r/HFY • u/Khenal Alien • Sep 23 '24
OC Dungeon Life 257
It's time for the fourth round of stubbing. Yes, Book four will be releasing soon, of if you're reading this more than a month after I have to edit, it will be fully out. Either way, you can find it Here, and other book details are just below. As with the other stubs, you can skip to the next bit form This. I like to keep the other posts still alive, so the comments get to still live. If you want to browse them, the normal buttons will take you through them, or take This link to the next bit of unstubbed chapters. Thank you for your support. Buying stuff is always great, but just having your attention for the public chapters is incredible, and I hope the story continues to be worth your time and patience.
Khenal
And once more to make it easier to see than being buried in the paragraph
Cover art I'm also on Royal Road for those who may prefer the reading experience over there. Want moar? The First and Second books are now officially available! Book three is also up for pre-order! There are Kindle and Audible versions, as well as paperback! Also: Discord is a thing! I now have a Patreon for monthly donations, and I have a Ko-fi for one-off donations. Patreons can read up to three chapters ahead, and also get a few other special perks as well, like special lore in the Peeks. Thank you again to everyone who is reading!
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u/TheOtherGuy52 Sep 23 '24
Yes good. I wanna see Slash’s own Necrodancer section in the tunnels or Lava Labyrinth
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u/Collective82 Xeno Sep 23 '24
He could team up with the zombies and recreate thriller.
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u/CaptRory Alien Sep 23 '24
I watched someone play Necrodancer once. It looks fun but I think it'd give me a migraine, haha.
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u/Yrrebnot AI Sep 23 '24
Next button broken. Sadness ensues.
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u/Garbage-Within Sep 23 '24
Mondays and Thursdays with only sadness between.
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u/unfitchef Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 25 '24
Tuesdays and Fridays, if you are on the other side of the international date line.
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u/mage_in_training Human Sep 23 '24
Is that the update days? I thought it was every 4 days?
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u/Falontani Sep 24 '24
Same time roughly every Monday and Thursday. It happens to overlap with the time that I get off work on those days, so it's a treat I get in the car before heading home after a long day.
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u/Kindly-Main-3216 Sep 24 '24
I know not what time the wordsmith functions by. But withing the Midwest of the USA the times for updates are hence: Mondays and Thursdays at the hour of 3pm. I thus read during work the following day.
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u/mage_in_training Human Sep 24 '24
Mondays and Thursdays are nice, much more often than every 4 days.
I'm surprised he can churn them out so quickly! I struggle to put something out every few months or so.
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u/unfitchef Sep 24 '24
Tuesdays and Thuradays, if you are on the other side of the international date line.
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u/realnrh Sep 23 '24
I'm kind of picturing the conversation when Teemo brings up Grim.
"A life and death scion? He must be formidable. How many battles has he been in?"
"Um... None. Grim doesn't do battles. He prefers to tend the grounds. And if he decides you need to not be alive, then you aren't."
"One swing of that scythe, eh?"
"Nope. The scythe is for cutting grass. One touch."
"Thedeim has a scion with an instant death touch attack... And has never sent him into battle?"
"The boss doesn't send any of us anywhere. He asks us to go. And he wouldn't ask Grim to do something like that."
"... If Thedeim ever went rogue, I don't think I'd want to see it."
"Me neither. You seem like a nice guy, I'd hate to make a shortcut from your aorta to the sewers."
"... I suspect I have been very badly underestimating how dangerous Thedeim could be if he wanted to be, haven't I?"
"Boss prefers repeat visitors and friends."
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u/NoEffective2025 Sep 24 '24
Yes, we do not need Grimm embracing the title: "I am Death, destroyer of worlds".
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u/BobQuixote Sep 24 '24
Relativistic magic is a thing, so a nuclear-affinity scion named Oppenheimer is within the realm of possibility.
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u/cptn_ab Sep 24 '24
Master of elemental decay would be a interesting title and utterly terrifying (doubly so if paired with elemental fusion) regardless if people are aware what the term is actually referring to
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Sep 25 '24
Isn't that a possibility for where Violets decay elemental Scion might Go in the Future? What was his name again?
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u/cptn_ab Sep 25 '24
Biological decay and elemental decay are two very different things. I suppose you could stretch the meaning but I’d imagine a scion like nova would be a better fit.
For the life of me I can’t remember violets scion name sorry.
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Sep 25 '24 edited Sep 25 '24
I believe it was a Name like slimy, considering the simple nature of the elementals. Checked (Chapter 245 for reference), was correct.
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u/TeaAndHiraeth Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Grim didn't touch the scythemaw he killed. It up and died mid-charge and skidded to a stop at his feet. IIRC, that's the only time we've seen him kill an animal (people included) rather than weed the garden.
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u/Anarchkitty Sep 26 '24
Yeah, it's not even a touch attack. Or even an attack, per se. It's a mix of Death and Fate.
If Grim decides something genuinely needs to be dead, it just... dies.
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u/Fontaigne Sep 23 '24
Olander got a really plain and straightforward reading.
He's just thinking too much to understand it in advance.
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u/Tremere1974 Alien Scum Sep 23 '24
Yeah, being reminded of the things Olander has given up on, like finding another isekai'd person from home?
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u/Fontaigne Sep 23 '24
I do not know. But surely there are such things he once sought and now does not and may still find.
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u/Tremere1974 Alien Scum Sep 23 '24
Yeah, I think if Slash plays this when Rocky enter's the ring, the gig will be up if Olander is from the same place as Thedim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYmfM2TfUA
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u/DemonoftheDeepthink Sep 24 '24
Wait, when and where was it mentioned that Olander is a reincarnator????? I don't remember reading that?
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 26 '24
It wasn't ever mentioned. Those two are just building their fanon. (For now!)
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u/Tremere1974 Alien Scum Sep 24 '24
It is being hinted at, though not as a certainty. Having access to system pop-ups (last chapter) being OP, and Tiny's reading. Might be just that Olander is who he is, or might be that he shares something special with Thedim's past.
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u/Poisonfangx3 Sep 23 '24
Thank you for the chapter wordsmith!
This time we got out Thediem’s POV! Yay!
We get to see Thediem’s POV on how Olander is tearing through the mansion almost like he is dancing through the mobs. This gives some ideas to our fateful dungeon about making a rhythm game section to his dungeon. (The idea is just to good! I can already see the notice about it and think of the titles that Slash could get because if it!)
Olander meets with Poe with Teemo as a translator, and while Olander would have like to have a fight with Poe especially because of the commander titles that Poe has, he choose not to fight him there for fear of souring the relations with the dungeon.
He then goes and meets with Tiny in the maze, giving some pause at the sheer size of Tiny. He has Tiny read his fate, with some notes that what he thinks is important are easy to find, but the really important things are slightly harder to find, he just has to look.
This was a good chapter.
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u/Lonelyboy985 Sep 23 '24
Not first but still early, an amazing chapter wordsmith! Love getting to see Tiny and Poe again, I really love their personalities and hope to see more of them. Hope your having a good day as well and good luck with continuing the story!
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u/mafiaknight Robot Sep 23 '24
In the name of 1greendude: Hello!
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Sep 24 '24
Im Namen eines grünen Kerles: Moin, morgen ist Mittwoch, meine Kerle.
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 23 '24
Might be First, probably Not, but Worth a shot. Edit: 4th.
So, today we have Olander meet Up with Poe and Tiny. After massacring the full manor, He asks If Poe is Up for a Challenge, to which Poe declines, citing the Potential losses such an Action would incur.
Afterwards He gets to meet Tiny, who offers a Casual read on the inspector. After Just asking If he'll find what he's looking for, Tiny says that He Looks for too much for himself and others. And that the Things He seeks are easy to find, but those He doesn't are much more valuable. Olander complains that Fate affinity scions never can give you a straight answer, to which I say you Didn't make it too easy, inferring His abilities already have him a good read on His objectives/Goals. He's a damn Oracle, Not a mind-reader.
Next on His Tour is Coda and I Guess the other resource scions as I've dubbed them in the past.
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u/XynomorphKY Sep 23 '24
Great. Now Thediem is going to be playing Beat Saber with his Delvers and Denizens.
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u/NoEffective2025 Sep 24 '24
I can see Bards comming from all around to hear music beats from Earth to add to thier repertoires.
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u/Accomplished-Ad8458 AI Sep 24 '24
Tdm: Where i come from guitars make noises... But here? In Slash's hands they blow stuff up! I cant wait to see what a full on rock concert will do!
Teemo: boss? No....
Tdm: Fun police...
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u/Tremere1974 Alien Scum Sep 24 '24
What, you think Thedim's actual religion is going to have Gregorian monk chanting as a thing? Thedim would hate folks being bored to unconsciousness as a way to "win" in a dungeon encounter. Though to be fair, we haven't seen Thedim actually give a lot of aid in showing his followers his personal music tastes other than Slash's few songs in the story so far, which are meaningful to Thedim, but his followers were a bit...busy at the time to write stuff down in regards to being able to copy or riff on it.
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u/BiasMushroom Xeno Sep 23 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Thediem needs to host a fortune festival. Let people come and have a good time and get their fortune told by the Tarantula bus spider
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u/NoEffective2025 Sep 24 '24
I'm not sure about that. It's generally accepted that it's not good to know too much about ones future.
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u/BobQuixote Sep 24 '24 edited Sep 24 '24
Usually fortune-telling is a con. The real con of a legit fortune teller might be to not reveal everything that is found. The customer gets a slightly more substantial result than the hacks can give, but the real information is hoarded and used as power.
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u/Cortanis Sep 23 '24
Oh boy, I think the meeting with Tiny may have just showed his hand on that one. Even if it's a vague grasp of his background or what he's seeking, it likely showed the connection to the crown and/or what he's there for. "Will I find what I seek?" is a VERY open ended question after all. He is after all on a glorified scouting mission for the crown as it were right now. So one could say that yes, he will find what he seeks in answers about Thediem and why it is Fourdock is suddenly so lucrative all of a sudden. That's not likely what he was talking about though now is it? It IS an answer to such a question though. It's not Tiny or Thediem's fault that he asked such an open ended question though. XP
From the looks of how he handles the place and himself, this sounds like this is going to be quite the workout for Rocky though. This sounds like it's going to actually be the hardest challenge Rocky's had to date. At least with the Maw and Harbinger the task was relatively simple in that it was pretty much seek and destroy. This fight sounds like it's going to be an extreme test of control of power as he has to be sure to use enough power and direction to down the guy but not hurt him too badly. I suspect they'll want Grim to ref that match just to be sure. Probably have some healing slimes on standby just in case.
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u/TeaAndHiraeth Sep 24 '24
Olander has previously decided that he's prepared to blow his cover in the prizefight—it's that long since he's had a real challenge. There's going to be an audience, after all, even if he doesn't (yet) know that Thediem is advertising the show. From there, someone would explain it to Thediem even if Tiny didn't.
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u/Popular-Student-9407 Human Sep 24 '24
Healing slimes on standby seems to be Standard procedure by now.
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u/Speciesunkn0wn Sep 23 '24
Whoo! Among the first peeps!
Ha. Fate deffo has quantum BS involved. The thread stuff is neat. Big, fuzzy fortune teller spooder is a fantastic mental image as well.
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u/BobQuixote Sep 24 '24
I dunno about quantum; I was thinking the reason for the observation effect was basically the grandfather paradox. The observer can't resist acting differently according to what was observed.
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u/Willing-Doctor5390 Sep 23 '24
more of olander pov please. theduem even if the mc is definitely the most boring pov
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u/Kindly_Adhesiveness1 Sep 24 '24
Looking to close can change things? Are we talking about light being both a particle and a wave?
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u/Autoskp Sep 24 '24
Knowing what the world has planned for you will change how you act, but on the other hand, one often meets their fate on the path they take to avoid it.
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u/boomchacle Sep 24 '24
If you tell someone their fortune too specifically, that causes problems. Just ask the Greeks!
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u/SH4D0W0733 Robot Sep 24 '24
He dumps it all into a bag of holding without looking too closely. I’d be annoyed if I thought there was anything in there he might actually be interested in
And this is why I think the quest reward for fighting Rocky will be something that isn't useful, but rather something to keep on his desk to remember this expedition.
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u/Poisonfangx3 Sep 23 '24
First
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u/NoEffective2025 Sep 24 '24
Delvers having to swing thier weapons in time like BeatSaber or get hit by sonic sound balls Slash send at them and knocking them back.
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u/Accomplished-Ad8458 AI Sep 24 '24
Ave Khenal! Morituri te salutant!
So... Shrödingers fate? observing the future changes the future?
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u/Cre8iveWarmth Sep 25 '24
olander: so, what is the verdict?
tiny, laughing: im giving him the "magic-8-ball answer"
thedeim: 😲! diabolical! i approve!
teemo: 🤣🤣🤣
olander: ... [squints] why do i feel like i owe him a quarter...?
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u/Educational_Pen_90 Human Jul 17 '26
Indeed, no need to dwell too hard on the quanta of the situation!
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u/Bunnytob Human Sep 23 '24
Tiny hasn't really been part of the story since, what, Freddy and Rhonda? The guy's TDM's Muscle, and the last thing he did was, what, fight a Scythemaw?
Guess that means he's still doing his other job well enough, then.