Nerves rattled Maya as she sat in her command chair. She knew what she was about to commence was a just action, there was no doubt. The satellites in orbit had finally arrived to their positions and Samanco’s controlled area had been scanned. The first images of the towns an...
2020-12-17 19:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostSnow was falling in thick clumps as evening arrived.
San walked through the snow and Wolfram followed at his side. The wolf ram had retuned after Nexion had left, the big man not saying much after they had enjoyed a cup of tea together. As he parted, he had given San a dagger. A ...
2020-12-15 15:49:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Six thousand five hundred and forty two landsharks were killed when they entered the Cage,” Yosi said. “The average weight was about a hundred and fifty kilos, although Bell claims that we can harvest twenty-five percent of five thousand of them, as the rest were turned into mea...
2020-12-14 19:03:04 +0000 UTC View PostSan awoke confused, he lay in a straw filled bed and the smell of woodsmoke and faint sickness filled his senses. He looked to the roof above him, still shrouded in darkness in the early morning, but clearly made of thatch and thick wooden beams. The room he was within was warm, but th...
2020-12-12 17:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post“So what is experience points,” Maya asked as Bell, Yosi, Tender, Veskari, and she sat around a dinner table. The others glanced at her and then one another, pondering the question. “I don’t mean, the simple answer. I mean, what exactly is it made of. Is it mana?
“There...
2020-12-12 00:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe bone white face leered at San as it dropped from the trees, the body was a misshapen orb of hair with five jointed chitinous legs sprouting from it. He realized that the face wasn’t the monster’s head, instead it was a plate of bone that eerily looked like a human face.
S...
2020-12-10 23:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostCongrats, Beirut has now achieved Level 3 in Defense Settlement. Settlement Area increased to 75 square kilometers.
+ 3 percent increase to combat XP gains
+ 12 percent Defense Bonus
- 6 percent XP gains from Crafting
- 6 ...
2020-12-10 01:41:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe monster was dead, San had gained a level, he had powers now, which was an oddity, but more than that; San finally had a good night’s sleep since he had arrived. He awoke as the sun was high in the air, the wolf ram lay panting beside the fire, a low groan coming from it.
Sa...
2020-12-08 19:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostBell was happier than a pig in muck. He dug through a nearly whole corpse of one of the landsharks and with Hanna’s help, began separating the organs, bones and various bodily fluids. Hanna seemed competent, she had degrees in biology and chemistry; and was peppering Bell with questi...
2020-12-07 21:18:13 +0000 UTC View PostPlaying the pyromaniac never interested San as a child. He knew plenty of his friends who loved to blow things up, burn items, and all around try to be edgy by playing with fire. The only flames that interested San was the fire that burned beneath his brew kettle.
Now he was task...
2020-12-07 00:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostHanna had in fact visited Beirut before. Although that had been nearly twenty years ago, when she claimed she was ‘finding herself’. That had also been pre-Integration.
George and Yuri were excited about the satellites and Maya had to stop in orbit first, to toss off a test d...
2020-12-02 20:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind howled and hard frozen pellets of snow pelted San as he moved down the empty streets of the village. The clouds had thickened and darkened, but the storm was taking its time.
He passed the barracks and took a deep breath as he looked up the road toward the keep. The stone and wood ...
2020-12-01 20:51:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe sword came down faster than Maya could parry, she brought up her axe at the last nano-second. The shock of the strike caused her stumble back, pain flaring up her arms. A booted foot slammed into her exposed chest, turning the stumble into a full on fall.
As she hit the...
2020-11-30 20:02:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Rockets?” Maya asked looking at the plan. “I don’t think we can make rockets.”
“You made the rocket that sent us Roci,” George said. He pulled up a diagram of the rocket he wanted to build. “Something similar can push the containers into the correct orbit.” The tablet dis...
2020-11-26 00:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe wolf ram didn’t have any hesitation in leaving the hut as San did. It gave him a look; then pushed its way through the threshold and vanished among the other collapsed huts of the village.
San knew he should leave, but he was also terrified. What was the creature that had come in the ...
2020-11-24 15:05:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe rogue AI ant skittered back, leaking black goo as it moved. Smooth bulkheads surrounded it, offering no purchase or escape. It had suffered too much damage, its limbs bent and one sheared off, the armor along its thorax was punctured and ruined, and it was sluggish to respond to th...
2020-11-23 19:29:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe cold creeped into his bones and San could not stop shaking. He trudged forward, staggering and nearly stumbling in his haste to make it to the castle. The exertion should have warmed him, but he could barely stop shaking from the cold.
He moved through long abandoned fields, ...
2020-11-21 20:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t go back empty handed,” Maya said as she and Tender walked toward the doorway. “I mean, sure I got me some fancy potions from Bell’s matriarch, but I need more.”
“There is still Pegarios,” Tender replied.
“Yeah, we totally gotta get back with him. ...
2020-11-20 18:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe beast lunged at San. He was paralyzed for a brief moment as the creature closed the distance between them. He saw his death coming, the glistening maw, and the cruel yellow eyes. For a moment, San sat there awaiting it, but that moment past by and he jerked himself out of the monst...
2020-11-19 22:46:44 +0000 UTC View Post01 - Matriarch Domakun
A storm rumbled outside; rain sluiced down from the heavens and bent the long grass outside. It dripped along the window pane, leaving behind long watery smears that distorted the distant lights of the city. A flash of light cracked across the sky, silhouetting the ta...
2020-11-19 04:09:36 +0000 UTC View Post/AN: So,yeah, i was attempting to write the Dungeon in the City for NaNoWriMo, but alas I seemed to have hit a wall in that writteng process. It's like I know what I want to write, but I don't know how to get there. Not really writer's block, but pacing and set up issues. therefore, I...
2020-11-17 20:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostA storm rumbled outside; rain sluiced down from the heavens and bent the long grass outside. It dripped along the window pane, leaving behind long watery smears that distorted the distant lights of the city. A flash of light cracked across the sky, silhouetting the tall swaying pines i...
2020-11-16 15:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostDay 11
Melissa, Texas
“Form up, form up!” Pops Sullivan hollered. The men and women around him clattered and shifted, their makeshift shields and weapons clanking and clacking. “Mind your spacing.”
The gr...
2020-11-14 01:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe scout rats did their job and sent back information on the unshielded core. Maya pulled up the hologram and studied it, she looked to her two companions and they both nodded. They were as ready as they could be.
Maya formed a door that was flanked by Bell and Tender. They had ...
2020-11-11 20:29:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe first of the new arrivals into the Cage were three meter tall cylinders with four thin legs. They immediately sat down heavily upon the deck and began pulsing with light. Maya felt the space around her begin aching, not the pain she felt with the mind flies, but somehow the cylinde...
2020-11-09 17:22:02 +0000 UTC View Post“From my point of view, it’s been several days since you were kidnapped,” Maya said, rubbing her tired face. She yawned and looked at Bell and Tender, they were in the midst of repairing their armor and preparing to rejoin the fight. Maya sat on her command chair and idly ate a ration bar. ...
2020-11-08 18:15:09 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness surrounded Inez.
She could feel nothing.
She could see nothing.
She could sense nothing.
She was nothing.
Just a thought admit the vast black. She choked and gasped and shuddered as the realization of what she was gripped her.
She was dead.<...
2020-11-04 04:14:00 +0000 UTC View PostTime and space didn’t exist in void space, it was an area of nothing. Yet, somehow it created what Maya needed, air, gravity, in that small area that the Cage existed within, Maya was a god like being. Of course, she didn’t think of it that way, but the truth was whomever controlle...
2020-11-02 15:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post/Author's Note: I've tried many times to do the NaNoWriMo challenge, writing an entire novel of 50k words in a month. Since i also do enjoy Dungeon Core novels, I thought it would be nice to write one that has been bouncing around in my head for a few months now. the working tit...
2020-11-02 00:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe glowing liquid bubbled and churned, within it lay a power barely seen across the multiverse, mana so condensed it would power a planet, mana so plentiful and pure that the greatest enchanters would give up their lifeblood for a liter. It was the most sought after resource in the ra...
2020-10-30 17:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post