I used the teleportation platform to send us to Ghalin, but only because it saved me some effort having to draw my own circle to spread the effect to everyone instead of just myself. All of the Gha...
2024-04-26 13:26:59 +0000 UTC View PostNothing that I was personally working on was time-sensitive, but I had some collaborative projects with Tetrin and Hyago. I went to Tetrin’s workshop first, mostly because I knew he’d be there....
2024-04-25 12:09:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Absolutely not,” Mother said.
“Not a chance,” Father said at the same time.
Senica stood there, hands on her hips, face worked into a scowl, and demanded, “Why not?”
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2024-04-24 12:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take much to get the story out of them. The worst injured among the party were led away to receive medical treatment, and their leader met with our version of the village council in the...
2024-04-24 12:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn my first life, I’d never celebrated my birthday. As a child, I couldn’t have even if I wanted to. Once I’d grown older, it had just seemed like a waste of time. There was nothing there to ...
2024-04-24 12:00:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as surprised went, they’d certainly pulled this one off. Of all the things I’d thought might be going on, a birthday surprise was not on the list, mostly because my birthday wasn’t for...
2024-04-24 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter I relented and helped Senica get cleaned up—a spark of lightning caused the black mass to completely harden and lose its adhesive property—we headed back out of the cave.
“What ar...
2024-04-24 11:59:35 +0000 UTC View PostBlack slime steadily oozed out of a crack in the wall. There was already a pile of it up to my knee, and it would only continue to grow until the monster had seeped entirely past the barrier I’d ...
2024-04-24 11:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s been four years since Keiran learned the truth of what happened to his world while he was...
2024-04-24 11:58:05 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I made my way back to Keeper, I took some time to loot the dead. For the most part, I hadn’t been terribly impressed with the creations of the latest generation, though the more I learned,...
2024-04-23 13:21:59 +0000 UTC View PostI floated in the darkness and watched as the wards, so painstakingly and carefully crafted, stretched and twisted beyond their tolerance. The shape of the room they’d been anchored to had been to...
2024-04-22 14:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostMonarch was smaller in real life than I’d assumed from the scrying spell. It was only after I saw her in person for the first time that I realized that she was barely taller than my sister. Admit...
2024-04-19 13:10:04 +0000 UTC View PostI used my own scrying magic to find my way after confirming Keeper’s information. There were a bunch of ways to get there, and I suspected there’d be traps in all of them. If Monarch was smart,...
2024-04-18 12:37:13 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll give you a minute to try to process this on your own before I snap you out of it,” I said.
Neither of us knew exactly how many lifetimes’ worth of memories were stored in Keeper...
2024-04-17 12:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostOther lights flashed red as we walked. The two mages with me muttered back and forth to each other and cast glances in my direction, which I ignored until one of them tried to stop me.
“Tho...
2024-04-16 12:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostI would have thought that my new entourage would tell me where things were in the Old Grounds. I’d expected them to know which way to go. It seemed logical to me. That was half the reason they we...
2024-04-15 12:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, the Hierophant wasn’t much help at all. He did stop the rest of his personal guard from attacking me when they caught up to us. It was no surprise that they were jumpy; the guy ...
2024-04-12 13:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post“You have something in mind?” Tetrin asked.
“I’m building something,” I said. “It involves a lot of transmutation and enchantment. Some inscription, too. I can do the work myself,...
2024-04-11 16:28:32 +0000 UTC View PostMy first problem was the sole remaining elite. He wasn’t terribly close to me, but his draw stone tower shield represented a variable to all spell work that could trip me up if he was quick or cl...
2024-04-10 12:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t so much the eight guards surrounding me that were the problem, but the hundred more in the palace that might find us before I took care of this group. The best option was to flee, and I...
2024-04-09 13:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe information Haze had given me in exchange for her life was in line with my own observations about Monarch’s base of operations. She was in the very center of the inner city, in the Palace of ...
2024-04-08 14:36:56 +0000 UTC View PostAs the sun sank lower and lower toward the horizon, I began to fear that I’d overestimated Monarch’s ability to scry. The wards from my original hideout, where her mirror and mine were encased ...
2024-04-05 14:03:16 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t have it in me to be annoyed about my failure to gain mana from Hyago’s grow room. The unexpected presence of an ember bloom left me too excited to be concerned about that, not to menti...
2024-04-04 14:32:59 +0000 UTC View PostI needed to use telekinesis to get the trapdoor open, and as soon as I did, I spotted the webbing of a privacy ward stretching across the hole. Whatever was down there, Hyago didn’t want anyone k...
2024-04-03 11:42:21 +0000 UTC View PostMy walk back gave me a lot of time to think. A four-day wait prior to the meeting was helpful to me since it allowed me to regain some of my spent mana, but I hadn’t been the one to suggest it. W...
2024-04-02 13:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostIf not for the modifications I’d made to her vanishing knife, Haze probably could have snuck up on me. I was tired from the back-to-back fights with Velvet and his vengeful phantasm, not to...
2024-04-01 13:25:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe only decision I had left to make in this castle was whether to take the time to snatch up the journal and reference book Velvet had been using when I’d come in. I wanted it, but I’d run out...
2024-03-29 13:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostUsing a wand to bypass the direct contact requirement of a spell wasn’t a new trick to me, nor was it all that useful. It gave a few feet of range, even with a well-crafted wand, and could easily...
2024-03-28 14:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn’t walk directly through the wall into the office Velvet was using for two reasons. First, it didn’t have an exterior wall, so the closest I would have been able to get was a closet nea...
2024-03-27 13:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostI knew how to get through the wall without having to cross the underground lake now. The biggest problem was that a wide street circled the outside of the inner wall, one that was properly maintain...
2024-03-26 13:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post