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Dude has apparently written multiple novels about Dwarves before so it has it's own fairly developed setting. It's kind of dry, but I'm fairly certain that's an intentional affect to convey that the Dwarves are slightly alien to humans.
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7c Nickel posted:Dude has apparently written multiple novels about Dwarves before so it has it's own fairly developed setting. It's kind of dry, but I'm fairly certain that's an intentional affect to convey that the Dwarves are slightly alien to humans. blessed be the writer who pens the dwarf
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nrook posted:it has been 0 days since I last regretted not checking that the "harem" tag wasn't on the story before starting a new serial on royalroad Same...I'm always disappointed when I get far into a story and realize there isn't going to be a harem
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Ytlaya posted:Same...I'm always disappointed when I get far into a story and realize there isn't going to be a harem It’s legal to post stories on RR without a harem?
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I hope Sleyca is okay, RR hasn't updated either so it doesn't seem likely to be just "oops didn't finish this one in time". E: nvm guess it's not that late in America SS122 patreon People were talking about squishy low rank supports getting targeted since like chapter 3, makes sense to see it here. Can't wait for Alden to start catching things out of the air of course. SS107 RR quote:Lute was still eyeing him nervously. “The Palace of Unbreaking won’t let Chainers bestow a wordchain—whether it’s beneficial or not—on unwilling people under normal circumstances. It’s counter to their entire ethos.” Hmm it's difficult for patreon readers to comment on RR chapters as they come out because I don't want to be taken as implying that something has or hasn't happened yet in the patreon chapters. I will just have to settle for SS 122 spoilers maybe this is why hazel can't go into exile because the palace kicks her out when they find out whose consent she violated. It's akin to insulting the Quaternary herself! And why she's angry enough at Alden to use her skill on the knights which I think is going to happen. Manon really aced her check to give Aulia a really bad time huh. gonadic io fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Jan 11, 2024 10:17
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SupSup 122 I imagine this is reminding the reader about the B-list and the rational behind them and assume that Sleyca is about to have them come back for some screentime.
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I guess his Mass Bestowal is an exception then? I thought it was implied that he just slapped the whole band with a chain without their knowledge.
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Griddle of Love posted:I guess his Mass Bestowal is an exception then? I thought it was implied that he just slapped the whole band with a chain without their knowledge. Ss 107 when he shared with Alden it required his consent from the system. So either he got it prior from the band or they just clicked yes on their interfaces without saying anything because it's not the first time he's done it for the band? I agree it's not entirely clear.
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Mine lord was good and I liked it! A lot! I was bored and bought the first book on kindle and it's also good. It's also almost the same story with small variations so eh.
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Affi posted:Mine lord was good and I liked it! A lot! I was bored and bought the first book on kindle and it's also good.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:"NOTE: I HAVE NOT PUBLISHED THIS WORK ON AMAZON."? I think they're talking about the ice cloak novels that are set on the same world
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90s Cringe Rock posted:"NOTE: I HAVE NOT PUBLISHED THIS WORK ON AMAZON."? The previous series is.
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Ohh. I just looked at the author's fictions list on RR and only saw this one. Despite people clearly mentioning other books. I'm not good at this whole "reading" business.
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90s Cringe Rock posted:Ohh. I just looked at the author's fictions list on RR and only saw this one. Web Serials: I'm not good at this whole "reading" business.
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Nettle Soup posted:Web Serials: I'm not good at this whole "reading" business. I'm confused, why would the subtitle just be "Web Serials" again? Haystack fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Jan 11, 2024 |
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Most interesting thing to me in the latest SS Patreon chapter is that Tuyet, S-Rank Meister, is apparently significantly faster than Alden using Azure Rabbit. Someone pointed out that Tuyet probably puts a lot of foundation points into speed, but it still highlights the raw stat difference between ranks and what higher ranks are just "passively" capable of outside of their Skills/spells. I imagine every trained adult S Rank who isn't something like an Adjuster or Wright is probably very superhuman in terms of their base personal attributes, even outside of their specialty. Hell, even the non-physical ones are probably several times as strong/fast. It also supported my feeling that "Dart Meister" is probably one of the most effective Meisters to be. I imagine it's probably better than Bow Meister in most situations.
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Kon is an S-rank adjuster with no relevant spells and he's been shown to still be pretty effective just from raw stats yeah.
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Soup 122: what I want to know is, will Stuart see the radish video along the gockarach one? Also, would the other Alden like radishes? Are they carnivores or omnivores?
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OddObserver posted:Soup 122: what I want to know is, will Stuart see the radish video along the gockarach one? Also, would the other Alden like radishes? Are they carnivores or omnivores? iirc other alden hunts insects, and by hunts i mean "whines until stu-art'h feeds A big flaming stink fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Jan 12, 2024 |
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A big flaming stink posted:iirc other alden hunts insects, and by hunts i mean "whines until stu-art'h feeds him some" Hey. The other Alden is a girl.
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If this doesn't sum up the blue box problem I don't know what doesquote:A note from Arcs
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gonadic io posted:If this doesn't sum up the blue box problem I don't know what does LMAO. I guess I can’t throw too many stones, Path of Building is one of my favorite games and it’s just fancy spreadsheeting.
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Affi posted:Mine lord was good and I liked it! A lot! I was bored and bought the first book on kindle and it's also good. I take this back. Dwarves of Ice Cloak is really good and only the beginning of the first book mirror's Mine Lord. I'm honestly at book 2s end already. Spoilers for book one dwarven socialism?! Engaging characters and exciting fights. Spoiler for book two Spinner is awesome
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gonadic io posted:If this doesn't sum up the blue box problem I don't know what does Lol, love arcs/Arkendrithyst
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Random Super Supportive thought: I wonder if Artonans looks spells up on the system? I would think they do. The system includes Earth’s internet and spies in a zillion ways. I bet it includes the Artonan internet equivalent too. It must be so much easier for knights to be able to look up utility spells when they need them than having to lug around spellbooks everywhere. Even if most Knight combat assignments are in areas without a system, they don’t spend most of their time in combat zones (because nobody does that and stays sane or even safe) so there’s probably a bunch of Knights and other wizards who want to be able to lookup spell steps through the system.
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Affi posted:Mine lord was good and I liked it! I just binged my way through in 2 days and it was good. A bit dry, but in the "Dwarf Fortress Let's Play" style. Dwarves are just completely un-fazable, no matter what. They get angry and sad, but it doesn't affect their actions. "Goblins foul the hunting traps, destroy the fishing weir and farms and siege the the mine so the dwarves are gonna starve?" "Eh, poo poo happens, we'll work it out."
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RBA-Wintrow posted:I just binged my way through in 2 days and it was good. A bit dry, but in the "Dwarf Fortress Let's Play" style. Dwarves are just completely un-fazable, no matter what. They get angry and sad, but it doesn't affect their actions. It's interesting, but that same flat emotional affect makes a lot of chapters dry and kind of boring. It was okay enough for me to read the whole thing, but the weird gender imbalance makes me uncomfortable. The author decided to make Dwarf genders imbalanced with only 1 in 4 being female. And a pretty heavily gender segregated culture. The author mostly uses this to justify making women something to compete over, and it's only tolerable because the female dwarves still get to pick who they marry. The actual text is tolerable so far, but the comments can get pretty upsetting. Especially when a female dwarf finally gets onscreen. It makes me reluctant to buy his other series.
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LLSix posted:It's interesting, but that same flat emotional affect makes a lot of chapters dry and kind of boring. The culture is way worse in the first prequel books. Its really an evolving sociological look on dwarven society and how it evolves over the centuries due to actions taken by the protagonists. First book dwarven society is segregated as all hecks. If you're not a first son of a wealthy family forget ever having a shot at marriage. Or even a craft. Women dwarfs who want to pursue a craft is somewhat looked down on but they are still allowed. Their families decide who they marry. Dwarven indentured servants abound. Crafters and warriors are the high class and all the menial laborers are second class citizens. This "changes" radically at the end of the first book but already by the second book influential people are trying to go back to "better times were dwarves of worth ruled and people knew their places" Dwarven wifs are main characters too and they do cool poo poo. Anyway. I think it's excellent.
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It's a classic Tolkien trope, "They breed slowly, for no more than a third of them are female, and not all marry." Probably based on the fact that there were no female dwarves ever mentioned in the Norse mythology he was referencing for Middle Earth.
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Supsup 123 patreon: I think this chapter is foreshadowing, other than the obvious one, how people are going to react really badly when the chaos event goes wrong ie not work as a team and try to show off etc
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Dwarves of icecloak: Honestly the books are fairly good but I'm just blasting through them. That time of year where you can't do poo poo. Third book was a whiff for me. Interesting premise with we're looking at the way regular dwarves live? How a relationship starts and such. Also we see society has regressed even more and we're back in a poo poo society. Makes sense because things were sliding just 100 years after the crippled king and now its been 500 years. The smuggler Prince story is good ? But then the book just throws its hands in the air and says "a dragon burns it all down" and its honestly coming from nowhere. poo poo ending. I do not know what the author was thinking
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gonadic io posted:Supsup 123 patreon: I think this chapter is foreshadowing, other than the obvious one, how people are going to react really badly when the chaos event goes wrong ie not work as a team and try to show off etc I still very strongly doubt that something will go seriously wrong with the chaos event, at least to an extent that isn't mostly resolved relatively quickly. This series is supposed to be a very "slow grind" and Alden isn't even remotely close to being able to meaningfully contribute to some sort of terrible "chaos event" on Earth. Unless it's resolved very quickly, it would also essentially require that the entire "setting" on Earth be set on fire (everything involving the Anesidoran organizations, social dynamics, etc), which doesn't seem like a thing that Sleyca is going to want to do so anytime soon. In general it seems deeply unlikely that it's possible for these "demon exterminations" to go completely off the rails just because some people make mistakes. There's presumably a reason they go off without a hitch constantly, and I imagine that the System itself is even capable of intervening if it comes to it. For the most part Sleyca has been good about having surprising events simultaneously be difficult to predict while also making a lot of sense (like the recent events from a couple chapters ago - all the "moving parts" are fully explained). The "something terrible will happen during this demon extermination" theories just don't feel right to me. The idea that something like "some kids trying to sneak in to watch the extermination" will trigger some unprecedented disaster just doesn't seem believable.
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Super Supportive just had it's big plot event. I'm not expecting anything super major to happen until the Artonans on honeymoon hold that gathering they want to invite Alden to/Stuart comes to visit Alden
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SupSup 121/123: I cant figure out how Manon knew Alden was behind the letters. All that subterfuge was for nothing? Re-reading 101 helped settle some things about how miserable she is, too. It was nice that C-rank is such a personal insecurity, and was also a serious obstacle in her petty party sabotage. A good villain. I wanted Alden to learn what happened, but with Hazel gone and Lute buying the video blowback story, it could loom for quite a while.
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Enkor posted:SupSup 121/123: I cant figure out how Manon knew Alden was behind the letters. All that subterfuge was for nothing? Supsup120s: he was the only other person involved, it was either him or Thwart Hog. The point was plausible deniability so she can't sue him or whatever. You get this a lot in real life about how everybody "knows" somebody has done something but that's not the same as them having said "I did this thing". You also see it with Hazel where right up until the end Alden was still not 100% certain and was relieved when she admitted it.
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