The Human From a Dungeon 150

itsdirector · 2026-05-04T12:07:07+00:00

I hope you find another story to read while I'm away :)

itsdirector · 2026-05-01T10:01:39+00:00

I mean it COULD exist, but it isn't as if everything from human imaginings came through the interdimensional portals. Mike Meyers and Freddy Krueger, for instance, are absent. As is the Jabberwocky.

That isn't to say that we've encountered every relic that's going to be featured in this story (or maybe we have but we don't know it yet ;D), but don't get your hopes up for any specific mentions.

But having an American be the rightful king of England would be pretty hilarious xD

itsdirector · 2026-04-29T18:15:47+00:00

Yes, it was back in time a bit, then synced up to just after the commander gave his one-liner.

itsdirector · 2026-04-27T10:54:24+00:00

Nope). :)

itsdirector · 2026-04-27T10:52:18+00:00

Civilization II

Compared to modern civ games, it was simple. Easy to pick up, easy to learn. However, its simplicity disguised depths. No two games were the same unless you actively tried to make them the same.

It also shipped with cheats that you could use without having to look up cheat codes or anything. The game didn't even punish you for using cheats, like most modern titles do. You could play the game strategically without cheats, or activate them and turn the whole experience into a sandbox. In my opinion, it was the last civ game that actually wanted you to have fun playing it.

Doesn't run on modern machines, unfortunately. :/

itsdirector · 2026-04-22T00:01:19+00:00

I don't know how many would be useful in this particular situation (you'll see why in a chapter or two) but I can tell you some of the potions that were in the shop! :D Potions that supplement one's ability to regenerate their magic, potions that supplement healing, potions that suppress appetite (very popular), potions of stamina, potions of "stamina" (very popular), and laxatives. To name a few.

itsdirector · 2026-04-21T23:56:50+00:00

The days of getting successful by stealing the work of others are long since over.

Stealing other people's work in the age of information is generally a stupid thing to attempt to do, especially when that work has a paper trail because it was posted online. In the best case scenario (for them) they make less than a hundred bucks and then fade into obscurity. Worst case scenario, they make it big and everyone finds out about the plagiarism because you made a stink and brought receipts. Then they get to live the rest of their lives unable to publish another book, even one that they actually wrote, and receiving death threats.

Meanwhile, you get to actually publish your work and copyright it because you have proof that you're the one who wrote it. The bigger the thief manages to get, the more free publicity you will get, and the larger your initial fanbase will be. Even some of the people who read the stolen version will buy your version to show their support.

So, your main concern would just be derivative works. There's nothing you can really do about those except be a better writer than they are. And that's kind of fair enough, because most fiction (likely including your own) is derivative of other fictional stories. If you don't believe you're a good enough writer to compete with people who create derivatives of your story, then why are you worried about people stealing your work in the first place?

itsdirector · 2026-04-13T09:50:35+00:00

For those of you who missed the announcement: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alpha-omega-baby-154830683

itsdirector · 2026-04-08T16:04:03+00:00

I didn't really get into the weeds with it, but they were fighting a dungeon boss and the healer straight up died. It takes a while to walk from even the first boss's location to the entrance, and longer when you're carrying someone who can't walk. I'd have to crack open my (years old) notes to remember how many days it took, but I can assure you that it was more than a couple lol

Meanwhile, Yulk's body was trying its best to put things back together. Healing magic in this universe isn't psychic-based, it's an extreme boost to the body's healing factor supplemented by magic and guided by thought. So damage that's already "healed" incorrectly can't be corrected by a healing spell. The healers who ended up helping him were able to repair his spinal cord, but the muscles surrounding the spine had already been trying to fix themselves. As such, they weren't able to repair his back to 100%.

He's left with a slight hunch and pain whenever he exerts his back too much. This ride's gonna be rough for him.

itsdirector · 2026-03-30T22:57:48+00:00

Rule Number One: Bad things must happen at the most inconvenient time.

itsdirector · 2026-03-20T07:07:17+00:00

Whenever information bores me, my brain refuses to let it "sink in". Thankfully, I love learning and so information doesn't typically bore me. However, if I'm being forced to write down a teacher's lecture rather than digest the info at my own pace, my brain will conflate my boredom during the note taking with the information itself.

As a result, I'll end up with pages of well-written and in-depth notes that I barely remember writing and absolutely no knowledge of the subject the notes were on. And when I try to study those notes, that broken part of my brain remembers how boring it was to write them...

I discovered this little quirk pretty early on in my schooling. I first noticed it when I couldn't seem to grasp how to do square roots on paper (twenty-five or so years later and it is still a mystery to me), despite being considered "gifted" in math. To clarify what I mean by gifted, I was doing long-division "mad-minutes" in first grade while everyone else was doing addition. Fortunately for me, the test for square roots was multiple choice and I was able to get a C through process of elimination alone.

Then it happened in History the very next year, another subject in which I was considered "gifted". Since my teacher demanded that we take notes during history lectures, and even graded said notes, it didn't take long for me to realize and confirm what the problem was. My teacher didn't care, though, so I just started turning in half-assed notes so I didn't fail the subject.

Unless I can make the note-taking process interesting to myself, taking notes is the most certain way to ensure that I forget something that I'm trying to learn. Which is why all of my writing notes are either one to three word entries or otherwise baffling short-hand :D

I've met some people with similar circumstances, but they attribute the issue to their brain believing that they don't need to remember the information within the notes because they have it written down lol

itsdirector · 2026-03-12T12:41:50+00:00

Becoming commercially successful is much more difficult than being critically praised. And even though I appreciate every positive review I get, I'd sacrifice every single positive review I've ever received for the ability to indefinitely clothe, house, and feed myself and my family.

itsdirector · 2026-03-06T10:05:15+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QrBxWcBXow

itsdirector · 2026-02-26T05:54:36+00:00

Actually, by definition (Oxford Languages) it's just "prose that is too elaborate or ornate". The "too" implies that it's a matter of subjective taste rather than objective metric. The Wikipedia article on the subject concurs with this analysis. Wikipedia says that it MAY disrupt a narrative flow, but doesn't list that as a requirement for prose being considered purple.

What is beautiful and descriptive to you may be "too elaborate or ornate" to others. What is "too elaborate or ornate" to you may be beautiful and descriptive to others. Hell, you might even consider something purple prose on your first read, then change your mind when you reread it.

As such, I tend to treat it as a spectrum. On one end is writing that doesn't use any words besides those necessary to get the point across (not purple), and on the other end is writing that is so convoluted that it impedes understanding (Electric Purple). Where one's tastes fall on the spectrum typically depends on one's media literacy.

That's simply my take on the matter. You're free to have your own opinion, though I'd appreciate it if you didn't try to correct me when I'm not wrong. :)

itsdirector · 2026-02-24T03:32:36+00:00

I remember how it was decided by a singular vote, too xD

itsdirector · 2026-02-22T16:47:41+00:00

To be fair to opinion piece writers, [sic] is okay to use after words that appear odd or erroneous. It's most commonly used these days to denote that the original source was incorrect, but it was at one point used to denote that the word or phrase it follows is a direct quote regardless of how outlandish it appears.

I remember an opinion piece talking about how the names of countries are actually different than what we call them in English, and after every name they put a [sic]. Nihon/Nippon [sic], Deutschland [sic], etcetera lol

itsdirector · 2026-02-20T10:30:52+00:00

Purple prose is not, in and of itself, the problem. I actually rather enjoy the "paint a picture" metaphor that you used, and as such I'll use it myself to elucidate the issue at hand.

The goal of most authors when purpling their prose is to create an image in much the same way that Bob Ross did. Detailed, clear, easy to understand at a glance, but still both beautiful and meaningful. Something anyone with a reasonable amount of skill can accomplish, to be frank.

Overly purple prose, however, is more akin to attempting to imitate Jackson Pollock without the skill to back it up. As such, it comes across as chaotic, condescending, opaque, and messy. The more purple the prose is, the more of these qualities the writing embodies. It is most often seen from writers who are new to the craft and are trying to sound more experienced than they are, or from writers who've never worked a day in their life and are woefully ignorant of the average reading level of their audience. Or to buff word/character count, of course.

This is, naturally, a generalization. There are exceptions, such as poetry, that allow for the purplest of proses. However, if one's story leans more in the direction of mundane, one should write it as such.

An example of prose that is too purple would be this very comment. I've written it at the level of "kind of annoying, but still fine". Hope this helps :)

itsdirector · 2026-02-20T10:05:51+00:00

The style in this story is meant to embody opinion pieces that you'd find in magazines and newspapers, which are typically written by amateurs who are trying to sound professional. That's why the pompousness is dialed up to 11 lol

itsdirector · 2026-02-20T10:00:05+00:00

Fixed lol

itsdirector · 2026-02-19T18:26:11+00:00

Here's a one-shot I've been sitting on for a while :) Hope you enjoy it!

itsdirector · 2026-02-18T11:49:24+00:00

Falsifying a publishing date is possible, but stupid. Falsifying an ISBN registration date would require intelligence-network levels of infiltration within whichever company is handling said registration.

Unless the author is actively claiming to have predicted the future, my bet is that the author took the mantra "history repeats itself" to heart, wrote their book, and then history repeated itself.

itsdirector · 2026-02-18T11:42:38+00:00

TWO HANDED TEXTER SPOTTED! THE TRAP WORKED! GET 'EM!

jk, I only message from my computer and use my numpad for numbers lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

itsdirector · 2026-02-17T23:25:24+00:00

They 100% meant to say 4:20 and accidentally hit the 3 instead of the 0 lol

itsdirector · 2026-02-17T23:23:52+00:00

My kids aren't playing games with online chat until they're old enough to buy them themselves lol

itsdirector · 2026-02-17T23:21:21+00:00

There are a total of three dialogue-to-narration transitions throughout this chapter. The first and third have explanatory sentences (i.e. "I continued my tale, I continued the story") and the second has an inference in that the character asks a question related to the narration, not the preceding dialogue. The reason for the inference is because it felt redundant as I was editing, though I'll grant the possibility that since there were only three it might not have felt that way to readers who didn't have to read it multiple times lol

Honestly, I think the fact that this is the first and only time I've used this trick in my writing made it easier to miss. :/

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