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[NR] Peter Argues With the System - Chapter 195

Next day the group eats their breakfast with the sunrise. Once finished they leave the inn to find Peter waiting there for them. He has a set of leather armor on that is dyed green with darker speckles and on his back a chocolatey brown backpack. The pack is obviously empty and has been tied down to his back so it doesn’t flop around. On his head is perched a jaunty little hat in the style of a bycocket, though most would recognize it as robin hood’s hat. Though instead of gr...

[NR] Strings Within Strings - Chapter 194

Pest removal finished, Jason lays down on his bed and logs out. Back in his room, he crawls out of his pod and stretches not only his limbs but his awareness. All around the apartment not a single particle of corruption. Whatever has shielded his house still stands, and if his guess about his cultivation being the cause, it should keep going.

With a groan, Jason sets an alarm and goes to the kitchen. He might have just eaten in game but his pod must not have fed him yet. He...

[D'sP] He Has a Reason - Chapter 64

With all the attention turned towards Jim, Og Pwner, and Susan the others get another chance to play with the battlefield. Kelly and Kellinger nod to one another and smirk. With the kobold ice mage flailing around on the floor, it freed them up from counterspell duty so they whispered to Sammy their plan.

Kelly starts it off with a cloud of fiery motes that descend on the enemies. Normally not too damaging of a spell there are certain conditions currently that change that. Specifically ...

[D'sP] Leave the Goat Alone - Chapter 63

Jim, Sammy, Susan, Kelly, Kellinger, and Og stand in front of the dungeon portal. Ace and his team had just come out not a half hour ago and briefed them on what to expect. Though Jim was taking it all with a grain of salt. Whether the others noticed, he had. The dungeon changed quickly. Maybe for the people who dived it regularly it was gradual, but the early floor might as well be completely different now. With that in mind the only thing Jim trusts is the actual layout details.

Still...

[NR] Pest Removal - Chapter 193

Up in the inn room, Jason stretches out and yawns. After so many days in the wilderness, the group can finally have a good night’s rest. Sure, in reality they probably should still have someone stand watch. On the other hand, none of them can be bothered. Even if they do get killed their respawn point would be the inn. The only thing that would stop that is if the inn gets destroyed and at that point them staying up likely wouldn’t have done anything.

For Jason, a good ...

[NR] Peter Figures He Would Drop In - Chapter 192

Peter and the group arrive at the general store. While Courtney haggles over the vendor trash the rest of them take a look around the store with Peter as their guide. Nothing too shocking, though much of the food available differs from their starting kingdom. Back there the people had a lot of rice, but it was more based on spicing the rice while it cooked. Over here while rice was a common dish it seems to be served plain with heavily sauced vegetables or meat.

As they fal...

[D'sP] Nice Goat - Chapter 62

After Jeremy catches his breath he gets up only to see a goat munching on some grass off to the side. He freezes, but the goat ignores his presence. After a few minutes Jeremy steps back and goes into a defensive stance, but still the goat ignores him. He creeps toward the goat only to be ignored even harder. Eventually he even gets so close that he pokes it. All the goat does is give him a side eye before going back to munching on the grass.

Jeremy is tempted to shrug and go away, but ...

[NR] No, I Don't Want to do Alchemy - Chapter 191

Courtney nods and swings her backpack off onto the ground. “Now I won’t be bringing out the biggest item. Jason over there. Oh right introductions, the human is named Jason if I didn’t clue you into that. My name is Courtney and the rabbitkin goes by Rosha. Anyway, as I was saying Jason has a set of armor in his pack. We picked it up off of a wight. Good quality undead gear which we should probably wait for an auction house or a collector though it is local so you would...

[NR] My Name is George - Chapter 190

The tauren steps forward, “Welcome to our outpost. Normally we wouldn’t come out and greet visitors like this. However, you just came out of Forester’s Folly and there have been no reports of adventurers entering it from our side that match your group. If you wouldn’t mind telling us your reason for being here? I know it isn’t likely that you all came from the racist kingdom, but crazier things have happened.”

The group looks at one another. They hadn’t exactl...

[D'sP] Climbing the Cliff - Chapter 61

Then a fountain of blood appears in the kobold’s back row. The healer now dead stays upright only through the efforts of the vines now wrapping him up. Behind him stands Jeremy, though not for long as he quickly dashes towards one of the other mages and goes for a repeat performance.

Now alerted to his presence the kobold mage throws up an ice wall but on such short notice Jeremy barely has to exert himself to crash through. Thus another mage dies under his blade.Though the other one ...

[D'sP] Half the Final Encounter - Chapter 60

The group gathers on the wood platform right at the room’s entrance and they take a better look around. A couple stories below them is the room's floor and directly in front of them is a number of small trees which peak just under the platform. To their left is an overgrown forest with trees that touch the ceiling and are close enough that you could touch two at once without stretching too far.

As the others take this all in Jeremy only has eyes for the back of the room. Now with a be...

[NR] Elven Earings - Chapter 189

Finished with the moose, the group as one turns towards Lily. Courtney is the first to broach the subject. “So I don’t really want to bet on luck with this. She clearly was able to pinpoint where the core was even if we want to ignore her ability to shred through stone.”

Lily just sits there and stares up with her head tilted to the side. Jason picks her up and sighs, “she probably has some form of mystic sight ability. We already know she really enjoys eating speci...

[NR] Not in a Ring but a Balloon - Chapter 188

 The stone moose lets out a bellow, but the sound is cut off halfway through as the perfectly chiseled hide cracks open. Chunks of stone are blasted off as Jason throws in a follow up punch and the rest of the moose crumbles away. Jason takes a step back and looks at the pile of rubble. It isn’t hard for him to spot the core and he plucks it out of the stones.

He turns to the group and lifts it up. “Moose is dead.”

A distance away, Rosha steps out from behind a tree and...

[D'sP] Should We Turn Back - Chapter 59

Ace claps his hands, “Well I think we can move on now!”

Tess shakes her head and laughs, “not before we harvest our rewards. You talked about them tasting like chicken. But going by the size of that drumstick, I think they might be more like those novelty turkey legs you get at a ren faire.”

Jeremy has for the most part ignored the others once he was certain Ace was fine and had gone down to check on the next room. Seeing that the others are as ready as they could be expec...

[NR] Lily Helps - Chapter 187

Jason doesn’t get much of a chance to say anything else as the stone moose mechanically charges at him once more.

Off behind a nearby tree Courtney drops the night sky shadow around her one hand and sighs. “I have to agree with you. The illusion I was going to use won’t be of much use so wait a moment while I prepare another. Can’t cloud a mind when there isn’t one there in the first place. Though my other might not be of much use either. Golems are known for bein...

[NR] Magic Swords Generally Not Magic - Chapter 186

Jason sighs, “fair enough. Though I do have to question why they use magic for the defense. You would think that at the very least they would diversify.”

Courtney shrugs, “it’s the cheapest. While Qi formations can do just about anything that Magic’s enchantments can, the requirements are different. They can set formations up on just about anything but requires you plan it out and is more rigid. That means once you set up a formation on a castle, to expand it at a...

[D'sP] Derp Goes the Axebeak - Chapter 58

Ace calls a stop for a moment to let Bill catch his breath. As they wait, Jeremy saunters over to the room's exit and takes a peek through it. “Huh, there is a short hallway and it looks like a handful of goats are grazing in the next room. Though I can’t see all the room as there looks to be a pile of boulders splitting up the room. With how many ambushes we have experienced I would bet there is more behind the rocks.”

“Also, there are a few rabbits nibbling the clover and I th...

[D'sP] How to Leave the Dungeon - Chapter 57

Knocked away from his spell, Ace’s vine field fades away and releases not only the kobold leader but the four goats as well. His vines did enough though and the rest of the party is ready. Bill and Tess have backed up to guard Ruby and Jeremy has met up with Jack to press the offensive.

Then the kobold leader throws the group for a loop. She points at Jack and shouts an unintelligible hiss. This causes all the goats and the two melee kobolds to focus on him and attack.

Jeremy co...

[NR] Free Lily - Chapter 185

As Jason pries open the pulsating organ the contained gloopy black crawls out of the opening. Free of the sack, it snaps onto the three nearest skeletons and bubbles out with a loud crack. The bones of those skeletons turn a couple of shades darker and start to shake viciously. However before anything too serious can happen the goop runs out and the bones settle back onto the pile. The only reaction from the nearby slugs is that the closest one moves over and slurps on one of the...

[NR] Violently Neutral - Chapter 184

Lily picks herself up from the roots of the tree she just slammed into and jumps out of the way of another charge. The changed redeath rose slug bashes the tree but doesn’t seem fazed by it and continues its rage filled assault. A few quick hops gets Lily the distance she needs to stabilize even though the slug doesn’t let up on the attack.

Another charge from the slug and Lily is backed up against a tree but this time she planned it that way. A quick hop up and she sla...

[D'sP] The Start of Ace's Dive - Chapter 56

Ace lets out a long-suffering sigh and shakes his head at Kellinger’s answer. “Whatever, as long as your secrets aren’t a threat to our settlement. Anyway, I see one of the toadies that popped up like toadstools after we settled down. Likely they want my opinion on some unnecessary nonsense. Gods, I hope they all leave. I know some amount of paperwork is needed to keep a place like this running but they take it too far and want me to praise them for it.”

“Far as I am concerned...

[NR] Charging Slug - Chapter 183

Injured the redeath rose slug shudders, shaking the petals of its body. A sound like metal leaves can be heard and all the petals that make up the slug’s body shift around. While it becomes a fraction smaller, the wound has vanished as if it was never there. Off to the side, Jason is biting his lip while holding in his desire to shout out advice. The System doesn’t care if all he provides is a little advice, but if judged to have planned out too much of the fight it won’t w...

[NR] Slug Hug - Chapter 182

Next day the group takes the short hike back to the undead escape point and follows the obvious tracks. For the first half of the day not much happens, but right after lunch they come across their first undead. A dead undead, mind you, but still enough to prove they are going the right way. That and the redead rose slug on it was of a higher level than a newborn, so their theory on that wasn’t too far off either.

Less than a mile and a number of dead skeletons later has t...

[D'sP] Yes, You Can Leave Jan - Chapter 55

After more time than Ace would have preferred, Ruby speaks up. “I know we talked about this when the whole aura thing came out at first but this feels like taking it too far. I thought the oaths would be something limited to those who would train in the aura and not much else. This whole second-class citizen thing rubs me the wrong way.”

Jack nods, “what’s next? Do we enslave the people who don’t agree with us or something? I know that is taking it a bit far, but things can st...

[D'sP] The Other Founders - Chapter 54

No one in the settlement had seen when, but at some point Jim had strolled right up to the opening left in the dirt wall. He glances around and nods, “decent enough defense for most things. Most things.” He sighs and shakes his head before walking in. One of the guards moves up to stop Jim, but another grabs them.

Jim continues to stroll through the settlement, glancing around. There aren’t any wood buildings yet, but the earth mages had been working overtime. Not only had they ma...

[NR] Signs of the Undead - Chapter 181

The next handful of days pass in a similar fashion. This includes Jason logging out to cultivate and check on the situation with the corrupting energy. After the fourth night though, Jason gives up on figuring it out. Whatever the reason is, his house is now being avoided by the muck. His only remaining worry is if there is someone out there tracking the energy flows. If there is, then the house now sticks out like a sore thumb.

In game the group has almost thrown up their ...

[NR] Debating about the Undead - Chapter 180

Jason wakes up in game just in time to take over Courtney and decant his oil. Because he wasn’t like a locust upon the land, there was less today. Enough though that the jar was filled to his satisfaction. If anything, his previous night’s harvest would have overfilled it. That finished there isn’t anything left to do, so he settles down to watch and the night passes peacefully.

Next day the group gathers around the campfire and despite Rosha’s protest they talk abo...

[D'sP] They Noticed - Chapter 53

They both sit there in silence for a moment. Then Ally claps her hands, ‘enough of that! I have some paths to invest in! [System, put nine points into true dungeon companion two, ten points into scryer, and 22 into dungeon fae legacy.]’

{9 points applied to True Dungeon Companion II...

5/10 - You have earned +3 to each soul stat and +1/Level to each soul stat

10/10 - Path complete, You have earned +2 Intelligence, +1 to each soul stat, and +1 Constitution/Level; Gained S...

[NR] Shaped like the Magnetosphere - Chapter 179

Jason shrugs, “so we won’t know what will happen till it happens. Better to just avoid turning into an undead if at all possible. Though I guess it is lucky that ghouls depend on a poison to change others instead of a curse or some such. But that does put a focus on being prepared. I am up for spending a week or so distilling the stuff as long as the supply lasts. Though I am not too sure about making any more than that. The oil could be worth a lot, but since it is so basic ...

[NR] Not a Secret Recipe - Chapter 178

Courtney nods, “Now the question is, do we want more of that oil?”

Jason shrugs, “This amount should last us a couple fights if we need it. However the jar is half full so I could spend another night filling it and we should be good for a while. Of course we don’t know how much it is worth in the next city so any excess we make is betting on it being worth something.”

Rosha takes a last look at the description before closing it. “It should be worth somethi...