Douglas Miller

MiP Chapter 4: Magic

Carlos tried to assess the girl he'd been directed to as he approached her. She had short hair of a light brown or perhaps very dark blond color, and a thin build with almost spindly arms. She was wearing mid-thigh length shorts and a slightly baggy shirt, and she was slouching forward over her book, paying as little attention as possible to her meal while still periodically taking bites of stew, careful to avoid spilling any on the book. She did not react at all even when he arrived standing...

MiP Chapter 3: Civilization

Carlos stared at what lay outside the cave opening that was apparently Purple's former main entrance.

"Well, no wonder you were having people come by every day of the week! That's a major road out there. On the bright side, this will make it really easy to find civilization."

[Outside dungeon. Not see. Not change.]

"Fair." Carlos picked a direction at random and turned right to start walking along the road. His stomach chose that moment to rumble a bit, reminding him that he...

MiP Chapter 2: Understanding

Carlos blinked, then reflexively tried to blink again when he noticed he didn't feel his eyelids moving. Then he realized he couldn't feel his arm holding his sword either, or any of the rest of his body. He seemed to be a disembodied presence in an empty purple void now, somehow. Turning his attention to the empty purpleness around him, he got a feeling of... questioning?

He felt a sense of a demand to know pressing on him, and also a sense of... desire? No, there was more to that, the...

MiP Chapter 1: Confusion

Carlos wasn't particularly surprised or confused to be opening his eyes, alive again. The surprise factor in that had already come and gone, with the being who'd sent him here explicitly telling him he would get a new life in a new world. He wished he could have asked a few more questions first, though. The god, or angel, or whatever it was, had spouted some jargon about his soul, and some kind of core and shell, or something?

No, the confusing part was the nonsensical babbling he was h...