Saina’s two bodyguards tended to follow her everywhere. So far as they were concerned, school was a dangerous place, one attempt on her life had already been made in the Pit (no matter how much I...
2022-11-25 13:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the filters are in place, I drop by the medbay to meet our new doctor. Our Friend isn’t there (apparently it’s doing the autopsy in the other medbay, which is probably smart), but Tinera...
2022-11-22 13:54:55 +0000 UTC View Post1] Staffbreaker brings to hidden lair
2] Both scout and vessel, unprepared
3] Unaware of tribute thrice
4] He will be ca...
2022-11-21 13:55:12 +0000 UTC View Post
ID chips were implanted into colonists shortly before stasis for recognition aboard the ship and new colony, but during the training, accommodation and boarding process, it was more con...
2022-11-20 10:41:16 +0000 UTC View PostStaffbreaker brings to hidden lair
Both scout and vessel, unprepared
Unaware of tribute thrice
He will be called to sacr...
2022-11-18 13:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostAll six of us gather around Da-bin’s chronostasis pod. I’m not sure why, but everyone insisted on being there, despite the doctor’s warnings that there was a ninety one per cent chance that w...
2022-11-15 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What did I do?” the spellthing asked.
“What did you do? Your stupid little Sinister Remark right before all that? Thought you’d take one last chance to terrify me?”
“Hey, i...
2022-11-14 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostStaffbreaker brings to hidden lair –
I’m with Max and Kylie. Max is leading us up a mountain. Grinning, he shows us the new mobile phones he’s hidden to talk to home. 2022-11-11 13:56:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The next day, I spend the morning working the greenhouse rings and meet up with the crew in Rec Ring 2 for lunch. Adin had made stew, and turned out to be a pretty decent cook with the limited ingr...
2022-11-08 13:47:24 +0000 UTC View PostDo you have any special requests for your Funeral?
I’m going to have them wrap me up in cloth and toss me off the side of a boat. I’m competent enough with my spell that ...
2022-11-07 14:25:52 +0000 UTC View Post“He’s drunk and his familiar magic is playing up,” di Fiore told Malas.
“Nothing is ‘playing up’, it’s completely fine, and I had one cider,” I clarified. “Di Fiore...
2022-11-07 14:06:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Talk about wha – hey!” I flinched back in surprise as di Fiore shoved his way past me into the room and shut the door. “What? Get out!”
“No,” he said. He set his backpack on th...
2022-11-04 14:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to talk about what happens after we have enough doctors,” I say to the Friend once we’re alone.
“Yes, captain?”
I hesitate. There’s not really any delicate way to br...
2022-11-01 13:34:20 +0000 UTC View Post“So let me ask you again, Kayden: how are you able to find the Lake of Inquisition?”
“I don’t know.”
“I see. Well – ”
“But I could probably guess. It all comes d...
2022-11-01 05:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostI’m surprised it took so long to learn that it would come to this.
I was arrogant, I suppose, to assume a happy ending. I’d been excited to know that I’d give my soul for this, that I...
2022-10-31 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Um,” I said.
Kylie and Talbot both jumped and stopped what they were doing, blushing deeply. Silence stretched for several long, awkward seconds.
“I thought you had an appointmen...
2022-10-28 13:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostRepairing the coolant lines takes longer than I’d expect, but finally Denish calls down, “Lines are sealed, now computer can purge!”
“You’re sure you’re alright?” I ask him as h...
2022-10-25 13:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostI had a theory.
It wasn’t an important theory, in any practical sense. It wouldn’t save the world. But it was bugging me. I’d skipped potion class thinking about it (I didn’t really f...
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2022-10-23 05:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe funeral was the very next day. I suppose that when you’re rich and have access to magical portals, there’s no reason to waste any time.
On the advice of our legacy mage friends, Kylie...
2022-10-21 14:09:53 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll get the doctor,” Tinera says.
“It’s probably a bit busy now, reviving patients.”
“I’ll find out. But it’s probably the best one to figure out anything from this,...
2022-10-18 15:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t how it was supposed to go. Things didn’t go this way. We went through dangerous stuff all the time, charging into certain death, doing dangerous magical experiments, we were trying ...
2022-10-17 21:39:14 +0000 UTC View PostLess than two minutes later, several professional-looking, pink-clothed safety personnel were gaining Kylie’s leave to enter Duniyasar and filing out onto the sands. Malas, not one to shirk his d...
2022-10-14 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
ID chips were implanted into colonists shortly before stasis for recognition aboard the ship and new colony, but during the training, accommodation and boarding process, it was more convenient to u...
2022-10-14 14:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay,” I say. “Now that we have full access to the ship, we – ”
“We don’t,” Tinera says.
“We… don’t?”
“Nope. Tal. Hey, Tal!”
“Hmm?”
...
2022-10-11 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Max?” Kylie’s voice had a hysterical tinge to it. “Did you pick up a new spell?”
“No, I didn’t pick up – why are you two staring at me?”
I pulled up the camera on my ...
2022-10-10 14:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post