Ch. 101 - Dead or Alive
As Lucas staggered from the wreckage and through the smokey haze, he almost ruined his whole escape plan by running into someone. He’d been so busy using his very limited level of focus to watch where he stepped so he didn’t leave behind footprints that he almost ran right into the first person on the scene, an elf in war paint.
Wait, that’s not an elf, he realized after a moment. It's a man dressed up to look like one. W...
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Ch. 210 - A Brief History Lesson
From his view of the glowing orb high above the world, Jordan saw many things. He saw places he’d never dreamed of and faraway cultures he’d never even heard of before. There were too many to list, though the ones that worshiped the moon in some capacity were most apparent to him, and not all of them were in a pleasant way.
In the faraway land of Rogan, the Ananani dwelt high in the mountains, and each month, they sacrifi...
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Ch. 200 - The World Below
Tenebroum had no idea where Krulm’venor got off to. That annoyed it, and not just because that vile godling could have helped with pest control once it started boring deeper into the earth. It was also that the Lich hated the idea that the arrogant dwarf might have finally managed to slip his leash. Tenebroum found that idea almost as intolerable as the idea that Oroza had gotten away and vowed to recapture him, even if it wasn’t strictly n...
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Well, enjoy your last update up two chapters a week, because next week, we ramp things up.
Ch. 187 - Hell of a View
Rock climbing was not something that Simon had spent a lot of time doing in any life, but as he got closer to the peak, he spent more and more time doing that instead of hiking. He lacked ropes and pitons, along with the skill to use them, though, so even climbing often required several attempts to find a way that was easy enough that he could do it...
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Well everyone, enjoy your last update of two chapters a week. Next week we ramp things up...
Ch. 177 - Silent Study
Simon spent days looking through the Tome of Bahgmorrda, making notes and scribbling over them or crumpling them up and throwing them away, but that was all for show. He’d already solved the code, and the only difficulty was going slow enough to take it all in without giving himself away.
On its surface, the thing looked like the grimo...
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Ch. 99 - A Walk to Remember (part 2)
Lucas backed slowly away from the ugly pair, dragging Danaria with him. The two hobgoblins followed him, snarling and spreading out as they went. One only had its claws, and the other had a blade that was rusted and broken. Neither had half the reach of his sword.
Each time one would get closer, he would swing his blade to ward them off. He had no doubt that he could beat them, but fighting them while he defended someone ...
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Ch. 208 - Primeval
The shadows came roaring down the tunnel with every bit of the force that the water once had; Tenebroum gloried in them, at least at first. It let the tide of darkness wash across and rejuvenate its threadbare form.
The leading edge of that tide were the shadow creatures that Krulm’venor had called the silent. They had been down in the dark so long they had forgotten what the last soul they’d even eaten was. So, instead of wearing the ...
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Ch. 198 - Another Problem
Despite the fact that the act of will had left Jordan completely drained, it had been worth it to beat the Lich back. He didn’t know what that monster was up to, but he knew that if it tried again in the next night or two, he would not be able to intervene again quite so soon.
That thought filled him with even more dread than the hundreds of stars he’d lost that night. The Lich had slain less than a third of those, but suddenly ...
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Ch. 185 - Teach a Man to Fish
Over the next few days, Simon turned his dejected farmers into something closer to fighting men. Their abilities were entirely inferior to the fighting force he’d built to fight the centaurs, but so too was his opponent, which was good because Simon needed the practice.
“We don’t want to fight; we just want our land back” was a popular refrain, but Simon ignored it after the first ten times. He’d run out of patience for expl...
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Ch. 175 - A Feast for Paupers
As the day drew closer, Simon did all of the rites that had been mentioned for the fictitious Silent Saint, no matter how trivial. These were carried out as faithfully as the text allowed, even though he wasn’t sure that anyone was actually watching him. He took a vow of silence for the winter, dressed in harsh sackcloth robes, and fasted for the week leading up to the feast, abstaining from everything besides water and, strangely e...
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Hello everyone. A few quick updates. First, on the Tenebroum front, book 2 drops on Amazon today, and the Lich finally gets its crown! So, if you're interested in an ebook, please pick one up here! The physical book is still in Amazon limbo (because they hate me) but will be out in the next few day...
2024-12-05 14:04:09 +0000 UTC
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Ch. 97 - The Grind
For the next two days, Lucas did very little which didn’t involve cooking up blue. He went upstairs every few hours for more barrels or vials at first, but eventually, Hura’gh figured out the intervals and just brought them downstairs into the laboratory without being asked. That sped things up a little. After the first day, Lucas stopped eating upstairs with them, too.
It wasn’t that he feared that he might not be able to make enoug...
2024-12-02 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Ch. 206 - A Return to Normalcy
Leo’s return to Wayward was as uproarious as he feared. The entire village, which mostly consisted of people he didn’t know at this point, stopped everything they were doing to celebrate his return. It was exactly the opposite of what he wanted, of course. He just wanted to slip back in and pretend he’d never left, even though he knew that was quite impossible. Some reacted like Toman, but they were in the minority, and a meager feas...
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Ch. 183 - Something To Do
This time it wasn’t a question of where he wanted to spend his time, it was a matter of how he wanted to spend this life, and Simon spent several days considering that question. At this point his lives were stretching for decades rather than ending in weeks, so in a way, he was picking what kind of play-through he wanted to have. Maybe picking my major would be a better choice, he added as he reflected on his previous life.
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2024-12-02 14:57:00 +0000 UTC
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One small announcement. I have made a new tier for DaD, as I said I was going to, so for those of you that would like another 10 chapters of Simon for $2, that's on the table. This brings the Devoted Reader tier back up to 50 chapters ahead, across all stories, which is where it's meant to be.
Ch. 173 - Found Out
Simon’s first instinct was to cast a spell and murder all three of them, but he held back. That wasn’t because he thought he could learn some...
2024-12-02 14:56:01 +0000 UTC
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Alright, as promised, the new tier is now avail
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Ch. 95 - Setting Things Right
Lucas was fuming at the thought of whatever it was Adin was up to. That wasn’t the real reason, though, and he knew it. It was just an excuse. The words of the Prince rang in his ear as he took the stairs two at a time once he got back inside the house.
The man is a leach. Did you know he once tried to sell his sister’s virtue to me for a tax debt that was almost sixty dragons?
Those terrible wo...
2024-11-25 15:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Ch. 171 - Not this Run
Simon spent most of that afternoon beating himself up. It wasn’t even about the sword after a while. It was about being fat, the way he’d left things with Elthena, the mystery of his evil twin, starting over again in the Pit, and even the fact that he’d spent 40 lives with so little to show for it. Somehow, despite all the progress he’d made so far, he couldn’t help but feel sorry for himself as he considered how pointless all of this wa...
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Ch. 93 - The Basics
Lucas spent the next few days learning the ins and outs of his system. Whenever he wasn’t mixing potions and searching through reagents with Heisenburgle, he researched this strange topic. Every afternoon, he would haunt the libraries, looking through books for so much as a mention, and every morning after he finished in the lab, he would lay awake in bed, paging through the interface as he looked for some sort of answer.
He found a few...
2024-11-18 15:00:14 +0000 UTC
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I know I promised an updated 20+ tier. I'm still working on that. My publisher moved up some editing deadlines on me, so I'm currently 14 chapters ahead on Death After Death, and want to be 20 chapters ahead (because as soon as I launch that tier, I will instantly reduce that buffer by 10.) So, I haven't forgotten, just a little distracted by other topics. You should still see it by the end of the month.
Ch. 169 - A Bloody Mess
As soaking wet and in pain as Simo...
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Ch. 91 - Aqua Vitalis
After he popped that potion, every point that Lucas made was repeated at least once over the next few hours as Heisenburgle peppered him with questions. What was her expression? What was her tone? How long was the pause? The gnome seemed to be obsessed with every detail.
Lucas had been in the box with detectives who were less thorough than Heisenburgle, but he didn’t complain. Truthfully, he was still a little freaked out by the...
2024-11-11 15:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Ch. 167 - Down on Their Luck
Simon crawled into a chest, and as he crawled out of the other side, he realized that was exactly what he’d crawled out of as well. That was weird enough, but he was somewhat reassured to see that it wasn’t the same chest. That might have meant that there was some other magic at play.
Going down the wrong path like that would be kind of funny, he thought as he slowly got to his feet and stretched his aching back. Even ...
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Ch. 89 - A Great Admirer
Lucas had no idea why a dragon would want to meet him, but it wasn’t like he had much of a choice in the matter. He didn’t have long to prepare either because the words dragon, meet, and you were followed up with another terrifying word: tomorrow. Heisenburgle might as well have said now. That would have been better.
Instead, Lucas had to do his best to snatch at least a little shut-eye at exactly the wrong time of day. Then he h...
2024-11-04 15:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Ch. 165 - Wasted Effort
Simon splashed down in the water, confident that he wouldn’t drown. He didn’t, either. The portal opened beneath him and spat him out almost immediately. Last time, it had reminded him, somewhat uncomfortably, of a flushing toilet, but this time, it was more violent than that, and it took him a moment to figure out why that was the case, though, as he was flung sideways like a rag doll while water splashed around him.
As he sat th...
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Ch. 87 - What the Actual Fuck
The silence of the gnome's words settled over them for several seconds before Lucas finally spoke. “I didn’t sign up to kill a fucking dragon.”
“Nor will you have to,” Heisenburgle said. “Probably. If we can—”
“Probably? Probably?” Lucas said, suddenly on his feet. “I’m a fucking alchemist… a god damned drug dealer. This isn’t a rival gang or the city guard… it’s a fucking dragon.”
Lucas h...
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Ch. 163 - Whispered Words
There was confusion at first as the survivors tried to figure out what had happened. That gave Simon’s group an early lead of a dozen yards. However, after the survivors watched their brothers die around them, a cry of anger rang out, and soon the survivors were giving chase.
Four horses chased after two as Simon, Aaric, and Carelyn blazed out into the night. Simon didn’t know where they were going, and he wasn’t entirely sure...
2024-10-28 13:57:00 +0000 UTC
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Well, now that all the travel is behind me, and I've had a chance to visit my family for the first time in a long time, I am back. First and foremost, I am back to writing, which is good, because I burned a hell of a lot of backlog. I'm also making progress on the whole visa thing for Germany, so that's nice.
What's not so nice right now is Tenebroum. As all of you know I have finished writing the first book. Its due to be released with an audiobook in the very near future. In fact,
2024-10-21 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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We're still technically 12 chapters ahead of the public, but I'm tired of posting 1 chapter a week. So, Brewing Bad is now twice a week from now on. Enjoy!
Ch. 85 - Worlds in Collision
Lucas spent the next few days immersed in mind-numbing books. Porentheo’s Guide to Elemental Alignment was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to reading. He’d also tried The Nature of Light, Balance in all things, and most recently, he was attempting to suffer through ...
2024-10-21 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Ch. 161 - The Day After
The screams didn’t last long. At least, the ones begging to be let in didn’t. Their silence spoke volumes about the state of things happening outside the mine they’d sealed themselves up into, Simon. His heart went out to them, and in those dark moments, part of him wished he’d used that horrible life-draining magic to end them. Only the knowledge that it hadn’t solved the level and that he’d just have to keep doing that over and over...
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Ch. 84 - A Long Night
Lucas spent several more hours with Heisenburgle, who was positively insufferable until Lucas pointed out that he was about to add dried treant blood to the potion he was working on instead of the pulverized rust caps as he’d intended. He calmed down a little after that.
Lucas’s mind didn’t, though. Instead, he spent the rest of the evening leafing through the damn recipe book, and once Heisenburgle decided to call it a...
2024-10-14 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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