Foxmoor Fiction

SSD 2.08 - The Travails of Travel

I was supposed to have the surgery already, but ended up sick, and anything respiratory means you cannot be put under because it can alter how the anesthesia impacts you. So yeah, hopefully that will happen very soon.

Between being sick and anxiety about surgery, I have been much less productive than I would have liked. Still, I am working on my editing again, and this chapter is the product of that, taking place after Zidaun has left the city, and is heading to find the dungeon. I felt...

Back working on stuff

Been working on the some editing, and just got that posted to Royal Road. That would be major edits for the first half of Arc 2, up to 2.07. (And boy do they take so much longer than I think they should. Admittedly, I am trying to also create a database of everything so that I am keeping track of everybody's status, the timeline, and so on, but it still takes longer than I would have thought.)

Hoping to get a chapter up on Friday again, but have doctor appointments with my partner for t...

Life Stuff

One of my partners is going into surgery on Tuesday. Not life threatening, but with a recovery time of several months and, as you might imagine, lots of stress leading up to all of this. I've had time to write, theoretically, but absolutely no bandwidth to do so, just vegging in my free time.

I am hoping to fix that sometime soon(ish), but not sure if that will be next week, the next, or what. Nothing cancelled, and this delay shouldn't be too long, but life has a way of demanding atte...

SSD 5.18 - Highly Disciplined

Sorry this is a bit late. I worked on it last week, but didn't get as much done as I wanted. Vacation wore me out, haha. Also, might have been a little depressed from political things.

Still, here we go with a new chapter. Enjoy!

I’ve seen murderers who were kind to all, and saints that were misanthropes, secretly giving all they had to those in need. The surface is just that. Even so, when people tell you who they are, and what they want, in word or deed, b...

SSD 5.17 - The Heart an Engine

Going to be on vacation for all of next week, so no chapter scheduled. Otherwise, things will resume after that. Also, I assume I was inspired by the season, and things became appropriate for Halloween. I hope everyone had a good one!

Flesh dungeon? No idea what you are talking about. You should know better than to believe wild rumors.

-Tesna Carcath, Mayor of Hakatas, shortly before the fifth cataclysm.

==Exsan==

Caden was not yet ready to help me.

He had...

SSD 5.16 - What Makes a Breaker Skill

Hello all!

Just so you all know, Patreon is trying to move to subscription billing, and I have set the settings for that to go ahead. Shouldn't change anything for anyone already subscribed, as things will continue as normal. New subscriptions, after November starts will automatically renew on the say day the next month, rather than just the start of the next month. So that should hopefully be good for everyone.

And now, the scheduled chapter, as foretold, wahahaha!

I...

SSD 5.15 - Headaches

Love you all, thank you for reading. The last few days have been a challenge, but I wanted to get something up for all of you. So I hope you all enjoy.

And he stepped upon a tiny crack, which swallowed him up. The others simply nodded, for such was the fate of those that tempted the spirits.

-From Ugyath’s Tales for Children

==Caden==

The clouds of dust slowly settled, my phantom steps doing nothing to disturb them further, and the glittering remnants...

SSD 5.14 - Under Pressure

And we finally get into looking at that skill... which quickly gets weird. Spatial manipulation, when really thought through, gets very strange, very quickly.

True masters of spacial magic are rare. Gifted amateurs tend to die in a spectacularly messy fashion, unless they exercise extreme care. The best advice when fighting a spacial mage, is simply to not do so in the first place. If you must, engage with precision, overwhelming power, and from a place that they cannot see. If f...

SSD 5.13 - Plants and Predators

Chapter, delivered today as promised. I had fully intended to delve fully into exploring Caden's skill, but then, as so often happens with writing, I was diverted by an area that needed to be better explored. Even still, I feel like I could have delved much further into the complexities of the vast ecosystems that had been formed. Still, I decided to leave most of the that exploration for when such things are actually placed into the traversable portions of the dungeon.

A...

Slight Delay

Just dealing with some real life stuff. One of my partners has been suspended from work for more than a month... whole long story. Anyway, stuff coming to a head soon, and that, plus a bunch of other life stuff, has been adding some delay.

So, not ideal, but hoping to get the chapter done and up on Monday.

SSD 5.12 - Possibly Breakfast

We return to your regularly scheduled episode of the "Overdramatic Dungeon"...

Long lived are the scars which we inflict upon ourselves. To forgive others is often easier, for we understand that they are merely mortal. Ourselves, however, well surely we must hold ourselves to a higher standard than mere mortal men. Remember, that you, too, are merely mortal. Forgive yourself, and allow the old wounds to heal, rather than treasuring your wound and hurt forever. When...

SSD 5.11 - Food is More Than Fuel

The title of this chapter, while a bit trite, does reflect one of my core beliefs. That life is meant to be lived, and that the experiences we go through are there to be experienced. My life is challenging at the moment, but there is still much joy that is there whenever I am willing to have it, to let it in.

Ahem, regardless, enjoy the chapter.

And so, freed, the battles over, and their lives their own, the slaves did what they had desired so greatly, from the beginning; ...

SSD 5.10 - Employment

Your regularly scheduled chapter has arrived again. So enjoy!

“Every employer deals with two mutually opposing paradigms. Giving your employees enough experience to level and grow, and therefore be more useful, weighs against both: sacrificing the levels and experience that could have gone to another, and the possible loss of any talent that gains sufficient knowledge and power. Fail to provide enough capacity to grow, and you run the risk of not being able to hi...

SSD 5.09 - Those That Desire No Worship

Your regularly scheduled chapter is once again here. Decently sized chapter, at 3100 words and change. Also decided that the coins really ought to have names, so implemented that here, and will be writing that into the edits, as well.

Enjoy!

“Servants that fear the Master offer no resistance, but also volunteer no assistance. Those that love the Master may speak out of turn, but turn a Master from disaster. with their tongue.”

-Aopi Proverb

==Caden==

Masteoa ...

SSD 5.08 - Monstrous Ambitions

This chapter ran away with me a bit, but in the best way. So a bit longer than my usual offerings at ~3800 words. Enjoy your schedule chapter.

“None of the wealthy and powerful that have come to me for answers have ever been happy when they talk to me about fate. I punctured their self-importance with the cold nature of reality. They have power because chance aligned to grant it to them, very few have truly earned anything, and even they don’t like being reminded how m...

Art - Slogi in the Snow

I've posted this before, but I think some people missed it, and it does enhance the last couple posted chapters, so I hope you all enjoy it. Also, we first saw the slogi back in chapter 2.3, but Zidaun didn't think much about them, since he knew what they were and just thought of them as a convenient way to travel.

Also, they are just freaking adorable.

SSD 5.07 - Warm Fuzzy Feelings

A slightly early offering of your weekly chapter, enjoy.

“The skill of an artist is in this, how well they render in stone, paint, or note, the transitory ephemeral of flesh and feeling. Mere accuracy is the domain of the proficient. Meaning is the domain of the artist.”

- Irakkas Ovajad, prodigy multidisciplinary artist, to a student.

==Caden==

The slogi were in their own section of the stable, sealed off by a sturdy wall. The reason was fairly obvious onc...

SSD 5.06 - Going with the Classics

It's Friday again, and so time for another chapter. Enjoy!

Pets are a universal in all human societies. Even those that barely survive will have children selecting tiny animals to care for.

-A’vim Unati, historian

==Caden==

After failing to completely think things through before extending my aura, and more than a little excitement by both me and the people here, if for entirely different reasons, I needed to exercise some restraint and a guiding hand.

In...

SSD 5.05 - Fluffy Linings

Another Friday, another chapter. Thank you for all your support, and I hope you enjoy.

The little joys make life worth living. Life is hard, and you will find suffering and sorrow, but by taking the little joys, and fully savoring them, past sorrows shall blow away like ashes on the wind. Enjoy the moment, be happy, be free, and let sadness wait for another day.

-Frigak Lwenjas, Priest of Otga

==Caden==

Firi? That’s his teammate, right? There was some roma...