Blake and Ilya walked along the wall of the orc city like countless others. They seemed far less empty than before, and Blake wondered if the tower orcs were starting to get tired of their permanen...
2024-01-11 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post[Apex Predator activated: Arcane Affinity]
Mason blinked and wiped his hands across his face, but still couldn't see.
"Streak?" he called, hearing only a muffled versio...
2024-01-10 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlake learned a considerable amount over the next twelve hours. First, he'd made his old constructs…very stupidly.
His 'defender' form had taught him just as much from what it couldn't<...
2024-01-09 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt took less than a minute to get Streak and the rest of the players up and into the metallic tunnel. But that was plenty of time for the bomb-throwing engineers to make a clean get-away, and Mason...
2024-01-08 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"So," Ilya tried and failed to push Blake's construct away at the bottom and straightened her...robe. "We're both in a pit." She looked at the corpse of the dead demon and shivered. "What do we do ...
2024-01-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIlya watched the demon fall with wide eyes. It roared in fury and scratched at the stone, beating its mangled wings uselessly until a huge crash made Ilya jump. Then nothing.
[Hidden Objectiv...
2024-01-04 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Event complete: Dueling Duos. Experience gained. Please wait for the other duels to be completed.]
After a few seconds of wallowing in the pain and feeling sorry for himself, Mason groaned t...
2024-01-03 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBlake still couldn't exactly see the demon, and his attack command was tied to sight. A mistake, no doubt, but there wasn’t a terrible amount he could do about it now. First things were first. He...
2024-01-02 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMai looked vaguely panicked, but Seamus just grinned. "Easy on our end. Mai and me got this in the bag, don't we darling?"
She nodded but the movement was too fast, her skin a little pale. 2024-01-01 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Blake mostly hid until he heard the spider's blood curdling shriek. Then he stepped to the edge of the platform and watched as his constructs dove at the thing like sparrows fighting a house cat. 2023-12-29 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Mason led the others back to the main cavern. They met a few wandering goblins on the way, but hacked them down in a few seconds and without a word exchanged. Then they were again looking out at th...
2023-12-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt took basically all of Blake's remaining half mana pool to 'animate' one of the Maker constructs. Yet another 'presence' entered Blake's mind, though this one was far less intrusive. He grinned a...
2023-12-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTrees. Trees everywhere. Smoke and the coppery tang of blood filled the air, familiar and welcome and…good.
Mason felt danger but wasn’t afraid. He stepped over tree roots and sw...
2023-12-26 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Mostly just wanted to say thanks for the support. It truly makes all the difference in the world to have people waiting to read what you're working on, and to be paid a bit of a 'salary' as you do ...
2023-12-25 19:00:54 +0000 UTC View PostIlya watched Blake fade from her dream, so desperate for him to stay she woke in a cold sweat. She blinked awake and slowly turned to look from her cage, and found the demon's red eyes staring from...
2023-12-25 18:40:20 +0000 UTC View PostTurned out every little thing Blake did to his creations had a cost. There was something like a 'mean' in terms of size, and if he made something...unshapely, it would either tell him it didn't wor...
2023-12-22 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMason came from the darkness screaming, Claws out and ready to kill, ready to die. He had gone from a ‘cave’ and a meeting with Blake, to a rotting forest filled with monsters. For a good long ...
2023-12-21 17:37:25 +0000 UTC View PostBlake opened his eyes in the gloom of the Maker’s Hall, feeling empty and alone. But also unafraid. You couldn’t fix a problem until you knew what it was, and now he did.
Blake wasn’t g...
2023-12-20 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBlake entered the 'Maker Hall' with careful steps, inspecting his surroundings. There were busts of bearded men, more portraits and little stacks of coins, all squished under a low ceiling with pla...
2023-12-19 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Don't know!" the goblin squealed and squirmed uselessly in Mason's increasingly terrifying grip. "Just worker. Don't know secrets!"
"There's tunnels in the walls," Mason hissed. "Behind bed ...
2023-12-18 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason led the others through a series of similar rooms to the first dining hall. Small numbers of the same, relatively weak goblins were spread throughout a place that seemed like communal housing ...
2023-12-15 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Just wait a bloody second, I killed your critter!” Blake tried and failed to seize Lumiere with Telekinesis as the little bugger sped off. “What's my damn reward?"
The floating lantern w...
2023-12-14 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Continue the tour!" Blake shouted as he ran. "Is there anywhere that critter can't go? Take me to that!"
Tree-limb-acid-face started loping forward like the ugliest gorilla known to man.
... 2023-12-13 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"You've got three seconds to drop that bow, mate, or you'll cook like a fecking kebab."
Getting hit by fire spells historically didn't feel great, but it also didn't hurt Mason much. And Nass...
2023-12-12 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[Dungeon puzzle event completed. Experience awarded.]
The door clicked open with a very smooth, and very satisfying beep. Despite the somewhat ancient looking dungeon, the metallic door and h...
2023-12-11 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBlake and Ilya walked through the growing chaos of the orc warrens with hoods over their heads. It still hurt a little to walk, but Blake decided getting flayed alive would probably hurt more, so h...
2023-12-08 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBlake lay down on his furs and groaned. He knew he should try and Dreamwalk and talk to the others, but he was tired and in pain after the long walk and just wanted to sleep.
Anyway, what the...
2023-12-07 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAlex, it seemed, was a man who knew how to suffer.
Mason ran them all day and into the evening with hardly a pause, and the older man endured all of it. When they finally stopped he was red a...
2023-12-06 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIlya eventually returned to Blake's tent with a basket full of food. She set to work cooking in silence, expression difficult for Blake to read. Again he was tempted to gain her trust and smooth th...
2023-12-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMason let Streak into the house after supper (and a fairly grumpy bath), and they all cuddled up on the couch and watched old movies on the settlement's digital storage system.
They ate popco...
2023-12-04 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post