After the good Harper’s admirable attempt, a few more brave souls stepped up to the challenge. None, unfortunately, provided as entertaining a show - they were summarily defeated, pummeled, and t...
2025-04-20 14:22:23 +0000 UTC
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Lucius had been introduced to a great many individuals ever since his arrival here, but the two holy knights that stepped forth certainly left a lasting impression.
The lady known as Br...
2025-04-19 17:14:12 +0000 UTC
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Lucius’s routine was ever the same. There he laid on a soft, pleasant mattress, body dapper for to be otherwise would be quite scandalous, when his eyes fluttered open, and thus he said looking m...
2025-04-18 16:53:40 +0000 UTC
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Lucius leapt down onto the ground and greeted the servant with a wide flourish. “Good evening, young man. My, isn’t this such a pleasant day? It’s a great day to make acquaintances. My name i...
2025-04-17 16:04:20 +0000 UTC
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It was, admittedly, a difficult task to sneak about. The halls were filled with much less hustle and bustle now that it was in the evening hours, or at least that was what he assumed since there we...
2025-04-16 14:42:07 +0000 UTC
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“I stoke the fires, embers scorch and engrave me
A brand of ire, to be shunned of fervent plea
I pound the bolts, oily rivers running free
How can we carry on when our hearts gr...
2025-04-12 15:01:06 +0000 UTC
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The paladin called Roland bowed his head, and addressed the players with a dominant, authoritative voice. “Well met, heroes of another world. I am Sir Roland of the Twelve Peers. Among the eleven...
2025-04-08 23:40:02 +0000 UTC
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No sooner had the party arrived than they were greeted by rows upon rows of intricately laid tables covered in white tablecloth and polished silverware. A crystal chandelier hung from above, dousin...
2025-04-05 04:42:33 +0000 UTC
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A bright, blinding light enveloped Lucius. He felt his body collapse, as if every little cell was being broken down and relocated across time and space, but the sensation didn’t last for long. In...
2025-04-03 20:45:41 +0000 UTC
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Lucius looked around, searching for his fellows, but they were nowhere to be seen. This space was similar: the endless expanse of white, the sterile monotony… yes, he remembered it well. This was...
2025-04-01 14:20:35 +0000 UTC
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Jack’s last moments were not of fear, nor pain or hate. Instead, he graced the world with a parting smile and drifted away, onward to wherever his next life took him. The man who had always been ...
2025-03-31 06:34:25 +0000 UTC
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———
Jack
When I was little, I used to daydream a lot. I’d go to school with my head up in the clouds, imagining myself on some grand adventure with all my favorite cartoon heroe...
2025-03-27 10:02:39 +0000 UTC
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Jack lunged in. His form was amateurish: wide, clumsy. He was the very picture of a man who had never fought in his life, but it didn’t matter. He wasn’t the one in control.
His arm, the ...
2025-03-25 21:48:26 +0000 UTC
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Marco and Mili gaped in horror as they stared at the jittering wreck that was Jack, at the oozing, gushing mass of flesh that appeared to have taken over his right arm, and they backed away—panic...
2025-03-22 21:53:58 +0000 UTC
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While Jack was planning out his hunt, Lucius decided to check up on the missing duo. He hadn’t seen them since his last performance, and though they didn’t quite have the same inner turmoil tha...
2025-03-18 06:14:59 +0000 UTC
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Outrunning the Horned Exile was no hard task for Lucius. Its sight was blinded; it could not hear the gentleman’s quiet stride. In the end, the thing simply disappeared into one of the many twist...
2025-03-16 19:36:07 +0000 UTC
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After making sure Marco and Mili were out of sight, Lucius left the room and sauntered right back to Mister Thame’s hideaway. A measly stab wound did little to impede the gentleman’s lively ste...
2025-03-14 17:19:43 +0000 UTC
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Marco and Mili shook their heads, distraught and a bit hesitant to believe in Lucius’s sudden claim, but hidden beneath all that fluster was a suspicion that could no longer be deterred. They wis...
2025-03-11 05:51:03 +0000 UTC
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Lucius’s routine was ever the same. There he laid on the cold hard tile, breaths silent and body full of style, when his eyes fluttered open, and thus he said with a smile:
“Good morning....
2025-03-09 01:35:20 +0000 UTC
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The young Jack hobbled along as the two carefully embarked on their solitary journey. Sweat dripped down his brow, and his face was permanently fixed into a scowl. It looked like the man would coll...
2025-03-05 18:19:43 +0000 UTC
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The party collapsed and took a good, long moment to catch their breaths.
“Sheesh, that shaved off like ten years of my life,” Mili said, groaning and letting her head thud on the hard flo...
2025-03-03 04:47:23 +0000 UTC
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Marco, Mili, and Jack clutched their heads and groaned: the swine-thing’s scream rang all throughout their bodies, plaguing their ears, their brains, and every conscious moment with its final dea...
2025-03-01 20:02:27 +0000 UTC
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The party froze in place, eyes centered on the revolting sight of flesh and gristle. They knew not what to do - run? Fight? They were reminded of it: of a stalker explicitly told they could not win...
2025-02-22 22:32:35 +0000 UTC
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Lucius could see it: the dread within his uneasy cohorts. He saw it in the quivering of their eyes, the dry gulps, the stiff hair on the back of their necks. Every second their sanity was being ero...
2025-02-22 22:29:52 +0000 UTC
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Marco let out a tired groan and rubbed his eyes. “The hell does it mean, tutorial? You tellin’ me after all that we’re not even at the starting line?”
“These strange windows did say...
2025-02-06 22:48:08 +0000 UTC
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“What?” Jack said, swerving towards Mari’s lifeless, yet peaceful, corpse, as if she was merely slumbering away. “You—how did you? You don’t have an assassination skill.”
Marco ...
2025-02-04 11:42:11 +0000 UTC
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The group didn’t say a word—they couldn’t. Mili looked seconds away from throwing up, eyes shaking and face draining of color, while Marco stood still like a stone statue. There was a tremble...
2025-01-30 00:55:36 +0000 UTC
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“Now then,” Lucius began. “Have you all chosen a class yet?”
He was quite interested to see what this mysterious system picked out for the others. It seemed to take account of the per...
2025-01-25 16:06:58 +0000 UTC
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Lucius was rather perplexed. Conman? Serial killer? Oh dear, the strange panel even had the audacity to call him the embodiment of evil! How rude, he had only ever pursued his desires. Surely there...
2025-01-19 21:34:30 +0000 UTC
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Never in his wildest imagination did Lucius ever expect to be thrown into such a bizarre course of events, but he wasn’t startled. Life was unpredictable, after all. Who knew what future awaited ...
2025-01-17 17:19:26 +0000 UTC
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