Hey y'all!
Just wanted to post a quick reminder that we're 32 chapters ahead of RR release! That means everything up to chapter 110 is now available!
https://www.snowingpine.com/fiction/11/the-system-seas-pirate-litrpg-progression
Cheers,
RC
2025-10-01 13:23:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Hey guys! A few days ago you probably noticed the announcement I made regarding the patreon tiers, and Snowingpine.
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2025-09-13 01:47:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Riv’s shovel finally clanged against something harder than dirt after hours of digging. He ditched the shovel, crouched lower into the hole, and brushed dirt away with his hand until the top of a stone pillar revealed itself. It was smooth, almost polished, and black in a way only the temple-related rock ever was.
Marco jumped down into the hole and knelt beside his quartermaster. A prickle ran across his skin.
“This is it,” he said quietly. “Do it.”
"Dig it up?" 2025-09-07 18:22:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! RC here,
A couple of days ago I finally stopped writing for a moment, and sat down to properly organize the patreon stuff I have been somewhat neglecting. That includes properly locking content, since until now, $3 patrons had access to the full 32 chapter backlog, which was of course not intended. This has now been fixed! I know some of you may be bummed, but that was how it was originally supposed to be set up. I guess, consider your experience until now a short-term hug...
Marco started his explanation slowly, intending to hold back some of the more sensitive details of the adventure. Soon, he decided that didn't matter. Activating Captain's Cry just to be sure, he verified the village wasn't under any kind of spell that made it seem something it wasn't before dumping as much information on the older logger as he could handle.
When Youff pressed, Marco told him everything about the illusion temple. He described the black stone, the enemies, and every sing...
2025-09-06 17:52:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Marco wasn’t sure if the system had saved him or if he had just won that roll of the dice, but either way he was still standing. That counted. It counted double, he found, when his friends turned out to be okay too.
Boots clattered up from below decks. Elisa emerged first, her hands still crackling with electricity and ready for anything. Aethe came after her, bow still in hand, scanning the deck for more threats and looking legitimately surprised not to find any. Riv lumbered out las...
2025-09-05 18:01:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Any further agreement or disagreements Aethe might have expressed were drowned out in a sudden chain-reaction explosion of smoke and fire that swept the entire upper deck of the enemy ship. It was a huge craft, truly, and wouldn't have been something they could have normally boarded from the top. One power made all the difference here.
It didn't have a name, but the ability they had received from the fishmen put a little bit of extra oomph in any attempt they made to board another ship....
2025-09-04 17:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The words sank in quickly. The glint of sun off far‑off sails was too steady, too wide, and too purposeful to be anything but a warship heading directly towards them. It had swagger. Marco generally liked swagger but had found it was much worse when the confidence was aimed directly at him. He would have much preferred a worried gait, a sort of cautious approach that showed his opponent had heard about The Foolish Endeavor crew and was reluctant to tie up with them.
This ship...
2025-09-03 17:09:14 +0000 UTC View Post
“I guess that explains the claws,” Marco said. “I thought for sure this thing would give us more.”
“Shh,” Elisa said. “It still might. Give it time.”
The floor shifted in color slightly a moment later, then shot out a single beam of light that connected with Marco’s forehead. He tried to twist out of the way but found that he couldn’t dodge it. That turned out to be a non-issue as the next notification popped up in his field of view.
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2025-09-02 15:39:13 +0000 UTC View Post
They were about a half mile down the tunnel when Aethe noticed the first problem.
"The staircase is gone. I guess that's to be expected," she said.
"Great," Elisa said. "I'll start drawing a map. If this isn't an enchanted labyrinth, I'll eat my hat."
Her map was doomed to stay simple for a long time. After an hour of walking, the hallway had yet to deviate from its course at all, moving forward in a perfect rectangle with no variance from how it had been at the start. Only ...
2025-09-01 19:21:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The mosquitoes weren’t monstrous, not in the way of system-spawned horrors or the thumb-sized mutant bloodsuckers Marco had sometimes teased Elisa about, but each insect was nearly double the size of what they were used to. Once it started, their droning hum never ceased, and no matter how many they slapped, more replaced them. Elisa cursed, Riv swore, and Aethe merely gritted her teeth and kept walking.
“They’re not dangerous,” Elisa confirmed after squashing one flat on her ar...
2025-08-31 20:42:51 +0000 UTC View Post
They spent an hour in the log storage building, going over details. By the end of it, they were all more or less on the same page.
"You need wood. I can handle that." Zia held up his hand as the other big man started to raise some sort of objection. "I'll make sure the village gets paid now. This is my private stock. That big tree, from a few years back."
The other man whistled. "You folks have no idea what you are getting there. Well, fine. I'll make sure they get some metal for ...
2025-08-30 19:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Currents of the Doomed
On your ship, this skill allows for the expenditure of magic power to hinder the movement of an enemy ship, either in terms of its intended course corrections, its speed, or both. The effects are larger or smaller based on both your power and the ability of the enemy ship to resist them.
When used on foot, Currents of the Doomed acts as a guided debuff, allowing you to slightly alter the course of enemy blows, slow enemy steps, o...
2025-08-29 20:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Marco got better than he expected. As instructed, Elisa and the others were using the good ammo, and the first salvo covered the deck of the enemy ship with fire and smoke, obscuring the small ship’s vision just enough for it to miss a low, submerged sheet of wood that looked like it might have once been an entire dock. The smallest ship of the enemy fleet hung up on it, spinning in a wild dance until it finally broke free and pointed straight up the side of the whirlpool, an angle it could...
2025-08-28 19:49:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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Spiritual Parasite (Undefined, Water-Influenced)
Many things exist in this world. Of those, a good portion are things created by the system. Some, however, are not. Most of these are descendants of beings otherwise designed by the system but that have long since changed to be something different. Others are not even that.
This animal, if you would call it that, is the result of a person’s experiment gone wrong. Its origins are a mix of normal spiritu...
2025-08-27 20:08:29 +0000 UTC View Post
“Something’s happening,” Aethe called from the front of the boat. Normally she'd be perched on it, but today she was kneeling on the deck boards, holding tight to either rail. “There are bubbles. Turn hard port.”
Marco pulled with all his weight, swinging the wheel until the rudder felt like it would rip loose. The Foolish Endeavor heaved, pulling just far enough to the side to avoid all but the edge of what looked like the roof of an entire house surfacing all at onc...
2025-08-26 20:34:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Two days in, Elisa’s math had saved them a hundred times. She not only had entries for each ship in the water with them, but she had also given them names. She knew what they were capable of, speedwise, at least from what they’d shown so far. In fact, she had an educated guess for how fast each of them could be if they really pushed things, saving them where otherwise they would have been caught and dismantled by the enemy fleet.
Math could only describe reality. It couldn’t reall...
2025-08-25 20:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“Elisa! High arc!” Marco yelled. “Put one on the deck!” Elisa yipped in joy as she realized what was being asked of her. The next cannonball
“Elisa! High arc!” Marco yelled. “Put one on the deck!”
Elisa yipped in joy as she realized what was being asked of her. The next cannonball she sent up drew a steep parabola that only traveled several yards horizontally, just enough for it to drop between two cannons and set that entire part of the deck ablaze. Two small expl...
2025-08-24 22:04:59 +0000 UTC View Post
It was about what he had expected, if not that Aethe would get the boon this time. That was a new aspect of his skill, as far as he knew. Th
It was about what he had expected, if not that Aethe would get the boon this time. That was a new aspect of his skill, as far as he knew. There were other windows popping up that might explain it, but he had no time for them. The few remaining crews on the island outside of his own were recovering, and he had no idea what to expect from them.
“Wow.” Elisa faltered for a moment, then caught herself. “That packs a punch. I’m not terrified, but I’d hate to see what that would do if t
“Wow.” Elisa faltered for a moment, then caught herself. “That packs a punch. I’m not terrified, but I’d hate to see what that would do if the ship wasn’t filtering it.”
“It’s magical?”
“More like amplified.” She held up her magic notebook. “This is treating it like an attack. It’s basically a blast...
2025-08-22 23:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The four of them made their way back toward the town square, the illusion around them becoming more apparent as there were more buildings an
The four of them made their way back toward the town square, the illusion around them becoming more apparent as there were more buildings and stands to take in. By the time they reached the fountain at the center, the sounds of daily life had returned. Vendors were hawking their wares. The scent of fresh bread baking hit them, not as delicious seem...
2025-08-21 19:03:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Riv smiled and hefted his club. He took his job seriously and didn't seem to subscribe to a philosophy that allowed for much delay. With a b
Riv smiled and hefted his club. He took his job seriously and didn't seem to subscribe to a philosophy that allowed for much delay. With a blaze of golden glory brighter than any Marco had seen before from any source at all, he lit up the entire cave for a split second as he swung his club at a big slab of rock jutting out of the cave floor.
...
2025-08-20 19:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Marco and Riv were eventually able to pry the reluctant Scholar-Scout duo from their seats and to force them to gear up. They squeezed every
Marco and Riv were eventually able to pry the reluctant Scholar-Scout duo from their seats and to force them to gear up. They squeezed every bit of overdramatic juice they could from the situation, trudging behind Marco and Riv like captured prisoners of war, complaining between themselves with every step.
Marco made the internal decision not...
2025-08-19 20:38:44 +0000 UTC View Post
“Camping?” Elisa said as soon as they left Quill’s big manor. “Really, Marco? We have a very nice hotel with very good food and you want to
“Camping?” Elisa said as soon as they left Quill’s big manor. “Really, Marco? We have a very nice hotel with very good food and you want to force me to go camping?”
“I’m with Elisa. This is bad boyfriend work, I think. I don’t really know, but it seems like it,” Aethe added.
“Now, now,” Riv said. “The town...
2025-08-19 20:37:58 +0000 UTC View Post
They split briefly to chat with the few people they knew. Everyone returned with the same basic story. The townsfolk remembered seeing them
They split briefly to chat with the few people they knew. Everyone returned with the same basic story. The townsfolk remembered seeing them just days ago. Nothing unusual had happened while they were gone. Yet no one seemed to notice the shift that was so obvious to the crew.
“You know what?” Riv suddenly said, as they hunkered around a ha...
2025-08-19 20:37:26 +0000 UTC View Post
They left the conversation there, letting the wind and The Foolish Endeavor’s sails take over. By the next morning, the sails were full, the
They left the conversation there, letting the wind and The Foolish Endeavor’s sails take over. By the next morning, the sails were full, the prow angled toward Quillton, and the thought of a solid dock under their feet was enough to put a faint grin on everyone’s face. Marco looked forward to a moment of dry land, even if that dry la...
2025-08-19 20:36:51 +0000 UTC View Post
“It's been a day,” Elisa said. "I've been keeping track. It's only been a day." "How is that possible?" To Marco, it had been as a week. The
“It's been a day,” Elisa said. "I've been keeping track. It's only been a day."
"How is that possible?" To Marco, it had been as a week. The island had been getting better and better at its job, showing them worse and worse things. It went from finding existing fears, like Riv's dreams about the undead trying to drown him, to making n...
2025-08-16 01:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
<+ Springboard You have destroyed a large group of fishmen, and as such have absorbed some of their ability to quickly enter a fight thro
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Springboard
You have destroyed a large group of fishmen, and as such have absorbed some of their ability to quickly enter a fight through the air. When you will it, exiting your ship towards some external target will come with a boost to speed, momentum, and travel distance that will allow you to hit harder and mo...
2025-08-14 21:13:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Quill spread his clawed fingers again. “Possibly. Possibly not. That’s the problem. No one’s seen the culprit clearly. Whatever it is, it’s
Quill spread his clawed fingers again. “Possibly. Possibly not. That’s the problem. No one’s seen the culprit clearly. Whatever it is, it’s fast and smart enough to keep its distance until it strikes.”
Aethe glanced at Marco. “That’s not nothing.”
“No, and we don't know if it will attack us,” Marco added. “H...
2025-08-13 19:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Sure,” Marco said. “Let’s go.” The two brothers led the way without further comment, their boots steady on the worn cobblestone paths that
“Sure,” Marco said. “Let’s go.”
The two brothers led the way without further comment, their boots steady on the worn cobblestone paths that wound away from the busier part of the town. The road soon left the bustle of the docks and the market, stretching into quieter lanes where houses grew farther apart. There was more gra...
2025-08-12 20:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post