Home can also, as it turns out, be a giant platform outside a family mega-fortress.
“Eldest, are you smelling me?”
“Yes! I can smell you perfectly well. Finish what you’re saying, sheesh!”
“Fine,” Tungstant says, watching me suspiciously. She turns and gestu...
2024-12-02 03:29:16 +0000 UTC View PostHoly moly, the fifth is no longer mucking around. Mana levels continue to rise, and I have to say, if I thought the fifth was unpleasant before, it’s completely awful now. As the toxic mana grows more dense, everything that makes it world-renowned garbage gets upgraded in the worst possi...
2024-11-29 02:50:36 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the most important and fundamental features of the fortress is that the entire structure has been peeled of mana veins. Naturally, allowing of the native mana of the fifth to be released within the walls would defeat the entire purpose of the fortress and weaken the strength of ...
2024-11-28 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTyron stared at the massive double door entrance to the Red Tower, a strange pulse thudding in his temple. Beyond these doors lay the people who killed his parents. Beyond these doors, somewhere, the array that was used to torture them could be found. Soon, he would destroy it all. He ...
2024-11-28 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJust as monsters experience exponential growth as they evolve and reach higher tiers, so too do Skills become stronger and stronger as they reach higher ranks.
A tier seven Skill isn’t necessarily twice as strong as a tier six; exactly how much a particular Skill will ...
2024-11-27 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the crushing defeat inflicted on the Krath, the pressure in the tunnels is still relentless. Either more of the slugs have arrived, or they have put in place something that is helping them ramp up the number of monsters heading our way. Then again, it could just be the rising mana ...
2024-11-26 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA flicker of light shifted in the corner of Feolin Brightshield’s vision. She cursed and brought her staff to bear, words of power rolling from her tongue as she turned the magick that flowed within her into scorching flames. A ghost emerged from the building to her right, its mouth agap...
2024-11-26 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending an hour burning mental energy trying to figure out just how this new spell form works, I give up for the time being. Well, sort of. The nice thing about having multiple brains is that I can have the others continue the work while the main mind gets on with other business.&nb...
2024-11-25 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere are many strange magics in this world, different forms of mana and ways of employing that energy that combine to make almost anything possible. The Colony has put enormous time, effort and resources into attempting to map all of these, to create a complete record of every type of...
2024-11-22 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post[About time you got involved,] I rant, prodding at the roots of the Mother Tree with my antennae.
The roots quiver and slide around each other, creating a menacing hissing sound, but I’m not intimidated.
[You want to threaten me? Down here? I don’t think so!] I roar, proddi...
2024-11-21 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTyron allowed his wights to coordinate the charge as he moved away from the arch before de-summoning it. The wide road before the tower gate would soon be filled with his enemies, and if they got inside the ossuary, who knew what they might do?
The arch faded from existence, taking t...
2024-11-21 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Legionary Commander and the Krath glared at each other, each wishing they could destroy the other, while Solant stood to the side, observing their interactions calmly.
[I refuse to say a word in the presence of this metal-clad usurper,] Goszi hissed into the general's mind. [Get ...
2024-11-19 05:44:18 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t easy for Chyron to get a meeting with Solant. Not because the ants prevented them from speaking to each other, but because the demands on the ant’s time were so extreme that opportunities for them to get together were scarce.
They’d met several times since the i...
2024-11-19 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPower thrummed within Tyron. Every fibre of his being was awash with it. His personal reservoir of magick boomed like an ocean, crashing against the confines of his soul with the fury of a hurricane.
And he could sense all of it. Almost like he had been granted a sixth sense...
2024-11-19 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostCommander Chyron of the Abyssal Legion stomped away from the meeting with the infuriating ant, her mind awhirl. Morrelia hurried along in her superior's wake, wondering just what was bothering the woman so much.
She didn’t get any answers until they’d made their way back to their...
2024-11-18 06:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostWhoo!
It's that time of year folks and I actually remembered to make a post announcing my christmas break on time! Who could believe it!? It's insaaaaaaaaaane.
Anyways. I'll be taking a two week break over the Christmas period starting on December 23rd and ending on the 6th of Jan. Bi...
2024-11-18 03:54:08 +0000 UTC View PostI was going to visit the healers anyway, so being prodded by the Legion at the same time isn’t a big deal. I’m the one who agreed to their conditions, after all; it’s not like I can complain now.
Well… I can… and I will! Just… internally.
Advant and I wind our...
2024-11-15 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe ambush went well, but Solant doesn’t seem all that pleased. Not that she looks mad, she just looks… like Solant. Calm and cool, the little general sits amidst her swarm of generals, scouts, mages and other leaders at the heart of the command post, absorbing all the chaos with the e...
2024-11-14 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lady Recillia Erryn was furious. Beyond furious. She sat behind her desk, demeanour so icy the unfortunate Magisters summoned to her office felt their breath should have been misting in the air.
Unlike the various functionaries, who scurried in and out of the office, for Gr...
2024-11-14 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Abandon the captives,” Zluth told his war party, “slide as fast as you can!”
His group were much further back than most and had managed to avoid the crushing force of the large ant’s spell entirely, but many others hadn’t been so lucky. As Zluth raced to escape before th...
2024-11-13 04:36:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Krath left their captives behind, safely secured within their living nets and swarmed onward. The mass of monsters they had driven into their attackers was starting to run out of momentum, yet there was life in it still. Zluth watched carefully as he slid toward the defenders once more...
2024-11-12 07:49:14 +0000 UTC View PostTyron made good time through the sewers, pushing himself hard. As he ran, he combed through the new knowledge the Unseen had placed in his mind, trying to tease out all the details of his new spells and abilities he could, in order to make use of them sooner rather than later.
Of cou...
2024-11-12 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA horde of monsters crashed into the ant lines, who were already engaged in a fighting retreat. The blue mana continued to be blown back by the concentrated power the Krath had created.
There was a way in! Finally, the invaders were on the run!
Zluth couldn’t restrain a gurgl...
2024-11-11 10:56:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Krath reinforcements slithered forward, their bodies pressed flat to the rock, using every fold and crevice within the rock to conceal their presence. Changing the colour of his outer flesh to blend in, Zluth crept alongside them, drawing ever closer to the battle raging at the edge of...
2024-11-08 02:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Awakening.
Tyron Steelarm. Your expertise in wielding the energy of Death continues to grow. More power will be placed at your disposal; use it well.
You are Ascending.
You have received the Class: Bone Mage
Using a blend ...
2024-11-07 07:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostHow many of these monstrous killing machines were attached to this invasion?! Zluth could scarcely believe his eyes when, instead of the ant he’d expected, a giant bear had come waddling down the tunnel. At first, he’d seen it as a positive thing, especially so when the creature didn’t seem...
2024-11-07 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSarah approached the boundary between the safe-zone and the native mana of the fifth with a deep sense of trepidation. From everything Anthony had said, she almost expected toxic, knife-faced fish to spring out of ground beneath her paws the second she crossed the line.
[The Krath ha...
2024-11-06 05:52:18 +0000 UTC View PostBit short, and there are a few changes I need to make to the previous chapter, but I didn't want to keep you all waiting too much longer. Enjoy!
After making so many selections, Tyron still had a number of feats to choose, and the options there were tempting almost across t...
2024-11-05 10:15:53 +0000 UTC View PostSarah wanders off to get armoured up, as does Odin, the weirdo. Fully suited up, the truly enormous bear is even more deadly looking than before, which is hard to believe. The specially crafted gear will enable her to operate out in the toxic zone for half an hour at a time, which isn’t ...
2024-11-05 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI know I can’t exactly get tired, due to my rather unique set of circumstances, but I am getting tired. The Krath have been working their slimy backsides off, being pests in all the ways they can. The Colony is still holding the line, but the number of monsters reaching the safe...
2024-11-04 05:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post