It took Nyx no time at all to lead some vitiate beasts to the corpses of those she’d killed. Each infected animal forgot about her in an instant. The free meals before them were much more appetis...
2025-03-02 08:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostNyx slumped into the grass with a groan.
Despite benefiting from both the ritual of wellness and the empowerment of a self-sacrifice, she still felt beaten up. All her wounds had closed, yet ...
2025-02-27 13:08:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I wasn't intending to post this today - I hadn't thought i would stay up this late to write - but i think you'll see why i did with this chap, ahah. As with the last two chaps, i still ne...
2025-02-26 12:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostNyx faced down the two Fleshsmiths that stalked towards her.
Both men’s weapons were daunting to face, and she somehow had to take them on together.
A cudgel with cinders channelled a...
2025-02-26 03:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s quite the mess you’ve made,” One of the Fleshsmiths said as he walked from the line of trees. His gaze locked on the headless corpse of a wombat Nyx had just butchered. “You do al...
2025-02-24 12:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post"Nix! You’re later than usual today. Something happen?”
Nyx suppressed the urge to correct the man on her name. It wasn’t something she wanted people to know about, no matter how much h...
2025-02-24 04:41:10 +0000 UTC View PostNyx didn’t hesitate.
Before she could spend too much time in her own mind, her wings snapped back, and she rocketed towards the fox. Claws held to her side, ready to rush forward and crush ...
2025-02-24 04:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostCeph could hardly believe it.
They’d found the snake.
Or, well, it was more apt to say the serpent found them, but the reason they’d descended into these tunnels was finally before ...
2025-02-22 06:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostFuck.
That was Ep’Nanorschi, wasn’t it? It definitely was.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Of all the people to have seen Nyx, it had to be her.
At least she hadn’...
2025-02-20 10:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dark Star was large enough that it didn’t matter where you stood, as long as you weren’t intentionally trying to ignore the thing, you would notice it.
As Nyx walked down the wide roa...
2025-02-20 10:16:22 +0000 UTC View PostNyx dove off the bed and immediately began sketching a ritual circle.
Her ethereal touch shifted along the cursed surface of her name. It was intense and fuzzy. The combination of three curse...
2025-02-20 08:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostNix crashed into the bed she assumed was hers. It wasn’t like there was anyone else here to say otherwise, so for now the room, and this bed, were hers.
This would be the first time she evo...
2025-02-17 23:58:07 +0000 UTC View PostNix took off K’tan’s robe to reveal her new mutations. Almost without her input, her wings snapped wide. Having been bound ever since they grew in, they felt amazing to stretch. While the feeli...
2025-02-17 00:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostA little bit of corruption.
That’s what Tarchon said. Only a little bit.
This is not what I would call a little bit.
Nix stood before the supposed safehouse an...
2025-02-16 12:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostThey just had to go and ignore my warnings, didn’t they?
I hadn’t intended to let myself be seen; just reveal my presence enough that the group of sapients go running away from the tunnel...
2025-02-15 07:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you always getting yourself in trouble, or is it only when I’m around?”
Something in his arm hissed as the contraptions clicked and unwound themselves from preparing some attack. T...
2025-02-14 21:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhispers.
Nix could see whispers. Flickers of memories bound in an incomprehensible cluster. They burned in her mind as often as they were fleeting. Each jittery, unclear image ...
2025-02-13 02:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostNix tried her best to relax on the alter as her eyes followed the man who intended to sacrifice her. She didn’t fight the chains; whenever she did, they would grow tighter. If they slackened when...
2025-02-13 02:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostK’tan-thar had dedicated the past decade of his life for the promise of assisted evolution and a path out of the dregs of the lower creeds.
Life hadn’t been kind to him. While others rece...
2025-02-13 02:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostA few days passed and there was yet to be any sign the lockdown would end.
Nix couldn’t deny Dan and Ari’s efforts were commendable… but they were ultimately pointless. Between the two ...
2025-02-10 21:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostToday will be a good day.
Maybe it was already too presumptive of Nix to assume so, but considering their lockdown, there was unlikely to be more horrific scenarios where she would b...
2025-02-10 11:46:32 +0000 UTC View PostNix pulled the bloody, torn robes out from under her bed. She’d tossed them there when she’d returned so nobody would notice, but she would need to take them with her the next time she went for...
2025-02-10 11:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Nix turned away from K’tan, she found Tarchon’s eyes on her. Those glass lenses flicked to the man she’d been discretely watching, but he revealed no emotion on his face. Though when Nix...
2025-02-10 11:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostHe’s not dead.
Why is he not dead!? Nix screamed in her mind. K’tan should have died there with all the other ass-hole Fleshsmiths.
Nix’s return through the stre...
2025-02-08 12:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostHirsh was conflicted.
On one hand, the situation was certainly stressful and beyond what any of them had expected. Not only had they never thought the spatial twisting would ever be this dens...
2025-02-08 01:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostNix dashed forward. Ari, despite being in the depths of slumber, followed close behind. The dream-bug guided her mind to move her body in a state without consciousness.
It would have been nic...
2025-02-06 23:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostA spike of pain rushed through Nix’s back, but she ignored it. Growing pains were nothing.
Beneath her robe, her feathers fluttered involuntarily. Nix grimaced, knowing that to get to the m...
2025-02-06 23:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe world became a nightmare.
There was no longer a wall. Nor was there the hole, or any sign of the explosion that would have caused it. Darkness consumed everything, but it hardly stifled h...
2025-02-06 23:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostNix ducked down an unused side corridor. She didn’t want to stay out in the open where any of the cultists could trip over her on their way through Fleshsmith territory.
She was barely awar...
2025-02-05 00:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you not intend to follow?”
Nix woke to an eye floating mere inches from her face.
She reacted. Her hand swung forward as a yelp found its way out of her throat, and she dived in...
2025-02-05 00:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post