“Dad!” Tom and Felix called as they stormed into the mansion.
“In the reading room!” Dad’s voice emanated from down a side hall.
They stormed over to the reading room, angry enough to ignore their aching feet. They hadn’t been planning on walking home barefoot.
“Da...
2022-05-30 16:52:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe most powerful force in the universe is compound interest.
-Albert Einstein
After Perry dropped off a man-sized chunk of prawn he’d snagged off the beach to the man-hunters, he went back to his house and got verbally reamed for a good half hour for nearly gettin...
2022-05-29 17:29:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright, here’s the rules,” Left said as Right hung up the net which had been suspiciously hidden behind the disabled Replicator flagship this entire time.
Now that Perry’s anger had cooled a bit from the name-calling, he was starting to get the suspicion that these guys just wante...
2022-05-29 01:16:06 +0000 UTC View PostA: A rousing game of beach volleyball where we see Hardcase out of her mech for the first time ever, they beat them then a monster attacks and they're proven to be total posers.
B: Perry agrees to the game then melts their extremely expensive armor as soon as they step out of them fo...
2022-05-27 18:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a lot of permits, Perry thought, his head spinning from the sheer amount of paperwork required for doing a little innocent lairscaping in the middle of the city. And that was with John doing all the heavy lifting.
I haven’t really considered what kind of building I w...
2022-05-27 18:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostThese are probably both going to happen at some point, but,
Do you prefer
A) Perry delves an abandoned lair.
B) Beach cleanup between tides.
Also, suggestions for both totally welcome.
***Mason Pierce***
Mason’s grip tightened on his prawn gun as the boiling seas crept closer to the wall.
It was almost a relief when the first Prawn began climbing the side of the wall, it’s stubby limbs clinging to the smooth surface of the wall, dragging a bulbous head out of th...
2022-05-26 19:00:42 +0000 UTC View PostIn the last chapter, I introduced three new spells.
Dregor’s Binding: Binds two objects together so that what happens to one, happens to the other.
Gretchen's Idyllic Manifestation: Creates a permanent construction based on the user's imagination.
Miniature Vistas: Creates a ...
2022-05-26 15:26:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that’s not good.” Perry muttered, looking up at the sign.
Dave’s Magical Emporium closed for High Tide. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Perry only had a few more fights worth of supplies, he was flush with cash and wanted to buy some of the more interesting spell ...
2022-05-25 19:23:28 +0000 UTC View PostWho do you think was in the wrong in chapter 21.
A) Perry's mom for attempting a life-threatening ritual on him involving feeding him an extremely dangerous magical parasite, and giving superpowers to an eight-year old.
B) Perry's dad for injecting his son with an untested serum and...
***Perry, 8 years old***
Perry gasped as motes of light swirled around Mom’s garden, seemingly rising out of the ground where the moonlight struck the sweet-smelling blue flowers she spent so much time on.
“This is magic,” Mom said, looking down at Perry’s complete awe with a ...
2022-05-24 16:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostPerry flew back to his lair, Heart hammering in his ears.
He needed to turn on the spellframe designed to cast the scrying spell and locate Heather, PRONTO.
This could be significantly more difficult if Karnos managed to destroy my lair. It could take as long as half an hour ...
2022-05-23 17:20:15 +0000 UTC View PostIn 1984, Jonathan Harker was coerced, by the direct control of his body to commit several crimes by the Minder, Mindstrike.
Before this point, the law had been unclear on complicity under duress, but after the facts had been laid out, the court found that Mr. Harker was entirel...
2022-05-20 20:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostResistance got a lot heavier nearer to Locust’s lair, and they weren’t falling for the ‘having a baby’ trick anymore. The light had to hit people’s ocular nerves relatively unfiltered for the spell to work, so closing your eyes or even reallygood sunglasses worked.
On...
2022-05-19 15:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostParadox’s entire world narrowed down to Karnos, his vision tunneling as if he’d turtled into his own skin and was watching everything through a narrow periscope.
His heart slammed in his ears.
He knew Karnos was bluffing.
Karnos know Paradox was bluffing.
The game they...
2022-05-18 03:40:25 +0000 UTC View PostLong week,Perrry thought with a sigh as he took off the bucket on his head and ran his fingers through his helmet-hair.
High Tide was only three days away, and already things were getting…a little weird.
Mom and Dad were fighting less than usual, for one. It was a strange t...
2022-05-16 15:16:32 +0000 UTC View Post“And can any of this information be used to reveal Mr. Karnos’s identity?” The lawyer, a bulldog of a man named John White asked, resting his fingertips on the manilla envelope.
“Well, some of the bank accounts are in his real name, if that’s what you’re asking,” Perry said. 2022-05-13 20:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“So what did you need, Paradox?” Titan asked. The green-eyed bruiser was wearing his costume, so Perry wore a helmet. It felt a little weird doing it in a crowded coffee shop, but that was the world they lived in.
Perry had gotten Titan’s work number from Hardcase and proceeded to set...
2022-05-12 18:54:26 +0000 UTC View PostPerry walked around the lead-plated armor in the center of his workshop, tapping his pencil on his lips as he walked.
Mk. II weigh in:
50 pounds. Featherweight division.
$1500 dollars in supplies.
Power supply est. 1600 hours of continuous op...
2022-05-11 21:03:23 +0000 UTC View PostProfessor Replica was one of the most dangerous Supers to ever exist, a man who could create self-replicating drones out of a sheet of paper. His creations threatened to cover the planet with his sick facsimiles of life.
Even after his defeat by Solaris, his more advanced autom...
2022-05-10 19:02:04 +0000 UTC View PostSuperhero stories are basically one fight after another with little rhyme or reason, so I didn't go into this thinking I would need much more than solid worldbuilding. That means I don't have a big plot goal other than letting the characters explore the world.
What storyline do you thin...
***Heather***
Heather couldn’t wipe the smile off her face if she wanted to. Somehow even the fact that they’d walked away with about a hundredth the amount she’d wanted couldn’t bring her down. She’d had a great time, near-death experiences notwithstanding.
She unl...
2022-05-09 20:53:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I know this is low effort, but the design is more or less how I envisioned Hardcase's suit. It's got a tiny cockpit, and fully mechanical arms and legs.
For those of you who were wondering why he ...
The first hint of High Tide was also the first recorded Trigger. One Edward Collins, July 15, 1969, in a sleepy Midwest town. The young man was playing chicken with some of the local color, and lost control of his car, tumbling down a ravine.
When the car was cut open, they wer...
2022-05-08 20:40:43 +0000 UTC View PostPerry and Heather were crouched in the rafters of the warehouse, right beside a melted hole in the roof, where some supers had presumably been in a slugmatch.
If things went wonky, they’d fly up through the hole and escape.
Things got dull fast, and eventually, Perry just l...
2022-05-07 20:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you wearing?” Heather asked, motioning to Perry’s faintly iridescent embroidered vest with dark purple undershirt and fancy slacks, completed by a hefty silver love charm amulet in the center of his chest.
He looked like he’d walked out of the cover of a women’s...
2022-05-06 22:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, I've spinning my wheels in my head a lot. Part of this post is just to weigh the pros and cons on paper for myself. I figured If I was gonna do it, I might as well get feedback too.
A good super story has a lot of supers and a lot of recurring characters. (I am terrible at large cas...
“So like, what do you do?” Brendon. “What’s it like, being a tinker? Do you have a specialty?”
Magic.
“Batteries,” Perry said. “I was just thinking about electricity, and how much Franklin city has, when BAM. I suddenly had this overwhelming urge, lik...
2022-05-05 17:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Ahahaha!” Heather kicked her heels and clutched her stomach. “Oh my god it hurts.”
“I’m not getting it.” Brendon said.
On the TV screen was a still image of Hexen and The Mechanaut facing down a single dark-haired teen on the sidewalk, both of them radiating disapproval...
2022-05-04 16:45:06 +0000 UTC View PostPerry decided to play hooky.
He didn’t fancy a desperate sprint across town, just to receive the exact same amount of scolding, so he blew school off entirely.
This was not typical behavior for him, but life hadn’t exactly been typical lately.
You know what sounds good? ...
2022-05-03 16:01:52 +0000 UTC View Post