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[NR] Simplify It - Chapter 691

The day passes slowly for Jason. The two hadn’t lied, most of what Helina wanted them to do came down to physical labor. No actual need to think about things. That doesn’t mean it rested his mind. Still, Jason did this to himself and so he doesn’t complain.

And of course, no matter how much time dragged on for him, night eventually arrived. So after scarfing down a quick dinner, Jason flops onto his bed and goes to sleep.

Only to wake up a few hours later.

Mind you, he...

[NR] No Sleep - Chapter 690

Back in his room, Jason settles in for a long night. He was going to “fix” the title “Civilization’s Defender”. To warp things to fit his own view of civilization. After all, [Civilization] is one of his concepts.

Thinking back on the title, there are two parts that needed to change. Easiest is the whole concept of a “frontier”. If Jason was honest, the wording wasn’t bad. “When defending others in an area recognized as a frontier zone” says it all. The title is mean...

Author's Note: Changes to the Greatwyrm Tier

I have changed the Greatwyrm tier into a limited slot tier that allows someone to commission an extra 2k chapter every month. This is not a cheap tier, but it isn't limited to getting more chapters of existing stories. You can also use it to commission an entirely new story. The specifics of this are in the tier's text, but generally think along the lines of the conditions already on the monthly short story prompts. Also, for longer stories, just assume the limit is 6 chapters until you actua...

[Closed] Collecting Short Story Prompts for April 2025

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:

[Short Story] Dungeon To The Moon

“Why?!”, a man raves as he walks down a busy road. “I did the training! I did the work! I qualify! They aren’t even canceling the moon mission. They just aren’t allowing ME to go on it!”

Despite how busy the road is, the man is making good time. Though that has more to do with the fact people are avoiding him.

“Obsessed? Of course I am!”, the gesticulates widely, arms thrown in up the air. A nearby lady backs up even further.

“We’re all obsessed! Somethin...

[SD:FS] Squirrels - Chapter 9

After that fun interaction with the antfolk, Gem continues to wander down the row of carriages. On occasion, stopping to observe whatever ca

After that fun interaction with the antfolk, Gem continues to wander down the row of carriages. On occasion, stopping to observe whatever catches their interest. Though as far as they’re concerned, the caravan is ready much too soon and so they make their way back to Merchant Silverwhiskers’ carriage.

Gem, “I’m back!”

Merchant...

[D'sP] To The Wall - Chapter 436

Trap after trap is disarmed, one at a time. Progress is made, one patrol after another. Ruby looks at one of the group’s maps of the floor.

She sighs, “I think we’re about halfway to the lake at this point. None of the previous delves has taken this long to get this far.”

Jim shrugs, “And none of the previous delves bothered with actually clearing a path. Since we plan to go all the way, it is better to keep our retreat open. We don’t know how powerful things get.” 2025-03-28 09:33:11 +0000 UTC View Post

[D'sP] Already Jacking Alcohol - Chapter 435

Doctor finishes a check up on the rest of the party and nods. “We’re all fully rested, healed, and good to go!”

Jim nods, “Good to know.” He turns to the group, “Now, we know what comes of pushing too hard! This is not a situation where we have to push all the way to the end, no matter how much we advertised our delve. I am willing to cancel the delve at a moment’s notice.

“However, we will be trying to clear the floor. There is a kobold variant that is new to us, ...

[NR] Abhorrent Slayer - Chapter 689

{

Abhorrent Slayer - Having slayed those from outside reality, you are now better prepared to recognize and fight such threats in the future

}

Jason resisted snorting. Not that the concept of “abhorrent” beings was a complete fabrication by the System to target those from outside of System space. Though this title is certainly aimed at those sorts. It likely wouldn’t even care about the intent of those from outside of the System.

Actual abhorrents as Jason unders...

[NR] Oh, That's A Bit Of Gold - Chapter 688

Cleaning up after the last fight took the town multiple days. And while the end of the siege meant an end to the barrier, opening up the town to outside help. Which in theory should have helped. It didn’t.

Once people got word out that the barrier was down, random gawkers showed up to bumble around. Oh sure, an official from the kingdom arrived on the wings of a teleportation spell. This isn’t the first Deep Wilds border settlement to break out of the event, but it is the first to f...

[SD:FS] The Secret About The Beds - Chapter 8

Calling what June saw in front of her “just an inn” did a disservice to the establishment. Now, the locals weren’t as keen on tall buildings as people were irl and so it wasn’t too tall. Only four stories with an unknown number of basements.

Those four stories spread out over multiple blocks as one continuous building. Oh sure, it wasn’t a literal solid block of architecture, but it was all connected with skyways and what not. Just enough so that they could see the numerous pa...

[D'sP] Purposefully Bad Buffs Banned - Chapter 434

And time passes. Ace and Jim have their hands full, leaving Doyle with little to do. Well, except question his devotion to not expanding until they’ve seen his core once again. In the end, and after a few long chats with Ally, he does decide to stick with his decision.

But now it seems things are coming to a head. It was super clear by now that the two teams had been holding back. They kept clearing up to the first lake. Oh, and Ally had heard them talk about how they were cataloging ...

[NR] Now I'm Next To You - Chapter 687

Out on the wall, Siegfried is in the middle of a massive fight facing the strongest undead in the field. There are others close to it, but nothing quite matches the Leng ghast he is fighting. It was honestly a bad matchup for him as the ghast was a caster.

Not that Siegfried couldn’t fight a caster, but on a chaotic battlefield where he had to avoid his allies and his enemy didn’t have to worry about it? Well, that added a bunch of nasty twists to the fight. Twists which are tying h...

[NR] Pulled Around - Chapter 686

Courtney notices the wisps in the surrounding area seem to be disturbed and turns around. There was something coming?

Then, through the spectral fog that had covered the area that spiritual cloud monster had passed through, out hopped Lily. “Huh”, Courtney poked Rosha, “Look who just showed up.”

Rosha turns around and is shocked silent.

Courtney nods, “Yeah, not everyday you see a tiny rabbit headbutt ghosts.”

Rosha shakes her head, “Jason got his fight.�...

[SD:FS] The Theme Is "Cat" - Chapter 7

The caravan makes it to the city and everyone splits off to do their own thing. And being a city, especially one so close to a starter town, it has most of what the four want. In particular, June has a time of it. She heads to the adventurers guild first as they have an information desk.

June, “Hello, I’m looking to expand my pool of spells. Where should I head for that?”

The receptionist narrows his eyes, which isn’t the easiest thing for a spiderfolk to do as not all of ...

[D'sP] Fox Vs Fox - Chapter 433

Then Doyle had the new fox fight one of the old foxes. The results were...

Disappointing.

Doyle turns to Ally, ‘So uh, why’d it die so quickly? For a monster that costs more to summon, it sucked.’

Ally smiled, ‘If anything, I think it did quite well!’

Doyle tilted forward and dimmed, ‘What’s the trick?’

Ally, ‘The trick is you’ve had those other foxes training their skills to the point of being the best they can be. I won’t say your new fox ...

[D'sP] Pattern Update - Chapter 432

The one thing the mage tower was having a hard time getting info on was enchanting. In theory, it wasn’t an advanced study. Just about anyone could do enchanting. You know, except for requiring masterworks to enchant.

A developed world wouldn’t have a problem with this. After all, dungeon loot counts as masterwork. Need to learn to enchant a dagger? Go to a dungeon town and grab a few out of the discount bin.

After all, the local crafters can make better gear than early floor ...

Reminder To Anyone Using The Patreon App On An Apple Device: Don't Make Purchases On The App

Just got the warning reminder email from Patreon themselves. If you subscribe or purchase a shop item using the Patreon app from the Apple app store, Apple's 30% app store fee will now be included. I do not see that money and all you have to do to avoid paying 30% more is to go through a web browser. That is a little tedious if you're an app user, but you only have to do it when handling the subscription and purchasing side of things. As long as you are a patron, you can view the content howe...

[NR] Spiritual Cloud - Chapter 685

Outside of the bunker, the defenders have their own problems. A cloud of spirits is attacking them. It isn’t a swarm or anything, rather more of a single entity constructed from an amalgamation of spiritual shards.

The cloud doesn’t even have that much of a mind. Or rather, it has too many minds, all fighting themselves. This was less of a monster and more of a natural disaster, with the defenders being like a pillar of sandbags trying to hold back a flood. They’re managing it, bu...

[NR] Undead Bug - Chapter 684

Fourth break undead don’t end up joining the fight until the fourth day after the town brings out their own. Though most of the strategists agreed, this wasn’t from a lack of ability. Rather, they were held back until a decent number of them could be fielded. After all, no use sending a single fourth break out when the enemy has many of them waiting.

And with the introduction of fourth break undead, everything changed. While you can get lower break undead with magical abilities, tru...

[SD:FS] The Noble Isn't Leaving - Chapter 6

Of course, as Merchant Silverwhiskers cared about being on time at all, they were nowhere near the last to be ready. That honor fell upon Se’llium and his fancy carriage. Which, despite the group’s prejudice against him, wasn’t actually his fault. The guards messed something up on their end and so held the carriage up while they got the intake report from the previous day.

This didn’t last too long though, and the caravan was once again on the road. Except on this leg for the jo...

[D'sP] Plant Growth - Chapter 431

Doyle stared down at a fox. ‘Huh.’

The fox is using the now familiar Wind Blade and Extend Edge skill combo, but there is something different. Though not in the way he wants. Somehow, this fox managed to also extend the blade. It was at the cost of the two skills separating at the physical level.

Days later, another fox shows an interesting result. This one even has a difference that at least didn’t go in the wrong direction. Except, the shape of the blade became low poly, l...

[NR] Different Paradigm - Chapter 683

Helina smirks, “It is simple enough. Even when we had other travellers, they were all third break. And now? It’s just you three. So, the System isn’t going to keep this farce going once undead you aren’t supposed to be able to face show up. We’ll have a few days to prove we can handle the mess, but that will be it. Two days of testing and then a third day where they throw a sixth break at us for my brother to fight.”

Courtney frowns, “I don’t like the picture you’re pa...

[NR] Piercing Knowledge - Chapter 682

Siegfried is about to go on some more, but Jason looks run down, “You know what? How about you go get some rest?”

Jason laughs, “I wouldn’t say no to that! Just make sure Courtney knows what is up and I’ll be fine. Anyway, I forgot to check my status before going out there, so I’m going to sort through that mess.”

Siegfried laughs, “Boy! I miss when my status would change often enough to worry about that. If I check mine once a year, that is almost more than I need...

[Closed] Deciding the Short Story Prompt for March 2025

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.

• Rocket Engineer - A Rocket Engineer who was not chosen to become an astronaut is reincarnated as a dungeon master/core. He does not follow the rules and limitations imposed on the dungeon and starts his space program to become the first on the moon.

• Groc...

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