The Maroons’ treehouse was shabby but warm. It had an actual hearth with a small cooking fire, a bed and handwoven rugs, blankets, and a thatch-stuffed pillow for Angel. There was even a vanity, with a bowl for washing up in. No mirror, though. Glass was almost as rare as iron in Malae.
A...
2024-03-17 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs of Ch 31, we are halfway through the Patreon release of I Am Legion! The book will continue to be published here for all paid members, but feast your eyes on the cover and the pre-order page using these links:
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2024-03-16 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMerc's cob house was half war-room, half cozy cottage. Three rooms. The central room housed a big table covered in notes, maps, carved wooden figurines, flags and empty cups. There were a couple of wooden armchairs chairs, a fireplace, and an actual rug. I took up about half the remaining floor, ...
2024-03-15 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere were some definite cons to being a man trapped in the body of a beast. For one thing, sitting was awkward. I either lay down like a dog, crouched like a sphinx, or sat on my haunches like a cat. No sofas to sprawl over. No comfy beds. Hell… I couldn’t even fit through most normal sized ...
2024-03-14 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt got real obvious that we’d kicked the hornets’ nest as we closed in on Camp Goldrush. The place was swarming with soldiers clutching spears, shields, and crossbows. Other more heavily armored units stood outside the gates, holding dogs and corpoi on chains. The junk turrets swiveled overhe...
2024-03-13 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostVade didn’t see me coming. I hurtled into his stocky, squishy little human body, driving him onto his face and smashing it into the ground. Then, before anyone had any idea what was going on, I plunged all four tentacle claws into his body and ripped him apart. I’d hit him from stealth. He di...
2024-03-12 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAngel’s Schema allowed her to make everything from clothes to weapons to entire houses. Me and Lulu helped her gather materials, then watched as she rapidly constructed a small treehouse from wood, rope, and palm thatch. It was oddly hypnotic. She had to construct the pieces manually using a ki...
2024-03-11 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere were no enemies on the supply road. Dinosaurs and Legions both kept their distance from clear-cut areas with human habitation. That was great for the Centurions supply chain. Not so great for people wanting to get into fights and score EXP. Still, it meant we made the seemingly long trip in...
2024-03-10 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostFort Hope at least offered the illusion of safety. To make it a little more real for Angel, I parked my giant black booty in the doorway of her tent to make sure she and Lulu weren’t disturbed.
Sleep came quickly, and with it, dreams: fractured, hyper-fast flickers of memory and sensation...
2024-03-09 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe followed Targent and his Legions back to his tent, tense for signs of hostility. The Captain's back was stiff, but when he turned to face us and took his seat, he looked calmer. Composed. Maybe even pleased.
"Well, Vigiles, I sorely underestimated you," he remarked. His slave wasn't in a...
2024-03-08 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAngel, the eternal overachiever, hated being late. But when I explained why we needed to rock up to the PvP arena a cruisy fifteen or so minutes after our duel was supposed to start, she sat down on the forest floor and laughed her ass off for a while.
Once we’d made camp outside of Fort ...
2024-03-07 18:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post"Angel! Shoot the damn wolf!" I reeled in a circle as my HP dropped.
The humans had wisened up. They'd backed out of range, taking cover in the brush to hide from Angel. They fired from a distance while the Tulevolk tried to gnaw my head off. I roared and bucked, but it locked its ...
2024-03-07 02:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostWe left the cavern system in a daze. On the way out, we'd battled a pair of giant cave salamanders that gave us 25 EXP a piece, plus [Smoked Lizard Meat]. Lulu was now Level 15, but I still hadn’t leveled up again. EXP gain was slowing down, because we were higher-leveled than most of the anima...
2024-03-05 02:01:35 +0000 UTC View PostWe dodged just in time. Angel dove and rolled into the tunnel she’d trapped, while I ducked and flattened to the ground. The spinning ball of magma streaked by in a blinding blaze of heat, pure white in my thermal vision, and exploded against the wall behind me.
“Well, Noods, you wa...
2024-03-04 00:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Leap Day!
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The Malhela Lava Fields were a scene straight out of Hawaii: an undulating plain of black magma rumbling its way toward the ocean from the giant volcano at the center of the island. According to Angel, the lava traveled about a hundr...
2024-02-29 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostPrima Falks lounged in a chair in front of her tent, using a small paring blade to shape a palm-sized figurine of a horse from a piece of bone. She was one of the few other Legion-owning gladiators in the camp. Her team rested to either side of her. Her Brute, a [Seerlak], was a strange hulking B...
2024-02-27 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAngel kept her poker face clapped on after leaving the Praetorium. The cracks in her blank, pleasant mask only began to show once we arrived at our assigned sub-camp, Block C. It was the cellblock - excuse me, 'barracks encampment' - closest to the camp's dog and dino kennels. The air was full of...
2024-02-26 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBecause of my injury, the second half of our journey to Fort Hope was much slower than the first. I could get around on my tentacles well enough, but they were made for swinging and striking, not running. Even so, it was faster than Angel could walk.
By the time sunset rolled around, I bega...
2024-02-25 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Angel. FUCK!" I turned around, skidding on the mud in my urgency, and broke into a mad sprint.
The screams of injured men echoed through the trees, carried on the wind alongside the stench of gunpowder and blood. Scared as she felt, Lulu formed to my chest, head and forelimbs like...
2024-02-24 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy first night of sleep in Survival of the Fittest was a real head trip. I hadn’t expected to dream, but the whole night was one extended psychedelic flashback. Flashes, flickers of the past. The clearest memories were conversations I’d had in ASL with my sister and her friends. In between, s...
2024-02-23 19:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostWe arrived back to find Angel pulverizing wild tomatoes, chilies, and wild onions into salsa. Three split fish were grilling on top of a flat stone she’d mounted over a small smokeless fire.
“You know every predator can smell that fish cooking from a mile away, right?” I limp...
2024-02-21 16:14:28 +0000 UTC View PostI braced for death. Lulu stiffened and tensed around me… then gathered herself into a great big bouncy ball of slime, and launched herself bodily at the t-rex’s open maw.
I yelped in alarm. “The fuck, Lulu?!”
“FUUUU!” Lulu hit the animal’s muzzle with a splat. T...
2024-02-20 00:31:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe velociraptor dug with his front claws at the base of an enormous kapok tree, snarling under his breath. In front of him loomed a large hole, about half as wide as his feathery, German Shepard-sized body. Three quokkas cowered inside of the burrow: two females, and one joey.
If you’ve ...
2024-02-18 15:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostDouble chapter today!
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I’m holding my guts in, staggering over to a black SUV. My hand slaps the side of a car: immediately, my data swarm gets to work, hacking the lock. An augmented reality display shows the progress, filling a bar from bottom t...
2024-02-18 15:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe made it about twenty miles before I realized we had a problem. Two, actually. Those problems were food and sleep.
Survival of the Fittest or Purgatory or whatever it was called had biological needs built in. Eating, sleeping, and bathroom breaks were all required. Why p...
2024-02-16 03:07:36 +0000 UTC View PostWe fled into the pitch-black jungle that surrounded the City of the Apes, angling north. My ghostly passenger, unable to see or hear, clung to my back and trusted I wouldn't hurl us into quicksand or off the edge of a ravine.
I didn't stop running until my Stamina bar was blinking red, abou...
2024-02-15 05:23:24 +0000 UTC View PostAgony – real pain – swept through my body as I forced my armored head forward toward the monster's sick, slushy heartbeat. Flesh and bone parted, and when I felt the organ tickle my snout, I levered my jaws apart and tore at it with panicked strength. Immense pressure bore down on my spine. T...
2024-02-13 22:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostGreen light flashed over the doors in a rippling sheet of energy. I skidded to a halt, sliding over the damp stones to avoid crashing into the barrier, and dropped the girl to the ground. She stumbled and fell, but swung back to bring her fists up at me.
"Wait here!" I reared onto ...
2024-02-12 02:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hell Pigs were as subtle than their name implied. Their party crashed through the jungle like a carnival, plunging into jungle that got thicker and wilder as it sloped down into marshland. I lost their scent in the brackish water, but Clive’s raiders left a trail of dead dinosaurs and Legio...
2024-02-10 15:42:46 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a couple minutes had passed, I crawled out of my hiding place and climbed down the tree. My stomach rumbled as I looked around – and smelled around. My senses of sight, smell and hearing were inhumanly sharp. I could distinguish the differing stenches of each Hell Pig and commit them to m...
2024-02-09 21:43:04 +0000 UTC View Post