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[NR] It's Them Again - Chapter 415

Jason wasn’t certain what happened when the small beaver frogs grew up. Maybe they didn’t? It is quite possible that the young monsters needed to escape the control of the bigger monsters before they could grow. After all, if all of the smaller ones are literally just young examples of the bigger ones, there would be a natural disaster when they grew up.

Though this left Jason with only one method of figuring out what was up with the lakes. He simply had to watch the smallest pond f...

[NR] Observing the Local Monsters - Chapter 414

Though more interesting for Jason was the ecosystem as a whole. In the previous areas, sure, there were a bunch of animals, but overall there were the main monster species to deal with. He knew that his view on things was a bit warped. After all, he only really looked for monsters while in a danger zone, which tended to be characterized by the fact that they were areas overrun by a specific monster.

Here, though, there was a large assortment of middle of the pack monsters. Sure, the bea...

Heyo, wanted some opinions

The last month was hard on my wallet as I had a bunch of things happen all at once. Don't worry, it isn't "lose my apartment" bad or my "health taking a turn for the worse" bad. Honestly it was more just a matter of a bunch of yearly bills coming due all at once? Should be fixed for next year as I did some stuff to make it work better next year, but it has cut into my savings deeper than feels comfortable. So after looking through my options I decided to see what everyone thought about me off...

[D'sP] Of Course It Wasn't An Easy Job - Chapter 229

Not that Jim was against preserving the past, but he very much was of mind that it should stay exactly that, the past. This settlement, so close to his own town, was attempting to bring the past into the present and that wasn’t going to work. Even if all the pre-system hot weapons were still around, they would soon be meaningless if only because without some kind of mystical energy in them, even the most basic shield would have an easy time blocking them.

Though Jim almost half hopes ...

[D'sP] Jim Has A Task To Do - Chapter 228

Back with Doyle and Ally, they are considering a certain thing Doyle had gotten from the second tier of his new class path. Ally looks over at Doyle, ‘So, are you going to spin the wheel now or wait?’

Doyle bobs a couple times, ‘Eh, a new monster with sapience potential is interesting, but I’m not really certain how the system judges that. After all, my goats technically had a path towards it before I chose to go down the path of more goat.’

Ally nods, ‘True, though Iâ...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for August 2022

Below are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. I'm going to run the poll for five days. The short story will be finished by the end of the month and will be available to all patrons.

Merchant Skill Battle - Two neighboring kingdoms have decided to sign a new trade agreement involving their resources, produce and services. Each kingdom sends their Merchant's Guild Master as representatives along with specialist advisors and guards. As far as the guards are concerned,...

[NR] MultiPower Runes - Chapter 413

Jason's only problem with suddenly realizing he had a treasure trove of runes, was that he would need to learn more about the local runic system. After all, his runes worked on a completely different foundation as far as he knew. In NeoRealm each power system had its own set of runes to work with. A ritualist would use Energy based runes, an enchanter has their own Mana based runes, and formation experts get to play around with Qi based runes.

What Jason has however is more generic than...

[NR] "New" Runes - Chapter 412

Jason took a mental step back and frowned. Why would it be a surprise? He took it as a surprise because it was a direct replication, but was it all that surprising? It wasn’t the first thing he had brought over after all.

While not as direct as literally scribbling out a rune from his last life, his ethos of cultivation came from there. All of that aside though, there were things that had followed him through all the worlds so far. Stuff like math and while not all the basic laws of r...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for August 2022

So July's story took a little longer than normal. I'm going to let this run until August 2nd midnight so everyone gets three days.

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 m...

[Archived Short Story] A Stable Suit

*Soft tuneless whistling and the sound of some kind of leather material being rhythmically pierced over and over*

*The sound of numerous zippers being zipped and unzipped*

*A jet engine being lit off*

Jully Argyle smiles as her last commission due this month was handed off. It was a little complicated as JetSet wanted to use it in his jailbreak, but that is just the kind of thing that comes up when you sell to supers.

This sends her thoughts back to when she was just s...

[D'sP] Well That's A Trade - Chapter 227

Doyle turns back to the choice between infinite or accommodation and flips a coin. Quite literally. He summons a silver coin and gives it a clip. Of course, the first flip was a bit of a whoopsie. Not the flip itself, but rather he had forgotten to assign which path went to which side. So with that fixed and another flip Doyle ends up with Extra Accommodations. So before he can have a second thought on the subject, he slams the 75 points into the path.

{75 points applied to Extra Accomm...

[NR] Well That Shouldn't Have Worked - Chapter 411

After the sighting of the other people, a group of what looked to be a small caravan of traders, the rest of Jason’s escape went smoothly enough. With Lily grasped in his hands, he continued fleeing until the monsters had all returned to the strange Mana and Qi supported grass forest.

Not that he stopped right away, instead continuing his escape until the first signs of trees and bushes showed up, you know, stuff other than grass. Though he still didn’t see the caravan from before. ...

[NR] Lily Fighting The Good Fight - Chapter 410

Lily just needs to hold out another half hour and Jason will have recovered enough to escape the grass forest. It didn’t look too good for her though as even with how many monsters she had beaten, more kept coming. Luck was on her side though as the monsters still in the grass began to falter. After all, it isn’t everyday that you see someone go and fight for so long.

Even with stats like Stamina and recovery items, this was just well and above what was normal. Five minutes would be...

[D'sP] Spiraling - Chapter 226

Doyle nods in understanding and then turns back to his status and after confirming Awakened Dungeon Core II was an option, put the full nine points into it.

{9 points applied to the Awakened Dungeon Core II path...

5/10 - +10 Luck and +3 Luck/Level, Trap Designer unlocked, Companion dungeon fae already present, Instead adding +5 Boss slots and 1 random Monster with sapience potential

10/10 - Path Complete, You have earned +1,000 World Energy/Hour and +10,000 to World Energy ...

[D'sP] What Two Floors Of Skills Add Up To - Chapter 225

So a bunch of stuff had happened, but finally Doyle had a bit of free time so he turned to something he had been putting off. Since just before the eight floor, he hadn’t really been looking at his skill levels and path points. It hadn’t mattered all that much since he was a little capped, but with a new level there was once again room to advance so he opens up his status panel to take a look.

{Name: Doyle Huxley

Race: Dungeon Core (Diverse Strange Caverns)

Soulbond: All...

[NR] His Last Option - Chapter 409

A day passed for Jason, then another. Step, step, pause. His mind was slowly churning, not over anything in particular, just churning. He had spent some time thinking over the map. This area wasn’t particularly pointed out. It was a danger zone, but blended into nearby areas. Only a forest a good distance to the left had any kind of distinct boundary.

Still, Jason felt it would be a close thing. The road continued on through a thin area of this grass forest, though thin was relative. ...

[NR] Step, Step, Pause - Chapter 408

Of course, even as Jason was considering how he managed to run for days, he could already feel how that wasn’t going to be possible this time. As he guessed more than once since the incident, even with whatever changed about him, there was still a limit, still a barrier to further progress. A feeling that if he tried it again so soon, he would end up hurting something vital that even with magic might never fully heal.

This was a strange thing, even if he trusted said feeling. After al...

[D'sP] Covered In Vines, Waiting For Them To Pass - Chapter 224

The average worker ant doesn’t actually require anything from Doyle except time, something he is more than capable of providing. Though more appropriately, a good queen will need time to produce an average worker. With the start of a new nest, there is just too much to do. First a nurse or two to help with the eggs, then some diggers, and so on. If within the first batch of eggs a queen has created anything even close to being average, they’re already losing.

Average worker ants are...

[NR] Fox Head, Yet Not Really - Chapter 407

Without stopping to finish the three downed monsters, Jason begins to struggle through the grass back towards the road. As he reaches the halfway point, the first reinforcements arrive, another trio of the strange monsters, though instead of chasing him, they go to check on the downed monsters. Once there, they chitter away to themselves and the oncoming hoard Jason can hear behind them.

As a silence falls over the field of grass, Jason takes a quick look back, only to see the three tha...

[NR] Tall Grass - Chapter 406

Jason really didn’t like the implications that came with the idea that his soul had been away from his body for too long. Especially since it hadn’t really been all that long, just a couple irl days, which meant it probably went off of subjective time. That or he was just so weak the amount of time he had was even more limited.

Either possibility made just as much sense, and neither was particularly comforting. Now, however, wasn’t really the time to delve too deeply into the subj...

[D'sP] Figuring Out What To Do With The Ants - Chapter 223

A few days pass and both the town hall and the Adventurers Guild are packed with people looking for answers. Answers which luckily both the System provided receptionists are able to answer. Of course that doesn't mean they have the answers that people want. For instance, no, the town doesn’t have control over the party size. Such answers however do not put a damper on the rumors swirling around among the visitors.

Not that Ace cares. While it does make negotiations a bit harder with s...

[D'sP] Over The Roof - Chapter 222

In the town Jim frowns. He kept his desk for official Adventurers Guild work clear of paperwork. Yet despite that, there was now a paper on it with official guild letterhead on it. Official official, with proper gilt and everything.

So with only the slightest of a sour face, Jim sits down to read it. Though his face relaxes as he gets to the core of the matter. It did however cause him to sigh and mutter about how the next boss might block them for a good bit longer.

Not long afte...

[NR] Quick Stop In Reality - Chapter 405

Jason took a while to make dinner. It wasn’t anything too fancy, but a proper stew needed time to, well, stew. Sure, throw some jerky in a pot of boiling water with some veg and you’ll get something stew-like and filling. Compared to a proper slow boiled stew made from fresh ingredients and a few spices? There isn’t anything quite like it in Jason’s opinion. Plus, it isn’t like the fresh supplies he just got would last all that long so might as well use them now that he was reasonab...

[NR] Thoughts On The Neglected Garden - Chapter 404

Satisfied, Jason sits back to observe his plants one final time. The Gloom Weed had lost its gloom as not a single one of the fruits were left on them and so the need to redirect power was gone. A couple of the Energy Herbs still had a berry or two hanging on, but clearly not because of overcoming its limits and of course the rest of the Bloody Lingzhi had gone woody.

That left the Ginseng and Focusing Tea. The Ginseng of course still had a few years of growth to go, though without the ...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for July 2022

Below are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. I'm going to run the poll for five days. The short story will be finished by the end of the month and will be available to all patrons.

• Supervillain Costume Designer - The life of a Costume Designer who sees their product a little too often on the news headlines, whose client's activities vary from bank robbing to building giant space lasors. Heck, at least the work is interesting, they get to use all sorts of fan...
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[D'sP] The Meaning Of Going From One To Two - Chapter 221

Ally raises an eyebrow, ‘Huh, I would have figured that the workers would end up with the bonus for being commanded.’

Doyle nods, ‘A little odd, though If I had to guess, non-monsters likely don’t count for it. [System, please pull up the commander bonus thing I have.]’

{Monsters being commanded by other receive +1 to all stats and an additional bonus to their highest stat equal to a third of whichever is higher of their commanders Wisdom or Karma capped to their base st...

[NR] Mystical Mushroom - Chapter 403

With the campsite set up, Jason spent a decent chunk of time relaxing as Lily hopped around the area. It wasn’t the most exciting of places, but reminded her somewhat of her original home. Though the grass was way taller. In fact, some of the taller clumps of the stuff even extended above Jason’s head. Most of it though tended to be around knee to waist high.

The grass itself doesn’t actually look all that different and if Jason had to guess, the rabbit plains had a certain extern...

[NR] The Forms Of Power - Chapter 402

Jason watched as the poison cloud engulfed the threads within his body and held them still. While movement of the threads didn’t literally cause his body to move, it seemed that this poison somehow forcefully connected the concepts together and enforced its own reality onto him. He wasn’t even able to do all that much about it.

Still, as Jason lay there and watched the poison slowly get processed, a few details were gleamed. Not about the poison, sadly, but rather about the NeoRealm...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for July 2022

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] Paladin Of Rot

I hate farming.

I really hate farming.

This, however, is a slight problem when you’re the son of a farmer, the only son. Oh, and that farmer is one of the bigger ones in the area with a certain amount of prestige to their name.

Not nobility levels of prestige, sadly. At least then, I could probably get away with divesting myself of any actual responsibility when it comes to farming. No, I’m expected to be hands-on for every part of the process. Working out in the field a...