Technically we have started book 4 with Friday's chapter! Thanks so much as ever for the support and kind words.
Book 4 is already entirely written, so I'm just editing that a little, but oth...
2023-12-02 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe changes to Nassau were some of the most amazing things Mason had ever seen in his life. The temple, the fountain, and especially the overall changes from the natural 'theme'. But frankly, all h...
2023-12-01 15:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt had never felt anger. It understood it, of course, there were very few things it did not understand. But what humans called emotion was not and never had been part of its functions...
2023-12-01 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKiaan, son of Kiaan, stopped when he reached desert. He drank his system-generated water—a regenerating flask he'd chosen as part of his Scout class levels, easily refilled with a small amount of...
2023-11-30 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason gawked along with everyone else when he stepped out of the chief's hall. The settlement was almost entirely transformed.
First of all, there were trees inside the walls. Quite a lot of ...
2023-11-29 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a long walk to Rebecca's room. All kinds of Nassau citizens either stared or wanted to talk or at least needed Mason to smile or nod or give them something.
Damnit people<...
2023-11-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Title earned: Deus ex magicka. Recover from a fatal injury using magic. +2 vitality.]
[Hidden Class feature discovered: Mental Partition. The psion dominates all minds. Including his own. Pa...
2023-11-27 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostBlake’s Dreamwalking attempt was a bust. He’d lost all track of time in the underground world, and assumed it was nowhere near nighttime. He was tired almost randomly and never quite sure if he...
2023-11-24 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlake and Ilya returned to the orc ‘pub’ that night. Then one by one orc warriors were brought in as if to drink or eat in the tavern, and one by one Blake sat them down in a back corner, and a...
2023-11-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason spent most of the run back to Nassau pouring over his patron options. He tried to figure out the most efficient choices with the points he had, leaving at least a little left for Blake, or a ...
2023-11-22 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason eventually set the naked Rosa outside the pool, gave her a little water, then let her lay down to sleep. They would need to leave soon to make it back to Nassau before dark, but he couldn’t...
2023-11-21 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason activated Blessing of Gaia as soon as he hit the water. It practically hummed from his body in the nymph's pool, like it was amplified and finally whole. He supposed it likely was. He emerged...
2023-11-20 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIlya crept back into Blake’s secret hideaway in the morning.
"Some of the rebel chiefs have agreed to meet with you. But..." she twisted her hands nervously. "They may want a display of you...
2023-11-17 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMason waited with Streak outside the open gate, distracted suddenly from his purpose of solving the settlement's problems. His distraction's name was Rosa.
About the time he'd started pacing,...
2023-11-16 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason found Seul-ki working in her little garden at the back of the hall. He realized as he walked outside that he'd probably never actually once spoken to her alone. She heard him open the sliding...
2023-11-15 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBlake waited until his mana was nearly half, then entered his almost comatose state as he activated Dream Walker. He floated far above the world, not truly in sight of it—not with any concept of ...
2023-11-14 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIlya—as Mental Influence told Blake his helper’s name was—practically yanked his arm off as she pulled him forward. Her hands were soft(ish) but she was clearly very strong. She pulled back a...
2023-11-13 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTurned out, there was no other way into the tower. Mason climbed every wall, opened every gate, and tried every set of double doors as well as the main gate. Each one resulted in the ...
2023-11-10 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe element of surprise proved exceptionally effective for Blake's mind controlled orcs. While their fellows were still staring in something like disbelief, his minions crossed the room or threw ax...
2023-11-09 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBlake hunched and huddled directly behind his new minion as the creature led him into the maze-like series of halls. The construction shifted back and forth from carefully dug square corridors to s...
2023-11-08 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Form a line here." Mason moved the two spearmen, Rebecca, and Phuong to the entrance of the tunnel. They had enough space between them to fight, but they could block off the tunnel and not get sur...
2023-11-07 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMason was not the dangerous quickie type. He was practical, and he supposed generally serious, and not at all prone to getting himself screwed just to get...well, screwed. Or at least he used to be...
2023-11-06 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGromsh blinked in surprise as one of his enemies entered the Grey Tower. He held his breath, waiting for the second, but the message did not come. Still—to have one at his mercy, and so soon!
... 2023-11-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBlake moved with the others and pretended to know how to 'sneak'. 'Hunching' and 'creeping' were basically so foreign to Blake he wasn’t quite sure how to move forward, but he supposed one occasi...
2023-11-02 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason and the other players marched all day and half the night without stopping. Without the civilians to slow them down, the superior overall physical strength and endurance of the players had the...
2023-11-01 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostGromsh dropped Farak, lord of the Red Tower to the stone tiles. The big orc choked and spasmed as he died, throat crushed in Gromsh's fist. He had always been the strongest and most stubborn of the...
2023-10-31 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBecky finally pulled Mason back to the dance floor, and looked another drink in. She was all over him with her hands, making rather big promises about the bedroom.
“I think we should get yo...
2023-10-30 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSupper actually smelled amazing. A dozen civilians were working on a feast, mostly using new supplies brought by the Sanctuary folks in magical storage. With people from practically everywhere in t...
2023-10-27 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe combined civilians of Nassau and Sanctuary voted for war. ‘They’d kill us too, wouldn’t they?’ seemed the prevailing attitude, and with something like apologetic and resigned agreement,...
2023-10-26 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post