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Boards & Conquest.
Midgard’s most famous strategy game. Originally a battle simulation developed by the Academy to train tacticians against Convergences, it had soon become a popular hobby among Avalon’s population. Two to three players could field figurine armies from the Nine Realms on more than twenty-five maps, a...
2020-06-27 09:14:24 +0000 UTC
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Somewhere in the New World, Holly Woods’ mountain,
Months after the battle of El Dolrado.
Sitting on his throne, in the deepest, darkest room of his dungeon, Furibon was giddy with excitement.
At long last, his contributions had been recognized!
“Hello everyone, welcome to another episode of Today’s Dungeon,” a talk, bulky red fiend spoke to a floating mirror, transferring the images back to H...
2020-06-27 09:09:05 +0000 UTC
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This wasn’t how Victor imagined his first 'ultrasound' session as a future father. Then again, he never expected to have one in the first place, and especially not in a ghoul-run undead clinic.
“As you can see,” Jules explained, projecting his divination spell on the white wall opposite to the patient’s bed. “The living fetus is developing at an accelerated rate compared to a standard humanoid, probably due to her fiendish nature. Since fiends are ‘born’ ready to fig...
2020-06-25 10:37:22 +0000 UTC
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Chapter sponsored by Glader.
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A peaceful, quiet life.
As Tye managed his shop in the morning, he meditated on his newfound peace of mind. Gone were his fear of discovery, and the constant home robberies. The world believed him dead, and his mining operations had returned to their pre-Princess levels. He could work back quietly in the shadows; he had even made his first deliveries to Mockingbird, securing...
2020-06-23 10:39:39 +0000 UTC
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“It will take me less than ten minutes to destroy you, Wotan!” Vainqueur Knightsbane declared, expanding his wings threateningly.
“It seems you have forgotten how our last physical encounters ended,” the stormlord replied, barely restraining himself. “You would have died in that crater, had your servant not rescued you at the last minute. Although I welcome the opportunity to settle our score, I am here to honor my word first.”
“Your word?” the dragon asked, surpri...
2020-06-23 10:39:08 +0000 UTC
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Pain, coupled with humiliation, racked the princess’ body as her back hit a stone wall. She coughed blood and felt her ribs breaking under the strain.
Warning: You have taken massive [Physical] damage! You have lost half your HP!
[Insta-death] negated by [Amulet of Avalon]!
Gwen barely had the time to get back ...
2020-06-20 10:37:37 +0000 UTC
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Breathing heavily, Vainqueur raised his hands and unleashed his magic for the sixtieth time. “[Terraform: Landmass]!”
His power spread across the desert beneath his and his minions’ feet; but instead of green grass, the sand transformed into bright, multi-colored sugar. A hill of cream appeared to his left, a chocolate lake to his right. Candy flowers bloomed across the land, next to licorice trees and cake boulders.
In a few seconds, the area had transformed into a ba...
2020-06-20 10:35:56 +0000 UTC
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As most of you know, "Never Die Twice," unlike Vainqueur the Dragon, has been sponsored entirely by one person: my main patron Kyle Reese/Knightaether (with the appropriate creative control). However, many of you asked how they could help with getting chapters out faster, so I asked Knightaether's authorization to open the funding of NDT to others.
He accepted.
The main way the story has been funded so far is through Paypal, which will remain as an option (...
2020-06-19 09:29:55 +0000 UTC
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“[Terraform: Landmass, Plains]!”
As Vainqueur shouted these magical words in the middle of the desert, a screen appeared right before him.
How much SP will you use? 50 SP per fifty meters radius.
“All of them!”
1800 SP consumed.
In the blink of an eye, the dragon’s beautiful magic expanded all across the land, spreading across an area almost two kilometers-wide in radius.
Instantly,...
2020-06-18 10:53:02 +0000 UTC
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This was probably the most awkward breakfast in Victor’s life.
He and Chocolatine stood at each end of her kitchen table in embarrassed silence, neither of them willing to address the elephant in the room.
“So… did you enjoy Samhain?” the werewolf tried to make conversation, but only made both of them cringe.
“Sort of,” he replied, shifting uncomfortably on his chair. “It was enlightening.”
“Oh.”
You have taken weak [
2020-06-16 10:58:43 +0000 UTC
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Chapter sponsored by Kyle Reese.
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They kept coming.
Hordes of white, bloodthirsty rodents crawled from the upper levels, cutting off their escape route. Morgane and Annie had immediately summoned walls of flames to stop them, but this only slowed them down; for the rats had started climbing the tunnels’ walls, getting around the fire.
The group was forced to retreat down in...
2020-06-13 14:02:36 +0000 UTC
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Vainqueur, best dragon of all, looked at the map from atop his hoard with skepticism. “Why manlings?”
His minion advisors, gathered around the war board, exchanged glances. “Excuse us, Your Majesty?” Marbré asked.
“Why are we using manling figurines to represent my kobold minions?” Vainqueur repeated. His minions had created a map of the western part of the Mistral continent, showing Prydain, Gardemagne, and his own empire. Hundreds of tiny figurines represented the a...
2020-06-13 09:29:26 +0000 UTC
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Of course, the one time Victor came to Vainqueur for advice, the dragon was asleep on his hoard, belly exposed.
“Your Majesty?” Victor asked, the dragon softly snoring like a cat. Vainqueur had remained like that for the past week, even as his Vizier prepared the country for war and Samhain. When would he wake up?
Wait, hadn’t the dragon’s last nap lasted fifty years?
…
“Your Majesty!” Victor panicked, shouting into the wyrm’s ear. ...
2020-06-11 11:04:58 +0000 UTC
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What a bright sunny day. What could go wrong?
So Victor asked himself, as he flew over Isabelle Maure’s corner of the V&V Empire. Tonight was Samhain, the Outremonde equivalent to Halloween. A time when undead and monsters acted up, like the ones making up his entire nation.
And they had failed to kill Odieuse before this date.
Which meant that she would get her hands on those ‘arrows of light’ he had been forewarned about. Between the...
2020-06-09 11:04:13 +0000 UTC
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Choose the June Interlude of Vainqueur the Dragon!
1) The Tomb of Furibon
Everyone needs a hobby, but for Furibon, dungeon design is more than an occupation; it is a passion. Having put his evil lead ways behind him, the lich decides to fulfill an old dream, and build the cruelest dungeon ever imagined. Can Furibon create a dragon adventurer's worst nightmare?
2) The Passion of Felix
Felix is a cat with guts, luck, and m...
2020-06-08 15:38:17 +0000 UTC
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“Finally!” Vainqueur rejoiced upon reaching the coast and seeing the ocean. “At long last!”
After days of flying nonstop through the desert, the sight of clear water filled him with boundless joy. Watching the sun setting on the water had never felt so pleasurable.
“This is the inner sea east of the V&V Empire,” Manling Victor said, riding Gorynych with Knight Kia behind his back. “We’re almost home.”
“Is Your Majesty sure they do not want to ta...
2020-06-06 10:39:27 +0000 UTC
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All was as dark as the blackest abyss.
It was far from silent though. And it smelled of honeyed cake.
“Is he waking up?” Chocolatine asked, having been at Victor's side since he fell into a coma. “Is my delicious cake working?”
“No,” Allison said. “No sign of recovery.”
“Can I take a bite?” Goblina asked, followed by some noise. “Ouch, the cake bit me!”
“That happens at random with Choc’s [Monster Patissier] class,” Allis...
2020-06-04 09:21:06 +0000 UTC
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Icefang had caught up to the fairy first, and lost.
As Vainqueur reached a destroyed village, he found Magnifique and Suffisante motionless on the ground amidst the corpses of a dozen nagas. Houses had been pounded into dust, while ice shuriken and laceration marks scarred the landscape.
A good mile away, he noticed a swirling tornado of icy winds and miasma devastating all in its path, uprooting the entire forest. Icefang and whichever fairy had trounced his party wer...
2020-06-02 10:07:21 +0000 UTC
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Story sponsored by Kyle Reese.
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As Gwen looked at the dungeon’s dark entrance, she could almost smell it. The stench of blood.
How many had walked inside this cave and never come out? How many adventurers had foolishly lost their lives looking for treasure, glory, or the thrill of power? How many young people had fallen to the undead, fueling their master’s armies?
In the end, t...
2020-06-01 13:58:33 +0000 UTC
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The fairy’s nest stank for miles!
The longer he observed it from above, hidden amidst the clouds and positioned against the wind, the angrier Vainqueur grew. This… this insult to the dragon way of life would not survive the day.
It had taken him hours to locate it, due to powerful illusions shrouding the area from sight; phantasms that his [Hunter’s Resolve] Perk and magical items had easily negated. And when they had finally found the farm in the midst of a f...
2020-05-30 11:16:49 +0000 UTC
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It had to happen one day.
Vainqueur had pushed his minion to breed, something which he had proven surprisingly terrible at. No matter the setbacks, his chief of staff had pushed on, trying to do his duty and satisfy his master.
And he had overbred.
“Minion!” Vainqueur barked. “Minion!”
His chief of staff didn’t respond, laying on the drenched inn’s courtyard with his armor on. The warm, steely plates looked as if they had been hit by King Wotan...
2020-05-28 10:26:00 +0000 UTC
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My name is Victor Dalton, and if you read this, then it means that I am dead. Again.
As he wrote down his will, the Vizier realized that this line had lost its impact.
In his will, the Vizier distributed his belongings between his friends. Chocolatine had the lion’s share with ownership of his manor, but he also rewarded Malfy, Jules, Isabelle, and Charlene with his magical items. Allison would get custody of Vainqueur Junior; Kia, of Gorynych and his horse. He also don...
2020-05-26 10:23:20 +0000 UTC
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What a wonderful looking place.
Vainqueur glanced at the enormous, steamy bath in front of him, bordered by natural stone walls and wooden pipes. The pagoda-like inn that oversaw the area overshadowed it from a hill above, blocking out half of the sun.
"You could fit an army inside!" His chief of staff observed, wearing only a toga fitting his wings and tail as he walked on the stone pathway. "It's as large as a lake!"
“Minion, what do they call it again?” th...
2020-05-23 10:14:52 +0000 UTC
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“Far away, in the depths of Castle Gardemagne,” the dragon said, as a beautiful keep with shining white halls appeared on the reflective surface, “lives a deadly predator; the remnant of a bygone age where manling kings numbered in the thousand, fighting both themselves and the wild.
His trusty [Scrying Crystal Ball] zoomed in on the castle, onto a bedroom located at a tower’s top.
“An insidious, cunning beast, whose beauty is only matched by its cruelty. The...
2020-05-21 10:58:37 +0000 UTC
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Victor Dalton, Grand Vizier of the V&V Empire, thought he had developed tinnitus for a minute. The world had gone completely silent after he heard Vainqueur’s latest words.
“I’m, I’m sorry, what did Your Majesty just say?” the Vizier asked as he regained his hearing, the demolished imperial palace standing to his left as a ruined testament to today’s chaos.
“Manling Victor, meet my new minion.” The dragon patted the Tarasque’s carapace, as the giant mon...
2020-05-19 11:51:47 +0000 UTC
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“Tonight, I dine on turtle soup!”
So vowed Vainqueur Knightsbane, as he rose up with a dizzy head and a heart full of wrath. Dirt and grass covered his beautiful scales, the trail his landing had caused going on for hundreds of meters.
The Tarasque’s blow had sent him flying for miles, his golden theater a distant glow collapsing on itself; which angered him even more. The dragon noticed a cloud of dust moving at full speed towards that goblin’s city, far away from Vainque...
2020-05-16 10:52:03 +0000 UTC
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Story sponsored by Kyle Reese.
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His little shop was overcrowded, and he hated it.
“Thank you for coming!” Tye said while Laufey was equally busy finalizing a sale. “Thank you, that will be one hundred gold coins.” “Thank you for coming!” “Thank you!”
He had become a ‘thank you’ machine, and they kept coming. Adventurers, old ladies, kids, all of Lyonesse. An ...
2020-05-15 10:47:30 +0000 UTC
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That BLEEPing class…
For the first nineteen levels, [Fishermen] were nothing to write about. Crap growths, useless abilities like breathing twice longer underwater, a fish animal companion. And yet most civilized nations heavily regulated that class, often killing would be [Fishermen] on sight. Only a destructive maniac could want to max out that class.
Because once they capped, [Fishermen] earned that broken Perk!
Victor could only marvel at seeing it in ac...
2020-05-14 10:31:26 +0000 UTC
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Having witnessed an eruption once, when the mountain began to shake, Victor did the responsible thing.
“RETREAT!”
Gorynych immediately flew away, Vainqueur wisely following right afterward. Within a minute, a resonance spread through the crater, its powerstones fracturing; all at once, the crystal landscape shattered like glass.
Instead of an eruption or a fiery explosion, powerstone shards simply flew in all directions. A destructive rain of crystals fell upon the...
2020-05-11 17:47:39 +0000 UTC
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The battle seemed to be going well, and Tye couldn’t allow that.
Between the summoned creatures providing a helpful buffer, the magical artillery barrage, and the defenders' discipline, Lyonesse’s forces managed to repel the invaders on this front. The giants hadn’t even reached the ramparts yet. Meanwhile, a glance at the fires near the city’s gates told him the defen...
2020-05-11 16:13:31 +0000 UTC
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