Hours later, Sean was prowling the woods by himself looking for a suitable test subject. On his arm was the single ugliest object he had ever made. Hell, it might have been the least attractive piece of gear he had ever seen. People who made stuff generally liked to make them well. It was legitimately hard to find an ugly racket, for instance, or a truly bad-looking sword.
This shield was different. It was a big, uneven disk of relatively tightly woven plastic netting, several inches th...
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“Not a bad spread, really. Is going all in on MAG really a good idea? You’ve tested it?”
“Sort of. Every long shot I’ve pulled off has been because I could do weird shit with Hard Time. If I’m going to take down guys like Breca, I don’t think it’s going to be in conventional ways.”
Brett considered this carefully.
“I guess that’s true. Whatever swordsman class he has is probably a good one, maybe a rare one. You can’t fight a great convention...
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Hi everyone!
So first, merry late Christmas / early New Years.
Unfortunately, the festivities have also impacted us in our regular release schedule of How to Survive at the End of the World. We'll be slowing down for the rest of this year (5 days) and get back to our regular schedule starting in the new year.
To compensate, we'll be releasing multiple audio chapters over the next few days.
Cheers,
Dotblue
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Magic being what it was, Sean was prepared when the enchantment spruced up the table, closed up holes, and repaired dents in the table-top from its various battlefield experiences. He was also prepared for the bit where the table righted itself, glowed for a bit, and generally made a big show of being a special magic table.
He was less prepared for what happened next. The table’s self-repair and enhancement lasted about five seconds, and dulled gradually as the work finished....
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I don’t care who you are, what your skill set is, or how many survival shows you watched before TV stopped being a thing, you can’t make everything you need alone. If we were just talking about core items your class needs to run, it might be a different story. I’ve seen bomb girls who can make bombs and arrow guys who can make arrows and bows.
But where are you going to get your food? Your body might work a bit differently now, you aren’t going to starve as quick, a...
2023-12-24 19:48:40 +0000 UTC
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The question of sleep is a big one. Some high-VIT builds have skills that let them go absurd amounts of time without rest of any kind, but even they need to rest at some point. The rest of us might see slight reductions in sleep needs, but for the most part, we are in the same loop we always were.
We need a place to lay down, close our eyes, and be totally defenseless for hours on end. We need warmth, dark, and some kind of surface that doesn’t actively hurt. But most of ...
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Huh. But it is headed for the apple, right? Sean had an idea about that. Springing forward, he gave the Tell a stab in the neck for good measure as he eyeballed the steep, downward angle the arrow was descending on. Then, he aligned his body just right, trying his hardest to keep the Tell occupied with the stabbing to not disturb his angle.
The arrow sliced through the apple cleanly, but Sean was right. It was tracking the apple, not him, and after it passed through the shiny r...
2023-12-22 19:31:24 +0000 UTC
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Tyr: Did you think that was the end? Nope! Book 2 starts now!~ :>
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In my book, the biggest scam the Apocalypse System ever pulled was what it did with the plants. Not the monster plants that move, fight and that grant experience when you slay them. And not the very, very many plants it left completely unchanged. I’m talking about Apocalypse Plants, which I hate.
There are, in the world, perfectly normal-looking pine trees that have sap s...
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If you count the three novels that make up Deadworld Isekai at the moment, this is my fourth completed novel in about five months. There are some who would call that too much writing. I’m trying to think of it, as much as I can, as practice. I have some thoughts on that, but before I can explain them, I’m going to talk about bass guitar for a bit. Stick with me. I swear there’s a point.
The first artistic thing I ever really tried to do and stuck to for any amount of time was play...
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“Holy shit. Holy shit.” Sean sat heaving on the ground, still barely believing he had made it. “How did that actually work? Like actually how?”
“I was thinking sort of the same thing.” Estesia dropped from a nearby wall down to where Sean was still laying on the ground. “A week ago, I was watching you get curb stomped by the little ones. Shit like this doesn’t happen around here very often.”
“Does it happen anywhere?”
“You hear stories. Everyone says ...
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Halfway through the Kaijupiter’s stride, the poison started taking effect. A creeping blackness laced by flashes of fire, lightning, and various other elements Sean couldn’t detect flowed through its veins and arteries, spreading as far up as its ankle and all the way down to its big toe.
The Kaiju roared, and turned to Sean mid-stride.
Shit. It knows it was me.
Without stopping, the Jupiter generated a truly massive bolt of lightning and chucked it offhand. If ...
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That slight reduction in speed turned out to be more than enough to flip the script. Where Sean had been vulnerable to tackles and shoulder-hits before, he could now get out of the way before they landed. This meant he had more time to attack with the Zeus-teeth and the poison’s qualitative effect on the fight was becoming more and more apparent.
By the time Sean was almost out of jaws to fight with, the rabbit was barely moving. But barely still meant moving some, and Sean was thorou...
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One of the glutton rabbits was chewing on a fallen Zeus, hungrily gulping down whatever parts that it could break off with its sharp little nibbling teeth. And then, in an act of horror Sean would never forgive the system for, it split. In a bloody, tearing sort of multicellular mitosis, the rabbit used the energy it had gotten from the food to rip itself in half, magically filling in the missing pieces to create two complete, if slightly smaller, rabbits.
Rabbit Gl...
2023-12-17 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Recovering the Trash Compactor and the darts that had been embedded in Zeus skulls, Sean sat down and tried to rest as best he could. Stitch Up was working its hardest to put him fully back together by the time the crack showed activity again, but it was slow-going. At least, he thought, his bones were all in the right place. He was getting pretty used to being in a lot of pain, but broken bones brought a certain reality of lost leverage and poor structural integrity that co...
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The good news about crack challenges is that you don’t have to worry about them. Every now and again, someone reaches some magic threshold and starts a challenge and all hell breaks loose, but it’s their hell. It’s designed for them, it’s focused on them, and when they win or die, it dissipates like it never happened.
They usually die, if you were wondering.
Even if you attack the enemies that come out of the crack, they will flat-out ignore you. As n...
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Faced with Eike’s threat, Sean very badly wanted to throw back some sarcasm. He wanted to tell this arrogant, goal-oriented motherhumper exactly where he could stick his plans, and exactly how far in he should delve while doing so. In the moment, he wanted nothing more than to get kawaii as fuck with the bastard. But there were just a couple of problems with that.
Leading the pack was that Sean had long since kept a philosophy about picking fights. He wasn’t exactly a pacifist even ...
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Breca sneered in disgust as Sean chucked a dart as hard and fast as his STR and DEX would allow. Besides trying to center it on the offworlder, Sean didn’t spend much energy or focus aiming it at any vital point. He doubted he could actually hit Breca with it. If he could dodge one of Breca’s bolts when his opponent was a full ranged class with corresponding projectile skills, there wasn’t much of a chance he’d be able to hit Breca with his cobbled together ranged capabilities. Breca...
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Chaotic Alloy Weapon Enhancement
The Junkyard Goliath was a life form made from a little of everything. It spent most of its time resting, ordered its underlings to rearrange the objects that made up its being, and condensed the essence of being sort of a lot of things down to a pinpoint concept.
The Chaotic Alloy Weapon Enhancement repurposed that energy down to an enhancement to change a single weapon or weapon comp...
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The night was darker than Sean remembered. As he picked his way across the garbage that now filled a good portion of the crater outside his bunker, Sean realized why. The Rathound set, starter equipment that it was, had an attribute that improved his vision in low-light environments. Now that was gone.
Like a lot of good things, night-sight was the kind of thing you didn’t really think about until it was gone, and you found yourself stepping squarely on a monster slime. With the moon ...
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So this is my ticket in? This is how they make it fair?”
The decision was harder than Sean was willing to admit. He had no real way of knowing how strong the front-runners in this competition were, but they had to be stronger than him. He had had... What? A week? That wasn’t enough to catch up, no matter what he killed. But he still had skills he hadn’t even had a chance to use, much less to master. This could give him a better chance to join the ranks of the best.
Not-Jeff ...
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