WIP Freehaven Online (Book Two): Lady Thunderlord, Into Hades

Cover: 90% Complete

Opening Sequences Mapped Out.

New Subrace/Mechanics Created (important to plot)

Underworld World Mapped Out (important to plot)

UPDATE

The pre-order is now live on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F37VFSJ

Freehaven Online: Book 2

Still stranded in the virtual world of Freehaven Online, the Toxic Muffins, lead by Justine, are given new hope after a beloved guild member died upon failing digitization.

Mirae has come online.

No one can message her, but they have a quest leading them into the depths of Hades, an underworld that serves two planes of mortal existence, to retrieve a lost soul and escort it back to the living. They hope that's what Mirae is.

For mortals, entering the underworld is no easy task. There's no respawn within Hades and resurrection spells now have a lengthy cool down. Justine's party will face monsters, ghosts, and even deities in their journey. To make matters worse, Hades doesn't release souls easily, and getting back will be just as testing.

Justine needs to forge a rock solid adventure party to find the gates of the underworld, locate Mirae, and bring her home to safety, because if she doesn't Mirae could be lost to both the real and digital worlds forever.

 

Mood Music for today's write:



Cover 100% complete.

 

Jun, do you do your own covers?

 

Deciding on the core group for the quest. Melpomene, Tako, and goblin chick are guaranteed... I’d like to balance familiarity with some new faces so it doesn’t seem like the whole guild is five people.

 

No, I hire a designer.

When I refer to % complete it’s just a reference to revisions and how close I think we are to the final draft.

 

Finished my first day of actually producing pages. 2k words so far. It's an okay start I guess.

Total: 2,026 words

 

Haha. In my first book, I had this problem. After the events of the first book, the guild broke up (AKA the leader beat the living data out of them for betraying her and the other that rose to the challenge and then disbanded the guild).

 

Meh... Beginnings. They always feel so clunky until the story has momentum. Gotta figure out how much text real estate I want to devote to preparing for the big quest, recruiting party members, etc.

Wrote part of Chapter 1 and then thought, "Wait no... I want this to happen first... A prologue then?"

 

Annoyed at how slow this is going in the beginning.

Ending today at 4k words total.

 

When you write a line that's so corny that you wonder if it even has a chance of surviving the final edit.

Apologies for language in the forum. The goblin's got a potty mouth.

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Pehrom says, "How the f**k do you know Leroy fuckin' Jensen?"

"Ready to go in?" I ask, as I begin drifting toward the castle. "He sent me a demonic courier with a friend request after my thing at the Lodge of Arcanum. After that it was just 'Congratulations on being the world's first Dragonslayers.' and that he knew my brother."

Pehrom asks, "So you haven't met him yet?" he's walking with me to the keep.

I say, "This will be the first time."

Pehrom says, "I'll see if we still have steaks. If not, at least we've got chicken."

 

Ending today's write at 6.1k words total.

 

Story's starting to come easier. Ending today at 8,342 words

 

Thinking about writing a side adventure with Pehrom (foul mouthed goblin chef) as the protagonist covering the time Mel spends in Hades on the current quest.

Maybe the Muffins get challenged to a Guild War and CK is attacked. I'm imagining him giving out free jerky samples in town, and offering people free meals if they fight as allies of the Muffins.

"Here's some f*ckin' jerky for ya. First one's on us. Ya want more? Side with us in battle, and I'll make steak, honey ham, and whole f*ckin' chickens for yas."

 

Ending today's write at 10,350 words total.

 

Mel has a lot of points banked... Debating on how much I want to have her spend at once.

 

Ending today at 12,543.

 

When you're struck with a bolt of amazing inspiration for book 3, but you're still not even half way done with book 2.

 

Yeah I started taking notes. The seed is a great final "This item begins a quest" reward at the end of book 2. It's kinda like what I did with book one, where they finish their big quest, and then a new quest is unlocked giving the hint of another big journey in the next novel.