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[D'sP] Only Took Over 150 Chapters To Remember - Chapter 220

After being called back to Ally’s room, Doyle sees a large blank screen up against the back wall. Ally gestures at it, ‘Now before I reveal it, I’m going to go over what will be up there. Of course, there are the stats which start at the starting value. Which, by the by, is what would change whenever you level up the kobold pattern enough to give them a stat bonus. Important because that means all of your kobolds, no matter the floor, would get stronger. I don’t know how yet, but I as...

[D'sP] What Does Better Mean? - Chapter 219

With the plants figured out and the assumption that the critters would work in a similar fashion, all that was left was the monsters themselves. Which more than the other stuff, Doyle was really curious about what leveling up the pattern would even do. That seemed like a decent enough reason to drop in on Ally and find out if she had found anything on the subject.

A quick knock and Doyle’s guess is proven true as Ally invites him in and informs him, ‘If you’re here to ask about pa...

[NR] And His Body Hits The Floor - Chapter 401

In the end though, the worst part was that this was a poison from the abyss and so his poison resistance did basically nothing. Jason had guessed this sort of thing would happen and could only be thankful that the harness Lily was in blocked out the poison. While the poison itself might not have been exquisite quality and the Dretches were a much lower level than him, it was made to work against their fellow demons.

Not only did this mean that it was made right off the bat to work on le...

[NR] Trash Poison Yet It Works - Chapter 400

At this point, Jason could tell the fight wasn’t going to be too much of a challenge. Sure, there was a good number of the Dretches running

At this point, Jason could tell the fight wasn’t going to be too much of a challenge. Sure, there was a good number of the Dretches running around, but they were all lower level than him and the Quasits weren’t exactly leading them. So instead, he decided to focus on something besides making this an efficient fight.

The Quasits could die...

[D'sP] That Level - Chapter 218

Well, Doyle was going to let it grind away in the background. That, technically still was the case. The only special thing of note is that on the fourth harvest, two things happened. Over to the side where Doyle was keeping a screen, the level of wheat ticked up by one. Compared to accidentally raising sugar’s level by six, a single level doesn’t feel like all that much, but it proved the concept even if it was going to be a slow one. After all, it took what would for a farmer be three gr...

[NR] Not A Swarm - Chapter 399

The five Quasits and 19 Dretches all charge at Jason now that they can see him. Strange how appearing in the middle of an opaque cloud wasn’t the most tactically sound decision. Anyway, Jason wasn’t going to let their all out charge get the drop on him. He flexes his legs and Energy empowers him as he takes a flying leap.

Below him, the Dretches collide with each other as Jason reaches out with his Energy and pulls himself further through the air to get that last bit of distance. He...

[NR] Annoying Contingency - Chapter 398

Messages delivered and having reached a new city, Jason was in a good position. Except for one little detail. In all of the questioning and the various methods the city had used to confirm his words, they of course tripped a few wards and the cult found out about it. Now, the city wasn’t going to face any major backlash from that besides what was already going to happen.

The diviners, scryers, and the various arcanists who took a look aren’t going to have any problems either. After ...

[D'sP] Farmer Doyle - Chapter 217

Ally laughs after she thinks of something, ‘Besides not wanting a clone army because your enemy might figure out how to hit them all with the same spell, there are a few other fun little quirks that can pop up if you try it. The most common one being that a hivemind forms. This is especially likely if you have certain clones with more smarts so they can be a leader. Galactic empires, no, not the one you're thinking of, have fallen to this as their entire armed force turns on them.

‘...

[D'sP] You're Still Connected - Chapter 216

Doyle knocked on Ally’s door and once he was invited in he noticed that she was watching the town’s construction team. ‘What are they up to?’

Ally shrugs, ‘Not much, honestly. They’re just interesting because of the differences. I’ve always lived in a place soaked in magic. To build a house you don’t cut the wood with an axe, you shape it with magic or just grow a tree into the right shape to start with. About the only thing that needs to be created with tools is stuff m...

[NR] No One Wants To Be In Charge - Chapter 397

Jason was worried about the effects of actually killing one of the cultists, but on the other hand, it was inevitable. Still, after another day, it becomes obvious that finding the cultist so close to the road wasn’t by chance. Whatever was going down, was now fully in force.

Over the past week, he had been warning any place he had met along the way, but now that wasn’t necessary. They bloody well knew there was a demon cult because they were fighting it. That or already dead.

[NR] Ambushed At Dawn Over And Over - Chapter 396

The first night didn’t have anything setting off his alarm. Same for the second night, it was only on the third that it proved its worth. Jason’s string and bells system never made a single sound. A reasonable enough thing when facing a sapient threat. Sure, he blacked the bells and so on, which made them harder to find. That was a laugh and a half against anyone who isn’t fresh off the training field, basically only good against animals.

That alarm ritual, on the other hand, was ...

[D'sP] Filling A Room With Sugar - Chapter 215

Enlightened, Doyle turns to something else. The numerous teams flooding into his dungeon. His first and second floors are always filled at this point except during the deepest hours of the night. Beyond that, the third, fourth, and even the boss floor will generally have people kicking about for at least half the day. In an almost ironic turn, of all his early floors it is the third that tends to see the least amount of activity as the main reward there is the ore and the town clears that out...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for June 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.

• Paladin of Rot - All gods have a light side and a dark side, but none are as honest about their darkness as the god of Rot, Decay, and Plague.  He has very few worshippers other than the occasional brewer or cheese maker. Certainly none who understands his proper place in the...
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[NR] Oh Hey, A New Star - Chapter 395

As Jason spends the rest of the day moving towards his first few places to check on, he turns his attention to something important to him that had gotten lost in the shuffle. Why had he been able to run for so long and what did he get for it? First stop was of course his character sheet.

{Basic Info

Name: Jason

Level: 15 - 72.35%

Legal Status: Player

Title: Core Genius

Normal Stats

• Strength 69 ( 68[Base] + 1[Ascendance] )
<...
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[NR] Calico Catkin Captain - Chapter 394

Jason and the calico catkin captain left the vault only to be greeted by plumes of smoke off in the distance. The captain cringes but after staring at the smoke for a bit longer relaxes, though she still looks stressed. “Those should be the cities you already pointed out to use as being taken. I’m guessing they had someone that detected our scrying and so aren’t wasting magic on keeping things hidden. That or they just summoned their marilith.”

Jason, feeling a bit awkward, “U...

[D'sP] THE Hallway - Chapter 214

New monsters figured out, Doyle turns to designing his ninth floor. Not that there is much to design. He plans to take Ally’s offhand comment about how he can’t just have one long hallway and run with it. Not a straight hallway, though, rather a slightly curved to the left hallway.

Doyle doesn’t have a particular reason for the direction, but the fact it curves is so adventurers can’t see straight to the end in case of things like a line-of-sight teleportation ability. That or t...

[D'sP] Bigger Floors And More Plants - Chapter 213

Doyle watched Jim and his team leave, feeling quite disappointed that he would have to wait for the zero g room’s test. Though he can’t fault their decision on the matter. This was doubly so when viewed from his end, as he knew there were six mages waiting for them in the room. A fact that might be a wee bit hard for their current equipment and might hold them up some.

On the other hand, it had been long enough that he could get working on a new floor. Which would make him feel all ...

[NR] From A Snake With Arms - Chapter 393

After a few minutes of walking, Jason and the calico catkin make it to the army’s treasure vault. Sure, it probably had some official name that isn’t so blatant, but when you have a place under so many enchantments, rituals, and so on, there are only so many things it could be.

Guarding the door to the vault is an older lady wearing a crisp military uniform and not at all shy about letting people feel how powerful she is. Because while most people can understand the meme of having s...

[NR] Would Have Preferred The Stronger Demon - Chapter 392

After reaching the army compound, the calico whispered a few codewords to the guard. This got things moving quickly and the two were soon led deep into the compound.

Jason soon found himself in a very generic meeting room. He would have been willing to believe this was some business’ room irl if the chairs weren’t made of wood. Though the line up of people waiting for them would have tipped him off to the real situation.

From left to right around a long rectangle table there w...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for June 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] Paradoxical Luck

I was born with zero luck. I’m not being facetious with that statement either. For some of you, someone being born with a literal goose egg in their luck stat is a myth. After all, it would take a preposterous amount of bad luck to manage that.

Being born nets you a luck score between three and 18 barring a few modifiers which most people won’t ever have to deal with. However, those modifiers can go from a total of plus three to minus three and allow for an actual range of between z...

[D'sP] Something Breaks - Chapter 212

Jim and his team are a little irritated at the invisible maze from the last room but that quickly falls away when they see the next room. Jim slowly spins around to check if he missed something, but nothing has changed. The entire room was empty, the only thing out of place was a set of stairs that was hanging down from a hole on the other side of the room. Maybe if the stairs had been a rope ladder, the hanging adjective wouldn’t be so bad. Instead, it was just a short section of a stairca...

[NR] Losing Something On The Run - Chapter 391

Seeing a Quasit caused Jason to feel the need to bring news of this problem grow ever more urgent. At least if it had been imps it would mean a devil was likely being summoned. Sure, Devils are just as evil as anything else out there, but compared to demons like the Quasit, they are much preferred. While devil summoning on this scale tends to almost always succeed because of their planning ability, that means they do have a plan.

Sometimes they don’t even stick around. Instead, they g...

[NR] Destroyed Caravans and a Burning Village - Chapter 390

Of course, as Jason had started the cult quest even if not officially accepting a literal quest, the System felt perfectly fine throwing everything related at him. Sure, on a normal day across a stretch of road like this, you might run into a bandit group, maybe two. After the first though, he had run across two other similar sized groups and likely had one or two lone bandits who, despite the System urging them decided to not attack.

This should not be happening. Not only from the pers...

[D'sP] Fragile Kobolds - Chapter 211

The grassen goat cavalry charges at the group with the kobolds brandishing their spears. Except instead of clashing with the party, they all go to the left of the group and get a few strikes in. Then they continue onward in retreat, crossing into the square behind the group before swinging to the left and vanishing into another space.

Zach points towards the ground, “Look, the checkerboard pattern is broken there.”

Jim nods, “And back that way the same thing happens. If I ha...

[D'sP] Invisible Corners - Chapter 210

Doyle nods, ‘Well, that’s nice. Now, I did ask for it to some extent, but how does this help me?’

Ally smiles, ‘It doesn’t, at least not directly. You have already gone down the path of an even build to some extent. However, it does teach an important aspect about the stats. They aren’t some simple thing but rather concepts.

‘No, let me say that correctly. They are Concepts, with a capital C! And each of them has the capability to show many different aspects with onl...

[NR] The System Messes With Villians - Chapter 389

Jason frowns as he shakes his head, “System, show me my level.”

{Level: 14 - 97.51%}

Jason rolls his eyes and sighs. He really needs to start fighting higher level enemies. While he doesn’t mind the slow grind as his stats are being perfected, but eventually he will have to hit the bottleneck. This would preferably happen close to when he gets to his destination.

Curiosity satisfied, Jason turns to a much grimmer task. Up till now, he had been fighting monsters and so ...

[NR] Preventing Escape - Chapter 388

The small-time bandit boss is less than pleased and more than just a bit shocked as Jason approaches him through the flurry of attacks. Not liking what he is seeing, the boss fumbles with his spear to set it against Jason’s approach. A little too late, though.

Jason is soon out of range of the two attackers as they helplessly continue onward because of their momentum and inability to handle the speed. Now through, Jason suddenly bursts forward, each step covering more ground than the ...

[D'sP] Ally Lets Doyle Figure Stuff Out - Chapter 209

Back with Jim, Jay, and Susan; they have managed to take down another axebeak. This leaves three of them, one with a kobold. Those three take a lot more effort to kill than expected as the kobold does a decent job of running defense for them. Though in the end there is only so much defense a spear can do and Jim manages to pick the birds off one by one as the others keep the birds in place.

With the floor clear of enemies, the party regroups around Doctor and Sammy. Doctor looks up from...

[NR] Maybe Let Him Answer - Chapter 387

Next morning bright and early, Jason goes out to find a decent hot meal. He isn’t the worst cook, but the fact he hasn’t gotten a skill for it says something. Of course, life isn’t easy and so during his search something else comes to his attention. Mainly that a few of the people who were in the shop when he sold the axolotl skin now seemed interested in what he was doing.

Not that Jason let this development stop him from enjoying his breakfast. It might not have been “fine cui...