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Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 146-147
Ch. 146 - A Lifeless HuskTenebroum feasted for three nights running before it finally decided that the city was now a lifeless husk. That first night, it gorged itself on the great masses of the living, leaving only the souls of the palace for the Voice of Reason to harvest and the remaining general...
Death After Death Ch. 112-113
Ch. 112 - Out of the Frying PanSimon had seen a number of different levels on the other side of this portal, but the graveyard concerned him more than the golem or the ghosts. “Well, they’re both ghosts,” he said to himself, clarifying.“Who are,” the devil asked, looking up from his writin...
Brewing Bad Ch. 51-52
Tossing in a bonus chapter this week to bring Brewing Bad to 11 ahead of the public. Enjoy!Ch. 51 - Everything at OnceThe following week was a blur. People came and went, things got done, and most importantly, money was spent. A lot of money was spent.It actually shocked Lucas how quickly golden dra...
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 144-145
Ch. 144 - A Wider View“Is it really over then?” Oroza asked, looking at the images the moon played upon her waters. “Is the age of man over? How long will the darkness rule this time?”Lunaris shook her head. “The Kingdom of Hallen might encompass your whole world, Oroza, but it is but a sm...
Death After Death Ch. 110-111
Ch. 110 - Truly VileThe sewer stank, as it always did, but this time, Simon didn’t even wait until he was close enough to catch the attention of the carrion crawler. Instead, he used only a very small light spell to guide his feet on the familiar path, and as soon as he turned the corner and saw t...
Brewing Bad Ch. 47-50
Ch. 47 - Party TimeThat night, after Gerwin helped Lucas get dressed in his newly obtained finery. At Adin’s suggestion Lucas had gone with the black suit and the ruffled carvat. Lucas didn’t care for the lace cuffs around his wrists, or the way the pants flared around his boots. It made him fee...
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 142-143
Ch. 142 - The Feast NearbyTenebroum retreated to the nearest dungeon, four miles away from the city walls, but restless, it moved twice more before daylight made further travel on the surface impossible. It left the dark Paragon to handle the withdrawal of its forces, though its general did not wish...
Death After Death Ch. 108-109
Ch. 108 - Another LookI mean, I was never getting out of here without fighting a dragon, Simon thought to himself as he looked up at the ceiling of his little cabin. After all the other weird levels, that was pretty much impossible, was it Helades?Still, despite his cynicism, he couldn’t help but ...
Brewing Bad Ch. 43-46
Ch. 43 - Suffering, in C MinorLucas had not expected much from dancing lessons. He’d never been much at parties, but it turned out that his limited repertoire of bumping and grinding combined with a few novelty moves like floss dancing and the sprinkler were less than useless, and only the aging b...
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 140-141
Ch. 140 - All Night’s FallingWhen the sun set on Rahkin that day, Tenebroum vowed it would be the last time that anyone there would live to see it. Even as it reviewed the situation on both sides with its dark Paragon and discussed the intelligence that the rats had offered about the mages and the...
Death After Death Ch. 106-107
Fair warning, this is an impactful scene. I recommend waiting to read it until you can give it your full attention.Ch. 106 - Answers“Helades!” Simon yelled, staggering toward the light. “Helades, this is level 30, and I’m here! You owe me some answers!”“Well, an answer at least,” she s...
A Whole Pile of Updates
Hello dear readers, I just wanted to take a minute to give everyone an update on a couple things that are going on. First, my personal life is getting back to normal, and my wife is doing much better thanks to the medication she's on, so no worries there. Thank you to all your kind thoughts and ...
Brewing Bad Ch. 37-42
Ch. 37 - Rolling Deep
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 138-139
Ch. 138 - One More SunrisePrincess Trianna gazed out over her city that morning and despaired. They had survived another night, but it was hard to believe they would survive another as she looked outbuildings and surveyed the damage.Like everyone else, she’d heard the terrible battle last most of ...
Death After Death Ch. 104 and 105
Ch. 104 - No Way OutSimon waited for his moment; he parried and feinted, and each time, he pulled back as he looked for an opening. It wasn’t long before one of the men he faced off against was foolish enough to charge him.Simon was still a little too round to cleanly dodge such an attack, but he ...
Brewing Bad Ch. 31-36
Ch. 31 - An Offer You Can Refuse
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 136-137
Ch. 136 - Breakwater (part 2)“You will never strike me down,” the Templar grunted, even though, truthfully, he wasn’t sure how many more of those he could take.That blow would kill any normal man, and it had been nearly enough to do him in as well. He cursed himself for not expecting such an o...
Death After Death Ch. 102 and 103
Ch. 102 - Drinks With Friends“Well, who wants to be the first to try it?” he asked, gesturing around. There were no volunteers.“How about you?” he asked the man that had tried to gut him for his water skin only a few minutes ago in an attempt to win him over.“I will not let you poison me!...
Broken System Ch. 106-107
Ch. 106 - Memory Lane“I want to see them,” Benjamin said finally, after glaring daggers at the man that had once been his friend, “Proof of life. That’s the first step in these sorts of things, isn’t it?”“Sure,” he said, standing up and tossing a few Polaroids on the table. “Knock ...
Brewing Bad Ch. 24-30
Ch. 24 - Goblin Hunting
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 134-135
Ch. 134 - ViolationAs Tenebroum watched the latest skirmish preparing to unfold outside the walls of the capital, it had trouble focusing on the details. It wasn’t because it was upset that the Templar, with the light in his eyes, had made it unharmed into the city or even that they had as of yet ...
Broken System Ch. 100-105
Ch. 100 - It’s a Trap
Death After Death Ch. 100 and 101
Ch. 100 - LingeringSimon hung around for a week. It wasn’t hard. He knew the town better than most, and between the refugees and the news that someone had killed the Baron, it only took a change of clothes to evade the law that really only seemed to be halfheartedly looking for the Baron’s murde...
Brewing Bad Ch. 19-23
Ch. 19 - Change of PlansIn that moment, Lucas expected a lot of terrible things to come charging out of the bushes. The size seemed to rule out another pack of goblins, but that didn’t mean they didn’t have a hob for a chieftain.Lucas could probably take one of those, but if it was a beastman or...
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 132-133
Ch. 132 - Bread CrumbsGhroshian was not aware of the Templar when he first entered Rahkin, but when the Lich informed them the following night, they were not surprised. They had felt the menace from the moment the man had walked through the gate and scurried to find new, deeper hiding places for man...
Broken System Ch. 98-99
Ch. 98 - Staying FocusedBefore they could get back to doing anything productive, Benjamin had to rest. All of them did. Somehow, they’d managed to come through that tide of green blood without a single casualty, but as a result, everyone was exhausted.So he kept the breaches iced over, and once ev...
Death After Death Ch. 98 and 99
Ch. 98 - Days of Future PastSimon recognized the signs quicker than most would have, even with everything that was going on. Even before he found the bodies, he knew what had done this. The crude arrows with their red fletching and the hoof prints that were everywhere made it pretty obvious.This was...
Brewing Bad Ch. 11-18
Ch. 11 - Ride or DieT
Tenebroum PLUS Ch. 130-131
Ch. 130 - The End of WinterLast winter, all that Jordan had worried about was that he and his slowly increasing band of refugees might run out of food. That was a horror that had never quite come to pass, though it had been a near thing in those first few days of spring. This winter, the ghost of fa...
Broken System Ch. 96-97
Ch. 96 - A Word of Warning“Ah… we didn’t know where to find you, you see,” the paper bird said, hemming and hawing like speech was something new to it. “So we’ve been trying oh so hard to get your attention.”“Who is it you think you’ve found?” Benjamin asked, unwilling to give aw...
