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The Perfect Run
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Vagabond Treehouse ~ [Fall 2025: World of Chains #1-3 (Wayward Bard) | The Perfect Run 1-3 (alternating)]
Weird! I assumed the author was Australian since the MC is lol I found the Patreon and it loaded in English for me. The About page is very sparse. It looks like a place to watch though for future books.
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The author is pretty active on Reddit. I found this!https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressionF...
The important bit: "I've signed for up to book 6 with Podium, and I believe the contract will be extended to 10~ books in this series."
In other news the author of HWFWM is in hospital and very ill. I think you all are reading that one? Hopefully he recovers soon - https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comme...
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10 books sounds like potentially 3 trilogies and a finale for Heretical Fishing... thanks for the info...
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Hopes to be recovered by LitRPG Con in July...
I found an update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shirtaloon/c...Doesn't sound like he's going to travel any time soon.
Several commenters say they subbed to help support his recovery. It's a nice thing to see from fans.
Narilka wrote: "I found an update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shirtaloon/c...Doesn't sound like he's going to travel any time soon.
Several commenters sa..."
I did the same thing--that was where I got the news from.
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Initially, it was uniseable, but it’s kinda useable now after powering off for a few minutes and using a can of duster in PC case… PC loaded up without resolution settings and stuff, kinda like safety mode, with red and blue lines flickering all over the place…
Functional enough to load up ipod with books I need for the week and start transferring my 500GB of ebooks and audiobooks to my 5TB external storage, along with documents and important files for new PC to have easy access to… luckily I have a PC waiting to be built and setup… that’s my project for this weekend, all of a sudden… kinda feels like when my apartment flooded, until I get this resolved… just have mobile devices for doing things on wifi…
At least you have a Plan B in progress.
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re: HF3- I finished this one and really enjoyed that there was much more action and world building in it compared to the second book. I am excited to read #4 when it comes out in August. #3 was pretty intense in some parts and (view spoiler)
RachelG. wrote: "re: HF3- I finished this one and really enjoyed that there was much more action and world building in it compared to the second book. I am excited to read #4 when it comes out in August. #3 was pre..."Cool! I'm nearing 50% so will open that spoiler later. Its definitely holding my attention a lot better than 2 did.
Timelord Iain wrote: "My plan B has been in progress so long I could but a new new PC… I just refused t he hassle of moving to new PC and transferring/redownloading everything… now my hand has been forced… took 5hrs to ..."Ah, here's the story I missed in another thread... Tech/computer issues always send me into a spiral... Best wishes and luck to you. At least it'll be really nice having something shiny and new once it's all set up and humming...
Matt Diniman announced a new book release for next year: https://www.reddit.com/r/DungeonCrawl...Operation Bounce House
He wrote it while he wrote TIR. He's starting to sound like Sanderson lol
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Started spiraling like Nirkatze mentioned... Considered a stopgap laptop for basic needs... Options not great... Considered buying semi-old graphics card for old PC and trying to keep that working a bit longer... Hard to pick one with any sort of reviews that didn't seem iffy... Decided to try googling the sold out PC from bestbuy and found the same PC being sold by the manufacturer through the Walmart Marketplace that lets you buy online and return through local Walmart if there's any issues... AND it'll be shipped 1 week faster... May 16th instead of 23rd for expected delivery... So I bought it, and finally feeling confident about returning to some sort of normal sooner than later...
I've honestly gotten so used to living within the limitations of my old 2012 PC the past few years, as it's ability to do anything but talk on Goodreads, download audiobooks, and play super light casual games with next to no graphical demands bogged it down... My numerical idle/clicker games and digital coloring books and jigsaw puzzles and picross/minesweeper type games...
The most demanding thing I'm excited to do on a new PC, and have been for awhile now (months), is being able to play heavily modded Terraria without running out of RAM/memory...
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Timelord Iain wrote: "I'm pretty sure I already knew about Operation Bounce House... Was it mentioned in the live streams when Jeff Hays was cold reading TIR?... The premise sounds familiar... Gamers playing a Real Time..."Probably? Seems plausible anyway.
Timelord Iain wrote: "Maybe I should remove company of bones from thread title... Brian and Soo never managed to read it..."It's probably time for a new title in general. Seems like the group needs a new book.
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Yes, I also enjoyed how George and Geraldine are in this story. It's nice to see them grow as a couple and as people from the first one.
Yes, I also enjoyed how George and Geraldine are in this story. It's nice to see them grow as a couple and as people from the first one.
They are an unexpectedly sweet couple.
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Then on Wednesday night a bit of rainwater made it past my front door due to drain blockage during heavy storm, but I got lucky on that one and just threw away the welcome mat when drying it led to it getting soaked outside in a different storm...
Then on Thursday morning I had some concerns about my car tires and took them to air pump and proceeded to fumble my way down to a car tire with 3 psi, before figuring out what I was doing wrong and inflating tires...
Started using Bluetooth earbuds with the phone I haven't liked for 5 years, and now I can do like 2x the reading at work, and caught up on all the reading I fell behind on last weekend...
Still 2 days behind, but I can probably even catch up fully soon, because I WAS 3-4 days behind mid-week...
Timelord Iain wrote: "I've had a week from hell... From PC overheating last Saturday, and planned purchase selling out and delisting on Walmart and best buy websites (finally picked a replacement last night, should arri..."That is quite a mixed bag. Hope the upcoming week is better for you.
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I just finished Heretical Fishing 3. That was great! (view spoiler)I've been debating my next audio. Mother of Learning is a candidate. Did you pause at book 2? I remember you enjoyed what you read so far, just forgetting where you stopped.
Its also probably time to remind you to go catch up on reviews :D
The other audio I'm eyeing is Azarinth Healer: Book One. It's narrated by Andrea Parsneau, LitRPB, currently has 5 books in the series and I saw it recommended by Ilona Andrews. Anyone interested in this as a candidate for a Vagabond read?I'm leaning towards Mother of Learning since it's a completed series as I'm not sure how many books are planned for Azarinth Healer yet. Need to do some internet searching.
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Thanks to Bluetooth, my May average is creeping up to 800+, fast...
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If you try Azarinth Healer, the first audiobook is only like 3.42$ with Whispersync, so I'm definitely open to trying it...
Reddit says Azarinth Healer is a punchy healer, so there's healing somewhere in that plot at some point (maybe life leech?)
I'm going with Mother of Learning. It's a completed series and book 1 is in audible plus.
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ANYWAY... Looking forward to you starting and compensating... I'll be squeezing in book 3 sometime this week when I feel caught up on BRs...
Don't worry / expect much from the unwanted/unrealized romantic plotlines in the first iteration... The MC quickly figures out how to dodge those entanglements in future loops...
They way I go, I won't hit book 3 until July. So no rush on your part if you'd like an impromptu BR :) I did start this morning but didn't finish chapter 1 yet lol The MC's little sister is annoying though!
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If you guys are ever looking for a cute, kind of silly litrpg try Trials of the Nekomancer: A Comedy LitRPG Isekai Adventure. The first 40 pages have brought a smile to my face. I was needing something that captured my attention and this has done so.
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It's a shame how many I've seen recently only have 1 book so far and no news on more...
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Plenty more on Royal Road for people that have time for eye reading I think...
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Timelord Iain wrote: "@Narilka: maybe I’ll wait a bit longer on Mother of Learning 3… not sure abiut 2-3 months, but so far its easy to keep working on getting ahead on BRs and then checking out some of the omnibuses I ..."That will let me catch up nicely.
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Took a lazy day today and watched YouTube for like 6hrs, then finished a book and read another... Barely feels like I took a lazy day, except I only read like 500-600 pages instead of 800-1000...
That sounds like a great day to me :D
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But at the same time, as many BRa as I schedule, I need to be reading like 750 pages/day average to finish them all... So completely skipping a day means reading 25 pages extra every other day of the month, or finding 1-2 books to cut... Which is hard when 90% of what I read is long running series... I try to drop series starters or final entries, when I have to, so I don't feel the need to start over again in a few years to make it to the end next time...
I could always ask Nirkatze to delay/reschedule, but I tend to avoid that for some reason, even tho it's an option plenty of other people use... More likely to add in a delay if the series is split into trilogies and/or the next round of books haven't been officially scheduled yet...
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Haven't found a blog or anything with info on expected series length... there's a discord that might have answers, but I think it's linked to patreon support... hopes/expects to be recovered by LitRPG Con in July...