Another bonus to Authority control? Kaius hoped it was a simple indicator of importance — and not future difficulty.
He pored over it quickly, pleased with what he found. At the ve...
2025-09-02 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostScrying nets were useless fucking things at the best of times.
Now that she was forced to rely on one, Ro had to physically restrain herself from hunting down whoever had invented the d...
2025-09-01 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostUnder the guidance of an alien will, Kaius cycled. Together with the rest of his team, he’d suffered under the discomfort of his Authority being overruled.
There was a holiness in the air t...
2025-08-31 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post"You have all done well. Walk with me," Xenanra said.
The Ascendant rose from where she floated and drifted down, leaving the fire they had circled still burning, and the cushions and rugs wh...
2025-08-30 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostClasping his hands in his lap, Kaius eagerly awaited for their lesson to begin.
Shortly after revealing the nature of cycling, Xenanra had shared that the realm they were in now was one...
2025-08-29 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostXenanra’s pure white, six-dotted eyes flicked straight to him. A smile spread across the Ascendant’s face, revealing her pointed fangs.
The soft silence that followed them since they had ...
2025-08-28 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius woke to a sharp crack, his eyes snapping open. He sat up with a start, blinking away the blur of sleep as he searched for a threat.
Instead, he found Xenanra hovering over them with a g...
2025-08-27 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stretched out and relaxed.
It was nice, hearing what his teammates had experienced during their own journey through the Crucible. To little surprise, their trials matched up with what h...
2025-08-26 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostAtop a peak that brushed the sky, Ianmus grit his teeth and reached for the mana deep within himself, leaning on his Glass Mind as much as he could.
He split his pool into two stream...
2025-08-25 21:28:29 +0000 UTC View PostKenva stumbled through the portal, and suddenly she was somewhere else.
She got her bearings quickly. Someone like her, with her upbringing and the life her people lived — moving on the roa...
2025-08-24 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIanmus stumbled, the heels of his boots clacking across a hard ground. He looked down. It was clean and polished:something not quite stone, a washed out grey varnished to a clean sheen.
Befor...
2025-08-23 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius sat at the edge of the blanket they'd laid over the grass, enjoying the warmth of the midsummer sun that was high in the sky. His cloak was wrapped tightly around him. A thick, warm thing, mo...
2025-08-22 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stumbled forward into a clearing that looked identical to the one he had just left, alone once more.
If it wasn't an exact clone, it was a close one. The grass was luscious, filled with...
2025-08-21 21:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostClasping his hands in front of his waist to stop from balling them into fists, Old Yon didn’t bother to suppress his scowl as he walked down one of the few short hallways in his temporary bolthol...
2025-08-20 21:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe rough stone tore at his hands and knees as Kaius threw himself back from the edge. Reeling from the disorientation of being himself again, he stared into a darkness that hissed and bub...
2025-08-19 14:08:36 +0000 UTC View PostA wave of confusion, disorientation, and isolation washed over him, like he had been translocated out of time and space. His very body and mind ripped from one place to the next — twisted into so...
2025-08-18 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostShimmering like oil, the pool of black at the center of the room boiled. It reached upwards like a living thing, tendrils and droplets questing.
Kaius felt magnetized towards it. It was...
2025-08-17 21:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius grinned as he read the description of his final Aspect.
It was largely defensive in nature — bolstering his resistance to all forms of injury, but especially soul related effects than...
2025-08-16 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius narrowed his eyes at Porkchop, running a mental tally of how long his challenge had taken him. Time had gotten away from him in the flow of the fight — it was easy for it to slip by when yo...
2025-08-15 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostPorkchop watched with a smile on his face as his brother vanished into a miasma that stank of contagion and forest fires. By the Matriarch’s, Kaius could be stubborn.
Still, ...
2025-08-14 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe heat within him grew, a burgeoning pressure that would ignite.
Not quite yet though.
Kaius ran, toxic fog billowing in his wake. He had a grin plastered on his face as he turn...
2025-08-13 21:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostYet another crossroad, yet another choice — though this time it would be a decision he wouldn’t enjoy making. Kaius knew it was a little petulant, but he couldn’t help but feel bitter ...
2025-08-12 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostA chitin monstrosity with swords for legs rocketed towards him, kicking out so fast it looked like a silver half-moon blinked in and out of existence.
Kaius had swung his own blade to i...
2025-08-11 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I hate you.”
Kaius grunted, holding on to the rope with a white-knuckle grip. Almost horizontal from how far he was leaning back, the only thing stopping him from flying over th...
2025-08-10 21:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe fog was heavy, hiding all in its swirling depths. Even sound was eaten whole: though the grass rustled in a gentle breeze, it was muted and dull. Like he’d plugged his ears with wax....
2025-08-09 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis time Kaius was ready for the jarring transition, staying steady as he stepped through the crucible portal.
A wall of tumbled boulders surrounded him, set deep into the grass. Fog shroude...
2025-08-08 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostDust hung like a smog in Grandbrook’s temple library, clinging to every surface like a thick packing of the winter snow he found so uncomfortable. High vaulted like everything in the church was, ...
2025-08-07 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAnimus. The aspect of the soul. It had eluded him for so long — a mystery that had remained just out of reach.
He’d felt a few reverberations from that truth, but there’d been not...
2025-08-06 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many things that Kaius thought of asking the ascendant who accompanied him on his forest walk.
The obvious answer was anything and everything she would share about his next t...
2025-08-05 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius sat in the sun, taking another sip of the odd drink that Xenanra had offered him. The ascendant had offered to talk, and he wanted to, but about what? He felt like he was swaddled in stride-t...
2025-08-04 21:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post