After sealing his compact with the elders of Three Fields, the atmosphere had turned raucous and celebratory. Beer flowed like water, and the deer that he and Porkchop had slain earlier in the day ...
2024-12-13 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey sat there, on that lonely hill that held Father’s final rest, until the sun started to go down.
It was cathartic in many ways, even if it was painful. He’...
2024-12-12 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a picturesque spot, his fathers final resting place.
Maybe a twenty minute walk from Three Fields, along one of the dirt trails that wound their way through the farms that f...
2024-12-11 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius slumped, leaning bodily against Porkchop as a wave of grief washed over him. He felt boneless, sapped of all energy.
Yet, it was almost a relief. To know. He’d suspec...
2024-12-10 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as Kaius mentioned that he had become Observed by the system for consuming a Natural Treasure, the table erupted.
Each and every one started talking over eac...
2024-12-09 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stiffened slightly as he walked through the open door of the Stout Oak, though he did not break stride. He had a lot of memories in this place.
Of the leather wrapped b...
2024-12-08 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius spun his old friend through the air, smiling in joy as he set her down on her feet. She didn’t let go.
Illendra clutched him like her grip was the only thing keeping...
2024-12-07 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post*Ding! level 3 Red Deer slain - Experience Gained!*
*Ding! Runeblade Initiate has reached class level 3!*
Kaius craned upwards, squeezing Porkchop with his thighs so that he could rise to his full height. From his vantage point astride his brother’s back, he was just able to see through...
2024-12-05 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSome time in the near past…
Ianmus shifted his grip on his staff. Though its surface was smooth and comfortable to hold, it was still a little knobbly, and after so much...
2024-12-04 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment Kaius was standing at the peak of a dwarven citadel deep below the earth, then the world shifted, blurring for a few mind-bending fractions of a second as he was torn along an i...
2024-12-03 18:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius lurched towards his brother, laying his hands on the dense and gore drenched fur that coated the meles’ thick muscle-bound form. He felt his brother's physique straining, fibr...
2024-12-02 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostPorkchop left the den, following closely behind the Matriarch as she led the way through the deep forest. It was identical to how he remembered it. Tree trunks, thick enough that ...
2024-12-01 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostPorkchop groaned, stretching as he felt the cold stone of the dwarven city disappear from beneath his paws, replaced in an instant with the familiar grit of hard packed dirt. If not for Kaius’s w...
2024-11-30 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Kaius noticed was the thick layer of semi-dried gore that was sticking to his skin and gumming up the fine joints of his scalemail. The second was the smell, the foetid stench of st...
2024-11-29 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostStill cloaked in a cowl dyed the colours of the forest, Kaius’s class guide had led him away from the split boulders that had held his class skill options. It was time for him to learn his first ...
2024-11-28 20:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 124: Long Awaited Destiny pt. 7
The final split boulder was a large thing. He recognised it, a perfect duplicate of another further across the base of the slope. The same o...
2024-11-27 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaving the meadow that held the site of his class selection, Kaius and his guide had fallen into an easy silence. He appreciated that. As they walked through the giant old growth forest, wor...
2024-11-26 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius rose from his soul-space with a gasp, his eyes snapping open to take in the dense ash canopy above. Warm sunlight filtered through the green leaves, comforting him with memories of home. He w...
2024-11-25 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnraptured by the sight of a potential future, Kaius focused intensely on the words that appeared before him as he focused on the carving embedded into the trunk of the last ash.
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2024-11-24 20:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostKaius took in the status of his first option. It was easy to see why he had been offered it. Warsworn Rune-Acolyte looked to be a brutal class. He could see it suiting him well...
2024-11-24 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stared at the aged clone across from him in bald faced shock. It wanted him to do what?! It couldn’t seriously be asking him to cull all classes lower than Heroic 2024-11-23 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Kaius gasped, sitting bolt upright like he had been hit by lightning. He whirled his head around, disoriented and confused. A moment ago he had been sitting on the summit of the dwarven city, confi...
2024-11-22 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius drank in the stream of notifications. They were unlike any other communication from the system he had experienced before. They demanded his attention, soaked in layered meaning ...
2024-11-21 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius sat frozen, locked in the chair. His heart pounded in his chest, every thump straining to push blood through his system, like his vital fluid had turned to treacle. He longed to turn his head...
2024-11-20 20:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe world quaked, foundational tenets of existence shivering. Kaius felt something deep and central to his being fall silent. For the first time in his life he couldn’t feel the omnipres...
2024-11-19 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius downed the healing tonic, feeling the alchemical heat bloom in his stomach as it bolstered his reserves of Health. Glass clinked on stone as he tossed the bottle to the side and read...
2024-11-18 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostPorkchop watched through the corner of his eye as his bond-brother tore into the achilles of the ogre, working to further disable it. The Guardian didn’t take the assault without a fight, its mas...
2024-11-17 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius’s heart caught in his throat as the Siege Ogre flew across the open space between them. There might have been a stone statue between them, but the Guardian cared little, it may as well have...
2024-11-16 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe ogre opened its tusk-ridden mouth wide and bellowed a cacophonous challenge. It stood in the middle of the carved plateau that made up the summit of the dwarven city, surrounded on all sides by...
2024-11-15 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post