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The next world I visited was not far off from the world Perry comes from, what he would call modern, a place of concrete and electricity. Unlike Perry’s world, it was still a place of pow...
2023-08-15 01:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter. The update schedule should probably be Monday/Thursday, but then there's less room for the occasional bonus Friday chapter ... except I guess it could be on Sat...
2023-08-10 18:20:47 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
No one seemed to have noticed Perry’s nighttime trip down to the dungeon. The big risk was that they were just pretending they’d seen nothing, which was even more of a conce...
2023-08-07 20:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry watched the video closely, for the fourth or fifth time. The shadow woman snuck into the armory, opening the door only a fraction. If all the cameras had been functional at the time, ...
2023-08-02 20:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostThresholder, now twice a week, at least for a bit!
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Perry surveyed Cicada Temple from a distance, using the cameras to zoom in as far as he could. He was up on a nearby hill, the bette...
2023-07-31 17:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Maya was gone, vanished, as though she’d left Moth Lantern Hall and then never so much as thought about returning to Crystal Lake Temple. Her room was searched, but there was nothing ther...
2023-07-28 00:42:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the final epilogue, so this story is now considered "complete". There might be more, as I feel like it, but it would be in a different direction and with a different cast, and I'm mostly just leaving myself open to the possibility here. It would also be pretty far in the future, as I...
2023-07-25 18:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe wonderful bacontime has made a very professional PDF version of The Exclusionary Principle, with a clickable map of exclusions, table of contents, and everything all in one place. There's also been some additional material written to fill have the pages look properly packed. These are: a note from Grak on the MNEZ, excerpts on Manifest (ICEZ), and several "Did you know?" additions about exclusion tourism, diplomacy with enpersoned exclusions, imperial policy of forge frenzy, and a digression on 'physics'.
2023-07-22 17:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry was going to kill her. He was going to pin her to the ground and beat her face into a pudding of blood and brains, he was going to break her arms and eat her fingers one by one, he wa...
2023-07-20 17:31:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Worth the Candle exclusion zones splatbook is now complete. You can read it on AO3 here. Additionally, there's a post mortem for the project on my website here. The whole thing clocks in at 87K words, along with a bunch of AI art, some good, some not so good.
There will be a proper PDF version coming in the near future, but in the meant...
2023-07-18 16:45:12 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Pinion was happy to be back home, though he’d been gone for long enough that everything felt a bit off-kilter. Lambria felt like a behemoth astride a mountain, and he found hi...
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Lingfeng accepted Maya readily enough, even though she said too much almost right away.
“I was waiting in the bushes,” she said. “I wanted to make sure this was a sa...
2023-07-12 20:14:23 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Travel entads were weird. Inter had become a series of disconnected places to Marsh, separated not by distances but by whatever item he needed to get from one to the other. Dond...
2023-07-10 18:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
Perry was carrying as much of Marchand as he’d been allowed to, which had taken some conversations with both Luo Yanhua and the quartermaster. The drone had been extracted fro...
2023-07-07 01:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostAnother late chapter, sorry, personal stuff got in the way. Thresholder will be Thursday instead of Wednesday.
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Vertex had followed the Settlers to Plenarch, thoug...
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“Alright,” said Perry. “Try to hit me.”
He was in Moon Stance, one of the most basic that Moon Gate taught: feet wide apart and body low to the ground. The first s...
2023-06-29 02:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostThis will be the final "proper" chapter of Dungeons. There will be a few epilogue chapters that I'm looking forward to writing, but I'm happy enough to look around and declare tha...
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“I was born in the Year of Sighing Trees,” said Xiyan. “My family owned a tea house, which had been in the family for nineteen generations. I was the youngest of nine chil...
2023-06-22 18:11:24 +0000 UTC View PostThis chapter is a day late, sorry. The schedule will be shifted one day over, so Thresholder will be Friday rather than Thursday. I've gotten in the bad habit of writing longer chapters, then also wri...
2023-06-20 16:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostBonus chapter! You are now six chapters ahead of RoyalRoad.
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The next day, Luo Yanhua was impressed with his progress, and whatever Perry’s reservations about her, he sti...
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Maya was still outside, waiting for him. She was in conversation with a short woman with jet-black hair, conservatively dressed in cotton clothes of many layers, a sash across her waist for a ...
2023-06-14 17:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
The bloodwinds usually came in the autumn, sharp and pungent. The name was literal, but there was relatively little blood in them, just a brief, fine mist on the most intense of days. Peopl...
2023-06-12 17:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle to drag the posting schedule back to a standard 10AM Central is real, and I remain a perpetual half-day behind. Also, this chapter might get shuffled around later, with the first third of i...
2023-06-07 20:51:24 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
There was something enchanting about the new woman. It wasn’t any quality of her in particular, but the fact that she was a new woman, one with her own history, her own magical p...
2023-06-05 22:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post~~~~
It took another two days to get to Dragon’s Breath Peak, which involved a lot of arguing while they walked, more meat from the peasants, and further training and diagnostics for both Perr...
2023-06-01 19:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter, it was memorial day, so a day that's normally writing was taken up with picnics and yardwork with my wife and son. I'm unsure on if Thresholder will need to be ...
2023-05-30 16:38:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey, sorry for the one day delay, I'm weaning off caffeine and it's shocking how much my productivity and general well-being was being propped up by too much coffee. Over the hump now thou...
2023-05-25 19:19:59 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter, I'm weaning myself off caffeine and it is not going well.
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The woman looked at them expectantly. Her most striking feature was her hair...
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Perry wore the armor. This was both unfortunate and necessary, because there was no way to easily carry it and he certainly wasn’t going to leave it behind. He had his sword a...
2023-05-17 18:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostTUTBAD is back! I'd like to say that I'm back refreshed and recharged, but I'm not sure that the brief hiatus actually helped me that much.
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The dungeon at Cairhaven was in th...
2023-05-15 18:36:44 +0000 UTC View Post
