“I said,” Maddox drawled slowly, “fancy taking a dip with me?”
“That’s what I thought I heard,” Bruce replied, trying not to look at the portal humming angrily on the ground a couple of feet to his left. “I just assumed that it was a mistake because it’s an absolutely idiotic thing to say.”
“We live in strange times,” Maddox responded, reaching into one...
2023-03-28 14:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no doubt about it. The pyramid wasn’t natural. Its walls were made of a shiny black substance that was honed to a razor’s edge. It towered over the three rovers, silent and foreboding.
The interference had gotten worse to the point that Bruce could only talk to Andy through direct contact. Any radio transmission was a garbled mess, even when the recip...
2023-03-28 14:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostOverhead, the dropship rumbled away, the light and flame of chemical thrusters sending shadows skittering across the barren landscape as it sought to clear enough room from the small group of humans and equipment to activate its much more powerful fusion drive en route back to orbit.
“Sierra Charlie 81 here, we have touchdown”
Team leader Maddox’s voice crackled over the radio...
2023-03-28 14:41:51 +0000 UTC View PostKat took a deep breath, eyes locked on the banshee glider as it sailed in between the trees. As soon as their team came up with a plan, Stekat had produced a set of herbs that would mask her scent. Apparently, they were fairly standard and easy to produce for players with the Tamer class. After all, they needed to have the ability to sneak up on the animals that they were tryi...
2023-02-25 20:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt was surprisingly easy to leave Vereton. The defenders were beginning to push the bandit forces out, but chaos still reigned. Buildings burned and humans mourned their fallen. If the previous attack had been a disaster, this one was a cataclysm. Even with the City’s practitioners working full time it would take months for things to return to anything approaching norm...
2023-02-17 18:59:58 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 4, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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“By the mysteries,” Rose said, shaking her head. “I recognized that water magu...
2023-02-17 18:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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A blast of wind caught Percival throwing the young man across the room in the blink ...
2023-02-14 19:45:27 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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Samazzar blew through the entryway. Furniture and paperwork covered most surfa...
2023-02-12 21:09:04 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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Jamise’s company barely made it a hundred paces onto the campus before they ran in...
2023-02-12 21:08:10 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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They saw the smoke before they saw Vereton. Hanging on the horizon like a smud...
2023-02-08 17:52:55 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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“Denied!”
Samazzar couldn’t tell whether Jamise or Adam shouted it first...
2023-02-04 21:36:52 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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The Knights were impressive, Samazzar had to give them that. One hundred men a...
2023-02-02 18:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Draconian
Bloodline Powers: Improved Strength+, Rending, Firebreath+
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 5, Wind (Noble) 3, Sound (Advanced) 2
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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Samazzar hurried through Vereton’s post-lunch buzz en route to the Academy. ...
2023-02-01 07:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post“I would say this is a surprise,” Mursa said cheerfully, “but I am the Goddess of truth after all.”
Micah blinked. He was everywhere and everywhen simultaneously. It should have been disorienting, but it wasn’t. Like putting on an old and comfortable shoe for the first time in months.
“I’m surprised,...
2023-01-26 07:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I would say this is a surprise,” Mursa said cheerfully, “but I am the Goddess of truth after all.”
Micah blinked. He was everywhere and everywhen simultaneously. It should have been disorienting, but it wasn’t. Like putting on an old and comfortable shoe for the first time in months.
“I’m surprised,” Luxos growled. “Don’t get me wrong, I...
2023-01-11 15:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt charged a second time, swinging its sword wildly but with such force and speed that Micah had no choice but to dodge. As heavily enchanted as his spear was, it had no chance against the bolt of frozen soul power that the Prince was somehow using as a weapon.
His body was battered and weak. The battle against the luoca flock had been taxing, and the attack from the daemon’...
2023-01-11 15:07:53 +0000 UTC View PostWind whipped past Micah’s face as he raced through the air. The rest of the team was flying behind him, near enough that he could help them if necessary, but far enough away for Micah to fight freely. Already a half dozen of the bird monsters and a single brensen had tried to attack them, but the combined ranged attacks of the entire group was more than enough to make short work o...
2023-01-11 15:07:15 +0000 UTC View PostMicah gripped his spear with his right hand, grasping hold of the scepter with his left in order to take mental control over two of the crystal spears that sat in the bandoleer on his back.
“So Princess,” he said tightly, eyes locked on the battle fortress. “Do we have a contingency plan for this?”
Onboard the floating castle, groups of forgotten began tipping what loo...
2023-01-11 15:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle unfolded in slow motion as Micah watched. Squares of soldiers, each a thousand strong, marched from both sides toward the river, forming battle lines on its banks to prevent the other side from finding a shallow stretch and chancing a crossing. Periodically the flash of spells or blessing erupted as the forces on opposite banks tossed attacks at each other, but they rarel...
2023-01-11 15:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostMicah’s horse fidgeted underneath him, spooked by the giant war lizard to his right. He wasn’t sure whether or not the monster was a mutation of something natural or dungeon-born, but now that he knew what to look for, it was clear that it had a faint taste of Elsewhere on its ponderous body.
Atop the creature sat a palanquin made from rare wood and silk. Micah didn’t ha...
2023-01-11 15:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostOne shout calling for a runner to alert the rest of the army later, and Micah was off. He abandoned his horse, casting Flight on himself, Leeka, Drekt, Trevor, Esther and Eris and taking to the air. The spell cost some mana, but it was faster than a horse. Maybe not on the thick paving stones of the highway they had been taking to the border, but over open sand, the s...
2023-01-11 15:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post“I appreciate the horses,” Trevor prattled, “but given that you’re somehow best friend with Sandrovok’s royal family, would carriages have been too much to ask for?”
Micah pursed his lips. The entire Silver Wolves guild was mounted, a not insignificant expense in time of peace and prosperity, but now?
Ahead of them were the first and second battalions of Sandrovok...
2023-01-11 15:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostThey opened their eyes. The world swirled around them, the metallic tang of mana attacking their senses. They were on their back, cold stones digging into their shoulder-blades and spine.
“Micah!” A voice was calling a name. Both were familiar.
Click. They could hear the sound of their eyelids closed as they blinked. All of their senses were o...
2023-01-01 00:16:25 +0000 UTC View PostKarin flinched as one of the wards on her anti scrying bracelet flared to life. Temporal and soul magic. Rare magics on their own, but unheard of together.
She set down her pen, leaving the notebook where she had been performing calculations. Her ritual could wait. Right now, someone was trying to spy on her, and they were using methods rare enough that Karin wasn...
2023-01-01 00:15:44 +0000 UTC View PostKylie opened her eyes. The room was warm, the large fireplace crackling with flames despite the summer heat assured that.
She sat up slowly, bones creaking in protest against the movement. Her blanket fell away revealing wrinkled skin and thin night clothes that almost seemed a full size too large for her frail body.
They had fit once. Years ago when Kylie had first begu...
2023-01-01 00:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostSnow. It fell gently from the sky, drifting in the garden outside while Victoria stoked the fire. Andres lifted his morning tea to his mouth, taking a sip and smiling at the peaceful scene outside.
Grene’s Corner wasn’t a large village. 500 or so citizens lived in the town proper while another 1000 lived in the surrounding countryside, farming rice in the Raan valley...
2023-01-01 00:14:17 +0000 UTC View PostMicah twisted his hands together impatiently. Servants were bringing in another stack of reagents, piling crystal rods and candles rendered from the tallow of powerful monsters onto a nearby table. At his feet, 20 chunks of glass, all pulled from the desert sand after his fight with the greater daemon, sat at the center of a ritual circle. The glass was covered in runes, the f...
2023-01-01 00:13:37 +0000 UTC View PostMicah’s spear flashed upward, blowing a hole in the luoca’s torso. It blinked at him once in surprise before collapsing to the sand beside him.
He rolled to his feet, fighting through the wave of vertigo that washed over him. Daemons raged across the abandoned village. Half of the huts were burning and lay half destroyed as the nobles fought furiously amidst the flic...
2023-01-01 00:12:58 +0000 UTC View Post“No,” Dakkora replied, barely suppressing an eye roll. “I am not an evil spirit haunting our crown that is trying to possess your body.”
“I apologize,” she continued, slipping to a seat in one of the couches, “I said that we were smart enough to know what was going on, but apparently I was wrong. I failed to account for the fact that at times, you’re as clueles...
2023-01-01 00:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe madame, a sixty year old woman with gray hair and crafty eyes, ushered the two of them into a sitting room.
Micah frowned, he couldn’t remember having ever been in a better furnished room than he was right now, but at the same time, everything seemed… tawdry? The couches were overstuffed, the colors were too bright, and most of the artwork had uneven brush strokes here or th...
2023-01-01 00:11:23 +0000 UTC View Post