Just a PSA.
As stated in the "Vacation" post, will be on and off until sometime mid-July (I've already paused billing for July, as planned).
In the process, will post some chapters here and there, run the quest a bit, and overall try to organize myself while trying to enjoy the rest of the vacation.
Thanks a bunch everyone, and see you guys soon!
2022-06-14 19:44:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Earl was not an old man, as far as things went, he was relatively young, merely thirty years of age. He had been raised and educated in the ways of nobility and management. It had been a life rife with books and teac...
2022-05-22 11:47:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter roughly 2-years and change of writing day in and day out, I'm taking a vacation!
I'll be taking a trip as well as some courses, and will come back roughly mid-July. The math checks out as 2 months of partial absence, so June and July have been paused for billing.
I won't be entirely gone, however, I will still make chapter updates here and there, as well as likely run the quest more often than I otherwise would have. I just can't make any promises on regularity during these following 2 months.
Hopefully, I'll get "Mon...
2022-05-13 10:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostSmall Emergency comment: I had to edit/change the final chunk of chapter 28 due to some plot/situations/things further down the line. The whole conversation with the AI had been messing with me something fierce and the solution to the problem ended up needing t...
2022-05-07 23:12:46 +0000 UTC View PostRick woke in the middle of the night, or it was more like he hadn’t slept. His thoughts kept moving back to the blue haired woman, Kiara. Her visit had been a surprise, a maiden pretending to be a human woman. He’d felt the w...
2022-05-06 18:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe poll is closed!
Talling in the results based on voter tier, we had a VERY close run.
The winning quest [Link] will start running (publicly) n...
2022-05-02 01:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere’d not been much to do in the small town at the base of the massive metal pillar. The place was little more than an oversized waystation, its main utility being to carry people up into the tower and down. Everything ...
2022-04-30 18:45:48 +0000 UTC View PostBarry squirmed in the chair as he kept his gaze on the floor, wondering how had things come to this? Well, he knew how. There were six knights, one Lala and one Orion, and Embla was somewhere outside Seledo with a retinue of unkn...
2022-04-29 10:00:37 +0000 UTC View PostFor those who don't know, besides writing stories for Reddit and Royal Road, I also run quests (usually during the weekend, with Rick's "Monster and Maidens" story being adapted from one such quest [Link]).
How quests work is akin to a live-stream. Once it goes "Live", I write the story in real time, posting it in chunks, and throwing polls and dice rolls for the viewers to decide what to do next.
R...
2022-04-29 05:46:49 +0000 UTC View PostDamon had once visited the Rocky Mountains national park. It had been the closest experience he’d ever had in terms of feeling awe towards something truly monumental. Snow-capped mountains as far as the eye could see, with ...
2022-04-23 18:31:48 +0000 UTC View PostBarry had spent so much time with the Court that, when he spotted the tiny city of Seledo, he’d been forced to reassess his perception of the kingdom. As well as that of the scale of the Court itself. He had heard that the gro...
2022-04-22 17:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostDue to personal circumstances, I will be taking a break this week (meaning no posts this Friday / Saturday, and no Quest running until next week).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
2022-04-13 09:52:43 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s… a lot of gold.” Damon looked at the stacks of coins placed in neat rows within a metal box the size of his fist. “I’m pretty sure this is too much gold.”
He glanced at Idina. The young woman was looki...
2022-04-09 17:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe day was sunny, the road was dry, not a cloud in sight and the wind was fresh. Under normal circumstances, it would have been perfect to go out on a walk or for a lengthy stroll. Maybe even a hike up a mountain or through a f...
2022-04-08 17:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostEarly morning came with a fog-bank descending upon the village. Neither of the two suns had come out, and things were quiet as Damon stepped out of Linda’s house. He carried a large backpack that was ...
2022-04-02 16:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostRick found himself standing before he was awake.
His heart hammered against his chest, the echoes of Monica’s roar a distant ringing in his ears.
It took a split second for his brain to process what had just happened...
2022-04-01 19:08:14 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Damon opened the door to Linda’s workshop, the woman, seated behind her workbench, shrieked, jumped, and made it half-way to the door leading further into the house before she stopped.
“DAMON!” She proclaimed,...
2022-03-26 18:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe house was, in a way, a prison.
Mark had quickly come to start thinking it as such, at the very least.
It was a nice place, all things considered. The amenities were mostly comparable to the two taverns they’d ma...
2022-03-25 19:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, after having shown up in the village and fought a murder-not-robot, finally, they were heading out to the cave Damon had woke up in. Damon, Sybil, and Idina walked up the hills covered in blue grass, leaving Han be...
2022-03-19 18:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostBarry sat on the edge of the bed, his gaze distant and unfocused, his hands clenching and relaxing in a slow, irregular rhythm. In his mind, he tried to go over the conversation with Pan again. It was like watching a ...
2022-03-18 20:11:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe storm raged outside, and Damon was drenched, cold, and exhausted. It had been a long walk back while dragging the damn thing, and he was mostly sure morning had come rolling over not that long ago. And the first thing he...
2022-03-12 18:47:33 +0000 UTC View PostBeen having some technical issues, but here we are, on time! woot!
Noah squeaked against the gag. Neither from pain nor panic, but from how Shery’s shoulder kept pressing against her gut with every lunge the gr...
2022-03-11 18:59:29 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the things Damon had grown to hate about basic training when he joined the army, marching had not been one of them. To just start moving and shut off his brain and push himself, see how far he could go. It wasn’t easy. F...
2022-03-05 19:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostOh, small warning. I updated the previous chapters. The bigger changes being that Emilie is a character that pops up at the end of Chapters 1, 3, and 6. Had intended for her to only show up further down the series, but her snippets were added earlier instead. 2022-03-05 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm back! Welcome on board everyone!
“This breaks physics.”
Sitting on the large plush bed, legs crossed, Rick kept glaring at the book about ‘alchemy’ that he’d been provided by the maids as a “l...
2022-03-04 15:36:13 +0000 UTC View PostStarting next week, I am returning to action!
And with it, some changes.
For starters, Void Song (to be renamed to "The Flesh is (Not) Weak") will post weekly along with "Monsters and Maidens". MaM on Friday's, TFnW on Saturday's.
Also, due to some itinerary mishap, the number of weeks ahead of the public will change, increasing by 3 to the previous number (So bronze will now be 5 rather than 2, Silver will be 6 rather than 3, and Gold will be 7 rather than 4).
This is the posting schedule:
2022-02-25 23:42:31 +0000 UTC
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“Sir knight will not let us head out, Sybil. Not while his familiar’s still being repaired. Calm down.”
“But we have to-.” She grumbled.
“The cave’s going nowhere.”
Damon remained seate...
2022-01-28 20:53:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Who are you?”
“My name is Damon Wight… ma’am.”
The situation was tense, the fight had come to an abrupt end when Damon’s translation system had kicked in. An opportunity Sybil had been ready to use to gut...
2022-01-28 20:53:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe more Damon descended the mountain, the more he felt like he’d been ten steps away from being told he would be singing about the hills being alive with music. Everything looked picturesque except the scenery was all wrong, the greens were blues, the suns were two, and he was pretty damn sure he saw at least three c...
2022-01-28 20:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the start of Void Song (Going to make 4 posts, all public).
It's a story set in its own setting, and one I'll be publishing on Royal Road (And reddit, and sribblehub, and all the the other websites) starting March.
The summary is that you have your isekai, your stranded protagonist, your strange new world, your killer monsters, your... killer robots? glowing swords? drones? And why do people talk abou...
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