After being killed by a high-velocity tree-hug, Arlo is transported to a new world of skills, stats, and levels where those brave and talented enough to conquer ancient Delves are rewarded with incredible supernatural power.
Unfortunately for Arlo, there is no tutorial, and he is immediately forced to tackle a Delve set to the highest difficulty with a party of adventurers who are not only strangers to him, but strangers to each other as well. Arlo has no armor, no weapons, no knowledge of the world at large, and his party is growing increasingly suspicious of his lack of preparation and paper-thin excuses for how he got there.
There's also the fact that the System seems to be treating Arlo's situation like a big, cosmic joke.
Determined not to die again, Arlo forgoes putting any points into his highest stat, Intelligence, and instead dumps everything he's got into Fortitude. After all, who needs equipment or fighting skills when you can eat fireballs for breakfast and still ask for more hot sauce?
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Mage Tank is a comedic LitRPG adventure set in an epic fantasy world that is rapidly evolving as new and powerful secrets of the Delves are uncovered. There are strong horror themes, graphic violence, overindulgent use of naughty language, and poorly constructed jokes. Mage Tank features slow progression and intelligent characters who spend time making intentional build choices. It’s not action all-the-time, but Arlo’s life is replete with danger and, more importantly, consequences.
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Cover art generated with MidJourney and Canva.
Maps and world-building support by Sir Raiu Koren.
3 chapters per week on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Unfortunately for Arlo, there is no tutorial, and he is immediately forced to tackle a Delve set to the highest difficulty with a party of adventurers who are not only strangers to him, but strangers to each other as well. Arlo has no armor, no weapons, no knowledge of the world at large, and his party is growing increasingly suspicious of his lack of preparation and paper-thin excuses for how he got there.
There's also the fact that the System seems to be treating Arlo's situation like a big, cosmic joke.
Determined not to die again, Arlo forgoes putting any points into his highest stat, Intelligence, and instead dumps everything he's got into Fortitude. After all, who needs equipment or fighting skills when you can eat fireballs for breakfast and still ask for more hot sauce?
***
Mage Tank is a comedic LitRPG adventure set in an epic fantasy world that is rapidly evolving as new and powerful secrets of the Delves are uncovered. There are strong horror themes, graphic violence, overindulgent use of naughty language, and poorly constructed jokes. Mage Tank features slow progression and intelligent characters who spend time making intentional build choices. It’s not action all-the-time, but Arlo’s life is replete with danger and, more importantly, consequences.
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Cover art generated with MidJourney and Canva.
Maps and world-building support by Sir Raiu Koren.
3 chapters per week on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday.
- Chapter 1: A Deadly Oak Tree
- Chapter 101: Three vs Sixteen
- Chapter 104: Thunderdome
- Chapter 107: Ownership
- Chapter 11: Mandatory Sewer Level
- Chapter 112: Shouldn't Have Aimed for the Head
- Chapter 115: Vyxmeldo'a
- Chapter 118: Architect
- Chapter 120: Damned if You Don't
- Chapter 123: Beginning the Descent
- Chapter 126: Crafts!
- Chapter 129: Clockwork II
- Chapter 131: It’s too Big for Us to Handle
- Chapter 134: Danger Close
- Chapter 137: To the Moon!
- Chapter 14: That's a Lot of Damage
- Chapter 142: The Cathedral
- Chapter 145: System Addendum #3
- Chapter 148: The Four Bugwomen of the Apocalypse
- Chapter 150: Diptera Fatalis
- Chapter 153: Lonely Langhrey
- Chapter 156: Need Before Greed
- Chapter 159: Arbitrage
- Chapter 161: Brae’ach the Unifier, Part I
- Chapter 164: Hickory-Smoked Skills
- Chapter 166.5: Everyone Else's Skills and Evos
- Chapter 169: Strategy Meeting, but Naked
- Chapter 171: Gold Standard Delving
- Chapter 174: The Raaaaage Caaaaage!
- Chapter 177: Delicious in Delve
- Chapter 18: The Man Who Doesn't Exist
- Chapter 182: Home & Garden & Very Small Pants
- Chapter 185: Accidental Nation Building
- Chapter 188: Insider Knowledge
- Chapter 190: Napkin Hunt
- Chapter 193: Judgment
- Chapter 196: The Hippo, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
- Chapter 199: Time to Meet Our Host
- Chapter 200: Bro, Can You Even Bench the World’s Largest Land Mammal?
- Chapter 203: Is That a Skeleton in Your Closet, or a Divine Avatar Looking to Kill Us All?
- Chapter 206: No Avatar Flesh After Midnight
- Chapter 209: The Plant Dimension
- Chapter 211: Chat Room
- Chapter 214: Lockdown
- Chapter 217: Cognitive Biases
- Chapter 22: Are These Item Descriptions... Flirting With Me?
- Chapter 222: 1,518
- Chapter 225: Lich in a Ditch
- Chapter 228: The Best Option Comes First
- Chapter 230: Working Out the Kinks
- Chapter 233: Gatekeeping
- Chapter 236: System Addendum #8 pt 1
- Chapter 239: Godslayer
- Chapter 241: Liquor and Stolen Goods
- Chapter 244: Back Out in the Cold
- Chapter 247: Dungeons and… (3)
- Chapter 25: Hell Has an Open-Door Policy
- Chapter 252: Durgons and… (8)
- Chapter 255: Dargons and... (11)
- Chapter 258: DRAGONS!!1
- Chapter 260: DRAGONS!!2
- Chapter 263: Club Dragon
- Chapter 28: Dress to Impress
- Chapter 30: Training Arc
- Chapter 33: Lito the Bloodhound
- Chapter 36: Any Frog in a Storm
- Chapter 39: The Sagacious Seinnador
- Chapter 41: Weapons, Armor, and Swagger
- Chapter 44: We Can't Stop Here!
- Chapter 47: I Can't Feel My Guilt When I'm With You
- Chapter 5: Attack of the Stickmen
- Chapter 52: A Perfectly un-Ordinary Bridge
- Chapter 55: God of Yearning
- Chapter 58: Player 5
- Chapter 60: Delve Core 9998
- Chapter 63: Heads Shoulders Knees & Toes
- Chapter 66: Gods and Ladders
- Chapter 69: May I Borrow a Cup of Soul?
- Chapter 71: Cage Match, Round 1
- Chapter 74: Through the Gift Shop
- Chapter 77: Cadaverous Mimicry
- Chapter 8: Cash Crop
- Chapter 82: Tanking Mimicry
- Chapter 85: Keystone Evolution
- Chapter 88: Don't PvP with a PvE Spec
- Chapter 90: Fix My Build
- Chapter 93: Talking to (a) God
- Chapter 96: Patriarch
- Chapter 99: At Loggerheads
- Chapter MT1 - Epilogue
- Chapter WEEK 3 ART COMMISSION SUBMISSIONS
- Chapter 10: Feelings
- Chapter 102: One vs. One
- Chapter 105: Geul's Embrace
- Chapter 108: On Revelations
- Chapter 110: No Time For Sightseeing
- Chapter 113: That Won’t Stop Me Because I Can’t Read
- Chapter 116: Sakra Manar
- Chapter 119: Generations Past
- Chapter 121: 'Confusing' Some Littans
- Chapter 124: Dread Star
- Chapter 127: Monster Battle
- Chapter 13: Figuring Out How to: Not Die
- Chapter 132: Stacking DOTs
- Chapter 135: We are Arlo
- Chapter 138: You Get an Evo, and You Get an Evo, and You Get an Evo!
- Chapter 140: The Winding Path
- Chapter 143: Dimensionalism and You
- Chapter 146: Anty Bodies
- Chapter 149: Death Sequence
- Chapter 151: Chips, Loot, & System Warnings
- Chapter 154: Sharing (your stats) is Caring
- Chapter 157: An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Chapter 16: Fuuuuusion Ha!
- Chapter 162: Brae’ach the Unifier, Part II
- Chapter 165: The Good, The Bad, and The Arousing
- Chapter 167: Breakfast Invitations
- Chapter 17: Are Severed Heads Loot?
- Chapter 172: Littan Excellence
- Chapter 175: Planar or Spatial? The Subtle Nuance of Portal Magic
- Chapter 178: Nottagator Rematch
- Chapter 180: Skill Forge
- Chapter 183: Showing Off ‘The Hammer’
- Chapter 186: Royal Security
- Chapter 189: Allies Close, Danger Closer
- Chapter 191: Leon the Prosecutor
- Chapter 194: When to Hit Your Guests, Part II
- Chapter 197: What’re Ya Buyin’?
- Chapter 2: Stats!
- Chapter 201: Banana Sandwich
- Chapter 204: Unified Theory of Demanifestation
- Chapter 207: Buffs, Cooldowns, Consumables. Burn Them All.
- Chapter 21: The Re-Born Identity
- Chapter 212: Divine Cowboy
- Chapter 215: God Wranglin'
- Chapter 218: Offer on the Table
- Chapter 220: Delving Through the Snow
- Chapter 223: Please Die
- Chapter 226: The Boss We Deserve
- Chapter 229: Change of Plans
- Chapter 231: Barely an Inconvenience
- Chapter 234: Dreamscape Ritual
- Chapter 237: System Addendum #8 pt 2
- Chapter 24: Truth! Honesty!
- Chapter 242: Batant IP Theft
- Chapter 245: Dungeons and…
- Chapter 248: Durgeons and… (4)
- Chapter 250: Durgeons and… (6)
- Chapter 253: Durgons and… (9)
- Chapter 256: Dargons and… (12)
- Chapter 259: Her Golden Majesty
- Chapter 261: A Tale as Old as Hep
- Chapter 264: Another Montage
- Chapter 29: New Exploit
- Chapter 31: Uninvited Guests
- Chapter 34: A Dozen Cutthroats and a Level One Delver
- Chapter 37: Umi-Dooby-Doo, Who Are You?
- Chapter 4: Unilateral Decision Making
- Chapter 42: Ashe, Ember, and Cole
- Chapter 45: This is Bat Country!
- Chapter 48: Enter the Mana-Matrix
- Chapter 50: Gracorvus
- Chapter 53: The Third Layer
- Chapter 56: Override Code: FAAFO
- Chapter 59: Short Rest
- Chapter 61: The Wailing, The Moaning
- Chapter 64: Handsy
- Chapter 67: Fortune
- Chapter 7: Fear is the Mind-Killer
- Chapter 72: Cage Match, Round 2
- Chapter 75: Void Transaction
- Chapter 78: Mimic Mimicry
- Chapter 80: Chatty Mimicry
- Chapter 83: Ded Mimicry
- Chapter 86: The Why
- Chapter 89: Don’t PvP in a Pocket Dimension Controlled by Your Opponent
- Chapter 91: Homecoming
- Chapter 94: System Phases
- Chapter 97: Umi-Dooby-Doo, Ecchi Otaku?
- Chapter Art Commissions Week 2 Idea Submissions
- Chapter MT2 - Epilogue
- Chapter 100: Yaretzi!
- Chapter 103: Four vs. One
- Chapter 106: Cheer Up, You Got Levels!
- Chapter 109: Grotto Safari
- Chapter 111: Camping
- Chapter 114: Symbiosis
- Chapter 117: Delayed Evolutions
- Chapter 12: The Wise and Magnanimous Grotto
- Chapter 122: Reaching the Descent
- Chapter 125: Eldritch Doom and Scheduling!
- Chapter 128: Clockwork
- Chapter 130: Kaleidoscope
- Chapter 133: Dumping (Not Just for Stats)
- Chapter 136: Entry Requirements Met
- Chapter 139: Becoming a C’thon in 1 Easy Step
- Chapter 141: The Basilica
- Chapter 144: Two Places at Once
- Chapter 147: A & N Exterminators
- Chapter 15: Delicious Chips With a Side of Suffering
- Chapter 152: Mystery of the Insectoid Society
- Chapter 155: Splitting Souls
- Chapter 158: System Addendum #4 (Unrated Version)
- Chapter 160: Dread Star II
- Chapter 163: Phase Two
- Chapter 166: Escape
- Chapter 168: Pool Party Farewell
- Chapter 170: Reality Anchor
- Chapter 173: Surprise Mimicry
- Chapter 176: Strategy Meeting, but Dressed
- Chapter 179: The Void King's Houseplant
- Chapter 181: Project: Unavoidable Harm
- Chapter 184: When To Hit Your Guests & Other Lessons on Etiquette
- Chapter 187: The King
- Chapter 19: Nobody Expects the Hiwardian Inquisition
- Chapter 192: Arlo Xor’Drel, Esquire: Ace Attorney
- Chapter 195: The Chapter in Which the Combined Skills of Both Myself and My Bonded Familiar are Useless
- Chapter 198: What’re Ya Sellin’?
- Chapter 20: What? Your Skills are Evolving!
- Chapter 202: Special Guest Star
- Chapter 205: Soundtrack
- Chapter 208: Shared Fate
- Chapter 210: System Call
- Chapter 213: Unworthy
- Chapter 216: Intentional Nation Building
- Chapter 219: Implant or Eccentricity?
- Chapter 221: How Many Zombies in a Horde?
- Chapter 224: Handling It
- Chapter 227: Dimensional Magic 40
- Chapter 23: Lies! Deception!
- Chapter 232: Surgery Prep
- Chapter 235: Soul Carving
- Chapter 238: Mind Control Builds Your Character (sheet)
- Chapter 240: Prison Princess
- Chapter 243: Glow Up
- Chapter 246: Dungeons and… (2)
- Chapter 249: Durgeons and… (5)
- Chapter 251: Durgons and… (7)
- Chapter 254: Dargons and… (10)
- Chapter 257: Dargons and… (13)
- Chapter 26: When in Rome...
- Chapter 262: The Last Generation
- Chapter 27: Set Loose Upon the City
- Chapter 3: New Friends!
- Chapter 32: Nobody Expects the Hiwardian Inquisition AGAIN!
- Chapter 35: An Entirely Inadequate Dungeon
- Chapter 38: Main Quest Progression
- Chapter 40: The Ultimate Attack Magic!
- Chapter 43: The Eye of Sam'lia
- Chapter 46: The Subtle Art of Hammering
- Chapter 49: Some Light Exercise
- Chapter 51: LFG
- Chapter 54: Orexis
- Chapter 57: S-Tier
- Chapter 6: A Perfectly Ordinary Bridge
- Chapter 62: Shog'tuatha
- Chapter 65: Breaking Gear
- Chapter 68: The Quick Way Down
- Chapter 70: The Inner, Inner Cage
- Chapter 73: Cage Match, Round 3
- Chapter 76: Vicious Mimicry
- Chapter 79: Royal Mimicry
- Chapter 81: The One and Only Mimicry
- Chapter 84: Mandatory Tavern Scene
- Chapter 87: Tavio of Seqaria
- Chapter 9: Dog Pile
- Chapter 92: Tonight We Dine in Hell
- Chapter 95: The 'Hammer' is My...
- Chapter 98: Spirit, Sea, and Lots of Cannons
- Chapter BOOK 1 HAS BEEN SUMMONED FORTH!
- Chapter MTB3 - Epilogue