It's a good thing I have so many minds now, since I have so many new things to play with. Barrier magic is another defensive tool in the box and I'm quite keen to prioritise it. With my reaction speed and increasing magical prowess, I bet I can throw down shields in the blink of eye, putting them...
2021-08-20 11:04:43 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I eventually wake it's to find that the rest of the group has already completed their mutations and that Crinis has extended herself into a wall between me and everyone else. Preserving my modesty in my most vulnerable moments. What a good companion she is!
[Thanks Crinis.]
I mea...
2021-08-19 11:54:13 +0000 UTC View PostExcept it isn't there. DAMMIT! I'll have to check again after I get my mutating done, but holy moly I'd hoped it would be there… I'd ripped open the magical skills list the moment I had an opportunity and raced through it, my brain practically screaming for some sweet, sweet gravity. I'm crushe...
2021-08-17 11:27:11 +0000 UTC View PostI don't recall seeing this before… if that's because I wasn't looking for it or if it was unlocked somehow… I can't be sure. Being able to detect Gravity? In what way? As in, the strength of the gravitational field in any particular area? Or from a specific object? Or both? Or neither? The de...
2021-08-17 10:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, despite how much I want to see my old organs rise to the grand old height of +30, I decide to start with the new stuff, specifically, the Vestibule, Nave and Antennae. These reforged body parts are high performing and important to me so I need to invest in them. With the huge wealth t...
2021-08-14 11:32:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe tale of the Colony's expansion is one of conflict, it is true, though many point to that as the sole factor, as if everywhere we trod there was nothing but war and death. Perhaps it is easy to view us as the enemy if that were the only way we have been described. Even a cursory examinatio...
2021-08-12 10:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Whooooooooo!" Vibrant cheered as she raced across the plains of leng, delighting in watching the larval demons leap from her path just in time to miss her flashing legs.
The air was boiling hot and seared against her carapace as it drove her antennae back. The smell of ash and molten rock ...
2021-08-11 08:35:53 +0000 UTC View Post[It's so damn hot!] Sarah complained.
[Of course it is,] Granin snorted, [it’s the third stratum. Place is nothing but ash and lava.]
[You might be fine,] the giant bear grumbled, [but I'm covered in fur. If I was a rock person like you, maybe it wouldn't bother me so much.]
T...
2021-08-10 08:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not really wearing armour. It's more jewellery than anything else. Which isn't something I wanted to point out to Smithant. She takes immense pride in being a smith, specifically in being an armourer, since she doesn't make weapons. In fact, she takes an unhealthy amount of pride in ...
2021-08-10 08:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostOur plans made, the council disperses, Vibrant disappearing over the horizon before I can so much as blink. Although… that could be a long measure of time, since I can't blink. I'm actually starting to forget what it was like to close my eyes, to be honest. I mean, how long can you go without e...
2021-08-07 08:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting dragged on for another hour before a reasonable plan of action of attack was determined. We had to consult Al fairly frequently throughout the process, trying to determine exactly what is and isn't allowed in a formal war between demon cities. In the process we got a bit of an overvie...
2021-08-06 08:20:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs I watch the disc containing Brixin and her cohort of demons fly back to Orpule I breathe a sigh of relief. That was close, too close! We might have been able to win, but most likely only with the sacrifice of many, many lives and that is a price I am simply not willing to tolerate.
My si...
2021-08-04 08:36:44 +0000 UTC View PostHey there folks! Bit of a news dump but I felt like this deserved its own post.
For those who like to read, or have read the side-fictions I have in the stickied post, then good news, four new chapters of Necromancer have been added, over twelve thousand words.
I've gotten the story t...
2021-08-04 04:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostSeriously? Another demon city lord showing up now?! What did I do to deserve this? Seriously!
The new arrival looks down on us and the half-consumed remains of Grokus with an imperious gaze that does little to make me think this encounter is going to end peacefully. She appears to be a type...
2021-08-03 10:51:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe immediate fallout from defeating the city was a little odd as an experience. The remaining demonic residents of Roklu were a little bewildered by the whole experience, and some were less than pleased at being ruled by monsters from so much higher in the Dungeon than they themselves, but those...
2021-08-02 08:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for delay!
The closer I look, the more certain I am. It isn't much, a scratch under any other circumstances, but considering that Grokus has managed to keep himself entirely pristine for the duration of this fight, something has definitely changed.
[Y...
2021-07-31 08:02:20 +0000 UTC View PostIn desperation, I turn the final stages of forming the gravity bomb over to my main mind, the only brain I have that specialises in handling gravity mana. I can immediately feel the difference, but I still need the support of the sub-minds to keep things flowing as I continue to piece together th...
2021-07-29 12:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat's right dear readers! I ventured where so few have dared to tread! Within the heart of the nest itself! Of all the exotic locations I have plumbed over the years, all the dangers I have braved and risks I have taken, I have to say that this, this was not like those. 2021-07-28 11:18:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Invidia and Allocrix hovered above the fray and looked down on the wreckage below them. In the midst of the billowing clouds of dust and smoke stood Mongu'nin, the massive demons frame covered in wounds that already showed signs of healing.
"AHHHHHHHH!" the mighty demon roared to the heaven...
2021-07-26 08:27:35 +0000 UTC View Post[How's it going over there Tiny? Crinis?]
[We'll win, but it's going to take time!]
[Take care and make sure of it, we don't need to rush!]
I don't think… Although, looking at Grokus as the massive demon looms over me, that I'll be able to finish this quickly. If the gravity b...
2021-07-23 09:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostSay what I will about Grokus, he's an intimidating sight when he's up and moving. However much I weigh in my tier six body, the demon has me massively outclassed. Not only is he taller, but his girth is also considerably wider. And if I were to hazard a guess, his demon flesh and musculature is f...
2021-07-23 04:10:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs cool as he'd tried to play it, Isaac wasn't exactly pleased to be where he was. The ground beneath him felt like fire against his boots and the air itself scorched his lungs whenever he took a breath. Sweat fell in a constant stream from his brow and he'd stopped bothering to try and wipe it f...
2021-07-21 09:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostMy tour through Renewal had been just wonderful, but it was only a portion, merely half of the equation when it came to this remarkable place. The people I met were delightful, open, and friendly folks who had pieced their lives back together after unspeakable tragedy. I can't speak highly en...
2021-07-20 07:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostGrokus had known that something was brewing in the stratum above. A pesky Colony of ants led by an unusually large specimen, he hadn't thought it would anything that he couldn't manage, but this! This was absurd!
The constant rain of acid had begun soon after the spears landed in the city, ...
2021-07-19 08:12:10 +0000 UTC View PostI knew that the Colony would make a move to conquer a portion of the third stratum, its practically a requirement for us to grow enough that we will be able to survive, but I didn't think it was going to start this soon! Holy moly, they must have worked themselves half to death up there! Smoke is...
2021-07-16 08:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you sure this is going to work?" Sloan asked Cobalt tentatively.
"Sure? Of course I'm sure?! Did you think I sat around here crunching numbers between my mandibles for twenty hours just for the heck of it?!"
"All right! I just wanted to check, please, keep working," the general m...
2021-07-14 07:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostGrokus enjoyed being a city lord for a few, very simple reasons. First, it meant that he didn't have to put up with anything getting between himself and the only thing that gave him satisfaction in life, eating, and second it meant that he had a city full of demons who he could force to provide t...
2021-07-13 10:31:56 +0000 UTC View PostIt's a comforting thought that here, even two strata out of date, my mandibles are still capable of getting the job done.
DOOM CHOMP!
With a crunch that reverberates off the walls, the dark mandibles of manifest energy slam shut, causing devastating damage to the poor...
2021-07-12 11:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostTranslucent spirit demons of vestigial obsession are thankfully less common than more mundane threats in the tunnels. That first 'ghost' was a bit of a pain to deal with, mostly because I was so hesitant to approach the ghastly thing in the first place. Tiny helped by growing bored of my slow cre...
2021-07-09 11:05:46 +0000 UTC View PostIn the deepest pockets of the third stratum the mana hung thick in the air like soup. Every breath filled a monster’s lungs with fire and ash, enough to choke most creatures, or burn them from the inside out. Beyond this, an aura of evil hung over every pebble and dripped from each stone, as if...
2021-07-09 11:02:45 +0000 UTC View Post