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Ukerric said:

(just checked, and the chapters including the post-coital bliss and stuff are still on RR, so that's not this book).

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Looking forward to that!

DirkDonkeyroot said:

It's tough waiting for book 6.

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that crowd looks the way I feel anytime I read or listen to litrpg.

For those of you that have read Defiance of the Fall, can anyone tell me who the fuck Big Blue is? He/She/It seems to be hanging around Billy and/or Thea at this point (Book 6), and other than one other time it was mentioned, and I was equally mystified then, I don't remember a fucking thing about it. I tried googling and looking through the wiki (which fucked me and ruined the "fridging" that Ukerric mentioned on the first page of this thread and I strenuously avoided and then forgot about because I figured the author maybe changed his mind since I'm on Book 6 and it hasn't happened yet) and there isn't any mention of Big Blue there. It isn't Little Bau, the kraken that Sap Trang befriended, yet Big Blue apparently has tentacles too? It sounds like a pet, but I'm completely fucking dumbfounded. Halp?

From getting spoiled on the fridging, it seems the author might have backpedaled on that some according to that wiki entry, but since I'm not caught up to the current story yet I can't say. Nor can I say if it is a shitty job of doing it or not.

velk said:

Big Blue is the Thea's librarian for the skill library she got as a quest reward. Some kind of tentacle monster.

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Brahma said:

Squid librarian owned by Thea.

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Thanks guys! It was driving me insane but I didn't want to keep digging after already getting a major spoiler.

Now, I know I'm not the best with names and some of the fault is my own, but I feel like if he's only been mentioned like one time in the previous five fucking books, the author could have done something like, "The touchy librarian, Big Blue..." or something similar the next time he's referenced hundreds and hundreds of pages later. But that's just me, with zero hit books to my name, so what do I know??

By the way, I have to say that I really thought I wouldn't like Ogras when he was first introduced (his demon right-hand man with the shadows, yes I know he's a major major character, but just in case anyone is fuzzy on who it is like I was with Big Blue!), but he's consistently pretty entertaining. I wish he got to get a little murdery more often, but I'll take what I can get.

He who fights monsters author begins the long dwindling road into permanent hiatus and abandonment of his story.

Been reading Mark of the Crijik | Royal Road

It's kind of like Magic Smithing but the author is much less of whiny bitch. The Magic Smithing guy was a very gifted character writer and this guy is less so. But still enjoyable.

Macronomicon is one of the most gifted character writers I've ever had the pleasure of reading. Dude creates loads of compelling characters. But he can't finish a story to save his life. Luckily he is an extremely prolific writer in general so it ends up being okay... I guess. But can't a brother get some closure once in a while?

Speaking of prolific writers, just finished Defiance of the Fall 7, and I see that there are another fucking 300 chapters on RR/Patreon, which should be about another 3 books. He writes a chapter about every day it seems. Fuck me. Granted, a lot of it is pretty repetitive or boring or pointless, but that's still a lot of words on paper.

Found out what happened with the fridging, then the reversal because I assume people freaked the fuck out on him and he had to come up with some way to fix it, but I feel it is still a pretty big cop out.

Overall I'm sort of meh on the series, but it keeps me reading, so there's that I suppose. And knowing there is a shitload more already out there is appealing, unless it ends up sucking.

Am I the only one that notices all the snorting? Every motherfucker snorts in these books. Not cocaine or snuff, but apparently they all make that embarrassing noise with their nose constantly. I counted 5 in one chapter once. Once I notice something like that, it stands out to me, and it drives me fucking insane. Hopefully someone complained to him and the next 300 chapters are snortless, or at least snort-reduced. But if I have to notice it, now you do too!

Currently trying to figure out what to read next. Anybody have some good litrpg series suggestions? They need to be in book form (whether Kindle Unlimited or just downloaded) as I can't see any way to read something like Royal Road on my Kindle and ain't nobody got time to read on websites. I've read a lot of the big series, HWFWM, Dungeon Crawler Carl, Murderhobo, the one with the Ritualist guy (Jason?) and his chiropractor buddy Jax with the T-Rex arms, multiple dungeon series (Troll Nation is the only one that pops to mind, but there are several I've read), Everybody Loves Large Chests, Reality Benders, that one about The Land by the "king of litrpg" that turned into a giant faggot, I've also read a couple books of The Wandering Inn and I gave up on that after hating that barefoot runner bitch for like an entire book, and the main character is almost (but not quite) as annoying...I'm sure there are plenty of others that I'm forgetting and will only remember once you've suggested them.