Listening to Luna proudly tell me about her exploits during the night felt like a knife, stabbing deeply into my gut. How could I tell her that I had watched the whole thing and had done nothing, h...
2023-12-15 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Waking up was not a fun experience. After the declaration of Hestia, Lady Hecate kept me in Her realm for an undefined amount of time, it had felt like days, talking to me. Most of the talks were f...
2023-12-13 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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After the battle, I pointedly waited a few more hours, so I returned at just the same time as usual. There wasn’t any real reaction to my return, everyone was far too focused on the joy of having...
2023-12-11 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Watching the patrol spot the incoming Undead and start to panic was strangely disconcerting. I had set this in motion, knowing full well that they would get into trouble and likely panic but watchi...
2023-12-09 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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When the first of the Undead managed to push itself far enough through the thorny brambles Luna had conjured, there was a moment of hesitation. It was one thing to throw stones at the Undead or lau...
2023-12-08 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Movement, and lots of it. Movement, where there should be no movement, enough to be easily visible in the dim light of the full moon. There was no question about it, nor did any of the five people ...
2023-12-06 17:00:15 +0000 UTC
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Having a plan come together was deeply satisfying. It wasn’t just the satisfaction of solving a problem, there was a sense of achievement that went deeper. I was changing things in the world, I w...
2023-12-05 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Working on my program to control a Shattered over a fairly long time took more effort than I had initially anticipated. It wasn’t just a question of putting down tasks, one after the other, I als...
2023-12-02 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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With more experimentation came more data, allowing me to rapidly advance my understanding of this particular subdiscipline of Mind Magic. It also granted me multiple skill points, namely five in Mi...
2023-12-01 17:00:20 +0000 UTC
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Watching the Shattered tear into the Undead was quite interesting. I hadn’t really considered how two serious brutes would fight, neither of them showed any obvious pain, nor did it look like the...
2023-11-29 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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With an idea of how to motivate the people here, I now had to turn that idea into a workable plan, before turning that plan into reality. Given that my idea was fairly simple, the plan was similarl...
2023-11-27 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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There was something deeply amusing about the expressions some people made when they stumbled across my lessons for Luna. At least some of the lessons, somehow the magical lessons barely drew a rais...
2023-11-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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After experiencing the sewage treatment plant and its slimy inhabitant, we focused on less exciting things. Mainly, training the two students I had promised to help while studying the findings of t...
2023-11-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Something had to be wrong with the world, there was no other explanation for the strongest individual enemy we faced thus far to be a literal pile of shit. Once the slime was completely frozen, tha...
2023-11-24 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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My attacks on the massive slime were enough to get its attention, and not in a good way. Where before, I had been forced to dodge a missile every so often, now almost a dozen pseudopods were throwi...
2023-11-22 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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For a moment, I considered charging into the pool room. There were easily a dozen pseudopods coming out of the treatment pool, all of them long enough to reach every corner, nook and cranny of the ...
2023-11-20 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Some questions simply shouldn’t be asked, just because they dared the multiverse to answer them. Sadly, I doubted I’d ever internalise that message, I’d always ask the question and search for...
2023-11-19 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Somehow, I should have seen this coming.
Just getting a direction, alongside a rough estimation of distance was far too easy. No, instead of venturing into the city, or at least along its bor...
2023-11-18 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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It was a fucking mess. While his mother would cuff him over the head for swearing, there was simply no other way to describe it than with a healthy amount of f-bombs and related swear words. It had...
2023-11-17 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Once again, I sat quietly on my throne, the familiar setting helping a great deal with my mentality. There had to be a way to communicate with the Grandmother directly, allowing us to exchange word...
2023-11-15 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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It was with a savage grin that I watched Sonja send yet another arrow into the distance, striking down one of the Undead in the city. Her bow remained crap, nothing more than a branch, slightly ben...
2023-11-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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It was fascinating just how invested people could become if they saw what was possible. It only took a few days to have Sonja and Lars show fairly impressive results, with Sonja almost naturally fa...
2023-11-11 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It didn’t take long for Sonja to make her decision. In fact, after I made the offer, she didn’t even leave the room, she only talked for a few moments with the boy I had thrown into the Astral ...
2023-11-10 17:00:11 +0000 UTC
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Maybe there was something to be said about brute force. For some reason, maybe because it had been a bit of a sink-or-swim situation, the boy I had originally thrown into the Astral River had attai...
2023-11-08 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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If I was to be honest with myself, I could have left Lia to catch some more sleep. But, sadly for her, I was not that nice, not today, not after getting woken up far too early. Instead, I made sure...
2023-11-06 17:00:10 +0000 UTC
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For some people, sleeping until noon was supposed to be the height of decadence, a lifestyle only the idle or seriously wealthy could afford. For others, it was simply the norm, brought about by th...
2023-11-04 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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It sounded so easy when said in the light of the sun or while far away from the horrors of the night. Just sneak in, throw a few rocks at different...
2023-11-03 17:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Right after entering the living area of these people, I made a mental, executive decision and spoke up.
“Before we start speaking, I would make you an offer and hope that you do not refuse,...
2023-11-01 17:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Pacing, as so often, was quite important. We didn’t want to move quickly, didn’t want to suggest we were in a hurry or truly cared about meeting these people. But at the same time, we needed to...
2023-10-30 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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We were in the middle of smashing through another small group of Undead and Shattered, with Luna doing most of the smashing when I noticed movement up ahead. Deliberate, fairly swift movement, not ...
2023-10-29 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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