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Today, Telran Whiting is as excited as he’s ever been. It is his eighteenth birthday. This is the day he becomes an adult, so his fate will be determined in his home city’s Sage Tower. There he will get his class. Most people get what’s known as a city class. Those folks will spend their life in a town, or on a farm, doing work that is necessary for civilization to exist. A large minority of people receive what is known as an adventurer class. Those people carry out quests and, in general, protect those with city classes. The world is full of monsters, dangerous beasts, and evil ...

Orphaned and six and sent to an orphanage, Jericho Rolland discovers an interstellar sim when he’s eight. Soon realizing actual trading like this will be the focus of his life. He applies his massive intellect and drive toward preparing himself for that goal. Knowing he can go to space at twelve, Jericho starts setting things up six months before his birthday. The only resistance he runs into is with the interstellar bank. The bank officials really don’t know who they are tangling with, but they find out much to their regret. At Twelve, when many of his almost always brilliant ancestors...

A ribald, raunchy, fetishy romp across an RPG like world by people who don’t know what they are doing. Norm Geary has many jobs and past experiences, not all of which are exactly legal. He feels the beginning of a car crash while driving a high-end car he just stole from the Scum of the Earth. The next thing he knows, he’s riding a horse on a different world. Follow his adventures as he gathers both people and experience. The only person he finds who knows anything about gaming, wants almost nothing to do with it, so he and his growing party have to figure things out on their own. Just ...

The invasion of Kinaklyn space is complete. The Kin’yee’ra principality, which the Kinaklyn are now part of, has been formed. Spindle now sets its sights on freeing the Tlaallnem from both the Empmen and the Dragons. Once that is done, Ricky and Amy can shift their priority to defeating the Empmen themselves. New warriors and new weapons come into play for Spindle on what should be the final campaign of the human wars. But it is soon apparent that the Empmen are advancing their own fleets. The urgency to defeat them only grows with time.

Fighting for the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Keeping the Colony. This volume follows Ricky as he defends against an interstellar empire. Ricky and his girlfriend Edin have both been medically tested and proven to be adults, so now they are engaged, and Ricky provides Edin the full ability to determine when she will become pregnant. With a triple birth underway in the specially prepared birthing suite in his house, Ricky invites his Grammy and Edin’s immediate family to visit Murna using a secret, rapid method he has recently developed. He ...

Founding the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows Ricky and his family after they reach Murna after overcoming seemingly impossible system and component failures to their ship, while escaping two separate piratical attacks. One of the first colonists to step foot on his new planets, he immediately begins establishing his farmstead with his girlfriend Edin. Using technology he has developed Ricky is able to communicate directly with his Grammy back on Earth. He is concerned the ansible network may be ...

Launching the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows teenager Ricky Cruz and his family as they migrate from their successful farm to be first wave settlers on the newly terraformed planet Murna. Ricky becomes part of the crew as a repair technician and shuttle pilot. Plagued with problems from the start, Ricky begins investigating the source of the problems and discovers their ship has been deliberately sabotaged in an attempt to prevent them from being the first settlers on their new home, therefore preventing ...

Chloe Locke is a dedicated gamer. In 2038 a new game is coming out called Guardian Meta. The game claims to have created full-body immersion VR pods that will allow players to live continuously in the game for weeks and even months at a time. The producers of the game offer Chloe and her entire party complimentary pods. An offer all five of them leap at. The only reason Chloe can’t stay in the game is her job. She doesn’t need her job, so she quits in a spectacular that just might save the forensic accounting firm she worked for. Now free of all obligations, she can stay full-time, but ...

This book, along with The Smith: Part IV Normarch, are revised and expanded replacements for ‘The Smith 2: County.’ This book contains depictions that may not be suitable for those under the age of sixteen. After finally getting justice for his mother’s death well over a decade earlier, Chet returns home to his intended to find there is a growing problem with orcs. He soon finds out there is an impending major incursion by the orc nation, most of whom are held under a spirit thrall and won’t be attacking by choice. When his scouts find the tunnel the orcs dug to invade his Barony of...

Fresh off her victory over the pirates, Chloe orders her newly captured ship into port. Almost immediately upon entering Potterville Port, she begins to have suspicions about the harbormaster’s office. She and the local league office rep quickly find corruption within the office. After helping the office rep deal with that, she also develops suspicions about the harbormaster’s office being involved with the pirates. Before being able to begin being able to deal with that, Chloe and her party, along with the party her sister is in, are called back to the main league office and assigned ...

Fighting for the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Keeping the Colony. This volume follows Ricky as he goes up against an interstellar empire. Ricky’s forces continue their counterattack against the Interstellars at a rapid pace. His Marines initiate their first invasions and orbital drops. A new hero arises who turns into the leader the Marines need to build their history and esprit de corps. The Spindle Military does their best to not lose their momentum in their advancements against the Interstellars. Ricky has to deal with the fallout from ...

Albrech Miller is the younger child of the town of Larroggio’s miller. He has grown up learning the mill’s operation. Al’s mom has also been teaching him to be an adventurer, helping him gain experience for when he can first see his status sheet and start limited adventuring on his own. During the first two times Al and his two friends, Lyr and Charlie, are allowed to go adventuring alone in their zone of the forest, the monsters are highly abnormal for that area. It all points toward a monster surge coming against their town. **** Tales of Morla is based on a system world. A world ...

A complete rewrite and expansion of the original Adventures in Town Building Part II Kingsford follows a seventeen-year-old Chet as he is summoned to the Kingdom's capital. His girlfriend, Princess Ilana, is delighted to introduce him to the rest of her family. He has made such a splash all the way out in the wilderness that the King and Queen want to meet him. Or maybe they want to see the young man whose bed their daughter delights in diving into. During his initial visit, Chet starts finding issues that should be taken care of as soon as they can be accomplished, so he starts doing his ...

Al has completed loading the maximum quota of milled grain on the royal caravan. Something he thought would never happen when his entire family, and half of the mill’s experienced journeymen were killed on the first day of milling last summer. Now the king wants him to increase their annual production of grain as much as they can. The still to young Master Miller has to work with the farmers to figure out how to give them more acres to farm. More grain means he needs more mill capacity, which will force him to build a new higher capacity mill. On top of all that, the king has made Al the ...

Bit is the best thief in Maidenhead City. Normally disguised as a teenage boy, he robs from the rich and keeps most of it. Some may go to the poor, but most of what he takes stays in his own pocket. Bit is a criminal, yet at the same time, he is a patriot. When one of his jobs uncovers an espionage ring, Bit finds a way to anonymously report it to the authorities. This first act of patriotism leads to more and eventually reveals rot near the center of the kingdom. Bit does everything he can to combat the threats while staying free. Along the way, he tries to find love and friendship. Mostly...

Bit/Betsy/Elizabeth/Bethany has successfully thwarted the conspiracy by a group of nobles that attempted to crash the commodities, then stock markets. Bit also defeated another part of the same conspiracy that was intended to reposition the Kingdom’s military. Now, Bit needs to consolidate everything he has gained from his actions and see if more can be done for the Kingdom. Through that process, Bit ends up introducing himself to one of the crown’s security services which ends up getting him exposure to the crown. On his personal side, Bit has a growing group of people who have become ...

A complete rewrite and expansion of the original Adventures in Town Building. Part I Threefords follows Chet from a very young age, just starting to grow up in his hometown. He deals with monster attacks and learns the use of the weapons needed to defend against them. When someone close to him is injured, he learns he has healing power. He begins to build a business empire despite being very young. Chet’s primary focus slowly turns toward land. Despite possibly becoming the wealthiest person in town and suffering a personal tragedy, Chet’s life focus shifts toward his lifelong passion ...

This book, along with The Smith Part III Normarch, are revised and expanded replacements for ‘The Smith 2: County.’ this book has several new chapters added at the end. Now a Marquese, Chet is finally engaged to his intended Verna. Unfortunately, the Queen and Linny know about the engagement, so Chet must deal with the events they plan, while still preparing to invade the orc nation in the Northlands. Verna still isn’t talking about what they are going to do about Liana. His fiancée seems to have a way he gets to keep the harem she is growing for him, but she isn’t talking. On top ...

Ricky’s forces have beaten back the Empire of Man’s attempted invasion of Earth, though he suspects that was a fact-finding mission in force. While doing so, his Navy has captured members of an alien spacefaring species currently known as the Kinaklyn. Ricky has the first known vocal conversation with the Kinaklyn people with very positive results. Now, he needs to figure out a way to get to their home worlds, which are located on the far side of a fair portion of the Empmen’s space. Space Marine Major Amy Brella is Ricky’s pointwoman in dealing with the Empmen. She leads the ...

Al has taken care of the problem of Baron Jamison. He won’t even have to worry about convincing the crown he was in the right, as Emperor Eldridge personally witnessed most of the final confrontation which has all but guaranteed the now former baron will be executed. The Emperor is here to watch Al test his new and modified mills. Of course, Al’s monarch always seems to have more than one motive, and there is now a vacant barony to dispose of. Even the part of the barony Al actually wants comes with its own issues. Not the least of which are more chromatic dragons. The young earl is ...