“We’re under attack!” Victor roared!
The generals looked confused. They were fighting a wave… of course they were under attack!
“Not like that!” she groused. “There’s trouble inside the fortress!”
Messengers had gone missing. Reports weren’t coming...
2023-07-19 06:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostSomething was off, Sloan could feel it.
“What word from the walls?” she demanded of her scout coordinator.
The distinguished scout, Postant, had been working with her for months, and responded immediately to the sudden demand.
“Holding firm at last report.” 2023-07-19 04:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
To plunge an entire fortress into darkness, to commit every ant within to the cells. Such a thing had never been done in the history of the Sanctum, in the history of the Colony.
The nameless one crouched in a deep and dark tunnel, motionless. Soon, another ant approached.
...
2023-07-18 08:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostIn times of war, or great peril, many things are put aside. Morality, order, law, hierarchy, respect, such things are often cast away in order to ensure the one thing that matters most to a sapient creature: survival.
We are not that way. Our mission is sacrosanct. O...
2023-07-16 09:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostMendant and Francis didn’t know when the healers had gotten a reputation for being curmudgeons, but they both strongly felt it wasn’t deserved. They weren’t grumpy! They were providing vital, life giving services to their siblings! If anything, the accusation they were ill temper...
2023-07-14 10:30:39 +0000 UTC View Post[Holy moly, Enid! Don’t scare me like that!]
[Don’t scare you like that?] Enid squawked. [You damn near killed an old woman, you buffoon! I thought my heart was going to stop….]
[I’m not that scary looking. Crinis says I’m very handsome.]
[...
2023-07-14 08:06:14 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re generating magick already, somehow. It’s not much, miniscule, if I’m being honest–”
“Don’t mock my size.”
“–but it’s there. This must be how your spirit generates enough energy to maintain itself.”
“I always wondered about that, bec...
2023-07-14 05:18:05 +0000 UTC View Post“This is more like what I was expecting. A true shit-hole. Something dank and dripping. You’ve come back up in my eyes, Tyron. I knew you still had that filthy, cave-dwelling creep inside you.”
“Dove…”
“No, seriously. I’m fucking proud of you. You didn’t l...
2023-07-13 09:21:03 +0000 UTC View PostTyron was confused.
“So there’s a rebellion of sorts developing out there. Although, it doesn’t seem like much from what you’ve said. Slayers can kick up as much of a fuss as they like, they’re helpless once the Magisters turn the screws,” he finished bitterly.
...
2023-07-12 10:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostStill alive. Lots of posting over the next few days, especially BoD. Gotta catch up!
Eeeeenid. Eeeeeeeeeeeenid!
“What in blazes is that?!” The former mayor of renewal sat bolt upright in bed.
Thiiiiis is the ghost of Anthoooonyyyyy. Whooooaaaaoo...
2023-07-11 06:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Wipe that grin off your face,” Titus muttered.
“What grin?”
“That grin. It’s unprofessional. The troops expect a little more decorum from a Consul.”
“I’m not Consul any more,” Minerva responded, “so if I want to express my happiness, th...
2023-07-07 07:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Engineer Griner?” Titus rumbled.
“That’d be me. You must be the commander?” the burly, sleeveless man said as he turned from the enormous armoured suit he’d been working on.
Titus rolled his shoulders.
“Just about everyone down here is a commander, or h...
2023-07-05 11:37:49 +0000 UTC View PostTitus took another deep, slow breath, feeling the mana thunder through his body, tearing away at him from the inside. The conflict was never-ending. Much like the wave that ravaged his world, the raw arcane energy that permeated the Dungeon poured into him and sought to rend his flesh....
2023-07-05 09:44:00 +0000 UTC View PostI watched the battle unfold with a keen interest, using all of the senses at my disposal to follow the goings on. As large as I am, it wasn’t really practical for me to shove myself forward and block up the tunnel, I’d destroy the formation I was trying to inspect!
So I fall ...
2023-07-05 02:54:33 +0000 UTC View PostSolant felt as if her mind was balanced on a mandible’s edge. She saw everything that occurred and her mind catalogued every event, filing them, ordering them, and then she responded to each in turn as best she could.
Minute by minute, her four groups rotated through, regardles...
2023-07-03 10:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs they drew closer to the front the endless roars of monsters grew deafening, until Solants antennae were vibrating from the force of it. Her general’s eye crackled into life the closer they got to the field, her intuition and mutations blending together to give her an almost supern...
2023-07-03 06:30:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe Eldest had lain down the challenge and Solant could feel the pressure immediately. Someone like her, not even a full graduate of the Antcademy, was to be put in charge of a battlefield during a wave. Only the authority of the Eldest made something like this possible, the defenders ...
2023-07-03 05:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post“Master Almsfield,” Elsbeth greeted him, much more warm than she had appeared before. “It’s a pleasure to meet you. My name is Elsbeth Renner, I believe you were expecting to see me?”
He had? He had!
That cursed shrivelled prick had told him they’d send a liaiso...
2023-06-30 13:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey there, lover.”
Filetta grinned at him as she sauntered through the sewer, her crew following behind, canvas-wrapped corpses over their shoulders.
Tyron sighed.
“Is it really necessary to let your men know that we slept together?” he asked.
“I shar...
2023-06-29 10:47:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe Colony rapidly became a formidable fighting force once they had gained sapience. Under the leadership of the Eldest, who stamped out some of the more self-destructive ant impulses quickly, a doctrine of safety first, conservative generalship was settled as the norm.
...
2023-06-27 03:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostWhat to do? Do I tell them I can’t remember the plan? Would that impact my dignity as the Eldest? Maybe I’ll just play along and hope for the best. What’s the worst that could go wrong?
“Do we all understand?”
“Of course.”
“No problem.”
“Simp...
2023-06-26 01:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostWith the arrival of Vibrant and her crew, who’d made the difficult trek from the Mother Tree’s portal to arrive in the new mountain-nest, the situation below ground stabilised rapidly. Just like their leader, the ten thousand ants who follow in her footsteps specialise in speed, wh...
2023-06-25 13:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostChomp! Chomp! Chomp!
Ah, the satisfying feeling of having my face hands clapping fools. The monsters of the fourth stratum are tough, there’s no doubt about that, but these are all spawned during the wave, without enough evolutions or mutations to really threaten a highly devel...
2023-06-24 07:37:33 +0000 UTC View PostTyron shouldhave spent the rest of the week grinding and polishing his enchanting skills, brushing up on his knowledge of conduits and ensuring he was in peak condition to work with Ammos Greyling. Ties to the noble houses were worth a great deal to him in ways that had nothin...
2023-06-23 05:06:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe inside of the ballroom was an even more opulent display of wealth. Floating chandeliers drifted overhead, made of concentric rings, each rotating a different direction and speed than the one before. Enchanted gems hovered around these lights, sending glittering beams of fractured l...
2023-06-22 03:40:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Hah! I like the way you think. What do you reckon, Sloan? Fancy adding a floating fortress to our arsenal?”
The general looks a little sour, but can’t quite manage to conceal the excitement quivering through her antennae.
“It would allow us to do a lot. A mobile defensive pla...
2023-06-20 04:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next several hours, the wave continues as before, but with the added bonus of these damned sinuous lizards shooting us with water, fire, lightning and I think I saw one using force magic, the fancy-dancy goon. Weird to look at, they almost seem to swim through the sky, with sev...
2023-06-20 03:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole island is covered in monsters, because of course it is, this is a wave. The size of the beasties is certainly larger than what I’ve gotten accustomed to in other strata. In the first, pretty much all monsters start off smaller than a human, ditto for the second and third. I...
2023-06-18 12:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, well. Looks like someone was finally taught a lesson,” Sloan said as she appeared in the chamber, looking quite smug.
“What are you on about?” I ask.
“Just noting that a certain, overconfident general, has learned that she isn’t always right, and can’t ...
2023-06-17 03:44:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Vic, I haven’t slept in two days, I’m going to need you to use plain language, for a change.”
“That’s difficult. The exalted blood within my veins demands I speak in as roundabout terms as possible.”
“What exalted blood? Your dad is a merchant and your moth...
2023-06-16 10:43:32 +0000 UTC View Post