Health Update
It seems we're still carrying a lot of the weight of 2024 into 2025.
We've been struggling with our health on and off for a few weeks now, with L and I going through alternating periods of wh...
2025-04-20 11:17:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Lester Yong & Rosa Fontelera-Yong posts
CoESC Book 16-18.3: The Cape Life
An Invisible Edge slashed into the base of the tentacles that were about to pulp Multiman but unexpectedly, her Edge barely managed to carve an inch into the shadowy stuff before it got snuffed. Fr...
2025-04-20 09:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-18.2: The Cape Life
Yuriko couldn’t help herself. She just floated above the fighting, about fifty paces away, and just watched. She perched on top of a tenement building five storeys high. It had a flat roof and a ...
2025-04-15 16:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-18.1: The Cape Life
Yuriko flew about five hundred paces above the ground in a brand new cape costume. It was a form-fitting outfit, black tights, a red half skirt that fell down to just below her knees, a whi...
2025-04-14 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-17.3: Loose Ends
Her entire foray didn’t take more than a couple of hours, but by the time she returned to her apartment, Captain Hays still had not replied. She sent the same message to the HAMA club captain, Wa...
2025-04-13 07:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-17.2: Loose Ends
Yuriko pressed down on Scarlett with her Anima, holding her in place. The woman shrieked, but the sound didn’t propagate past her aura. She pulled the girl closer and touched her forehead.
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2025-04-10 13:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-17.1: Loose Ends
The trip to return across five biomes took a lot less time than their initial exploration. Yuriko walked absentmindedly while she used her perception slivers to keep a careful watch of their surrou...
2025-04-10 13:20:38 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-16.3: A Delver's Daily Life
The Radiant flame tornado roared to the skies. The grey storm clouds dispersed revealing pale blue skies. The tornado rose beyond the clouds and roughly a league above. There it hit a…ceiling. Th...
2025-04-07 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-16.2: A Delver's Daily Life
The giant golem was suddenly visible in the distance. The storm pulled back the snow just enough that there was a clear corridor between Yuriko and the monster, and the aftereffect of its prodigiou...
2025-04-07 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-16.1: A Delver's Daily Life
Yuriko felt the Arclight Crescent stop midway into the golem’s body. Since it was infused with Intent, Radiance, and Bladeless Sword, she was well and truly connected with the attack. So she felt...
2025-04-05 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-15.3: Expeditions
“Are we still going south?” Yuriko asked once they reached the relative center of the biome.
The hills made it a bit harder to make sure, and only her perception sliver could actually sen...
2025-04-02 17:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-15.2: Expeditions
“Where and when?” Yuriko asked.
“On the 14th,” Zach answered quickly. “A town west of Neo Prism, almost in the next state, actually. Nordham, along route 16. ...
2025-04-02 16:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-15.1: Expeditions
The two men, despite belonging to different factions, equally stiffened and reddened in outrage. The first one, who had rudely told Yuriko and Carina to leave, choked on his own vitriol as ...
2025-03-31 15:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-14.3: Internal Pressures
Yuriko’s perception aura spread across the biome. It was supposed to be a couple of longstrides across, and it was an irregular shape, according to the map. It was mostly flat and covered...
2025-03-31 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-14.2: Internal Pressures
Yuriko: Made a new friend. Headed to the planet to test delve. Don’t wait up, might take a while.
Gwendith: Sure. Stay safe. Bring your new friend when you come back. Heron...
2025-03-28 13:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-14.1: Internal Pressures
The holdup ahead caused by a commotion stalled the people on the floatway, and their immediate reaction was to drop to the ground. But of course, that was everyone’s reaction, so instead ...
2025-03-27 13:59:56 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-13.3: Shangria
“Heron, you and Saki look for a hotel. Gwen, can you check how currency works here?” Yuriko said as soon as they had some privacy in the lift. The car was just about big enough to easil...
2025-03-24 15:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-13.2: Shangria
From the edge of the Shangria System, it took nearly a couple of days to actually approach close enough to make out what the planet looked like. Yuriko had been mistaken. It wasn’t an orbital rin...
2025-03-24 15:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-13.1: Shangria
Beholden Flower of the Sun’s Desire ripped her way through the intervening Veils. Her mind was torn and weary from the long journey where she couldn’t rest, and more importantly, from f...
2025-03-24 14:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-12.3: Turning Point and Departures
It took several weeks sailing in the Void Ocean to cross districts and quadrants. The resource planet Yuriko and the others protected was in the Draconian sector and crossing that vast dist...
2025-03-20 14:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-12.2: Turning Point and Departures
Gwendith stroked Yuriko’s hair as the pair lounged in bed. She preened under her lover’s fingers as they kneaded her scalp. Her long hair, which would have been unmanageable considering...
2025-03-17 15:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-12.1: Turning Point and Departures
Scarlett was unconscious, but Yuriko didn’t let that stop her. The other jail cells had the rest of the defeated club members, but she didn’t have an accurate count. Troubling as it was, she kn...
2025-03-17 14:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-11.3: A Game of Life and Death
A few minutes after Lilibeth Lawson exited the antechamber, the faceless man came in. In his hand was a smartphone with a video feed of that girl zooming through the tunnels, at a speed that was im...
2025-03-17 13:44:46 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-11.2: A Game of Life and Death
“Don’t say I didn’t warn you~!”
The voice came from a different point in space, and though it was already within Yuriko’s reach, she didn’t notice the micro speakers until the sou...
2025-03-17 13:37:35 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-11.1: A Game of Life and Death
Dragging the unconscious bird woman along, Yuriko checked her connection with Scarlett. It wasn’t as muffled as before, and she assumed that the other girl was unconscious, but just a few moments...
2025-03-08 14:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-10.3: Determined Pursuit
When she stepped through the hole in reality, Yuriko didn’t really know what to expect. She posited that they would be like a Fysalli, which shaped itself around the visitor’s perceptions while...
2025-03-06 12:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-10.2: Determined Pursuit
Lightfoot dragged Soundwave behind her as they hurried to the danger zone. It was sheer luck, or maybe misfortune depending on how she thought about it, that she and her partners were travelling so...
2025-03-05 13:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-10.1: Determined Pursuit
Yuriko’s flight was just as fast as running, but it had the added benefit of being able to bypass the twists and turns of the zigzagging mountain road and whatever other obstacles stood in her wa...
2025-03-03 13:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostCoESC Book 16-9.3: Unfettered Whims
The presence of the surviving staff was a shackle for Yuriko that kept her from going all out. She could just as easily disregard their lives and either ignore the lionesses and leave or fight with...
2025-03-03 13:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostQuick Update!
Just letting everyone know that yes, there will be chapters tonight. :D
That said though, we've been having steady health concerns offline so to get a little more rest in, we'll be taking a b...
2025-03-03 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post