I posted extra chapters last week! Then in order to not cliff you all, I KEPT POSTING!
Anyways, today's the day I'm taking off to catch up for my missed day off last week. Have a mango to tide you over in these trying times.
2021-03-10 12:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The cover art continues! Feedback would be nice, so I can give it to the artist.
2021-03-09 15:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
An idea I had - you all, my $10+ patrons, get to see the progress of the book 3 cover as it's being made!
I'm still working on other stuff - namely, exclusive side stories - but for now, enjoy the first WIP of the book 4 cover.
2021-03-08 18:10:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I accidentally posted an extra chapter last Thursday, and to not cliff the $5+ tier (most of you), I kept right on posting. However, I do need to eventually "catch up" on that "lost" post, and so this Wednesday there will be no chapter.
Assuming I remember to not post. This time.
Cheers!
I got up, looking at the burning hole in the middle of the ship.
Right. Time to find another way.
I started hunting through the ship, strangely not finding any pirates.
I clambered onto a crate, grabbing onto the lip of the deck – another hole of mine – and pulled myself up. I distantly heard a voice calling.
I slowly went towards the voice.
“Parley! Sentinel! The pirates wish to parley!” A sailor was calling, walking through the hallways.
“Parley...
2021-03-08 15:27:01 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's Note: This chapter and the next. Content warning - Gore.
Seriously I haven't given a gore warning before.
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I paused a moment on my way up and out of the pirate ship, taking the stairs like a normal person. Everyone had been thanking me. Which implied they could see me. Which meant…
I looked down. Yeah, the invisibility had worn off. Not only was I coated in blood, but I could see my sandals and shin guards. Drat.
I ...
2021-03-07 13:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostTime to put my SERE training to the test, push it to the limits. It’d been designed for a full Ranger team against a rebellion or large bandit camp – but one Sentinel against a few dozen pirates was roughly the same scale and ratio.
I started to pulse the Radiance glow around me rapidly, pushing it to full strength one moment, withdrawing it to almost nothing the next, then pushing it out again. It was possible to adapt to a constant, bright glow. It was almost impossible to adapt t...
2021-03-06 13:55:45 +0000 UTC View PostMy disguise tunic – bless the woman who’d stitched it for me – fluttered to the ground, inscriptions lighting up as I activated them.
There was a stunned silence as I quickly walked back – deeper into the room – grabbing one of the “all in one” boosting potions I had in my potion satchel which I’d kept on me the entire time, quickly downing it.
I had to make several snap calls right now, without the time to think about them fully and properly. I was a mage, and I w...
2021-03-05 11:58:23 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor's note: Major cliff. You've been warned.
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I gathered our motley crew together.
“Hey all! Nice to meet you. Why don’t we quickly get familiar with what we all do? I’m Elaine, a [Healer]. I’ve got most of the Light and Dark tricks. You get a problem, talk with me, I’ll patch you up!”
“Brutus.” Brutus grunted, not super social. “Hand to hand combat. Anyone down for a quick brawl? We’ve got a healer on hand....
2021-03-04 13:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe river had been moderately exciting. I kept hoping to hear a thread of adventure, of an injustice that needed to be rightened, but nope. Nada. Nothing. No great adventure to go on. It was a relief.
I did manage to get a bunch of healing in, and spending time at the river was more fun when I wasn’t scrubbing clothes or waiting for things to dry. I had mixed feelings on being at the center of attention. Back in Aquiliea, I’d been angry and miserable, convinced the world was out to ...
2021-03-03 14:05:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Shiny!
Artist's website: www.awgraphicdesign.net
Wanna buy merch with this on it? It 100% goes to the ARTIST, not me, but hey. https://society6.com/ceildesign
You could even get it on a t-shirt!
2021-03-01 15:14:14 +0000 UTC View PostI yawned and stretched as I got out of bed. I felt absolutely filthy, having lived in my armor this whole time. I briefly contemplated taking a risk and having a bath anyways, before banishing the thought. Ocean’s boat was fast, and hey, who knows, maybe he could like, dunk me in the water and drag me along.
Oooh! Maybe I could water-ski or something! A rope, a plank, and a strong grip was all I needed! Ocean was super fast – yes, yesss, this could be a ton of fun....
2021-03-01 14:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor all the ePubs to be easily findable.
Fancy (1-7): https://www.patreon.com/posts/epubs-fancy-66051745
Book 8: https://www.patreon.com/posts/book-8-epub-73283079
Book 9: https://www.patreon.com/posts/77203474
B...
2021-02-28 20:44:16 +0000 UTC View PostThree days. It took three whole days of meetings and wrangling and preparation and gods-knows-what-else to finish working everything out, and getting everything, and everyone, organized.
It was a far cry from Perinthus, where we’d been able to get everyone done in a day. Motivation, and prior organization went a long way.
Bless the governor. He’d organized nearly the whole thing, and not only that, he was paying some of the healers. Sure, it was only a quarter or so o...
2021-02-28 13:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostTo celebrate hitting 1,000 Patrons (I expect to no longer have this number at the EOD, but hey, celebrate the victories when I can), I'm announcing an art contest for Beneath the Dragoneye Moons!
Everyone can participate! Even if you don't read the story! Granted, you'll have a hard time if you don't read the story, but hey. I don't discriminate.
Winners will be decided 70% by Patreon Voting, 30% by my own judgement. Which is to say, if a poorly drawn mango gets the most votes ove...
2021-02-28 13:39:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Some artistic license taken.
Elaine throwing [Fireball]s around on an outcropping into Formorian hordes.
I looked around the room. Lavish. Luxurious. Probably standard for how a healer lived. Whatever.
What was more interesting were the people here. Four men sat around a central table loaded with the tastiest of – was that a mango!?
Heck yes it was.
Ok, focus. Back on topic.
Caecilius was seated, eyebrows climbing up into his hair, eyes twinkling with amusement and swirling with Mist, marking his element. His poor apprentice wasn’t cut out for this sort of li...
2021-02-27 16:39:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Caecilius!” I said, happily opening my arms.
“Elaine?” He said, somewhat surprised, blinking as he looked at me.
His apprentice just made an annoyed noise. Sheesh. Dude never liked me.
“In the flesh!” I said, twirling around, showing off somewhat.
He blinked a few more times, processing.
“Congratulations on your promotion to Sentinel.” He said. “What title did you get?”
Mmmm. He’d been around the block a few times, and probably had as...
2021-02-26 15:35:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! Getting this question a bunch, figured I'd put out a quick reminder:
I caught a bug in my excel spreadsheet on chapter 124 which was giving Elaine a lot more stats. I simply fixed it, which dropped a number of her stats. Hence the lower stats from 124 onwards.
Cheers!
2021-02-24 15:33:34 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in the guard barracks, them being the best place for me to sleep. Bless the added padding Sentinel armor got. While it wasn’t terribly comfortable, it was at least bearable. And the Hell Months had gotten me well-suited to sleeping in, well, anything and anywhere really.
I spent some time chatting with some of the guards over breakfast. I liked guards, and if we were going to be working closely, I wanted them liking me and putting forth a good effort, not grumbling about the...
2021-02-24 13:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostI blinked, taking the mug from Ocean, downing it. It woke me up, made me realize just how hungry and thirsty I was. Without saying anything, Ocean refilled my mug, handing me more field rations, which I promptly devoured.
“How long?” I asked, between mouthfuls.
“Three days. I was starting to get concerned.” Ocean said.
Three days!? No wonder he was getting concerned!
I chowed down ravenously, then started to break into my backpack. Ocean grabbed my arm, stoppin...
2021-02-22 12:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostI'd like to do something more for the Patreon $10 tier right now. Currently, there's no benefit or difference between the $5 and the $10 tier ($15 gets cameos)
Like, I initially thought side-stories would be great, but I've paused on them for the moment to not burn out. Also, people keep voting to expand side stories to everyone, so at the end of the day it's kinda a wash - it doesn't give all that much.
I'm somewhat tempted to make the $10 tier 15 chapters ahead, altho...
2021-02-21 18:58:24 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in the morning to a lovely notification.
[*ding!* Congratulations! You’ve unlocked the General Skill [Persistent Casting]!]
Persistent Casting: Alright, alright, fine, you can keep active skills running in the background, even when you’re not focusing on them. Mana drain per active skill persistently cast. Decreased mana drain per level per skill. Max two skills cast at once.
Well, thi...
2021-02-21 15:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up, and practically sprang out of bed. Not because of a plague, not because of doing something as a Sentinel for the first time, not because of the adventure.
Because it’d get me out of a fancy social thing.
Socializing. Putting on a fake smile and dealing with people all day. Well, if it was people I knew and liked, that’d be one thing. A bunch of random strangers, most of who were probably dicks? Meh. Pass.
I mentally got my arguments together,...
2021-02-20 15:39:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe classic problem occurred – I had no idea where Markus was. However, he had to be something of a feature, and the courier station was always ridiculously well-marked. Most towns had three to five, on the sheer basis of inter-town communication being made easier that way – nobody would walk halfway across town to get a message delivered when they could simply walk to the destination to do so.
The capital had a bunch more, by sheer virtue of how large it was. I wandered ar...
2021-02-19 12:05:30 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up the next morning, somewhat refreshed and feeling alive and well again. I got ready – I was going to get so spoiled with my own bath.
Night and Jaclyn were waiting for me when I exited my rooms, Jaclyn looking contrite.
“Sorry for trying to eat you.” Jaclyn said, and I raised my eyebrows at that. Seriously? That was the worst ‘I’m apologizing because I’m being made to and not because I actually feel bad’ I’d ever heard.
“Apology accepted.” I said...
2021-02-17 14:40:13 +0000 UTC View PostI blinked. That was… a surprisingly low-level question, for all the build-up involved.
“Um. Sure. Why not?” I said. “I’d be obligated to do it anyways.”
Some tension left Night, tension I hadn’t even seen build up.
“Good. I was concerned that the well might be poisoned, and a conflict or problem between us might occur. It is also difficult to find a healer who does not discover our secret, which continues to be an awkward point. At this point, are you satisfi...
2021-02-15 15:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I'm taking a short break so I don't burn out horribly, like I've been saying. I'll see you all on Monday!
“Dawn? May I come in?” Night asked, politely knocking on my door.
I fell back, scrambling to get away from the door, away from the thing on the other side, an inscription providing light for the room throwing crazy shadows over my face.
“No! You can’t enter!” I yelled out, trying to remember my vampire lore.
“That’s how it works right? I don’t give you permission and you can’t come in right?” I asked, only before realizing the monumental stup...
2021-02-10 03:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Book 3 cover artwork! Yay!
Only thing I'm unsure of is how much I like the "Sunburst" around the circle.
Technically, I did ask for it, but I didn't think my bad MS paint "straight spikes" would be taken so literally.
Do I accept the artwork the way it is? Does it look good like that? Or do I just make it a circle?
I really don't know, so I'm asking all of you!