Showing posts with label mmorpg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mmorpg. Show all posts

Monday, April 21, 2025

On Conscientious Governance and Adapting in Response to Circumstances

The provincial capital's most eminent, or those who aspired to that position, had lined up outside the governor's residence earlier than some of them awoke on a typical day. They awaited the new governor.
He came. Striding toward his door, he moved as if unaware anyone was there aside from him, but he began speaking before he passed the first well-wishers in rapid words full of good sense. "Gentlemen, the custom for freshly installed officials is to set out their program for their terms, and I cannot imagine violating it. First is this. The most knowledgeable about local conditions and the most studied in the law will consult for the purpose of creating a code of laws to apply to a group of people which I am told is now over eight percent of the population, higher than the thugs who stand in a field and wait to be killed an looted, another problem our energies must go toward solving. What is that you're wearing?"
The governor had finally stopped, square in front of one young man.
"It's a baseball cap."
"I don't know what that is. Are you one of them? How did you get here?"
"I fell into a canyon and died, then I woke up here."
"My condolences. These people are who I mean, gentlemen. Special skills?"
"Magic-suppressing magic."
"Of course, of course. Stay steady and we'll take care of you." The governor resumed his march to the residence. "Second, the administrators of the magic schools here, a strangely large number it seems to me, are to provide an explanation of why they're always wrong about which talents are good. It saps confidence, gentlemen. Third, I want a justification for the policy of distributing bullies among these schools. Fourth, respecting these multiple reports of amnesia . . ."
Finis

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Then We Expand is out now!

The second and final book of the Chronicles of Wycon series, Then We Reroll, is now available. The nostalgic MMORPG adventures continue, though possibly without nostalgia and definitely without adventure. Events? Expansions? Yes. Aliens and cannon. Get it at a launch week price of $2.99.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Makes You Think

Warhammer Online died and Dark Age of Camelot is still going. Isn't that something. Really makes you question everything you ever knew.

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Then We Expand Is Availabe for Pre-Order

The sequel is here! Chronicles of Wycon comes back with more plotless, slice-of-life early 2000s MMORPG false memories! Those thrilling stories of full-immersion VR adventures are all well and good, but reading them alone might ruin your sense of proportion. Use this as a companion piece to remind you of the unbearable reality.

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Into the Future

First We Reroll has returned to its regular price, but don't worry. It would be a bargain at 2.4x the asking price.

Saturday, February 27, 2021

The Latest Delight

While waiting for your favorite story to update, why not reminisce about what playing MMORPGs was like before we developed magical VR or were all hit by trucks? What do you mean, that sounds boring and vaguely depressing? It's winsome and lovable.

New Release

Such a story is found not in heaven but on this very Earth! Excited? Check out "First We Reroll," available at a special special launch price for Kindle, free with Kindle Unlimited, or in paperback format.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Come to This Side

If only there were a story about the MMORPGs of yore with no VR and no plot of any kind. Such a story could remind us what things were really like, remind of us inane group chat and worse town chat when combat was stately. Slow? No, stately.

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Qualities of a Side Book

Much like you might keep Azur Lane or Princess Connect as a side game while playing Epic 7 or Granblue Fantasy, so too might you read Sherlock Holmes stories between the Iliad and the Odyssey. Just the same way, when between VR MMORPG stories, why not read something more grounded yet nostalgic?

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Main Books and Side Books

When you get a new LitRPG, obviously you want to see thrills, intrigue, and numbers going up. You'd better want to see a spellblade too, because that's what you're getting. However, even thrills and intrigue can lose their charm. That's when you need a good stun or sleep.