Chapter 135: Another Phone Call
I still wasn’t sure why Pryte had been so upset by the roof collapse in the pavilion. They had been bound to make a few mistakes yesterday. Most of...
2025-03-23 21:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 134: A Day in the Life of Pryte
That fact that Pryte was even doing this was kind of insane, sure, he had been bored with his job, but he was also comfortable. Just ...
Chapter 133: After Party
“John how are you feeling,” I asked the moment I was back into the waiting room. The smile on his face was nearly reaching his e...
2025-03-21 03:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 132: Floor Nine
“Monster up ahead, get ready!” Rabyn yelled after several minutes of running, causing everyone to skid to a stop. I spotted what ...
2025-03-19 03:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 131: Cooking for Two
I woke up the next morning to find Rabyn, Maud, and John in the kitchen waiting for me. “Morning,” John said as I walked in....
Chapter 130: Post Mortem & Moose
“So, anyone wanna tell me what went wrong?” Mel said once all of us were collected, healed, and mostly conscious, sitting at...
Chapter 129: Team Building Exercises
“Alright, the idea here is I want ya all to capture every one of these balls, intact,” Mel yelled before he tossed thirty gre...
Chapter 128: Hub and Spoke Topology
“As long as it gets us free from the prison you keep us in. We wish to experience the world again!” one of the two orbs said.
Chapter 127: Tools & Cores
I was able to push myself to level three thirty-nine, not far enough for another fortification yet, but further than I had been b...
Chapter 126: Two Cores
Mana flooded through my system, far more controlled than before. It wasn’t even Corey’s doing yet, the fortification itself had completely repair...
2025-03-12 02:25:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 125: Fortify Corey!
“Go, I’ll catch up!” Pryte yelled before I even had a chance to question the scream. I took off at a run, pushing my body as fa...
Chapter 124: A Stroll Through the Woods
After spotting Elody, I wasn’t sure I actually wanted to interrupt her. Both she and Mel were in front of the cloudwood, eyes closed, and surprisi...
2025-03-08 10:24:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 123: A Phone Call
“Hey, Mom, yeah, Dad’s here… Yeah, we can do a speaker call one second,” Alex said. If the cell networks were back up that likely meant s...
Chapter 122: Orders & Simulations
“Gathering?” I asked, not entirely sure what he was talking about again. The idea of having some sort of get-together for pe...
Chapter 121: Back to the Simulator
I woke up the next day without my usual sense of dread permeating my brain. It was a welcome change. From the lack of smells, it was possible I ...
Bully For You
Below is a short story with an open ending I wrote for a Shadow Light competition. This will likely be slowly expanded on in the future.
Chapter 1: There Would Have Been a Fight
“Can someone please tur...
2025-03-01 08:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 120: A Brief Break for Serenity
All thoughts of having a quick conversation on my discovery became lost the moment the tree settled into its new spot. Its bark ...
Chapter 119: Path of the Soul
After that conversation, Pryte and Elody left me alone to do my own planning. Pryte wanted to check on the new equipment and make sur...
Chapter 118: Surprises & Preparations
“So what is being delivered from those prizes anyway?” I asked. I had no real idea what they could contain, considering appar...
Chapter 117: Floor Eight: A New Challenger Approaches
Not that I had ever really doubted our decision to save Glorp, but if I had the moment he showed up and returned us the favor wi...
Chapter 116: Floor Eight: Maud, Corey, Glorp
Maud
Maud wasn’t sure what to make her new life. It was somehow both her favorite dream and worst nightmare....
Chapter 115: Floor Eight: Cecile & Elicec
Cecile
When Cecile had first spotted Dave, looking barely alive and out of his mind in the Spire his initi...
Today's Chapter + Bonus
In my standard reread of the day's chapter before posting, I decided I didn't like how it sounded, so I'm reworking a bunch of it. It may be as late as early tomorrow (but still probably tonight).
We've cleared the first Royal Road metric f...
Chapter 114: Floor Eight: Connie
Connie was proud of herself, extraordinarily proud of herself. Gramps was going to be over the moon when she got word to him that the...
Chapter 113: Floor Eight: Rabyn
Rabyn looked around the room the moment the door had closed. The item he had to bring to the finish had already appeared in the next room...
2025-02-20 00:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 112: Floor Eight: Elody
Truth be told, Elody wasn’t entirely sure why she had decided to join Dave. Sure, she had given him some reasons that were entirely true now, b...
Chapter 111: Floor Eight: Dave
By the end of the second day of training, Maud and Glorp had both gotten a pretty good handle on using their new abilities, especially in regar...
Chapter 110: Sanquar’s Quest
“Alright so we skip the class for now then. Maud any idea on a mana orb?” I asked, focusing the conversation back onto the here...
2025-02-15 01:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 109: Class Decisions
“The choice may be harder for Maud, but I think I’m already sold on this Combat Rogue. I’ve been eying it since the moment Mel iden...
2025-02-13 23:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 108: Private Talks
“Before you start, Glorp already told me. Luckily since the squad still isn’t full, adding Maud to it is simple enough. What I ...
2025-02-13 00:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post