Vex had been a little concerned that his words wouldn't be enough — but it turned out that he needn't have worried. The 'rebels', such as they were, were strangely willing to trust him on his word, though they insisted on sending someone in with them to the dungeon. The new person wouldn't have...
2022-10-26 17:38:00 +0000 UTC View PostVex sat uncomfortably in the caravan. The windows were all locked and spelled shut — he could have dispelled it rather easily, but chose not to. Ingress had said something about taking them somewhere secret, and was sitting in the caravan with them; it was a bit of a tight squeeze with five peo...
2022-10-24 17:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostCommunication was only the beginning. There was still more to be done — the Communication glyph was not, on its own, able to mimic anything so complex as even the [Telepathy] spell, let alone surpass the physical limitations that rustbite imposed on its victims.
But the s...
2022-10-21 14:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostXothok was... antsy. He hated using that word to describe himself. It was a stupid word, for small, stupid people. What use was anxiety? He'd never had to worry about it before, because before, his main concern had been about getting food. There was nothing to worry about besides that, a...
2022-10-19 15:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhether he'd expected this or not, though, Karix's words triggered something in Vex — a seed of an idea. He had already found new magic, and if he wanted to, he could show it off right now. He could make his father eat his words. He couldn't deny that it would be satisfying, even; the ...
2022-10-17 15:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostBreathe.
They'd known this was a possibility. Not this specific thing, perhaps — Vex hadn't even begun to consider that they might bring his little brother to a diplomatic meaning, he was only four — but they'd known that Wisfield was going to do something...
2022-10-14 15:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostTo say the glyph worked was an understatement.
They'd done two tests. The first of them was done with Vex's own Sign of Research, to make sure that the new glyph — or sign, Vex hadn't really considered what to call these things that were a mix of the two — would do what they thought it ...
2022-10-12 13:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post"Goddamn that took a while," Misa grumbled.
Vex... had to agree, although he was too tired to actually say anything. He let out a small groan in response, leaning most of his weight onto Derivan — who accepted him with grace and put an arm around his shoulders, despite being the one that ...
2022-10-10 14:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post"Ah... shit." Sev winced a little at the words. He couldn't help but glance towards Vex, whose face was as impassive as he could make it — but he knew Vex well. He saw the way the lizardkin hunched over just a little bit more, the way his tail coiled around his leg; he saw the disappointment sw...
2022-10-07 17:31:18 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I am pretty happy with this chapter.
Also, reminder that you can drop down to $5 and keep access to all the chapters! Sorry to keep harping on about this, just want to make sure I'm not unwittingly taking anyone's money. I am grateful for any support you can provide, o...
2022-10-05 14:54:13 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: A quick note alongside the announcement: All chapters are now available at the $5 tier, and Platinum and Platinum+ mostly remain as support tiers. Feel free to swap down to $5 for chapter access, and send me a message if you need a refund for the month. Thanks again for all your support.&nbs...
2022-10-04 16:17:51 +0000 UTC View PostHello!
Some news today: I've been in talks with a publisher for getting Edge Cases published to Amazon, so I've been working on the Book 1 manuscript (mostly cleaning up and collating it into a single document, but I did make some minor changes and fix a couple of inconsistencies I spotted)...
2022-10-03 17:34:32 +0000 UTC View PostThere was, unfortunately, no time for a conversation. Derivan would come to regret being quite so impulsive with breaking Lendel's connections, in time, but he'd had no reason to believe that it would make the man fly into a rage; Rekka's connection had broken, and all that had happened was that ...
2022-09-30 16:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post—
[CONNECTION BROKEN]
Reconnecting...
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There was some text above that, but it had been cut off; all Derivan could see were scattered letter-fragments that didn't mean anything to him. It was strange that the window looked like this to him at all — n...
2022-09-28 15:59:48 +0000 UTC View PostThere was at least one good thing that might come out of whatever was going on with the Guild building, Derivan thought, once they found a spot within the Guild's grounds where they could leave the caravan. A small magical barrier flickered into place, automatically activated by their badges once...
2022-09-26 17:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostElyra's walls loomed over the horizon.
Vex's stomach turned a bit as he stared at them — he never thought he'd see them again so soon. He knew, objectively, that it had been more than a year since he'd left; it still felt like he was returning too early. He'd expected to have thr...
2022-09-23 18:42:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe harvest went rapidly after Vex's impromptu confession. That had, apparently, been the only thing holding the lizardkin back from putting all his efforts into the harvest — and more importantly, into trying to identify the problem with growth spells that had apparently affected Elyra.
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2022-09-21 13:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostDerivan had to admit to himself that he felt a little lost. Of all the things that he'd had practice doing ever since leaving the dungeon that had spawned him, harvesting magical crops wasn't one of them — nevermind the intricacies that apparently went into harvesting these particular magical c...
2022-09-19 14:24:26 +0000 UTC View PostEmily's home was unremarkable, for all that she was apparently a witch of sufficient prowess to warrant the coveted position of nobility in Elyra.
Derivan thought it was cozy, certainly; there was clearly a lot of care and effort put into every detail of the house. The place was sp...
2022-09-16 15:50:46 +0000 UTC View PostAnton's call came not long after Vex was done with his first series of glyph-tests. As before, the glyph they held began to glow with mana, which was interesting; without having mana-sight, it wouldn't be possible to notice that the glyph was 'receiving' anything. There wasn't even a thread of ma...
2022-09-14 14:33:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Both 34 and 35 were released today, so make sure you didn't miss 34!
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"Is that... a problem?" Vex wasn't sure how to phrase his question, exactly, but Misa looked more tense than he would have expected for such a revelation.
"It's not that it going up is a problem 2022-09-12 18:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It wasn't until Vex was back within the confines of the system that he could feel how different this form of magic was, strangely enough. It had been overwhelming and wonderful in Teque, but there something had been dampened in his senses. Perhaps it was the nature of Teque itself as a h...
2022-09-12 18:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, once again, Derivan cast [Starry Night]. They took a break on the side of the road for it, though they could have let the caravan keep running through the night; this was important to them, and they needed to use some crystals to refresh their connection to the system...
2022-09-07 15:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostThey were back in the caravan, Derivan and Vex seated across from Sev and Misa as it chugged along the road. They'd given breaking through the barrier into Fendal a few more tries, but every attempt they made simply failed, and so they had decided it was time to move on.
Not before Anton ha...
2022-09-05 16:38:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Fuck," Misa said, again.
It had been an hour. The four of them sat outside the barrier to Fendal, still. They'd tried everything they could think of to break through the barrier, to no success — no amount of magic broke through it, and there was a weight to it that Derivan could...
2022-09-02 22:27:22 +0000 UTC View PostVelykos was not entirely sure how he had ended up in this situation.
Intellectually, he supposed, he understood exactly how he'd ended up like this; the strides he could take as a large, towering stone elemental were much larger than the strides of any of his skeletal companions, a...
2022-08-31 21:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostVex felt like his words were caught in his throat. He'd spoken to Noram not long ago at all; it had been a little over a day in Teque, and with the time differential between the two places, only about an hour in Fendal.
Noram couldn't have changed this much in that time; if it happened this...
2022-08-29 15:50:41 +0000 UTC View PostTwo hours.
It wasn't a lot of time. It was barely any time at all, Vex thought, and maybe that was exactly why Helg had chosen it — it was just long enough to seem kind, but not long enough for them to actually do anything with it.
Not that she seemed kind at all, if that w...
2022-08-28 15:39:01 +0000 UTC View PostAnton, it quickly came out, had happened to be carrying a large load of mana slivers when the Roads had shut down — presumably the exact moment the bonus room had been created, and this little pocket of reality had become 'real'. There was, he explained, a blip in his memory there. He'd been ov...
2022-08-24 17:05:58 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Two chapter releases, so remember to read 25!
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Vex had known it was bad.
He'd known it was something that scared him; there had been enough spillover, enough intrinsic understanding from the Patcher's attacks that he could grasp that bare essence of it.
But this?
T...
2022-08-21 16:17:59 +0000 UTC View Post