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[D'sP] What Type are You? - Chapter 8

Doyle mentally shrugs and thinks [show dungeon type options]. This is enough for the system and a gigantic screen with a scrollbar appears. They both look it over, but 99 percent of the options are grayed out. Options like Dragon Bone Mountain and Sun Orbital. All of them have various requirements which lock them off. Such things as already having the bones of a dragon large enough to be a mountain or your starting location being in close orbit to a sun. With this amount of nonsense Ally sugg...

[NR] Monkey on Its Back - Chapter 133

Up in the tree Rosha pulls a piercing arrow from her quiver and draws the bow back. Ready she waits for the right shot and Jason plans to give it to her. He approaches the mossram and punches over and over to keep the monster focused on him. This might not do much damage but the monster doesn’t like it either.

It catches Jason by surprise and smacks him away. The mossram had been on its back but that is apparently a meaningless distinction as the legs just bend down and p...

[NR] Violet Mass - Chapter 132

Jason holds up his hand with three fingers out, two, one. On both sides of the mossram the group stabs their weapons into it and run towards its back. Jason is able to open up a couple of shallow slashes down its side.  Effective but Rosha is better. Her long staff blade is able to sink into the monster and cause a long-lasting cut. She even manages to half cut through the back leg.

Above them though Courtney does the most. While her claws are the shortest weapon, she ...

[D'sP] Dungeon's Tutorial - Chapter 7

Zela flies behind Doyle. There is a stone statue replica of her on a marble pedestal. She lands on the pedestal and continues, ‘This wasn’t here a moment ago. In fact, it did not exist at all. While I am not a dungeon core myself by being a companion to Flisle, I can tap into some of the abilities, including this most iconic of traits. Dungeons are an eternal spring of loot and that all comes from their ability to turn energy into material.’

‘What better way to get rid of the pu...

[NR] No Actual Rams Involved - Chapter 131

The day dawned bright and early with a surprise for the party as they are woken by a commotion. The tribe’s scouts had spotted a mossram which despite the name had nothing to do with rams. Rather it was a giant mound of moss that would ram things. But yeah, it had crawled into a nearby pound and the tribe wanted to know if they would be willing to take care of the mossram. The pond is out of the way for them and they would prefer they killed it before the monster reproduces. Wh...

[NR] Folk on the Edge - Chapter 130

Night drags by as Jason worries over Lilly. For the first half nothing seems to change, but as midnight passes a puff of black smoke rolls off of her and she settles down into a fitful sleep. By morning, only the most immaterial of black wisps still come off of her. To Jason she seems to sleep much more peacefully.

Breakfast is tense but they need to continue onward. To stay in the clearing would be asking for trouble. There was no attacks last night but with the praying ma...

[D'sP] Wait, Your Not Insane? - Chapter 6

As Doyle is about to lose consciousness one last thought passes through his mind, “why does this hurt when being atomized didn’t?”

An indeterminate amount of time later Doyle comes to. All he can see is darkness and when he goes to stretch, he can’t feel his legs or arms. This of course freaks him out and he would have flailed about if not for the aforementioned lack of limbs.

His state of panic lasts until he can remember what had been happening. Others might have fallen ...

[NR] Lily's Problem - Chapter 129

It is only a couple hours past noon but both Rosha and Jason decide they need to set up camp. With much pain Lily seems to be in neither of them want to stress her anymore. Courtney wanted to move somewhere without a corpse in it. Not that she bothers to mention this as it is clear they’d have overruled her. In the end she rationalizes the giant mantis should be the apex predator in the area so the corpse might keep other animals away.

While the two worry over Lily Courtn...

[NR] Mantis in the Trees - Chapter 128

Morning dawns and Rosha wakes Jason and Courtney up for breakfast. She isn’t the best at cooking but was able to throw together some soup. Easy enough with what they had left over from last night’s meat plus beans and a couple herbs that were around their campsite. The mint wasn’t the best choice but it woke everyone up the rest of the way and they could set off bright and early.

As the day goes on the land, they travel through changes. It goes from plains of grass to...

[D'sP] A Giant Ritual Circle - Chapter 5

Doyle just stands there for a moment after the dungeon core, Flisle, finishes his rant. He rubs the back of his neck, “So you’re asking if I want to become a dungeon? That actually sounds interesting enough and I never went out much anyway. Sure, I can go along with your plan. Admittedly, I should think it over more. This is a big choice after all.”

Zela looks away awkwardly while Flisle laughs, “You think you have a choice? Your choice was whether to accept me as your tutorial ...

[NR] Ritual in the Dirt - Chapter 127

Dinner has finished and the group discuss the watch schedule. Jason volunteers for the mid-shift as the interrupted sleep won’t negatively affect him. The other two are fine with that but have a problem with their own shifts. Mostly because neither have much of a preference as long as they don’t need to do the mid-shift. In the end they go with two out of three at rock paper scissors with the winner taking first shift. Rosha starts strong and beats Courtney’s paper with her...

[NR] Road Quality - Chapter 126

As luck would have it there were no other guests at the inn so our group was able to relax overnight. Rosha and Courtney decided to just sleep through the night while Jason had other plans. Cultivation was cultivation, whether it was in game or out of game so he had decided to split the night up. For the first hour and a half he cultivated as normal though without his planter out. That would have just been tempting fate to bring out here.

When that time is up an alarm he se...

[D'sP] Meeting the Boss - Chapter 4

Doyle falls and falls and falls. Above, he can hear the passage grinding shut behind him. After what feels like hours but was probably minutes, a light becomes visible beneath him. This dot grows larger and within moments he is through. It is now visible to him that what he was on before was another much larger floating island. Off in the misty distance there are other massive islands floating. Though at this point he is tempted to call them continents. Below him is a void he can not see even...

[NR] Boopable Snoot - Chapter 124

Jason looks around sheepishly, “Uh, I actually thought of something while you explained that all. Just need to nip back over to the guild because I have someone to add to the party.” 

Courtney looks at him with an eyebrow raised, “and when were you planning on telling us this? Besides that who is it in the first place. We haven’t seen you with anyone while you were here and while you can remove someone without them around the same isn’t true for joining a par...

[NR] Setting the Split - Chapter 125

The main roads were safe this close to towns. Not that there weren’t bandits and beasts. Rather, they focused on the larger caravans and to attack small groups would alert their real prey. This made for an uneventful start to the trip and provided Jason enough time to check his wealth and companion pages.

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[D'sP] His Soul has WiFi Turned Off - Chapter 3

Doyle and the Dwarf called Mud both stand there for a few moments. Then Mud slaps Doyle on the shoulder and laughs. “Congratulations! You didn’t die a single time there. I was expecting her to do you in at least once to get the point across. Anyway, she left basically everything for me to explain. However to start we might as well familiarize yourself with your status. Just say the word status with the intent to view your status or you can try to say it in your head. That works too, but w...

[NR] Courtney Explains - Chapter 123

Courtney slow blinks, “You both do realize NeoRealm is more important than irl at this point right? This isn’t someplace you can go into blind! And you” she points at Jason, “are doing some strange weapon nonsense so of all the people you should have looked into it at least a little. NeoRealm gold is the backbone of all other money at this point.”

Rosha opens her mouth but freezes for a moment before closing it again. She glances at Jason and he shrugs back. More ...

[NR] Graded Daggers - Chapter 122

Early next morning Jason, Rosha, and Courtney meet up at the Adventurers Guild. The building is crowded and they almost despair at the lines. Even though there is a desk set aside for non-quest related help the wait still takes what seems like forever. Once the team gets to the desk even more troubles pop up. It was simple to add Courtney to the team but removing James was an annoyance. Not hard to do, just a lot of paperwork. If he had been there to agree with the removal, it wo...

[D'sP] Just Like Community Service - Chapter 2

Doyle Huxley wakes up to screaming. The confusing part for him is that one scream sounds like him, but he can’t feel himself screaming. Then he wishes it had stayed that way. His senses return to him and the pain of a throat torn up by what must have been hours of terror filled screams bashes into his mind. This puts him under once again.

Next time he wakes up there are fewer voices screaming but whether that is from them stopping or just losing their voices is up in the air. Then the...

[NR] Talk of Kitsune and Spells - Chapter 121

Rosha tilts her head, “are they real kitsune? I thought most of the magical sentient creatures like that are more one off type things. Like how there are dragons. They aren’t a race so much as there being a dragon connected to a specific volcano with each having its own unique thing going on. Sure there are enough partial dragons living out there but the actual thing is more singular.”

Courtney shrugs, “that’s mostly true. The biggest difference comes from the myt...

[NR] Lets Go Thataway - Chapter 120

After Jason’s declaration Courtney can only shake her head, “Fine, whatever. Stick around if you want. Just remember she was my friend first.” She then grabs Rosha and forces her to sit back down at the table.

With a slight blush from that small kerfuffle Rosha gestures for Jason to join them. He sits down and they start to hash out their plans for the future. Though inevitably James is the first thing that comes up. Jason starts the conversation off with how he hasn�...

[Dungeon's Path] So the World Ended - Chapter 1

So the world ended. Whoopsie? We didn’t even see it coming. Quite literally as it came at us faster than the speed of light. Don’t worry though, it got better. Also, I am not joking about the world ending. Most people say that and mean humans are inconvenienced for some reason. Nope, all matter disintegrated at the atomic scale there for a few moments. Apparently the local universe was...

So I've accidentally started writing a third book

Before I knew it I was 5 chapters into it. Going to start releasing chapters for it on Fridays to all patrons and once I have a nice backlog there will probably be a tier for it specifically or some such. In this case a 'nice' backlog can be taken to mean around 21 chapters. The plan is to flood RoyalRoad and ScribbleHub with releases for a weekish to attract attention to it in those places then settle into a weekly release schedule.

As for what this new book is about? Well the name is ...

[NR] Who's Your Daddy - Chapter 119

Jason wakes up in the wagon with only a few minutes before they reach his goal. Important as this was an actual city and they wouldn’t have let him in without going through the gate check. He highly suspected the goblin lady would have him thrown on the side of the road if he couldn’t disembark under his own power.

As the caravan slows to a stop at an area set aside for such things Jason stands up and stretches. A glance to his shoulder and Lily is giving him the stink ...

[NR] Grain by Grain - Chapter 118

Jason stands in front of his house as the cart drives away. He had planned to go right back into NeoRealm but a quick check of the time shows that there are still a few days left to the trip. With a sigh, he sets an alarm to tell him when he has half an hour irl left then sets up a trip to one of the secondary parks. With a beep that almost seems irritated the cart he had been riding turns around and comes back.

Another peaceful ride later and Jason is dropped off at a smal...

Working on a NeoRealm Cover [WIP]

Don't worry about the background color. That was just to provide me some contrast to just it by. Anyway I am trying to do the scene when Jason chokes the Panther thing out. Very WIP at the moment. I haven't added the extra joints to the arms and of course I need details in general but this should get the point across.. Opinions are very welcome as it can still change completely. Do you have a better idea for what the cover should be?

[NR] Golf Cart Ride - Chapter 117

Time passes as Jason surfs the web. The benefits of reaching level ten in NeoRealm are sort of ridiculous. If from a nation’s standpoint reaching a certain age was adulthood, then level ten was NeoRealm’s version of it. Which with how the internet works now was basically reaching the age of majority on the web as well. Jason can only shake his head at how pervasive the game is. Even in his old life cultivation wasn’t the end all be all. Wizards, artificers, and alchemists t...

[NR] You're Forgiven* - Chapter 116

Jason stretches as he steps out of the VR capsule and grumbles to himself. “So this is the legendary gnawing hunger you get after a long stay in VR. The capsule might keep you fed but it isn’t putting anything in your stomach. It might keep everyone thin but goodness gracious, this is the first time I have felt real hunger in this life. I have a better understanding of why all the adults were so irritable during the yearly mandated week of no VR. Even if you are used to eatin...

[NR] John's Journal - Chapter 115

“John”

Today was going to be a normal day of turning down newbies who thought I was just another skill trainer. Oh, how happy I am to be proven wrong though. A trio came into the hall and caused a bit of a stir. The girl had one of those legacy weapons that the travellers show up with occasionally. An impractical affair combining a bow, staff, daggers, and doubled bladed spear. Of course it works just fine and with System rewards viable. Be a problem to...

[NR] Fern and a Tree - Chapter 114

Fern

Jason has visited Plants Unlimited and we find Fern sitting at a small desk. The room she is in has dirt walls and the floor is solid rock. On the table sits a small tree with leaves of amber and a deep golden bark. You would almost mistake it for a normal bonsai tree if you didn’t look under the table. Underneath it can be seen that the tree isn’t on the table. Rather it has grown through the table with a root piercing down into the floor below, c...