HAH! He only has a partial sheet! Get wrecked!
It wasn’t too difficult for Tyron to extricate himself. Although, technically speaking, he didn’t. His closest minions weren’t far away and were more than capable of severing the rope for him. Perhaps that did co...
2023-12-05 02:05:10 +0000 UTC View PostSorry BoD readers! You've been starving, but soon, you will feast!
After thinking, reading the reactions, pondering some more, I decided to scrap the previous version of chapter fifty-seven and go in a different direction. Here is the re-write, and yes you will get ...
2023-12-04 03:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post[You really thought you were strong enough to beat a mythic monster on your own?]
[I figured you were just an ant! How was I supposed to know?]
[I’m a tier seven, mythic ant! Probably the first one in the history of the darn Dungeon. Pay a little respect, man.]
Than...
2023-12-01 10:48:49 +0000 UTC View PostLike I said, the Folk seem like they’re down to fight at pretty much the drop of a hat. Before ten minutes have passed, I find myself in an arena, surrounded by hundreds of spectators, while the dog-kin is stretching and taking some practice swings of his blade.
[How many of th...
2023-12-01 07:12:50 +0000 UTC View PostFreehill is buzzing. The Folk seem to love music, dancing, and fighting in pretty much equal measure. As tall as I am, I can see over the roofs of the buildings that line the wide street I’m led down, and pretty much everywhere I look there is either an impromptu hoe-down, o...
2023-11-30 05:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostCut my hand pretty bad trying to fix my dishwasher this week. Yay.... Sorry for slow chaps.
My first glimpse of Freehill pretty much confirmed everything that Marzban had said about it. The place is huge. Now, I’m no geologist, and I can’t tell you what size an...
2023-11-30 04:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostEran Thouris is beaming like a cat who got the cream. Also the fish. Probably nibbled on a rare and endangered bird as well.
[So it really went that well?]
[Oh yes,] she assures me. [The number of offers we received is modest, but the impression we made was devastating. Onc...
2023-11-28 05:22:58 +0000 UTC View PostEran Thouris was in her element. Her mind raced, the blood pounded in her veins and she felt as if an electric current were running over her scales.
“This tea is… quite… adequate.”
Seated across from her, the representative of the Deep Coral Conglomerate, Lissa, tri...
2023-11-28 04:02:06 +0000 UTC View Post[Regardless of the quality of the goods your colony produces, there will need to be a reduction in the price due to your very nature,] a snooty brathian merchant says to me.
Inside the bubble, these, I’m assuming, exceptionally wealthy men and women aren’t quite as impressive...
2023-11-25 22:19:00 +0000 UTC View PostA bubble generator, as it turns out, is pretty much what it sounds like. Each creates a thick layer of protection over the open topside of the ship, which all of a sudden is now fully submersible. The brathian are absolute masters of their craft, I have to say.
Marzban explains t...
2023-11-24 06:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostI’ve got a ship to myself, pretty much. A wide, flat topped barge with enough room for me to lie down and stretch my legs, allowing the fresh, watery breeze kicking off the surface of the lake to run through my antennae and over my carapace. It’s not a bad life.
Flatteringly, they’ve ...
2023-11-24 05:04:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe brathian continue to be quite friendly and open with us, even allowing the carvers to peek into their workshops. The results of that visit were apparently a little humbling.
“They’re way ahead of us,” Smithant admitted freely.
She hasn’t changed much since the l...
2023-11-24 05:03:18 +0000 UTC View Post“I think I need a drink,” Tyron rasped, then blinked.
His eyes felt raw as sandpaper, and blinking didn’t seem to help. Was he so lacking in fluid there was nothing left for his eyes?!
Blearily, he looked down at his hands and saw they were trembling, his individual digits resis...
2023-11-22 08:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostGramble Tillis was running out of patience.
“You okay, boss?” his teammate Christoff asked him. “You’re looking… tense.”
The two were sat in the Split Granite, the newer of the two pubs in Cragwhistle. The tables were cleaner, the beer was… essentially the sam...
2023-11-22 03:11:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, nothing happened. Tyron haphazardly piled the bones into the recess and nothing at all occurred. He even utilised the magick-eye spell to see if there were any change in the energy, but there was nothing. Curiously, the bones didn’t appear to be taking in the ambien...
2023-11-20 07:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostTried to catch up on Chrysalis, fell behind in BoD. You guys have four chapters coming this week. Yeesh.
“I have to admit, the look is growing on me.”
“I didn’t really design it for aesthetics. It’s for protection, and to increase your magick supp...
2023-11-20 04:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostSatrap Umizan, leader of the Brathian Island Conglomerate, turns out to be a festively plump chap, covered in jewellery and floating fabrics that sparkle with unearthly light. He’s an impressive sight, that’s for sure, but all the expensive accoutrements don’t quite manage to dis...
2023-11-17 10:45:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turns out, the Colony’s new trading partners are fairly accustomed to bringing less… swim-capable creatures down into their watery abode. Perhaps not necessarily ones as large as I am, but hey, it all works out in the end.
When I arrive at the beach, I find a team of br...
2023-11-17 04:57:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes very little time for the Colony to get the stuff together. A bit more than hour, I’m not going to lie, but not by much. Within thirty minutes, the goods start to flow through the gate, along with many of the Colony’s best carvers. Even Smithant shows up! The only thing that could dra...
2023-11-16 10:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostTurns out they aren’t particularly impressed I’ve brought Odin along with me. No sooner have we entered the chamber than the guards are whipping out blades and the mages are slapping down shields around the core of their group.
Enid looks as confused as I feel, and there’s some rapid ...
2023-11-16 10:06:27 +0000 UTC View PostSure enough, it doesn’t take long before Vibrant comes sprinting out of the office, even more energetic than before.
“It’s amazing, Senior! They know soooo much! Even though they have rock-rock heads!”
“Hey, they just have a second layer of rock skin, it’s not l...
2023-11-16 10:04:45 +0000 UTC View PostFinally. Finally! It wasn’t easy, but I managed to shepherd all of my pets through their evolutions. Holy moly, that was a lot of work. As expected, Tiny was the most difficult, but now the big guy has settled in, obviously running through the menus, judging by his furrowed brow.
... 2023-11-14 07:40:59 +0000 UTC View Post[Finally done, eh Tiny? I’m impressed, I seriously didn’t think you’d last this long.]
When he emerges from the consultation, head aching, Tiny finds his master waiting in the chamber he is to evolve in, a huge core held in his jaws. Tiny winces when he sees it. He remember...
2023-11-13 08:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostTyron stepped through the rift, back onto the mountain, still shivering as he shook the rime from his cloakl. No matter how many layers he put on, the realm these kin belonged to was beyond freezing.
Around him, his skeletons emerged, as well as Dove, who jauntily swaggered onto ...
2023-11-12 11:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostBeen under the weather this week, which has caused this slow trickle of chapters. Second BoD tomorrow and then back to Chrysalis to catch up. This one is a tad on the shorter side, but didn't want to pad it unnecessarily. Enjoy!
The ceiling of the Grand Cathedral was ...
2023-11-10 09:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post[There you go, Tiny. Now you are the most intelligent ape you’ve ever been.]
He looks at me, bat features drooping miserably.
[It’s not that bad! You are being absolutely ridiculous. I took what, twenty points of Might and juiced up your brain. You’ll probably get two...
2023-11-09 07:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostMaster approached, an enormous core held firmly in his mandibles.
[Hey there, Crinis! Hope the consultation went well. Did the rock-heads have some good suggestions for you?]
Crinis writhed her tentacles happily as the giant ant approached and placed the core down in front ...
2023-11-08 10:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostHuddled in his cave, Tyron continued to scribble away in his book of notes, face a mask of concentration. There were so many things for him to work on, it was difficult for him to focus on a single thing at a time.
He’d promised Dove he would work on a new Status ritual, and he...
2023-11-06 09:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostThere were many things that Gramble didn’t understand in life. His mother, for one. The woman was a contradiction in terms. Low born, but with the confidence and arrogance of a thrice-blessed noble. Perhaps it was that attitude that enabled her to snag his father, a retired silver sl...
2023-11-03 07:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post[Hold still, Tiny! You’ll get back everything you lose and more in a minute!]
With his lower lip jutting out stubbornly, Tiny continues to wiggle back and forth, trying to avoid the touch of my antennae. Watching the big ape roll around like a potato in the sink would be amusin...
2023-11-02 11:35:45 +0000 UTC View Post