Rosha's Past Research - Chapter 600

Jason looks up as he hears something coming. And to be honest? He is a little disappointed when he sees that it is Rosha and Courtney. When he decided to stick around the clearing, he had expected a bit more action.

Instead, his experience was mostly being left alone. Sure, there were plenty of normal animals and even monsters that stumbled upon his domain, but they just as quickly stumbled their way out. Oh, that was one change during his time. Jason could feel the edges of the clearin...

[D'sP] Ace Considers Magitech - Chapter 368

Ace frowned, the system, through his provided secretary, had been too helpful. Of course, everyone had a ton of questions on what the two upcoming events would entail. And they got answered!

Sure, not every question, but more than expected. Even during the tutorial, the system had been hands off, allowing the guides to control how much they taught as long as it was judged that they had learned enough by the end. Which, given his world’s technological background, was quite easy to pass...

[NR] And Run - Chapter 599

Rosha continues to shoot the oncoming abominations, though her dominant eye begins to bleed at the corners. The concentration needed to aim at them bringing out details that were not meant to be. How the hair grew in swirled patterns, the way that the legs seemed to phase through one another, and other things compete for her attention.

Still, she maintained focus on picking out targets. Nevermind the discordant sounds of their baying, never synchronized, yet oddly connected. Behind her,...

[NR] Cerulean - Chapter 598

After their encounter with the sickening wolf-like beasts, Rosha and Courtney continue their trip. While seeing such horrors would normally have them turning back, those monsters were actually natural beasts. Well, not natural, but at least native to NeoRealm’s universal constants.

Which because of NeoRealm’s rules, is actually easy enough to determine. Any time the ladies killed something from outside NeoRealm or would be labeled pseudo-natural begins to disintegrate, sort of. It i...

[D'sP] Who To Invite - Chapter 367

Ace finished reading the system message and sighed. He has been in the middle of a town hall of sorts and now everyone is panicking. Not those from the inner circle, of course, but the regular townsfolk, adventurers, and merchants certainly were.

Ace pauses as he realizes he had fully changed how he thought about people. Merchants? Townsfolk? It felt like he was larping at some Ren Faire. All it was missing was a person selling whole turkey legs.

Ace banged his fist on the table, ...

[D'sP] World Announcement - Chapter 366

As Wolf’s Rest and Doyle’s dungeon settled from the recent changes, Ace and company having made it over halfway through the fifteenth floor with the help of simple enchanted equipment, a disastrous event happened elsewhere in the world. How did Ace and Doyle, as well as everyone else, know about it? Well, the worldwide system message helped.

{World Announcement

Event: Prelude to the Fall of Civilization

The first system settled Community has fallen to the wilderness. Oth...

[NR] Sodden Yet Gaunt - Chapter 597

Jason breathed out and calmed down. He was getting ahead of himself. While the System hadn’t intervened all too actively yet, it was better to remove its influence first.

Besides, he’s a cultivator. While in his last life, he hadn’t exactly gotten the chance to do closed door cultivation, there were people who would close up for months at a time even at the lowest level. If they could afford the pills so they would not need to eat, of course. At the lower end, cultivators still ne...

[NR] A Sometimes Exercise - Chapter 596

Back in NeoRealm, Jason stands up and stretches. He had been sitting motionless for a while to get everything sorted and now felt like moving a bit. The connection between stamina and two of his realizations also meant he wanted to feel what that means.

First, Jason uses one of the cleared areas to go through a few katas. Nothing too complex, this was more of a stretching routine than anything else. Of course, this is nowhere near enough to touch his stamina. The recovery rate is much t...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for May 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.

• Reversed Roles - When the Dragon returned to his lair after collecting his Gold and Livestock Tax from various settlements, he is dismayed to discover that a group of lawless bandits called "The Hero Party" had stolen his respectably diverse Princess collection. The Dragon mus...

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[D'sP] Kelly Figured Something Out - Chapter 365

Time began to pass for Ace, only to come to a sudden halt. Things had been going well. He had even managed to defeat an entire community of kobolds on the fifteenth floor. Not that they knew that, but Ally was suitably impressed.

No, the problem was with how they built the town. Ace and the others thought they had planned ahead to a decent degree. They thought making sure the roads were two-lane with sidewalks, even if the car-brain idea of the road being for vehicles had been broken, w...

[NR] Doubling Stamina's Applied Concepts - Chapter 594

While Jenny was worried about that, Jason was relaxing as he turned something over in his mind. Maybe if he had focused on it, he would have figured it out quicker. Though some things are best allowed to tumble around for a bit.

As for what he was thinking over? His three concepts and what connection they might have to body, mind, and soul. The suggestion he had made to his mom was off the cuff. A spontaneous thought that went from creation to the tongue without filtering and sometimes ...

[NR] A Talk With Jenny's Boss And His Boss - Chapter 595

Back with Jenny, she is forced to shift over to her original personal VR room. After all, her son, Jason, is very much the center of attention right now and she had just chatted with him. Even going so far as to obfuscate part of the conversation. Nevermind the fact her boss’s boss had requested that she ask a question of him. Though only requested, even if everyone understood that turning the request down had many penalties attached.

Once in the room, she takes a moment to glance aro...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for May 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:

[Archived Short Story] Watching The Kids

Vel giggled, this was going to be a splendid trick! He had gathered four of his friends, each with a special skill, and soon enough they’d be able to go out and explore a little. They planned to stay in the area where their parents were in charge of, but without all the extra fuss that normally came with such things.

That brought to mind one of Vel’s friends that was very much not invited! Heather seemed to think she was so adult now that she had turned twelve. Well, Vel was ten. In...

[D'sP] Making It Back - Chapter 364

The camouflaged assassin vine fell lifeless to the ground and right away began to evaporate or at least that was how the despawning made it look. Doyle ignored this, instead focusing on the trickle of information coming in from the monster. This doesn’t actually do anything directly.

It wasn’t like he was going to have to drop everything whenever something interesting is going to be deconstructed. However, in this case, there was something to gain. It wouldn’t boost his skills or ...

[D'sP] Camouflage - Chapter 363

Time passed and down in the dungeon, an out-of-town team is making their way through the thirteenth floor. The six had met up in Wolf’s Rest at the start to farm beef. However, after the increase in difficulty that had happened, they found that they enjoyed growing stronger.

At first, they and everyone else had been stuck on the twelfth floor. The need to find the way forward behind the wheat? If the stories were to be trusted, they had heard the town’s inner circle got stuck on it ...

[NR] No Possible Source - Chapter 593

Jenny shrugs, “I don’t expect the full story. Just say what you want to and leave the rest for later.”

Jason nods, “Well, we’re both at a bit of a disadvantage with this. Neither of us really knows what the other person does, beyond the most basic. Even some of the foundational stuff would be hard to take in unless you can run some likely unethical tests on people without your company finding out. On the other hand, you already suspect a bunch of things about me while knowing ...

[NR] What They Enjoyed The Most - Chapter 592

The meal arrives and the two pause their conversation. Neither of them particularly mind talking during a meal. And for Jenny, it is practically a finely honed skill from all the business meals she has been through. However, both of them also appreciated a well-made meal and if there wasn’t a need to talk, preferred to focus on the food.

Each crêpe was amazing though if they had to pick their favorites? Jenny enjoyed the simplicity and contrast of her vanilla bean ice cream and fresh...

[D'sP] At Least They're Cute And Fluffy - Chapter 362

Ally was watching the Aerie as well. While they might have left the bodies out in the wild, not bothering to bring any back to throw in the dungeon, with a breeding population one or two would inevitably get tossed in. Not that she thought the pigeon based griffin was a worthwhile monster to add. In fact, she was certain that they would be critters just like the horned rabbits, if not worse.

At least a few teams would actually try to hunt the rabbits for their horns every once in a whil...

[NR] I Didn't Expect It From You - Chapter 591

Jason sighed, “It’s not like I’m against finding someone.”

Jenny shakes her head, “But you’re certainly not looking. Not that I blame you. Most people wait until they’re subjectively at least a hundred years old to get serious. NeoRealm has just warped the dating scene way too much away from what it once was. Not that I’m against it. In the past, too many people married off of fragile ‘love’ instead of a bond built up after the early hormones faded.”

Jason ra...

[NR] Ordering Crêpes - Chapter 590

Jason and his mom, Jenny, get out of their cab and enter a rustic-looking storefront. In previous times, this look might have represented either a cheap facade or some old shop. However, as this was within an arcology, it instead represented some of the highest quality craftsmanship.

The brick front represented someone who had spent decades in NeoRealm, learning the craft of not only laying the bricks, but handcrafting them. Rounded corners and curves created with the utmost attention t...

[D'sP] The Wilds Are Packed Tight - Chapter 361

Back in town, Ace shuts down his scrying spell. This causes the highly polished copper surface to rapidly show signs of tarnish. Though thankfully this was only surface level and could be easily buffed out. He would need to either use the spell for days on end without stopping or thousands of times before the price paid by the mirror would become too much to just shine it again for another go. Of course, even then it would just require more copper being added.

Though Ace does readily ad...

[D'sP] Griffins Sorta - Chapter 360

Doyle turned his attention to the floor’s centerpiece. A mock volcano. A mountain both smaller and bigger than in the previous floor. If you only counted what was above the water, sure, it was small. Though on the previous floor the great heights got cut off by fog so most wouldn’t realize. However, under the surface, the water’s surface that is, there was more than enough mountain to win.

Doyle hadn’t ever really been sure how much weight he put on counting a mountain in the se...

[NR] Why Did You Like Those Stories - Chapter 589

Jason ended up dressed in some nice brown corduroy pants, a short sleeve button-up shirt, brown leather slip-on shoes, and an aqua colored tie. He could have dressed up even more. In fact, compared to some of his options, this was sinfully slumming it. Which fit with his mom’s plans. She understood that he was busy and so had planned a sinful breakfast. Name as such because the place they were going had a “heaven” theme going on and this was going to be their specialty event that only h...

[NR] Another Day Out - Chapter 588

Days began to pass as Jason focused on finding a new way to observe his inner self. All the while also making sure to get generous amounts of time irl. This was finally interrupted when another government enforced day off arrived.

In theory, those days were either a regular holiday of sorts or rarely placed by the System if it detected some reason that the population needed some time off. Though it was an open secret that it also got used on occasion to let the natives deal with somethi...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for April 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.

• Babysitting - A story about a group of children (6-10 years) from some immortal Xianxia world who escaped their parents to a lower world and know their nanny or kindergarteners or similar has to make sure they don’t destroy the world until their parents can pick them up.

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[D'sP] The Five Islands - Chapter 359

Ally smiles and leaves Doyle to finish the floor, happy that she helped him get around his block.

Doyle focuses on perfecting the five islands. Monsters can come later. For the moment, he wants to make this fit his vision first. It was nebulous at best when they started, but now it is clear to him.

Between the original island and the next, there would be a large slab of mountain stone connecting them. Both islands would be clear of trees, the eruption having cleared them. Also, th...

[NR] Bound To NeoRealm - Chapter 587

Jason focused all of his senses onto the fuzzy edge between right and wrong that surrounded the lines. It can’t be both right and wrong. Either he sensed what was there or he couldn’t.

And so he fidgeted on that border. Poked and prodded to feel how the area reacts. This was slow and tedious. There are even numerous errors and even without that, the lines tended to twist around. Not enough to move around, but certainly enough to shift what was and wasn’t right.

Still, Jason ...

[NR] Maybe A Bit Crazy - Chapter 586

In fact, as Jason takes a closer look at the returned lines, he finds that it goes even further than just returning them to what they were like before he died. The lines had expanded. Not by much and mostly in the pinky he had damaged so long ago. Still, it showed the System, at least passively, fought back against players escaping its control.

If this held true for all deaths, then it wouldn’t be surprising if most level capped players were well and truly stuck in NeoRealm. Though, f...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for April 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: