Leering skulls, purple light burning in their hollow sockets and black mist rising from their bones, the skeletons were a fearsome and unnerving sight. Elinon suppressed the urge to physically recoil from their grim visage, his discipline not allowing such a thing.
Blades smoking wit...
2025-11-25 00:40:33 +0000 UTC View PostHow were we supposed to know they would turn on us? After so long, fighting side by side, building up our communities together. We trusted them. They trusted us.
Even though they told me why, I still can’t wrap my head around it. It’s madness. The whole world is mad....
2025-11-25 00:33:39 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes, a monster needs to be taken care of. This is a universal truth for everyone who makes their life in the Dungeon. By their very nature, monsters are territorial and eternally hungry for growth and power. Eventually, one will rise above the pack, stand head and shoulders over ...
2025-11-25 00:22:19 +0000 UTC View Post“A wise investment,” Merchant nodded sagely, her glasses glinting in the dim light of the ship's stateroom. She gathered up the documents from the table in her front claws, stacking them neatly before placing them in her satchel. “The delvers of Green Mountain are a force to be reckoned wit...
2025-11-21 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostJust how much magick did the damned Necromancer have access to? Fire roared into the sky once more, arcing high overhead before plummeting down to vanish into the darkness. Plumes of golden flames burst from the miasma, able to be heard even from kilometres away and searing into the eyes o...
2025-11-20 01:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostGreen Mountain is both more, and less impressive than I thought it might be. I mean, it’s hard for these places to not be impressive, given the way they're built on the slopes of mountains so large they literally hold up the roof of the stratum.
Combine that with the amb...
2025-11-20 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTurns out that word has leaked from Green Mountain that we are taking delvers alive as much as we can. As a result, this lot were happy to throw in the fight after witnessing the power of the singularity up close and personal. With the majority of their preparations destroyed and their ambush obv...
2025-11-19 01:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, the remote town of Foxbridge was enshrouded in a thick miasma of darkness, blocking all sight of the horrors within. Mage Captain Elinon, gathered with his regiment at the rear of the gleaming formation, had no fear of the shadows that concealed their foe; his fear was reserved...
2025-11-18 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSingularity is a heck of a spell, if I do say so myself. Earned for reaching the next rank of gravity mana speciality, it’s definitely one of my personal favourites and packs a heck of a punch. To offset that absurd damage potential is the mind-cracking difficulty in casting the lousy thing. 2025-11-18 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
[Master, the nameless have found something. A large ambush. Hundreds of delvers have gathered and laid traps for you. Would you like me to reach out and destroy the FILTH?]
[Uh, no, that’s quite alright. Just let me know where they are and I can take care of the rest.]
[... Fine.] 2025-11-17 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all!
Hope everyone has been well! I know that's not a guarantee with so much unpleasantness all over the place but at least here I can endeavor to keep things light. Unless I'm posting bod, things get dark over there.
Apologies for no post today, I spent the weekend down in Tasm...
2025-11-10 08:36:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe nameless one wasn’t used to being out in the tunnels in this way. Some of her sisters, those who served as soldiers and scouts during their hours in the light, were doubtless more comfortable in these environs, but the nameless one had not emerged from the shadows for many weeks now. Perhap...
2025-11-07 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMerigold didn’t especially want to be part of the discussions around the table in general Crow’s tent, but as the representative of the Imperial Court and head of the Special Administration, she was obligated to be. As always, Honoured Stennis stood by her shoulder, an imposing and indomitabl...
2025-11-06 01:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, if it isn’t my favourite resident of Green Mountain. So nice to see you again, Ms Alice. Or is it Mrs?”
Once again, in the boat, greeted by obsequious, yet somehow mocking brathian merchants, here to meet this infuriating creature.
“I am married,” she replied stiffly, t...
2025-11-06 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostFrederick felt like his heart had locked solid in his chest. Every nerve in his body screamed in terror as the giant beast loomed over him. With such overwhelming power, he could feel the monster’s might within every cell.
Against something like this, there could be no victory and he’d ...
2025-11-05 01:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe delver economy is an interesting case study in and of itself, since there are so many possible revenue streams and an inexhaustible demand for their services.
To start with: cores. Cores are, in many ways, the item more than any other that makes Pangera turn. Needed for any...
2025-11-04 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostTyron was furious. More than furious, he was incandescent with rage. Were he not occupied with the coming battle, he would have been kicking and spitting, lashing out to try and find a way to vent his anger.
Of course, it was difficult to fully find an avenue to direct his fury since...
2025-11-03 06:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post[Oho! Almost got me there!]
[Wow! Nice try!]
[You’ll get there one day, champ! I believe in you!]
[If you fully believed in yourself, you would have got me there. That’s motivation for next time!]
There’s something about messing with these delvers that I just don’t...
2025-11-03 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA sighting of the Necromancer didn’t interest General Crow as much as she thought it might have.
“We were already fairly sure he was in there,” he told her, brows raised as he and his officers continued to pore over maps of the region and debate strategy. “Go and get so...
2025-10-31 02:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostMerigold was never happy when she was summoned by General Rasmus Crow. A competent and incorruptible soldier of the Empire he might be, and she didn’t believe he held any ill will towards her, regardless of what might be happening in the imperial court, but he was still a daunting presen...
2025-10-31 02:37:47 +0000 UTC View PostOf all the organisations separate from the free cities, kingdoms, empires, trade federations and territorial associations in the Dungeon, the most well-known and impactful is the Abyssal Legion.
Almost as ubiquitous is the Church of the Path. Its origins are lost to time,...
2025-10-31 01:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post“What are those fools doing out there?” Frederick demanded. “If any of you are planning some sort of hairbrained, idiotic assault, you better tell me right now so I can kick you in the face!”
Before him stood the heads of every team who remained in this section of the Dungeon, but a...
2025-10-30 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t easy for Merchant to get in touch with people from the Church of the Path. It wasn’t easy for Merchant to find someone willing to admit that such a person even existed on Green Mountain.
Which was so obviously absurd, with them having an entire cathedral dedicated to the faith...
2025-10-29 01:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnother negotiation with these ants. They were relentless, Alice had to give them that. Diplomats, as if monsters having diplomats wasn’t an utterly absurd notion, had been sending daily messages via their brathian merchant contacts despite being rebuffed every time. Green Mountain had, with so...
2025-10-28 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJust… what is going on here?
The ant in front of me is unlike anything I’ve seen before. Fancy-looking clothing, gold jewelry, glasses. It’s not over the top, but it’s enough to create an image of affluence and sophistication that… unless I’m mistaken… an ant simply <...
2025-10-27 01:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So much happening in the world of Chrysalis right now, my head is spinning!
Again. WIP.
The merch guild, who are working on the Chrysalis line, are giving me basically total control on this stuff, so if something here is bugging you (heh), then let me know I can veto. We've already ma...
2025-10-24 06:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Eldest, do you really intend to sell the delvers back to Green Mountain?”
“Of course, why wouldn’t I?”
Sloan seems to have reservations about my strategy.
“Won’t they just come back again?”
After putting up with the priests for a few weeks? Probably not.&n...
2025-10-24 01:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Tyron felt when he opened his eyes was a rush of anxiety. Had the Empire come as he slept? Was the horde intact?
After a few moments to gather himself, he was reassured. Not only was the horde intact, it was larger and more powerful than it had ever been.
It had...
2025-10-23 05:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhat should I do? Should I cook him? Slowly roast this priest while turning him over a spit? Or boiling? Boiling is good! The flavour of evil and corruption will permeate the water and we can use it to poison the wells at Green Mountain. Oh, I haven’t felt this… this alive since the ...
2025-10-23 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI’m sure they expected me to retaliate, but I’m not sure they expected something like this.
My chomp sucks in the gathered dust, eliminating the cloud and revealing the scrambling delvers in front of me. They’ve got a bit of space, and a shield up by the looks of things. Hope...
2025-10-22 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post