The Four Phases of Combat, plus triggering conditions.
The Ceasefire. 66 Hours. Current Phase. 50 hours left.
The Ramp-Up. Triggers when the Ceasefire ends. 180 Hours.
Open Hostilities. Triggers when...
2023-09-30 00:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostIf you don't regularly read, skip to the bottom to the "question"
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If only I could see him again. It would change everything.
I am jealous, those of you with community, with friends, ...
2023-09-15 00:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostTipid
“Can I keep this?” Tipid asked his attorney. His hands shook as he turned the key over in his blood-covered hands.
He sat in the chair, but he could barely feel his legs. He still shook. Is this real? he wondered. Am I really here, or is this another trick? The Illusion...
2023-08-30 23:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostJuice Box changed to her familiar human form as she sat on Louis’s lap, her arm draped over his shoulder. She was smiling broadly, but I could see the tired and worry in her eyes. She had scars she didn’t have before. Her left ear, I also noticed, didn’t form when she changed, though a...
2023-08-19 00:58:50 +0000 UTC View PostArief whisked us out of the main courtyard of the college, out the main gates and past the security guards and out into the city.
Entering Larracos.
“It’ll be more like an elopement than a traditional marriage,” Donut was saying as we walked. “I suppose t...
2023-08-05 23:25:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Louis’s celestial box came with a pair of items.
The first was a tier III guild upgrade called an Airship Portal, which was basically just an elevator that went up to the ceiling and allowed us to enter Louis’s new vehicle as long as it was docked to the base.
<... 2023-07-26 02:43:29 +0000 UTC View PostDante.
Dante read the newsletter a third time. He exchanged a look with Justice Light, his skyfowl neighbor.
“They can’t do this,” Justice Light said. He also had Damien’s newsletter clutched in his shaking talon. “Who’s going to mind my shop?”
“They’ll thr...
2023-07-15 03:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're holding out on reading book 6 until audio, you'll want to skip this poll.
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Carl is getting a pet. Ren's Tummy Acher needs a new name. The system will not allow it to be named Garret, and Carl will suggest to name it Garret 2 to which Donut will have a visceral, negative reaction. She's also going t...
If you just finished Eye of the Bedlam Bride, start here for book 7.
Hey folks. Sorry for the delay in getting this started, but end of book stuff always takes a lot of time. A couple of housekeeping things. We will be changing the chapter naming conventions from now on, as you can see. Also, I know you’re all excit...
So this is not the final, final version, but we're getting close. There are still typos to squash, and a few rando inconsistencies to fix. This version removes an unimportant fight or two and adds a sprinkling of new New Achievement notifications throughout. Lots and lots of little things have changed, too, like Phase Through...
2023-06-03 23:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostStop! Did you read part one that I posted yesterday? Yes? Okay, good. Here we go.
Warning: You have been temporarily combined with a totem. If you are slain while in this state, you will not regenerate.
This combination will time out...
2023-05-24 23:53:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis is it. The last few chapters will be broken up into two nights. Book six ends tomorrow night.
Cliffhanger warning.
A graphic appeared at the bottom corner of the interface. This was something new. It showed all the team names. As I watched, a rapid-fire string of miniatu...
2023-05-24 00:11:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Cliffhanger alert.
Chapter 261
<Note added by Crawler Allister, 13th Edition>
The Semeru Dwarves of the ninth floor all only worship a single goddess, who inevitably makes an appearance near the end of the battles as the final teams approach the gates of the...
2023-05-11 07:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostOkay guys. As we approach the end, there’s goin
2023-05-07 00:53:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I made a small, but crucially important change to the rules earlier, and I realized I had forgotten to post my retcon message which kinda pulled the punch of the cliffhanger at the end of the previous chapter. Apologies.
Here is the relevant update quote from Cascadia when she was announcing the rules of...
Remember what I said last week about cliffhangers?
Time until level collapse: 6 days, 15 hours.
<Note added by Crawler Tipid, 5th Edition>
It was me or him, and I chose to save myself. I didn’t think. I reacted. I reacted to save ...
2023-04-27 23:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostJust as warning. Every chapter release for now on is likely to end on an industrial-strength cliffhanger. This one is no exception.
Chapter 251
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Stab, stab, stab. It is all I know.
It is the final days of F...
2023-04-19 07:52:37 +0000 UTC View PostPart III
The Bedlam
Chapter 250
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My people have a saying. “The burning Yenk needs only to embrace their enemies.” It likely translates poorly, but what it means is that some problems aren’t problems at all if you think on it long enou...
2023-04-05 23:55:09 +0000 UTC View PostNote about the upcoming physical book release at the end of the chapter!
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The trip north was eerie. There were no mobs. Not many memory ghosts, either. It was past midnight on Christmas morning, and traffic was light on the single lane highway. It was cold enough that I ...
2023-03-25 23:52:52 +0000 UTC View Post“How did you know it was Miss Beatrice’s mother and not the pitbull lady? I mean, with the fire thing. I was trying to keep track, and I couldn’t.”
We were waiting for the fire on the yard to calm before we looted everything. The rest of the Iowa area was about to crash to th...
2023-03-21 05:42:09 +0000 UTC View Post<Note added by Crawler Milk, 6th Edition>
Holy underworlds on high. That last fight... I can’t even describe it. What the fuck. What the fuck. What the fuck.
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It didn’t take long for the old trailer to burn. My view counter was spiked all the ...
2023-03-11 03:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostApologies in advance. This whole scene is really four chapters, which means this ends with a fucked up cliffhanger. I'm not quite finished with 244, and I wanted to make certain you got something before the end of the month. I have an additional note about these chapters at the end.
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Chapter 241
2023-02-28 00:01:06 +0000 UTC
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Quick note. I did a few minor retcons that should be fairly obvious. I added a part to an earlier chapter about them prepping for the fights, which includes Donut wearing her headset microphone to call out commands (bard songs don’t work while a deck is active) and her casting Clockwork Triplicate on Mongo before a fight. T...
2023-02-09 13:43:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 238
We had to hike a good ways to the saferoom, which was within a small, side-of-the-road shrimp shack. As we traveled, Donut continued to chat, rapid-fire about card theory, but somew...
2023-02-02 01:53:45 +0000 UTC View PostPart II
The Father.
Entering Monroe County, Florida.
It is December 24th.
Time Until Level Collapse: 6 days, 22 hours.
The Key location ha...
2023-01-19 12:03:12 +0000 UTC View Post(Just did a minor edit. I posted the wrong version. It's the same as before, but I'd broken it up into two chapters.)
Chapter 234
I took a deep breath. I did my best not to show my utter dismay on my face.
“So, why can’t you do it?” I asked.
“Oh, believe me,” Odette said, wa...
2023-01-13 13:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostWarning. Chapter 233 ends on a bit of a cliffhanger.
<Note Added by Crawler Ossie, 18th Edition>
I know I don’t write often in these scrolls, but I have read them all. I just finished my third re-read of Herot’s overly-wrought essay and ramblings about th...
2023-01-05 02:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostWAIT!
WAIT!
Have you read chapters 229 and 230 yet? They were posted the same time as this one. I had to post this one separately because it was too long.
Seriously, don't fucking read this until you read the last chapter.
Link to map: 2022-12-18 01:22:08 +0000 UTC
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Link to map: https://www.patreon.com/posts/desperado-club-76055235
I am also posting chapter 231. THIS post, 229 and 230, will be the pinned one.
Also,
2022-12-18 01:13:24 +0000 UTC
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