Lloyd mumbled as he watched Albert disappear from sensor range and approach the Pillar. Something had disturbed the sensors, before it too disappeared into the alien structure.
“There it is...
2023-07-06 15:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert began to perform the sequence of mental procedures necessary to successfully teleport. He went through them all with incredible speed, quicker than he had ever managed to, or even thought po...
2023-07-05 12:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert watched it all unfold in slow-motion. The dragon roared, and its breath attack was unleashed upon the BSA camp. The military was shooting everything they had at it, but the breath simply obl...
2023-07-05 12:40:33 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s a stupid plan. It might work.” Lloyd said. “Do it.”
Albert laughed. He took out the rocket launcher, both it and its explosive missiles having been upgraded as much as possibl...
2023-07-03 13:42:52 +0000 UTC View PostSamantha and Lloyd Cromwell both sat in the control room, watching the live video feed coming from a series of cameras embedded in Albert’s combat gear. He had been given every possible tool they...
2023-07-02 12:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostAfter seeing that there had been no naturally occurring daily quest for more than a day, Albert literally tried blackmailing the system into giving him one. The system did not budge. Which meant th...
2023-06-30 14:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert arrived at the Lair before noon. He found his mother working on the computers in the newly retrofitted Control Room, connecting a multitude of devices and rearranging the many things in ther...
2023-06-29 22:48:31 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert decided to walk his way back to the Lair instead of teleporting. A lot happened and he needed some alone time to unwind, to come to grips with all the new changes and, honestly, to regain a ...
2023-06-28 18:21:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert felt the cold, wooden arms of the last surviving dryad wrap around his body from behind like a deadly embrace. He barely had time to realize the predicament he was in before the dryad began ...
2023-06-26 23:34:39 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert saw reality recede back from him, the world growing distant as if he was driving backwards into a long, dark tunnel. He felt tired. He wanted to sleep.
No.
Not like this.
H...
2023-06-24 16:48:30 +0000 UTC View PostElvenhome village and the Lair were located at the two opposite ends of a narrow valley between tall impassable mountains. The valley itself hosted a variety of ecosystems. There was a conifer fore...
2023-06-23 15:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostSamantha Cromwell was, until recently, a woman of two opposites.
On the work side of things, she was ruthless and merciless. She never stopped at anything in order to achieve her goals, no ma...
2023-06-22 11:01:28 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert paced around the Lair, nursing what must have been the worst and most persistent headache he had ever had. If this was what happened after only one use of an unstable skill, he didn...
2023-06-20 16:41:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe car ride seemed to stretch on forever. The bland, flat fields devoid of any natural life after the strange freezes of the last few weeks were brown and barren. The road was bumpy and the asphal...
2023-06-18 14:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostNobody knew of the existence of the biolab.
“You sure it’s safe?” Albert asked.
“Yep.” The Lair replied through the phone, in a similar way to how it used to communicate with ...
2023-06-15 20:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe heavy slab of concrete began to move after a loud hiss signaled that the mechanisms inside had awakened. Lloyd Cromwell took a step back from the keypad and stared at the moving door with a sur...
2023-06-14 16:00:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe day Albert dreaded finally arrived.
“What should we watch?” He asked, fiddling with the hard drive plugged into his television.
Marc was sitting on the sofa, staring into nothin...
2023-06-13 17:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe fundamentals of the new skill the system wanted Albert to learn, Dodge, were all about being fluid like water. About emptying the mind and letting the unconscious take over, trusting one’s in...
2023-06-12 12:10:28 +0000 UTC View PostThird chapter of the pre-weekend burst of three!
***
Since he had time to waste before having to return home, Albert decided to move on to the other item in his agenda. Considering that...
2023-06-08 20:23:18 +0000 UTC View PostThere was an office on the 92nd floor of one of the tallest buildings in Temalas City. And inside that office was a large man, built like a tank yet wearing a blue suit and tie, standing by the win...
2023-06-08 20:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostQuest: Coreful Setup Complete!
· The Quadrangle core is now in your possession, but after it was removed from its cradle it fell i...
2023-06-08 20:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostNew Quest: Leviathan Diversion II
· Acquire AM-III glass.
· Reward: Minor ring of protection upgrade.
“It’s a very part...
2023-06-07 20:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostThank you to all new patrons ^^
Quest: Leviathan Diversion I Complete!
· Acquire 25 kilograms of pure elemental iron...
2023-06-06 16:19:45 +0000 UTC View PostThere were memories, tucked away in a remote corner of Samantha Cromwell’s mind. Memories of a childhood she could not remember, and of which she always thought little. Save for the vague recolle...
2023-06-05 20:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostSamantha Cromwell sat on one of the tall kitchen chairs, perched on it like an angry vulture, slowly sipping a glass of whiskey. She was not one to drink, and the first sip of alcohol in several mo...
2023-06-04 15:49:42 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes there are habits, customs that people follow, thinking them as absolute rules that cannot be broken, bent or negotiated. Ignoring that, in most cases, what are thought to be ironclad rule...
2023-06-03 12:22:08 +0000 UTC View PostDungeons are a strange place. Are they natural phenomena, born out of mana, or are they put there by higher powers? Are the cores sentient? The Quadrangle surely looks like it is, but nowadays AI h...
2023-06-02 14:46:43 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness cleared, and vision slowly returned. There was a magical density to the air, on this side of the portal, that was missing in the real world. Its taste was, just like on the other side, sim...
2023-06-01 13:25:41 +0000 UTC View PostFlight Oceanic 416 was several hours away from its destination of Singapore. And, it appeared for a good moment that it was destined to never arrive there. Not in one piece. Vibrations shook the ca...
2023-05-31 11:44:20 +0000 UTC View PostPeople walked about. They moved like a herd of chaotic animals, going here and there, occupying whatever spaces they were allowed to and queueing up in interminable, long lines whenever a new gate ...
2023-05-29 20:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post