Save Scumming - Chapter Seventy-Nine

Mingrix (https://www.patreon.com/mingrix) coming in hot with our favourite Frenc...
2025-08-11 15:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Mingrix (https://www.patreon.com/mingrix) coming in hot with our favourite Frenc...
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 ...
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 wante...
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.
Bike 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 ro...
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 ...
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 <...
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...
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, an...
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 fi...
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 ...
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 figu...
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 ...
Only... 3 days and 2 hours late! <3
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qlEdNGR0AU_xjz3_vxSqpRwtqMn...
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.&n...
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.
Sh...
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...
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 commiss...
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, ris...
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...
2025-08-02 10:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt's up on RR!
Look: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/127120/save-scumming
I'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...
2025-08-01 10:12:33 +0000 UTC View PostHmm... 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 fo...
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 c...
2025-07-31 09:01:25 +0000 UTC View PostSloth's done!

Slothbeing: https://www.artstation.c...
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!
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“Here aliens aliens aliens,” Princess said. She was talking over a loudspeaker embedded in the MEOW’s outer armo...
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:

The 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 wi...
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!
A...
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 arou...
2025-07-29 08:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post