Melmarc stared at the notification in front of him as he ran.
During the duration of the effect of [Knowledge is Power] a good number of the bugs had fallen from his leg. They were enough that he could now count the ones that remained as the pin-pricks started again with each step. But he d...
2024-04-29 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean you’re not coming with us?” Zed asked.
Festus looked at him like an old man arguing with a petulant child.
“I don’t know what part of those words are confusing you,” he said. “I will meet you there, but I will not be following you,”
Daniel walke...
2024-04-25 13:54:38 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Triton spat.
Something in the way he said the words tickled Seth the wrong way and he asked with solemnity, hoping for the best but expecting the worst: “How many golds?”
“Three,” Triton mumbled.
Seth sucked in a sharp breath....
2024-04-24 16:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc looked behind him and there was no portal.
That was his first touch of panic.
All portals remained. They were stationary, waiting until whatever quest completion requirements were met. From the little he knew, Delver teams always had a way to keep the track of the portal. Some...
2024-04-24 14:14:19 +0000 UTC View PostWhat in the fuck is that?
Seth shrugged in response to his minds. They knew just as well as he did; whatever it was, no one knew. His hand was held out to his side in a calming motion, palm faced down. The gesture was involuntary. Even now, he had no idea when he had made it.
Daniel watched Zed. His countenance had changed, taken a dive into the realms of seriousness.
It was an odd sight to see.
“Talk about what?”
“California,” Zed answered.
Jennifer adjusted on her place at the window. “What about California?”
“How long bef...
2024-04-19 15:07:42 +0000 UTC View PostAvram Boteza stood in a tunnel of swirling blue.
The ground was solid under his feet. Straight and even. Yet to his eyes it was as though he was standing in a tunnel of sea blue clouds, the walls and floor and ceiling encircling him in a spiral twirl.
It was discomfiting to the eyes.<...
2024-04-16 23:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc ducked as Tod swung. The action was simple. With nothing occupying his hands, it was a clean duck and the plank whizzed past his head.
He stepped in easily, weighed how much force he was putting into it and punched Tod in the stomach. He felt the weight of the boy, the packed muscle...
2024-04-16 07:50:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt was bright and sunny the next morning when Zed knocked on the door.
The door was old and shaky, weak at the hinges. Since the motel had not been chosen for its defensive properties, the Berserker in Zed didn’t fret over it too much. Still, sleeping in a room with a door that could be r...
2024-04-12 16:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostSeth thought about Barnabas’ words for the briefest second and agreed. Perhaps he wouldn’t let Timi hurt Barnabas.
Maybe not, one of his minds piped up. But we definitely will. And can you tell us why you keep letting Barnabas hit on us? And you…
Seth pressed h...
2024-04-12 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostSkirmishes. That was what all this was. Skirmishes that could still cost him his life.
In the beginning he had wondered why they’d needed so many priests charging the crack. Now he knew. They had been in the crack for over a week now, intercepting soul beasts and claiming as many soul fra...
2024-04-12 12:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone spent their day doing their individual things. The Olympians spent it strategizing in their room, making plans and cancelling plans. At least Zed suspected it was what they were doing.
Ash and Oliver spent theirs in their room with Chris. Whatever conversation they had was lost to ...
2024-04-12 11:58:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe evening air wasn’t so bad as Melmarc walked with package in hand. He’d selected [World of Insight] once more, strolling through the streets. Eight minutes were yet to be up so the effects of [Knowledge is Power] were still working.
However, he was already reaching the edge of how fa...
2024-04-09 12:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo this was a world crack. It was nothing like what it had shown on the other side. It made Seth wonder from whence what they had seen had come. Where was all the luscious green? Where was the grass and the trees?
Seth took in a tentative breath and almost choked on it. It was heavier than ...
2024-04-05 10:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostZed was slowly becoming self conscious.
There was a knock on the door before it opened and Shanine walked in. Behind her Oliver and Ash followed.
Oliver took one look at him and turned his eyes away as if they had been burned.
“What the hell, Zed?!” he exclaimed. “Are you ...
2024-04-05 10:33:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe cold chill of the dew soaked grass sipped slowly through his cassock, though, at Iron he felt very little of it. Seth had since been given his position somewhere atop a hill so that he looked down on events and he’d laid here for minutes stretching on end. He was a sniper and his stillness ...
2024-04-04 10:33:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe air was heavy and stale, which was odd.
It was like walking in a mist so thick you could feel it on your skin, yet to your nostrils it felt like there was too little air in the atmosphere.
James was what he liked to call an aspiring Olympian. But if he was being honest, he wasn’...
2024-04-03 13:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostTHE HALLOW OF BLOOD WILL BE GOING ON A HAITUS. HOW LONG? i CANNOT SAY. UNTIL THEN THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER CHAPTERS OF HALLOW OF BLOOD AND CHAPTERS OF THE AUGUST INTRUDER WILL STOP BEING UPDATED ON 10/4/2024. IF YOU ARE ON THE HALLOW OF BLOOD TIER FOR AUGUST INTRUDER, KINDLY MIGRATE TO THE PROMIS...
2024-04-03 12:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostLong before first light, they were risen from their incomplete slumber. It was Ulrich that came for them, instead of John. He woke them with gentle taps and easy words, rousing them as a father would a favorite infant. With an early rise already instilled in them, they woke and prepared in quick ...
2024-04-03 12:31:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright. All in all, I’d say that went well.’
Zed opened the door to the room he shared with Festus but didn’t step in. He stood at the entrance, the door barely half-open.
Instead of walking inside, he raised his palm and drew [Force]. The rune came to life in the blink of a...
2024-04-03 12:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostThey did not all come out of the precinct together. Instead, David followed the front door, rough-handled by one of the officers—for dramatic effect—and was shoved out into the street.
As for Melmarc and Pelumi, a random officer led them to an underground parking lot. The place was fill...
2024-04-03 12:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostDavid and Naymond gave Melmarc what could be considered a basic run-down of his task. And by David and Naymond, it was mostly David doing the talking and Naymond adding background interruptions and the occasional commentary on unreasonable things.
Naymond talked quite often… and a lot. Bu...
2024-04-01 12:27:51 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc strolled into the office the next morning.
He’d woken up feeling refreshed and ready for another day at the office. His bathroom had its own shower and everything, and a hot one had done him much good. He brushed his teeth, then used the toilet before his shower.
Dressed and...
2024-03-29 03:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostGraphic content warning.
Darkness has never truly been a thing of worry here. Basically, it’s most often dark here. Most of us don’t like it, but time is enough to make anyone adapt to it. Still, it’s not like we have much of an option. Whether it’s dark or bright or...
2024-03-26 05:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe bowstring snapped a second time and Timi couldn’t fit it back. It had broken. It was the third one he’d broken since they’d come here.
Seth and his brothers sat in the darkness of the hall they had once practiced the use of the bow under Emriss. The night was deep, and should any ...
2024-03-26 05:35:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe room was quiet. All four of its inhabitants watched each other in silence.
After what seemed to last for five minutes, Zed broke it.
“So what you are saying,” he told Chris, “is that, this is like an RPG, and we have the option of siding with the republic or the rebellion....
2024-03-26 05:31:31 +0000 UTC View PostMelmarc strolled up to the front of an apartment on the side of the road late into the night, when the moon wasn’t yet out but the sun was gone and it was dark. The apartment looked simple enough. It was in an apartment complex and had the external look of brick-brown every other house in the n...
2024-03-26 05:28:03 +0000 UTC View PostMonsignor Faust stood behind a lectern on a raised platform. He held both sides of the lectern in his hands and stared out at Seth and his five brothers. In his black cassock with a hood raised to hide his face and black gloves that concealed his hands he resembled some deranged cult leader about...
2024-03-25 06:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostZed stared down at what remained of the golem. He remained disappointed.
The creature looked like someone had taken an axe to a wall quite angrily. There were broken bricks and bent iron. It was scattered all over the ground in front of him. He stared down at it, unsure of what to do now. 2024-03-25 06:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize for the delay. I fell under the weather and the story crafting wasn't crafting. Not yet a hundred percent but I'm getting there. Doctor says I'll be good in no time as long as I take my meds as instructed... I hope I take my meds as instructed.
Zed reacted as th...
2024-03-18 22:13:22 +0000 UTC View Post