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Skilclass="underline" Spit Fire
Level Two: Stuff a marble in your mouth and spit it at an enemy. Higher levels allow for more control and sustained magical abilities.
Requirements: LUCK > 7
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Skilclass="underline" Bonding Trust
Level One: Bonding trust creates an everlasting connection between you and another creature. Higher levels allow for direct communication between you and other animals as you instantly understand their languages and demeanors.
Requirements: There are no requirements for bonding trust. This skill is tied directly to your D-NAS, digital neuronal autoconstruct system, and based on your interaction with others up until the point at which you met the creature.
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Skilclass="underline" One in a Million
Level One: Use your slingshot and any marble of your choosing to take an impossible shot. Odds of connecting increase with each point you gain in LUCK.
Requirements: Level 10 Mage, LUCK > 10.
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Skilclass="underline" Levitate
Level One: By placing a marble in your mouth, you can levitate for thirty seconds. Higher levels allow for longer levitation.
Requirements: Level 15 Mage, LUCK > 12.
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Skilclass="underline" Knights in White Satin
Level One: Call upon the Empress’ guard to aid you in a battle.
Caveat: Can only be used once per day.
Requirements: Gifted by Empress Thun.
Discover more about Oric and Wolf in the Last Warrior of Unigaea Trilogy. Set in a different Proxima world, this trilogy see Oric as a Player Killer on a mission to save a dying world.
You won’t want to miss this, and it ties directly into the Fantasy Online series.
Download Last Warrior.
Be sure to check out the preview at the back of this book!
Back of the Book Shit
Reader,
Damn it feels good to be a Mitherficker. When I first released book one in this series, I was quite certain people would hate Hiccup, but my biggest fears weren’t realizes, so, I doubled down for this one and let Hiccup pretty much be himself to the fullest extent. If you haven’t listened to the narration by Jeff Hays yet, do yourself a solid and get both audiobooks (or as whispersync). Jeff’s Hiccup is just about the funniest thing I’ve heard in years.
Regarding the next installment, book three will be called the The Runestones of Tritinakh, and it will be released in the spring. I originally anticipated three to four books in the Fantasy Online series. Now I envision five. The characters are too fun and the world is too big not to add another book. Also, I don’t want to cheat you, the reader. The Mitherfickers have a long way of leveling to go to reach the third floating continent of Tritania known as Ultima Thule, where the Sage of Gotha lives, and I didn’t want to brush over this fact in the third book.
Plus, I have some ideas for Tokyo that I’ve yet to orchestrate …
So look for The Runestones of Tritinakh in the spring. Before I release it, I’ll release the final two Last Warrior of Unigaea books, a surprise release. Join my mailing list here to find out about that as soon as I drop it (and by joining, you’ll get a FREE copy of the Feedback Loop Box Set).
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Fantasy Online is connected
Okay, so if you haven’t already started in on my back catalog, now is the time!
Oric and Wolf and the necklace
Oric and Wolf have their own trilogy which takes place in Unigaea, another online fantasy world, six years BEFORE the Fantasy Online series. In this trilogy, Oric is a Player Killer on a quest to save a dying Proxima World. Some of the things Oric says and does in Fantasy Online are directly related to the next book in the series. The necklace he has and the necklace Zaena have also find their origin in the Last Warrior books, namely book two. A character from Fantasy Online Three, named Lothar, is also a character from Last Warrior (starting in Book Two).
Add this to your reading pile because it plays a role in the next Fantasy Online book. Get The Last Warrior of Unigaea here.
Quantum Hughes, Sophia, Doc, Aiden, Empress Thun, Jim the Hostelier, Dirty Dave, Bramtoker, DJ Ride the Lightning
The Feedback Loop series contains the origins of the characters listed above and more, including the French chefs at the Mondegreen hotel. Aiden, Quantum, and some of the lesser NPCs are introduced in the first Feedback Loop book, Dirty Dave in the second (mentioned in the first), Doc in the third, Sophia and Empress Thun in the fourth. DJ Ride the Lightning is mentioned several times in the Feedback Loop series and makes his epic debut in Fantasy Online.
An example of the connections to The Feedback Loop series (and how deep they run) can be found in a line in which Hiccup calls Ryuk “Bramtoker”. Bramtoker is a Player Killer who appears in the Feedback Loop books 3 and in a tournament in book 4. Quantum beat Zaena’s sister, Queen Renata, in tournament in book 4 and some of the locations, such as the guildhall at the end of Polynya (and the “Brits castle outside”) are from The Feedback Loop.
You can jump right into the Feedback Loop series with the box set here on Amazon, also available in audio narrated by Jeff Hays.
You can also get the box set (books 1-3) free by joining my mailing list.
Proxima World locations
There are subtle mentions of locations from a Proxima World known as Steam. These locales are first introduced in The Feedback Loop Book Two (Morlock) and Book Seven (Akrasia). There is also mention of Steampunk Santa, who appears in both those books as well. I will use the Proxima World “Steam” for a new series next year (2018// first book called Imperium and Beyond) starring “Sam Raid” who appears in the Last Warrior of Unigaea series.
Seriously, if you haven’t started the other stuff, now’s the time! I am planning a wiki in the future, alongside my facebook group (which you should join) to help people more easily jump into my Proxima worlds and see their connections.
REAL world locations
I lived in Japan off and on in 2014 and 2015 for a combined length of about 10.5 months. Many of the locations I mention, I’ve personally been to. This includes Ikebukuro, the location of Ryuk and Kodai’s mother’s office. I actually lived in Kami-iitabashi, which is about six or seven subway stops away from Ikebukuro.
Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to visit Japan to write any of the Fantasy Online series, using memories for inspiration. This may change with the last two books, as I truly miss living in the country.
All that to say – most of this book was written in Texas. I created the map of Polynya and outlined the final chapters in Chicago, and I reread/edited my final version of the book during an “Evacu-cation”.
What’s an Evacucation?
During the writing of Polynya, I lived an hour north of Houston. My wife and I evacuated the area because of Hurricane Harvey, which soon became a road trip vacation as we traveled to Santa Fe, Denver (do not eat the gummies!), Wichita, and Oklahoma City.
The “Snoop Dogg” ink shadow scene, as an example, was edited and improved upon after a discussion with Jeff Hays – Fantasy Online’s narrator who asked for the shadow to sound like Snoop – at a 24-hour donut shop in Wichita, Kansas. Other parts were edited/fixed/conceived in Santa Fe, at an airbnb near downtown Denver, at a Kroger’s knock off in Oklahoma City, and at a stinky hotel in Lubbock, Texas.