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Loopshard - Chapter Fourteen
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter FourteenAlthough he knew it might be a bad idea, Adam sold his Bone Armour to be able to afford the Fiendbarb Relic. He also purchased a Reroll, which he thought he might need for the Stage Three Relic reward since he’d gotten crap twice in a row during this loop.< < Relics Purchased > >< Fiendbarb (Epic)>< Reroll Die (Uncommon) >< 28 Points Remaining>28 Points… I guess I can’t spend that anywhere. Shame Luvicidix is only here during the day.Adam headed back to the ...
Loopshard - Chapter Thirteen
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter ThirteenAdam hurried through town as the sun set on the horizon. He was still frazzled by the strange encounter with Ilya, but pushed it from his mind for now, since he had to hurry. The tesseract floated along behind him as he ran past the buildings.Belamouranthe remained in the Tavern, where Charlie watched over her as she slept.“Good evening, Adam,” greeted Yenna as he ran past the fountain next to her. She’d swapped out the hurdy-gurdy for a violin and was playi...
Loopshard - Chapter Twelve
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Wrapped up my school exams and editing on Madman book 1, so have more time to write. I'm still hoping to hit at least 60k words on Loopshard before it releases on RR February 14th. Given that it's currently sitting at 46k, that should be doable.Today, the last chapter of Madman book 2 released on RR and the reception has been much better than I was expecting, which is really awesome. For those eager to see where the story continues, I should have new chapters of Book 3 available in February. I probab...
Loopshard - Chapter Eleven
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter ElevenAdam blinked in surprise. The girl looked no older than seven or eight and spoke with a British accent that had a slight lilt to it. She wore a white dress and her skin was ashen. Her hair was golden like sunshine and her eyes glowed orange. Two black horns sprouted from her temples.“What the hell?” he asked, looking to Shitbox who was still unfolded in the middle of the floor.[As part of completing Stage Two, you have saved the daughter of the Elphin Queen,] th...
Loopshard - Chapter Ten
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----I've locked in on a release date for Loopshard over on RoyalRoad. It'll be the 14th of February, right after I get back from a 2 week trip to Japan.Been crazy busy with exams, but aside from having to 'defend' a 24hr project I finished yesterday, I finally have some breathing room. I'm hoping to wrap up the edits on Madman and put out at least 3 more chapters of Loopshard before the 28th when my next semester starts (who needs breaks between semesters anyway .... me... that's who).---...
Madman Apocalypse Book 2 cover
Commissioned Creadfectusto make another cover for Madman Apocalypse.Here's the original image I used to guide what I wanted, lol.
Loopshard - Chapter Nine
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Just one more exam next week and I'm done with the semester. I've passed the previous two, but they were so technical and full of crazy terms we're meant to memorize. That's definitely my weakness in any education, I think. I do much better in practical exams, which the next one is fortunately.I will try to have two more chapters out next week, since I'd like to hit 40k words on the story, but we'll see how it goes.Still have some editing to do for a publisher deadline at the end of t...
Loopshard - Chapter Eight
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Got a pretty tough exam coming up this week, so next chapter might not arrive until Sunday.-----------------------------Chapter EightAdam was in the middle of talking to a Scandinavian guy named Sven, who’d picked the Slime King Relic, when Shitbox announced:[Another Player is trying to communicate with you. Do you wish to talk to them?]“Yes please.”[Understood.]“Sorry, Sven, but I’ve gotta go.”“Thank you for the information, Adam,” he said. Thanks to the Relic, he was now made of the same st...
Loopshard - Chapter Seven
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter SevenAdam had eaten two of the croissants before he made it to the Market, but at this point he’d reached his limit. He halted as he saw the Wasp strumming the guitar.“Hello Adam,” she said in a sultry voice.“Hi again, Yenna,” he greeted.The response confused her by the looks of it, as she tilted her head while her black compound eyes stared at him.“I mean, nice to meet you.”“Do you like my melodies?”“They’re quite nice, yea.”“If you’d like, yo...
Loopshard - Chapter Six
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Been almost a month since the last chapter, but I'm back to writing on this daily. While editing Madman Book 1 (yep, still on that...) and preparing for my exams in January.Next chapter should be out sometime this weekend.Have to add *** to denote timeskips, because Patreon is still bugged and deleting all paragraph spacing...-----------------------------Chapter Six“Who are you?” Adam asked, while staring right into the large black compound eyes of the white moth.“Why, I’m Luvicidix of course!”...
Thank you for a great 2024!
Thank you everyone who has or still is supporting me on Patreon.2024 has been a tremendous year for me in many ways and I have your support to thank for it.PATREON:Starting tomorrow, January 1st, I will be releasing a new tier called 'Invoker', which is $5. This will replace the 'Ascendant' tier with no changes other than name and price. I hope everyone still subscribed will switch over and save themselves a bit of money. And don't worry, anyone who switches from Ascendant will be refunded the cost of the Invoker tier.The pl...
Madman Apocalypse - Book 2 End - Behind the scenes
If you haven't finished reading Madman Apocalypse Book 2(i.e. up-to-and-including chapter -155), then avoid this post if you don't want to be spoiled!------------------------------I figured that, for anyone who's read the ending of Book 2, it might be fun to see how the ending comic was made and the process behind it.My amazing agent, Edward Kim, worked with Webtoon in the past as part of their Content Acquisition, so he has a lot of knowledge and ties to the webcomic industry. He also has his own team that he's been using for p...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -155
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----This is it. This is the last chapter of Madman Apocalypse Book 2.There's something pretty special in this chapter that I've been waiting to show off for months.-----------------------------Chapter -155“Did ‘Time Save’ reset my items too?” I asked Panda as I rapidly closed the distance to the Queen.She was still in the process of regrowing her head. For some disturbing reason, the outer layer was made first, perhaps because the insect carapace was equivalent to her skeleton. But unlike bone, i...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -154
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Apologies for the delay, but this chapter is also over 4000 words long, so it took a bit longer to get done.The next chapter (-155) will be the last chapter of book 2. It will arrive either tomorrow the 16th or Tuesday 17th. It will contain something very special that I can't wait to show off.-----------------------------Chapter -154The sounds of Joysworth McGiggles tearing through the ant defenders and beetle invaders echoed through the halls leading from the pillar room, along with a cacophony of screa...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -153
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Just two or three more chapters to go before the end of Book 2!-----------------------------Chapter -153“Do something!” Panda yelled.In the distance came a loud explosion and the ground trembled. We didn’t have much time left.There was nothing Icould do, so I looked to Tina, but she clearly had no way to help Steve either.“Goddamn it,” I muttered, casting him one last glance before running out of the wide hallway. “Tina! Come on!”The Venomancer took a second to stop staring and caught up to me ...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -152
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter -152In the end, instead of borrowing some from Steve, we killed the Minor Warden next to the blast door and used its blood to fill up our Glitch Hunter Hearts. The Birthday Brat had commanded his army of mind-slaved ants to defend him and they weren’t letting us get close.“It was just a joke,” I told him. “You can come out now.”“I refuse!” he yelled from within the clump of ants.Tina lifted up the black squishy tube which sloshed with the foul-smelling blood...
Loopshard - Chapter Five
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----I had planned to put this up yesterday, but didn't finish writing it until like 2am and didn't want to post it before giving it an editing pass.Update February 10th: this will be the last chapter made available for free. Don't forget that Loopshard launches on RoyalRoad on Friday the 14th.-----------------------------Chapter Five“Here we go again,” Adam muttered to himself. He was leaning his weight on the spear and, despite having just emptied out his stomach twice, felt a lot better about h...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -151
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----We're getting closer-and-closer to the end of Book 2. It's very exciting :D-----------------------------Chapter -151As I chased after the tug of the Manhunter’s Badge I ran through several chambers that’d housed Children’s Zones. They were now full of empty bulbs and demoralized Minor Wardens knelt within. They didn’t even try to stop me when I ran past them.They couldn’tstop me. Their energy was gone.When I realized this, I killed every single one I came across before they could get back u...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -150
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Hm, they managed to break paragraph spacing with Patreon when they changed how new posts are made. I can't really tell if it will turn out fine from how terrible the editor is, but let me know if it ends up all smushed when you look at it. It's just another day of using Patreon <.<Since my release schedule this week has been slightly skewed, Chapter -151 will arrive on the 8th instead of tomorrow the 7th.The images are my commissioned cover Christmastified by my friend Euphy who writes "Last Rae ...
Announcement about my stories, Patreon, and things happening in 2025
Hey everyone. I've got a few things to share.Firstly.When Madman Apocalypsewraps up Book 2very soon, I will be taking a break for about a month. That means there'll be at least one month where I probably won't be posting much on here aside from new chapters of the unreleased Loopshard and F-tier Assassin stories.Secondly.I have signed deals for both Isekai Exorcistand Madman Apocalypse. This happened a while back, but I didn't want to share it before I had more concrete information on the deals.- I have signed the first three bo...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -149
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter -149We tore through the hallways and chambers of the Hive Ship, while a massive battle continued to rage between the ant defenders and beetle intruders. It was interesting that they cared more about their rivalry than about us sneaking into their base.“Turn right here,” Tina announced and I dutifully obeyed.We zoomed around a corner and down a narrow tunnel, which had a warm orange light at the end. As soon as we came out at the other end and I saw what stretched out ...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -148
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter -148William Twine nodded towards Steve and said, “Uh yeah, happy birthday.”The Birthday Boy groaned. “We should get going, right? They’ll probably realize we’ve infiltrated their base pretty quickly, considering their ability to track Gambit wherever he goes.”“They can’t actually do that anymore,” Panda told him. “I think what happened in the Safe Zone wasn’t because of him being tracked, but rather some automatic trigger reacting to his amoral natur...
Loopshard - Chapter Four
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----The pollI did last week was pretty conclusively in favour of Loopshardand I've been finding it much easier to write that F-tier Assassin, so it will probably end up being what I publish in February on RoyalRoad instead. It's a big change of plans, but that's how it goes with artistic endeavours sometimes.However, this doesn't mean that F-tierwon't get published, it just means I will continue to take my time writing it. It's not a style of narrative that's much suited to being writ...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -147
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----I am back from my brief vacation, thank you for waiting patiently.-----------------------------Chapter -147Tina wrapped her green serpents around the three of us, although it was awkward since I was upside-down and they weren’t. Above me, which was below them, was the distant town hall of Madeville. I couldn’t see William Twine anywhere, but several Players seemed to be defending the Safe Zone from the giant Executioner Aphid-Dog. They were being torn to shreds by its aggressive turrets.The pull on my st...
Which do you like the most?
Opened this up to all members.So, I've been considering which of my two new stories I should continue writing. I wanted to have something ready to go by February 2025 and I initially thought it would be F-tier Assassin, but lately, due to being busy with editing Isekai Exorcistand Madman Apocalypse, I haven't been able to focus on it as much as before. At the same time, I started writing Loopshardand found it super easy to write on. I'm not able to focus on more than 2 stories at a time, but when Madman Apocalypsereaches the end of ...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -146
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----I am going on a vacation to Barcelona, so there won't be any chapters until November 28th. Sorry for the inconvenience.I haven't taken a proper vacation since April 2023 and I'm really starting to feel it to be honest, so I'm gonna really try to not work during this brief respite ^-^'-----------------------------Chapter -146We passed by a bunch of Players on the short walk from the second floor to the lobby. Every single one of them was facing towards the entrance, while also trying to ge...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -145
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter -145By the time I made it to the Safe Zone with my new group of friends, I’d already said “Damn that’s crazy” in reverse-speak about eight times. Still, no one had noticed that I wasn’t the real Nate Asher.“They’re gonna catch on,” Panda insisted.As I climbed the steps up to the town hall’s front door, Emma said, out of nowhere, “Nate sure became a lot more talkative since that weird guy with the eye showed up.”The other two both nodded.“He’s fin...
MADMAN APOCALYPSE - Chapter -144
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----Maybe the Patreon programming staff is taking an extended break and just leaving the site broken, lol. This new size thing just looks horrendous <.<-----------------------------Chapter -144Since Steve was in a hurry to get some Sanity Pills and Tina said staying outdoors was dangerous for James, Panda and I were left by ourselves as the three of them went into the Madeville town hall.“Some friends,” I muttered.“Are they actually your friends?” Panda asked.“I guess not. Steve is the reason we’re i...
TASTE-TEST: Loopshard - Chapter Three
-Previous chapter----Next chapter----This concludes the Taste-test of this story. I will undoubtedly continue writing on it in the background, but any future chapters will only be available to paying members.Update February 4th: I have made chapter 4 available for free members as well. Before the release of Loopshard on RR (February 14th), I think I will make chapter 5 available for free as well.-----------------------------Chapter ThreeInstead of heading straight through the centre of the island to reach the southern part where the smoke from ...
TASTE-TEST: Loopshard - Chapter Two
-Previous chapter----Next chapter---------------------------------Chapter TwoAdam looked around. He felt like he’d been pulled into a quaint German town like where his great-grandparents were from. The cobblestones were uneven and slightly frustrating to traverse, the buildings were colourful but misshapen like dumpy clay sculptures, and the trees and plants grew wherever they pleased. A simple guitar melody filled the air and made his heart-rate slow down to a state of relaxation, despite what he’d just gone through.[Welcome to Interim Isl...
