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Loopshard - Chapter 131
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----Loopshard hit 6500 followers on RR! \o/I'm also close to 150 paid members on Patreon, which is unchartered territory for me. I think my previous PB was 125 or something, so we'll already far ahead of that. I really appreciate all the support on this story!Today is another long-ish chapter like last time. I think they start to bloat a lot when I begin describing things in more detail xD-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Thirty-One< < Settlement Discovered > >< Morga...
Loopshard - Chapter 130
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----In case you didn't see it, over the weekend I shared the final art (here) and a 1-minute timelapse of it being made (here).I'm really happy with how it turned out and I'm sure I'll get more art from the artist in the future, because the linework is just perfect.Anyway, it's pirating time!-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Thirty< < Now Entering > >< Stage 7 >< The Floating Sea of Gold >< 3-day Timer >Adam opened his eyes to golden light. He was running ...
Loopshard cover art timelapse
Was pretty surprised, but Nick even made a timelapse of the cover and the various drafts.Go check out the artist here: https://www.instagram.com/nick_superhero/He posts videos of his art like this quite often.
Loopshard cover art complete!
I just got the final cover art back from Nick_Superhero who I commissioned for it.I think it looks amazing, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. I also really like the coloured version of the background he did, but I'm not sure which to use as the cover, so any feedback on that would be appreciated too.I should be getting the .psd files too, so I could mess around with colours myself too, but not sure if I have the time for it right now.Anyway, I figured I'd shared it with all of y'all before I post it anywhere else.Thanks for th...
Loopshard - Chapter 129
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----The interim between Stages ended up quite long this time around, but I also just had a lot of stuff to show.But fret not, next chapter we're at last returning to Stage Seven.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-NineBeck and Adam looked up at the towering mantis. Her body looked like it was made from green leaves, and it was clear she was quite adept at camouflage, especially since she had some way of making her blood melody barely audible to Adam’s ears.“I kne...
Loopshard - Chapter 128
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----I feel like I've fallen into a pretty good rhythm for posting, so from now on you can expect a new chapter on Loopshard on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and if I do more than 3, they'll land in the weekend.Apologies that it took me this long to land on some predictable schedule, things have truly been hectic.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-EightAdam landed on his feet in a field of tall red spiky grass. It was immediately clear to him what Alivida’s cr...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Book 3 - Chapter 45
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----If you didn't see it, I'm doing a raffle for audiobooks for Madman book 2 (link). I've already listened to a couple hours of it, and Eric just does such an amazing job with his narration. I literally couldn't be happier.-----------------------------Chapter 45The worst thing imaginable happened as Panda disappeared and Brock’s protesting turned into unintelligible squeaks.I had become sane.Immediately the bonds that kept me tied disappeared, but I hardly noticed.It wasn’t until this moment...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Book 3 - Chapter 44
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Chapter 45 coming right behind this one.-----------------------------Chapter 44By the time we neared the foot of the Singing City’s central tower, Gargalob was completely gone. The black portal of water that Skippy had created inside him had vanished as well, but Panda insisted that it wasn’t fully gone, despite the fact that there was no way for us to tell from this far away with all the towering buildings blocking the view.We had gone around a three-way battle of giants between a large light-blue glowi...
Madman Apocalypse B2 audiobook raffle (CLOSED)
EDIT: All who participated have received emails about their codes (Anxietato, James, Quill, and Apotheosis), since I had enough free codes to give away. Thank you all for participating, and I hope you'll enjoy the audiobook.Book 2 of Madman is finally out as an audiobook, and Tantor who is publishing it gave me some codes to give away.The codes are specifically for Spotify, but I have redeemed one myself already and the process is pretty painless. You just need a Spotify account, the link to redeem it, and a code. That's it.Keeping the ...
Loopshard - Chapter 127
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----If you haven't seen it yet, I posted something earlier about a change to the price of my Patreon membership, which will go into effect next Monday (December 1st). Important note: It won't affect anyone who is currently subscribed, since you'll all be grandfathered into the $5 tier, but it does mean that future subscriptions will be only have the $10 tier available to them.You can read more about it here.In other news, the artist for the cover image that you all voted on should h...
Patreon price change
First off, I just want to reassure everyone who is already subscribed that the price they're paying will not change.Since Loopshard is now 20 chapters ahead of RoyalRoad, I will be returning to the $10 Ascendant tier that I've had since 2023. I went down to the $5 Invoker tier for much of 2025 because I didn't have a big backlog of chapters and thus felt bad for charging a lot per month, but now that Patreon is basically half a book ahead of RoyalRoad, I am going back to this original price.This change will take effect on December 1...
Loopshard - Chapter 126
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----We're now 20 chapters ahead of RR! That's almost 70k words!In connection to that I'll have a public announcement out on Monday regarding Patreon tiers (not something that will affect anyone currently subbed mind you), so keep your eyes out for that.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-SixAdam plopped down onto a seat in the basement restaurant of his house.Belamouranthe and Weaver were already having a meal in the restaurant, both of them sitting on top of...
Loopshard - Chapter 125
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----I should have chapter 126 out early tomorrow. It's already done but needs to be edited.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-FiveAdam hadn’t seen Luvicidix since before Stage Five, so he’d missed her transformation into a humanoid, and since his mind had been so occupied with many other thoughts, it briefly surprised him to behold her new visage as she alighted on the ground before him.Also, she looked upset.“Sorry that I didn’t talk to you after the Altar,...
Loopshard - Chapter 124
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----I forgot to account for the Tower Crawler bonus at the end of chapter 122, so the original Point total was 2000 Points short, putting it at 26500 and not 24500.There are quite a few things to keep track of, and I had fucked up my notes, hence why I didn't realise <.< Anyway, it's fixed now.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-FourIt quickly dawned on Adam what the Flayed Lady had meant by ‘song’, because his new Legendary Relic, the Mandate of Blood, was t...
Loopshard - Chapter 123
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----We should hit a backlog of 20 chapters this week, which is pretty exciting. I've been working pretty hard to make that happen.EDIT: I forgot to account for the Tower Crawler bonus, so the original Point total was 2000 Points short.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-ThreeAdam couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw the Point total for the Stage as he returned to Interim Island.I got so many Points from those two Player kills, not to mention the Elites.And killing...
Loopshard - Chapter 122
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----This chapter ended up kind of long.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-TwoAdam was following Sarah as she walked up the spiralling ramp towards Alepheria’s Study, when he suddenly realised he hadn’t asked about her patron quest for the Stage.“You said you didn’t know,” she replied when he mentioned it.“I don’t remember us talking about it,” Adam remarked.Sarah paused. “I really thought Kate was a nice person when I first met her… I thought she was...
Loopshard - Chapter 121
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----I gave up and changed the chapter title to numbers XDBut just to annoy the commenter on RR, I won't commit to that change over there, lol.As Throh pointed out in the comments on the previous chapter, Patreon's tab titles are quite short, so it's hard to discern what chapter you're on if you can't see the title.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-OneAdam flew up through the middle of the tower until he reached the laboratorium.This Stage will be a ...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----I just realised, next chapter will be "Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twenty-One" ... that's too long, lol. But at this point, if I change it to numbers I feel like I'm giving up D:-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-TwentyAdam looked around the interior of the ritual chamber. From absorbing the knowledge inside Alepheria’s lab in Stage Seven back during his fourth loop, he knew how to summon six alternate entities with the ritual and the ingredients on offer. Bu...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Book 3 - Chapter 43
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----I might write a couple more chapters this week, but trying not to let it affect my Loopshard posting schedule.-----------------------------Chapter 43Either I mistimed my activate of Skippy’s ability to escape the black watery dimension, or my aim had been off from the start, but regardless of which it was, we ended up inside one of the large monsters that roamed the Singing City.Skippy flopped out of the black pond and landed atop several piles of treasure with enormous golden organs around us. For some re...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Book 3 - Chapter 42
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Just finished this in time for it going up on RR tomorrow <.<Anyway, ch.43 is right behind this.-----------------------------Chapter 42I ended up picking the Skippy! ability, since I realized it might work with an ability I’d gotten earlier from the Humanbus Brain.[‘Vehicle Whistle’ x ]PassiveDid you know that whistling at Sloth Demons makes them go berserk?Anyway.This Skill seems like it has a lot of weird applications, since whoever designed it didn’t really understand what exactly defined a vehicl...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Nineteen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----And with this, Loopshard is now past 400k words written! And almost all of it written in the last 9 months. That's a definitely a record for me.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-NineteenMikhail and Sarah turned to look at them as they reached the treeline. Beyond the trees lay the vast clearing with the wall of scrap surrounding Alepheria’s large tower. Compared to Adam’s last visit, twice as many creepers roamed around at the top of the building’s exterior, and...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Eighteen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----The thick plottens!Also, Loopshard is going to hit 400k words with chapter 119! My personal best for word count on a story is Isekai Exorcist, which at three books has 427k words.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-EighteenWhile the others continued to fight the Bone Creeper that remained, Adam shaped his arm into a spike and drove it through Jun’s head, easily creating a hole through his cranium. The internal blood explosion Adam had used to kill him had compromised the ...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Seventeen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----Now the group-based fun begins again :DChapter 118 is coming either tomorrow or Sunday.I'm trying to at least have a new chapter Monday and Friday to match RoyalRoad's schedule, and then I'll do 1 or 2 additional chapters somewhere between those every week. Once chapter 118 goes out, Patreon will be 16 chapters ahead of RR, but I'm hoping to get to 20ish relatively soon, so there may even be weeks with more than 4 chapters, but no promises.-----------------------------Chapte...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Sixteen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----This should've gone up yesterday, but i ended up kind of busy because of the Isekai Exorcist book 2 launch. Anyway, chapter 117 will be out tomorrow.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-SixteenAdam went down the steps of his Player House and into the basement restaurant, and no sooner had he entered than all of the special denizens, as well as Yenna and Weaver, came through the door in the back. Belamouranthe appeared like last time as well, transported to the island by ...
Isekai Exorcist book 2 just released!
Book 2 of my series, Isekai Exorcist, just went live on Amazon today.It's available as eBook, Paperback, and on Kindle Unlimited.If you are unfamiliar with the series, here is the blurb of book 1:---Not all monsters can be defeated with a sword.Ryūta is suddenly transported to a new world, where he is assigned the dangerous role of Exorcist and has to quickly adapt to a life of constant danger. In order to survive in this new world, he’ll hunt and exorcise ghosts, revenants, demons, and other supernatural beings that cannot be defeated w...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Fifteen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----Like with the introduction of the Tome Keeper and his abode, I had a lot of fun writing this chapter.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-FifteenAdam’s feet landed on something soft that felt like grass. He looked down at his feet and saw that it was not a normal kind of grass but instead made of long flexible spikes, like the quills on a porcupine, and they were red like freshly-spilled blood.He lifted his eyes from his feet, seeing that the needle grass extended out in e...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Fourteen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----Not sure if 115 will go up today or tomorrow, but I'm already working on it. Hoping to get a lot of writing done before I dive into my final project. But it should be easy enough to juggle both since I can do it all from home.I'm the kind of introvert where an open office is my version of hell, so working full-time at my internship was super draining and didn't leave me much room mentally to focus on writing. I might not have mentioned this, or maybe I did ages ago, but I'm ...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Thirteen
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----I was a productive writer yesterday, so you get two new chapters today.In definitely unrelated news, I went to bed at 7:30AM.In actually unrelated news, Patreon did another goof and now all hyperlinks open new tabs, which is just the dumbest most unnecessary change possible. Just good old Patreon devs making changes no one wanted. So if it's bothering you when you click between chapters using the links, just know that I didn't make that decision <.<Also, thank y'all for voting o...
Loopshard - Chapter One-Hundred-and-Twelve
-Previous Chapter---Encyclopaedia------Next Chapter----Oh my God, I'm actually done with my internship tomorrow. They're getting no more free labour out of me!Make sure you check out the cover drafts and vote on which is your favourite. Click here to go directly to the post.-----------------------------Chapter One-Hundred-and-TwelveAdam had initially assumed that the Spidersilk Needle was a melee weapon, but it wasn’t really possible to hold and stab with. Or well, it was possible, but it wasn’t easy or functional. Although Legendar...
Loopshard - Cover design poll
Told ya I'd be back with more drafts. Just didn't realise the artist would do 8 O_OI'm having a bit of a hard time deciding, so if you could vote on which you like the most, it would be really helpful.
