Short stories!
Hi guys! I have a short story coming out each Friday starting today until Invent comes out!
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Invent ~ 37!
Joe was still a Beginner at Enchanting, which made it highly unlikely that he would be able to figure out all of the intricacies of a Journeyman-level enchantment designed to force people to act a certain way in time for a meeting of head...
2022-06-10 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 36!
Two weeks went by in a flash, if a flash consisted of sleepless nights, intense training, and a relentless instructor. After those two weeks, Havoc finally said that enough was enough. Apparently, there was only so much that could be trained befor...
2022-06-08 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 35!
“I have a proposal to make this way more dramatic than it needs to be,” Joe told the group of volunteers who showed up to help him install the Guildhall. “I just want to make sure that everyone is on board with having some fun with this proj...
2022-06-06 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 34!
Finally returning to the Shoe after… Joe wasn't actually sure how long he had been down in the landfill. It felt like a long time? He had done a lot of things, but the lack of day-night cycles had really messed with him. He ogled his own lights,...
2022-06-03 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 33!
A door appeared in the wall of a dark alley. Before this moment, there had been no indication that such a point of egress had existed, and—unlike what common sense dictated—the door did not open into the building behind it. A rain of goop and ...
2022-06-01 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 32!
He knew that the horde would be surging toward him like a tide, and yet Joe could not find it in himself to move from his current position, or try to fortify his location further. Joe took a look behind him, seeing that garbage was still flowing i...
2022-05-30 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 31!
Array layer complete: Common.
Class quest complete: Novice Reductionist III. Reward: 500 Uncommon aspects you can claim at any time, in any storage device that will accept them.
Class quest gained: Novice Reductio...
2022-05-27 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe tenth Artorian is live!
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2022-05-25 18:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 30!
The last of the flames guttered out, leaving behind a scarred and pitted metal floor. Joe looked around hollowly as he inspected the damage, regrew his foot, three fingers, and his left arm; finally getting a notice as the structure itself stopped...
2022-05-25 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostNew covers! ...?
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2022-05-24 23:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostNew covers! ...?
Hi guys!!
You're the people that really and truly show that you want to be a big part of what I do, and because of that I really want to have your thoughts on a change I was thinking of making.
I have new art for Completionist, and an ...
2022-05-24 23:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 29!
Joe looked upward, seeing his glowing barrier rituals far above him. He had only gone down about fifty feet this time, not wanting to destabilize his work above, nor get too far away from the scant protections that he had put in place.
Once ...
2022-05-23 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise Artorian!
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Invent ~ 28!
The fortunate thing about having an excess of mana, or perhaps an unfortunate side effect depending on how Joe thought of it, was that he could continuously work for extreme lengths of time when he was providing a simple trickle of mana such as co...
2022-05-20 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 27!
“Wait, this shouldn’t be happening…?” Coming fully to his senses, Joe managed to flip around in midair as he shook off the final lingering effects of whatever it was Havoc had dosed him with. “I don't even have defensive rituals...
2022-05-18 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 26!
Even though Havoc protested, the first thing Joe did when they got back to the settlement was take a nap. Something about combat, perhaps getting his foot chopped off, had really put him in a bad place mentally and he needed to sleep it off.
Invent ~ 25!
Curling into a ball in a vain attempt to impact his attacker’s aim, Joe slammed into the wall and fell to the grounds as a dizzying array of projectiles were launched at him.
Fire, ice, pressurized air, arrows, bolts, bullets, throwing kni...
2022-05-13 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 24!
The Dwarves began cheering, and Joe dropped to the ground panting as the attackers fled into the single remaining volcanic shaft that led back to Elven territory. Only moments later, dozens of tiny reputation gain notices appeared in his vision, a...
2022-05-11 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 23!
As his Ritual Orb returned to its standard icicle shape, notifications began trickling into Joe's combat log. At first, it was indeed a trickle, but it rapidly became a flood of notices telling him the same thing: reputation had been gain...
2022-05-09 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 22!
Joe fiddled with his table, joined a group of Dwarves that were gambling to try and boost his luck stat, and made a few more rituals for town defense. Each ritual that he made was ever so slightly closer to the town proper, meaning they w...
2022-05-06 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 21!
It seemed to take almost no time at all for Joe to complete the next four Rituals of Minor Earthquake, as well as the associated receiving ritual portion of the Ritual of Remote Activation. Major Cleave, apparently now holding him in a higher rega...
2022-05-04 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 20!
One of the things that Joe had learned during his time in the military was that engineers were only ever a gentle push away from shifting into full-blown sappers. Anything that promised even the potential to step away from creation to bea...
2022-05-02 14:02:19 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 19!
“Major Cleave, I’ve decided to assign my Intelligence to this Orb and hope for the best!” Joe declared as he began lightly coating the entire exterior of the Orb with the purest of white aspects. “Don’t try to stop me, this is something ...
2022-04-29 11:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 18!
Quest complete: Novice Rituarchitect II. You have created all ten of the buildings that you scanned in the first part of your quest! You sure can follow instructions well! Reward: 5,000 class experience. Record breaker reward: you have complet...
2022-04-27 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 17!
Fire poured out of Joe’s fingers as he traced lines in the air, using both hands to rapidly draw out the ritual diagram with light gray aspects. When that was completed, blazing white aspects replaced the gray, and he flipped to using a Common-r...
2022-04-25 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 16!
Raising the smithy was far easier than raising the warehouse, since he was able to bribe a few Dwarves with no rent on the smithy for the next two weeks if they helped him out. After the forges were created and at proper heat, Joe easily put toget...
2022-04-22 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapters updated!
Hi all! I've been doing a dev edit run through Invent, and updated all the chapters already out based on your feedback! That added in over 4k words in those chapters alone, so feel free to run through them again!
2022-04-21 15:35:41 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 15!
Joe was originally going to attempt to raise the warehouse by himself, but when he looked at the overall schematics of the ritual, and the blueprints of the building, he grew concerned that the mana cost would be as large as the structure itself. ...
2022-04-20 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostInvent ~ 14!
Joe looked on wistfully as Havoc was struck by lightning and had acid spraying away from him in a nova. The Dwarf vanished, and the people maintaining the area swore heartily as they looked over the damage the Dwarf had done to their spell diagram...
2022-04-18 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post