Hilariously, for all their cursing of orcs as uncivilized barbarians, the dwarves didn’t utter a single word of objection to roasting and eating the orc. From how they savagely tore into the orc, they were a lot less squeamish about eating intelligent foes than I was.
I had to ruthlessly murder the part of me that was screaming about eating a formerly intelligent humanoid. Glifir’s snacks were good, but hunger and survival instincts teamed up to utterly shred the moralistic part of ...
2021-07-23 14:15:02 +0000 UTC
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For my $10+ patrons!
Don't open at work.
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2021-07-23 01:32:07 +0000 UTC
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The light of the explosion washed over us as I watched the expanding flames.
I was low on mana. I’d been in non-stop marathon mode, and fighting was expensive. Sure, I had more mana - but I could also blow through mana a lot faster. I just didn’t have the reserves to handle another explosion, then handle the rest of the blasted fight.
No, it was time to start pulling out my gems. Powerful, one-time use skills that we Sentinels all swapped and traded with each other, rounding o...
2021-07-21 12:32:41 +0000 UTC
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In spite of the new lows I associated my dwarven companions with, we carried on. What else was there to do?
I kept wandering through hallways, picking intersections at random, while the dwarves tried to keep up enough to stay within the radius of my [Shine], no other light making it down here.
Which is why when I saw dim flickering flames, I instinctively held my hand up in a fist, Ranger hand-speak for “halt” as I extinguished my [Shine].
...
2021-07-19 11:55:12 +0000 UTC
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I took a moment to reorient myself in the mines. We’d come from that direction, and were going in that other direction. Right.
I glanced at my stripped, headless former body. It felt all sorts of wrong to just leave it. On a deep, fundamental level it was like leaving the dead unburied. On a more practical note, it could attract predators, and put them on their trail.
Put them on my trail, and they’d know exactlyhow tasty I was.
“Anyone got i...
2021-07-16 12:53:14 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! You voted, and I listened!
This month is vampire-themed! Jaclyn first: https://imgur.com/lnSZNBH
I apologize if something went wrong on the picture. I got sent a 4300x3100 sized picture, which was 45MB, and I needed to size it down a bit.
Next up is Elaine!
2021-07-16 01:18:54 +0000 UTC
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FOR ONCE I have a TINY bit of spare time. Vote for the bonus content you want me to generate!
Poll is only for my $10+ tier patrons :)
2021-07-14 22:29:07 +0000 UTC
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AN: Gore content warning.
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There was a sharp twang, and a blur in front of me.
A sickening thwack occurred, and a weak cough from Glifir, a spray of blood.
“Glifir!” I shouted as I ran forward, Fik looking on stupidly while a connection formed between Ned and Glifir. Drin ran forward with me, and we arrived at the same time.
The light in Glifir’s eye was fading as he coughed weakly, hands moving slowly up, then slumpi...
2021-07-14 13:44:31 +0000 UTC
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Quick announcement! Book 4 of Beneath the Dragoneye Moons is now on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094YTHBML
And book 2 is now on Audible! https://www.audible.com/pd/Beneath-the-Dragoneye-Moons-2-Audiobook/1039402313
2021-07-13 12:56:31 +0000 UTC
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We decided to spend some time - like an hour or so - resting up, everyone else topping their mana up and getting long, deep drinks out of the pool Ned purified.
We were still processing what happened, Lule’s death and Toke’s disappearance. Everyone was handling it in their own way. The dwarves were chatting a bunch about what had just happened.
“No. There’s no way the Sierra Obelisk fell.” Fik gasped in disbelief as Glifir mentioned the dwarves’ tower falling.
...
2021-07-12 11:34:11 +0000 UTC
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You get ALL THE CONTENT today.
I forgot Iona's stat sheet at the end of the last interlude. OOPS!
Feast your eyes on the Valkyrie's stats!
[Name: Iona]
[Race: Human]
[Age: 21]
[Mana: 86960/86960]
[Mana Regen: 69848]
Stats
[Free Stats: 421]
[Strength: 13242 +(127...
2021-07-10 01:42:18 +0000 UTC
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Hey!
One of the things I'll unfortunately never be able to say in-story - What caused/causes the deadzone?
Due to what it is, and the nature of it, I have *no way* of getting the information to Elaine in-story. Since I can't get it to Elaine, I can't get it to you, the readers.
Well, the deadzone has been posted to Royal Road now, and they've gotten some time to speculate. Not nearly as much as everyone else has, but hey. That's why you're my patrons - you get advanced...
2021-07-09 23:17:07 +0000 UTC
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I sat against the wall, exhausted, out of mana, as the dwarves argued.
“We need to go after Toke.” Glifir was insisting. “It hasn’t been that long.”
“We have no idea what’s out there. Toke is strong. Whatever happened to her, we need to take this slow and careful, not just blindly rush in.” Ned argued back.
“I’m with Ned.” Drin said, eyeing the flickering torch uneasily. “We’ve lost all of our supplies. Following up with Toke could easily get us wip...
2021-07-09 11:26:16 +0000 UTC
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YAR! Be warned, all ye scurvy dogs who enter this post! Thar be spoilers ahead!
From the latest Patreon chapter.
ANYWAYS! Now that people have been warned, what content do you all want to see for the $10 tier? The $5 tier gets to see and vote in the poll, out of my misguided hope that it'll encourage some of you to sign up for the $10 tier :P
And of course, end of the day it's my call what I'll do!
2021-07-08 10:45:17 +0000 UTC
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Iona woke up on a cart, rattling around.
“Hey you! You’re finally awake!” An all-too-cheerful cat beastkin man said, with a voice like sharp, rusty nails in Iona’s ears. His voice instantly gave Iona a headache.
“You were amazing! Like the Valkyries in stories! I’ve started to write one about you!” He continued on, the words like the screaming of a tortured cat, digging into Iona’s head and upgrading her headache.
Iona would pay any amount of money to hear hi...
2021-07-08 10:39:20 +0000 UTC
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Iona’s eyes adjusted as they got in, and she was in the middle of a brief look around when massive earthen spikes detached themselves from the ceiling, impaling the ship, dooming it to the depths.
Iona flung herself from the sinking ship, leaving the remaining pirates behind. The ones who hadn’t died from the attack would sink or swim on their own merits – mostly swim, the skill was easy enough to get, or to have merged into another skill. Their career had been enough to forfeit a...
2021-07-07 11:49:13 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone!
It's been almost exactly a year (give or take a few days) since I got laid off from my job, and decided to write my own book. I figured I'd do some rambling on the matter
There were a million factors that went into it. Reading a ton of webnovels myself, and running out of novels I liked. Always having the idea "I should write a book". Figuring that I'd have a ton of free time every day after doing my daily job hunting.
I didn't do nearly enough research...
2021-07-06 18:41:28 +0000 UTC
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Dread Pirate Iona adjusted her tricorn hat as her commandeered ship cut through the waves, flying Iona’s personal flag.
The Wakacola sea wasn’t the largest sea on Pallos, but it was one that technically fell under the Valkyrie’s area of protection. Unfortunately, after the goblin catastrophe and the practical fall of the order, there were less than two dozen Valkyries left, which had them stretched to the breaking point trying to cover everything.
Which meant some p...
2021-07-05 15:30:27 +0000 UTC
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Hey all!
I've gotten numerous PM's this morning that people who have pre-paid a year seem to suddenly be locked out of the content. I believe this is an error on Patreon's part, as everything seems fine from my end. Please contact Patreon, and if there's content you should have access to but don't, talk with each other, and try to get the chapters shared. I'm totally cool with people copying stuff to a gdoc and sharing it with other patrons to help get through this hic...
2021-07-03 11:56:14 +0000 UTC
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I dropped straight down the darkened old mine ventilation shaft, pulled extra-hard by whatever Gravity nonsense was going on. The shaft was now wide enough for the dwarves, courtesy of Toke. More than wide enough for me. I needed to get out of here before another stray fraction of an attack came over the mountain peak and my luck ran out.
The dwarves were a stocky bunch, and I immediately tried to twist, pressing my remaining arm against one side of the shaft and my feet pressed against...
2021-07-02 12:30:50 +0000 UTC
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Lightning played over Artemis’s body, as she bent over in agony, her muscles spasming as the lightning wreaked havoc on her.
A moment later, she straightened up as she’d grabbed the lightning herself, wrapping it up into a neat ball in her hand.
“Good try.” She told Horatio, who was looking concerned.
“Um…” He said, gulping and trailing off as his eyes locked onto the ball of Lightning that Artemis was holding onto.
“Lightning is a fantastic element, as...
2021-06-30 11:58:13 +0000 UTC
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“Healing! Free healing!” Autumn yelled into the crowd, cursing the lack of Elaine’s presence. Just by being around, Elaine had moneybags lining up down the market aisle, most of the cash-holders wanting to meet the famous Sentinel, with the rest having legitimate injuries that needed tending to.
By herself? Autumn didn’t do nearly as well. She was running headfirst into the problem that Elaine had warned her about – low-level Light healers couldn’t do much, so coin-dispenser...
2021-06-28 10:29:52 +0000 UTC
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Hey!
I forgot to mention it last time.
There is NO BREAK AT THE END OF BOOK 4.
Posts will be as normal after the end of book 4.
The only thing you'll notice is an announcement that book 4 is now for sale on Amazon. That's all.
I had the break in June, and I can't justify taking a break in June, then in July, back to back like that. There *might* be a break in August, who knows.
I'll probably also try to get you all to +20 chapte...
2021-06-28 01:22:56 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Hope you enjoyed the triple chapter release today!
unfortunately I am super duper stressed to the point where I’ve been told to slow down a hair or have a heart attack. Which means I can’t give you a triple and keep posting like it’s nothing - it just means I’m taking Friday off for just this week. Aka you got fridays chapter early with the triple today, and posting will resume Monday. also I’m going to hopefully have a relaxing July, Which will help me.
2021-06-23 14:22:24 +0000 UTC
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The battle continued, the six of us on top of the mountain partially shielded by Galeru - partially put in the line of fire because she was there.
Lun’Kat soared up high, so high that I could barely see her. Then, wreathed in flames, she descended like a meteor onto Etalix.
I didn’t think there was a skill involved – just sheer bulk, speed, stats and physicality.
Etalix exploded into Mist again, but the mountain he’d been standing on was annihilated by the sheer forc...
2021-06-23 13:29:52 +0000 UTC
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I felt someone smack my head. I stood up and glared at Lule, who was giving me the stink-eye.
“We’re here to protect you! Let us do our jobs!” She yelled at me. “We have Ned, who can also heal us!”
I noticed that there were thin, shimmering lines between all of the dwarves and Ned. I bowed my head at Lule.
“Sorry.” I said, meaning it.
Ned and I healing a dwarf was probably more powerful than me just healing myself.
Maybe.
“Ned, I
2021-06-23 12:58:35 +0000 UTC
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Most nights I expected to be attacked in my sleep, and my dreams were a constant reminder of the threat I was under. I was trying to get better, to improve, to heal myself of the problem, and was getting less jumpy when woken up by surprise.
All that improvement went out the window - not that there was a window anymore - as I was woken to a world-splitting roar, and our lean-to exploded, wooden logs transforming into a hail of deadly shrapnel.
[Bullet Time] activa...
2021-06-23 12:29:19 +0000 UTC
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Three chapters Wednesday.
For the $5+ tier.
2021-06-20 19:28:14 +0000 UTC
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I bolted awake as I heard a branch break, slamming against the side of the wagon, peering over, ready to do battle again.
Blasted hellhounds interrupting my sleep again, why I –
Oh wait.
It was Fik, coming back with an armful of firewood.
Nothing to see here… I figured I should check my notifications from the battle before.
[*Ding!* [Mantle of the Stars] leveled up! 256 -> 257]
System? Hello...
2021-06-20 18:16:56 +0000 UTC
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