So, like everywhere in the Dungeon, there are pockets that have been ‘claimed’ by the biggest and baddest monsters as their own personal hunting ground.
It makes sense, really. The...
2024-09-06 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Twelve hours before you go out again,” the healer scolded, “not a second sooner.”
“I heard you the first time. AND the second time, alright? The third just feels insulting....
2024-09-05 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMorrelia was frustrated.
“Tribune, you need to relax a little, you look like you’re going to bite someone’s head off,” her fellow Tribune, Joshen Aurelis noted.
She narro...
2024-09-04 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt took far too long for anyone to recognise just what the ants had achieved in the fifth stratum. Specifically in regards to the fortress, or nest, they constructed.
Buil...
2024-09-03 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, that sweet, Undermist scent. Did you miss it as much as I did?” MacRielly asked.
Feolin wanted to scowl and curse, but she was so pleased to see the Keep again she couldn’t ...
2024-09-02 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt is difficult to piece together a specific theme or guiding principle for the naturally occurring monsters of the fifth. This may be due to how poorly studied they are, for obvious rea...
2024-09-02 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEven if the slugs aren’t attacking me anymore, they still watch. I can feel them slithering about on the edges of my gravitational awareness, tiny little eddies in the field I can barely s...
2024-08-30 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, that encounter was only the beginning of my Krath concerns. I start to see signs of them everywhere I look. Slime trails on the walls, but when I try to follow them, there’s a little crack...
2024-08-29 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA ro’klaw was, at its best, an ill-tempered brute of a semi-monstrous bird. It had a beak capable of cutting through steel mesh, claws that could shred a human's flesh with casual ease, an...
2024-08-29 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWell, well, well. I’ve been cleared by the docs, and the vents have fallen silent, which means it's time to get back down to the depths as the Colony continues to take territory.
Yay....
2024-08-28 02:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t the sort of assignment Leon had anticipated when his Commander at House Greyling had called him in. As was his habit after years of hard training, he scanned the surrounds, usi...
2024-08-27 02:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt was slow at first, but accelerated quickly. The vents, which had been spewing mana directly into the heart of the Colony’s claimed territory and surrounds, reduced their output, and eve...
2024-08-27 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe are back! Whoo!
“We need more meat for the beasts,” Jozish gurbled at Zluth, her tone flat and angry.
“Of course we need more meat for the beasts,” Zl...
2024-08-26 06:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostWHOO!
I promised I would post about this ages ago, but better late than never!
The folks over at voyce.me, who mak...
2024-08-20 00:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes it’s nice to have so many brains. Also, it’s occasionally useful when those brains are capable of thinking in many directions at once. As the scary wave comes racing towards me...
2024-08-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCrinis and I hold down the tunnel, with some difficulty, I’ll admit. For my part, I cast an empowered gravity well and use it to press down everything in front of me. Any monster who attem...
2024-08-15 05:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Tyron, lad,” Magnin said, shaking his head while his mother, sat nearby atop the stone fence, shook with silent laughter. “What are you doing?”
Flushed with equal parts embarr...
2024-08-15 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPurifying the mana of the fifth was not an idea that hadn’t been tried before. In fact, there had been dozens of attempts, throughout the millennia. In fact, historical records indicated that...
2024-08-14 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“What in the name of The Queen are they doing now?” Tungstant demanded.
Cobalt turned to look behind her. The edge of the safe-zone had drawn close, much closer than either of them...
2024-08-13 03:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostSolant had built her entire campaign around one central principle: adaptability. The fifth was an unknown quantity. Who could say what the Krath were capable of, or what conditions may arise...
2024-08-13 03:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostLady Recillia Erryn sat, hands folded in her lap, her posture unthreatening and cooperative, yet the look in her eyes revealed fire and ambition raging out of control within. The very pictur...
2024-08-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNeutral ground in the fifth wasn’t really something the Krath did. The tribes were always at war, and meetings between them were always tense affairs. No tribe wanted to reveal the locatio...
2024-08-09 02:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe kin was a small, chittering thing, the size of a dog much like the ones he’d grown up around on the farm. Except this was no dog. Its face was covered in little claws, at least eight o...
2024-08-08 06:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostA thick aura of Death Magick permeated the Ossuary as Tyron continued his work. Words of power flowed from his lips and his hands weaved the arcane sigils required to give shape to the magic...
2024-08-08 04:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostHow do the Krath regard each other? There’s a very simple answer to that question: we don’t know.
As far as the Magio-Scholars of the Tower are aware, there has never ...
2024-08-08 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I told you I could make you the next Krath’lath,” Goszi spat. “All we needed was for the Slee tribe to be brought right to the edge of extinction.”
Zluth eyed the older Krat...
2024-08-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDespite all the work the Colony has put in, there are still several sections of our territory that have been cut off. I go and inspect a few of the vents myself, and the pipes are doing a go...
2024-08-06 02:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostI report back to Solant, and as always, she accepts the bad news with equanimity, as if she were expecting it all along.
In any case, I’m happy enough to leave her and the rest of th...
2024-08-06 02:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostElsbeth was marching down the corridor of Woodsedge Keep with apparent confidence. Internally, she was very stressed, but it wouldn’t do any good to show that on the surface.
...
2024-08-02 13:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Yessss! Look at them burn! Burn them all!”
Coolant watched as her fiery sibling unleashed her devastating magic upon the encroaching slime monsters. As she channeled her spells, Propella...
2024-08-02 07:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post