I’m in danger.
Oh, I’m in danger. I should have known I’d be next… it was my mistake getting involved with that… thing.
The same thing I have at swordpoint right now, trying and failing to smile disarmingly.
“What the hells do you want? How did you even get in here?” I shakily challenge while my glimmering rapier hovers at its throat.&n...
2024-07-07 16:49:17 +0000 UTC View PostAnd without another word, the draconic hero drops low to the ground on her feet and one hand. Her wickedly curved shortsword flashes free from the bandolier, spinning in flight around her to snap into her outstretched left hand. The three of us hastily take our positions in formation, Ravona standing back and to the side with a conflicted look on her face as the still-unknown vanguard cowers be...
2024-07-07 16:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnd just like that, we’ve burned through half a dozen more dungeon bosses, one every ten levels, and now we’re approaching the last one.
The final boss of the dungeon…
While the others are documented though, there’s surprisingly little information about this one; only that what you actually fight varies pretty wildly, and some are much more difficult than other...
Well, that was a mistake.
Why? For one, I almost blew my cover. Not that it was particularly difficult to infiltrate the adventurer’s guild on my own plane, especially after popping up three more dungeons of varying difficulty in relative proximity to “dungeon town” as it’s been once again renamed after destruction and rebuilding…
But even so, it was still work...
2024-07-07 16:41:16 +0000 UTC View PostI suck haha sorry for the delay >< I keep forgetting to upload, prepare for a chapter dump
-Ember
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Only several significantly concerning things later, we’ve finally made it to the first boss chamber, at the end of floor ten.
The same one that claimed Taerys’ life, our previous healer.
But we’ve had...
“Are you sure this isn’t a mistake, Callian?”
I side-eye my party mage as she attempts to subtly whisper in my ear, short for an eldra despite retaining their stereotypical willowy build.
“Maybe, but we need a healer. What are we supposed to do? She’s the only available one here.”
Ever since the new dungeon was discovered, adventurers covering sup...
2024-06-22 15:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostTalking her down from what seems to have been a panic attack of some kind was actually a bit simpler than I expected… all I really had to do was keep holding her and patting her head while telling her it’s alright.
“And I mean it too. I’m asleep. I mean, my main body is asleep, and it’s not going to wake up any time soon… I’m not going to let it. It’s too dangerous,...
The days are slow right now. Between caring for the emotionally scarred Izahne and ethereally scarred Artemis, I guess I don’t have much more on my horizon.
I never really did have much I wanted to accomplish, outside of survival.
Although… I suppose building my plane was entertaining enough, at least. It let me watch the ants parade around their hills, so to speak.&...
2024-06-22 15:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostSo that was a fight alright. All in my head of course…
In the end we wound up right back where we started… she’s not talking to me, pissed at me, and convinced that everything I do has a hostile ulterior motive.
Which, considering how I’ve been over the past few hundred years and change, I can’t say I blame her. I’ve been a monster in the proverbial sense too...
2024-06-22 15:35:27 +0000 UTC View PostSo.
What do I even do about this?
Taking quick stock of what exactly I’m looking at in regards to the wounded goddess in my arms…
Well.
Her wounds are obvious enough, and her divinity looks unstable somehow… strange how ‘divine sight’ can be useful… and I’m only just learning how to use it.
What’s less obvious I su...
Blinking up at the night sky, I take quick stock of myself and my situation.
Hmm…
Hm, hm. Yes.
I have no idea what’s going on, where I am, or much of anything really.
Or at least, I had no idea where I was… feeling Rose relatively close by through my bond with it, I–
“Welcome back, my queen.”
“Ah...
2024-06-22 15:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo I finally settled on titles for For the Record volumes 1-3!
They are:
Volume 1: Stupid Human Things
Volume 2: Something Like Home
Volume 3: The Distance Between You and Me
Volume 4 is started now (posting catchup chapters shortly), and I haven't got a title for it yet, but I'll figure it out!
2024-06-22 15:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Just going to float there in a daze, then?”
I look around the all-white space I’m drifting in… how did I get here? Where am I?
What even happened? Why is my memory so hazy?
“Well obviously, you woke up.”
“What does that even mean?” I ask the disembodied voice.
A chuckle answers me. “Disembodied, is it? Of course I am. You ate my body, rememb...
“It’s manifesting.”
YES, WE CAN SEE IT. WE CAN FEEL IT.
“And?”
…
“Are you going to intervene? You have before.”
NO, MY SURROGATE HAS INTERVENED BEFORE. A GREAT MANY TIMES.
“I’m certain he has already attempted it. Or would have, if you didn’t keep preventing it. Why, ...
Well, this is definitely someplace I haven’t been before. What is this, water? It looks like the walls, floor, ceiling… they’re all made of water.
Not frozen either, it’s rippling… but it’s supporting weight too. I test it momentarily, and sure enough, it doesn’t even give under pressure.
Strange.
I look around, and it looks like I’m in some kind of hunting lod...
2024-06-17 11:36:19 +0000 UTC View Post…This isn’t working.
Sure, the tablet went through to her… I think.
And all the other things I tried sending… My first guess was that she just wasn’t aware it’d been added to her dimensional storage, so I added more things.
Bigger things.
My hope was that maybe if her dimensional storage was suddenly full, she’d at least notice that?
Maybe?
I ha...
2024-06-09 23:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostI wake up in my own bed.
I call it my own because on the rare occasion it’s used, I’m the only one using it.
Boredom.
I understand it now.
Every day is the same. Exactly, exhaustingly same.
There’s only so many times you can exterminate entire cities of mortals before it feels like all you do.
And so I stopped.
…
And then, I slept.
W...
2024-06-09 23:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostShe just watches from a distance now.
My wife I mean. The one I can still reach.
If I wanted to.
…
For a time, she’d float near me. Wherever I went, she was there. But over time, the distance between us grew.
And eventually, she stopped entirely.
The most contact we have now is the bonds. Our link. And all it radiates is disappointment. Despair.
A p...
2024-06-09 23:35:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Plenty o’ them know, yaknow.”
The obnoxious god of betrayal has been sitting smugly across from me making snide comments for the entire – albeit brief – time that I’ve been here.
“If you’re a proper example of this crowd then I’m not at all surprised. I shouldn’t have expected any kind of help from the dark pantheon, or any god to begin with. You’re all wrap...
And yet somehow, this only seems to increase the flow of idiots being led to my throne room.
…
I can’t help but wonder if having me obliterate the humans simplifies Vivianne’s handling of state affairs, and that’s why it keeps happening… either that or adventurers and settlers have figured out that they can, in fact, get an audience with the local goddess if they only make...
2024-06-09 23:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s been some time now, and Sekhmet has been a decent subordinate. All I need to do is ensure she has plenty of time to dote on her son and she stays… well, happy enough.
…
“You’re young, aren’t you?”
“Eh?” she blurts.
“Don’t worry,” I continue, “it’s just a guess. Obviously you’re at least old enough to have a child, but… you act more li...
2024-05-28 12:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostTwo sponsors, she said. Two.
Eris herself will be one of them, of course.
And oddly enough, another stepped forward… a name I know.
Sekhmet.
Why? I think it’s obvious.
She wants her son back, and she thinks I have the influence to make it happen. Except…
“You do realize grandmother more tolerates me than dotes on me, right?”
“Maybe,” the g...
2024-05-28 12:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostWe sit in silence for a moment. Well, I’m standing, but it doesn’t matter.
And then I say, “First of all, I’m not Nyx, she is; and second… I don’t really care.”
Erebus stares back with a dumbfounded expression.
“So really, is that all you’ve got? Everything? This is your big revenge or whatever? Kind of falls flat, doesn’t it? In fact, if I’...
2024-05-28 12:37:22 +0000 UTC View Post…Which he promptly did, but not before squeezing the promise of a favor of some kind for the future out of me.
Whatever. If I don’t like it, I’ll just eat him. I should just eat him now, except…
He’s already gone. The god of betrayal brought me here, and I didn’t even have time to blink before he vanished with a chuckled “Good luck!”
Taking in my...
She stares slack-jawed for a moment before answering.
“That… that shouldn’t have happened.”
“Well, obviously,” I retort. “She’s supposed to be here, and she’s not. So?”
It vaguely occurs to me that the only person present that doesn’t look surprised is my fox wife… but I don’t have time to deal with that right now, I’ve got much mo...
2024-05-17 01:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post…But before that, I guess I should do a few more things… at least to keep myself busy.
We’d decided that nightfall would be the most thematically appropriate time, after all… not that we can tell when that is here in the constant night.
At least Izahne can tell, just like she always has. And just like always, we got up together this ‘morning’ after she was do...
2024-05-17 01:40:46 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, the hero is quite a bit weaker in her training with Izzy. Level 0 is definitely something not to… underestimate? No, that’s not the right word…
Anyway, it looks like we’re starting from scratch, almost. At least she still has her dagger Skill. That should be useful for her new ‘holy weapon’. Not that it’s actually holy or whatever… it’s constantly drippin...
2024-05-09 12:35:04 +0000 UTC View PostApparently, it’s a lot easier than I’d have thought to make a hero. It’s mostly just being dramatic and putting on a show.
…And also giving a mortal a title – not even a Title! – as well as some kind of ‘imbued object’, basically a symbol tied to the god in question somehow.
I know just the object, though I guess it’s probably a lot more tied to Astraea than it is ...
2024-05-01 12:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostFamily.
What exactly is family?
I don’t know, and that’s fine.
But Eleonor has started calling me ‘big sister’ or ‘dear sister’ and so forth, and…
Somehow, that doesn’t bother me. It actually feels kind of… nice? Although I don’t understand why.
She follows me around now when she’s not in the dungeon or training, not so unlike Omorth or s...
I’ll admit that it’s entertaining watching Eleonor have absolutely no idea what she’s supposed to do with a teacup. So far she’s stared at it confusedly, spilled it on herself while failing to pick it up with her claws, and coughed and sputtered on the unexpected flavor.
“So you’ve… you’ve really never taken tea before, then?” I say, successfully holding back a chuckle....