Viv’s hope that the campaign would start right away got dashed immediately. It turned out that although everyone important was present, they were missing a plethora of stuff ranging from actual c...
2024-01-12 16:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostNestra was now facing an unexpected issue. In the past weeks, she’d been living her best life as her demon self, with human Nestra taking a backseat, only leaving the house for the occasional soc...
2024-01-09 16:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe frontline near Glastia looked like some divinity had split the world in twain, showing two versions of a world that could be. Seen from the east, the left part of the landscape was one of manki...
2024-01-05 15:30:42 +0000 UTC View PostMana termites were really ugly from up close.
Valerian slammed his sword against a mandible, chipping the skull as well. The creature backed up.
An opening.
He gathered mana in hi...
2024-01-03 15:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostGeneral Kobanis led his men north, back to the ancestral land of their clan. Or what was left of it.
He could see the writing on the walls. Arana clung to it because it was her nature to neve...
2023-12-15 15:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostNestra felt very good with herself for all of five seconds, basking in the vindictive light of her pride. Hah! She sure showed them, etc etc. Then reality returned in the form of a light hunger, an...
2023-12-13 01:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostWater was everywhere. In the darkness of the night, the sky merged with the sea in a dark, blurry mess that gave Rakan vertigo. The ground moved under his feet. Well, the ship’s deck. All that se...
2023-12-09 14:48:06 +0000 UTC View PostOk so you might have noticed that I've been sluggish with answering comments and correcting typos. That's because your artist is tired, milords and miladies patrons of the fine arts, and he needs t...
2023-12-05 14:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing a longer expedition would do was establish a base camp, so the raiders descended at the edge of the chasm to find a suitable spot. There was a relatively flat space on the right sid...
2023-12-05 14:06:04 +0000 UTC View PostRagnarok clearly expected Nestra to act with a brain, so instead of showing up fresh-faced, Nestra called Valerian with her shiny new masked gleam phone. He actually ignored her three times before ...
2023-11-28 16:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe village had stood for centuries, mostly unchanged but for the ebb and flow of the sea, the people, and as always, the monsters. It was a peaceful place far from the reach of Frostway, and so lo...
2023-11-25 08:50:33 +0000 UTC View PostNestra made it exactly three steps before the pain caught up to her, and she sat back down on the gray moss.
“Ow. Ow ow ow.”
Now that the fight was over, exhaustion caught up and he...
2023-11-21 16:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostViv was summoned — sorry, ‘invited’ — to visit the palace the very next morning. Guess it had taken them that long to clean the carpets. She picked Marruk and the One Hundred as official gu...
2023-11-17 16:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostNestra stood in an empty apartment overlooking the headquarter of the Varang guild, a squat tower built on the edge of the Museum of Art’s garden. Prime location for a prime guild. The structure ...
2023-11-14 23:02:29 +0000 UTC View PostFrostway was built along a bay, and Viv had to admit that the Old Harrakans knew how to pick their spots. Far to the right, piers stood protected by encroaching cliff walls that formed a natural ha...
2023-11-10 23:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostTo call the testing facility ‘state-of-the-art’ would be an understatement. Everything was chrome, high-tech, and shiny. Nestra looked around with bemusement before returning her attention to R...
2023-11-08 14:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostNestra rang the bell for the th
2023-11-04 04:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Cleaned a little and gathered for y
2023-11-04 02:48:38 +0000 UTC View PostViv stood her ground while the rest of the fighters scattered, and the camp attendants scrambled back to the cover of the forest. Her defiance triggered something in the diving dragon. His attentio...
2023-11-03 17:06:10 +0000 UTC View PostIn order to become a masked gleam safely, Nestra deployed every last bit of paranoia she was capable of. Even searching the process was done via an antique burner phone. She did her application rem...
2023-10-31 14:57:43 +0000 UTC View PostOk so I got a LOT of feedback for the name poll, most of it negative, so we will do a run off with the most popular poll vs comment names. then use the most voted suggestions. This will run until T...
2023-10-28 01:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt was year five after Viv had been unleashed upon Nyil, the spring after the golem recovery, and New Harrak remained blessedly unfucked with. This was extremely suspicious and made Viv nervous as ...
2023-10-27 20:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt is time for the People to help Nestra pick her masked gleam name. You have until Mondayish when I write this part of the chapter. The People can offer suggestions in the comments which will coun...
2023-10-25 05:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe time has come for the People to decide on Sashimi's gender. Most popular answer before next chapter will become canon.
2023-10-25 04:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostNestra slipped into the world with great difficulty. The membrane resisted her efforts, pushing her away like a deep current. It felt like opening a door into a flooded room.
Once in, she spr...
2023-10-24 13:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe office of the Home Guard’s third division was a place of darkness. Once, it had housed over sixty rotating personnel working day and night to make sure Harrak was always ready to defend itsel...
2023-10-20 15:59:49 +0000 UTC View PostNestra watched while Helena engaged in the time-honored tradition of divesting the dead of their belongings. Sadly, this was a relatively benign D-class world and the pickings seemed slim indeed. 2023-10-17 15:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: I forgot to write that first. It happens chronologically the morning after Mazingwe and Sereth's confrontation.
“I told you, electronic equipment won’t work. Can I go...
2023-10-17 15:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostAN: As someone mentioned, Nestra doesn't check her new body after awakening for the first time, which is weird and a little illogical. As such, I have added the following fragment to the RR...
2023-10-17 15:22:12 +0000 UTC View Post