The Seven-Ten Bowling Alley, Etson - 7:56 PM
I readied myself as I tuned out everything else. The ball I held in my hand was not the regulation breaking 30 pound lunker I had inherited from Boss Steener. This 14 pounder was ...
2024-06-24 13:12:29 +0000 UTC
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Etson College - 5:27 PM
Sara insisted on a change of venue and, after she got changed into something she felt comfortable wearing outside, we decided to walk around my college. The Florida heat was bearing down on us, but it...
2024-06-20 14:30:48 +0000 UTC
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Location: unknown - Time: unknown
I was disoriented. My vision blurred and my head felt like it was going to split open. It was bad enough to elicit an actual groan of pain.
The feeling slowly receded, and I was face t...
2024-06-17 14:26:19 +0000 UTC
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Salutations, readers!
We now return to your regularly scheduled chapter of 100th Run 5.
Thank you for your patience!
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100th Run Book 1, 2024-05-30 16:32:11 +0000 UTC
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The Pitt - 7:32 PM
Kayla and I left the Angel Express after I rejoined the guild. We emerged from the door Sara had me put deep in the Pitt. I was feeling clean and refreshed, my clothes were all in pristine condition, and I...
2024-05-30 16:28:02 +0000 UTC
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Pittsburgh - 6:09 PM
Thanks to Sara navigating for me, I was able to get back to Pittsburgh with only a few minor inconveniences. All I had really known was to head west until I found the right highway, but with her directio...
2024-05-27 12:38:05 +0000 UTC
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Hell - 12:20 PM
“You have chosen a painful route, Angel,” the real Pustibule said, sounding disappointed rather than angry. “For the record, I will not kill you, but your time in Hell will not be ple-“
Thankful...
2024-05-23 14:48:49 +0000 UTC
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UPMC Presbyterian, The Pitt - 12:04 PM
I ran the edge of my sword against the hospital walls as I approached the screaming Demon. From the sounds of it, Mercury had done as instructed and ruined several pieces of Pustibule...
2024-05-20 19:26:48 +0000 UTC
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UPMC Presbyterian, The Pitt - 11:45 AM
Despite my Heat Resistance passive keeping me comfortable at temperatures as high as 150 degrees Fahrenheit, I was already starting to sweat from Olivia’s missed attack. The woman’s...
2024-05-16 15:44:11 +0000 UTC
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The Pitt - 11:27 AM
I ran towards the dungeon alone, having sent Mercury ahead with Sara’s instructions on how to get to the hospital himself. If I had been able to use Divine Messenger, I would have been faster than him, ...
2024-05-13 14:32:56 +0000 UTC
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The Angel Express - 10:00 AM
I watched as Kayla continued to tend to Jamie’s wound. Jeremiah’s Stinger Rifle came with an ability that poisoned the people it shot to make them harder to heal. It was a measure to make sur...
2024-05-09 15:48:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello again! May update part 2 here.
The big news is that I finished 100th Run book 4! I'm pretty happy with how it all turned out. I am going to have to trim down some fat for publication because it came out at a huge 167k, but that's not a...
2024-05-06 13:42:05 +0000 UTC
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UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, Pittsburgh - 9:42 AM
It didn't take long for the Fieldhouse to become absolutely packed. I was ready to go at it right away, but Greg was insistent on grabbing a crowd. It was suspicious how fast ever...
2024-05-06 12:53:04 +0000 UTC
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The Guild of Guilds, Pittsburgh - 8:31 AM
It had been quite a few days since Jamie and I had seen the Master of Masters, Kail Fortetta, and the Akkarae twins. Back then, their building had only just been liberated and there ...
2024-05-02 12:42:34 +0000 UTC
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The Angel Express - 7:43 AM
My mug of hot chocolate was almost completely gone by the time I finished transcribing the last of the directions for the group. Jamie was in her room while Kayla and Jeff played with Corwin in th...
2024-04-29 15:32:39 +0000 UTC
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The Angel Express - 8:23 PM
Jeff and I walked through the portal and into the dining car to find a very welcome sight. Mercury and his sister weren’t supposed to be here until morning, but Kayla and Jamie were sitting with...
2024-04-25 16:54:14 +0000 UTC
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Carnegie Science Center, The Pitt - 7:54 PM
After placing the doorframe where Sara thought I should, we headed towards the dungeon. It was one of many that my Patron couldn’t see into. Whether it was because of Pustibule...
2024-04-22 15:42:20 +0000 UTC
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The Angel Express - 6:19 PM
I walked out of my room after a successful bout of meditation. My Mental Points, like my medallion, were full to the brim and ready to be worked. Stretching, I entered the dining car to see Jeff a...
2024-04-18 16:16:27 +0000 UTC
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Crown Antiques, Pittsburgh - 5:00 PM
By the time the building returned to the surface where it belonged, Mercury had come down to join me on the first floor. It was disappointing, but the only screen I received was the one I...
2024-04-15 15:32:42 +0000 UTC
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Crown Antiques, The Pitt - 4:34 PM
I absently tapped the flat of my blade on Jeremiah’s shoulder as I thought about his words. Setting up players to be suicide bombers was an unfortunately common tactic from the Demons. Al...
2024-04-11 15:53:16 +0000 UTC
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The Pitt - 4:02 PM
It didn’t take long to confirm that my suspicions were right; we were being followed. I activated Aura Sense every few minutes, and every time it showed the same group trailing us at the very edge of the...
2024-04-08 15:06:11 +0000 UTC
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PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh - 2:54 PM
“That’s so gross!” Mercury exclaimed as he watched my foot slowly grow back. “You’re like a Troll or something!”
After settling down, I discovered that I had lost my l...
2024-04-04 19:07:46 +0000 UTC
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The Lake of Bones, The Pitt - 2:32 PM
I retrieved my Writhing Belt Whip from my inventory and held it opposite of the Smash Stick. The bones were still rattling, sounding like a macabre house of bees, as they worked to form ...
2024-04-01 22:53:54 +0000 UTC
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The Lake of Bones, The Pitt - 2:17 PM
While it would have been really easy to keep “Mercury Moongrave” in the air, I gave him some reprieve and let him stand on the ground. I continued holding onto him, though; I kept a ...
2024-03-28 21:05:11 +0000 UTC
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And it's released on Kindle and Paperback! For those of you who didn't get to pick up the ARC copy or just want to support me, you can find it on Amazon here. Any and all r...
2024-03-26 15:11:04 +0000 UTC
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The Lake of Bones, The Pitt - 2:05 PM
When I gathered my papers to leave the Fieldhouse, I had found that they had been tampered with. Not noticeably if I were to give it a passing glance, but enough that I could see it clea...
2024-03-25 22:26:03 +0000 UTC
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UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse - 10:45 AM, 3 days later
While I made sure to liberate at least two dungeons a day, the majority of my time was spent competing in the Fieldhouse against others. Because Sol Ligatus was the guild that ...
2024-03-21 21:57:19 +0000 UTC
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The Angel Express - 7:58 PM
It didn’t take long before the Greenhouse finished conjuring itself, and I stepped inside with Kayla after collecting Jamie’s plants from the Vault. The car walls were rounded and covered in g...
2024-03-18 16:25:55 +0000 UTC
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The Angel Express - 7:35 PM
Gardening took a lot of my time after the conservatory was liberated. It was sufficiently far from downtown that it took people a while to show up, but by then I had pilfered the place clean of an...
2024-03-14 16:56:00 +0000 UTC
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I come with good tidings!
The release date for 100th Run Book 3 is now finalized for March 26th! I've included the link to the ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) for my passing Patrons.
You can get it through the link, I only ask that you revi...
2024-03-12 19:51:27 +0000 UTC
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