Synopsis
Volume 1 (chapters 1-75 + Epilogue) has been fully updated with the edited Version 2 of the text.
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?
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.
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.
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Table of Contents
- 11 - A Deadly Oak Tree2024-11-13
- 22 - Stats!2024-11-13
- 33 - New Friends!2024-11-13
- 44 - Unilateral Decision Making2024-11-13
- 55 - Attack of the Stickmen2024-11-13
- 66 - A Perfectly Ordinary Bridge2024-11-13
- 77 - Fear is the Mind-Killer2024-11-13
- 88 - Cash Crop2024-11-13
- 99 - Dog Pile2024-11-13
- 1010 - Feelings2024-11-13
- 1111 - Mandatory Sewer Level2024-11-13
- 1212 - The Wise and Magnanimous Grotto2024-11-13
- 1313 - Figuring Out How to: Not Die2024-11-13
- 1414 - That's a Lot of Damage2024-11-13
- 1515 - Delicious Chips With a Side of Suffering2024-11-13
- 1616 - Fuuuuusion Ha!2024-11-13
- 1717 - Are Severed Heads Loot?2024-11-13
- 1818 - The Man Who Doesn't Exist2024-11-13
- 1919 - Nobody Expects the Hiwardian Inquisition2024-11-13
- 2020 - What? Your Skills are Evolving!2024-11-13
- 2121 - The Re-Born Identity2024-11-13
- 2222 - Are These Item Descriptions... Flirting With Me?2024-11-13
- 2323 - Lies! Deception!2024-11-13
- 2424 - Truth! Honesty!2024-11-13
- 2525 - Hell Has an Open-Door Policy2024-11-13
- 2626 - When in Rome...2024-11-13
- 2727 - Set Loose Upon the City2024-11-13
- 2828 - Dress to Impress2024-11-13
- 2929 - Base Building2024-11-13
- 3030 - Training Arc2024-11-13
- 3131 - Uninvited Guests2024-11-13
- 3232 - Nobody Expects the Hiwardian Inquisition AGAIN!2024-11-13
- 3333 - Lito the Bloodhound2024-11-13
- 3434 - A Dozen Cutthroats and a Level One Delver2024-11-13
- 3535 - An Entirely Inadequate Dungeon2024-11-13
- 3636 - Any Frog in a Storm2024-11-13
- 3737 - Umi-Dooby-Doo, Who Are You?2024-11-13
- 3838 - Main Quest Progression2024-11-13
- 3939 - The Sagacious Seinnador2024-11-13
- 4040 - The Ultimate Attack Magic!2024-11-13
- 4141 - Weapons, Armor, and Swagger2024-11-13
- 4242 - Ashe, Ember, and Cole2024-11-13
- 4343 - The Eye of Sam'lia2024-11-13
- 4444 - We Can't Stop Here!2024-11-13
- 4545 - This is Bat Country!2024-11-13
- 4646 - The Subtle Art of Hammering2024-11-13
- 4747 - I Can't Feel My Guilt When I'm With You2024-11-13
- 4848 - Enter the Mana-Matrix2024-11-13
- 4949 - Some Light Exercise2024-11-13
- 5050 - Gracorvus2024-11-13
- 5151 - LFG2024-11-13
- 5252 - A Perfectly un-Ordinary Bridge2024-11-13
- 5353 - The Third Layer2024-11-13
- 5454 - Orexis2024-11-13
- 5555 - God of Yearning2024-11-13
- 5656 - Override Code: FAAFO2024-11-13
- 5757 - S-Tier2024-11-13
- 5858 - Player 52024-11-13
- 5959 - Short Rest2024-11-13
- 6060 - Delve Core 99982024-11-13
- 6161 - The Wailing, The Moaning2024-11-13
- 6262 - Shog'tuatha2024-11-13
- 6363 - Heads Shoulders Knees & Toes2024-11-13
- 6464 - Handsy2024-11-13
- 6565 - Breaking Gear2024-11-13
- 6666 - Gods and Ladders2024-11-13
- 6767 - Fortune2024-11-13
- 6868 - The Quick Way Down2024-11-13
- 6969 - May I Borrow a Cup of Soul?2024-11-13
- 7070 - The Inner, Inner Cage2024-11-13
- 7171 - Cage Match, Round 12024-11-13
- 7272 - Cage Match, Round 22024-11-13
- 7373 - Cage Match, Round 32024-11-13
- 7474 - Through the Gift Shop2024-11-13
- 7575 - Void Transaction2024-11-13
- 76MT1 - Epilogue2024-11-13
- 7776 - Vicious Mimicry2024-11-13
- 7877 - Cadaverous Mimicry2024-11-13
- 7978 - Mimic Mimicry2024-11-13
- 8079 - Royal Mimicry2024-11-13
- 8180 - Chatty Mimicry2024-11-13
- 8281 - The One and Only Mimicry2024-11-13
- 8382 - Tanking Mimicry2024-11-13
- 8483 - Ded Mimicry2024-11-13
- 8584 - Mandatory Tavern Scene2024-11-13
- 8685 - Keystone Evolution2024-11-13
- 8786 - The Why2024-11-13
- 8887 - Tavio of Seqaria2024-11-13
- 8988 - Don't PvP with a PvE Spec2024-11-13
- 9089 - Don’t PvP in a Pocket Dimension Controlled by Your Opponent2024-11-13
- 9190 - Fix My Build2024-11-13
- 9291 - Homecoming2024-11-13
- 9392 - Tonight We Dine in Hell2024-11-13
- 9493 - Talking to (a) God2024-11-13
- 9594 - System Phases2024-11-13
- 9695 - The 'Hammer' is My...2024-11-13
- 9796 - Patriarch2024-11-13
- 9897 - Umi-Dooby-Doo, Ecchi Otaku?2024-11-13
- 9998 - Spirit, Sea, and Lots of Cannons2024-11-13
- 10099 - At Loggerheads2024-11-13
- 101100 - Yaretzi!2024-11-13
- 102101 - Three vs Sixteen2024-11-13
- 103102 - One vs. One2024-11-13
- 104103 - Four vs. One2024-11-13
- 105104 - Thunderdome2024-11-13
- 106105 - Geul's Embrace2024-11-13
- 107106 - Cheer Up, You Got Levels!2024-11-13
- 108107 - Ownership2024-11-13
- 109108 - On Revelations2024-11-13
- 110109 - Grotto Safari2024-11-13
- 111110 - No Time For Sightseeing2024-11-13
- 112111 - Camping2024-11-13
- 113112 - Shouldn't Have Aimed for the Head2024-11-13
- 114113 - That Won’t Stop Me Because I Can’t Read2024-11-13
- 115114 - Symbiosis2024-11-13
- 116115 - Vyxmeldo'a2024-11-13
- 117116 - Sakra Manar2024-11-13
- 118117 - Delayed Evolutions2024-11-13
- 119118 - Architect2024-11-13
- 120119 - Generations Past2024-11-13
- 121120 - Damned if You Don't2024-11-13
- 122121 - 'Confusing' Some Littans2024-11-13
- 123122 - Reaching the Descent2024-11-13
- 124123 - Beginning the Descent2024-11-13
- 125124 - Dread Star2024-11-13
- 126125 - Eldritch Doom and Scheduling!2024-11-13
- 127126 - Crafts!2024-11-13
- 128127 - Monster Battle2024-11-13
- 129128 - Clockwork2024-11-13
- 130129 - Clockwork II2024-11-13
- 131130 - Kaleidoscope2024-11-13
- 132131 - It’s too Big for Us to Handle2024-11-13
- 133132 - Stacking DOTs2024-11-13
- 134133 - Dumping (Not Just for Stats)2024-11-13
- 135134 - Danger Close2024-11-13
- 136135 - We are Arlo2024-11-13
- 137136 - Entry Requirements Met2024-11-13
- 138MT2 - Epilogue2024-11-13
- 139137 - To the Moon!2024-11-13
- 140138 - You Get an Evo, and You Get an Evo, and You Get an Evo!2024-11-13
- 141139 - Becoming a C’thon in 1 Easy Step2024-11-13
- 142140 - The Winding Path2024-11-13
- 143141 - The Basilica2024-11-13
- 144142 - The Cathedral2024-11-13
- 145143 - Dimensionalism and You2024-11-13
- 146144 - Two Places at Once2024-11-13
- 147145 - System Addendum #32024-11-13
- 148146 - Anty Bodies2024-11-13
- 149147 - A & N Exterminators2024-11-13
- 150148 - The Four Bugwomen of the Apocalypse2024-11-13
- 151149 - Death Sequence2024-11-13
- 152150 - Diptera Fatalis2024-11-13
- 153151 - Chips, Loot, & System Warnings2024-11-13
- 154152 - Mystery of the Insectoid Society2024-11-13
- 155153 - Lonely Langhrey2024-11-13
- 156154 - Sharing (your stats) is Caring2024-11-13
- 157155 - Splitting Souls2024-11-13
- 158156 - Need Before Greed2024-11-13
- 159157 - An Offer You Can't Refuse2024-11-13
- 160158 - System Addendum #4 (Unrated Version)2024-11-13
- 161158 - System Addendum #4 (Theatrical Release)2024-11-13
- 162159 - Arbitrage2024-11-13
- 163160 - Dread Star II2024-11-13
- 164161 - Brae’ach the Unifier, Part I2024-11-13
- 165162 - Brae’ach the Unifier, Part II2024-11-13
- 166163 - Phase Two2024-11-13
- 167164 - Hickory-Smoked Skills2024-11-13
- 168165 - The Good, The Bad, and The Arousing2024-11-13
- 169166 - Escape2024-11-13
- 170166.5 - Everyone Else's Skills and Evos2024-11-13
- 171167 - Breakfast Invitations2024-11-13
- 172168 - Pool Party Farewell2024-11-13
- 173169 - Strategy Meeting, but Naked2024-11-13
- 174170 - Reality Anchor2024-11-13
- 175171 - Gold Standard Delving2024-11-13
- 176172 - Littan Excellence2024-11-13
- 177173 - Surprise Mimicry2024-11-13
- 178174 - The Raaaaage Caaaaage!2024-11-13
- 179175 - Planar or Spatial? The Subtle Nuance of Portal Magic2024-11-13
- 180176 - Strategy Meeting, but Dressed2024-11-13
- 181177 - Delicious in Delve2024-11-13
- 182178 - Nottagator Rematch2024-11-13
- 183179 - The Void King's Houseplant2024-11-13
- 184180 - Skill Forge2024-11-13
- 185181 - Project: Unavoidable Harm2024-11-13
- 186182 - Home & Garden & Very Small Pants2024-11-13
- 187183 - Showing Off ‘The Hammer’2024-11-13
- 188184 - When To Hit Your Guests & Other Lessons on Etiquette2024-11-13
- 189185 - Accidental Nation Building2024-11-13
- 190186 - Royal Security2024-11-15
- 191187 - The King2024-11-17
- 192188 - Insider Knowledge2024-11-19
- 193189 - Allies Close, Danger Closer2024-11-21