Given the uncertainty with the group around Jack, I decided that a bit of a distraction would be a good idea. According to the plans they had given us, it would be about a week until they’d be ab...
2024-08-31 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI had no real idea how to approach the conversation with Lia. It was a somewhat strange situation and I wasn’t sure how to deal with it. Normally, if somebody more than ten years older than my da...
2024-08-30 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sadly, I messed up and accidentally skipped a chapter that'd have given some background on Jack and the gang. I only noticed now, as I was checking a few things while writi...
2024-08-29 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostJust the idea of getting lessons was enough to thoroughly intrigue Daniel, to the point that he suddenly resembled Silva when the last piece of roasted meat was up for grabs. Just his transition fr...
2024-08-28 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostKnowing that there was a group of survivors moving into our tower, I made my way downstairs, moving as fast as I could while remaining quiet. I didn’t want to appear hurried, I wanted to project ...
2024-08-26 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostInstead of taking a closer look at the camping party, we quietly decided to continue onwards to our tower. From there, I could use a scrying construct to covertly observe these people, without taki...
2024-08-24 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter yet another exciting night of careful exploration, we were heading back to our tower. It was quite fascinating just how diverse the conglomerate city was and how many different parts there we...
2024-08-23 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWalking along one of the walkways they had installed between the partially crumbled buildings, Jack was staring into the distance. Something, a small part of his mind insisted, had changed about th...
2024-08-21 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostCareful exploration of Denver Springs’ outskirts failed to reveal any serious or organised threat. What we managed to explore during the night, I repeatedly scanned with the Oculus, adding visual...
2024-08-19 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostApproaching Denver Springs, or whatever name I was supposed to use for this strange amalgamation of cities, was a little weird. Given our recent experience with hive-minded Shattered, we moved towa...
2024-08-17 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, just detecting that torch in the night didn’t help me much. At a vague guess, there were some twenty kilometres between my tower and that torch, so while I could observe it easily, thanks ...
2024-08-16 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Oculus, as I had dubbed the addition Lady Hecate had put atop my tower, was an incredible construction. Even knowing that Luna had only been an instrument for Lady Hecate to work through,...
2024-08-14 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostStanding atop the tower, I couldn’t help but smile as my eyes gazed into the distance. It was finished and, if I admitted that little bit of pride, it was excellent work. The tower itself was jus...
2024-08-12 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something poetic about the way my new construction rose from the field of stone and rubble. Slowly, step by step, the devastation was pushed back and the chaos was turned into something o...
2024-08-10 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs so often, reality was sadly a far cry from my imagination. Instead of starting out right away and pulling whatever building I desired from the ground below, I had to stay realistic and ascertain...
2024-08-09 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostOur hunt for the perfect location to make our temporary home ended quite abruptly as if it had fallen off a cliff. And, to be fair, a cliff was involved at the end of our search, mostly because we ...
2024-08-07 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days, I kept trying to find a different spot to prepare our winter quarters. There were a few possible options but they all had something that made me a little leery about them. I...
2024-08-05 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs our journey continued north, we could cover more ground every night. The days were rapidly getting shorter, meaning that the nights were getting longer in turn. Additionally, the weather was inc...
2024-08-03 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe more things change, the more they stay the same. At least that held true for trudging through the muck and mud of the swamp their group was exploring. The world had changed, their bodies had ch...
2024-08-02 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostContrary to my original intention, we didn’t leave the area right away. Once again, my daughter’s curiosity mirrored my own but, for once, her tools were better suited to sate that curiosity. W...
2024-07-31 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up after falling asleep from exhaustion, be it magically caused or not, was not a fun experience. Maybe I should consider redesigning my throne into some sort of lounger or maybe turn it int...
2024-07-29 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe biggest disadvantage of the method I used to attack the Shattered was my complete and utter ignorance of the progress it was making. I had no idea whether my spell was actually achieving anythi...
2024-07-27 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostUltimately, I decided that I would take a single shot at taking out the Shattered in town and if that shot didn’t work, or rather, if it missed, we would move on and try to find another place to ...
2024-07-26 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostWith one of my plans to gather information shot, I focused on other options. Sadly, when I began to work in different mediums to create my scrying constructs, I quickly began to run into trouble. T...
2024-07-24 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe biggest problem with the plan to take out the Shattered in town and investigate what made them special was that we needed to know where they actually hid. Currently, we only knew that they coul...
2024-07-22 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Maybe we should try going in hard,” Lia suggested after we had tried to scare up a Shattered or two without completely exposing us in the process. By now, after a little over a month of repeat...
2024-07-20 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostCapturing more Shattered for experimentation turned out to be an ongoing challenge, as they adapted to the different methods I could employ to capture one of their number. Soon, the only way to get...
2024-07-19 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Fascinating,” I couldn’t help but mutter, as my eyes scanned the strange plant Luna and Alex had made. It was unlike anything I had ever seen before, both from a purely optical point of view...
2024-07-17 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell could have done this?” the man now only known as Helos asked his leader, Lorgar, or, as they had started to call him, Legate Lorgar. He had been the one to forge the original, di...
2024-07-15 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostSitting comfortably in our lair, after I had returned without the Shattered I had planned to bring back as a test subject, I was thinking about my earlier failure. The behaviour of the Shattered an...
2024-07-13 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post