Light spread through the cavern in a coruscating wave, shifting and rippling with the motions of the mana-water that was its source. It was like slithering into a new world; from the dar...
2022-03-23 02:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a reason that I hadn’t just thrown spore-puppets at the enemy from the start. I could have done that. I could have slowly whittled down the nest’s population, trad...
2022-03-20 08:11:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was to a changed nest that my spore-puppets returned, lugging their venom-filled gift behind them. Where once there had been a whirl of activity, with bad-thing after bad-thing busy s...
2022-03-20 07:48:46 +0000 UTC View PostI let out a light hiss, tasting the air again. The scent-taste of desperation pressed against my tongue, or at least I imagined that it did. The many-legged bad-things had failed to put ...
2022-03-19 04:21:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere was one thing that I forgot about new lives, something that should have been obvious. Really, really obvious.
If I did things differently, different things would happen.
<... 2022-03-18 02:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Darkweavers’ danger was in their ability to ambush and entrap their prey. Receiving [Ambusher’s Vision] as a Blooded Trait had only made that more clear...
2022-03-17 06:53:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt's 4am, why am I still awake? Anyway, here's a chapter.
The darkness broke as every bit of light that I had gathered in the past minutes was released all at once. Light fla...
2022-03-16 09:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostItching was the first sign of my rebirth, that now-familiar sensation of scale-flesh too tight for comfort scraping against new flesh. I twisted and thrashed, sloughing off the dead and ...
2022-03-16 04:54:50 +0000 UTC View PostI never thought that I would curse a bad-thing’s lack of legs, but there I was. The stupid limbs were horrible, sure, prone to bumbling and stumbling about in response to the smallest ...
2022-03-15 07:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post“...and then the Little Guardian sent his captured monsters across the null-water. They dove down, almost too fast to see, their wings buzzing and fluttering so loudly that I could hea...
2022-03-14 21:49:00 +0000 UTC View PostA previous chapter posted a few seconds ago, make sure you didn't skip it
“I think that you have the wrong idea,” Elara said, keeping a wary eye on the men that held - or...
2022-03-14 05:13:36 +0000 UTC View PostElara trudged through the fading mists, another puppet draped over her shoulder. She didn’t recognize this one. Then again, it wasn’t like she had known everyone in Verdant Grove, an...
2022-03-14 05:11:56 +0000 UTC View PostMy mana burned like streams of fire-waters running through wooden channels. It thrashed like a leviathan of the deep, causing mana-water to roil in its wake. It struggled relentlessly, u...
2022-03-04 03:44:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt started with the grinding of stone. Not in the world, but in my mind. Like broken stone-spikes sliding against one another, each crumbling into ruin. I sunk mental fangs into the imag...
2022-02-26 05:43:25 +0000 UTC View PostI wanted it so badly, with such fervor that I could almost taste it on my tongue.
Of course, I wanted a lot of things right now. With each and every new flicker of the tho...
2022-02-23 05:01:11 +0000 UTC View PostMake sure you didn't skip the one posted just before this. Third chapter should hopefully come out before I head to bed tonight.
The first choice was as tempting as it was fa...
2022-02-22 04:20:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnother one coming immediately after this, and then going to start working on a third for tonight. Sorry about the delay, some stuff came up and writing got pushed to the side. Buckling dow...
2022-02-22 04:19:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe enemy descended; slithering, hissing, twining their deceptively small length down a bundle of vines. It looked weak, a tiny thing that even the least powerful of The Golem’s many d...
2022-02-01 04:02:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe enemy attacked again, roots smashing against The Golem’s clay-form with enough strength to send tremors across his body. Another shard fractured, splitting from the stone that was ...
2022-01-31 02:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostI stared out through the wall-crack, sending thought-hiss after thought-hiss towards my assembled spore-roots.
Constrict, I told the ones that rested below. The spore-root...
2022-01-28 03:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a forest outside the Guildhall, the plants that formed it stretching ever upwards. Erik had never seen so much color in one place; golds and blues and greens and browns filled ...
2022-01-26 07:12:47 +0000 UTC View PostI almost hissed with frustration as the bad-thing slipped away again, falling through once-solid stone with unsettling ease. I would have, if I had control over my own body. It was frust...
2022-01-24 03:25:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe Golem froze.
Mother prodded at him again and again, commanding him to move and fight and find that taste again. It made her happy. It should have made him happy. 2022-01-15 03:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post
The Golem didn’t like this.
Mother was angry, and the gold and blue roots had only made it worse; her roars felt as if they were shaking his Core, louder than the crick-crack of ...
2022-01-11 23:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostIt fell faster than it would have without my direction, a plethora of spore-roots forcing the giant root down in a motion that audibly cut through the air; something closer to a roar tha...
2022-01-10 04:07:49 +0000 UTC View PostI couldn't seem to write this chapter in a way that I was satisfied with and then started avoiding it because of that. Which is obviously far from...
2022-01-07 05:34:53 +0000 UTC View PostI slithered about in a daze, even the spore-roots that still controlled my every movement seeming just ever-so-slightly out of place. Wrong. Distorted.
Just like my victory.
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2021-12-23 05:02:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe tree creaked, solid bits of plant-flesh - each large enough to crush me with their overwhelming mass - falling down with every tug and pull. The giant bad-thing swayed as if caught i...
2021-12-21 23:19:13 +0000 UTC View PostI pulled free of my shed scale-flesh, exulting in my victory over the Lesser Core. Still, my thoughts were foggy; warped and distorted, jumbled by what surrounded me. Overwhelmed by the ...
2021-12-10 03:50:35 +0000 UTC View PostKala ducked down, dodging another javelin. This one, like the ones that came before it, shattered into countless fragments upon impact. As far as she could tell, the monster’s stone wa...
2021-12-08 23:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post