Ch. 36: Salos
You look human.
That shouldn’t mean anything. But it meant everything in that moment. She held those three words. Clutched them tight to her chest.
I don’t know if this...
2024-02-07 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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Ch. 35: Existential
Cass woke up gasping like she couldn’t breathe. For a moment her lungs didn’t respond. For a moment, it felt like she had no lungs.
That passed as she inhaled and she felt them inflate. S...
2024-02-05 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 34 - ?: Joy Ride
He breathed a sigh of relief as she agreed and a deeper sigh as her lungs became his. It was a strange feeling like he’d been lying at the bottom of a murky pond only to finally be allowed to com...
2024-02-03 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 33: Trust
Elemental Manipulation has increased to level 6.
There was only pain.
There was so much pain.
Her ribs were crushed. Splinters of bone dug into her lun...
2024-01-31 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 32: Desperate Offense
Her foot shifted back a hair. This fight was unimportant. She needed to get away.
Don’t! the demon’s voice ripped through her and arrested her movement. If you run now, they ...
2024-01-29 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 31: A Startling Encounter
Cass packed up her camp, sticking the hot vineroot back in her pocket for later and throwing her mat over one shoulder again. She checked the outer cavern with care and, upon finding it empty, sque...
2024-01-27 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 30: Insanity
Stats distributed, death for the moment forestalled, Cass settled a little more comfortably in her cave. She placed her last vineroot potato in the bed of coals in her fire pit, unrolled her mat--w...
2024-01-24 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 29: Resolve
Get back here! the demon screamed, his words raking against her soul like a rasp over exposed flesh. Cass doubled over in pain, a whimper leaking from her grit teeth.
“Never,” sh...
2024-01-22 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 28: Resilience
“This is your last warning,” Cass said, her attention snapping back to the demon. “Go away and I won’t hurt you.”
One of his gold eyes twitched. “That’s a lot of bluster from th...
2024-01-20 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 27: Resistance
Cass screamed. She had no mouth, yet she was screaming. She had no body, yet it was on fire.
There was only pain. Pain ripping through her. Pain tearing her apart.
Her attacker, a shado...
2024-01-17 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 26: The Nyxdra
He shoved her soul aside, settling comfortably in the seat of her Soul Well. The child didn’t even resist. Her body shifted around him, her fair skin darkening to the dark purple of the nyxdra, h...
2024-01-15 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 25: Rewards
Cass jerked awake and slammed her head against the low ceiling above her. That jogged her memory real good. Right. She had passed out after a fight again. She really would like to stop doing that.<...
2024-01-13 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 24: The Escape
Cass’s eyes went wide. What!
In the cavern below her, she heard clicking. She glanced out to see the young centipedes were moving. They had left their corpse piles and were slithering down ...
2024-01-10 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 23: The Lair
Cass regretted her decision almost immediately. But she was unwilling to let herself fall into indecision by second or triple-guessing the choice. The only absolutely wrong option was to still be s...
2024-01-08 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 22: Herald of the Deep
Cass walked as quietly as her injured body would allow, weaving between the narrow stalks of tall mushrooms along the sides of the chasm. Another group of cockroaches waited ahead. Four more.
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2024-01-03 23:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 21: Cockroaches
Cass looked up and down the cavern, wondering what next. Her goal was still to find people, eventually. People seemed unlikely in an underground cavern like this, so she probably wanted to get out ...
2024-01-03 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 20: The Cavern
Cass looked up at the tear of grey skies far above. She was at the bottom of a very deep, very long, tear in the ground. And there wasn’t much in the way of wind down here. Just a tiny draft slow...
2024-01-02 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 19: Wind Step
She briefly considered trying to butcher her kill. Boar was a meat people ate, wasn’t it? She needed to eat to survive.
Cass stared down at the dead pig. It was a gory mess. Nothing like co...
2024-01-01 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 18: Boar Fight
Despite deciding to move on, Cass didn’t just up and leave right away. Instead, she packed up her sleeping mat, rolling it into a long tube. She made herself a strap for it from a vine and slung ...
2023-12-31 23:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 17: Next
Not thinking about it was easier than trying to convince herself of something, so she threw herself into her next task. Armed with her tea, she braved the creek again, walking quietly under Stealth...
2023-12-31 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 16: Recovery
Yet again, Cass woke with a killer headache and the ringing of system notifications. Was this going to be a common occurrence? She hoped not.
This time at least, her fire was still burning lo...
2023-12-30 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 15: The Elements
Cass’s pounding head woke her in the night. That and the freezing cold of the dark and the insistent beeping of the System. Thunder roared in the distance, adding to the ringing in her ears.
<... 2023-12-29 00:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 14: Experiments in Survival
Cass poked at her fire, already glad for the barrier against the encroaching night.
Her head hurt. A glance at her Focus showed it wasn’t magic-related. Was it just good old-fashioned dehyd...
2023-12-28 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 13: Camping
Cass didn’t know how long she lay there, listening to the distant thunder and the creek spilling over the cliff’s edge. She didn’t know what she was going to do next. There was no sign of civ...
2023-12-27 00:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 12: Slyphid Instincts
The creek wound through the forest. In the distance, the sky rumbled with thunder. Cass continued to flare Foraging as she walked, finding more sorrel and vineroots at every turn.
Eventually,...
2023-12-26 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 11: Foraging
It was only when Cass was a good distance away that she relaxed again, though she kept Stealth active. Was every animal in this world enormous and bloodthirsty? She just wanted to go home.
Sh...
2023-12-25 00:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 10: The Badger
Cass’s eyes widened as she read her reward. Magic! She’d been given magic!
She almost laughed. Here was the fantasy nonsense finally working in her favor! She tried it immediately.
...
2023-12-24 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 9: A Rude Awakening
The beep of an alarm woke Cass. She sat up in a panic. She was late to work!
Her head swam with the sudden movement, her vision blurring what must have been her bedroom into what looked like ...
2023-12-23 00:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 8.5: Alyx: Plans
Alyx Veldor slammed her fist into the reinforced stone of the wall by her bed, her teeth clenched in fury.
“It went that bad then?” her personal guard, Marco, asked. He scratched his stub...
2023-12-22 00:05:00 +0000 UTC View Post