Bob shifted, leaning forward to pour Monroe onto the table. He rubbed the big cat's cheeks as he considered his words.
Naomeh waited patiently across from him.
"How long do the Eire live?" Bob asked.
"If they choose not to advance, eight hundred years," Naomeh replied.
Bob nodded. "Over the...
2023-02-06 08:28:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken Steven fourteen hours to get to his uncle's cabin. Under normal circumstances, it should have taken four, five at the most, but he wasn't the only one who had decided that Atlanta wasn't going to be safe.
He'd been grateful for his father's advice: "Always keep your tank topped off," he'd told Steven ...
2023-01-22 08:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostYou're getting this one completely raw. I need to find a better solution than Grammarly, as it has become even more cumbersome. I'll take any suggestions in the comments, but in the meantime, beware of misspellings and my abuse of the common comma.
Bob closed his eyes and counted down from ten as he...
2023-01-19 10:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Hello," Bob said cautiously.
The Eire he'd found walking down the main boulevard of their town wasn't Ordast.
"Vorstach's blessing on you, human," the Eire replied, "Ordast will be pleased that you've returned. He is in the barracks."
As the rest of the group piled out of the portal, the Eire gestured...
2023-01-16 09:06:14 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm going to miss fast travel," Dave lamented as they stepped through the last portal.
"I'm not going to give up the Portal spell," Bob said, "we do sort of need it to fly the Freedom."
"But you won't be able to portal us very far after we reincarnate," Dave argued.
"That was the reason we built ne...
2022-12-12 12:16:58 +0000 UTC View PostBob was self-aware enough to know that he missed social cues.
"The System is translating our words, but it doesn't provide any sort of guidance regarding etiquette," Bob said. "Where we come from, talking to you from the roof of a building might be considered rude or unfriendly. What exactly is your people's...
2022-12-06 12:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe end of the world arrived on a Tuesday afternoon. It was hot and muggy, and for those poor souls unfortunate enough to be outside of an air-conditioned room, the smell of stale piss and fetid sewage wafted through the air, courtesy of a broken sewer main that had resulted from a catastrophic failure at the water treatment ...
2022-12-05 11:01:28 +0000 UTC View Post"Let's see what those blessings are," Bob said as he focused on each in turn.
Blessing of Vorstach.
Grants the user the Divine Blessing of Vorstach, which mitigates eight percent of the damage dealt to the user by those who revere Baldarkurax.
Warning! Possessi...
2022-11-17 12:48:34 +0000 UTC View PostBob had been happy, initially, with the new Dungeon. Sure, it was a bit warm, what with all the lava streaming down from the lip of the volcano, but it hadn't been nearly as hot as the tunnels in the Dungeon next to their settlement. The less said about the Dungeon at the pole, the better.
His enthusiasm had...
2022-11-17 08:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostErick had been in love with Bailli since he was nine years old.
At nine, he hadn't known he was in love, but something deep inside him had seen the frightened, angry child, and yearned to see her smile.
They were fourteen when he'd admitted to himself that he was hopeless, irrevocably in love with her. By th...
2022-11-17 05:10:32 +0000 UTC View PostBob woke up to darkness. The entire group had agreed that no one wanted to run that Dungeon again, so they'd headed home. The hours spent in the Dungeon, plus the trip home had put everyone at close to twenty-four hours on the hoof. Bob had hoped that exhaustion would have allowed him to sleep until dawn, bu...
2022-11-10 13:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing about people from Earth, Bob mused, was that they expected nature to be more or less symmetrical. Things that weren't symmetrical set off a sort of warning bell in their heads, a sense of wrongness that was hard to define.
The Dungeons they'd built and those they'd delved into before the System ...
2022-11-08 13:10:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt had quickly become apparent that the Dungeon was not the same as the one to which they'd become accustomed.
Bob had led the group down the canyon of ice for a hundred yards before the floor began to rise at a gradual incline, while the walls began to shorten. Another hundred yards saw the group arrive ...
2022-11-07 09:07:40 +0000 UTC View PostBob had never been one to dismiss the work of others. While he'd never struggled to learn, he wasn't gifted, so like everything else he'd had to work hard to learn.
That said, the only time he'd considered just what went into building a house was when he'd been building his cabin above Murmuring Falls, and he'd re...
2022-10-24 16:06:54 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon 801972G610N497ISS6PM18D.
Capacity 27%
Estimated time until overflow 182 solar cycles.
User tier seven, semi-evolved. User grouped with eleven other sapient beings, tier six.
Dungeon set to Tier Eight, Level Thirty...
2022-10-24 12:35:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a testament to the group's cohesion that everyone stopped reading their notifications immediately and rushed for the portal.
Or possibly their survival instincts, but regardless, they were back through the portal in less than two seconds, with Eddi grumbling about not being able to pick up the Mad Eire's staff. 2022-10-17 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
"Alright, so we'll rotate beacons, Jack, then Mike, cycle as you accumulate damage or whatever nasty tricks the boss is likely to have," Dave began. "Wayna, Elli, be ready to pick up any adds that spawn. Given that the boss has been bringing them in through that portal, it's safe to assume he's going to get reinfo...
2022-10-13 11:11:44 +0000 UTC View PostMagma Elemental Fleck. Collect eight flecks to form a Magma Elemental Fragment.
Magma Elemental Fleck may be consumed for a temporary bonus to Fire and Earth skills.
Consuming the Magma Elemental Fleck will provide an 8% bonus to Fire skills and a 4% bonus to Earth skills for 64 sec...
It was late spring, or so the NASA software said, which meant that days were about seventeen hours long, while the nights were about fourteen hours long.
While Bob had woken up a bit earlier than everyone else, it was clear that it would take some adjustment to get used to the longer days and nights. By the time e...
2022-10-11 12:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing about trees was that they are supposed to have branches, twigs, and leaves. Or pine needles, but the general concept remained.
The tree in front of Bob had apparently disagreed with that rule.
The trunk appeared to be a mass of vines, twisted together. They had a bark-like appearance, so it h...
2022-10-11 09:32:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs much as Bob liked his quiet time, alone in his Arcane Depths, lost in his thoughts as Jake tore through monster after monster, he had to admit that he also enjoyed working together with the crew.
They'd been working together for nearly two months now, and they'd become incredibly efficient. Each person knew wha...
2022-10-06 09:59:27 +0000 UTC View PostSorry folks, I had a bit of a breakdown earlier this week. Writing furiously now.
It probably said something that he was able to pivot back to the idea of fighting monsters immediately after having lost, and then regrown, his leg.
That something might not have been positive either. He'd been ...
2022-10-06 07:04:31 +0000 UTC View Post"That's a lot of green," Amanda murmured.
The decision to continue on to the planet had been made, and they'd spent six weeks delving. During that time, the groups had melded together. While they were still working with rebuilt paths and affinities that weren't always perfectly ideal, they'd started...
2022-09-29 13:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostBob watched as Jake clawed and bit, digging deep wounds in the horrific amalgamation of alligator and brown bear. The monster wasn't just taking the abuse, it had a firm grip on one of the UtahRaptor's legs, and was using its powerful body to try and rip it off.
Despite both a shield and a healing spell w...
2022-09-29 08:27:57 +0000 UTC View Post"You get lost in there?" Mike asked as Bob suddenly found himself returned to reality.
"What?" Bob asked.
"You've been gone for like ten minutes longer than Dave, and he was in there for ten minutes longer than I was," Mike replied.
"Yeah, I had a lot of choices to make," Bob said.
The rest of...
2022-09-26 14:04:09 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I've recently started using images to show Bob's character sheet and skills, because Patreon hates us and doesn't think we deserve to have tables.
It is much easier to snip and paste the image than it is to basically build a secondary character sheet that's laid out in a list rather than a grid. ...
2022-09-26 08:19:38 +0000 UTC View Post"Fuck," Bob muttered.
He'd been finishing off his path, working through his threshold bonuses. He'd applied the threshold bonuses for Anima Blast to his Summon Mana-Infused Creature, netting a thirty-five percent strength healing effect, which when combined with his Eldritch Shield would make allow him to keep Jak...
2022-09-26 08:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostWord on the street is you like it crunchy. If not, this might be a bit of a slog, as we're getting into the guts of it all. How long has it been since we've seen Bob's status? I tried to insert an image rather than fiddling around trying to format the text into readability.
...
2022-09-22 10:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostAlternative chapter title - It took 300 chapters for Bob to become OP.
You know you want the blue boxes. I want to give them to you. Patreon does not do blue boxes, despite two separate emails begging them to please consider updating their text editor.
Again, sans Grammar...
2022-09-22 05:09:16 +0000 UTC View PostWord on the street is you want some of those hot patch notes.
System Updating to revision 3.0197
Certain species are unaware of the System. This portion of the notification has been written to correct certain misunderstandings, ensuring increased user efficiency. 2022-09-20 11:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post
