A haunted expression plastered across his face, Tyron stumbled from the small stone building. Dove tried to read the look in his eye, but the young mage was already collecting himself as he handed out silent orders to the gathered skeleton army.
In neat ranks, they gathered their weapons and gear that remained in the camp and began to file into the building, disappearing into t...
2023-09-25 09:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post[Mother is beginning to recover the energy she spent in our defence,] the keeper noted happily, running his long, root-like fingers across the nearby flowers. [Biomass is accumulating steadily, but more importantly, her root network is bringing in vastly more mana now.]
[That’s great news. I suppose.]
Technically, the Mother Tree is an ally of ours, so if she’s doing ...
2023-09-24 00:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostSoooooo this description is a thing.
[Occultus Toxicus Limax: Hidden Toxic Slug. A hardy, defensive monster used as a forward scout by the Krath tribes. With its dense coating of ascended slime flesh, the Hidden Toxic Slug is difficult to kill, and is capable of changing the environment to better suit itself, and its masters.]
Actual useful information in the basic profil...
2023-09-23 06:25:53 +0000 UTC View PostDespite my protestations, the slug is surprisingly manoeuvrable, slithering towards me with those burning orbs fixated on my position. Judging by the mana sense I’m getting, this isn’t some freshly spawned creature, but an actual monster from below who’s climbed up for some easy pickings.
Unfortunately, you aren’t going to find any here! Only death! Your death, specific...
2023-09-22 05:23:03 +0000 UTC View PostOk, I've returned from travelling. My brother-in-law got married, lovely ceremony and all that, then the family and I did the tourist thing for a few days. Lots of work to catch you guys up on what you missed! Enjoy!
Two weeks into the wave and all I’ve been doing is grinding. Now, I’m as big a fan of grinding Skills as the next person. In fact, my dedication to mindl...
2023-09-22 04:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe interior of the temple was as austere and lavish as one would expect from the Colony. My dearest reader, the ants have made an artform out of taking the simple and the elaborate and mashing them together.
Inside the temple, the columns were enormous and perfectly round, the ceiling was calamitously high with interlocking arches holding up the vaulted roof. The ...
2023-09-12 05:39:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello dear readers! It’s been some time, but it is I, Travelling Tolly, at your service to bring you my tumultuous tales from the lands of the Colony!
As we all know, the third stratum isn’t the most welcoming to tourists. The weather is simply dreadful, the air filled with choking ash and the heat is positively suffocating. Naturally, being the incredibly acco...
2023-09-12 04:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostLast time I'll be annoying about this!
Book of the Dead volume 1 is out now on Amazon and Audible!
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“It took longer than expected to collect these. I hope you weren’t too inconvenienced?” Yor asked with an arched smile.
Tyron sat grimly in his workshop, the darkness only kept at bay by the small globe of light he had conjured.
“As grateful as I am for the service you’ve done for me, don’t you think it would be more appropriate to send word of your arrival? Rather than ...
2023-09-11 06:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostMorrelia blinked the sweat and blood from her eyes as she bared her teeth in a snarl of rage. Berserk fury pounded in her veins, empowering every movement, every strike, but also narrowing her vision. Every fibre of muscle yearned to be unleashed, to slash and cut and stab until the fighting was done, however she couldn’t lose herself to the rage like she used to, not anymore. With...
2023-09-09 09:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe waves in the Dungeon are terrifying occurrences, really. I mean, monsters start leaping out the walls, the floors and it can be very difficult to determine when and where that’s going to happen. Not to mention the strata become absolute flooded with ravenous, crazed beasts, driven into a frenzy by the close proximity of other monsters and the never ending violence.
... 2023-09-09 00:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostAll right! I’m juiced! I’m jacked! I’m fully powered up and ready to go! New Skills to grind, new fusions to chase down and new mutations to get the hang off. By the time the itching finishes running its course and I can get up onto my legs again, the Gravity Mana Gland is already kicking into gear, filling up its vast new reservoirs. Feels good!
Even more impressive are ...
2023-09-08 13:38:30 +0000 UTC View PostA status page? Do we even have those anymore?!?!?!
After a lengthy discussion with Granin, Corun and Torrina, the three golgari excuse themselves and head back to the third, but not before promising to continue their painful adaptation process.
Apparently, there’s a ton of people who are trying to make their way down to the fourth, only the intense levels of mana ...
2023-09-08 07:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostDo you think I deserve this?
Laurel’s voice echoed from the spectre that hovered in the centre of the obscuring cloud of mist created by the Speak With Dead spell. Ghostly eyes filled with rage glared at him, baleful and red. Tyron folded his arms across his chest.
“You went after a Necromancer in the hopes of getting some coin, Laurel. You knew what might ha...
2023-09-07 09:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostTyron looked down and let the emotions run through him. Rage, pain, grief, shame. It was difficult to be here, hard to endure the internal tumult he felt every time he stood in this place, but still he forced himself to. It was here that he renewed his purpose.
Magnin and Beory looked the same as they had in life. They were laid next to each other, arms touching, facing the sky...
2023-09-06 09:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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[Before you get too carried away,] Granin chips in, [remember that manipulating mana outside of your body is much harder than the mana inside it. Manipulating energy within someone else's body is another level of difficulty above that. You’ll need to train hard before you can even dream of setting of those insane bombs you can make.]
That makes sense. If it was easy to manipu...
2023-09-04 09:30:35 +0000 UTC View PostPleased by the positive reaction to their first suggestion, the three golgari shapers launch into their next suggestions with gusto.
[Well, I had Corun work on a suggestion for your mandibles, since you haven’t mutated them after the reset. We know that in the past you had a few different mutations, but you made a fair bit of use of the infusion mutation, right?]
It was...
2023-09-04 06:16:22 +0000 UTC View Post[Anthony,] Granin greets me shortly with a perfunctory nod.
Corrun and Torrina are a little more excited, the former giving me a broad smile and the latter a more reserved wave.
[Well if it isn’t the rock trio. What’s been happening in your lives?]
[Trying to avoid mana sickness,] Granin says, [and this isn’t helping much.]
The big golgari is a big unit,...
2023-09-02 06:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostTime to get back to business. The wave is ongoing, the fortress needs defending and all of a sudden, the Colony is more interconnected than ever before.
The gates are working! I can take a few steps and be in the second stratum! Or the third! I mean, going to the second would be deeply unpleasant, but the third might not be so bad. I could say high to Al, and all the o...
2023-09-01 10:36:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs a reader of One Piece for over fifteen years, I can't believe the live action is actually good.
I'm so shocked I had to post about it.
The end.
2023-09-01 01:13:46 +0000 UTC View PostSpecial thanks to Poncemaster for his Class name suggestion: Lord of the Ossuary. It's about bones, it's about large quantities of bones, and has that touch of class. SUBLIME!
The carriage rattled across the worn cobblestone road, with four wagons in train behind it. Tyron looked back over his shoulder to make sure they were keeping pace as he’d in...
2023-08-31 05:25:19 +0000 UTC View Post“You have to hone your concentration further.”
“I’m sorry, I struggle to maintain my focus for long periods of time.”
Tyron compared the scripting he’d had his apprentice, Flynn, complete over the past five hours. As time stretched on, they grew progressively worse, small errors creeping in by the three hour mark.
“It’s something you must improve at ...
2023-08-30 04:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Do not discuss what we have seen or heard until we return home,] the Eran warned her people as they made their way out of the grand ant fortress.
Here on an expedition, her word was law and even her daughter knew better than to cause trouble for her mother at this moment in particular. The brathian were silent for the remainder of the journey. They marched in silence through the enormo...
2023-08-29 07:45:43 +0000 UTC View PostAs nice as it is to sit down, eat tea and cake with our neighbours while discussing the inherent superiority of ant-made goods, there is still a wave going on. It’s not like it's a big deal, there's just this globe-spanning disaster in the form of endlessly spawning monsters, savage and berserk, desperate for Biomass and experience.
So, with the ink barely dry on our trade de...
2023-08-29 05:47:39 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, it did not ‘sound good’, to the brathians.
[Twenty percent! That’s usury,] she declared flatly.
[Isn’t that the percentage you were offering us?] Anthony pointed out.
[This was a number we arrived at after a lengthy discussion of the costs and risks of conducting business. I would be happy to go over them with you….]
Anthony scratch...
2023-08-26 05:07:20 +0000 UTC View PostAlready, Enid could detect the faint signs of tightness around Eran Thouris’ eyes. She controlled her face. She didn’t want to appear smug during the negotiations.
[I am simply communicating the many difficulties that we will incur in order to facilitate this transaction,] Eran patiently explained.
[Hey, if it’s too hard for you, we can just call the whole thing off...
2023-08-26 00:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostTruly there is nothing so terrifying as being put in a social situation with someone who has mastered the Skills that impact those interactions. Masters of Speech, Negotiation, Persuasion, Haggling, Diplomacy, Intimidation, the other related Skills, the many, many fusions, and those who have levelled the various Classes which give bonuses to one’s words.
To the u...
2023-08-25 10:54:40 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe you’ve already reached your second Advancement,” Elsbeth pouted. “Just how much have you been grinding?”
Tyron raised a brow and took a sip from his cup, a wry smile twisting his lips.
“Can you blame me for being driven? All things considered?”
His old friend sighed and shook her head, looking sad.
“No. No, I suppose not.”<...
2023-08-25 02:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostStill thinking of a change to the name of the Class. Skeleton Lord sucks.
The Awakening.
Tyron Steelarm. Your mastery of your craft has advanced by leaps and bounds, proving your choice of Ascension was a wise one. Your soul burns with hunger, now you shall fashion an army to feed it.
You are Ascending.
+20 to al...
2023-08-24 07:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post