So, like everywhere in the Dungeon, there are pockets that have been ‘claimed’ by the biggest and baddest monsters as their own personal hunting ground.
It makes sense, really. The monsters who manage to survive long enough to form their cores, evolve a few times and get their Sk...
2024-09-06 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Twelve hours before you go out again,” the healer scolded, “not a second sooner.”
“I heard you the first time. AND the second time, alright? The third just feels insulting.”
“We’ve been instructed to warn at least three times, since our patients are so determin...
2024-09-05 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMorrelia was frustrated.
“Tribune, you need to relax a little, you look like you’re going to bite someone’s head off,” her fellow Tribune, Joshen Aurelis noted.
She narrowed her eyes at the man, irritation bubbling just beneath the surface. Joshen wasn’t someone that ...
2024-09-04 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt took far too long for anyone to recognise just what the ants had achieved in the fifth stratum. Specifically in regards to the fortress, or nest, they constructed.
Building a secure base within the fifth had been done before, many times, over the centuries. Almost eve...
2024-09-03 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, that sweet, Undermist scent. Did you miss it as much as I did?” MacRielly asked.
Feolin wanted to scowl and curse, but she was so pleased to see the Keep again she couldn’t keep the smile off her face.
“I never thought I’d be happy to see this place,” she said....
2024-09-02 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt is difficult to piece together a specific theme or guiding principle for the naturally occurring monsters of the fifth. This may be due to how poorly studied they are, for obvious reasons. Expeditions to seize cores from the fifth do take place, but they are extremely risky, and the...
2024-09-02 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEven if the slugs aren’t attacking me anymore, they still watch. I can feel them slithering about on the edges of my gravitational awareness, tiny little eddies in the field I can barely sense. In some ways, it’s a shame. I really do want to capture one and have a chat with them, but t...
2024-08-30 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, that encounter was only the beginning of my Krath concerns. I start to see signs of them everywhere I look. Slime trails on the walls, but when I try to follow them, there’s a little crack they’ve slithered into, which inevitably launches poisonous spikes, or clouds of toxic gas. There...
2024-08-29 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA ro’klaw was, at its best, an ill-tempered brute of a semi-monstrous bird. It had a beak capable of cutting through steel mesh, claws that could shred a human's flesh with casual ease, and tough, layered feathers that could stop an arrow. Combined with their surly attitude, they were a ...
2024-08-29 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWell, well, well. I’ve been cleared by the docs, and the vents have fallen silent, which means it's time to get back down to the depths as the Colony continues to take territory.
Yay.
Back into the burn, baby! Ah, the sweet sensation of my eyes being melted by acid, how I miss...
2024-08-28 02:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t the sort of assignment Leon had anticipated when his Commander at House Greyling had called him in. As was his habit after years of hard training, he scanned the surrounds, using his enhanced senses to search for any sign of danger, but found none. He hadn’t expected any, n...
2024-08-27 02:44:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt was slow at first, but accelerated quickly. The vents, which had been spewing mana directly into the heart of the Colony’s claimed territory and surrounds, reduced their output, and eventually stopped.
Solant was somewhat pleased.
“We return to the standard timetable imm...
2024-08-27 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe are back! Whoo!
“We need more meat for the beasts,” Jozish gurbled at Zluth, her tone flat and angry.
“Of course we need more meat for the beasts,” Zluth snapped, “we need more meat for everyone! Our hunters are working as quickly as they can, but ...
2024-08-26 06:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostWHOO!
I promised I would post about this ages ago, but better late than never!
The folks over at voyce.me, who make the Chrysalis webcomic, have put together the first ever Chrysalis merch to ever exist (because I'...
2024-08-20 00:34:24 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes it’s nice to have so many brains. Also, it’s occasionally useful when those brains are capable of thinking in many directions at once. As the scary wave comes racing towards me, my newly empowered ability to think divergently kicks into gear. In no time at all, a force shield...
2024-08-16 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostCrinis and I hold down the tunnel, with some difficulty, I’ll admit. For my part, I cast an empowered gravity well and use it to press down everything in front of me. Any monster who attempts to make a charge toward this position ends up slamming face first into the ground as the incredi...
2024-08-15 05:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Tyron, lad,” Magnin said, shaking his head while his mother, sat nearby atop the stone fence, shook with silent laughter. “What are you doing?”
Flushed with equal parts embarrassment and anger, Tyron waved his sword through the air.
“I’m doing the exercise yo...
2024-08-15 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPurifying the mana of the fifth was not an idea that hadn’t been tried before. In fact, there had been dozens of attempts, throughout the millennia. In fact, historical records indicated that the Folks had made an attempt using specifically designed pets to handle the process, but were even...
2024-08-14 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“What in the name of The Queen are they doing now?” Tungstant demanded.
Cobalt turned to look behind her. The edge of the safe-zone had drawn close, much closer than either of them had expected it to be, and that meant there were thousands of ants in position up and down the widt...
2024-08-13 03:55:12 +0000 UTC View PostSolant had built her entire campaign around one central principle: adaptability. The fifth was an unknown quantity. Who could say what the Krath were capable of, or what conditions may arise down there?
That didn’t mean playing it safe, moving slow, absolutely not. That approach wo...
2024-08-13 03:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostLady Recillia Erryn sat, hands folded in her lap, her posture unthreatening and cooperative, yet the look in her eyes revealed fire and ambition raging out of control within. The very picture of what a Noble should be, a child of The Five Divines and ruler of the lands.
She would nev...
2024-08-13 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostNeutral ground in the fifth wasn’t really something the Krath did. The tribes were always at war, and meetings between them were always tense affairs. No tribe wanted to reveal the location of their Slimegrounds, so the open tunnels were the preferred place to come together. However, the...
2024-08-09 02:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe kin was a small, chittering thing, the size of a dog much like the ones he’d grown up around on the farm. Except this was no dog. Its face was covered in little claws, at least eight of them, each designed to hook into flesh so the little horror could go to work with its razor-sharp ...
2024-08-08 06:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostA thick aura of Death Magick permeated the Ossuary as Tyron continued his work. Words of power flowed from his lips and his hands weaved the arcane sigils required to give shape to the magick, each a necessary component of the intricate structure he was attempting to build.
On one si...
2024-08-08 04:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostHow do the Krath regard each other? There’s a very simple answer to that question: we don’t know.
As far as the Magio-Scholars of the Tower are aware, there has never been a successful capture and interrogation of a Krath. Not even a cursory mind reading, since such ...
2024-08-08 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I told you I could make you the next Krath’lath,” Goszi spat. “All we needed was for the Slee tribe to be brought right to the edge of extinction.”
Zluth eyed the older Krath, one of his stalks turning to track the slug.
“Are you regretting the bargain?” Zl...
2024-08-07 02:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDespite all the work the Colony has put in, there are still several sections of our territory that have been cut off. I go and inspect a few of the vents myself, and the pipes are doing a good job syphoning the energy away and feeding it to the wuffers.
The problem is, if the wuffers...
2024-08-06 02:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostI report back to Solant, and as always, she accepts the bad news with equanimity, as if she were expecting it all along.
In any case, I’m happy enough to leave her and the rest of the boffins to work out what they want to do going forward. I mean, this is going to throw a serious w...
2024-08-06 02:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostElsbeth was marching down the corridor of Woodsedge Keep with apparent confidence. Internally, she was very stressed, but it wouldn’t do any good to show that on the surface.
“What do I know about managing Slayers?” she muttered to herself. “I’m a Priestess, I’m sup...
2024-08-02 13:16:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Yessss! Look at them burn! Burn them all!”
Coolant watched as her fiery sibling unleashed her devastating magic upon the encroaching slime monsters. As she channeled her spells, Propellant herself burned red hot, flames rising from the mini-volcano on her back as she launched gobs of l...
2024-08-02 07:14:27 +0000 UTC View Post