Mingrix (https://www.patreon.com/mingrix) coming in hot with our favourite French lady Louise!
I went to work, but felt antsy the entire time. I had my Deadline gear shoved into the bags on my bike, gun and sword and all. The moment work finished, I’d have to run out to get changed and into position.
So, I spent the en...
2025-08-11 15:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post***
I woke up on Monday morning to a flood of notifications and messages.
So I turned around and hugged Lucy closer and pretended that I hadn’t seen anything.
Unfortunately, my brain was made of studpid, and after seeing that number of messages waiting for me, I couldn’t quite get back to sleep. I sighed and flopped onto my back. I couldn’t get up because Lucy was sleeping on my arm. Fortunately, the metal one, because it couldn’t fall asleep.
So, I laid on my back a...
2025-08-10 23:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostLemme know if you like these spells!
I rode my bike to work the next day, which was extremely satisfying. No waiting for the bus, plus I could slip into a drive through whenever I wanted for breakfast, and I still arrived at work ten minutes earlier than if I’d taken the bus.
My work badge gave me access to a parking space in the nearest parking garage. The D and C-rankers had their own little corner.
Of course, when I pulled in, it was to see a familiar car in one o...
2025-08-10 15:10:19 +0000 UTC View PostShitty AI art of the bike:
I'll have to see if any of the artists I'm working with are cool with drawing vehicles.
I got home, showered, Saved, then got dressed in more casual clothes. The day had been pretty long, but I couldn’t say that I wasn’t proud of how things turned out. Two employees that would have been dead weren’t, and I didn’t look incompetent or too n...
2025-08-09 21:06:19 +0000 UTC View PostBike time after this one! Having the MC have wheels is gonna give her a ton of agency!
I walked through the portal, moving from the entrance all the way down to the final boss room, where an exit portal was hovering a foot off the ground. This dungeon wasn’t that large, and frankly it wasn’t that complex.
Mostly it was a straight line, with a dozen ‘rooms’ each one relatively small as far as that kind of thing went.
Still, that didn’t mean that it wasn...
2025-08-09 14:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostHmm... man, I need to get to the next bit. It's hype (in my head) and I really wanna move to it, but I've got two things to cover first!
I got to work, somehow.
Carving two spells overnight was a bad idea. Maybe if they were both cantrips I could handle it, or if I had cleared half a dozen more E and D ranked portals I’d have the mana to spare, but as it was, the carving had pushed my magical energy into the negatives, and I was feeling it in the morning.
I w...
2025-08-08 23:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post***
Our first pickup was Nya and Knight. I wasn’t sure exactly what the two had been up to... but it wasn’t too difficult to assume that their mission had been a success.
I brought the Bastion around, the wash of the engines pushing through a thick wall of smoke.
There was a... lot of smoke. Mostly because there was a lot of fire. Or there had been? The area they’d worked on was a wide open space, with a few rolling hills and a river that forked cutting betwe...
2025-08-08 18:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostI had two days off this week! Really threw me off... Anyway, I' back!
Oh! Sword was purchased! I'm receiving it sometime next week, and I'll share it on here for all to see! Thanks for those on the discord that voted! Maybe I'll do that again if... idk, Save Scumming hits 5000 followers on Royal Road?
BTW, go follow Save Scumming! At the rate it's going, it'll never get past No. 4 on Rising Stars, which is lame, but that's just how it worked out. I don't know if we'll ever make it to Popular This Week either...
2025-08-08 13:05:23 +0000 UTC View PostIf you've got fancy ideas for cyberware after this one, lemme know!
I arrived at home feeling kind of tired. Not badly so, but... yeah, I hadn’t gotten enough sleep, and while work wasn’t too strenuous today, it was still work.
Still, the moment I was inside and checked to make sure the apartment was clear, I set a new Save. My first since yesterday, when I was tackling that goblin dungeon.
Probably a good thing that I hadn’t had to Reload, b...
2025-08-06 15:40:10 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t expect us to actually encounter pirates.
Like, sure, we joined the convoy explicitly to avoid pirates. That was one of the major reasons the convoy even existed in the first place--though there were a few other advantages. But still, I didn’t expect pirates to be an issue.
That’s probably why I was caught a little flat-footed when Gordon let out a shout, saying that he spotted a ship on the horizon.
Calamity came out, and squinted his cat eyes ...
2025-08-06 13:35:59 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all... art!
Ojou, by Mingrix!
Second, I'm... kinda happy with this chapter! Hopefully that bodes well for the rest of this arc!
I was not ready for therapy, nor did I need it.
Like, sure, I had a lot of shit going on, but I took breaks sometimes. I wasn’t pushing myself too hard. And even if I did need someone to talk to, I could f...
2025-08-06 08:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post***
I had the MEOW leap over a fallen tree while Princess took potshots at the aliens trailing after us. They’d come out of the woodworks, kind of literally, as we ran away from the hive. I figured we were mostly dealing with the Antithesis that had ranged out and away from the hive and who had come running back when we poked their home with high-explosives.
“Anything big?” I asked.
“Just some smaller ones,” Princess said. The guns rattled, though I only really heard th...
2025-08-04 18:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostSmall change to previous chapter:
<< That’s when she got a call. The screen with her messenger app flashed, and a line next below a familiar profile picture (currently an image of some anime woman’s cleavage) covered everything. A ringing sounded out, drowning out the three streams and the game she was listening to.
PikaRatChu6969 is Calling
Was Becky bored too?
Insane. Mouse had hooked her up with wi-fi inside a portal. That was unheard ...
2025-08-04 07:21:36 +0000 UTC View PostOnly... 3 days and 2 hours late! <3
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qlEdNGR0AU_xjz3_vxSqpRwtqMngUwb2GZjyhIxC_5o/edit?usp=sharing
2025-08-04 06:02:59 +0000 UTC View PostOnce, some two generations ago, a wandering elder of what was then a small but humble sect of young men merely looking to improve themselves came across something strange in the Steppes.
A deposit in the ground, scoured by wind, and yet brilliant all the same. Gold. Enough to build a humble home, or fund the start of a grand sect. Next to it were fonts of lava, oozing from the soil and boiling hot.
This elder reached out to his kin, and after much debate, then...
2025-08-04 03:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostHmm... I'm happy with THIS one, but I'm not happy with this arc overall. Oh well. I'll see if I can't improve things, make the next arc better!
Mouse was busy.
She was always busy.
Busy busy busy. All the time. 24/7.
She was in her cave at the moment. The Mouse hole. Her home inside of home. The gang HQ turned den of create evil and memes.
Her room was a windowless space with a p...
2025-08-03 07:53:32 +0000 UTC View PostSplitting this chapter in half because... I can?
“C’mon, c’mon,” she said as she tapped the Find Vanguard button.
Her phone screen lit up as a visual of the plant appeared, glowing bright and shiny as it was scanned, then the camera zoomed in, past clouds and across a huge city. She recognized it from the marketing material and got a little excited.
“C’mon, gimme that Deus Ex!” she muttered.
And then the camera panned to the side,...
2025-08-03 03:17:02 +0000 UTC View PostHi!
If you participated in the contest and have reached the vaunted 10K word mark, then now's your time to let me know!
The prize for all participants is $10 USD! The person who wrote the longest fic gets $100! And a commission of their OC looking cool as heck!
So have your Email address ready as well! I'll ask that participants send them to me via DM on here, or DM on Discord!
These are the participants I'm awa...
2025-08-03 00:55:37 +0000 UTC View Post***
I fired one last shot of the 155 into the ground, just to be sure. The resulting explosion shook the entire area, trees trembled, and the earth around and behind the hive’s hole kicked up, rising a foot or two before crashing back down.
I figured the impact was much worse in the tight confines of the hive itself, because nothing came rushing out for the next ten long seconds. “I think that just about clears the entrance,” I muttered.
“Well done!” Princess said. ...
2025-08-02 16:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostMade some minor changes to previous chapters... or one minor change. Becky now has wi-fi within the portal. This is maybe not that minor, actually.
Next one should be the last. And I'm happy for it, because I'm not pleased with this mini-arc. I made some silly mistakes with the goblin dungeon arc and it soured it a bit. I do have some cool ideas for the next segment, though!
I didn’t strictly have to take on the dungeon over and over. I had a worki...
2025-08-02 10:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt's up on RR!
Look: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/127120/save-scumming
The next three alcoves were more of the same. Honestly, I was getting tired of seeing Goblins at all.
They weren’t creative enemies to fight. They’d see us, and charge, Becky would zap or punch them, and I’d swipe or stab. Other than some amount of ache in my muscles and a ...
2025-08-02 02:12:20 +0000 UTC View PostI'm about to make a proper post about it... but Save Scumming is live on Royal Road! Legit though, if you want to help the story along a bit, consider following it there, or leaving a review? It would help a lot! I'd really like to see Save do well with a bigger audience, and... well, it's free?
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/127120/save-scumming
Might only be a 1-2 chapter day. Very heckin' busy today!
Hmm... one more to figure out the portal, and then I think we can end it? Maybe? Anywho!~ Got a lot of stuff for the rest of the 'week' in story, some of which I'm pretty hyped for! It's weird how I wanted to get to this, only now I'm hyped for the next part, and I bet once I'm at the hyped bit, I'll want to be at the next one as well?
It took some negotiating, but I convinced Becky to delve deeper into the dungeon. She... was a bit of a pain in the ass, true, but she was also stron...
2025-07-31 11:15:10 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a knock at the door that had me jumping. I’d been so absorbed in my work that the sudden distraction had my heart racing, and all of a sudden all the casual paranoia I’d felt most of my life came rushing back.
But the knock continued, and I recognized the pattern. ‘Shave and a haircut’ seven taps against the tin covering the door.
Sir Nibbles straightened from the cushion, barring his teeth but not yet growling or making a noise.
It was just me and him in the ...
2025-07-31 09:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostSloth's done!
Slothbeing: https://www.artstation.com/slothbeing
Damn, they're good... there's sweat and... anyway, yeah! Insane how good Sloth is!
Ah... now, here's a chappy! Becky continues to Beck, and our MC gets some experience! I think I might pick up the pace a little from here, I don't need to spent 20 chap...
2025-07-31 03:52:42 +0000 UTC View PostSince I'm on an art kick, I got some art of Cat on the way!
***
“Here aliens aliens aliens,” Princess said. She was talking over a loudspeaker embedded in the MEOW’s outer armour, so her voice was being projected out and all around us, pretty loudly too.
Unlike the Nyanzerfaust, which had lots of stealth tech, the MEOW was... not as subtle. It had some amount of ECM, but it was mostly to throw off electronically-targetted weapons, and it felt like something ta...
2025-07-31 02:36:06 +0000 UTC View PostBecky's surprisingly tricky to write! Lemme know what you think of our electric ADD punk!
Mingrix WIP:
“Josh sent for me,” I said.
“Uh-huh? Lemme call him,” the guard said.
I Reloaded.
“Franklin asked for me,” I said.
“Franklin? Yeah, nah, that guy’s a dumbass, ain’t no way he--”
I Reloaded.
“Hey,” I said as I came up to the ...
2025-07-30 08:46:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe day passed surprisingly quickly, though not easily.
This was only the second time the Beaver had ever had to fly in formation, and the first time had been with a bunch of sylph navy personnel onboard, helping to keep him nice and steady in the air.
As it turned out, the Beaver, even though it wasn’t the fastest ship around, was still way better than the Pyrowalkian merchant ships we were trying to stay in formation with. If it was...
2025-07-30 06:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Becky (with face!) by Mingrix! Still a WIP but I thought I'd share! Mingrix is sooo good at capturing characters, I love it!
Anyway, have a chappy. Took forever to wrote. My tumy hurts
plz pray for my poor tummy. It's grumby and sometimes achy, and no one has ever suffered as much as I have
Josh and Franklin, both, wanted to bring the girl’s bod...
2025-07-29 21:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post“You ready?” Teddy asked.
“Of course,” Aurora replied.
They were hiding in a bush. Well, more like between several bushes. The big building that the heroes were guarding was just around the corner. She could see it, if she leaned forwards, but Aurora told her not to do that too much. It would make it way too obvious that she was there. Her face was brighter than the colour of the bushes or whatever, and it would stand out if someone flashed some light their way.
That made ...
2025-07-29 08:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post
