The next time Cal opened his eyes, all he could see was grey-purple, and all he could feel was the need to expel the water in his lungs.
Before he was able to control himself, he coughed a spray of water straight into EllaÂ’s mouth, and the both of them spent the next couple minutes coughing bits of water out of their lungs. There was a warm trickle going down over his eye, and whe...
2019-07-15 19:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post“Ohm…”
“Ohm…”
“Ohm…”
Dr. Daniels was in the lotus position, doing his best to clear his mind, trawling through his thoughts and feelings. Every time he caught a bit of foreign matter, he scooped it out and tossed it into his mind-basket.
Eight hundred years after he ate Chicago for being rude, he was still picking a bit of jaggoff out of his brain every n...
2019-07-13 20:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Gregor’s still out there,” Reginald whispered, leaning back from the pinhole Elaine had created in the stone.
“It’s not Gregor.” Andrew said, his jaw set. “Gregor is dead, and something is wearing his body like a skin-suit. Keep it straight –“ He leaned forward in the narrow confines and tapped Reginald on the skull – “in your head, or you’ll hold back when we kill it....
2019-07-12 23:36:50 +0000 UTC View Post(Possible Spoilers)
So the dilemma I have is two potential paths for the MC to take, with their own pros and Cons, so lemme spell them out.
On one hand, I originally planned for him to stay with the Genosians for a couple years in a hand-wave timeskip, before he escapes to find Gadvera enslaved by Ilethans. He breaks Baroke free from an arena or something, and they make a dream-...
2019-07-11 22:06:25 +0000 UTC View Post“Where am I?” Alicia asked, glancing around the pitch black emptiness she suddenly found herself in. There was a floor, so that was good, but it was invisible. Or merely the same color black as everything else.
She could see herself with perfect clarity though, so there had to be light. She didnÂ’t seem wounded, either. As a matter of fact, she wasnÂ’t even wearing the s...
2019-07-11 21:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s a Kugeya,” Chuela said, pointing west, toward the mountainside as his eight bodies slowly stood, their skin turning silver. “You go that way, and find a place to hide. Your Father will be sending more-“
The creature, whatever it was, had no concept of the social faux pas of interrupting a manÂ’s words, sliding sinuously between the treetops and crashing down to the groun...
2019-07-10 23:12:27 +0000 UTC View PostEvery culture needs unique magic.
Gadveran is technical, and weird. less directly offensive
Ilethan is illusion-y dark, and mind-bendy. maybe Cthulu?
Malkenrovian is holy/demon-pact-y and fireball-y
Genosian is tribal, simple, brutal?
I need Genosian spells for Ella (Since she's a Maje in training) and others. Go nuts.
Keep in mind that ...
2019-07-10 18:57:25 +0000 UTC View PostI was writing and I realized there was this glaring issue that was probably only glaring to me, but it's still fun to think about.
People recreated by Chained Spirit can use their Abilities. This implies that they have Bent. Where did it come from? I have come up with a handful of possible answers.
A) They are always summoned with Bent equal to the amount they had when they die...
Okay, day after tomorrow, Alicia's gonna find herself in the black room, being approached by several gods with a class and bennies.
I'm currently waffling between a storm/ice god with a ice/weather class, or the goddess of lust with a Painslutwarrior class
that being said, feel free to suggest a god, or a class, or both! Nothing gets the juices flowing like suggestions, and I gotta ...
2019-07-09 19:22:20 +0000 UTC View PostGods, I hope my spine isnÂ’t broken, Alicia thought, flying upward to gain distance. The Denton manor shrank under her, along with the city of Santo Descanso. In a matter of seconds the place sheÂ’d spent her entire life seemed tiny and insignificant.
Everything diminished, save the two Inquisitors, who took to the air in pursuit.
Damn! Even by a rough estim...
2019-07-09 19:14:12 +0000 UTC View Post“So you need to raise Hunting?” Aoehe asked, looking at Cal. All he could get from the old Maje with Feel Intent was cold calculation.
“Or else my magic will bottleneck.” Cal said. “That and I could really go for some meat.”
Aoehe raised a brow but didnÂ’t comment.
“All right. The village is running low. You and Ella will be escorted by Chuela.”
“WhoÂ’s-Â...
2019-07-08 02:13:47 +0000 UTC View Post“How’s life, Alicia? We haven’t really had our usual chats in months.” Maggie said, daintily folding herself to be at eye level.
Anger long since buried began bubbling to the surface like crude oil, ready to be lit on fire. Her decision to kill Maggie had unlocked emotions she couldnÂ’t admit she had two months ago.
“How’s selling your nieces to politicians for profit a...
2019-07-06 21:04:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Title and temp cover for beta, whipped up by waifu. Now to get to work on the day's Outer Sphere. I know it's the name of an old dos game, but I don't think that company even exists to enforce copyright anymore. We'll see. Lemme know what you think.
2019-07-06 18:14:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 16: Arson and Titty Twisters.
“..I choose One of the Guys.”
The thought process was simple. The mutation allowed him to create a disguise quickly and easily, with no risk of losing his mind. It would be incredibly useful when it came time to escape. If they were chasing down a pale young man and saw one of their own warriors, well, they might not give him a second g...
2019-07-06 02:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostHope everybody's having fun 4th of July weekend! I'm slamming back to back episodes of Stranger things season 3! In the meantime I've adapted several of the suggested Read Expression Abilities, and come up with this list. I saw the precog, and it was a little too strong, so I didn't do it. The rest are cobbled together or torn straight from the suggestions. We got lie detector, empathy, ...
2019-07-05 23:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostI dunno, man I just gave him the skill 'cuz he was autistic. or asbergers...whichever.
now Idunno what kind of ability to give him at level 5, other than like...read expression better! which is dumb.
This one's a blank slate, so go nuts. keep in mind that totally OP abilities would probably derail the story and therefore not make it in.
I'll take and modify and bastardize unt...
“Whew, this is rough,” Garth said, wiping a bit of perspiration away and glancing over his shoulder at the giant screen in the center of the training field.
“Ah, ah,” Mrs. Banyan said, turning his head back toward the wooden box the size of a wagon half full of seeds.
“You said a dumpster full, and I’m gonna hold you to that.”
“But I wanna watch the fight.” Gar...
2019-07-03 19:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole cannibal village assembled halfway around the mountain, standing in the cold wind to witness the duel, some three hundred elders, women, and children and thirty warriors.
The numbers he was seeing in no way reflected the number of dead Genosians he had seen earlier in the village. There had literally been hundreds of dead men. They couldnÂ’t possibly have all come from th...
2019-07-02 23:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis one's a bit more varied, as I got a lot of suggestions.
Abilities:
Bleeding Strike: 1 Bent. Does what it says. The bleeding will not stop without extreme interference.
Penetrating Strike: 1 Bent. Softens material that comes in contact with the blade. The blade isnÂ’t tougher, everything else...
2019-07-02 22:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostI was lukewarm on any one in particular so you get to choose! except the multiple personality one. It's cool, but I don't wanna do it. Too complicated. I took what I could, and bastardized a lot of them, don't be upset if yours didn't make it in here, there were a ton of disguise abilities, ya know? it is acting, after all.
Abilities:
A mile in ...
2019-07-02 22:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostKnife-Work and Acting are the next two to break level 5, so please suggest abilities and mutations you feel would be cool!
I have one In mind for acting that makes him look like the average of everyone within 100 or so feet except himself. Walk into a nunnery, activate the mutation, you look like the average of all the nuns living there, an Ability that allows disguises and blending acros...
2019-07-02 07:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Lost him on the Scry.” Richard said.
“Really? What happened?”
“He went into an abandoned building, shit in his hand, gave the entire room the finger, which I assume was meant for me, lit his clothes on fire and teleported out.”
“Huh. That’s a new one.”
The two inquisitors sauntered back into the precinct, hours ahead of the team sent to investigate the D...
2019-07-01 22:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostSo I've got three ideas where to go with her, and I think I know which one you guys are gonna pick, but let's put it to a vote.
1. Law abiding (Genosian Law), concerned with prescendent, and how things are going to be. A mix of shaman and tank, kind of a paladin type.
2. Good natured, but rough around the edges, tank who uses spells to boost her tankiness. Independent and adve...
I had an epiphany earlier today while I was thinking about what to write the day after tomorrow.
Kala is the demure princess who is secretly desperate to be free from her status, and seeks out friends who aide in this.
Jinnei is the tomboy hellion who likes conflict maybe a bit too much.
Ella is...big tittied? I was thinking about something with impact to really impress her ch...
2019-06-30 07:47:20 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 13:
“Where do you think you’re going?” Karen asked, stepping out of the darkened alley just outside the temporary refugee housing. The woman was still limping from the wounds she’d sustained covering the villager’s retreat, but that wasn’t enough to keep her from getting in Jinnei’s way.
Jinnei pulled back her hood and scowled at Karen. SheÂ’d been hoping to sl...
2019-06-29 21:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post“No mind control,” Nathanial said, commiserating with his subordinates outside. “I can’t feel anything out of the ordinary at all.”
“You’re shitting me.” Richard said before he bit his tongue.
“I am not shitting you.” Nathanial said, eyeing Richard thoughtfully. “In light of Emilio’s death, I’m going to give that slip a pass.”
He turned back to Stephen and...
2019-06-28 21:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 11: Dreams.
“Stand back, Elaine,” The raven-haired newest member of their party said, his velvet cloak billowing as he stood in front of the Bent specialist. “I’ll not let these flame-beavers harm a single hair on your head.”
“For the last time Reginald,” Elaine said, bonking him on the head with Reservoir, a pitted wooden cane with a thick glass orb sloshing w...
2019-06-27 22:09:17 +0000 UTC View Post***Emilio, Inquisitor***
“Let’s see, Tad Williams. Alias…‘Bigdick Tad?’” Inquisitor Emilio arched a brow, glancing up at the teen in front of him who was seemingly unphased by being interrogated by an inquisitor. Rather than a typical reaction where their fear and anxiety was low and spiked in response to probing questions, the boy radiated a constant fear that felt barely re...
2019-06-27 00:43:40 +0000 UTC View PostCalvin stopped staring at what heÂ’d done and ran, putting as much distance as he possibly could between himself and the angry Genosians.
Despite the blood-curdling fear of man-eating cannibals chasing him down and making him into a sandwich, CalÂ’s mind was abuzz with possibilities for his Splitting.
What he needed to pay the most attention to was the usefulness of ...
2019-06-26 02:39:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Prepare to lose by a thousand points. Calvin Meteor Swarm!” Calvin shouted his special attack as he released the bowstring at the same time that he copied the arrow, aiming it at the target he and Baroke had set up in the woods.
Mass Splitting
Bent 6/7 remaining.
He was a little too early with the spell, and the arr...
2019-06-25 20:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post