Author: Trip the Space Parasite

I mean, I don’t not, I just wish I had any actual talent, or a working brain.

Coworker M is no longer with us, for unclear reasons, which sucks. Now I have to do all the middle-aged-American-white-guying around here.

Finally did the work thing I have been alternately struggling with and flaking on for ages, which leads directly to another task that I am putting off until Monday.

Read: Operation Endgame (JN Chaney, Terry Mixon): The end! Did not turn around the decline of interestingness, alas. The enemies were vanquised in straight-up battle, all named characters survived, etc, etc.

Read: Bacchanal (Veronica G Henry): A Black girl with secret magical powers falls in with a supernatural carnival traveling the South in the 1930s, pursued and befriended by supernatural creatures of African origin and/or Black people with magic. Cameo by an historical Black lady gangster of the time.

Written: 214. These words aren’t as bad, but they aren’t doing anybody any good.

What an age! How is it even possible?!

Slept so badly I could not make myself go into the office. I hope my chicken tacos went to feeding the hungry, but food is definitionally biodegradable in any case.

Read: Daemons of the Shadow Realm vol 6 (Hiromu Arakawa): More intrigue and night-time assaults on fortified positions and betrayals and finding out why that guy is in charge.

Read: Chainsaw Man vol 5 (Tatsuki Fujimoto): Ah, young lust! Will our protagonist ever learn to stop being led around by his hormones? It’s only volume 5, so there’s plenty of time for him to stop being 16, but it might still take a time skip.

Read: Girl Squad Volition (Maya Lin Wang): Off to magical girl school, with unnecessarily full-contact training, teenage feelings, missions to the planet of Fascists Who Gonna Fash, mysterious strangers, hints about the future, and acrophobia.

Read: Fängelsehåla (Garry Snow): Supposed to be an RPG with rules as simple as Ikea instructions, which, well, okay. Also cute Ikea aesthetic, and trolls. You stack up up dice for the damage you take until they collapse, at which point you do too.

Written: 165, but this scene is not working for me. At least I’m not trying to get other people to pay to read this dreck.

We could use a lot more of that around here, especially in voters.

Went to the office, Coworker D was also masking because he’s sick and not American, ate a brisket sandwich, did a work.

Read: Otherside Picnic vol 11 (Iori Miyazawa, Eita Mizuno, Shirakaba): Humans, as always, are the biggest pain to deal with, even when they aren’t technically monsters.

Read: Heretical Fishing vol 3 (Haylock Jobson): There’s still some fluffiness (er, shelliness?) and it’s cranked up to 11, but also the forces of repression are growing ever-more-horrible and need dealt with.

Written: 105.

If only they had managed to take the vote away from men as well…

Read: Demon World Boba Shop vol 4 (RC Joshua): It’s the tower defense episode! Can they make it through the wave? And what about smooching? Or breakfast delivery?

Played: Changeling: the Lost. Nobody needs any more descriptions of horror this month, so we skipped straight to the jailbreak and our hapless changelings are now in a cemetery in the East Bay, being lectured by a creepy guy who doesn’t want them to go back for the friend they had to leave behind for the moment. Also apparently everything is terrible but being in Berkeley will be less terrible. Or something.

Written: 137. No guillotines in this story so far, but then I set it in 2014 specifically so I could avoid engaging with the bullshit of 2016 and onward.

Also World Origami Day, Red Lipstick Day, Pocky Day, National Sundae Day, and several other things that don’t seem to go with the main theme of the day.

There was rain this morning, which was good because I didn’t have to be out in it!

Read: Daughters of Nri (Reni K Amayo): West African epic fantasy about magic twins separated at birth, an evil emperor, etc.

Read: Demon World Boba Shop vol 3 (RC Joshua): Isekai hero troublemaker catalyst and all his friends try to get their frontier town set up while being extremely nice. It’s not even as hard as it sounds, but it is very heartwarming.

Written: 254.

Fortunately, Waterdhavian frogs do not get the bonus today.

After way too long, we played Librarians Errant again. Although in fact both Reshelving Squad Upsilon and Gladys’s musketeers are playing the exchange completely straight, as soon as they meet at the ice cream shop, everything goes off the rails. Poison-skinned bullywug acrobats launch themselves through the store window from mangonels and immediately trampoline back out with the books in their sticky fingers. Fortunately, Thaïs is also stuck to the books, so the bullywug escape doesn’t make it as far as planned. The bullywug Grand Admiral Bigbugs and his henchfrogs appear, and moments later, Celsian mercenary librarians rappel down from their airship to join the battle. The books change hands a few times, mostly remaining also in the appendages of the Celsians’ invisible stalker, various bullywugs are defeated, the airship is set aflame and has to be evacuated, a froghemoth crawls up from the sewers to provide an additional obstacle (not necessarily to anybody specific, just in general), until after three rounds of this, one of the musketeers gets hold of the books and makes his escape with skedaddling magic. With the objects of contention gone, the combatants disperse and/or get arrested, but later the musketeers do return the promised original of vol 2 to the reshelving squad. Level UP!

Written: 297.

 

Not that we need x-rays any more, American health insurance is megadoses of ivermectin for everything!

Did not go to the office, did a little work, snuggled some cats.

Watched: The Dragon Prince 3.2-4: Intrigue, betrayal, smooching, body horror, doom.

Read: Girl Squad Volta (Maya Lin Wang): A teenaged girl of mysterious background is sure that her taller, more athletic, more driven friend is the one being hunted by interdimensional magical girls. Action ensues, and at the end, one of them is going to interdimensional magical girl school.

Written: 215.

Went to the office, there were some coworkers there, we had some meetings, I ate a Reuben that wasn’t bad and did a little bit of work. Also, everything is fucked.

Read: A Line in the Stars (Sean Fenian): Conclusion of the trilogy about the thinly-disguised self-insert for the neurodivergent geek author who gets an alien space factory to serve as a decoy for alien jerks and builds Earth a space navy. Finally the catastrophe that the navy is for arrives, and things do not go as expected for anyone.

Read: Peach Boy Riverside vol 6-8 (coolkyousinnjya): There are getting to be a lot of factions involved in this, and now Mikoto is going off after his own psychlims. Surely this will be fine.

Written: 194.

Fortunately I did not have to interact with anyone in person at work, and was able to refrain from typing, “So how about those local Nazi motherfuckers, eh?” into a corporate slack.

Read: Library System Reset: Damaged (KT Hanna): Further litRPG adventures of a college student in the magical library, and we finally find out why her, why the library is so messed up, etc. Now they just need to do something about it.

Read: Kaina of the Great Snow Sea vol 2-3 (Tsutomu Nihei, Itoe Takemoto): Too many male characters, the princess never does anything except get rescued.

Read: Lion on Loan (Zoe Chant): First of Kit’s new shapeshifters-in-Ireland series. Had too much oligarchy, alas.

Written: 175.

I’m not a particularly great person, I’m not that politically engaged, I don’t go out of my way to be aware of world events, so how is a majority of the country not just worse than me, but so much worse than me? What the actual fuck is wrong with people?

Read: Echoes of the Imperium (Nicholas Atwater, Olivia Atwater): Steampunk fantasy in a world with faeries for gods, found-family smuggler airship crew, ace main character, the empire was overthrown for good reason, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t serve a purpose.

Written: 110, somehow.

Well, does Godot speak Greek?

Weekly meditation on how I don’t hate Monday, I hate capitalism.

Dropped off my ballot one whole day before the election. Go me.

Read: Counting by 7s (Holly Goldberg Sloan): A middle school girl who is probably on the spectrum or otherwise definitely neurospicy loses her adoptive parents and while semi-catatonic from grief has to cobble together a new family from whoever is to hand (school counselor, sister of the boy with the counseling appointment before hers, cab driver, etc). It is kind of weird with multiple viewpoints and coincidences and stuff, but heartwarming.

Written: 360, but most of that was deleting old stuff that was getting in the way of the doom.

Jellyfish don’t care about your time change.

Managed to buy cat supplies, but that’s about it. You’d think I would be full of energy after getting an hour back, but have you met me? And have you met this cat pinning me under the blankets?

Did fill out my ballot, based mostly on the Equality California endorsements and Vote411.

Read: Must Be Tuesday (Erika Chappell): The RPG for the general case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: no serial numbers, but you are high school students who are also monsters, and monsters of all kinds keep showing up to cause problems that you have to deal with, because who else is going to? There are mechanics for task resolution, sure, but the important part is balancing your human-to-monster track, because if you run off either end, you become an NPC. Not sure how it would work in practice, since pretty much every roll affects the track in some way, it would be very non-immersive.

Read: Games For Freaks vol 1 (Tom Bloom): Expansion material for Maleghast and CAIN, which I’ve never played, and I don’t even have any particular interest in the former since it’s a wargame, but the author sure makes them sound cool. Possibly, like Lancer, the flavor text is the only part that’s at all interesting.

Written: 236

Also World Numbat Day and Practice Being Psychic Day. I, for one, welcome our psychic numbat overlords, especially if they bribe me with deviled eggs.

Sage kept me pinned under the blankets until forever, but finally I managed to wiggle out and feed her and go shopping and stuff. When I got home, I finished journaling the con, so hopefully I can stay more caught up. But mostly, I accomplish nothing.

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 25: This was actually an OAV after the end of season 2, which is why it didn’t connect to anything. But now we’re out of BSD.

Watched: Deca-Dence 1: Okay, that’s ridiculous, but no more than many– wait, what?

Read: Wandering Crows (John Lynch): I played this at the con, but of course we didn’t have a chance to read the whole book. 8 1/2 minutes of exposition and then it was time to make characters. That was in fact most of what we needed to know as players, so that was fine, but my uncertainty about Inventory was never really settled, and now I know that it’s very fuzzy. It looks like what’s in your inventory can be used as an excuse to use a different suit than normal for a challenge, but mostly seem to be flavor, which I don’t like. I understand that everything is flavor and only the suits really affect challenges, but meh. I would be happier with narrative permission or something.

Written: 204.

Hi Kit!

More customer calls today, but at least I could do them from my own pit, with a black cat on top of me. (I don’t know why Nightvale was suddenly the snuggly one today, but no complaints.)

Read: I Can’t Say No to the Lonely Girl vol 4 (Kashikaze): Yay smooches! Shifting focus to another couple, maybe? Probably not that one, but maybe there will be more.

Read: There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… vol 6 (Musshu, Teren Mikami, Eku Takeshima): Gaah, MC, just admit you’re super-gay already and revel in the number of exceptionally hot girls who are into you! (Internalized heteronormativity is a hell of a drug, as they say.)

Written: 230.

For the fourth decade running, no costume for me. I am not cool.

Went to the office, which was full of people, did some more customer meetings, ate a bowl of veggies and pork, spent a lot of time talking with coworkers which I rarely do. There were a few costumes, but not many.

I had one (1) trick-or-treater this year, which is a huge percentage increase over last year.

Read: Peach Boy Riverside vol 4-5 (coolkyousinnjya): Ogre intrigue! Sus ogres professing good intentions! Frau’s backstory!

Written: 206.

Those would definitely have helped at the con!

Went to the office which only had coworker D, ate Bonchon chicken things (which are not significantly different from chicken tenders except in the sauce, but somehow okay anyway), did some customer call.

Read: Whoever Steals This Book vol 3 (Nowaki Fukamidori, Kakeru Sora): For a manga all about writing, this isn’t very well-written. All the exposition came in a lump at the end (which this was). Maybe I’m too picky.

Read: Peach Boy Riverside vol 3 (coolkyousinnjya): Ogres don’t get along with each other any better than they get along with humans, apparently. Or than humans get along with beastfolk, etc. Sally has gone from “I bet we can come to a peaceable solution if we talk about this like fellow sophonts of goodwill” to “here is the peaceable solution, do it or I murder you all” and I can’t blame her.

Read: Jasmine is Haunted (Mark Oshiro): What it says on the tin! A Latina middle-school girl is haunted, it’s very upsetting, finally she makes friends who can help her figure it out and grownups stop being in denial. Also, plentiful gayness.

Written: 170.

Other people can have cats too, sure.

Back to work. I don’t like getting up for surveillance capitalism nearly as much as I like getting up to play RPGs.

I did get to play an RPG today, though. I decided not to change my character to be less like me because it would be horrible cultural appropriation and also Sage was sleeping on my arms for all the time I could have used to rewrite the sheet, so it was my horrible isolated tech geek who went to Renfaire, did not get anywhere with the cute girl, and then got lured into the Faeriemobile by an offer of a better job. Surely this will be fine. (It will not be fine, that’s the entire point of Changeling.)

Written: 157.

It is the anniversary of the day Sage and Nightvale came to live with me. Many of my life decisions are questionable, but this one was good.

I have to go to work tomorrow, so today I had to do a bunch of shoppings after Sage let me get up. Annoying, but now I have the things.

What did I learn from running games this time? Definitely that railroading is my friend, and I don’t even need very many stations on that line. This time, after character creation, we had the announcement of the quest, pootling around in Lizard Bay looking for information, and then about two places on the Cursed Isle. Character creation should probably have been slightly shorter, but that wouldn’t have recovered enough time for a whole other scene. There were also only about five NPCs/encounters, counting all the old people in town and the mermaid and her pirates as one each.

A less welcome lesson is regardless whether I was ever smart enough to remember all the things, I’m not now. I definitely needed a checklist of things to take to the con, because I forgot several of them, even ones that are basic to any running-a-con-game expedition. I also needed better notes of both game setup (I completely spaced on mentioning the X-card in the second session) and specific important information for the PCs to appreciate the shape of their doom. Just winging it from vibes is not the way to get everything covered!

Even with my decrepit brain, it did go well enough that I must do it again next year. I might even remember these lessons.

Written: 262.

More importantly, it’s National Black Cat Day in the UK, but neither I nor Nightvale is there.

Between fan noise and two nights of games ending early, I was much more alive this morning than at this point last year, which is good because I had to pack up and then run a game in the first slot of the day.

Ran: Perils and Princesses. In a turn of events that was only surprising because I did not know he came to BBC, one of my players was the designer of Princess World, but fortunately I am not prone to fangirling. He played Clik-Clok the daughter of the Tin Woodsman, so that was cute. This time I got things moving along well enough, but somehow the antagonists were not creepy enough, and the princesses almost let them get away with it, but someone remembered they had a dodgy mushroom in their inventory and used it to contact their fairy godmother who only appears in dreams and visions and ask for better instructions. The day was saved! They used the same solution as the second test group, so that was reassuring in some way.

Played: A magical girl search of terrible things to fight in Wandering Crows. Along with a half-merperson deathly afraid of water and a necromancer who could only bear to raise animals, she wandered a world recovering from fifty years of war and deprivation. We were hired to escort a box of paprika to a partially-underwater city than had been deprived for two generations, which involved keeping loud-mouthed cops from starting a paprika riot and fighting through gangsters (our merperson Squid literally barfed a lizard gangster to death), but turned out to be only half the job. The priest of the temple we were delivering to needed the paprika for a specific ritual in a specific, dangerous place to save the city, and we had the choice of going through paprika thieves or necromancers to get there. We chose necromancers, which our necromancer defeated by laying their zombies to rest instead of having a massive undead battle. As a reward for maintaining the life-support system of the city, we got information about our personal quests, a huge favor from the important temple, etc, but most importantly, the ancient dinosaur priest threw off his robe and flexed for us. (No, really, rainbow feathers!) Wandering Crows is a card-based that’s intended to be simple and portable, but it’s also a little abstract for me. I would prefer what you write on your character sheet to be more than flavor text. I should send a comment to the designer.

And that was it for Big Bad Con 2024! I did not play all lesbians all the time this year, but close enough, and I only played games I’d never played before. The games I ran went much better than last time I ran two years ago, because I was ruthless about railroading. Will I run Perils and Princesses again next year? Maybe! But maybe something I like more will come along.

I managed to resist buying any dice in the dealer’s room, despite the many beautiful colors on offer, because I do not need more dice. I did buy a bunch of games in hardcopy (Ryuutama, which I might already own but couldn’t find at home; Follow, ditto; For the Queen; CBR+PNK; The Lost and the Jammed; Sapphic Space Pirates, Rebels of the Outlaw Waste because the PDF doesn’t have the stickers for character advancement; Cloud Empress and some adventures) and a small plush squid with eldritch sigils (their name is Devil Squid and they are Baby Lizard’s friend).

Criminal Cat Onion’s human was allegedly at the con, but I did not manage to meet her.

I just made the train home, and my cats were there and I fell over dead.

Written: VACATION

Played: A pseudo-Islamic knight with a giant chicken (actually a Southeast Asian jungle fowl) in Gubat Banwa. A rich king hired us to pillage and/or kill the idealist king who was stealing his excessive wealth to fund an artistic community, but when we found out from a captured minion that they used to be close until the falling out, we had to drag him back and force them to repair their relationship. Gubat Banwa is very board-game-grid in the manner of D&D4e, but the part between battles seems cooler, and also you don’t want to kill random spuds because it’s better to have them beholden to you. Hurray non-European fantasy!

Ran: Perils and Princesses. Somehow, despite forgetting character sheets, of all things. Fortunately, there was a printer in the hotel and I still had the files on a thumb drive. Once we got past that, it went okay. I failed to deliver all the important information in a timely manner, and the princesses were so entertaining that I forgot to move the plot along and we had to resolve it in a rush right before our time was up, but it did get resolved, and people appeared to have fun, so I’m willing to count it as a partial success. The laminated handouts were handy for character creation, although I think there may have been too many of them. If I did this again, I’d probably move some things from random generation to pregen or player choice, although I don’t know what.

Played: A horrible little wrecking ball of a goblin in Wicked Ones in Gaming on Demand. I did okay at biting legs off and overcharging generators, and the fire demon and kobold ninja were also good, but the mad scientist slime demon totally stole the show and also won by getting lasers for our dungeon to fend off the forces of light when they came to complain about the human blood we used to wash off our curses.

I had a burger that was more satisfying than any recent burger, although it was real cow meat, so I probably shouldn’t have.

Written: VACATION

Funny how getting up early to do things I like is more appealing than getting up early to make rich fuckwads richer.

Played: A blue devil sorceress composed of 47% noodles by volume in Broken Worlds. The other 53% was unsupported assertions, but her plan to deal with the giant rolling sphere of hate and gold coming to destroy her neighborhood was in fact perfect, or at least very successful. Also implicated: a mendicant monk, a gang boss, an insufficiently-renegade angel, and an acupuncturist abandoned by her divine mother.

Played: A merchant hurrying out of town after an embarrassing mishap in Ryuutama. There could have been fighting, but instead we were very reasonable and helped the homesick witch with her cafe on the sky island of dragons. It was very Kiki’s Delivery Service. The GM provided tea and cookies, which I had not expected at an all-masking con but was very nice.

Played: Follow is more of a story game than a role-playing game, but I was responsible for the grizzled cybered-up old space dog and the AU space pirate captain. We didn’t make a very good SF story, but we did somehow make it onto the treasure asteroid and not get eaten or enslaved by the slime princess who formed from the slime tribbles, despite the loss of the captain and other characters. There were only three people out of four slots, so we ended early and that was okay. Sleep is good.

I tried eating chicken tenders and fries, because that sounded warm and filling and also celebrated Greasy Food Day, but no, I really don’t like regular chicken tenders any more.

Written: VACATION

I did eat some food. I also worried a lot and packed some. I didn’t make a list, I’ve done this often enough that I can remember everything I need before getting on the train.

Got to the hotel and realized I had forgotten all the office supplies like index cards and blank paper and pens, but that’s not a big deal, I can scrounge substitutes.

Spontaneously interacted with some nice enbies from Boston, ate something called a quesabirria, applauded the opening ceremonies, admired how much of Big Bad Con is dedicated to giving opportunities to people not like me, half-listened to a game show thing run by people from the Internet while reading up on games I am soon going to play, went to bed.

After however many years of failing to sleep in unnaturally quiet hotel rooms and being disappointed in white noise apps, I finally realized that all I had to do was type “fan noise” into YouTube.

Read: Delicious in Dungeon vol 8-9 (Ryoko Kui): Bizarre transformations! Elf shenanigans! Chilchuk backstory! Giant mushrooms! Laios using his brain! Marcille backstory (and disturbing psychological insight)! Buddy dungoneers! Succubus attack! Mystic visions! Elf backstory! Dungeon backstory!

Read: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End vol 10: Horrifying demon backstory to explain why this conflict is happening.

Written: VACATION.

Perfect that square! Square that perfection!

Got all the laminated things from Marith, surely I am now completely ready to run a game.

In the evening, we went to hear Lus in her school production (which was actually a community theater production with high school drama class as chorus) of Les Miserables. I understand we can’t demand too much of community theater, but I would like whoever was running sound that night to be sent to the labor camp in Jean Valjean’s place, because that was WAY TOO LOUD and also somehow screechy even when the manly men were singing their solos. (Jus was fine, of course.) My poor head.

Read: Delicious in Dungeon vol 7 (Ryoko Kui): Ninja bonding! Elf trouble! Senshi’s traumatic backstory!

Written: VACATION.

Use your knees to avoid goose-stepping!

I am on vacation so it’s okay that I’m mostly useless. I did get my flu and COVID shots, though, and pretend to do some prep for the con.

We finally managed to have some Tuesday gaming. Now we’re making characters for Ken’s 90s East Bay Nostalgia Changeling game. I think I have failed. My character, despite having a good name (Tiffany “Theophania” Whitney) is not enough unlike me, so will be terrible. On the other hand, it’s Changeling, so maybe the characters are supposed to be terrible.

Read: Delicious in Dungeon vol 6 (Ryoko Kui): More old friends! More intrigue! More ninjas! More trouble! New quest!

Written: 326.

Yesterday I saw a v smol lizard on my way home from errand #2.

Did a work, was on a customer call, got snuggled on by a very cute void, and now am on vacation for one (1) week.

Read: Lonely Castle in the Mirror vol 4 (Mizuki Tsujimura, Tomo Taketomi): It’s not like that wasn’t telegraphed from very early on, and yet it still feels like a severe genre twist! One volume to go, apparently.

Read: Mysterious Disappearances vol 3 (Nujima): Another victory, and we find out a little bit more about Ren and his horrifying train station friend. Also, Sumireko didn’t reach an R rating until the bonus pages.

Read: Delicious in Dungeon vol 5 (Ryoko Kui): Ominous twist! Ninjas! Intrigue! Multiclassing!

Written: 286.

But also National Sloth Day, so do I write or just hang upside-down from a tree?

Ran two whole errands, but now I am good on groceries for the whole household (except the large spider who lives behind the microwave). I may need to go shopping later in the week to get food to take to the con with me, but that’s a problem for Future Me.

I also got some Thai food; does it count as an errand if I brought Marith pad thai? That would be three errands, which is almost like not wasting the entire day!

Caught up on the last week of journal, which was not hard because I did at least take notes every day even if I didn’t turn them into sentences.

Written: 249.

How depressing. Also Dress Like A Dork Day, which is also ouch.

I had an unsatisfactory cheeseburger the other day that was cold from being DoorDashed, so I got a fresh one from the same place while I was shopping, but it was also not that satisfactory (thought much warmer). I dunno, man, it seems like cheeseburgers should always be good. Maybe I’m experiencing them wrong.

Also unsatisfactory, although in a different way: continued my habit of buying more manga than I read in a week, leading to shelf shortages at home.

When we went over to watch anime, Jus and her friend A(?) were all dressed up because they were going to Homecoming together, like real high-schoolers who are old enough to wear cleavage dresses. What is up with that?

Watched: Bungo Stray Dogs 22-24: End of the Guild arc! Tiger and Rashoumon are now frenemies instead of just plain enemies. There’s one more episode in the season, and then apparently next season there’s even bigger doom.

Written: 223.

Boo neckties!

Somehow, sleep did not make me less sleepy. Also a customer was very distraught about their thing so I had to do the thing and I know my boss’s boss is paying attention.

Read: 7th Time Loop vol 2 (Touko Amekawa, Hinoki Kino, Wan*Hachipisu): After six lives of work and accomplishment, spending her seventh life lying about is not happening. There seems to be plenty of doom waiting for her, though.

Read: Delicious in Dungeon vol 4 (Ryoko Kui): That’s the initial quest… resolved. I wonder if this is where the prophesied plot twist comes in.

Written: 281.

That’s literally every day since at least 2016!

Went to the office, which had many people again, ate a doshirak (which seems to be Korean for bento) full of tofu and pot stickers, did a work even though I was sleepy. The train was late getting me home, but whatever.

Read: 7th Time Loop vol 1 (Touko Amekawa, Hinoki Kino, Wan*Hachipisu): Our protagonist has been through six iterations of a time loop from when she gets jilted by the crown prince, each one short but full of learning and independence in a different profession. Now the foreign prince whose bullshit war got her murdered six times even though they’ve never met, wants to carry her off to his country and marry her. Surely this will go splendidly.

Read: Whoever Steals This Book vol 2 (Nowaki Fukamidori, Kakeru Sora): Two book worlds this time, and we meet a thief, but are they the thief that’s causing all this trouble? Still not much closer to learning who dog-girl is or whether they’re going to kiss or why these books are magic or what’s up with the aunt or really anything.

Read: Azarinth Healer vol 4 (Rhaegar): Completely OP isekai litRPG protagonist returns to civilization for a bit, and completely pwns the n00bs, but then has to go back north to help with an extremely high-level dungeon, where she pwns creatures of much higher level and learns some stuff and makes some friends. Not level 400 yet, though.

Written: 202.