Trying to keep the output up while editing is ongoing. Hope you are all well out there!
The mages have achieved a strange dichotomy that can largely be attributed to the ...
2022-07-18 06:45:02 +0000 UTC
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Dig, dig, dig, dig, DIG, DIG, DIG!
The mountain shakes beneath us as a catastrophic BOOM rips through the nest and the temperature skyrockets again. The tunnel opening behind us glow...
2022-07-17 12:21:34 +0000 UTC
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We warred for survival. That was our driving motivation for so long that when we eventually reached the point that survival wasn’t threatened, we almost didn’t know how to act. We had estab...
2022-07-14 11:35:45 +0000 UTC
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Twenty skeletons. That was the following that Tyron had managed to create after his desperate struggles to master his Necromancer class. He was proud of what he’d achieved. He didn’t want to be...
2022-07-13 10:54:09 +0000 UTC
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Big ‘ol chunk of mass, surrounded by many more, smaller chunks o mass. Huge amounts of toing and froing. It has to be the queen’s chamber. There’s not way the termites would allow egg product...
2022-07-12 07:11:28 +0000 UTC
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Down in the darkness we plunge. It’s strange. Normally this kind of environment would be so familiar, so welcoming to me, it’s a social insect nest after all, but it just… doesn’t. Instead,...
2022-07-11 10:07:35 +0000 UTC
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It is difficult to say how the Colony’s attitude to the pets raised by the eldest came to be what it is today. There was always a level of respect afforded to them, naturally, they were allie...
2022-07-10 07:06:01 +0000 UTC
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Another one today I hope.
Overhead, the rock face of an entire mountain rushed down to meet them, the roar of tearing stone deafening to all in the mouth of the nest. Advant ...
2022-07-09 05:02:30 +0000 UTC
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Just a quick update about the health situation with the family. Lot's of people have made very kind comments and I've read and appreciated them all.
The kids are fine and dandy now, no more c...
2022-07-08 05:34:11 +0000 UTC
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Sloan watched the fighting from the backlines, though she desperately wished she could surge forward to battle alongside her siblings. As the general in charge of the field, she couldn’t afford t...
2022-07-06 11:31:21 +0000 UTC
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“So you had a chat with the bandit leader and told him to fuck off?”
“Pretty much,” Tyron confirmed.
“You really intend to die for a group of women and children? I mean, noble...
2022-07-05 08:15:18 +0000 UTC
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It's a Rust reference. Keep your mind out of the gutter.
“Eldest! What are you doing up here?” Leeroy complained.
“Hah. Thought you had a nice final stand setup h...
2022-07-04 04:36:56 +0000 UTC
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Having the collective Will of over a hundred thousand sentient creatures flowing through you at once is… heady stuff. When all hundred thousand of them are baying for the blood of their ancestral...
2022-07-02 11:27:06 +0000 UTC
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Rassan’tep watched with cold, reptilian amusement as the armoured shock troops of the Colony dove forward, seemingly at random. He had hoped the stand off between the two sides would last longer ...
2022-07-01 12:03:15 +0000 UTC
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Been tough to get anything done with the fatigue and headaches. Hopefully this isn't too much of a mess but I don't want to delay it any longer.
Sorry to all the Chry...
2022-06-30 12:02:46 +0000 UTC
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Hey all, still alive.
All things considered, we are doing pretty well here in the RinoZ household. Both kids have caught covid now, but the youngest is through the ot...
2022-06-28 08:32:37 +0000 UTC
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Cardigant, the one who fell, and in falling, achieved true immortality. Her existence, or rather, the lack of ongoing existence, was something amazing to the Immortals, something precious.
It...
2022-06-23 09:40:31 +0000 UTC
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It was somewhat embarrassing to have forgotten he had this ability. Tyron had been so focused on perfecting his ability to assess, prepare and Raise Skeletons that his other abilities had dropped a...
2022-06-22 02:49:30 +0000 UTC
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or something.
Just a quick update and a warning that my schedule might be even worse than usual this week. One of the kiddly winks has tested positive for covid, which means isolation and all...
2022-06-22 01:26:27 +0000 UTC
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Tyron leaned back from the table with a sigh. He moved to wipe the sweat from his brow, but hesitated when he caught sight of his hands. He looked around for the bucket of water he’d drawn, then ...
2022-06-21 04:49:21 +0000 UTC
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Under the soft light of the fourth stratum, with a soft mist rising from the glittering blue waters on the shore, the might of the Colony assembled. They had gathered in strength before, huge armie...
2022-06-19 06:40:34 +0000 UTC
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Fanatics aside, there was plenty of stuff going on and not much time in which to get it done. With so many ants furiously working, I decided the best place for me was out of the way on the surface....
2022-06-17 08:53:37 +0000 UTC
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Hah!
Felt like something just walked over my grave. Can ants even shiver? That's weird! Almost as weird as having bones on the inside. I can't imagine how I ever put up with it.
<...
2022-06-16 04:05:41 +0000 UTC
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A cold wind blew. It cut through the empty street, and through the lone figure who staggered through the chill, a package tucked under one arm. The small person pulled a tattered coat tighter aroun...
2022-06-15 10:11:14 +0000 UTC
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With his captors distracted, Tyron knew it was time to make a move. If they decided to remove a potential complication, namely him, before dealing with the new threat, then it likely wouldn't go we...
2022-06-15 02:36:25 +0000 UTC
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The countryside rolled past, slowly. Every now and again, Tyron would lift his head from his notes, or the chunk of bone he was working on, to glance at the ruined landscape and sigh.
It wasn...
2022-06-15 01:41:59 +0000 UTC
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Cover for book 2 is done folks. Check it out!
2022-06-11 01:07:33 +0000 UTC
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Double chaps? Whoo! That's five for the week people. I'm desperately trying to get back into the groove and hit my targets, starting with getting all five chapters of Chrysalis out before t...
2022-06-10 05:43:33 +0000 UTC
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Still no idea what to do for chapter 1000. How much a truth bomb do you want? I could do a Gandalf chapter, but that'll uncover some secrets. I'm kind of nervous to drop the lore, I was pla...
2022-06-10 02:28:11 +0000 UTC
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Finally!
"You sure you got 'em all?"
"Ten was what you asked for, ten is what you've got."
Mr Allop, the gruff and balding mayor of Ridgerton knuckled ...
2022-06-09 10:11:15 +0000 UTC
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