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2023-03-23 08:52:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Calamitous Bob 147: Oh, Neriad, I won’t change
[Focus +1
Acuity +1
Willpower +1
Mana mastery: Intermediate 6
Acuity Reflex: Intermediate 7]
Viv went over the recent gains. Those were nice. They would also set her o...
2023-03-17 12:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 146: The League attempts murder
The initial bang was not too dire, though it startled everybody in that section of the piers. If any of those buildings had windows, they would have surely exploded. The shockwave sent Elunath reel...
2023-03-10 14:54:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 145: The League Engages in Casual Terrorism
Elunath walked into the entrance of Bareon’s manor with a sure step. The guards glared but they remained quiet, as they should. Security was for other people. A servant rushed to greet him, as he...
2023-03-03 12:29:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 144.2: The League steals
Every damn second spent waiting for Irao to return cost Viv a year of lifespan, or it would have if she didn’t really have a lifespan anymore. Her heart thundered in her chest and she bit her ton...
2023-02-27 13:58:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob part 12 ch 124-134 (clean)
Compact version
2023-02-26 10:46:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 144: Banking with Bob
“I need to know you can do it,” Irao said.
“Sure,” Viv replied.
“Otherwise we need to delay and train.”
“No problem.”
The Hadal gazed at Viv with an insisten...
2023-02-24 13:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostLast announcement for Journey
Hello everyone. Whew. It’s an emotional moment. After almost three years, 1.3 million words and uncounted hours of effort, Journey is complete.
It’s an especially moving moment for me bec...
2023-02-22 04:53:43 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red Epilogue 6: The End
I wake up and take a deep breath, an immediate mistake. It smells stuffy in my sarcophagus. Blood still drips down my throat so I rip out the tube and frown. A press of the button above me and a pa...
2023-02-22 04:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red: addendum to 224
AN: I obviously messed up by not including Jimena's fight so here it is! Chappie 224 has already been updated.
Jimena’s focus was absolute. Malakim was the most danger...
A Journey of Black and Red Epilogue 5: Seedling
The Geiger counter clicks softly. The man steps forward through the falling ash and snow. There is barely anything visible but he must be on the right track. Has to be. The gray thing crunches unde...
2023-02-21 19:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red Epilogue 4: Ash and Thin Air
Article taken from the Financial Times, June 1947, four years after the Last City’s fall.
‘Accords’ to acquire sovereignty over Cape Breton Island.
In a shocking ...
2023-02-21 14:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red Epilogue 3: Severed Futures
I buried Aintza in a small valley far from everything, under the shade of the Grand Teton. The two lovers would have loved the irony.
I made memorials for everyone we lost. I split them apart...
2023-02-21 14:21:54 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red Epilogue 2: The Great Escape
A day earlier.
The dead world shook like the reanimated corpse of a giant. Deep in the bones of its ancient structure, Cadiz watched cracks spread over smooth stone that had withstood the end...
2023-02-20 12:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red Epilogue 1: Long Live the King
My mind palace.
The forest has grown exponentially. It still expands with every passing second as more of the power I subsumed permeates my essence. Just as before, it feels less like I am be...
2023-02-20 12:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 143: The Brandolini Principle
“You?” Viv asked with total shock. “You? But I thought you were retired! Abe hired you?”
Irao winced, which caused VIv to lower her voice immediately. The Hadal leader looked good in ...
2023-02-18 09:53:40 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 224: Three parts Ascension
Light. Pain. I am pushed back.
Not the sun. Too red and angry, like blood on warm sand. Too dim… for now. I still live.
Nirari rises in the air, laughing, arms spread in the beatitude...
2023-02-13 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 142: Administration
It felt weird to be back at the Academy after everything that happened, Viv thought. Her steps carried her past the entrance and the uncaring gaze of the guards, then through the familiar entrance ...
2023-02-10 17:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 223: Conquest, incarnate
It was a beautiful thing, to witness the birth of a god.
Semiramis hovered over a circle of incomprehensible proportions. No matter how many times Jimena tried to wrap her head around it, the...
2023-02-08 10:29:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 141: Vendetta
“I still do not understand why Jack’s death was necessary,” Sidjin grumbled. “Surely there was enough room on that plank for both of them?”
The improvised arcane projector played th...
2023-02-03 18:50:22 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 222: All in
There is no time to plan. I must absolutely get to the other side. Fortunately, the next portal should be fairly close and completely out of reach of the becalming spell. I estimate it will take te...
2023-01-31 19:06:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 140: Interview with a dead god
“Ok. Let’s,” Viv said with a yawn.
She placed two fingers against the bedframe and pressed. Sure enough, the wood groaned under the pressure and when she removed them, an imprint was le...
2023-01-27 14:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 221. The Dragonslayers
“Blood is life,” Nirari whispers.
A heartseeker spell forms, the one spell he named after his weapon and, given the apparent power, designed himself. Tendrils of red energy sprea...
2023-01-24 15:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 139: Ascending (new)
AN: This cancels and replaces the previous version of the chapter. An explanation can be found at the end.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry kid.”
Tourniquet in ...
2023-01-20 12:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 220: Dark Gods of Gaia
If my vision were not so perfect, the walls of the Last City could be taken for a cliff, so impossibly vast it is. The craggy rocks damaged by unrepaired cracks and ravines share more with a geolog...
2023-01-17 18:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 138. Edge of the precipice
It was okay, Viv thought. Just walking was okay. Her feet dug into the cracked sand with every step. She did not dare look up to the crowd and couldn’t hear them anyway. She could deal with them ...
2023-01-13 11:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 219: Masovian Sonata
I would love to fight with the wind in my hair at the prow of the Fury. Sady, the dead world lacks both wind and the magic to keep us afloat. I still enjoy the view as we fly over the Polish countr...
2023-01-11 03:19:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe Calamitous Bob 137. Remember me
“Prince Aldus will see you now.”
Viv stood and entered the lodge, ignoring the careful gazes of two war mages in the yellow uniforms of the Glastian military. She wondered if she should h...
2023-01-06 03:53:50 +0000 UTC View PostBob magic system and Viv spell list by popular demand
Part 1: general notions of magic.
Basics.
To perform magic, the entities of Nyil draw power from their core, which is non physical for humans, and move them out through...
2023-01-06 03:37:22 +0000 UTC View PostA Journey of Black and Red 218. Prelude
The Amaretta stronghold lies at the heart of the Atlas mountain outside of the grasp of colonial France. There, seers have built a secluded temple in shades of ochre, sober and hidden like an ancie...
2023-01-03 15:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post