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-Warby
2024-05-10 17:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post“ALL RANGED UNITS, FOCUS FIRE ON THE SMALL MONSTERS! DO NOT AIM FOR THE BIG GUY!”
“Are you sure about that, Tower Master?” Madame asked, but she was already targeting the smaller monsters, aiming to maim.
“Yep. How long does it take you to cast Fi...
2024-05-10 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hobden Clan did not have offices or residences in Confen. Their nearest office was a rented suite in an office park outside of Gwaju, which, as far as the vet knew, strictly handled logistics coordination for the mail order pet food and pet medicine business. He had never been there. He didn...
2024-05-10 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostI got my hard working artillery into place on the wall. “Pomoroy, can I upgrade you to fire grapeshot? Or canister?”
“Pardon, my liege?”
Guess that’s a no. I waved her into position. “Miyuki, up on the roof with the Young Gentlemen please. Prior...
2024-05-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I mean, I’m not a ritualist.” Truth explained. “But I’ve seen this performed a couple of times by an expert.”
“You are a credit to your teachers.” Thrush “loyally” agreed.
“And, you know, everyone always goes on about how important experien...
2024-05-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTruth looked at the box, with increasing confusion and excitement. He wasn’t a big believer in coincidence. There was simply no chance that this was placed here with the expectation of catching his attention- if he had no idea he was coming to Confen, how could anyone else know? What’s more, ...
2024-05-08 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostI very quickly noticed something annoying about the existing “defenses.” They were short. They were barely more than chest-high walls, many of them, which did me no good whatsoever since I was putting my crossbowmen up on the roof.
The thugs might have benefitted from s...
2024-05-08 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I need you to tell me exactly how this plays out.”
Osain smiled and shrugged. It was a brittle, scared thing. “What’s to say? A few of the very weakest thugs in the district stand behind some loosely stacked crates. The monsters rush down the street, and everyone d...
2024-05-07 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostLate night takeout in Confen was a thing, of course. This was Jeon. Workers coming home at midnight was nothing more than proof of middle management potential, assuming you weren't talking about one of the big four employers. Then it might be a sign of insufficient commitment. The real&n...
2024-05-07 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe stood at the top of the street and looked down into the bonfire of the Floating Quarter. The squalid horror and brutality of it. The fierce pride and the vibrant life of it. The Floating Quarter wasn’t someplace where sophisticated people gazed at things with detached disinterest. It surely ...
2024-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth carefully observed his target. Very carefully. Cops had a sixth sense about when they were being watched. While he had never enjoyed the ‘pleasure’ of an Internal Security Officer’s company, they were notoriously, and justly, paranoid. He would put money down on her either being here ...
2024-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFirst things first, I had to clear out my stockpile of stuff. I had gotten some beautiful lootcakes, and everyone was going to get a slice. Pomoroi and Radz especially, as they each got a weapon upgrade and three Stone Tapes. I had some hopes for a significant improvement in performance, but we w...
2024-05-03 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth woke feeling remarkably refreshed. He took a moment to savor the feeling, then another to savor the sectional sofa he was sprawled across. The microfiber fabric was really nice. Not fancy. Not terribly expensive. Just really nice under the hand. No bets on how well it would hold up to long-...
2024-05-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostProblem- I don’t know where my personal quarters are. My first guess was off the Throne Room somewhere, but it wasn’t. Nor was it on its own floor, which seemed like a reasonable next guess. Wasn’t pinned to a notice board, nor did some item randomly appear in my inventory that might be a k...
2024-05-02 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth kept the scrubs. They weren’t dirty, really, and he liked having a costume change on hand. One trip into the locker room, a quick change of clothes, and Doctor Bone-Bro, M.D., Ph.D. (U. Jeon) D.Thaum (Hons. Behem U.) vanished. Exiting the locker room was Peuth Reduchi, Talisman Service Te...
2024-05-02 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe dachshund appeared to be running. His ears had flapped upwards, a derpy grin of doggy joy on his face. Tiny little legs flying forward and backward as he seemed poised to leap off his plinth.
Unique Throne Room decoration: The Snoot of Joy. #4 of the Supreme...
2024-05-01 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth was fairly flummoxed. “So, having considered all the relevant information, you just decided to die?”
“Yeah. Basically.” The kid nodded.
Truth had to control the urge to say something about “smart to leave early and beat the rush.” Kid had ...
2024-05-01 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe night sky crackled and writhed with red lightning. I had the sudden feeling that I was watching blood veins throbbing on a black eyeball, like I was looking up from the inside of the eye and now the sky was bloodshot. Blotting out the moon was the number 9. Then 8. Then 7. The temperature dro...
2024-04-30 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth moved through the emergency room with surprising (to him) efficiency. It seemed that this specific job, a sort of phase two of an intake, did not actually require much medical knowledge. What it required was someone recognized as a doctor, looking at the patient.
That was i...
2024-04-30 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostEvery stick-load was a victory. Not, you note, every shovelful. The prohibition on using my summons’ tools was no joke. But you know what I could use? Sticks. I could use sticks. And you can dig a lot more than you might think with just a stick.
Did I manage...
2024-04-29 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth had gone to the hospital with some vague notion of just… wandering the hallways, treating the ill and infirm. Learning more about Cup and Knife as he microscopically made the world a better place. Alas, the kneecap of dreams must always confront the lead pipe of reality.
...
2024-04-29 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostMonsters were alarmingly evenly distributed through my switchback path for them. Alarming, because this combined the worst of both worlds- able to overwhelm my defenses with numbers, but too spread out to be easily blown up with artillery. Fortunately, I had planned for such an occurrence. Unfort...
2024-04-26 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth flat out refused to believe it. His world had become a very strange place in the last year or so, but that was a bridge too far. Botis, Earl of Notoriously-Bad-Place HELL, was a good guy who was apparently famous for reconciling enemies.
And yet, not one G...
2024-04-26 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI felt my brain congeal. It was suddenly all too much. Too many things to keep track of. Too many decisions to make. The most crucial decision was- do I keep Miyuki looking for invisible units? Because where there was one, there would be many. Or do I send her to help Versai?
It ...
2024-04-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth called the Tongue to hand, and casually hopped up onto the roof of the bus shelter. From there, he jumped to a lamp post, then the side of an office building, kicking off hard enough to launch him up to the roof of a nearby parking garage. From there, it was a tiny hop up to one of the tall...
2024-04-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth tried to sort out the gains and losses for the day. The initial idea- moving the denizens with greed, turning them on their “betters,” was fundamentally viable if he really wanted a bloody revolution. It wouldn’t help bring a better world, though. Neither would rampant d...
2024-04-24 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Versai, Miyuki- no need to keep letting them through. Resume Plan A!” I was getting better at yelling across the battlefield, though I think there was some kind of magic effect at work there. Maybe the Tower was helping me out or something. My summons always seemed to hear me, which was a me...
2024-04-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth sat on the bus next to the vile little rat. Maybe he shouldn’t look down on his unenlightened cousins. Fair to say, his life had not been typical. But he absolutely did look down on this particular specimen, for one very simple reason- this rat had never tried to climb. He had probably ne...
2024-04-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI know what I think Defense in Depth means. I also know that it is a phrase with an actual, official, definition. A definition that I don’t know. I feel like what I am doing is Defense in Depth. On the other hand, as someone who traced an idiot’s IP address just to make sure even their alts g...
2024-04-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAn inexplicable outbreak of altruism broke out across suburban Gamphe. It spread, seemingly without reason, along stale residential streets and through mall parking lots. It climbed over overflowing sinks and under subfloor heating. It even, unprovoked, helped a little old lady cross a street, go...
2024-04-22 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post