Hi guys!
I'd like to ask a special favor. Over the last few weeks, I've had the opportunity to write a lot. Like, a whole lot. Things were flowing, I liked where things were going, my hands felt good, and my mood was good. I cleared some serious, serious words.
I think that really hel...
2023-11-16 21:31:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Seriously. That’s three battles won by heart, out of three battles total. It’s like that’s your only move,” Derek said as the group sat around, resting from the battle and their rapid withdrawal from the battleground afterward. “You need to diversify your moves a little bit, man. I...
2023-11-15 21:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey. Hey. You. I’m not going to hurt you. I never do, right?”
The bear regarded Matt with a wild, suspicious eye. It was true that Matt had never hurt him, but from the bear’s perspective, he was probably like a psychotic dirt ninja. To be fair, Matt had let him go so far mostly be...
2023-11-13 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s still unbelievable. They all kept this quiet? The entire Church? Somebody would have told us. Even just if they got drunk and let it slip,” Artemis said as they started making their way to the edge of town.
“I don’t think so.” Derek was huffing keeping up with the other tw...
2023-11-12 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNear the border, repairs were well underway on the demolished lookout tower. As much as demons were individualistic, their self-centered instincts all evaporated away when participating in an activity related to war. The lighter-weight demons were hard at work erecting scaffolding, carrying light...
2023-11-11 22:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostMatt jumped to his feet just in time to hear the sounds of a few dozen crossbows slap against a few dozen shoulders, and didn’t have to look to know what they were aimed at. By the time the strings started twanging, he was already in motion. The first salvo missed him entirely, but provided no ...
2023-11-10 22:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostMeanwhile, where the plinth originally stood was now replaced by a ten-foot crater in the ground. The church-lady was a good deal more injured, but appeared to have survived thanks to a magic shield she had put up. It had cut the damage enough to let her live, if not without scratches and bumps.<...
2023-11-08 21:40:28 +0000 UTC View Post“One last thing for ya two, before ya go.” The old man had finished whaling on Matt for a while, having thoroughly proved how good the armor was by subjecting Matt to dozens of attacks that probably would have otherwise killed him without protection. By the end of the fight, he had gotten use...
2023-11-07 20:31:12 +0000 UTC View Post“I see what you mean about the descriptions. Very minimal,” Matt said. “We’re still under the communication block?”
“We are. Thought ya might have something to say.”
Matt pulled a stool away from the wall and sat down. “Without going into details, more than a few of th...
2023-11-07 02:33:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe old man’s house smelled like fire and sounded like mayhem, even from the outside. The hammer blows they had heard yesterday had been loud, but they had also been at a sedate, controlled rhythm. Things had changed. The hammer blows came harder, louder, more frequently, and at a pace so disor...
2023-11-04 14:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostMatt knew that first impressions mattered. When he first met Lucy, she had told him that he should just slink off into the shadows and die. Thankfully, he had been old enough and maybe even wise enough to know she was a hurt kid, and that hurt kids don’t always think things through. It wasn’t...
2023-11-04 14:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh, and this. Absolutely this. Do you know what this is? It’s a whole lizard made of stone.”
“Why not just use an actual stone, then?” Matt asked, completely lost for the fifth time in the last ten minutes.
“Because stones can’t walk, you idiot. This could.”
The...
2023-11-03 16:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Ya did well, but ya still shouldn’t have been able to knock me out, ya know.” The old man had now calmed down, and after reviewing the actual chain of events with Matt, he was both appropriately impressed and, it seemed, not accepting of the defeat at all. “Ya couldn’t of hit me hard e...
2023-11-02 16:40:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe old man considered this for a moment before turning to Matt again. As he approached, he cleared his throat a bit bashfully.
“So, there, Matt, was it? I’d be pleased to take the commission, if ya is interested. I’ll make something real nice, I think.”
“Thanks, old man. I...
2023-11-02 16:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post“So the trick to the old man is, he’s going to hit you with a pipe. That’s just going to happen. You might think he’s not going to do it, or that you can block it, or… I dunno, anything, really. But he’s probably going to hit you with a pipe at some point. But besides that, he’s a r...
2023-11-02 16:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostInside the building, everything was marble. Not in the Earth way where the building had marble flooring and just a lot of marble inlaid with other materials. As far as Matt could see, every single surface in the place was really, truly, and actually made of the stone. The only reason he felt conf...
2023-11-01 23:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostMatt and Derek picked up an enormous amount of food from various street carts as they walked toward the bathhouse. Eventually, it was enough that they had to make a pit stop and spread their loot on a cloth on a bench between them. Then, they absolutely destroyed thousands of calories worth of fr...
2023-11-01 23:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Good. Next, that tattoo. The others might not have noticed it, but don’t think that I didn’t see you apply it. Where’d you get it? And why didn’t you tell me about it? From what I saw on the mountain, it looks like it helps you move stupid amounts of rock?”
“Not exactly.” T...
2023-11-01 23:02:40 +0000 UTC View PostSo, it seems that Patreon automatically shoved a bunch of y'all into our Deadworld Isekai when we linked it to our Discord. Apologies for that if you woke up to joining a new Discord server.
For everyone else, if you'd like to talk with us or other Deadworld survivors, please join our...
2023-10-30 18:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostMatt thought of trust as an earned thing, something that would be as immoral to withhold as it would be to deny a worker their paycheck. And for better or worse, Survivor’s Reflexes had always steered him in the correct direction. Where it said something was vulnerable, it was. When th...
2023-10-30 17:50:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Come on! Shit!” Derek was leaping in the air, trying to get a clear shot on one of the birds as they swooped. Artemis had managed to land a hit on one of them so far, not killing it but putting it in range for Brennan and Matt to end it. Derek was trying to catch them midair, which was provi...
2023-10-29 14:49:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit. I can’t climb that, guys. I’m sorry, I just can’t.” Matt was staring at a cliff face. It wasn’t dirt, and it wasn’t cracked, for the most part. It was a sheer, smooth rock face, and Matt was from a planet that was flat-and-ruined. Even with his powers, he couldn’t get up. 2023-10-29 14:47:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Matt, Derek, and Brennan ended up giving a jumbled, redundant retelling of not only what a Gollum was, but of the entire trilogy and The Hobbit. There were translation issues of a sort, brought on because none of them were natural story tellers and exacerbated by “wasteland packed with...
2023-10-29 14:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe tower captain went back to his workspace, which was a single, impractically large stone desk set in the center of the first floor. It was an inefficient use of space to set it in the middle like that, but made sure that the forces under his command were aware of who was in charge at all times...
2023-10-29 14:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostEven though the destruction of an entire demon town was probably enough to worry the demon forces, the humans decided to do a bit more damage on the demon side of the border on their way out. At first, the three Ra’Zorians assumed Matt would be on board, then noticed he lagged a little behind i...
2023-10-28 15:12:36 +0000 UTC View PostThen the dust cleared, and it was Matt’s turn to be surprised.
Wrapped around the precision, skilled swordsman was the kid, holding him back like someone trying to keep his friend out of a schoolyard fight.
“Brennan! Stop! I know him,” the kid was screaming so hard his ...
2023-10-27 17:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostMatt wanted nothing more than to be hidden while he was deep in demon territory. He immediately claimed and donned the cloak. Willing it to turn on, he was pleased to see that although it dinged his max total stamina, it was neither a constant drain nor a huge ding. When he turned it off, it took...
2023-10-27 17:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostMatt’s Stored Strike only worked if his body was completely motionless, but he had no way of knowing if that meant in terms of him actively moving, or moving relative to other objects. He hoped it would be the former, so he still might be able to store some energy before the big impact...
2023-10-26 17:25:21 +0000 UTC View Post“What is this, Matt?”
There were a lot of things going on at once in the warehouse. Most of them were mundane things, the standard kind of stuff an army would cart along with them. There were big crates. There were bushels of various kinds of food. There was shelving. It was a completel...
2023-10-26 17:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I think that’s a town, Matt.”
“Are you sure? It’s pretty pointy for a town. I can’t imagine why they’d build like that.” Whether it was a settlement, a town, or a small city, what they were seeing looked more like a conifer forest made out of mud than it did a proper place ...
2023-10-25 16:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post