My first stop was, naturally, Truso the Genuda Military Contract Manager. I was expecting a sharp operator. What I got was a sack full of broken glass and lovingly knapped obsidian arrowheads. He didn’t have to do anything to give me that impres...
2024-12-21 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Traveling with the family tomorrow- headed up to Vermont for the Christmas school vacation. Should be nice- Southwestern Vermont is almost unbearably quaint at any time, and we are finally past stick season. Plenty of snow, with more expected, to ...
2024-12-20 02:18:23 +0000 UTC
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“Othai, can you still not tell me about Genuda?” I slapped my forehead. “Let me rephrase- do you have anything you do want to tell me about Genuda?”
“Not… really, my Lord. Although I can tell you tha...
2024-12-18 17:25:49 +0000 UTC
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My Toad milking operation was over before it started- the acid was strong enough to melt glass. Like sugar in water. The glass just vanished under the corrosive power of the acid. I had the Toads put down immediately, leaving only th...
2024-12-16 17:26:29 +0000 UTC
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The battle had reached a grinding phase. The tower had become the central shaft of a meat grinder, and the screw was Carousel and the Blue Roses. Around and around they go, and as the Final Revel descends into the moat, the monsters spin and spin ...
2024-12-13 17:04:56 +0000 UTC
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The training wheels were officially off- ranged units were now in play. We now had stealthy, explosive stealthy, thrown stealthy, speedy, basic, armored basic, armored throwing basic, armored heavy, and now acid spitting toads. Which, from the sou...
2024-12-11 17:00:16 +0000 UTC
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I took a long look at Rache, trying to sort out what I was feeling as well as what I was thinking. Rache was willing to talk about things related to scouting, if I remembered correctly. She was a lot more alert than the Mikas, if “alert” was t...
2024-12-09 17:00:16 +0000 UTC
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The demons of Hidden Moon Mountain were, as I expected, more like Yokai than the denizens of Hell. Think… monsters and evil spirits. Like a three tailed cat that turned into a demon by drinking its owner’s blood and is now a godd...
2024-12-06 17:00:16 +0000 UTC
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My new hat was big. Bigger than my biggest fedora. Not quite sombrero sized or the size of Carousel’s hat, but pretty big. Black, with a round brim and a bright purple ostrich feather sticking out of the hat band. The brim on the side of the hat...
2024-12-04 19:10:09 +0000 UTC
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Arguably the single most unique piece of loot I had acquired from any of my adventures was the music box we got clearing Madame’s Bar in the Gradden March Floating Quarter. It was a complex mechanical job, or maybe magical. You opened the lid, a...
2024-12-02 17:04:59 +0000 UTC
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Every damn time I come in here, I read something that makes me upset. Every single time. Not to be all whiny, but what the actual Hell? Can the Devs just chill for once in their unnatural lives? Can’t they just emphasize the positive? Like, I co...
2024-11-29 17:00:16 +0000 UTC
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The Tenth Wave… I could feel the game world unsubtly pulling its gloves off. Every Gacha gamer knows this moment. The game got you invested. It’s showered you with endless boxes to open and free junk which looks amazingly impressive to the new...
2024-11-27 17:00:17 +0000 UTC
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“Funny. I thought we would get at least one more round of lightning out of it. Maybe we triggered a change when we killed enough of its mobs. Or maybe it resets after we beat the Hell out of it.”
The metal tree was twisting in...
2024-11-25 17:00:18 +0000 UTC
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“Pomoroi, shoot that damned thing.”
“Pomoroi, by Imperial Decree!” There was a blast, the cannonball sailed out, and smashed into a formerly invisible shield around the floating iron tree.
“So it’s lik...
2024-11-22 17:00:21 +0000 UTC
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This is the spot for comments, feedback, what you liked and didn't like. The number one question for me, of course, is "Do you want to find out what happened next?" "Is this something you would recommend to someone else?" and, most of all, "Why?" ...
2024-11-20 17:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Mortimer didn’t consider himself a good person. He didn’t think he was a bad person either. He existed in a liminal corridor between unasked for life and undeniable death. Good or evil meant a choice was made. He was just wriggling through the...
2024-11-20 17:25:01 +0000 UTC
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The bug slurped the bile up. Its chubby legs splayed out, letting it lower its body right down to the bright green mess. Mortimer wasn’t fooled. He co...
2024-11-20 17:20:00 +0000 UTC
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No need to creep- those bug things were huge and dangerous, but they were deaf and blind. Given the way they poked their tubelike maw around, he wondere...
2024-11-20 17:15:01 +0000 UTC
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The thing flowed across the floor with alien grace. Like two bears fused by a hateful, alien god. Long and stout, eight stumpy legs ending in sharp claw...
2024-11-20 17:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Mortimer Snerd was driving the I-70 through western Kansas again. It was enough to break a man, and it did. Something in Mortimer snapped.
2024-11-20 17:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The rain muffled my ears and blocked my eyes. But the monsters always seemed to know exactly where the Tower was.
“Miyuki sees the snake hidden in the grass!”
I saw the white arrow fly out into the...
2024-11-20 17:00:19 +0000 UTC
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Slumrat was explicitly a satire on Xianxia novels. Weeaboo is doing game lit dirty, and generally making fun of tower defense/gacha games. So... what would you guys like to see me take on next? Click all that you would want to read, and please com...
2024-11-19 19:45:23 +0000 UTC
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Synopsis: Mortimer Snerd is a mess. Drowning in debt, trapped in a job he both hates and doesn't understand, working for his old high school bully. ...
2024-11-19 19:27:36 +0000 UTC
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“I want to congratulate everyone! I am congratulating everyone! We did it! We built ourselves an absurdly over-fortified gatehouse and wrapped our wall around the base of the Tower. We even included bastions for cross fire. We have even-even reb...
2024-11-18 17:00:14 +0000 UTC
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I clapped my hands together, then rubbed them for maximum effect. I was renewed by a divine night’s… an order times…
I was renewed by sleep! Time, as an illusion, was therefore less meaningful than waking renewed. Refr...
2024-11-16 03:05:53 +0000 UTC
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The chapter due on the 15th will go up on the 15th, but it won't be at my usual time. Today just got utterly stomped into a hole in the ground in terms of getting things done, and tomorrow morning is going to be very nearly as busy. I'm bringing m...
2024-11-15 04:19:26 +0000 UTC
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[[Author's note]] Apologies for the late post- family business ran into a doctor's appointment and then continued out the other side. 'Tis the season, or at least, it's coming fast. All the end of year crazy is starting to pile up. Ah well...
2024-11-13 22:50:20 +0000 UTC
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It took a remarkably long time for my brain to start working again. What had been that monster at the end? What was that… skull-moon? Usually when there is a creepy skull, it’s a human skull. Not this time. I don’t know what the hell tha...
2024-11-11 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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I don’t think I’m stupid. You have to be a little smart to earn your own way in Manhattan. Got to have at least a bit of moxie, a bit of hustle and creativity. Or a lot of it. Usually a lot of it. So I don’t think I’m stupid. I will, howev...
2024-11-08 17:26:41 +0000 UTC
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Day ten. And for my efforts, for having survived this long, and in no way a naked bribe to players to stay engaged with the game for longer, I would be rewarded with a new top-of-the-line Six Star summons. I tapped the calender. The day was marked...
2024-11-06 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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