The Chronicles of Salt and Iron (WIP) (~17k words, Updated 4-9-25)

[Twenty2]

Can’t wait to have my shivers timbered

[wenus]

omg i love it

[Ananasjuicebrik]

Was reading The Call for Cthulhu by Lovecraft right before I found this and during the whole chapter I was imagining the giant horror right beneath the ocean surface lol

[chrisbat]

This is fun so far i look forward to seeing more.

[HarrisPS]

Just to make you aware, Dashingdon hosting will be closing soon so I would recommend moving this to cogdemos or uploading a compiled html file:

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[Twenty2]

@paperbag just in case you didn’t see the news read the message above

[paperbag]

Hey all, sorry for the silence and late reply. Got caught up with school (typical, lol). I had a long school project these past few months that actually involved making another IF (maybe I’ll post it someday when this project is…eventually finished haha).

Anyways, I’ve been working on the next update and should have it out sometime within this week In the meantime, take this (hugely-overdue and kinda bloated) mass reply

@Ramidel

This game sounds…

…metal.

@Ramidel tssh

@Randomguy

I really enjoyed this.

Some bugs in the code

@Randomguy Thank you so much for pointing these out aaa, they’ll be fixed in the upcoming update. I really appreciate you taking the time to find these!

@Silverwing23

Glad I ended up walking me booty on this here ship look forward to trying this game out

@Silverwing23

@kizzygm

Im curious about the power system

@kizzygm Let me know if there are any specific questions you have!

@Takashi_Shin

Oh I’m going to have fun with this I was like playing the cheerful rogue not all rogues are edgy teenagers understand that I understand that!!!flipping a bottle of poison who is about to disagree

@Takashi_Shin I hope this story can scratch that “cheerful rogue” itch for ya! Thank you for reading

@Silverwing23

Really enjoyed this game so far waiting for more. I thought for a second I was getting special skills like out of Solo Leveling, Is It Wrong To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon, or Recreated As A Slime . Really love the game and appreciate everything the author has done thank you

@Silverwing23 If you’re talking about the sky-sign scene, let’s just say that something will come out of it. Thank you so much for reading!

@Rorome_Todoro

is there a tumblr i can follow?

@when_the

seconding the prev. already loving this!

@Rorome_Todoro @when_the No tumblr set up currently, but I’m open to making one (when I have more content out, though)! Thank you both so much for reading!

@Twenty2

Can’t wait to have my shivers timbered

@Twenty2 Lmao

@wenus

omg i love it

@wenus Thank you so much

[paperbag]

(Met the limit for mentions in the previous reply oops)

@Ananasjuicebrik

Was reading The Call for Cthulhu by Lovecraft right before I found this and during the whole chapter I was imagining the giant horror right beneath the ocean surface lol

I definitely took inspiration from Lovecraft for The Hand! I’m glad the scene was able to evoke that for you Thank you for reading!

@chrisbat

This is fun so far i look forward to seeing more.

@chrisbat Thanks for reading!!!

@HarrisPS

Just to make you aware, Dashingdon hosting will be closing soon so I would recommend moving this to cogdemos or uploading a compiled html file:

Hello all, I am no longer able to maintain the dashingdon.com system and server. It is terribly outdated and there are creeping security concerns. So, unfortunately, I will be shutting down the service at the end of this month. The URL will be redirected to cogdemos.ink and all users and games will be permanently deleted (mostly to prevent any user/pass/email leaks). This community is a small light in the vast darkness and it was a great honor to provide this service to my fellow writers for a…

@Twenty2

@paperbag just in case you didn’t see the news read the message above

@HarrisPS @Twenty2 Thank you so much for letting me know, I really appreciate it. I’ll move everything to cogdemos once I push out the next update :))

[FutbolDude21586]

@paperbag Might just be me but the demo link is not working.

[AMER1CANN1NJA09]

Demo is not working

[Twenty2]

That’s because that’s the old link, we’ll get a new one once the update is ready.

[AMER1CANN1NJA09]

Ok.

[paperbag]

EDIT: the post is now updated!!!

Having some issues editing the main post, so I’m gonna put all this information in this reply until things are fixed:

Hi all, the demo is now up on cogdemos with Chapter 0 and the first half of Chapter 1! The other half of Chapter 1 will be done soon (working through some coding stuff and reworking how to approach some scenes D:), so this update is fairly short (from 13k → 17k words now). In the meantime, I’ll probably be pushing out bug fixes (because my sleep-deprived self probably left in some bugs wah)

Plans for next update:

• Rest of Chapter 1!!!
• First day-off event
• Using fairmath for stat changes
• More MC backstory depending on origin
• Updated descriptive and flavor text for Chapter 1
• More sneezing and coughing (for flu-inflicted MCs lol)

Anyways, thank you all so much for reading, and I’m sorry about the delay!

[elp97]

Bug want let me play past choosing to help the cellmate on the boat

[paperbag]

whoops, that’s a huge error on my part. should be fixed now, thanks so much!

[Twenty2]

I got this after choosing the option " Naturally, you took it upon yourself to bother her as much as possible."

[wenus]

Nooo I just want bother my big man

[paperbag]

@Twenty2

I got this after choosing the option " Naturally, you took it upon yourself to bother her as much as possible."

@Twenty2 fixed!! tyy

@wenus

Nooo I just want bother my big man

@wenus TRUE (now you can dw)

[wenus]

i found this as well

[paperbag]

ah, punctuation, the downfall of every programmer I just pushed out a lot of emergency bug fixes, so hopefully you run into less issues now. thank you for your patience!!