Kinda forgot to put these on my earlier patreon chapters for Emily.... Whoops, I'll try to remember from now on!
TW:
Gore again!
And impalement...
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Emily groggily drags herself out of bed, slipping on a pair of trousers and leaving her room. She walks to the kitchen, grabbing a slice of bread from the counter before continuing through ...
2024-05-10 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs they separate again, Emily and Juliana’s attention is drawn by an awkward cough next to them. They turn to see Tom and Hester staring at them.
“We didn’t even get to say hi,” Tom says with a teasing grin that lasts until his sister clips him round the back of the head.
“Welcome back, I hope the trip was fruitful,” Hester says with a smile as if nothing happened.
After resting for a few minutes to catch their breaths, the group starts preparing to move on. Callum and Cian harvest usable materials from their prey, assisted by Maeve, while the others take turns meditating to regain their mana and helping to strip corpses. Emily, though, watches their surroundings.
She pulls out the sealed Mensacus to check it after a few minutes of observing the qui...
2024-05-03 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostA few hours later, Emily gets up early to join Enzo and Dante for the end of their watch, helping them deal with the slowly increasing number of beast attacks as the sun rises. She stands up, pulling her battered Claw free from a razor-fanged wolf’s head as she looks at the corpses surrounding her.
Are they coming from deeper in to attack us? I don’t remember running into any razo...
2024-04-29 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe night passes peacefully without a single attack, and the next morning they break camp early to start their trek back. Before they leave, Emily separates from the group without a word, leaving them behind as she sprints out of the cavern, following one of the paths downstream. She cuts her way through several groups of beasts as she gets further away from the lake, but even as her stamina dr...
2024-04-26 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAre any of you guys interested in me making a discord? I was considering it earlier while doing writing sprints in another writer's server since I'm chronically online anyway.
So yeah, lemmi know by either commenting or answering the poll. Or ignore this post. That's valid too.
2024-04-25 18:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostHeyo! This is a concept test, prologue chapter, for the current idea I've got going around my head for after finishing Technomancer (That will take a long while... But I can't write two separate stories while working full-time. I don't have the mental capacity for that xD.).
This is my current idea of what the start chapter would be. Even though it would probably change a lot by the time ...
2024-04-25 18:36:33 +0000 UTC View PostEmily kicks away from the shore, swimming through the glittering blue water and watching with begrudging wonder as the fog just below swirls around her, reaching out of the water in creeping tendrils as she disturbs the surface. She swims out to roughly the centre of the lake, casting infra-sight and checking below for enemies.
She treads water for a few seconds, glancing around for a hi...
Heyo! Little note at the start to let you know that I will be putting // before and \\ after all written text instead of aligning-centre on Patreon because I can't format it like that here!
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Emily shakes herself out of her stupor, the uncomfortable feeling in her gut growing ever stronger, and runs earthen detection to check the cavern for threats. Her scan comes up ...
2024-04-19 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day is a slow trek, ignoring splits in the path and following the river onwards. They are attacked from behind by a few small groups of groglers, but the attacks are less frequent than the day before. They find a few more herbs, including a sizable harvest of wyrmroot tucked into an alcove along their path. They also find a sparse outcrop of light crystals, but otherwise the day passes...
2024-04-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe blackened monster leaps at Emily, its skin cracking as it does and revealing the writhing grey flesh beneath. Emily drops into a slide, passing under the creature and hitting it with a bolt as she goes. The spell smashes into the monster, ripping into its flesh and drawing out a pained screech.
They both right themselves and turn to face each other before slashing out. Their claws mee...
2024-04-12 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEmily sits on a rock in the darkness, contemplating the coming fight.
I have to let some people die, but it matters who. Ivor can’t die for obvious reasons, same with Enzo and Dante. I should make sure Oscar survives so I still get paid properly after this, and I owe Callum for his help with understanding space, so I’ll keep him and Cian alive.
She raises a hand to he...
“Argh,” Emily groans, raising a hand to rub her brows as The Clock stops reversing.
“What’s wrong?” Oscar asks as light springs from the candle in his hands.
“Nothing, just a slight headache.” She waves off his concern again.
Feeling shrapnel pulling itself out of my stomach is definitely a feeling I don’t want to relive. I’ll wait a little longer to rese...
2024-04-05 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostEmily wakes with a jolt, finding herself lying on the cave floor in a small bubble of light with Oscar crouching over her.
“Are you okay?” he asks worriedly. “You stopped talking, and when I turned my candle on, you were already unconscious on the floor.”
Emily sits up and looks around, rubbing her brow.
“Yeah, I’m fine, don’t worry about it.” She waves off his...
2024-04-04 20:47:50 +0000 UTC View PostA chill runs down Emily’s spine.
“You haven’t left the barrier?” she asks, unable to keep a slight tremble from her voice.
“No, I stayed in here like you said. Why?” Oscar responds, nervously glancing past her into the darkness.
“I came back because I heard you yelling for me.”
Emily dismissively gestures for Oscar to sit back down before turning away...
Emily looks closely at the flower, utilising her enhanced eyesight to trace the direction of the smear. It points into the tunnel entrance before her. A familiar chill runs down her spine as she gazes into the darkness beyond.
Time to find out what’s creeping me out.
Standing up with firm resolve, she steps into the tunnel with an orb of light following above and earthen ...
2024-04-04 20:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostAfter claiming all of the groglers’ eyes, they continue delving further into the cave system. With fog swirling around their ankles and darkness encroaching on all sides, their journey continues its winding descent. They encounter a few more groups of groglers, and dealing with them becomes a well-practiced routine as they head deeper into the earth.
A few times, they run into dead ends...
2024-04-04 20:45:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs the realisation falls into place in her mind, so does a new flood of knowledge. Information flows in, filling holes of awareness in her mind and reinforcing her fundamental understanding of physics.
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Mechanic Knowledge learned: Basic Fields
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Quest completed: The Four Fundamental Forces
[The Four Fundamental Forces]
[Rank:] C 2024-04-04 20:44:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A small gasp escapes Emily’s lips as she gazes at the scene before her. The roiling wall of fog falls away after a metre to reveal a wide-open clearing broken only by a few large trees, whose canopies stretch wide overhead, blocking a clear view of the sky. The fog seems to pause at the boundary of the space before being pulled down and flowing along the ground like a thick carpet.
In t...
2024-04-04 20:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the evening travel is slow and painful. While using grenades helped to clear the group of fog cats and get them moving faster, it also inevitably draws in more beasts. Emily and the mages with ranged attacks quickly dispatch anything that approaches them, pushing through groups of five or more attacking beasts at least every ten minutes for the first hour.
They reach the next ...
2024-04-04 20:42:40 +0000 UTC View PostEmily turns to fully face Oscar, taking in his nervous shifting as she waits for him to elaborate.
“Please come translate for Ivor. He’s trying to tell us something and my sign language isn’t good enough to understand him properly.”
“Sure,” Emily agrees, stepping past Oscar to approach Ivor.
Ivor makes eye contact with her as she walks up, and she instantly notices...
2024-04-04 20:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostEmily’s recent endeavours in learning about space have brought her small gains in her meditation. Before leaving The Dome, she read half a dozen books with different perspectives on the topic, filling a folder in her notes with ideas, from which she has started to form her own theories. The culmination of her efforts so far has been conjuring a thin mist of purple wisps when attempting to man...
2024-04-04 20:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter finishing their late afternoon lunch, Emily and most of the expedition members relax on the grass staring into the distance. The group have varying expressions while gazing at what most likely amounts to their imminent grave. Most of the vassal mages seem nervous, almost certain they will be the coming collateral damage, whereas the nobles hold an air of confidence and anticipation, clear...
2024-04-04 20:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post