Double-Blind CH51
Holding a finger to my lips, I leaned the piece of scrap metal away from the wall, so the others could the small blue coin nested there. Maybe I was taking it too far, but in my mind, ...
2022-03-23 22:21:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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Chapter 50
I considered switching to <Born Nihilist> before I put on the mask. In the end, I decided against it. <Jaded Eye> was the tool for the job here, even ... 2022-03-22 02:03:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH49
It was reminiscent of times long past.
Even early on, I wasn’t great at making friends, but that didn’t stop my parents from trying. There was a never-ending series of play d...
2022-03-21 02:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH48
“Where the hell did you learn to fight like that?” Nick grabbed several cheap beers from the fridge, placed the bottle neck against the counter and then thought better of it, hunti...
2022-03-19 00:18:53 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH47
As the figure dropping down from the balcony came plummeting towards my face, there was a split-second to decide how I was handling this. If I could get <Probability Spiral&...
2022-03-18 01:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH46
Having secured Talia as a summon, I left the safety of the dungeon‘s cleared floors. I had no doubt I’d return here, but the Lithid sure as hell didn’t sound like an encounter I wanted to ru... 2022-03-16 01:38:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH45
“I am not your pet, and you will not treat me as such.” The wolf growled. She was as far from me as possible, though even with her newer, smaller form the elevator didn’t allow m...
2022-03-15 08:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH44
Every time I called Audrey, it felt like tearing my own hair out, a handful at a time. Between summoning and leveling, it had become abundantly clear that any significant gain would involve varyin... 2022-03-15 08:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH43
I discovered quickly that the marketplace was inaccessible from the dungeon lobby. Somewhat awkwardly, I replaced the <Allfather’s Mask>and stepped back outsid...
2022-03-13 03:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH42
Shortly after waking up, misplaced and confused, Nick found a system event called a Trial in the old underground Santa Fe Railroad tunnels downtown. According to him, while wandering around in a d... 2022-03-12 05:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH41
Chapter 41
I gripped the seat of my chair tightly. Nick had no idea how badly he was fucking me. This situation had gone from bad, to worse, to nigh unrecoverable in less than a minute.
... 2022-03-11 02:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor is moving, posting will resume in a few days
Hi folks, as mentioned in the schedule post, I'm throwing stuff in my car and about to move to the snowy wonderland of Wisconsin. Daily posting will resume either on either March 9th or the...
2022-03-07 04:39:39 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH40
“Long time no… see,” I wavered.
The Nick I’d known had been relatively muscular. But this was something beyond simple post-athletic build. He was absolutely loaded with muscle, thou...
2022-03-07 04:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH39
I played it up a little, nearly stumbling to the ground before I pulled myself up.
“Arthur, what the hell?” Sara shouted.
“That’s enough.” Tyler stood, furious. “Arthur, b...
2022-03-05 02:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH38
I studied them all, struggling to keep my face emotionless.
Sara wore simple armor, not unlike my set, accented by a simple gray coverup. Short, shoulder-length blonde with a single red strea...
2022-03-05 02:27:02 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Chapter Schedule and Backlog
Hi all,
Thanks so much for reading. There's a lot of new names and I'm trying to keep track of them all.
Just wanted to comment real quick on the state of the schedule and b...
2022-03-03 03:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH37
Five minutes. Every nerve in my body was tingling, every part of me on the verge of panic. I considered putting on <The Allfather’s Mask> more than once, but I wasn’t cer...
2022-03-03 03:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH36
<Urgent Quest Received>
Quest: Ignition
Primary Objective — Prevent an outbreak of violence at the Open Forum. 2022-03-02 05:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH35
Our City Hall had always struck me as somewhat pretentious. It had the feel of an upside-down ziggurat, with layered sections extending further and further out, the odd-looking archite...
2022-03-02 05:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH34
It was a quick trip down to the lobby to warm up, and back to the fourth floor. Much of the frigid bite of the floor itself had lessened after the clear, making the after-battle clean ...
2022-03-01 03:15:35 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH33
Imagine, for a moment, the feeling of a seatbelt kicking during an emergency stop. Now layer on another point of restraint, and another, constricting and growing tighter. And then by s...
2022-02-27 04:25:27 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH32
A bolt shredded through the wolf’s coat, leaving a line of red across its shoulder. A graze. Not nearly good enough. If my crossbow’s enchantment was going to have any discernible ef...
2022-02-26 01:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH31
I stared at the empty cage as I rose. The massive white wolf, big enough that its flesh and fur were practically bursting out of the bars, was gone. The creepy, black-silhouetted woman was still t... 2022-02-25 02:21:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind Chapter 30
<Would you like to form a guild?>
<Y | N>
Another complication.
I immediately hit no on the prompt.
It was impossible ...
2022-02-24 02:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH29
Kinsley stared at my family, filled with sudden stage fright. Still, even after only a few hours out of the storehouse, she looked significantly less exhausted. A long awkward silence ...
2022-02-23 21:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Chapter 28
Estrada’s first, somewhat unhelpful, recommendation was to quietly assassinate either Rousseau or Voltaire. After some back and forth, she conceded it was probably safer to kill both...
2022-02-23 02:42:08 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH27
<Quest Received>
Quest: The Cradle of Civilization
Primary Objective — Form the Foundation of the Merchant’s Guild. 2022-02-22 03:21:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH26
I stared through the ring of the crossbow’s sight, keeping the pin trained at the center of the mess, waiting for the slightest movement, the smallest shift of paper. In the back of ...
2022-02-21 05:03:32 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH25
I offloaded almost everything. As tempted as I was to keep the <Tribal Gnoll Blade of the Undying,> the survivability buff only kicked in when the User was in co...
2022-02-20 02:42:57 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH24
From what I could tell, it started with a sign: Water - 500 Selve.
A gloomy off-yellow light projected from a nearby streetlamp that was flickering. At least we still had power, ...
2022-02-19 03:28:08 +0000 UTC View Post