Five days earlier...
Kellan frowned. "I've endeavored to enlighten you, but it appears that I've failed," he began. "While this is a middling tide, it is still incredibly dangerous. Level fifty monsters, tier eights, are going to appear rapidly. Under normal circumstances, a well-trained...
2022-06-12 21:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Nora!" Bailli hissed in shock. "We can't go in there! That's worse than the swimsuits!"
Nora shook her head sadly. "It's what all the girls wear," she said, "I'm wearing it now, and you wouldn't believe how comfortable they really are."
They were standing outside of a Victoria's Secret in Housto...
2022-06-07 16:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post"You said the Tide is going to last five days, right?" Mike asked Eddi.
"Yep," Eddi nodded. "The Endless can guard twenty-eight towns, but that's stretching us awfully thin," he shook his head. "We're looking at level fifty monsters, so early tier eight, and there aren't enough of us, even with our Affinity ...
2022-06-06 15:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post"There is one more thing," Bob continued, pulling out the Endurance Affinity Crystal from his satchel and passing it around the table.
"It looks like an economy size Affinity Crystal," Dave observed.
"It's an Endurance Affinity Crystal," Bob explained. "It doubles your base Endurance. So if you're tier...
2022-06-02 11:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostBob looked around the table. Bailli, Harv, Elli, and Eddi represented his closest friends from Thayland. Dave, Amanda, Jessica, and Mike represented his closest friends from Earth. He'd been on the fence about including Jessica, but she was a friend, and she occupied a position of, if not authority, influenc...
2022-05-30 09:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostI fucking love writing Yorrick.
"Hello, my name is Yorrick Wrathsbane," Yorrick smiled. "I know that's not going to be a common name or one that's familiar to you, but you'll have to blame my parents for that." Yorrick shrugged self-deprecatingly. "I'm one of the peop...
Bob was staring at the crystal in his hands.
Over the past few months, he'd gradually built out the rest of his Arcane Depths, and he would spend an hour or so a day fighting on the deeper floors. He'd seeded this floor, fifty-six, with Dimensional Affinity Crystals, which made what he held in his hand all the mor...
2022-05-23 05:52:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Yorrick?" Bob asked, both surprised and confused by sudden appearance of the Warlock at his campsite along the Blue Ridge Parkway.
"Good afternoon!" Yorrick replied enthusiastically. "I heard you were on vacation, and I'm sort of waiting for the next wave, so I thought I'd find you and take a look at whatever is ...
2022-05-19 08:10:17 +0000 UTC View PostSo, allow me to preface this chapter with the following disclaimer: I'm a sucker for a charismatic, reasonable bad guy. I have derailed numerous campaigns over the years by looking around at the gaming table after the evil cult leader has given his spiel, and saying 'Well, he's not wrong.'
I'm al...
"Madam President, Mr. Whitman has arrived and is asking to speak with you."
Elania paused. Normally that man didn't want anything to do with the government, and if he did need to interact with it, he approached the Secretary of Defense. Despite that, she'd left clear instructions that if he ever arrived at t...
2022-05-12 11:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostBob looked at the King of Greenwold, and then at the Seneschal, and then at Yorrick.
"The Karcerian Empire," Bob began slowly, "that's the empire that occupies the two main equatorial continents, right?"
"We do indeed," Yorrick agreed, still smiling. "Until a few months ago, we included the majority of sapie...
2022-05-12 07:22:54 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn't that a summons from the King of Greenwold resulted in a minor anxiety attack. It was just that he was, and Bob was guessing a little here, a faux tier nine Dragon, who could easily destroy all life on Earth if he decided it was his best course of action.
Bob didn't want to ever be in the positio...
2022-05-12 03:55:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Honestly, with the stock market as unstable as it is, there wasn't anything we could've done, even if we had wanted to," Elania explained.
"Still, the fallout," Taylor shook her head. "I can't believe Colbert let that woman on his show in the first place."
"To be fair, she went off script, but the topic was...
2022-05-10 00:49:49 +0000 UTC View Post"What are you doing with Bob?" Bailli had placed a hand on Jessica's shoulder, holding her back as the group broke up for the evening.
"I like him, and I'm trying to get him used to the idea that affection isn't abhorent," Jessica replied.
Bailli shook her head. She had spent a lot of time with Bob, although...
2022-05-09 06:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostAuthors Note - So, I'm both late and behind on chapters. I slept for two and a half days, waking only to make sure that Mom took her meds, and to help her with a variety of minor tasks before passing right back out. It took me wwwwaaayyyy to long to finish this chapter, when it should have been quick and easy....
2022-05-05 08:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere were definitely advantages to having superhuman dexterity, Bob mused as he crouched a bit lower on the surfboard.
Monroe was perched towards the front of the board, the big Maine-Coon sitting primly, the only signs of his excitement being a swishing tail.
Bob had been right, Monroe loved surfing. &n...
2022-04-27 22:58:01 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm sure you're all excited to find out why we've gathered everyone here today," Dave's voice boomed out of the PA system.
Bob was watching from the side of the stage that had been erected for the event, and he had to admit that Dave had quite the presence.
"Less than a year ago, an old friend of ours from our UC...
2022-04-27 19:37:30 +0000 UTC View Post"Good morning!" Bob said cheerfully as he walked into the D&D players' tavern.
"Good morning, Bob," Amanda greeted him with a smile, "you should really pop your head out of whatever Dungeon you're hiding in more often."
Bob blinked, instantly wary. "What happened?" He asked carefully.
"The King of ...
2022-04-21 16:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken Bob three weeks to successfully cast Mana-Sight without the aid of the System.
He took solace in the fact that he'd only been able to spend thirty minutes a day practicing, although the hours he'd spent each day puzzling over the successes and failures of that practice was best left unmentioned. He pr...
2022-04-20 20:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo it turns out that mousing is worse than typing, in terms of wrist pain. As a result, this chapter has not been pushed through the word chipper of Grammarly. My abuse of the common coma is laid bare for all to see.
It was odd, Ed reflected, that he'd gone through hundreds of portals bet...
2022-04-20 10:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post"President Hartford, do you take us for fools?"
Kellan couldn't be bothered to read the man's nameplate.
"Alternate dimensions, magic, an apocalypse, evacuating our citizens?" He scoffed, "You wish us to believe in this fiction?"
He wasn't saying anything that others hadn't already said.
Document...
2022-04-13 21:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostBob smiled as he summoned out Jake, sending the UtahRaptor into battle.
The vacation had been nice, but the truth was that after a couple of days off, he started to feel anxious. He liked the free time, he needed to work. There was probably something unhealthy there.
Best not to dwell...
2022-04-12 11:26:42 +0000 UTC View PostWatching the sunrise over the crags and canyons was remarkably peaceful. Bob had woken up as soon as the sky had begun to lighten, and he'd quietly climbed out of his swag, a sleepy Monroe over his shoulders. He'd walked through an empty campsite opposite their own, this one facing east, and had settled down on th...
2022-04-07 11:45:47 +0000 UTC View PostElania forced herself to smile politely at the King of Greenwold. Honestly, she'd shared meals with despots and dictators, and he was none of those things, at least not the negative connotations. He was, however, overbearing, condescending, and incredibly entitled. He'd told her what they were having for din...
2022-04-05 15:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe reddish cliffs and boulders, dotted with dull green scrub brush, was a drastic change from the evergreens and granite of Thayland. It was also significantly warmer, ninety-one degrees as opposed to the sixty-eight it had been when they'd departed Thayland that morning.
Bob reached up a hand to shade his eyes a...
2022-04-05 07:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostBob woke up to the plaintive cries of a heartbroken kitty. He sat up and swung his legs out of bed, planting his feet on the floor as he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
"Monroe?" Bob called, not seeing him in the bedroom. Staggering to his feet, he headed to the kitchen, where he found Monroe sitting in fr...
2022-03-29 12:38:39 +0000 UTC View PostBob idly summoned a fresh UtahRaptor, his mind on other matters. His barbarian had died a heroic death, holding the gates of the town against a horde of kobolds, and he needed to roll up a new character. He was considering playing an artificer.
He was also mulling over the time he'd spent in L...
2022-03-23 10:35:14 +0000 UTC View Post"I guess I can see that," Bob said thoughtfully. "There are much worse ways to use that power."
"It turns out that the vast majority of the country hated the Cartels," Dave grinned.
"Anything else crazy going on back on Earth that I haven't heard about?" Bob asked.
"There's a video of Harv rip...
2022-03-22 09:42:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Do you know how irritating it is not to be able to get ahold of you?" Mike asked before Bob could even sit down.
"I've been busy," Bob replied defensively, pouring Monroe onto the empty chair next to him before sitting down. "I'm delving long days, and today is the time I take off."
"Sorry, I didn't mean to...
2022-03-15 10:52:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting concluded quickly once it was made clear that all the people who had stolen his weren't in a position to be a danger to themselves or others. Only one of them was still involved in the field at all, and she was teaching.
Bob had signed in a few dozen places and had walked out of the room with Carl, hav...
2022-03-10 11:02:25 +0000 UTC View Post
