A/N: As a quick note, I've moved the Jerome chapter to Book 2, so the chapter numbers are different - content is all still the same. This is the new chapter 11. Thanks for reading!...
2023-01-02 16:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostClyde returned in short order with a small fistful of reality shards clutched awkwardly in his fingers. He was holding them gingerly, almost, like he was afraid they were going to explode. Belle st...
2022-12-30 15:21:47 +0000 UTC View Post"You have to understand, it's been getting harder and harder to make new glyphs," Clyde explained.
It had taken a while to get everyone calmed down. Clyde himself had to start herding people ...
2022-12-28 14:36:58 +0000 UTC View PostAs bold a statement as Vex had started with, there wasn't yet much for him to go on — the idea that magic drew from a physical place, even, was something that was new to him. Vex had tol...
2022-12-26 17:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostJust wanted to drop a quick heads up that an announcement and Q&A has been posted on RR. 2022-12-24 23:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Derivan stared at the field ahead of them. Vex had absolutely scattered the place with glyphs — some of them from the basic set, others theoretical, and still others combinations that he had alre...
2022-12-23 17:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostBoth Norams stared at the system window. Neither of them knew how to react — neither of them knew what a soul link was. Just from the name it seemed too intimate a thing to share with a ...
2022-12-21 16:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn't all that long ago that Noram had begun to notice.
There wasn't really a better word for it. The nice lady had explained everything to him more than once, and he just hadn't...
2022-12-19 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Can't help you with the Aspect thing, I'm afraid," Clyde said. He'd joined them at their breakfast table after serving up their breakfast — a surprisingly hearty and comforting meal, though Deri...
2022-12-16 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Sorry about last night," Misa said. She didn't look like she'd managed to sleep much — Derivan suspected that they'd all had a rough night, really. Vex hadn't slept until late into the night, af...
2022-12-14 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Me?" Sev asked, a little incredulously. "I've never met you guys in my life."
"No, but you're under the same effect we are. Or you were. It's mostly faded now." Clyde glanced at him...
2022-12-12 14:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post"Wait, no, hang on," Sev said. "Back up. The universe did what now?"
"It ended." Clyde cocked his head towards Sev, a flicker of shadow dancing across his eyes; his equivalent of a blink. "Do...
2022-12-09 17:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostJerome sat next to Kestel. He'd taken to visiting the head researcher of the dungeon team every few days, just to see if he was doing better, ever since he'd learned about what happened to him at t...
2022-12-07 16:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostJumping was much easier said than done. Derivan peered out of the hole to see exactly how viable jumping would be — it was not. Sev, on the other hand, just stared at Misa with one brow slightly ...
2022-12-05 16:04:14 +0000 UTC View Post"I feel like ass," Misa grunted, pulling at her shoulder as she slowly sat up — she protested when Sev went to help prop her up, which in and of itself was already alarming, Derivan felt. "We sti...
2022-12-02 17:50:38 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan regained consciousness in the exact same room he'd passed out in.
He wasn't exactly sure when he'd lost consciousness. That was not, as far as he had known, something that was even po...
2022-11-30 15:36:57 +0000 UTC View PostVex was working with an increasing sense of impending doom, not that he knew exactly what was going on. He'd regained access to his system interface a while ago, but that didn't do anything for him...
2022-11-28 13:56:47 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan was more hurt than he had ever been.
He was still alive, crucially. His chestplate, where the runes that kept him alive were etched — that was still entirely intact. But it...
2022-11-25 22:03:01 +0000 UTC View PostVex was in the Ashion section of the tower, doing his damndest to ignore Irvis' frozen body.
Something about it was unnerving. There were times he looked away and could swear that Irvis' eyes...
2022-11-23 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIrvis began by exploding into action.
Derivan saw Misa open her mouth, presumably to respond to Irvis — but she abruptly tensed instead, her expression flashing into focus in an instant. No...
2022-11-21 17:33:29 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a certain satisfaction that came with being proven right, sometimes. Derivan found that this was not one of those times. Animated potions attacking them were one thing; they'd chosen not ...
2022-11-18 16:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post"Two of you," Irvis snarled; his face twisted in a raw, sudden sort of fury that almost made Misa take a step back. "Two of you! The mage I understand, but you? You don't have any...
2022-11-16 17:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan paused, awkwardly, after the blade struck him in the back; he didn't know how to react. The monster that attacked Sev was... well, it was like him.
In a manner of speaking, anyway. 2022-11-14 16:06:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Karix staggered forward. His face twisted into a rictus of anger and betrayal — Vex saw that the wound wasn't healing. Did this version of his father not have health? The system shouldn'...
2022-11-11 15:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostVex woke up leaning against a door.
It was a nice door, at least. There were no splinters digging into the scales on his back or the leather on his armor, which was a nice step up compared to...
2022-11-09 16:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post############
[Dungeon Spawner]
Mental static ripped through Vex first. He'd forgotten that this was a product of the system, and it didn't tap...
2022-11-07 10:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis time, when his memories were once more torn away from him, Xothok was awake to see it.
In a way, it helped that he was choosing for this to happen. The Guildmaster was standing too-close...
2022-11-04 09:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostA dungeon to some small degree reflected the space around it when it first came into being. The Prime Dungeons, though — the dungeons that were the core of every Kingdom, and powered most of thei...
2022-11-02 19:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostIf there was anywhere Vex hadn't expected to be about an hour from where that battle started, it was being carted around the city in a wagon. Particularly not in a small crawlspace underneath the f...
2022-10-31 17:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt started with a fireball, which told Vex two things: one, that this was almost certainly a noble house attacking them, and two, that they didn't care about casualties. The fireball was packed wit...
2022-10-28 18:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post