Henry opened his eyes. He lay on his back beneath the sheets of an unfamiliar bed, staring up at an unfamiliar ceiling. His memory of the day before turned hazy after he suffocated Zack. Henry realized his bladder was full, and so he tried to sit up, muffling a shout of pain when his side ...
2019-03-27 17:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostAthena snapped off the last of the stone holding her, and rushed over to Henry, who watched her with half-lidded eyes. “Henry,” she said, running her gaze over the red curtain running along his side, then down to the white haired old man, whose eyes bulged in death beside him. “Are you ...
2019-03-27 02:12:37 +0000 UTC View PostHenry gave her a quizzical look just before his stomach rumbled with hunger, returning his neglect with a retaliatory gut punch. “Raid the evil wizard’s fridge before we go?” he asked in a low voice. Athena answered with narrowed eyes and a bewitching smile.
“Okay, we rig the pla...
2019-03-27 00:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a minute consulting AthenaÂ’s map and comparing it to the bus routes, they were on their way. The bus dropped them off a block from ZackÂ’s house, leaving them standing on the sidewalk gawking as it rumbled away.
ZackÂ’s house was visible from a distance. A mansion built of con...
2019-03-26 23:16:15 +0000 UTC View PostHenry met Athena at the place they had decided on, two blocks away from ZackÂ’s office. Athena emerged from the shadows as Henry waited beside the bus stop, his collar pulled up to partially conceal his face. Henry couldnÂ’t see her face at first, but her distinctive intimidating walk pair...
2019-03-26 22:26:22 +0000 UTC View PostStay calm, These tiers won't effect you guys in any way, I'm just putting out higher tiers because it's better to have them and not need them, than need them and not have them.
Mostly bonusless, but it might include some odd ones. If you've got some suggestions for oddball ...
2019-03-26 21:34:15 +0000 UTC View PostA surge of panic filled Henry as a man walked up to Athena, and without preamble, drew his pistol, taking aim as her face turned ashen. Henry focused, pushing the gun up and away, and as the man was staring at his gun in wonder, Henry pulled the rubber band in his mind back. Henry built up...
2019-03-26 10:33:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe forest parted around Henry, and sure enough, after about eighty feet of climbing through the underbrush, he spotted the little red berries nestled beneath the wide leaves. Henry sat down and began levitating one berry after another into the basket.
HenryÂ’s pace was faster than a...
2019-03-26 10:21:45 +0000 UTC View PostHenry broke through the fence, following the plow that rumbled forward, churning up the earth as it went. His commander led the way, cutting a path through the chaotic, ear splitting din of noise. His friends howled around him, shooting controlled bursts toward the concrete fortifications ...
2019-03-26 10:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostHenry leapt to his feet, the chair skittering away behind him. The chains around his limbs rattled and pulled tight as he backed away from the two dead men. “Take it easy, we’re just taking you back to your cell,” the older corpse said, producing a key to the lock that held Henry’s cha...
2019-03-26 09:49:34 +0000 UTC View Post“I could swear you were cheating.” The corpse across from Henry said, taking a puff of its cigar. Henry found himself playing cards with three dead bodies, all teenage boys, all from one battle. Two were foreigners, speaking heavily accented English, while the third was a former member o...
2019-03-26 09:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostAll Henry saw was a thin slice of the manÂ’s head, his submachine gun nestled against his cheek, a smug grin tugging at the corner of his mouth. Henry threw himself to the ground, which in this case was a flight of concrete stairs, madly squeezing off rounds as he fell. The staircase erupt...
2019-03-26 09:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostHenry Stein is a former combat engineer who washed out and became a plumber. Life was circling the drain when a once in a lifetime opportunity set him up for life...At least until everything turned spooky.
A group of armed terrorists preformed a strange ritual in hi...
2019-03-26 02:43:24 +0000 UTC View Post***Alicia***
Light seeped in through her eyelids, and Alicia blearily opened her eyes.
While she was unpackaging shapes and colors, she noticed how sore her limbs, chest, throat and heart were.
“By Kolath, I’m alive…” She breathed, putting her hand underneath...
2019-03-25 23:26:24 +0000 UTC View PostGarth sat on a raised stump, watching the morning activity of the camp.
The sun was pouring through the trees from the east and partially dressed girls were emerging from their tents, stretching in the cold morning light. All he needed now was David Attenborough narrating.
ther...
2019-03-25 03:11:37 +0000 UTC View PostGarth lay in his bedroll, staring up at the ceiling of his tent, chewing on his ideas. He wanted to make a spell technique that would allow him to weave more mana into it at a later date, allowing him to create a creature with the same power level that heÂ’d had when he was in his prime. K...
2019-03-24 01:52:03 +0000 UTC View PostGarth is average. Average height, average build. He made it a point of pride to stay the same when he had the opportunity to change the way he looks.
Now he's disconnected from his past, a teenager again, and self-inventing. Garth could change himself as a method of gaining more immediate ...
Garth took a deep breath of the morning air, feeling the warm sun on his back as the train of students marched toward the west.
“So here’s my situation in a nutshell,” Garth said to the gaggle of Dentons surrounding him: Alicia, Benedette and Susie. According to Alicia, they were ...
2019-03-22 22:49:24 +0000 UTC View Post
“Lovely to see you dear,” Maggie said, smothering Alicia against her chest.
“MMM!” she groaned, her airways blocked.
“What brought you home?” Maggie said, eagerly sitting down and staring at Alicia with hyper-focus.
All this was strange. First, when she arrived, on...
2019-03-22 02:41:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Really?” Kyle asked with raised brows. “What makes you so sure?”
“I consider myself something of an expert of history before the fall of man. I was fascinated by the things we used to be able to do, and I’ve spent years of my life scouring every mention I could find of that by...
2019-03-21 00:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostPaul sat at dinner across from Maggie Denton, whose low cut shirt practically spilled her generous breasts out onto the table. How she kept them clean while eating was beyond him, but he appreciated the effort.
all her nieces and nephews were in attendance around the massive dining t...
2019-03-19 21:21:27 +0000 UTC View PostGarth couldnÂ’t help giggling as he climbed to his feet. Luckily his skull hadnÂ’t put a dent in the wall, so nobody would think he hit it hard enough to kill somebody.
“Ms. Denton!” The teacher shouted from the front, breaking the silence. “This is-“
“No, No, itÂ’s okay!Â...
2019-03-17 21:59:34 +0000 UTC View PostAlicia paced the room in the Inn while Thomas ate, making a mental list of the siblings she had to kill.
Kyle, Brendon, Jordan, Johnathon, Elie, Michael, Benedette, Susie.
It was a pretty long list, but once those eight were out of the way, There would be nobody remain...
2019-03-16 23:18:17 +0000 UTC View PostGarth slapped a hand over his neck, stumbling backwards. Two of the many things about throat-cutting that Hollywod gets wrong is that itÂ’s not instant death, and the coughing.
Garth violently coughed up a spoonful of blood that managed to seep through the nick in his windpipe before...
2019-03-15 22:37:42 +0000 UTC View Post***Alicia***
Alicia inhaled, turning over in bed and stretching against the soft linens. Every muscle in her body was singing with pleasure. It felt like it had the time she and her sisters had been taken to the spa by Aunt Maggie, where sheÂ’d forsaken the hot baths and the steam fo...
2019-03-14 21:01:11 +0000 UTC View Post“What is this?” Paul asked, jamming the opened book into Bertrand the historian’s face. The word Phytomagus was underlined, severely reducing the value of the hand-written text.
“Phytomagus?” The historian asked, frowning. He had a shock of unruly white hair and a face that was ...
2019-03-13 00:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post“So now you’re telling me that the official tax rate is 98.5%?” Garth asked the sweating clerk. The skinny man with bulging eyes nodded emphatically.
That explains why smuggling the adamantium out is so goddamn profitable. Shove a single crystal up your butt duty free, an...
2019-03-12 02:31:55 +0000 UTC View PostI just realized that with the Core taxing the rare mineral trade so heavily, across literally trillions of worlds, they would have the stuff coming out of their ears.
I was thinking of ways for them to use it all, and... would you like Garth to fight against magical mech suits made out of ...
Marcus Denton was sitting at his desk with a throbbing headache, review the financials for the last quarter. The profit margin of his businesses had taken a huge nosedive recently, which was saying something. He usually stole his wares.
The adventurers he paid to smuggle Adamantium o...
2019-03-10 22:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostNeed to sit down and have a think, Garth thought, nearly sitting on the street before reconsidering and moving to a tavern. He couldnÂ’t get his new noble-quality tailored threads dirty on the first day of owning them.
Remind me to make microscopic cleaning plant. 2019-03-10 00:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post