After the second draught, Astrid’s hands started to jitter. It’d been a possibly stupid choice, but if she had to choose between an unnatural need to move or falling flat on her face at the fir...
2025-05-31 04:18:02 +0000 UTC View PostSvana
They were all going to die. The moment a warg that had crossed the level 6 watershed appeared, she knew it was the end. Her soul screamed at her to flee, to hope for ev...
2025-05-31 04:17:17 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s another pack coming on the east!”
“How!” Astrid more as an expletive than a question. As she spoke, she raised the hammer again and feinted high at the warg on her right. T...
2025-05-31 04:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post***
With a question for my goddess and a [System] message to check, I spent the rest of the meeting deferring to the comments and questions of the rest of my people in the meeting. Sybil dril...
2025-05-31 04:13:25 +0000 UTC View PostTJ didn’t have anything to add or say to the family as they hashed out their issues. After feeding Luz, he did interrupt, though.
“These are conversations that you need to have. I need to...
2025-05-30 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post***
Starting this day, the Red Abbey’s focus shall shift from mere education for the future ruling class of the Veratocracy. Instead, our goal shall be to strengthen the basics ...
2025-05-30 04:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Nah, this isn’t Junior.” TJ forced a smile. “This is Luz. I’m taking care of her for a while. Maybe until she gets to be an adult. But she’s not mine.”
“Are… you sure?” M...
2025-05-29 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostSix wargs rushed out of the brush, their mouths wide open and ready to tear into flesh. Astrid rushed forward and slammed into two, but a third circled around and caught her armored calf in its jaw...
2025-05-29 07:42:54 +0000 UTC View PostShe shifted back and forth as the sun rose fully over the trees of the forest. The dim light of spring’s dawn was enough to illuminate the trees, and for the first time, Astrid fully saw the firs...
2025-05-29 07:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly, it’d been Tobias that’d managed to piss off the Dungeoneer and their party. Though Astrid wanted to learn more about what was about to happen and why, she needed to step forward...
2025-05-29 07:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post***
“Hello, Tar.” I replied as I looked down at the rat. He stood on his back legs and was fastidiously grooming his whiskers in that unmistakably rodentlike way. “I’m sure there’s ...
2025-05-29 03:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re damn lucky that we’re letting you in, looking like a fucking creep, Stinky. You’re not getting a fucking apology for calling a damn
“You’re damn lucky that we’re letting...
2025-05-28 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve years before
“You’ll get right up and you’ll kill the bastard that challenged you, that’s what you’ll do! Victory before death and blood before affection!”...
2025-05-28 07:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostDays passed, and Astrid spent as much time as she possibly could in the Dungeon. No party had decided to fully abandon the post and their futures as delvers, so it wasn’t hard for her to find som...
2025-05-28 07:31:12 +0000 UTC View PostJust a week. And she was already level 2. Astrid leaned against her hammer as she placed it on the ground. After the days she’d spent delving so far, she knew enough to never let her guard down w...
2025-05-28 07:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as they were within the bounds of the city, Astrid’s minders split off without a goodbye. She wanted to say something, do something, but… she was alone. The few delvers nearby nodded at...
2025-05-28 07:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostIn the morning, Astrid did much the same as she had the day before. After she was fully outfitted in her armor, she made her way down the stairs. To her surprise, an unarmored Petr was eating, and ...
2025-05-28 07:27:08 +0000 UTC View Post***
Though I’d made my people go to make the preparations necessary to ensure that the Misti Hawar didn’t take us all by surprise, I was far from idle myself. Discounting my daily visits ...
2025-05-28 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“You wouldn’t… I mean, could you? It… I just… But…” Astrid’s trail of thoughts trickled off as the possibility of a life incarcerated filled her mind.
“Go ahead and sh...
2025-05-27 07:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostThough she tried to protest, Svana obviously was on Tobias’s side, and Petr quickly chose his party over her. Astrid didn’t know what to do except to collect the warg ears and place them in her...
2025-05-27 07:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt took the better part of an hour for Tobias to be ready. Petr had quickly changed and sat beside her in what Astrid could only assume was solidarity. His armor was layers of overlapping leather c...
2025-05-27 07:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as it refreshed, Astrid activated Quick Recovery. The wound that continued to ooze blood down her leg and into her boot mostly scabbed over at that, though she could tell that the wound was...
2025-05-27 07:50:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe second engagement went much like the first, a single warg attempting to ambush them and being summarily slain without difficulty. Seeing another level 1 monster just rush them and get killed, A...
2025-05-27 07:48:35 +0000 UTC View Post***
[Cupun POV]
He followed a scent, the faintest memory of a crushed acorn on a paw. He hopped through the undergrowth, his nose leading him to the planned place for t...
2025-05-27 04:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostHey! I'm glad to have had a break, but I'm equally glad to be back! Hope you enjoy! 154 should be out in the next day or so.
As they trailed through Mesa and into Te...
2025-05-26 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I mentioned a book I've been
2025-05-26 07:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post***
[Shraal POV]
“No, the Altar cannot be such a limited item. It will be filigreed and we are waiting until Her divine alloy is prepared to decorate it. The Sanctum ...
2025-05-25 04:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post***
Sorry, I forgot to schedule this yesterday. Another one coming in 10 hours!
“I would guess that there are materials that are needed for their continued s...
2025-05-24 18:04:22 +0000 UTC View Post***
Surprisingly, as the “royal” ant disappeared back into the depths of the hole, all the ants scurrying around me also pulled back into the hole. It wasn’t more than two minutes befor...
2025-05-23 04:08:06 +0000 UTC View Post***
As soon as I arrived at the hole where we accessed the ants, I could see the changes. Instead of lethargic and reticent, the ants were more alert, and whenever one of my people came near,...
2025-05-22 03:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post