“Darude!” Dallion shouted as he rushed forward, pushing Gloria to the side.
He had already seen the giant green cone covering them both as well as the footprints telling him how to evade ...
2021-01-12 16:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostYou are in a small Awakening shrine.
Complete the trial to improve your destiny!
Unlike the awakened rooms in the past this one w...
2021-01-11 17:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostSneaking out of home, as Dallion found out, was the most difficult challenge he had faced so far. Finding himself in a strange new world with weird magic abilities, one would have expected fending ...
2021-01-10 15:06:56 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing the village chief’s granddaughter wasn’t on the top of Dallion’s list. In fact, after what they had subjected him and his mother to, he didn’t want to have anything to do with the en...
2021-01-09 18:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostTime slow, as the name suggested, allowed a person to experience the passage of time much faster than everyone else. Games and movies illustrated that by allowing characters to perform actions with...
2021-01-08 16:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostLabyrinths came in different shapes and sizes. The oldest was said to have been built in Egypt and so complicated that no one at the time could complete it without the key. Dallion had completed a ...
2021-01-07 14:43:50 +0000 UTC View PostSome say that in the old days, game design wasn’t even a discipline. The early pioneers were building their own software and hardware themselves. Designers must have been quite the experts, learn...
2021-01-07 00:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe more Dallion learned about awakening in this new world, the more its limitations became clear. For starters it was not possible to use the ability at will. Although invisible the stress on the ...
2021-01-06 18:48:40 +0000 UTC View PostYou have impressed the Ring Guardian with your behavior!
The Colossus has granted you a future boon.
In the blink of an eye Dalli...
2021-01-06 01:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostRING GUARDIAN
Species: COLOSSUS
Class: BRONZE
Statistics:
The hall that Dallion found himself in was very different from the one he had been moments ago. All furniture and people had vanished, leaving nothing but silvery glittering walls behind. The only ...
2021-01-03 19:32:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe contrast between the village chief’s home and the rest of the houses was like between yellow and black. Rising three and a half floors above everything else, it was larger than Dallion’s en...
2021-01-02 14:29:19 +0000 UTC View PostAwakening, as Dallion learned, was a huge deal. The village his “family” was from, had less than a dozen awakend, half of which were well beyond their sixties. The rest were part of the village...
2021-01-01 19:22:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing that Dallian saw after opening his eyes was the floor. The second was a blue glowing rectangle floating in a small empty room. Confusion surged, twisting his forehead until a series...
2020-12-31 20:51:59 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
I hope you are well, and my best wishes to all!
The year is nearing a close. A lot has happened, but above all I’d like to thank all of you for being here. Your pres...
2020-12-31 16:08:37 +0000 UTC View PostVirgo Training Station — 707.1 A.E. (Age of Expansion)
It was a matter of principle for cadets to avoid the Commandant’s office. Eighty-three percent of them only got ...
2020-12-30 18:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostEight battleships surrounded the battleship, placed in strategic positions a short distance away. I noticed one more patrolling the system. As far as I could tell all of them were Taurus class, bui...
2020-12-30 18:28:27 +0000 UTC View PostTwo gremlins appeared above me as I reached for the ledge. By now, I had become so accustomed that I didn’t even blink. Two arrows zipped past me, hitting each gremlin in the throat. The creature...
2020-12-28 14:30:39 +0000 UTC View PostSome say that in the old days, game design wasn’t even a discipline. The early pioneers were building their own software and hardware themselves. Designers must have been quite the experts, learn...
2020-12-28 14:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostTauciu System, Resha Colony — 707.1 A.E. (Age of Expansion)
“You sure you don’t want a bite?” Bethine offered.
It reminded me of the many suppers we’d had ...
2020-12-22 03:07:44 +0000 UTC View PostVirgo Training Station — 707.1 A.E. (Age of Expansion)
It was a matter of principle for cadets to avoid the Commandant’s office. Eighty-three percent of them only got ...
2020-12-22 03:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostTauciu System, Resha Colony — 707.1 A.E. (Age of Expansion)
“You sure you don’t want a bite?” Bethine offered.
It reminded me of the many suppers we’d had ...
2020-12-13 23:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Good to go?” Goth glanced at me. More a reminder than a question, telling me that there was a while to go until I earned my pay.
Three more beasts were down, allowing us to open the ante...
2020-12-09 12:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostAppearing in a new place felt strange. Not the usual game teleportation I was used to; my surroundings twisted like tangled pieces of thread, only to untangle again seconds later, weaving something...
2020-11-30 12:15:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt was still dark when I logged off. According to my phone, only thirty-one minutes had passed, but that wasn’t the amount of time that had really gone by. Hours gone in seconds… there were app...
2020-11-23 18:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostHello, all!
Here’s some more Rush. Before I post the link, a word about Quod. As you’ve seen by the teaser post, Quod 3 is starting, so expect chapters of that to start soon. O...
2020-11-16 23:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostCoffee never was my thing. It was the first thing I’d tried after I got used to my human form, and also the first I decided I could do without. After my last nanite upgrade I could even identify ...
2020-11-10 18:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostMy father used to define people as either rich or poor. According to him, the only way out of poverty was to become rich, which was a goal he had obsessively chased for several years. I could say t...
2020-11-10 10:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostSeventeen e-muggings, two new avatar murders, and two hundred and twelve cases of identity theft. Skimming through daily news articles had always been a mix of guilty pleasure and adrenaline. Waiti...
2020-10-28 02:59:06 +0000 UTC View Post