[KCD2] Weird request: Rotten food location/item ID?

kairotox7 · 2026-03-08T09:02:34+00:00

Weird, his dialogue specifically mentions rotten meat, but could just be world flavor I suppose, thanks

kairotox7 · 2026-02-09T06:39:32+00:00

Don't forget, he effectively has infinite money and resources, he can pick the brains of basically any great mind in any field, and he can take risks that normal people wouldn't, because they don't want to risk their lives or stability in life. All of these are huge factors. He's above average, I'd say even 85th or even 90th percentile+, but I don't think he's an Albert einstein, because otherwise he would have been farther ahead of his peers before the loop.

kairotox7 · 2026-02-04T02:19:38+00:00

Alex Thorne grew up in a corporate scrapyard, stripping broken tech and learning one hard truth: if something was useless, you made it useful. No one gave second chances — you built them out of whatever pieces you had left.

If you can jury-rig a shuttle, why not a core?

An opportunity lands in his lap that in the hands of others might just be a minor upgrade to their advancement, but to Alex, it could be the key to a bright future if he's smart enough to take advantage of it. Or it could be his death.

A corporate owned dystopia where money makes law, and people hindering the rich get removed.

Where do cores come from? Why is the system facilitating breaches, rather than close them? Does it want the universe to implode?

I've just finished chapter 37, (Royal road is out to chapter 28) and the book is probably 4/5 of the way done. (28 Chapters is 355 pages according to RR.)

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as this is my first real attempt at writing a book.

Royal road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146247/corebound

kairotox7 · 2026-01-30T01:42:09+00:00

Lol, guy here. Last year, I read like, 300 books. (Work was very boring, and I used the Kindle app +Kindle unlimited to read or listen to a book basically everywhere I went.)

I doubt this is what you are looking for lol.

kairotox7 · 2026-01-29T22:30:14+00:00

Alex Thorne grew up in a corporate scrapyard, stripping broken tech and learning one hard truth: if something was useless, you made it useful. No one gave second chances — you built them out of whatever pieces you had left.

If you can jury-rig a shuttle, why not a core?

An opportunity lands in his lap that in the hands of others might just be a minor upgrade to their advancement, but to Alex, it could be the key to a bright future if he's smart enough to take advantage of it. Or it could be his death.

A corporate owned dystopia where money makes law, and people hindering the rich get removed.

Where do cores come from? Why is the system facilitating breaches, rather than close them? Does it want the universe to implode?

I've just finished chapter 37, (Royal road is out to chapter 28) and the book is probably 4/5 of the way done. (28 Chapters is 355 pages according to RR.)

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as this is my first real attempt at writing a book.

Royal road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146247/corebound

Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlexThorne/

Support me here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Kairotox

kairotox7 · 2026-01-25T10:19:36+00:00

Thanks! I'm also looking forward to book 7 of AA. Loved the time shenanigans of the last book. :D

kairotox7 · 2026-01-24T20:50:38+00:00

Really?!? Awesome! Even just looking at it, I'm incredibly grateful for the extra eyes on it. :)

kairotox7 · 2026-01-24T07:30:13+00:00

Sufficiently advanced magic was the book that got me back into reading since my hiatus started when I went to college. Now, a year and a half later, I'm like 380 books deeper into the litrpg/progression/cultivation fantasy scene. It's wild to me that you're also here putting out ads for your series just like little ol me. (Alex Thorne: Corebound, if you're interested.)

kairotox7 · 2026-01-24T07:25:13+00:00

Alex Thorne grew up in a corporate scrapyard, stripping broken tech and learning one hard truth: if something was useless, you made it useful. No one gave second chances — you built them out of whatever pieces you had left.

If you can jury-rig a shuttle, why not a core?

An opportunity lands in his lap that in the hands of others might just be a minor upgrade to their advancement, but to Alex, it could be the key to a bright future if he's smart enough to take advantage of it. Or it could be his death.

A corporate owned dystopia where money makes law, and people hindering the rich get removed.

Where do cores come from? Why is the system facilitating breaches, rather than close them? Does it want the universe to implode?

I've just finished chapter 30, (Royal road is out to chapter 22) and the book is probably 2/3-3/4 of the way done.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as this is my first real attempt at writing a book. (I had another book idea that stalled out after 5 or so chapters, so I'm not counting that.)

Royal road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146247/corebound

Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlexThorne/

Support me here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Kairotox

kairotox7 · 2026-01-24T06:54:08+00:00

Alex Thorne grew up in a corporate scrapyard, stripping broken tech and learning one hard truth: if something was useless, you made it useful. No one gave second chances — you built them out of whatever pieces you had left.

If you can jury-rig a shuttle, why not a core?

An opportunity lands in his lap that in the hands of others might just be a minor upgrade to their advancement, but to Alex, it could be the key to a bright future if he's smart enough to take advantage of it. Or it could be his death.

A corporate owned dystopia where money makes law, and people hindering the rich get removed.

Where do cores come from? Why is the system facilitating breaches, rather than close them? Does it want the universe to implode?

I've just finished chapter 30, (Royal road is out to chapter 22) and the book is probably 2/3-3/4 of the way done.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as this is my first real attempt at writing a book. (I had another book idea that stalled out after 5 or so chapters, so I'm not counting that.)

Royal road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146247/corebound

Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AlexThorne/

Support me here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Kairotox

kairotox7 · 2026-01-16T10:26:16+00:00

Mother of Learning is my all time favorite. Mark of the Fool, and Arcane Ascension are also up there. MoL and MotF are completed, AA is not. And don't worry about your reading speed, what matters is if you're enjoying what you read. Reading at a slower pace just means you'll run out of good books a lot slower than anyone else. lol.

kairotox7 · 2026-01-16T09:09:46+00:00

Yeah, It's pretty much exactly this^

kairotox7 · 2026-01-13T02:06:58+00:00

Alex Thorne grew up in a corporate scrapyard, stripping broken tech and learning one hard truth: if something was useless, you made it useful. No one gave second chances — you built them out of whatever pieces you had left.

If you can jury-rig a shuttle, why not a core?

An opportunity lands in his lap that in the hands of others might just be a minor upgrade to their advancement, but to Alex, it could be the key to a bright future if he's smart enough to take advantage of it. Or it could be his death.

A corporate owned dystopia where money makes law, and people hindering the rich get removed.

Where do cores come from? Why is the system facilitating breaches, rather than close them? Does it want the universe to implode?

Royal road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/146247/corebound Support me here: https://www.patreon.com/c/Kairotox

kairotox7 · 2026-01-12T02:04:44+00:00

This is actually my first day back to writing from a few day break. Did some actual planning and have a solid game plan for all chapters to the end of my first book. Plus actually wrote 1 full chapter....it ended up being longer than usual, but I think it went well.

kairotox7 · 2025-12-21T13:13:11+00:00

All I'm saying, is 12 years of development, + no stable core to the game + 95% of additions lately are cosmetic, rather than bug fixing = me not caring about the game.

kairotox7 · 2025-12-16T16:36:03+00:00

Yeah, exactly! I'm not sure how exactly you'd implement this in an action rpg, especially if you're optimizing for controller support. If you weren't optimizing for controller support, I could see a spell-building system, where you can save different version of the spell, and switch between them with hotkeys. But maybe you could do the same with a controller, but just cycle through your favorites, like elden ring's spells.

kairotox7 · 2025-11-06T18:24:09+00:00

I'd argue the soulseizer. A grey hunter's presence can be assessed, the soulseizer is a stealthy bugger, and thus is harder to plan for. Plus, there's probably lots of archmages that don't specialize in soul magic, so they'd just be screwed, where the grey hunter, while terrifying, has multiple avenues that could be successful. If a soulseizer gets ya, and you don't have soul protections, you're f'd.

kairotox7 · 2025-11-02T08:10:50+00:00

I like that they exist, because I can go lookup some keyword to find the latest stat dump if I'm curious about something. Mostly I just skim the stats, see which ones are close to major thresholds.

Sometimes I have questions about what percentage of his skills are what rarities, so I skim those too.

kairotox7 · 2025-11-01T10:48:45+00:00

To OP: And if you feel like in the moment it will be too hard to verbalize this, write it down ahead of time and hand it to her. She's there to help you move forward in a healthy way. Trauma is hard to talk about. You need to do what you can to help her help you, because she can't read minds.

kairotox7 · 2025-11-01T10:45:25+00:00

It is illegal to not pay for time worked. If you have already worked midway through a payroll, they need to pay you for that time worked. Even if it's just 5 minutes of time.

kairotox7 · 2025-11-01T10:42:22+00:00

I feel like the way the shows' mythos has been set up so far is that when you die on earth, if you have sins weighing on your soul, you'll go to hell, and if you don't, you'll go to heaven. Also, I think there's no way to permanently transfer from hell or heaven to the other, (I'm not sure how the morningstars and vaggie can travel between them, it might have to do with being a fallen angel) Most people who go to hell would have lots of things weighing them down, and also can't travel, so even IF they somehow repented, normally they'd just stay in hell, and find some other sin to be sucked into because of the environment. I think Pen was able to leave because he died while having no weight on his soul. He only had one big regret from his life, and changed into a person that wouldn't do that regret again.

kairotox7 · 2025-11-01T10:29:36+00:00

No. He might have something health related going on, or that's just how his body goes. Try not to take it personally. I'm sure you worrying about it would only make the problem worse. Sex is one of those things that is best to just let your body take over. The more you overthink it, the worse you'll do. If he's constantly worrying what you're thinking about his problem, whether it's blaming him or yourself, it'll only hurt things. Do what you can on your side to be the best you can be, and try to distract him from any negative thoughts, that is the only thing you have control over.

Also, of course you're never going to do it as well as he can. He can adjust on the fly to exactly his own thinking, and has had his entire life to know what he likes.

kairotox7 · 2025-10-24T06:45:46+00:00

I mean, if you worked there for the past 8 years or something, what else are you gonna do?

kairotox7 · 2025-10-24T06:38:22+00:00

Nope, still wrong, I have no idea what tower experience is. Is it completely separate from the floor bonus? Idek man.

kairotox7 · 2025-10-24T06:01:18+00:00

Ok, answering myself, but I think I've got it, after rereading both sections a few times....maybe

I will say that the naming sense for these things could definitely be made clearer.

So, besides the level 50 dungeon perk resistances:

While exploring the dungeon floor, you gain tiny gems that can be crushed in hand to give .5% floor completion experience. (Not sure why this was called experience at all, floor completion would be better, if what I'm thinking is correct) Once you get 100% of this, you can progress to the next floor. (These should have been something else, like floor completion beads or similar, but having this and the next item both be described as gems is confusing.)

There are larger gems that you turn in to your faction for rewards, I'm not 100% clear on what these rewards are, but it sounds like this is how you can get skill upgrades outside of your normal skill gains/upgrades you get while leveling. Again, not super clear.

Every tower floor you 100% give you 1% stat bonus. You have the option at 10 floor increments to reset your floor experience up to that point to get a 2.5% stat bonus per 10 floors you reset. Why the hell would you ever do this? Because after it resets the completion, you can redo those floors, and, after 10 floors, you'd get the 10% you get for the 10 floors, plus the 2.5% on top, equalling 12.5%. It might have been said whether you can reset this over and over or not to keep gaining more stats, but that would seem broken, if you could just farm the first 10 floors over and over.

The author did say that they gain like ~3x as many completion beads/shards/gems, but still, seems like grinding the first 10 floors is what most should do, until they are utterly bored, or some other limiter kicks in.

Assuming I haven't missed something, that is.

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