I pulled the ancient door open by the mask-shaped handle. Every other person in the room stiffened as they stared straight ahead. Jen grabbed my shoulder, Kaivai’s forehead creased, and Tarsus tu...
2021-03-06 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPrince Chadrigoth of the Diabolus Diaboli, of the Eritreus Elite, stood with the First Cohort in the massive entryway of the Mines of Madness. The walls were chiseled stone, any moisture frozen int...
2021-03-01 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven without Ed the Rot Troll livening up the Shadowcroft Academy, the next day dawned bright and glorious. Logan was glad for that morning’s intense training with Rockheart, though he did have t...
2021-02-26 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was about to say something to Inga, to try and make her feel better, when Tet beat him to it. “I can understand your worry, Inga. However, keep in mind, this is a controlled environment. Ar...
2021-02-24 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe crypt should have been spooky—the flickering green light, the whisper of shrouds, the bodies and skulls—but Logan found the space rather comforting. Morta Apothos hung heavy in the air like...
2021-02-22 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Morsheim isn’t so bad, once you get used to it. I’m not saying I’d want to spend my vacations there, but it would be tolerable if I wasn’t dead.
As it was, I was being dragged and my ...
2021-02-20 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLogan, Marko, and Treacle walked out of the DIE portal and found themselves at the entrance of the Blasted Barrows, the southernmost dungeon on Arborea. Rough-hewn stones were piled into an archway...
2021-02-18 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was able to get his cohort back in the Akros Coliseum that night after dinner, but no one was happy about it. Even Inga was less than thrilled and she loved training and unnecessary work. But...
2021-02-16 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA thousand thoughts raced through Roark’s head as he stared at the place the Tyrant King had been moments before. So tantalizingly close. The bastard had been here, right in his grasp, and he’d...
2021-02-16 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sudden shift in the Vault seemed to have jarred Lowen’s troops into action, quickly transforming the tense duel into a chaotic free-for-all. The remaining Heralds went on the attack, assailin...
2021-02-15 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe timer on Roark’s Draconic Form spiraled down to zero, and he dropped to the floor, stumbling a few steps before catching himself.
“What’s the matter, trash?” Lowen taunted, beatin...
2021-02-14 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostRandy meant to just jump right into a Deep Dive POD as soon as he made it to the VIP lounge and changed into the sensory suit. The Griefer needed him, the fate of several worlds hung in the balance...
2021-02-13 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe tank ran out of shells in the corridor just outside the Vault of the Radiant Shield’s throne room. It could blast its way no farther. Likely for the best, Roark thought. Between the tank’s ...
2021-02-12 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMarek Konig Ustar, better known to all of Traisbin as the Tyrant King, felt the snap of unbinding the moment the World Stone came free of that cur von Graf’s soul. Though the sensation filled him...
2021-02-11 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was happy to be in a desk and not loitering like a hobo in a toolshed. But just seeing Professor Nekhbet made Logan sleepy. The classroom’s windows showed a bright blue sky outside the cent...
2021-02-11 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe bombing started while Randy was typing furiously at his workstation. His books slumped on the shelf, everything from Rational Database Theory and Applications to Refactoring s...
2021-02-10 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe allied dungeon mobs weren’t the only ones feeling the rush of optimism as Roark and his troops blasted their way through the golden corridors of the Heralds’ lair. All this time, Roark hadn...
2021-02-09 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan hit his moldy bed in his new room with a glad heart. He laid on his back, in the gloom, everything cast in a hazy purple light thanks to his Fungal Vision. Around him spun a world of glowing ...
2021-02-09 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostScott Bayani leaned against the wall, tucked away in one of the murder corbels the Griefer had added to the tops of the walls when he battle-modded out Frontflip. All in all, the changes were prett...
2021-02-08 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostRoark took a step back from the massive piece of Flash he had just Tattooed onto the front armor plate of the tank—a skeleton finfolk woman with sparrow’s wings jutting up from her back, long h...
2021-02-06 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I looked at Nil’s unsettling red eyes, full lips, and shark’s-tooth smile and said, “You can put me down, now.”
“Are you sure?” it said.
“Positive.”
“Because it...
2021-02-06 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRather than return to the encampment outside the Vault of the Radiant Shield, Roark had used the portal stone to transport himself, Mac, and the tank to the open grassland he’d crossed with Zyra ...
2021-02-05 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe groans of the injured filled the makeshift infirmary as Roark, Kaz, and a few humans from this dimension passed up and down the rows, handing out—and in some particularly severe cases adminis...
2021-02-04 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChadrigoth of the Diabolus Diaboli, of the Eritreus Elite, hadn’t been in a good mood since he’d tried to kill Logan Murray and terrible cohort the year before. Things hadn’t improved since t...
2021-02-04 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLowen was in no mood for bad news when he returned to the Vault of the Radiant Shield. That von Graf bastard had found some new way to cheat—altering the entire structure of Frontflip Studios and...
2021-02-03 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving behind half the defenders under the leadership of Grozka and Pang, Roark took Kaz, Randy, and the rest of the troops from the newly christened Shieldwall and crept through the tunnel under ...
2021-02-02 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan had help getting his things down into the bottom of the Ladder Hole, which was yes, four rooms stacked on top of one another connected by a ladder set into the stone wall. Logan couldn’t be...
2021-02-02 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe CEO’s throne turned out to be a bit of a letdown after the various thrones Roark had claimed in the Cruel Citadel. It was little more than a stark if comfortable chair with sleek black uphols...
2021-02-01 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter loading his Inventory with as many Peerless weapons and as much armor as he could carry, Roark took the portal plate from the Troll Nation Marketplace back to the encampment around the Vault ...
2021-01-30 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostScott Bayani finished up in the first-floor men’s room, then headed for the cafeteria, taking a couple practice swings with the bat as he went. The halls were plenty wide. He got the full follow-...
2021-01-29 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post