09/09/2024 Edit: Author's Note: The poll has been decided. The schedule is Monday - Wednesday - Friday from now on. Next chapter on Wednesday!
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Arthur walked out of the church alone. Itela still had a lot of work to do, most of it aimed at a very-young, very terrified cleric who was getting one-on-one tutelage from what, to her, was a living legend of priest-work. He left them to it, watching Itela go into business-mode, and relieved that ...
2024-08-21 17:12:44 +0000 UTC
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A few boring, normal days passed. Walls got taller. Houses were built. People arrived. And an ever increasing amount of food was ordered in.
“It’s more of an innovation than I thought it would be.” Spiky was pointing at various visual aids on the giant piece of paper he had brought for the presentation. “It’s not that people aren’t still cooking. They are. And it’s not that they still aren’t coming to the plaza to eat. They still are. In fact, the total amount of money s...
2024-08-20 16:25:29 +0000 UTC
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Hey guys! Sorry for the late chapter.
A small but important announcement today and a poll too.
Writing Demon World Boba Shop has been great. It’s just the relief a lot of us need and as the author, it’s been just as heart warming to see all of your comments. Unfortunately, as I’m learning now, cozy books are really easy to start and really hard to maintain. Book 2 was harder to write than book 1, book 3 harder than book 2, and book 5 (the one I’m working on right now) has ...
2024-08-19 16:53:40 +0000 UTC
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The weather broke a few hours before midnight. As everyone else picked up their things, stole leftovers, and made their way home, Arthur lifted up Lily and carried her to her little place down the road. Of all the houses in town, Lily’s was the simplest that Arthur had seen. She had a small living area, a bedroom, a bathroom, and a few rooms meant to be used for storage that were still mostly empty besides a few boxes. Outside of those unused rooms, it reminded Arthur of a small apartment b...
2024-08-18 17:54:06 +0000 UTC
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Edit Note: Correct chapter now posted! Thought I copied the correct chapter text, did not.
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This one is a bit late, but here is your 500 rating milestone chapter. Another 70ish of them and you will get another~
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How this wor...
2024-08-18 02:46:14 +0000 UTC
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“You are a good father-thing.” Mizu patted Arthur’s arm. “Maybe the best one.”
“Maybe the only one. Now,” Arthur motioned at the plates, “are you ready for this?”
“Sure.” Mizu nodded and Arthur swept the clothes off the top of the plates. Mizu’s eyes went wide as the surprise was revealed, and her breath caught momentarily in her throat.
Mizu’s snacks for picnics and similar one-on-one moments she planned for Arthur ranged from full, complex dinners...
2024-08-17 17:47:16 +0000 UTC
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EDIT 30/08/2024: Double chapter day today for White Tea Patrons!
Chapter 2 / 2
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“Under my reign, steel would gleam brightly in the sun, warning away any beasts or monsters who might seek to harm our people. The streets themselves would flow with molten iron, available for any demon to dip and mold as they might like.” Milo was stomping around the stage like a maniac, doing a good job of cheering the audience up. “And also, I’d in...
2024-08-16 14:09:56 +0000 UTC
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EDIT 30/08/2024: Double chapter day today for White Tea Patrons!
Chapter 1 / 2
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In the meantime, the system was trying to brew her own tea.
Of course, for someone like the system, an action like brewing tea had to go through several levels of abstraction to make sense. She didn’t exactly exist in the same way her children did, or interact with the universe in the same way. When she did something like baking a loaf of bread, it wa...
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Arthur found the invention surprisingly endearing. That didn’t stop him from trying to poke holes in Milo’s logic though.
“What if the cart goes to your house and you don’t send it back? It’s out of commission?” Arthur asked.
“It is, but the next request pulls a reserve cart. It’s quite the thing,” Milo answered.
“And you can do all that with clockwork? I don’t believe it.”
“That’s great. You’ll be that much more shocked when it works.” ...
2024-08-15 12:36:15 +0000 UTC
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On paper, Milo and Rhodia had two houses. In reality, they were both using Rhodia’s place for house-purposes.
Where Milo had just picked the first piece of land he walked into after they laid out the plots, Rhodia found a better piece of land with a nicer view. Where Milo had built little more than a bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and smith’s shop for his place, Rhodia had laid out her house with more rooms than she needed to start, and built with an eye for later additions. And where M...
2024-08-13 21:47:21 +0000 UTC
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“Lily.” Arthur had not reacted when his favorite owl approached, but that didn’t mean he wasn’t aware of it. “What evil have you allowed to fester in my absence?”
“The signs?” Lily asked. “I like them. Mine’s over there.”
Arthur craned his neck slowly to observe this new horror, finding a sign with a finger-painting of Lily’s puffy form and the words “Vote Lily! She’s younger than you!” in big, blocky letters.
“It’s… Lily, yo...
2024-08-13 21:46:31 +0000 UTC
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“You really didn’t know? We’ve been dating for weeks,” Kout asked.
“But I haven’t even seen you two together,” Arthur said, trying to defend himself. Kout was apparently involved with one of the nicer stamper women, a large turtle demon who Arthur had talked to once or twice and found very pleasant. “Not once. You’ve never come to the shop together or anything.”
“Oh. I guess that’s true. She came with me on my rounds once or twice and I’ve hung out while ...
2024-08-13 21:45:51 +0000 UTC
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“Kout, I wanted to ask for a favor,” Arthur said.
“For you? Probably. Anything besides my foraging shoes.” Kout noticed Arthur smirking and looked down at his shoes. “Wait, what are those?”
“These? Just something I had Rebes throw together. You like them?” Arthur asked.
“I love them. Not exactly what I need for my job, since I wade so much.” Rebes lifted his pants legs to reveal boots that extended halfway up his calf, with a more sealed-up design than Ar...
2024-08-13 21:44:59 +0000 UTC
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That night, Arthur did something he knew was a good idea but rarely got around to actually doing. He pulled out a pad and paper and tried to put a bit of structure behind the idea of improving his menu. As he sat down at the desk in his house, he realized with a sort of subtle shame that it was the first time he had ever actually used his very nice desk for its actual, explicit purpose. He wasn’t, in the end, the bookiest of demons, and to the extent he worked with words, it was usually on ...
2024-08-13 21:43:25 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Arthur sat Lily down and cooked some eggs and sausages he had in his cold box, letting the oil from the former mix in with the latter until he had a couple piles of heavy, meaty goodness for their breakfast. Cutting some bread and pouring some tea, he sat down to eat and take his first good look at the town’s first gazette.
Election Candidates Revealed! The First Edition of the Coldbrook Murmur Reveals All About Your Candidates for Mayor!
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2024-08-13 21:42:41 +0000 UTC
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Patreon Changes (23/08/2024): Green Tea Patrons now read 25 chapters ahead!
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“You saw this, right?” Lily knocked on Arthur’s door early the next morning, gripping a piece of paper gingerly. “It’s pretty good. It has all the candidates on it and everything. And a bunch of comments about you. What did you do to this guy?”
“What?” Arthur took the piece of paper and read over everything. “Oh, Sett. I just him yesterday.”
“Oh, I get...
2024-08-13 21:41:07 +0000 UTC
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“So are you running?” Arthur dished up Lith’s drink, which was a sleepy-time tea despite it being the early morning. Lith’s work hours tended to swing wildly depending on what he was hunting, and the influx of beasts coming back after the monster wave meant he was taking a few night shifts to bring in the game. “You would probably do well with the hunter and warrior classes, right?”
“I always forget you are an offworlder.” Lith sipped his drink. “Well, no, I don’t. B...
2024-08-13 21:38:15 +0000 UTC
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2024-08-13 01:50:02 +0000 UTC
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The road clean-up continued on. The competition the next day wasn’t as fierce, but casting it as a town-versus-town battle for road-clearing superiority continued to make the work go just a little faster than it otherwise would have. By the time they were done, the rocks were fully moved off the road, then carted in appropriate numbers to where they’d serve as salvage for the newer, thicker walls Karra intended to put up.
She was planning for rammed earth walls, essentially two full...
2024-08-12 00:31:44 +0000 UTC
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“Arthur! Over here!” Zelk’s smaller companion waved Arthur over. “The name is Crue, by the way. And this is a lot of rock to pick up. Are you sure your town isn’t called Rocktown? Or stoneplace?”
“We needed every bit of it for the walls. I wish we had twice this much,” Arthur said.
“Well, we’ll get it moved. What do you think of my crew so far?” He motioned at his crew, by which he appeared to mean the entirety of Peaktown. “Satisfied?”
“Very.”<...
2024-08-11 01:14:19 +0000 UTC
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“Don’t bruise that.” Rebes was circling around a couple heavy-hided monsters nervously. “Do you have any idea what that is?”
“No,” Arthur said, gently lowering the monster onto the pile where they were sorting the leather-based monsters. “What is it?”
“It’s belts, Arthur. Belts that repel water. That never break. That never stain.”
“That sounds like all your stuff.”
“Yes, but this self-fits. If you put it on a clip, you can just thread it ...
2024-08-10 03:06:45 +0000 UTC
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The party continued all day. Whatever must-do work people had to finish before letting off steam was more or less complete by evening, which meant the plaza was packed until some of the cooks got wise and carried their gear up the cliffside staircase for a bigger space and better view.
Out in the town, people played games. Arthur joined in as best he could, doing acceptably well in a crafters-only game of handball before settling in and watching the combat classes play the adult, full c...
2024-08-09 02:25:47 +0000 UTC
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Arthur woke up with Mizu already gone. That was sad in a way but happy in others. For one, he didn’t have to figure out the delicate balance of leaving while she was still asleep, or finding a way to get comfortable without waking her up. Those were both things Mizu didn’t care about, outside of using them to make gentle fun of Arthur and only then because she could tell he really did care a lot about them. But it was nice to not have to think about them this morning.
The happiest w...
2024-08-06 22:13:43 +0000 UTC
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“Arthur, decision time.” Onna heard the cheer and was on top of the wall so fast Arthur suspected she had Karbo-jumped to the top. “Are we still retreating? The safe bet is to run. There are hundreds of monsters out there. Maybe thousands. If we’re caught when the wall goes down, it’ll be bad.”
“And how much time does the wall have left?”
“Minutes,” Karra said. “Or more. It’s impossible to say right now.”
Arthur stared down at the monsters. There we...
2024-08-06 08:25:43 +0000 UTC
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With his limited fishing-combat resources expended, Skal led Arthur away from the doomed wall to their last intact layer of defense. The second wall fell much like the first one did, causing widespread destruction and an empty gulf in the battlefield that was filled in almost immediately by the monster wave. There was still no end in sight.
Arthur would have almost given up his new boots for a clear slight-line to the end of the wave. Almost. He remembered what Mizu had said and wriggle...
2024-08-04 15:41:43 +0000 UTC
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The wall did not last much longer but it did last almost to the end of Arthur’s shift. The people threw rocks and shot arrows as best they could, but the blocked stabbing-holes and used traps meant that there just wasn’t much more they could do to keep the monsters from carving away at the wall.
It wouldn’t have even lasted as long as it did if it wasn’t for the fact that some monsters tried to climb the wall itself to attack the defenders. That meant the monsters were split, wi...
2024-08-03 22:55:26 +0000 UTC
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The wall was still there the next day.
Arthur wasn’t surprised that it was, considering people with a better eye for structures than him had told him it would be. But he became much, much more perplexed on the how of its continued existence once he climbed the ladder to his post, distributed his tea, and finally peaked his head over the wall to take a look
“How? There’s… nothing there. It’s like it’s standing on a toothpick at this point.” Arthur goggle...
2024-08-02 20:08:09 +0000 UTC
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Even with everything that people were doing, the monster wave was getting closer. The better climbers climbed over the worse ones, who were generally bigger, stronger, and slower builds. Arthur could see a mass of smaller, faster enemies on top of the whole shape, just about ready to leap out and get back to terrorizing the town.
But before they could do that, the monsters in the chute slipped down even further.
“The trick is carving the bottom of the tunnel in a V shape, like t...
2024-07-31 13:38:29 +0000 UTC
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