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“You’re not in a guild, are you?” asked Mizuki as they walked away from the warp point. “I guess I assumed you weren’t, but I don’t actually know.”
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“I want to get this out of the way now,” said Alfric, as they sat and recovered. “We shouldn’t have fought the bear. Things were going well, but we got overconfident, an...
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Mizuki was finding that she didn’t actually like traveling that much. Six miles was a long way to walk, especially if you were going to do a dungeon at the end of it. The dung...
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It was Mizuki who thought to invite Isra to the Fig and Gristle, for which she was grateful. There was a part of Isra that felt she should be living in the same house with them,...
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They got the party channel exactly seven days after the party had formed. Hannah was pleased, but she’d been in a number of parties before, and party...
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Isra moved through the woods, following a path the deer normally took. The world was looking different to her, and she didn’t know how much of that was in her head. Did normal...
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When they were leaving to go shop, Mizuki debated how much money to take. She had a small crock that she kept some spare rings in, but this was three thousand rings, hi...
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Verity sat in the backyard, surrounded by the wild plants and the struggling ones that had once upon a time been cultivated. There was work to be done, an enormous amou...
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“How is she?” asked Alfric once Hannah came back downstairs.
“Nevermind that,” said Mizuki. “Look at this cat.”
Sitting on the kitchen counter like a prop...
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Five was an annoying number, in Hannah’s opinion. There was very little symmetry to be had from it. Five could have rotational symmetry, but the same could be said of any numbe...
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Isra ended up renting a room at the Angry Plum, the larger of Pucklechurch’s two taverns, taking a room across from Alfric. She insisted that the materials from the book be t...
Effective today, This Used to be About Dungeons will be moving to a three times a week schedule, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. If the backlog, which is currently twenty chapters, slips below ten chapters, I'll probably scale back to twice weekly, but there's at least a month before that happens assuming that I do basically no writing. Because of this, chapters will instead have a 24 hour window of being early rather than 48, in order to keep non-patrons from being permanently behind, which I think would be bad for discussion/community....
2021-08-23 14:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostNormal posting has started! As a friendly reminder, please keep discussion on Discord to the #earlybirds channel.
Also, the Q&A for Worth the Candle is ongoing on my subreddit, so if you have any lingering questions, stop by and I'll try to answer them.
And that's the end of the epilogues. I hope you enjoyed them for their indulgences.
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This Used to be About Dungeons is a comfy slice-of-life adventuring story that occasionally features dungeons.
Mostly it's about walking in the woods with a friend, looking for mushrooms to put in your soup, or haggling with the guy selling squash, or taking care of a neglected garden. It's putting some jam on shortbread biscuits. And yes, sometimes you go down into the dungeons with your friends, and you kill monsters there, or disarm traps, but when you come out, you realize you've found the perfect magic item to give to one...
2021-08-05 20:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostEpilogues 7-8 will be up sometime on Friday. Thanks for reading! Additionally, I'm planning the first three chapters of This Used to be About Dungeons to be put up quite soon, in part so that there can be some cross-promotion.
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... of a planned eight.
I think that the story as it stands prior to these epilogue chapters is "complete", and it would be perfectly fine to have stopped there, both for me as an author and you as a reader. That said, there were still things that I wanted to pick at, and elements I wanted to interrogate, and I do think it's nice to have everyone have a known trajectory when you finish, so they're not just floating in liminal space.
The rest of the epilogue chapters will be out this week, and then I'll be on to the next thing, w...
The post mortem for Worth the Candle is here, if you'd like to read it, and gives my general thoughts on how things went and what went wrong. tl;dr: pretty good
I'm not sure the Apocrypha is worth reading, and would caution you not to think of it like "more" Worth the Candle.
You can instead think of this like being deleted scenes from a DVD (boy do I miss DVD extras). As with those, a lot of the time you think to yo...
2021-07-21 14:35:05 +0000 UTC View PostWell, here it is. There will likely be some epilogue chapters after this, but I'm not entirely sure about that. Barring any abrupt changes in my plans for the future, the next serial will start roughly a week after the final epilogue chapter, or after I've finished some of the side story stuff I was planning to do, if I do it. As far as outstanding obligations, I still need to write most of the exclusions doc, which I've been languishing on, in spite of having put in the work on an extensive outline. It'll get done, eventually. There's also ...
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