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Anzrel posted:Posting this here as well on advice from the web novel thread. Congrats! I've been following Forge/Threads for awhile now and it's been really enjoyable
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Enjoyed the heck out of Tower of Somnus. It's Shadowrun but what if magic comes from playing a game. Surprisingly, both halves of the story work well. It started as a November writing challenge so there are some rough patches, but it's fun.Anzrel posted:Posting this here as well on advice from the web novel thread. Awesome! Forge is great and now I can introduce my wife to it the next time we drive somewhere.
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Dec 9, 2020 17:39
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TWI Patreon: Jesus Christ. I can't believe Badarrow cheats at videogames.
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Dec 9, 2020 18:30
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What the gently caress
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LLSix posted:Enjoyed the heck out of Tower of Somnus. It's Shadowrun but what if magic comes from playing a game. Surprisingly, both halves of the story work well. It started as a November writing challenge so there are some rough patches, but it's fun. 2nding diss. Book 1 just concluded in a satisfyingly Shadowrun fashion.
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I loved (mild ending spoiler)...belle’s “oh honey” at the end. It was good although part of me groaned at the hunger games jabs.
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Are there any good MC-is-a-dungeon stories? I'm aware of "There is no Epic Loot here, Only Puns" and after 20 or 30 chapters it still hadn't hooked me. I'm mostly looking for clever ideas I can steal, although a decent story is a big plus. Cynic Jester posted:2nding diss. Book 1 just concluded in a satisfyingly Shadowrun fashion. Yeah, I did not see that coming, but in hindsight, the author does start dropping hints a few chapters before.
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LLSix posted:Are there any good MC-is-a-dungeon stories? Here's a few I'd recommend: Blue Core is probably one of my favorite serials I'm reading right now. A person of some kind (the author has been very insistent that they may or may not have been human) wakes up as a dungeon core. He's missing some specific memories, but definitely remembers enough to know he didn't come from this world. Here's the info posted on Royal Road: quote:Dungeon: A place full of monsters, traps, treasure, and death. Those are the Great Dungeons, with unplumbed depths below the roots of the mountains. The Abyssal Dungeon has had some sporadic updates and is in a bit of a lull recently, but I believe the author hasn't fully dropped it yet. quote:The world of Vol, a huge, bountiful plane where the only constant is life, in its many, many forms. One such form is a dungeon core, a peculiar little gemstone, and the focus of our attention. Watch as this otherwise unremarkable gem awakens in one of the most resplendant places in Vol, an aptly named Mana Reef, and how it turns its simple hole in the ocean floor into something truly unique, all while the rest of the world is forced to deal with its growth. Dungeon 42 is currently paused due to the author getting sick, but they've been posting on Patreon letting people know they're still alive and not dropping the series. The blurb is rather tongue-in-cheek, but that's toned down a lot in the story itself. quote:Things go awry when the forces of chaos recruit a new Dungeon Master. From underpaid pseudo taxi driver to underground murder labyrinth builder, one young ladies' life is getting flip turned upside down! In non-serial books, you might want to check out Jonathan Brooks, who's writing a bunch of dungeon core series. I'd recommend Dungeon Crafting (a young woman who wants nothing more than to create, but is born with a disability that prevents it, is reincarnated long after her death as a dungeon core, which let's her finally live out her desire) and The Hapless Dungeon Fairy (a newly graduated Dungeon Fairy finds out that there's maybe more than superstition when it comes to her namesake's incredible bad luck, but it eventually gets her stuck in a very unique situation) over the others.
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A Lonely Dungeon is an enjoyable complete short story about a dungeon in a world with no adventurers. Or much of anything, really, which makes the dungeon pretty confused about why it exists and what it's supposed to be doing. It's something that I expected to get dull ten chapters in, but the author has an unusually good grasp of when it's time to stop dwelling on the current thing and move the plot along already for a web serial author. Being under 50k words rather than 500k words helps of course.
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A new TWI chapter just dropped and I'm almost too afraid to read it. I'm still hosed up from tuesday.
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The Shortest Path posted:A new TWI chapter just dropped and I'm almost too afraid to read it. I'm still hosed up from tuesday. The Patreon chapter? yeah I just finished it. No gut wrench this time. Well, kinda. Helluva way to go Maviola
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TWI Patreon Well that kind of sucked. I like how TWI actually has good characters die, but I do wish they'd stop being characters I liked when there are a ton of characters that are meh though this does make more sense then her living indefinitely from potions.
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I will say this much about that whole chapter Pawn unleashed is loving nightmarish. The Hive wanted individuals, it got individuals.
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TWI public: welp, not how I expected TWI to end, but well played Pirateaba. Thanks for the serial and looking forward to the epilogue.
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TWI / PG Spoilers Between Cat, Erin, Ryoka, and the two crows, now is NOT A GOOD TIME to be a female web serial protagonist
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PG The overall story doesn't seem like it makes a ton of sense at the moment. The loss of the Night should mean the collapse of the front held by the sigils and current battle is going to leave shattered armies. I don't see where they get the forces to siege Keter even with Cat having a ridiculous name and no important named dying thus far. Maybe they'll just Name their way through it with the sword and crown, but that doesn't seem to fit the path of the war so far.
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LLSix posted:Enjoyed the heck out of Tower of Somnus. It's Shadowrun but what if magic comes from playing a game. Surprisingly, both halves of the story work well. It started as a November writing challenge so there are some rough patches, but it's fun. I haven't caught up yet, but a nomad group just got brought in and I'm excited to see the next action thing go down. e: Gasoot. 
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90s Cringe Rock posted:I haven't caught up yet, but a nomad group just got brought in and I'm excited to see the next action thing go down. The epilogue for Book 1 just came out t his weekend. I won't spoil anything, but it is everything I'd hoped for.
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Narmi posted:The epilogue for Book 1 just came out t his weekend. I won't spoil anything, but it is everything I'd hoped for. lmao god drat.
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Dikkfor posted:lmao god drat.
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You know these last three TWI chapters are gonna be important when they have their own title that isn't "Interlude" or the conventional numbering. time
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These past few chapters have been the first time where I have had absolutely no goddamn idea where the plot was going to go and I'm fuckin here for it. Also regularly bawling my eyes out but thems the breaks I guess.
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This definitely feels like we're in the endgame territory of TWI. Though there's still a ton of plotlines that haven't even begun to be resolved. Looking at you "Kent Scott."
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Its been an arrow-y few chapters in TWI, geez. At this rate, Lyonette next chapter: 
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Anias posted:What is that gif from? I laughed. Also the recent TWI chapters I find incredibly boringly melodramatic.
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I only glanced through the early bits of TWI ages ago, and remember thinking at the time that Erin badly explaining abrahamic religion to a medieval society was a really bad idea. Now that she's apparently dead but also not dead?, I can't help but wonder if the entire story is just a slow buildup to revealing that it was 40k fanfiction all along, and Erin is the emperor of mankind.
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Omi no Kami posted:I only glanced through the early bits of TWI ages ago, and remember thinking at the time that Erin badly explaining abrahamic religion to a medieval society was a really bad idea. Now that she's apparently dead but also not dead?, I can't help but wonder if the entire story is just a slow buildup to revealing that it was 40k fanfiction all along, and Erin is the emperor of mankind. Well Pawn, the Priest, is now summoning something called aberrations so yeah, seems to be going poorly.
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Peachfart posted:Well Pawn, the Priest, is now summoning something called aberrations so yeah, seems to be going poorly. pretty sure he's summoning primeval antinium from the days when they were monsters using the power of the sleeping god. y'know, the reason klbkch wanted him dead as hell in the first place
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asur posted:PG The overall story doesn't seem like it makes a ton of sense at the moment. The loss of the Night should mean the collapse of the front held by the sigils and current battle is going to leave shattered armies. I don't see where they get the forces to siege Keter even with Cat having a ridiculous name and no important named dying thus far. Maybe they'll just Name their way through it with the sword and crown, but that doesn't seem to fit the path of the war so far. It seems to put the Firstborn in a pretty bad political position, even ignoring the fact that the other front will get wrecked, since they kind of rely upon being super powerful in order to stand on their own against the human nations that are orders of magnitude bigger in terms of population. While it's possible that this could result in Named arising among the Firstborn (which seems to currently not be possible), that doesn't really seem like a sufficient counterbalance. I trust the author though; there haven't been any significant plot turns in the entire series so far that I've disliked. edit: Also, where does Winter factor into this? Doesn't Sve Noc also have Winter right now? It's possible that this might cause some weird shenanigans with the Fey crowns.
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Ytlaya posted:It seems to put the Firstborn in a pretty bad political position, even ignoring the fact that the other front will get wrecked, since they kind of rely upon being super powerful in order to stand on their own against the human nations that are orders of magnitude bigger in terms of population. That last point was Cats plan originally, foist the crown of autumn on the dead King to surplant his title as King of the dead
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tithin posted:That last point was Cats plan originally, foist the crown of autumn on the dead King to surplant his title as King of the dead Surely Dead King knows that Sve Noc has Winter, though. I guess it's possible that Dead King could overlook the narrative implications of him seizing that power, though. edit: Speaking of all of this, I was pretty surprised that Sve Noc was willing to make the sacrifice instead of clinging to their pride and struggling against the Dead King's curse/ward/whatever.
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It feels kinda weird that the Dead King is raising the stakes so much and going for an overwhelming victory. He's got to know that the pendulum will swing the other way.
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Narmi posted:It feels kinda weird that the Dead King is raising the stakes so much and going for an overwhelming victory. He's got to know that the pendulum will swing the other way. It does seem like a mistake on his part to not continue the status quo after Cat got taken out and he trapped Sve Noc. There doesn't seem to be any reason to lose a crab when the gate was barely holding on.
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It's funny how petty Hakram is about Ivah.
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And that's another future addition to the sharrowford girl squad.
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I'm really enjoying Katalepsis' current arc. Seven-Shades-of-Sunlight is gonna be a fun new addition. Also, Heather and Raine really are a pair. She blinked at me, hurt. “ … my father’s family is very large? One of us has to be a lesbian.” “Typical,” Raine muttered. “Muff magnet, the pair of us.”
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