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Chapter 1087
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 These two chapters were pretty fucking long...Perhaps the most obnoxious thing about Nether Rituals was the fact that there was a cooldown on their use. Especially because his ritual had imploded on him, Randidly sensed as he tried to start it again that it was a very bad idea to attempt another ritual now.Earlier, the cooldowns had been so short that by the time that he had regained his mental strength...
Chapter 1086
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Alright, let's start some tops spinning.BOOOOOOOM!The ground cracked and shuddered as Randidly thrust with his bone spear, spurring the surrounding space to wildly gesticulate as the Nether in Randidly’s attack destabilized the surrounding area. Space seemed to shiver in pain from the passage of the strike, even as Randidly frantically fed Nether into the whirling trio of cores that were intangibly...
Nexus Paths Session Times
Hey everybody,I've talked with you all individually, but I just want to put up a post for everyone who got accepted to the first games to let me know which of the following two times they are available for.If everybody comments, the first session will likely be next weekend, and then alternate weekends between the two groups. So!Friday 7 PM EDTSaturday 12 PM EDTSunday 2 PM EDTThanks! I'm going to start working on scenario stuff this week ...
Chapter 1085
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Randidly scowled at Salazar and threw up his hands. “I can’t tell you how to feel it. You either do or you don’t. And if you can’t manage to find the core of your star inside yourself, then I’m not going to waste time trying to train you.”“W-w-well, if y-you would j-just share your t-t-trick-!” Salazar began, but Randidly had dealt with the snake-man's nonsense for long enough. He sim...
Chapter 1084
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958The walk toward Commander Terith’s camp was illuminating. Probably one-fourth of her own camp was lightly damaged, but Terith had clearly borne the brunt of the fallout from the bombardment. Entire swaths of the previously pristine rows of tents had been razed to the ground. Wounded sat in huddles around fires, talking to each other in quiet voices.Perhaps most interesting was the strange array Iellaya...
Chapter 1083
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Probably gonna put up a little survey tomorrow to help decide the final times for the Nexus Paths groups. After that, hopefully we can get our first sessions schedule for the next two weeks ^_^.Randidly pulled Zauna and Salazar along behind him while hurrying back to Iellaya’s camp as the noise above them grew increasingly loud. Every few steps he cast a glance up over his shoulder toward the darkenin...
Chapter 1082
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Randidly carefully considered the mysterious absence of Vualla from every angle. Originally, he had just vaguely thought that perhaps Vualla was also still recovering somewhat, but as that idea was exposed to the light of day it clearly disintegrated into nothing. There had to be another reason.As Randidly’s tension mounted, Zauna and Salazar exchanged a knowing glance behind his back as though his beh...
Chapter 1081
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 After his careful examination, Randidly decided that there were three specific areas where a little bit of attention would result in quite a bit of effect to his overall image: his arms, his skin, and his tails.Of the three, skin seemed the easiest to use as the starting point. In addition, it would require the most careful touch of the three areas, so Randidly wanted to start before he had expended mos...
Chapter 1080
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 That violent thought echoed through his mind once, then twice, while Randidly was suffused with the raw emotion of the impulse. Then Randidly felt a rather shocked horror at the sudden vehemence of his thoughts. But even though he felt rather alarmed at the instinct, the desire to kill Iellaya didn't fade....Looks like there are changes from my main consciousness weakening. Randidly thought with a f...
Chapter 1079
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Four very long chapters...Some part of Nahlun knew that he was making a mistake by putting himself into the line of fire here. But as he looked at the wretched state of Vualla and witnessed dead eyes of the soldier that managed to carry her out of the Nether hell…Shivering, Nahlun had to look away from those eyes. Even though that individual was just an image and Nahlun possessed a body, there was a te...
Status
Sorry y'all, just a bad day. It's been a while since I've actually had writer's block.Anyway, I'll roll up my sleeves and put out four tomorrow and friday to make up for it.
Status
Today will be this week's break day.Plus I wanted the chance to try and tighten the next arc. This is probably the halfway point of the Great Rift arc. I think?
Chapter 1078
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Of course, Randidly couldn’t benefit from the rather significant Endurance reward, which was quite unfortunate considering his current troubles relating to enduring the obnoxiously thick Nether. But the additional bonus for Nether related Skills would help, even if it was rather small change overall.Of course, Nether Rituals as a Skill seemed rather dubious. Randidly wasn’t a fan of the fact that the...
Chapter 1077
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Randidly rushed forward, doing his best to accelerate even as the Nether Gatekeeper sent two more deadly looking tentacles out of the huge portal to grip the edges and leverage its body through the opening. His heartbeat began to accelerate rapidly. Its staccato drumming seemed to fill Randidly with heat. Even though it was just the physical presence of the Nether Gatekeeper, Randidly couldn’t help but...
Chapter 1076
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Ah, to be almost done with this volunteer mission...With most of his mind freed up by simply following the cascading motion of his own momentum, Randidly was able to slap some much needed stop-gap fixes onto his heavily damaged image. There wasn’t any immediately noticeable healing, but the edges of Randidly’s will did stop annoyingly drifting away as he struggled to continue.Fuck… that was much c...
Chapter 1075
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Weird, these two chapters were only three words apart in length.After studying Vualla’s overly bright expression for several seconds, Randidly turned around and reached for that dense plane of Nether balanced perfect in the halo of blue veins. It took a few tries to focus his Grim Intuition due to accumulated Nether, but Randidly used all of his Willpower to force his Skills to activate.“No, if you d...
Chapter 1074
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Only two. Hopefully I can finish this last bit Monday and be back to safety. I want it to end neatly.Congratulations! Your Skill Nether Acclimation (R) has grown to Level 134!Randidly did his best to catch his breath as that terrible destruction that Vualla held so close to her heart raced outward from her body with all the terrible momentum of a wildfire on a dry summer day. Nether Beasts were eradicat...
Chapter 1073
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958As the leader of the expedition, Vualla handled the lion’s share of the fighting against the enemies directly in front of them. And oftentimes she spread that to enemies that were visible to her as they rushed forward. Although her squad gallantly handled the task of keeping the foes pestering them from the sides off of her back, it only took an additional five minute of fighting before Vualla was star...
Chapter 1072
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Randidly could feel the edge of it. Once he saw it as a grand plant, the pattern immediately became clearer. He could follow around the stem to the vine, vine to the stem, stem to the trunk…I wish Yggdrasil was here. He would understand the knack of this vein system so much easier...Randidly’s awareness rushed along, following the vast network of blue veins. He had located a few independent Nether W...
Chapter 1071
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 To all those Patrons who were selected to participate in the first DnD sessions (which I'm now calling Nexus Paths) please send me a message on Patreon or Discord so we can talk about your availability and your character. Hopefully, we can set up the first sessions soon ^_^.During this teleportation, this time the travel felt different. Randidly had to grit his teeth and flex his imagined muscles in...
Status
Just an early heads up no chapters today. I'll push back my posts to Friday and Saturday.Not related to plot difficulties, although that doesn't help. Just haven't been able to get to bed on time, and its really throwing off my normal schedule. I need a day to reset and force myself to sleep at a healthy time.Thanks for your understanding,-PuDDz
Chapter 1070
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Commander Terith glared at the commander of the Nether Well Strike team, who had been bored and tapping one of his many tentacles against the table to pass the time. It almost sounded musical. In the silence of the tent, it was an unnecessary and obnoxious distraction. Instantly, the multi-limbed individual withered underneath Terith’s pointed glare.Terith turned to face forward and stand perfectly up...
Chapter 1069
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Man, why is this portion of this arc so difficult. Only two tonight. But I'm gonna do my best to do four tomorrow and push rapidly through this bit faster than I thought I was previously.After Vualla’s lonely pronouncement, Randidly had nothing to say. In his adventures, he had learned exactly how important it was that your images and your actions aligned almost perfectly. To allow for dissonance ...
Status and DnD Post II
An early warning no chapters today. I've been so excited about drawing up a system to make it work that I couldn't wait. Regularly scheduled programming resumes Wednesday.So the point of this post is then to outline some of the changes that I'll be making for the game version of LoRG. Specifically, the variant from typical Dungeons and Dragons rules to make the System work.For those of you who will be participating, there will be inst...
DnD Information, Part I
Hey all!First up, a big thank you for all of the interest! A bigger thank you for all of your support! After looking at the time everyone has been a Patron, I'm so awkwardly squirming. I'm so glad that my little adventure with Rand has become so important for you all.I've gone through everyone and determined the initial group. But because of the interest, I've decided to shift how it will work a bit.So my goal will be to host 5 se...
Chapter 1068
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Apologies, but tonight is another one chapter night. But I got very distracted by the DnD prep. Post to follow.However, this is another 10 chapter week, so I can get back up there with 3 days of 3 chapters. Plus, I think I finally found how I want the next arc to proceed. Thanks for the patience~Just as quickly as Vualla raised her gauntleted hands up toward the blank sky in askance, her arms went limp a...
Chapter 1067
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Only one tonight, and late because I promised it yesterday, so sorry for that. But the next mini arc is giving me some trouble. I tried rewriting it a few times, but I can't get it right. So Monday will be another rewrite attempt.In other news, I only have a dozen or so more people's application for DnD to look through! So there will be an announcement tomorrow of the people that will be in the ...
Chapter 1066
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958As soon as Randidly sat down to work on his image and healing again, he realized how dangerous going to fight in this form would have been. Although some of the damage he had accumulated was just subtle markings on his subconscious currently, if Randidly had fought with this image it might have been even more deeply engrained in his understanding. It would have become a series of permanent debilitations ...
Chapter 1065
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958 Randidly stayed very still as the voices passed back and forth above him. His Grim Intuition quickly wafted outward, immediately reporting the strong presence of Iellaya’s image.So strong that the other figure looming over him could only be her.Yggdrasil’s trunk creaked as he twisted his branches. “...I believe so. Although there is significant exterior damage, those portions of the image can be v...
Chapter 1064
ToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958Working during the day throws me off, which throws me off for the next day... so just expect the final two chapters of the week tomorrow afternoon sometime.Time was grey and rattling like a snake. The light from Randidly’s mind slowly dimmed so it was barely lit. All that was left was the continual struggle.At some point, Randidly tightened and immediately something was different. Then, while his face ...
