***DREAM***
“Where’s the other passenger!?” Carol demanded, threatening to remove another toe. Gramma had already driven away and Tom had lost his lunch. A couple times. Carol was thorough.
“I thought you were the other passenger!” Ken shrieked.
“Obviously not. How many more people know about what the Crypts can do!?”
“The what?”
“The gold disc ...
2021-07-29 20:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post***DREAM***
“Tom! Cops are here to talk to you!”
Tom sat up out of bed with a sharp intake of breath. Carol was there, as always, peering down at him.
He ignored her, tugging on his pants and shirt before heading for the closet. The aluminum bat from his brief baseball career in middle school was finally going to get some air time.
“What are you doing?” Carol ask...
2021-07-28 22:16:53 +0000 UTC View PostHoly shit, Kenneth thought, looking down at the bent needle in his hand as he walked out the door and took a seat in the cruiser. He’d palmed the safety pin from his tie and pressed it into the meth-head looking girl’s shoulder when he’d ‘stumbled’.
Ken didn’t really know what to expect. The person who’d been in the front with Lily Smith, the one he was looking for,...
2021-07-27 20:25:56 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s horrible!” Tom gasped. “What happened? Is she – I just…don’t know what to say.” He tried not to oversell it. The Cop gave a sympathetic furrowing of the brows, and a silent nod.
And the award for best actor goes to Tom Graves for the picture ‘Wasn’t Me’…
Grampa raised an eyebrow and crossed his arms disapprovingly behind the cop. He’d been ...
2021-07-26 23:21:21 +0000 UTC View PostSorry there wasn't an update this week, I was busy getting everything ready for the pre-order and such, haven't had much time to write, hence no updates,
Spent the last 2 days babysitting my 1 year old nephew, as well. That was fun.
Updates will restart tomorrow, (monday) now that we're past the book release hustle.
The chapters are going to be ~2k apiece, expect more of them p...
***AWAKE***
I can’t believe I got away with that, Tom thought, shaking his head. Who carries around bear spray!? Tom had also learned that Jacob had a ‘dodging the cops’ kit in the back of his truck.
I guess that makes sense given Jacob’s favorite pastime. Tom had waited uncomfortably outside the truck while his work friend got ‘recharged’ befo...
2021-07-17 19:32:45 +0000 UTC View Post***AWAKE***
“Are you okay man?” Jacob asked.
“Yeah, just desecrating my girlfriend’s grave. You know how it goes.” Tom said, wiping the tears on his sleeve and continuing to dig. He’d scoped out the graveyard several times in his sleep and figured out exactly how long it took to dig down to Lily’s casket, but he still lost it every time. The smell of his girlfrie...
2021-07-17 19:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post***DREAM***
Tom checked the state of the soul engine every night in his dreams, climbing onto the roof of the old folk’s home and checking the lump of gold. Tom wasn’t sure how he would tell whether or not the engine had caught a passing soul…
Until it did.
Tom didn’t know how he was feeling what he was feeling, but when he looked at the fist-sized chunk of go...
2021-07-17 19:22:45 +0000 UTC View PostI have been editing Dungeon System the last few
2021-07-10 21:01:26 +0000 UTC View PostA patron asked me most of these at once, so I decided to make a faq out of it.
Can you post a rundown for what happens next month?
Editing/publishing and storyboarding new series.
Are you taking a break for all the publication stuff?
Sort of? Editing and storyboarding is less demanding than writing, by a bit.
Vresh sat in her favorite restaurant, taking gasoline shots with a shaking hand. Real gasoline was far less smooth than diesel, but she wasn’t in the mood to enjoy herself.
And it’s over, just like that.
She’d contacted her handler in the capital, who’d informed her that the emperor had reached an agreement with the sindio during the ransom negotiations, and the anc...
2021-06-24 17:41:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe jagged teeth of the eel slammed into Jeb’s chest, parting the flesh like soft clay. Jeb’s hand clamped down on the creature’s neck, aiming to yank it out of himself. The creature’s thick muscles held it in place, the slimy skin preventing him from getting a good grip on it.
Strangely enough, there was no pain. Like before when he’d parted his ribs to remove the creature in t...
2021-06-22 00:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostInstance error resolved.
Rebooting System…
Congratulations! You have Beaten Lagross the Suppressor in a one-on-one duel. Your Power is beyond reproach!
Lagross’s Power Accolade Granted!
+5 Body +5 Myst +5 Nerve
>>&g...
2021-06-20 20:10:45 +0000 UTC View Post“I care nothing for the declarations of your ‘gods’!” Vex crowed up at the towering creature. “Disease-riddled addicts on life support!” He made a rude gesture, his body unaffected by the searing light emanating from the creature’s eyes.
The strange giant of scroll and stone took offense to this, slamming a hand overtop the wizard, crushing him into the floor of the dungeon....
2021-06-13 19:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostJeb tore the wriggling Ability out of Meyers’ head, shoving the System-generated living packet of information into his pocket before slipping the ring back on his finger one-handed.
Jeb kicked the general’s corpse before hauling himself up into the air, above the reach of the army ants who would notice him any second. They were busy with their black doppelgangers, but better safe than...
2021-06-13 19:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the scoop.
We've gotten close enough to the end of book three that I'm going to start releasing chapters to the public.
releases will be 3-4 per week as I push them out to the public for review prior to shipping it out to Kindle.
July will mostly be spent editing/prepping the book for sale, so if you're a 10$ subscriber, this would be the month to lower your pledge &...
***Casey Thompson***
“What’s a dungeon schism?” Casey asked quietly.
“When two dungeons love each other very much…” Feej said with a patronizing tone.
“Quiet. Your hostility accomplishes nothing,” Kor Tekalis said, glaring at the keegan enforcer. The stick-thin woman returned his glare.
“If we hadn’t been dragged down by spineless human nature, this m...
2021-06-06 21:54:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Jebediah!” Vresh’s voice faded into the wind as Jeb put the pedal to the metal, flinging himself violently through the air on a jet of Telekinetic Myst, heading toward his responsibility.
And if the world blows up in the meantime? Are you responsible for that, too?
Shut up, me. One thing at a time.
As he got closer, Jeb could make out the courtyard, fi...
2021-05-29 17:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Explain it like I’m a simple grunt,” Jeb said, steepling his fingers. “Like I didn’t go to college. Because I didn’t go to college.”
Jeb’s twenties had been wasted on the army.
Eddie glanced at the dense math on the whiteboard and rubbed his temples, eyes squeezed shut. “It might be faster if we just taught you calc and trig first,” he muttered.
“I’m s...
2021-05-29 17:43:05 +0000 UTC View PostA thin sheet of metal sat on a belt, it had no conscious knowledge of itself. It simply was. It moved forward with a frightening amount of speed, following the jaw-droppingly rapid pace of human industry. There were sheets of metal in front of it, and ones behind.
It could perceive neither of them.
There was a stomp hiss as the piston ahead of it came down, stampin...
2021-05-23 17:46:14 +0000 UTC View Post"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." – Albert Einstein
Split, you son of a bitch! Jeb thought, concentrating hard on the thread of Myst emerging from his palm.
When he’d first gotten started with Myst, he’d tried to split Myst into more than one thread, and it had proven so difficul...
2021-05-16 22:30:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Pleaaaase!” Ron begged, kneeling in front of Casey. Even on his knees, the tall ginger was almost eye-to eye with her, which Casey found somewhat irritating.
“For the last time, Ron, I am not bringing your borg to ‘triple’ life. Whatever that means.” Casey said, shrugging Ron off of her arm and looking around the orphanage. “Is Jeb around?”
“He’s off ki...
2021-05-16 22:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post“I told you it wasn’t gonna be romantic,” Jeb said to the teen stowaways as he eyeballed the drop and clipped a bit of the fuse off the dynamite. He’d gotten the stuff from an abandoned pre-Stitch work site after a little scouring of the local desolate wasteland.
About twenty seconds of drop time, he thought to himself, eyeballing the sand-pirates below them. Best place t...
2021-05-10 00:12:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Wow, she’s cute,” Colt said, his stance shifting upon spotting Casey.
“She’s three years older than you.” Jeb said.
“No shit?”
“She’s also got a kid.”
“Not a dealbreaker.”
"Why am I talking about –“ Jeb shook his head and glared at Colt. “Just keep your head out of your pants for the next fifteen minutes or so, okay?”
“Sur...
2021-05-09 23:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostJeb let out a slow breath. The bombs were out of Jeb’s control now.
“Was that supposed to do something?” the Vex asked with an arched brow.
“Let’s just say, breakfast was C-4 balloons with a side of Myst-sensitive detonators,” Jeb said, patting his stomach. Getting it in there had been a thoroughly unpleasant experience. He wasn’t looking forward to passing them either...
2021-05-02 19:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s my opinion that your best shot at getting Casey back is making her kidnapper a better offer. I’m pretty sure I saw this guy in action and I seriously doubt any combination of people I know could stop him without incurring serious injuries or death.” Jeb said, rubbing his chin.
We have come to a similar conclusion. The towel wrote on its piece of paper.
“Whic...
2021-05-02 19:51:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Something’s missing,” Jeb muttered, tapping his fingers on the book as he pondered.
Jeb had scoured the base and the city around it and wiped all the nukes therein out of existence, but something still felt like it was missing. Jeb wasn’t a munitions guy, he couldn’t tell for sure if something was a regular missile, a fuel tank or a nuke, so he’d gone ahead and simply turned ...
2021-04-25 18:50:47 +0000 UTC View Post“You two need to run.” Vresh said, a bead of sweat forming on her brow.
“Fuck that. This guy just admitted to killing everyone here,” Steven said.
“He did?” Jeb asked, totally lost.
“Run!” Vresh shouted. Her body flickered forward, followed by a blast of wind. She raised her left hand and it flickered, a sword appearing in it. Blood geysered out of the throat o...
2021-04-18 19:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostJeb noped out.
“Nope.” Jeb grunted. “nope, nope, nope.” He saw the rainbow colors scintillating on the horizon beyond Terry and knew they were screwed.
“It’s the Roil!” Jeb and Vresh said at the same time.
“We’ve gotta get the fuck out of here!” Jeb shouted, lunging to his feet, pausing when Vresh’s iron grip caught his hand.
“Running away is a ga...
2021-04-18 19:30:16 +0000 UTC View Post***Kol Rejan, level 58 Courier***
Kol came to a halt in front of an ornate building in the wealthy district of Solmnath. He’d never had someone stop him between districts while he was wearing his courier garb, a fact that had allowed him to literally get away with murder more than once.
The building was classic keegan architecture, with open air windows to let the refre...
2021-04-11 17:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post