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You Have Killed A Moontouched Wickerjak (x13)!
XP Earned!
Spears and discs reformed and returned to Vess as she bounced back from her attack, while the only remnant of her foes—a mist of sap—scattered in all directions. One of the bronze discs briefly shoved up beneath her leading foot, allowing the spearmaiden to launch off of it, leaping high enough into the air that she could plant her partisan de...
2022-09-17 17:45:11 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so I got busy and forgot to remove chapters for Book 4 (coming out on 9/28). I'll get rid of them tomorrow (9/16) at some point. So read up if you haven't!
2022-09-16 03:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostWow, 500 chapters and almost done with Book 7. That's bonkers.
Enjoy!
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"What happened?" Felix shouted, before yelping as Pit Converged with his Spirit.
Go to them! Pit sent, along with a flurry of anxiety and pain. I need a second!
Got it! Felix crashed through the few plant monsters that tried to intervene as he sped back to Beef's side. "Beef! Hallow?"
The War Nagas circled up, keeping their thick tails betw...
2022-09-15 05:10:58 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Authority Recognized!
Inheritor, Autarch Of Nagast, King Of Ahkestria, Lord Of The Leviathan Depths, Be Welcome!
Unsealing The Northeast Root Tunnel.
Warning!
Northeast Root Tunnel Is Compromised.
Threats Detected.
Threat Designation: Moontouched Wickerjak
Threat Designation: Moontouched Thornvald
Threat Designation: Green Wild Distortion
Do You Wish To Unseal The Northeast R...
2022-09-13 03:17:53 +0000 UTC View PostStill playing catch up a bit. Working on Monday's chapter now.
Enjoy!
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Paxus led everyone back down the stairs of the tower, and Pit goggled at the changes that had taken place. Where before the chamber had been chock full of tangled vines and choked off soil, now it was a cultured path lined with pink blossoms and the thick, rugged roots of the Spirit Tree.
This is much nicer, Pit thought at his Companion. Felix flashed a tight smile at ...
2022-09-10 22:15:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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"Everyone can see him?" Felix asked, surprised.
"Yeah," Beef grunted. He was being supported by two Naga, shoulders seemingly repaired but still in clear pain. "He kinda looks like you. Sorta."
"Nymean," Vess said with an awed whisper. The Spears behind her tilted back, away from the white-robed figure. "How?"
"A detail that concerns me as well," Isla remarked, before arching an eyebrow. "You still have not an...
2022-09-08 16:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostBack from DragonCon! It was very fun, with lots of cool things to see, do, and experience. Definitely recommended if you can go.
Enjoy!
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Ephemeral Evocation is level 9!
As with the Memory he’d stolen from the illusion array, Felix was deposited directly into the action. He dropped to the floor, skidding atop a layer of loam that had been scattered across dark marble. Felix stood as soon as his feet found purchase, quickly realiz...
2022-09-06 22:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostI have about half a chapter finished for today. I overestimated my ability to write in the middle of con madness AND edit book 5. Todays chapter will go up tomorrow (I’m on a flight back shortly) and we’ll continue as usual from there.
Thank you for your patience!
2022-09-05 23:36:12 +0000 UTC View PostStill in Atlanta, Day 2 of DragonCon. It’s a fun time, if hectic.
Enjoy!
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Voracious Eye!
Name: Moontouched Wickerjak
Type: Plant (Manawarped)
Level: 84
HP: 6844/6844
SP: 26831/26899
MP: 4323/4323
Lore: Born of wood and earth, Wickerjaks are mercurial spirits of nature. Similar to Sprites, they often embody the unconscious Will and Intent of the natural world. Moontouched Wickerjaks have been perverted by a...
I'm in Atlanta right now! This post is coming to you from the Void of Scheduled Chapters.
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"Felix, your hands," Vess said, reaching to grasp his wrists gently. She turned them over and, much to his surprise, Felix's palms were burnt through. Charred meat and bone could be seen, though much of the wounds had already repaired. "How did this happen?"
"Huh. It affected my actual Body?" Felix hadn't expected that. His Song of Absolution was so strong...
2022-08-31 12:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo fun news! I'll be in Atlanta from Wednesday til next Monday for DragonCon! I'm a professional attendee doing all the things and such, meeting fans and authors and seeing the sights. Even doing a panel or two. Should be a fun time.
Updates will continue as usual even while I'm gone Wednesday, Friday, and the following Monday.
Thanks folks!
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"What are you on about?" Isla demanded. "Did you eat the array? That was a complex working th...
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"What the hell is all this?" Beef asked. He jostled into Felix, bumping off of his back like a wall. "Sorry. It's freaking me out."
"Is it a defensive array?" Vess asked. She too crowded close, pressing her shoulder against Felix and Isla's. "You said it recognized your Authority, Felix. Can you clear it?"
Authority, clear the fog, Felix ordered, but there was no response from the bundle of command within him. Authority? 2022-08-27 06:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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Felix swam forward, Pit at his heels, but they only made it as far as the edge of the ravine before his team finally caught up with them.
<<My Lord, you have stopped your glorious slaughter. Is something wrong?>> Toa'ut asked, arriving first with twin tridents held in his meaty fists. He and the other Naga were breathing heavily, the gills at the sides of their scaled necks fluttering with each heave of their beefy torsos. <<...
2022-08-25 02:03:10 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy.
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The Hatchlings roamed over the edge of Khasma, prowling the currents that roiled around the Wedges. The massive, rocky protrusions were how they marked their positions, their wide eyes fixed on the water as well as the fronds that rippled like delicious eels off the stone. Those not mounted atop the serpentine Amphitere, the lowest, molting drudges among them, burst forward as they closed with a Wedge. Fish and crustaceans scattered, but they were n...
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<<That's it. Breathe deep and slow, exhaling on the third count each time,>> Isla said. She gestured to her diaphragm. <<Breathe from your belly, from your core itself.>>
The heiress did so, pulling a deep draw of air through the Sunken Ward. Part of Isla marveled at that spell, though it was a simple enough working; the spell essentially generated sheathes of air Mana to circulate around and between targets that the bo...
2022-08-20 15:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostFeeling a bit of burnout this week due to a couple of factors. Chapter 489 will be up tomorrow.
2022-08-20 03:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Fauna Handling is level 2!
The Eider snapped its wings open, catching the roaring winds between its absolutely ridiculous wingspan, and jerked upward as it caught an updraft. The cantle of the saddle jabbed Evie's middle as she was splayed out onto the Eider's back, her hands clutching desperately to the reins.
"Ouf!" she wheezed. The sheer force of their arrested descent had bypassed her impressive Body, forcing her own...
2022-08-17 23:07:17 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the delay! Enjoy!
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Perched atop the crow's nest, Evie was the first to see the gleaming, red-gold Wall of Haarwatch. As the call went out and the commanders shouted down the cheers until they 'got their blighted asses moving,' Evie watched the city grow nearer.
It wasn't home. Few places had earned the title since she lost her parents, back when Magda had dragged her ass over hill and dale in search of their next meal. But Evie had lived in ...
2022-08-16 14:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostFriday's chapter! Enjoy!
More on Monday.
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Felix trained alone for a time. He pressed his Skills, conjuring shapes out of the limited light in the closed cavern, or summoning fists of acid to sizzle and sputter against boulders. His heart wasn't in it, however, not like before.
Auroral Forge is level 28!
Auroral Forge is level 29!
The gains ended there. His Aspects ached, but far worse was the realization that things were spinning out ...
2022-08-13 12:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostBack from my trip and back at it! Enjoy!
Another chapter will be up later (8/12/22)!
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Felix tried to sleep. Really. He wanted to blame the lack of pillow or blanket or bed, but he’d grown used to such things a long time ago. He also wanted to blame his stats and Temper, which made sleep almost unnecessary in most cases, but that wasn’t true this time. After the brief contact with the Fathom, his strained Body was begging for rest. It was his raci...
I‘ve been out of town for a couple days this week. Wednesday’s chapter is fighting me and I’m writing on a dang phone, so it’ll go up Friday, along with the normal Friday chapter too. Sorry for the wait!
2022-08-11 04:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Sunken Ward is level 22!
Adamant Discord is level 83!
When the last of the chaotic maelstroms released their party a full two days had passed, and all of them were exhausted. The War Naga had taken the brunt of the punishment, of course, but even clinging tightly to their backs had proven a real challenge. At a certain point, Felix and Beef had been forced to fashion harness and saddles for all of them, if only to allow the...
2022-08-08 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The winds above the Foglands were bitterly cold compared to the warmth of the Ghreldan Hills. True, they were flying high among the clouds now, but even within the Stronghold, Zara had felt discomfited by the sudden change in temperature. Traveling so far so quickly was as alien to her as flying through the sky was to the Glitterhogs down below. She could see them over the chitin railing, a herd of the monsters thundering over meadows and ancient, a...
This one fought back a bit. Enjoy!
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The Mountains That Howl were strangely named. While they did howl, they most certainly were not mountains. Where the Tangle ended, the ever-descending lake floor dropped dramatically, resolving into a sheer cliff that opened into dark water. The drop alone was a little unnerving, but what made it worse was the ripping current that ravaged the edge of that cliff. They swam closer, and Felix could perceive a twisted ripplin...
Sorry for the delay! It was unexpected.
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Days passed.
Felix's team was now well within the Tangle, a forest of massive seaweed fronds and bursts of wild coral. They had passed from the Temple complex on the first day, entering the dense jungle that spread for miles in every direction. The light from the surface did not reach them there, but the fronds visibly glowed with life Mana and the clusters of bright pink and orange coral were filled luminous plants an...
2022-08-02 11:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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After leaving the treasure room, Garox had led their boat down several rivers, each of them flowing over the remains of grand staircases. The water moved far more sedately than the rapids Felix and his people had traversed in the past, moving more like a lazy river than whitewater rapids. It was...kind of pleasant.
In short order they descended the faux rivers and passed through a high, star-shaped archway utterly was filled with dangling vine...
2022-07-30 03:27:05 +0000 UTC View Post
WOO!
Unbound Book 3 is upon Amazon and Audible now!
Ebook Link
Audible Link
It's available in Ebook, Kindle Unlimited, Audiobook, and Paperback formats!
Audio is again performed by th...
Book 3 Hunger is live on Amazon and Audible!
Enjoy!
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"More to starboard! Three big ones!"
Zara heeded the Yttin sailor's warning but did not turn aside the speeding mass of the carrack, and in fact sent a delicate song on high. It stirred the winds into a greater tempest, pressing the ten sails on all four masts to their limit. Yet the creatures were faster, moving through the waters like the shadows from which they came.
"Breach! Breach!" Ha...
2022-07-28 02:12:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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"A dragon. A true and real dragon? You are sure of this?" Vess asked. Her voice was calm and measured, but her Spirit flared wildly with strange passions. Anger for sure, and a touch of hate even, but encompassing all of that was a fierce hope.
Felix pulled back, squeezing shut his Affinity once again. It always felt like an intrusion, listening to someone's emotional state. With strangers and enemies it was a tactical advantage; with...
2022-07-25 19:53:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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"What's next?" Beef asked, plodding up next to him.
Felix had been staring at the Shadowgate, now quiescent, for a couple long minutes. The last of his people had walked through, swallowed up by the tar-like darkness, and the entire contraption had slowed until the sigaldry around it dimmed to a bare glow. Beef's clacking hooves roused him, though. "First we talk to the Deepking."
He strode away from the Shadowgate, down the ramp and acr...
2022-07-22 14:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post