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Bring on the Leisure! [Interlude I]
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693Okay, this is the format that I'll take in writing this story. Ten chapters from Tallum, followed by an Interlude of indeterminate length. Patreon is being a really piece of shit about the formatting, so I'll keep the Status screens concise, just so I need to format less.This intro arc has us ending on a rather soft note with our Leads, but things will quickly become hectic for their group. Let me know your thoughts~----------Jyulem Tyre’s soc...
Bring on the Leisure! [Chapter 10]
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693Indigo, Green, and I have now been living in our new home for three days. There have been some minor hiccups… but largely, our laidback lifestyle is well-established.Green caused the hiccups.On the second day, when I explored the surroundings, Green was hungry and attacked one of the frogs. Green killed the Level 5 version rather easily, but it drew the ire of the Bloat Toad. We were forced to flee its ponderous bulk as it rumbled down the muddy beach...
Bring on the Leisure! [Chapter 9]
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693Despite knowing I should continue fleeing, curiosity compelled me to turn around and listen to the bellowing. My eyesight was worse upon losing one of my left eyes, but I could still make out the form of the glowing golden paladin, striding through the demolished limbs which was the only sign this place had been briefly occupied by a monster army.After a small delay, the door to the tower opened. Raccain, who I believed was the man with the confident vo...
Bring on the Leisure! [Chapter 8]
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693The three figures hurried away to their human business. The heavy wooden door, now barely visible without the glow of Mana all around, closed with a sonorous thunk.In typical, very chill fashion(my current MO), as soon as the three humans left the laboratory, I staged a jail break.Considering that our captors considered us bloodthirsty and expendable monsters and the new, arriving elements thought we were heretical necrotic spawn, the whole laboratory c...
Bring on the Leisure [Chapter 7]
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693Put out the last teaser chunk today. Gonna switch gears and finish LoRG Epilogue.---------------I worried back and forth across the cage after that announcement, both because of the prospect of additional tests tomorrow, and because of the implication that other Chimera Cores had died overnight. Perhaps quite frequently.All the tension of the fighting seeped out of me as I allowed my body to puddle in the cage. Do they not have the scientific method her...
Bring on the Leisure! [Chapter 6]
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693In battle, the situation develops very rapidly.Claw cut brain.Indigo arrived next to Green and prodded her with softened tentacles.I oozed forward and flexed the ugly fingers of my desiccated mongoose claw. I was the spirit of bloody karma, arriving to collect my due.Almost instantly after its brain was damaged, Sapphire’s movements changed. While it had previously been circumspect in its attacks, its response to every bit of visual stimulus now appea...
Bring on the Leisure! [Chapter 5]
Also, super down on Patreon's text editor. I need to manually make the Status screen look reasonable.... haaaah...ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693The ease of the death of Orange suffocated me. Fuck, fuck, FUCK. If I make a mistake… I will die.Pop. Just like that. Just like-I sat still and quivered for a moment, my eyeball fixed on the space where Orange had once been. Despite my best efforts, I began to panic.It wasn’t fair to say that I approached this second chance at life f...
Bring on the Leisure! [Chapter 4]
Because the story is first person, there will be interludes after every 10th chapter which will be from other character POVs. Otherwise, it's all Tallum all the time.Today will be 4, 5, 6.ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/98777693****Despite my emotional roller coaster, I didn’t stop grinding my Lesser Mana Detection. This useful human gaming skill, at least, hadn’t abandoned me, like my good sense.At Lesser Mana Detection Level 8, the Skill Level increases tapered off. I stared at the ...
Timeline Update
Hey all!I've had a bit of a vacation finished sending off the next LoRG book, and am ready to get back into my old schedule.Honestly, I've been sneaky writing for like two weeks. I had gone into the time after finishing LoRG with the intention of just not writing for most of February... but I started to get twitchy. Habit is a powerful thing.Anyway, wanted to give y'all a bit of context for what happens next.First, I've been doing some plotting for the LoRG epilogue. Based on the...
Chapter 2458
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Man. I can't believe I'm really here. I'll put some thoughts in an afterward, at the bottom.------“Oh? You are quite sturdy, aren’t you?” The blindfolded woman tilted her head to the side as she considered the devastating fallout of her strike.Randidly Ghosthound felt like the part of his torso not immediately annihilated had been repeatedly run over by a planet-sized chariot, reversing and jerking forward across his ribs. Calling his ...
Chapter 2457
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Only one today, but its a big one.And the next one, out tomorrow, is even longer =|. This is it. We are going to finish.________Randidly Ghosthound waited for the representatives of the Providence Squad to arrive with his head held high.His mind remained torn in a thousand different directions. He spewed out huge currents of Aether and Nether, more every second as he paid the bill for the Nexus renovation Neveah had structured. He ignored the tugs on hi...
Chapter 2456
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Randidly Ghosthound left the Nexus.Congratulations! For pushing yourself beyond the edges of your Universe, +1 Muse’s Reverie! Muse’s Reverie: 7/8.His first impression of the environment was frigid chaos. He blinked as waves of colors, gravitational, and temporal forces hit him. The conflicting currents slammed against him, powerful enough to tear a lesser individual to shreds. Probably no one under 1000 in Vitality and Endurance would be able to su...
Chapter 2455
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Okay, spent today marathoning a lot of writing. Will post two today, want to reflect on a bit on the last few. Should be out by Friday~I don't know if I'm sad or excited.****Randidly considered the floating consciousness in front of him. She regarded him coolly, aware of how the power dynamic had shifted. His method of defeating this Devick, of removing all the antagonism aimed at her and leaving her adrift in her own madness, meant that her ima...
Chapter 2454
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Randidly flexed his fingers. For the moment, Pine seemed satisfied with his answer. So he let the vulnerable universe soul be and focused on the connections. He did his best to relax, because he needed to be sharp for this next bit.His Nether seethed and spat in his veins, flowing faster and more thickly than it had ever had before. For a brief moment, Randidly marveled at the sensations, so closely matched to what he imagined it was to be slowly coolin...
Chapter 2453
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958We all understand my predictions about how long it would take me to end are comically bad, but SURELY we are so close to the end that they won't be so bad, right?Right?!?...maybe still three more, plus epilogues. Two today.“To save your son.”After Randidly spoke, he looked at the slumped form of Elhume for any hint of a response. Despite the potent physicality in that body that Randidly could sniff a mile away, his spine bent like a sagging vine...
Chapter 2452
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Randidly Ghosthound might have been deaf to Truth, but he could see the rejection in the small dog’s face as soon as he pronounced the universe worth saving.Which was exactly what he had worried about, earlier. Randidly wouldn’t be able to do this alone.His mind moved in a hundred different directions, guiding Aether and Nether outward to form the basis of a frame. He kept encountering trouble pushing the scope to the size he needed; the framework w...
Chapter 2451
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Two today. Looking like 2455 will be the last chapter, with two epilogue chapters to follow. The goal was to finish before 2024, but that would mean tomorrow I write and edit three very long chapters...Outlook not good xD. But we will see what tomorrow brings.What Pine remembered most clearly from those early days of his existence was the hunger.Hunger that scraped to release, to vocalize. Hunger that would cut off slivers of his insides, so demanding i...
