Nar adjusted Jul’s weight on his back. He did it gently, but Jul still muttered something in his ear.
He tried to hide his grimace. His arms had been sore after the first day of carrying he...
2024-11-14 11:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, that’s it! Viy, stab it!”
Viy shouted and pushed her spear into one of the soldier’s weak spots. It didn’t go in as easily or as deep as Wik’s attacks went, but it still ha...
2024-11-14 11:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I realize we never introduced ourselves,” the red leader said.
It had been a quiet night. The other party had been exhausted after their ordeal, and Kur had ordered them to bed early, so...
2024-11-13 10:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostJul patted his arm and Nar halted next to her. He waited in silence, while she sensed whatever it was that had called out to her.
After a couple of minutes, she leaned towards his ear and he ...
2024-11-13 10:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe caster sat back down, hard, and wiped her mouth, breathing hard. She looked around her, unsteadily, her eyes glazed over, looking without seeing.
Nar realized that the explosion must have...
2024-11-13 01:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sorry to see you guys go, but I understand.”
Kur and Row shook and held each other's hands for a moment, neither willing to end the goodbye.
“Us too,” Kur said. “I real...
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2024-11-11 14:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post“No Change. You are on the best path for you!” Tuk said, beaming. “You hear that? Ah! The recognition! The validation!”
“I got the same thing,” Cen said.
“To me, it said I...
2024-11-11 14:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post“... and then, I thought, I have nine more, why not use just a second one?” Tuk said.
Gasps erupted around him.
“Fucking pile, man. You’re insane!” Jaz shouted.
“I tho...
2024-11-11 14:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post-[ Quest, Cross the Chasm, completed!
Congratulations, you have made it to the Mid-Levels!
You are closer to atonement.
Other ...
2024-11-11 14:25:57 +0000 UTC View PostA tank stepped out from the gathering of Climbers and stood in their way as they walked down the stairs. He was an altei, and his back was so straight it almost bent backwards.
Nar disliked h...
2024-11-11 14:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostRow urged them to follow her to the line, before another wave of guardians descended from the tube.
“Boss!”
A quam called out to Row, waving at her with four short swords.
Seeing how her words were not having any effect, the woman swore and turned to talk with a big morsvar. The guy held a shield and a mace, just like Gad.
Why is she so close to the guardia...
2024-11-11 14:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Up! Up! Up!” Kur shouted the next morning. “I warned you guys that there would be no sleeping in.”
A chorus of groans and half-woken mutters met his words.
“Come on, come on!...
2024-11-11 14:24:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Cen came too, she made Kur’s anger look like an amicable disagreement between two team leads.
Nar hadn’t known she could be so loud.
She had Tuk almost in tears, apologizing. S...
2024-11-11 14:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostNar was starting to get the hang of it.
He was letting less and less bolts pass him by, and was even considering rushing the poisoner to attack the little guardians supplying it.
A few ...
2024-11-11 14:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Cen, hold back for now,” Kur said. “Let’s see how we do first!”
“Got it!”
Gad had stopped the soldier guardian’s charge, and Viy and Mul moved in.
Nar shifted his...
2024-11-11 14:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostHe felt the cut. It stung and shrieked against all the others that he had accumulated across his ankles and shins.
“Again!”
The cuts would heal. They didn’t matter.
Tu...
2024-11-11 14:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostHe gazed at his weapon for a long time after she was gone. The colors swirled and shifted. Hypnotic.
Gad’s words burned in his mind, roaring like the Pressure, shredding all doubt and hesit...
2024-11-11 14:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post“How are you feeling?”
Nar glanced up.
“Gad?”
“Who else?”
“Sorry, I was thinking.”
She snorted.
“I know! It’s been three hours,” she said. ...
2024-11-11 14:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostVoices floated around him.
“Nar!”
“It’s over…
“We need to…”
Nar groaned and opened his eyes.
His shoulder screamed and a whimper escaped his lips.
<... 2024-11-11 14:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostSoon, they found another batch of corpses. And another, right after it.
The Pressure had long faded away, taking its orange, weight and heat with it, but they were still finding more dead can...
2024-11-11 14:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostNar skewered the guardian from side to side. He pushed with all his [Strength] and dragged the machine the three steps to the wall, where he pinned it.
The guardian spasmed and thrashed, and ...
2024-11-11 14:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post“You don’t know darkness, little man. Not like we do.” - Anonymous delver morsvar tank, ex-Climber, The Goliath, S739DAF88L46Y, popular drinking establishm...
2024-11-11 14:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post“These are the last ones,” said one of their guides.
The person he addressed turned their way, and Nar saw that it was the Admin himself.
“Good, thank you. You guys report to the ...
2024-11-11 14:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostOf the things that Nar had expected the Climb to involve, fighting for the survival of, and then actually going inside another cubeplant, had not been on the list. Now that he thought about it, wha...
2024-11-11 14:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostSound slowly returned to him, as his ears healed.
The cries of the injured and the dying filled the air, and the Climbers who hadn’t followed the fleeing of cannibals, now roamed the massiv...
2024-11-11 14:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostFlashes of purple.
Screams.
Grasping hands tearing at his clothes and filling his sight.
Bodies pressing him from all sides.
Rotting breath nearly blinding him.
In the...
2024-11-11 14:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe cannibals left the defenders well alone.
There was enough to distract them in the middle of that massive room, and the occasional scream still reached Nar.
The thought of being out ...
2024-11-11 14:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe purple lit corridor faded in and out of focus.
Nar held Jul’s hand in an unyielding grip, and dragged the crying scout behind him.
His lungs screamed for him to stop and his heart...
2024-11-11 14:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post