Double-Blind CH23
The first few messages I scrolled through were almost innocuous, getting more incoherent as time went on. I started working through them from oldest to newest.
<Mom: M...
2022-02-18 03:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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Double-Blind CH22
<System Notification: You have discovered a Shrine of Elevation. These mystic shrines are scattered across various manifestations of the realms of Flauros and present unique...
2022-02-17 05:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind Chapter 21
Double-Blind Chapter 21
“How… did… you get here?” Audrey sent a flash of irritation at me, even as she conveyed my words in her nasally, stilted tone. She was clearly unhappy to hav...
2022-02-16 22:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH20
If he’s fake—which tracks because how would he even get on this floor with no ranking on the leaderboard—that’s bad for you. If he’s a User, it’s worse...
2022-02-15 06:14:21 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH19
Predicting behavior is easy when you have enough practice and enough practical examples. Start by assuming the worst, and raise your expectations slightly until you have something more...
2022-02-13 03:49:09 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH18
Double-Blind CH18
<Matt>
Level 6
Strength: 6
Toughness: 4
<...
2022-02-12 05:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH17
Double-Blind CH17
Audrey dropped from the ceiling like a forester’s trap, vines snaring around the gnoll’s neck. The gnoll let out a muted yelp as the thorns in the tightening vines dug...
2022-02-12 05:47:58 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH16
Double-Blind CH16
The word, “dungeon,” has changed in meaning over time. It can be used pejoratively to refer to any underground facility, or a—usually—windowless apartment that is ...
2022-02-11 02:43:48 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH15
Double-Blind
Summoning was a bitch and a half.
Imagine reaching up, grabbing a fistful of hair. Then pulling away from yourself slowly, deliberately, every singu...
2022-02-10 05:11:34 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH14
<Ordinator has reached LVL 5. A new Ordinator branch can now be accessed.>
A massive wall of text scrolled vertically.
<A WITHERED MAN IN A WHITE MASK ...
2022-02-10 05:09:16 +0000 UTC View PostPyrrhic II (First Draft)
There’s a lot to learn, living rough in a place like the Sanctum. It wasn’t like I could walk into a trade-post and buy supplies. Even if I wore a mask, my eyes were a dead giveaway.
Wh...
2022-02-08 03:58:04 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH13
In the early thirties, while the rest of the world was experiencing a hard come down from the roaring twenties, an Australian Major named Meredith was given a simple task. He was to cull an invasi... 2022-02-07 04:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
131. Pyrrhic I (First Draft)
Lokerias shivered in the cold, stifling a cough. He had always been prone to illness, but his now threadbare apparel, along with the drastic shift in temperature between Sanctum chambers hadn’t ... 2022-02-05 03:10:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Double-Blind CH12
The dungeon lobby was not what I expected. White marble flooring divided into squares paved a large open space penned in by glass. A receptionist’s desk, complete with a widescreen computer moni... 2022-02-03 02:25:51 +0000 UTC View Post
130. Interlude: Thaddeus
Something dark was brewing in the heart of Uskar. It had always been a hard place, rife with rebellion and uprisings, all-but-requiring a distasteful excess of brutality to keep in line.
Bu...
2022-02-02 01:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostDouble-Blind CH1-11 (Draft 2)
AN: Hi all. This is the beginning of a new pro 2022-02-01 04:16:04 +0000 UTC View Post
129. Interlude ? (Sanctum Epilogue)
129. Interlude ?
The Black Beast watched from the Celestial darkness on the happenings below. He was neither the designer of the elaborate machine, nor an actor within it. He was simply its...
2022-01-29 18:35:35 +0000 UTC View Post128. Interlude: Bellarex II
“Are you certain?” Ralakos asked.
“Erdos is the only loose end.” Cairn looked so haggard in the memory that Bellarex barely recognized him. He was slumped over in Ralakos’s sittin...
2022-01-27 21:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post127. Interlude: Bellarex I
Bellarex focused on her breathing. In and out. The crowd roared as she delivered the final blow. The strike cleaved through his armor, leaving the skin beneath intact. It was an undue mercy, and s... 2022-01-21 02:49:39 +0000 UTC View Post
126. Sanctum XLX (First Draft)
Thoth smiled. Her mouth was still bloody. “Foolish. You know I’ll tear through that sad little host behind you, so you’re offering yourself as a noble sacrifice. I thought you’d realize th... 2022-01-20 06:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Corrected mistake in 124/125
Just to clear something up real quick.
Ralakos is the High Council member who helped Cairn out during the Enclave Arc.
Morthus is the retired infernal and member of the Metamorpho...
2022-01-19 21:01:36 +0000 UTC View Post125. Sanctum XLIX (First Draft)
Before the words left my throat, there was a crash of thunder. The gray clouds gathering at the top of the dome had finally begun to rain. Thirsty earthen paths worn down from daily foot traffic a... 2022-01-19 01:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post
124. Sanctum XLVIII (First Draft)
I hadn’t touched the rawer, more elemental side of magic since my injury in the crossroads. The infernals discounted such methods entirely, considering them to be base and uncivilized. And they ... 2022-01-17 01:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
123. Sanctum XLVII (First Draft)
Bell stared at the tunnel wall and wiped a tear out of her eye. “This is the hardest thing anyone’s ever asked me to do.”
The responsibility I was trusting her with was enormous. Some...
2022-01-17 01:11:41 +0000 UTC View Post122. Sanctum XLVII (First Draft)
“What is this place?” Jorra asked. Even though his voice was hushed, I fought the urge to tell him to be quiet. Something about this place felt wrong. We were walking side by side in something... 2022-01-13 02:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
121. Sanctum XLVI (First Draft)
The spark levitated above the wood, dancing around Veldani’s face. A trickle of sweat dripped down the violet skin of her forehead. I saw Maya’s jaw drop.
“That’s… it?” I asked ...
2022-01-01 23:21:39 +0000 UTC View Post120. Sanctum XLV (First Draft)
If it wasn’t already obvious enough that Thoth was now prioritizing hunting me, the augury shielding rings began vibrating constantly not long after we left. There was a small victory in that, b... 2021-12-31 23:44:30 +0000 UTC View Post
119. Sanctum XLIV (First Draft)
“Dammit” Jorra whispered.
We’d spent the better part of an hour frantically searching the area. My chest hurt, my accumulated wounds going untreated as Maya helped us search. There wa...
2021-12-31 23:42:00 +0000 UTC View Post118. Sanctum XLIII (First Draft)
Before
“So, you didn’t like it then.” Thaddeus leaned against the bar three seats down from me, seeming entirely unsurprised.
“No. They simpered.”
I didn’t ...
2021-12-31 23:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post