Re: Butterfly 3-50. Sour Gas
Quugaarpak (Male).
I don’t even know how to pronounce that, let alone what it means, Adon thought.
Samson, do you know what a Quugaarpak is? Adon as...
2025-04-20 23:10:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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Re: Butterfly 3-49. The Descent
The group moved in silence at first.
Adon was still stuck in the interaction with Rosslyn a bit at first. Even though he was no longer in the moment, there were questions he could not help as...
2025-04-20 23:08:38 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-48. Stale Cave Air
We’re not alone.
Adon’s telepathic voice cut through the darkness and reached all those around him, not just Rosslyn, the spiders, and the young lords.
“What do you mean?...
2025-04-18 23:41:21 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch45-Hail Hydra
James wanted to reply to Luna, but the System message—which also appeared to be about her—had captured his full attention.
[Your subordinate has defeated a Ruler and received the ...
2025-04-17 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch44-The Lone Wolf
The Eastern Diamondback Hydra fled across the Florida landscape, and the lone wolf followed.
Past the early days when the Queen had made some efforts to move through water and hide her tracks...
2025-04-16 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch43-The Plan Marches On
A week passed, then two.
The sense of shock that had taken hold of the members of the Council at the idea of the invasion had mostly calmed now, as time passed and nothing actually happened. ...
2025-04-15 15:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5-Interlude-The Kingdom of Heaven
Men and women walked down the streets wearing varying expressions that invariably conveyed some flavor of awe.
Some wore special head coverings or hats. Others covered their faces. And some w...
2025-04-12 16:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch42-Twelfth Night
It was twilight, the sun still below the horizon, the light still dim enough to conceal even some things right in front of one’s face.
The wind was starting to pick up. The season was chang...
2025-04-12 01:44:47 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch41-Magic Lightning
“It’s just not going to work, Mr. Roget,” Christian said.
“Explain it to me again, Christian,” Alan said resolutely. “Use small words this time. Please cut out the scientific stuf...
2025-04-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch40-Roget's War
The Fisher Expeditionary Force entered the forest cautiously.
It had been essentially constant danger and detours after they left the tortoises’ land. They were beginning to grow accustomed...
2025-04-09 04:26:56 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch39-Skill Overhaul Part 2
Berserk Mode is way too dangerous to just be sitting there in my Status sheet… right?
It was hard to be certain about this, because James was fairly cool-headed by nature, and even...
2025-04-07 03:45:13 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch38-Skill Overhaul Part 1
James finally opened his Status again. It hadn’t actually been very long, but it felt like forever—and with no meaningful progress since the last time he had checked.
Fuck, I’m fall...
2025-04-07 03:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch37-Doppelganger
James and Hester exited the dream and stayed put right where they were in Dreamspace for a short time to debrief.
“Well, that was interesting, eh?” James said, prompting Hester to begin e...
2025-04-05 19:16:11 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-47. Gold is Diamagnetic
The group finally struck the ground, and everyone sprang into action in different directions.
Adon simply deactivated mental magic while keeping Telepathy going. This would decrease the drain...
2025-04-04 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch36-The Psychic King Part 2
When the first ball of lightning hit, it was as if the battle had just begun for the first time in earnest.
A ball of white-hot electricity the size of three men tore a massive gap in the Pan...
2025-04-04 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-46. Gold is Not Forever
The group fell through the air, and time seemed to slow down.
It was strange, until Adon realized that the reason the fall felt slow was that every one of the knights was superhuman. Their re...
2025-04-03 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch35-The Psychic King Part 1
“Thank you,” James said, carefully manipulating his voice to mimic the Panther Scout’s. “I have traveled a long way to be here.”
The Queen suddenly snapped her head back to look at ...
2025-04-02 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch34-The Mind Is Its Own Place...
I hope that gives him some peace, James thought once Moishe had left.
The Fisher King had meant everything he said to the Assassin, but if someone had killed James’s sister, even a...
2025-04-01 15:11:01 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-45. Gold Strike
“Do we retreat, Your Highness?” asked the older knight Adon had healed back on the second level. The man’s voice was calm and measured, almost casual.
The butterfly could feel that it w...
2025-04-01 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRuthless V5Ch33-Requests and Revelations
[Moishe, I’m glad to see you seem to be all right.]
The words echoed through the air around Moishe as well as appearing in the form of a System-like visual announcement. Bu...
2025-04-01 03:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-44. True Gold Fears No Fire
The way forward was to find good ways of testing the ground before people put too much weight on it, the group decided after a few minutes of hurried discussion.
The conversation was hurried,...
2025-03-27 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-43. Silence is Golden
Adon was barely tuned into the conversation as Rosslyn, William, and Frederick discussed dungeon strategy for the level.
He was still stunned from the previous conversation he and the Princes...
2025-03-25 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-42. The Golden Chance
I think we should go, Goldie sent. We have seen enough to give a report, yes? She sounded nervous at the sight of so many gold-colored insects.
Adon was inclined to agr...
2025-03-24 22:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-41. The Golden Army
So bright, Adon sent. This should be impossible, right?
It should not be here, Goldie agreed. As far as I know, at least…
She and Adon stared up at...
2025-03-20 10:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-40. Down the Golden Stairs
Adon did not know how long he was out.
By the time he awoke again, however, his resources were fully—or very nearly fully—restored.
“We are finally all ready to descend, Adon,” ...
2025-03-19 03:10:39 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-39. Cleanup
One of the upsides of bringing subordinates into a dungeon, even when they were too weak to be risked in a particular fight, was that after the strongest members of the party had exhausted themselv...
2025-03-17 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-38. The Fiery Crucible
Adon wanted to move, wanted to leap into action or help Rosslyn avoid the oncoming attack or something.
But he read the room telepathically. No one was panicking.
Rosslyn, William, and ...
2025-03-17 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-37. Melee and Dialogue
“What are you thinking?” Rosslyn asked quietly.
What? was all Adon could think to reply.
“You are not usually quiet for so long.”
They had been walking for s...
2025-03-16 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-36. Fire and Lightning
Adon finally managed to withdraw out of the wyvern’s line of sight, after long minutes of crawling across the ceiling.
It was incredibly lucky that there were hardly any glowing orange crac...
2025-03-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostRe: Butterfly 3-35. Into the Magma
Adon fluttered down yet another path in the tiresome, seemingly never-ending maze of the third level to the dungeon.
This time, he had done a better job of economizing his resources to explor...
2025-03-14 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post