The cold grew worse over the coming hours. Even the flush of heat from the sporadic battles with the small packs of sand sharks couldn't keep them warm. The breeze was biting and their sweat served...
2024-11-21 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a short rest, Fritz and his team stacked the non-charred sharks in a pile to be processed into flaky, fillets.
Then they got to cutting.
It was bloody work, ...
2024-11-17 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFritz awoke to the hustle and bustle of breakfast, or dinner, it could be either. The outside time really didn't bear much relevance on the rest and meal times of Climbers. He knew it was good to s...
2024-11-14 02:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe mention of the spite soured the expressions of Fritz's entire team, save Bert who merely seemed interested.
"Makes the floors harder," Rosie stated simply, from where she sat i...
2024-11-10 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Wow? What?" Cal asked eagerly as Lauren perused the pile of precious objects on the long, wooden table.
"They mostly seem to be magical items. Not Imbued, mind you, though that's ...
2024-11-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"What!?" Fritz, Toby and Bert cried in unison, staring at the young woman.
"I said: I'm with child," Jane repeated, blushing furiously and wrapping her arms around her stomach prot...
2024-11-03 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Wait! We can talk about this," Fritz entreated, hoping his voice reached through the clear dome that separated his team from the other crew. He sheathed Quicksilver in a show of good faith, displa...
2024-10-31 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"That's not fair! We got here late and we still need two keys!" Bert yelled. A predictable reaction if a little more exaggerated than the rest of the team, which Fritz had gathered, having halted t...
2024-10-27 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe longer Fritz searched the mosaic map, the more he worried. There wasn't just one key room, from what he could make out there was one on each of the five floors below the sixth. His intuition ha...
2024-10-24 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"This must be your fault," Fritz proclaimed, motioning to the sticky webs covering the way forward. "Who brings up spiders in a Spire."
"Don't blame, Cal," Rosie said, puffing out ...
2024-10-20 02:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Yes, let's go," Fritz agreed. Another shudder shook the room, sending books to the stone bricks and a wave of fear through him.
He didn't want to risk the wrath of the flood again...
2024-10-17 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"For now we stay together, avoid the other crew and search through the books for anything useful," Fritz stated to his team, gathered as they were behind the lightly groaning door.
The team were quick to heed Fritz's warning, their packs and bags already on their backs as they ran right, opposite the faraway roar of flooding water. Cal sprinted ahead of the team, leveraging h...
2024-10-10 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFritz took his time returning to his team, strolling a circuitous route around the Well room, admiring the various intriguing sculptures and mosaics in their evenly spaced alcoves. Though he liked ...
2024-10-06 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFritz strode up the familiar stone scale steps, two at a time, eagerly entering the Well room and searching for the font of Power within. He needed its healing energies. It was disconcerting, only ...
2024-10-03 03:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFritz surfaced at the base of the tall, wide stone pillar. He pulled himself onto the small craggy shore around it and quickly plugged his ears with wet rags. He stared around at his team, most of ...
2024-09-29 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFritz ignored the jarring notes coming from below and continued climbing the stone cliff face. His graceful hands easily found the handholds and he pulled himself up, breathing in time with the thr...
2024-09-26 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Whoa there!" Dayn called out, rapidly approaching Fritz's team before they headed through the grey stone of the siren Door.
"Dayn, what can we do for you? We were just heading off...
2024-09-22 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the team had eaten, and all had a chance to bathe, they set in to sleep. Though they didn't abandon watches, even in the brightly lit Well room. It was one of the things 'The Observations' sug...
2024-09-19 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe real pity was the prices listed by the Guides Guild. It was little more than gouging, just as Dayn had said. Everything from know-notes to rations were at least three times the price it had bee...
2024-09-15 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBreathing slowly, calmly, Fritz gazed around the Well room while his team chose their new Abilities. This time he carefully scanned and took in all the things he had missed before.
The red and gold canopy was wet with dew and small droplets would fall when branches waved in the gentle wind.
"It sure is hot!" Bert said, grinning, trudging through the humid jun...
2024-09-08 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe creature stalking him sliced into his arms and disappeared into the bleak, grey forest. Fritz tried to flee but the monster followed. It had three faces, sixty faces, nine hundred faces. All fa...
2024-09-05 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOn wobbly legs, Fritz strode through the small section of red and gold jungle. His whole body ached while his brain felt like it was trying to escape his skull with small, cold claws. Dark veins st...
2024-09-01 03:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostVaa'gur's grin of sadistic elation was replaced with a grimace of savage fury. Fritz's slid back and out of his opponent's reach, his shadowy body solidifying after a heartbeat. He could feel his n...
2024-08-29 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPain. Three, no, five kinds of pain. Black, silver, white, dark-green, blue-green. They swirled in Fritz's mind like solid plumes of smoke, gnawing at him like fanged worms. He screamed and bit dow...
2024-08-25 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe offerings, while useful at any other time, did nothing but flare frustration in his chest while his Sanctum's stormy sky thundered. Annoyed, he fixed his attention instead to his six Attributes...
2024-08-22 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostFritz's head swam as he breathed in more of the numbing air, but he didn't dare take his eyes off the raider approaching or his savage grin.
At least he looks hurt, F...
2024-08-18 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe team followed Fritz as he strode down the brazier lit, and surprisingly smokeless, halls. They turned this way and that as the branching corridors presented themselves, winding as they did to d...
2024-08-15 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Let me heal first," Fritz said, staggering towards the floating diamond that he assumed to be the Well. The worried team parted before him, allowing him to touch the head-sized, pulsing gem.