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New Stream Series!

Here's the breakdown on what my next stream series options are!

Here’s the question before me: what next? Should I do another randomizer (features get added faster than I can stream these) or something a little different: a blind Let’s Play of a recently released Ocarina of Time romhack? Additionally, there are a couple newer games with randomizer mods that interest me, so we could do a Let’s play of those as well. The vote will be held on Discord, in the…

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Marshland Mixology

The story is finally complete! Please enjoy, dear friends, and look forward to enhancements to To Save What's Lost in the future!

For Collins, the humidity was the worst part. He’d dealt with hot before—you’d be surprised just how sweltering it could get at sea—but at sea there’s a breeze and salty spray. Sure, this truly wretched swampland was crawling with shade, but that didn’t matter when the air was practically dripping with body-temperature water. Keeping his brews cool was another challenge. Some of the more…

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End of the Year Update

It's time to look forward!

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie There are a couple cliches that always pervade this time of year. They are pervasive, perhaps, because they represent emotions that most of us are feeling: “How can it be almost January again already?” and “I’m going to start the new year right!” and so on. Cliches, however, aren’t necessarily trite or useless. The fact that we all…

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Oops! There Goes September...

I've reached a breakthrough!

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie My, how time flies. Morgan has come with me to do laundry over the last couple of weeks, so my attention was on her, rather than my work. It’s a delicate balance to walk, and I don’t always pull it off. But she’s the love of my life, so I never regret the time I spend with her. Funnily enough, it was spending idle time with her…

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Rando Rules!

This is a page I will update for each new randomizer I play, with links available in stream chat.

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition Goal: Defeat Gwyn, Lord of Cinder Item Requirements: Lordvessel, 2 Bequeathed Lord Soul Shards, 2 Lord Souls (possibly Covenant of Artorias; needed for Four Kings, see below) Other Requirements: Meet one of the Primordial Serpents (EITHER ring both Bells of Awakening OR defeat the Four Kings) Item Shuffle Rules Race Mode is ON This means that key items can…

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Stream Schedule

Current Series: Majora’s Mask Max Rando, THURSDAY this week Projected length: One more session Next Series: Ocarina of Time PC Port Rando Projected length: Two Sessions After That: Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition Randomizer Projected length: Four Sessions

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Welcome!

Here on this site you’ll find information on the various things I spend my time doing, from writing a fantasy novel (which you can read in its current form right now!), to streaming randomizers and Let’s Play series on Twitch, to other random writing, which can take any form, but usually it’ll be short stories in the world of my book or articles about fun things I’ve done lately. So take a look…

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I’ve done it, y’all! To Save What’s Lost, in its full current form is available over on the Adventures in Aryest website! From the Prologue to the sixteenth chapter, everything I have written in the main plotline is now available for your perusal—on a dark mode site, organized for easy navigation throughout the project! The next step for AiA is the completion of my developmental edit, which…

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Big AiA/TSWL Update: Quantum Progress

News, friends! Things are happening!

Isn’t it splendid to take a step forward, knowing that it is forward progress and that you are doing it, under your own power? Nobody but you is pushing you to do this, it matters more to you than to anyone else, and yet it is what you spend your time doing. Luckily for me, more than just I seem to care about this fiction project to which I am wed (BIG SHOUTOUT TO MY LURKERS! You guys who slowly…

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Stick the Landing

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie Well, friends, I’ve made it. My new job is delightful, the beer is fantastic, and the commute is extremely manageable. My coworkers are a lot of fun, and I’m not overwhelmed by the hours that the place is open. Plus, on top of all that, the money is shaping up to be quite lovely as well. Now, to get everything else back into…

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Turning a Corner

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie This week, dear friends, I did not gain much ground in my creative endeavors. Instead, I got myself a new job: one that, hopefully, will be less of a drain on my resources. I’ll be working ten minutes from my home, rather than thirty, and the new place is a microbrew with a kick-ass restaurant (rather than a tequila bar with a superb…

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The Nature of Writing

tiny update on what I've been working on

I’ll just cut to the chase: the nature of writing is that it takes time. Time to mechanically get the thoughts down on paper (or word processing program), time to organize those thoughts in the first place, and time to iterate on what you’ve already written to take it from “fine” to “outstanding.” Today, I wrote out a script for a video essay on why Ratchet & Clank‘s game structure would lend…

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Brief Check-In

Sorry, dear WordPress readers, for the lack of substance this week! I was up WAY too late last night finally playing Borderlands 3 with my sister for the first ever time, and consequently, my normal timeslot for writing was eaten up by sleeping in, in order to work my restaurant shift effectively. Additionally, the creative work I did get done was mostly behind-the-scenes worldbuilding, which…

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And They Stick the Landing!

And They Stick the Landing!

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie Didn’t think you’d hear from me again for another month, did you? Admittedly, that’s your reasonable, well-honed pattern recognition at work, and I’m writing this week pretty much to spite both your pattern recognition and my own. Vacation was excellent, partially because Morgan and I spent the second half of our time away scheming…

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Last Week's Post Now Freely available!

Last week's "patrons only" article is now available to all!

Last week, I posted an article which represents a return to travel writing as a format for me. It was patrons only for the first week of its existence, but now it’s available to everyone! Just follow this link and you’ll find yourself reading about a surprisingly grueling hike I took a couple of weeks ago. Hope you enjoy it! Also, by way of a small update, my patrons have also been getting to…

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Incremental Self-Improvement

Wrote this last week, but it's still where I am in life. Patrons got a little dose of new fiction!

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie Rome wasn’t built in a day, and good habits take more than a week to develop. I worked hard this week: worked out four of the five days I intended to, got my editing binder updated, so that now I can read through the rest of the portion of To Save What’s Lost that I have printed out, and spent some good time doing a surprising…

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Keep the Momentum

Rebuilding my life has begun and will continue. Here's some detail on that!

This post was uploaded yesterday at patreon.com/champthehippie Well, here we are again. It really is always such a pleasure. I’ve been telling myself that I’ll be starting my new routines and such “soon” and “once my life is set up,” and thus far my habits have been atrocious.  “Just do the best you can,” I’ve been telling myself; “It’ll get better once life starts.” I realized coming into this…