It did not take long for Cass to find her way back to the rampaging dragon. He was a rolling ball of heat and wind to Atmospheric Sense. The flames of his breath were hot enough to melt the floor a...
2025-04-02 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe darkness fell away.
There was no new light in the room, but it didn’t matter. He could see the Order wretches around him. Their souls glistening red and vibrant.
Delicious.
... 2025-03-31 22:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostKohen wasn’t usually an idiot. He felt like one right now, though.
When Ahryn had started yelling about following a carriage and the dragonlings being kidnapped, he should have run to get ...
2025-03-29 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCass ran down the halls, the captain and a trail of ice behind her. Her feet pounded over the glass floor, faster and faster with every step. Around her, the wind whipped, telling her every movemen...
2025-03-26 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx and company walked through the lower halls of the temple, the twisting hallways spreading in every direction, level after level of subbasements still waiting to be explored.
“I expecte...
2025-03-24 22:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostSalos did not like the plan. But as usual, he did not have a better one.
His heart hammered in his chest as he leapt from Cass’s shoulder into her shadow and Shadow Stepped out around a co...
2025-03-22 22:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCass and Salos stalked the fleeing paladin through the halls, their combined stealth skills hiding them in plain sight as the man ran through the complex. Even if they hadn’t, all eyes were on th...
2025-03-19 22:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAhryn was used to being ignored. It was usually better than being noticed, if he was honest.
He was used to their low expectations. He was used to missing them, anyway. It mostly didn’t bot...
2025-03-17 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCass’s Focus had only come back up to 306 when the paladin she’d knocked out with the cold woke up.
He grunted awake, his head snapping to and fro as he tried to figure out what had...
2025-03-15 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass stared down at the paladin’s body. He was dead.
She was alive.
But he was dead.
She—
She had killed him.
Salos hopped up next to her. ...
2025-03-12 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass took a deep breath as her opponent’s struggling slowed to ineffective wriggling beneath thickening ice.
Across the room, Salos’s attack had not stopped. 32 was covered in cuts. There...
2025-03-10 22:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis isn’t working. Cass and 29 stared at one another across her ice field. He was unarmed and panting from exertion. His sword lay on the ice behind her. His shield lay under a layer of...
2025-03-08 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass and Salos skulked down the halls. Cass clenched the dagger in her hands. They had the ghost of a plan and were just looking for an appropriate target.
A pair of paladins stormed do...
2025-03-05 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“And we found the staff there.” Pellen pointed at a rubbish pile behind the Temple. It was mostly food scraps decomposing into fertilizer for the gardens.
Alyx’s hand clenched aro...
2025-03-03 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass’s eyes flared open. She was leaning against the dragon’s flank. Its scales were hot, like her stove top when the oven was on underneath. She pulled away as the dragon shifted, its neck cra...
2025-03-01 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostA wave of emotion crashed over Cass. She collapsed back into her chair, looking at her options.
Salos was finally done absorbing the soul.
He was back. The tension slipped f...
2025-02-26 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“So, the easiest solution sounds like you should make me your Dragon Knight,” Cass said. That should fix the rabid feral dragon thing, if nothing else.
She’d made herself comfy in front...
2025-02-24 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass found herself in her campground. The wind whipped wildly through the trees, and the fire pit glowed with welcome at her side. Behind her stood her tent, open but empty. Around her towered redw...
2025-02-22 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCass wasn’t prepared for what she saw inside.
A dragon.
It was huge. The dragonlings had been about the size of ponies, plenty big but tiny compared to the beast before he...
2025-02-19 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCass heard their voices next.
“Can you believe we need to add a third containment circle,” one of them complained to the other. A man’s voice. A touch nasally. “We weren’t eve...
2025-02-17 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCass put a hand on the door. It was cold under her open palm. Solid. Immobile.
Elemental Manipulation hadn’t worked on the crystals in the Catacombs or the glass floor in the hallway....
2025-02-15 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCass had a poor sense of the passage of time, but it was probably several hours later when her resources recovered to acceptable levels.
Stamina: 138/138
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2025-02-12 23:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAlyx’s heart hammered in her chest as she stood in the waiting room outside the arena. Above her was a stadium of eager viewers, all waiting to see who would be their new Dragon Knights. 2025-02-10 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Cass blinked awake. The floor under her was cold. The ceiling above her was green.
Everything hurt.
She tried to sit up. A mistake, as she could feel her brains sloshing in her sk...
2025-02-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing on the bench. Pellen slumped to the seat, burying her face in her hands.
“Lady Mage!” a boisterous voice called all too loudly through the temple.
Pellen loo...
2025-02-05 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPellen picked at the skin around her fingernails in a poor attempt to sit still before the priest of Will, the man who would appraise her compatibility with Arcane.
“No need to be ner...
2025-02-03 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe captain stood before the priestess and her priests, his shield raised, a green force field separating Cass from them.
Fortitude’s Aegis
[A skill best...
2025-02-01 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWood splinters flew through the air and sparks of lightning exploded around her. Tempest Blade broke with no weapon to support it.
The paladin’s blade sliced toward her through the ma...
2025-01-29 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf the paladins had all been big, this man was gargantuan. He was easily two heads taller than Cass and twice as wide at the shoulders. A pair of bull horns protruded from either side of his forehe...
2025-01-27 23:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSo she couldn’t run. Fine. How else did she get out of this?
Fight her way out?
How many opponents were there? Two in front, at least. Atmospheric Sense found four more in...
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