I woke up to the sound of pounding on my door. Not urgent pounding, granted, but someone wanted me to wake up. It was annoying and I tried to ignore it, but they were insistent and I eventually dragged myself out of bed, ignoring the annoyed whine of my extremely clingy girlfrie...
2023-06-13 22:54:38 +0000 UTC
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The owner of the Daylight Dreamer Inn was not what I expected. Though to be fair that was probably more my issue than his. He looked younger than I'd thought, but reconsidering Ascendants were almost always young looking, at least once they were full grown.
Sindar was &nbs...
2023-06-12 22:23:21 +0000 UTC
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There were training grounds on the guild premises, of course. I expected them to cost points, but from what I could tell, most of them didn’t. Cecily had led me here, seeming excited to hang out. I got the feeling she didn’t socialize much, and while ‘excited’ for her wasn’t really as e...
2023-06-12 18:41:12 +0000 UTC
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Had some fun with this chapter, and I thought it was fun to subvert expectations here lol.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z6I4XDVfOO75jgkyCnUHldDbxRJeNMU...
2023-06-11 22:16:05 +0000 UTC
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When Zeke had mentioned the bazaar, I had assumed we would be attending some small gathering of stalls. Maybe some tents, a few blankets on the ground. The word invoked images of a temporary market that contained equally temporary sales locations. What we actually ended up...
2023-06-09 22:35:47 +0000 UTC
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After I got back to the dorm I was torn on what to do. I’d learned a lot about myself, and about my mom, and my dad. Hell, I’d learned a lot about the world. All of that was kind of distant though. Sure, people who knew about my hybrid status would hate me…but they had kind of been doing th...
2023-06-09 21:26:38 +0000 UTC
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The next morning, we all got packed up, ready to leave and prepared to set off. Cass was sobbing uncontrollably, hugging each of us in turn and begging us not to go, and I wasn't the only one whose heart broke as the little girl started promising not to feed her vegetables to th...
2023-06-08 21:03:02 +0000 UTC
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A month. A month of wishes, a month of stat gains. Slow and steady, constantly trying to build up my friends. Benny and Jessie were both within reach of F-rank. With Jessie's regular income of Might from her bond with Randall, not to mention my boost, and how close Benny already...
2023-06-07 20:45:52 +0000 UTC
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My stomach was turning as I walked home. I didn’t know why. I had no reason to be afraid. I was just going to talk to my dad. But I had the most terrifying queasy feeling. Like something was going to end. Like something was going to be ruined. I kept replaying moments from my childhood, picking...
2023-06-07 17:10:53 +0000 UTC
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The ceremony was held at the same arena as the finals. A huge luxurious building (without even the wear from the battle, which they had repaired) and pretty huge. Forty thousand people weren't enough to fill the place up, though it was hardly empty with every one of the ten &nbs...
2023-06-06 21:55:50 +0000 UTC
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Healing or not, we had to carry Abel out of the arena. My mentor was in bad shape, though not as bad as the armor double Midknight had been using, which had been mostly destroyed. Callie had been...quiet, since we saw him get wrecked, and I wanted to pull her aside to check on h...
2023-06-05 21:47:33 +0000 UTC
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I groaned as I walked into the Basic Hammering class. Weeks of training, constant practice, absurd amounts of money and so many crystals I was counting them in my dreams. I was now halfway into the first circle of Apprentice rank, and the going was only getting slower. I needed to find higher tie...
2023-06-05 20:45:56 +0000 UTC
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I screwed up and posted this as a text file instead of the link, but since the links actually update fixes in real time I'm just replacing it.
https://docs.go...
2023-06-05 00:16:00 +0000 UTC
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Back to some old favorites, merges and fun business stuff for a bit. I had a ton of fun with this one.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wsfV1ZZoM1WNnvZWvAs...
2023-06-04 22:30:56 +0000 UTC
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It took me almost no time to figure out what that mask did from context. Illusions, obviously. But despite knowing that I also knew I had no chance of piercing through them. No one here did. Trying to bypass B-rank perception would be pure delusion, so I didn't try.
Zeke &...
2023-06-02 21:49:11 +0000 UTC
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Getting through my next day’s classes was annoying and tedious, but I managed. I paid special attention to the glares, and as I expected the students with the most powerful families seemed to feel the most antipathy toward me for whatever reason. Since I had plans, I didn’t end up confronting...
2023-06-02 21:47:22 +0000 UTC
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"You have a lot of guts coming here like this." With the words came a tide of power, pushing back the aura of the two B-rankers through his own and with sheer force of personality. Zeke wasn't worried at all, and it showed in the way he spoke. "You might not worry about some sma...
2023-06-01 21:53:48 +0000 UTC
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This one was tricky. Trying to let Nicky grow a bit after his session with Ingrid without losing his vibe. I think I balanced it pretty well, but let me know what you think.
2023-06-01 17:14:06 +0000 UTC
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Roland Wilder, the man known as the Walking War, was every bit as terrifying as his moniker suggested. While Firn battled with the Hyde (who was managing to just barely degrade her permafrost with his dark energy, and then using the weakening to smash holes in it with his ...
2023-05-31 20:42:51 +0000 UTC
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“Son of a bitch!” I snarled, hurling the metal frame of my knitting project across the room after the yarn burned up for the hundredth time. Turning to glare at my roommate, who was trying not to smirk, I pointed furiously at the still smoldering practice tool. “Come on! What the hell do I ...
2023-05-31 18:26:08 +0000 UTC
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Three days of downtime passed far more quietly than expected. Granted, it wasn't my downtime, it was Abel's, but still I'd figured I'd be more nervous about the last round. My odd sense of peace continued until the last minute though, and the morning of, I finished up my w...
2023-05-30 23:04:48 +0000 UTC
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Some politics and subterfuge, something the story has been lacking for a while lol
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MaeRg-xG8d3TwSw7Nu1V4gqDrF3K...
2023-05-30 18:42:19 +0000 UTC
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By the time we got home, Zeke was already there. He always beat us back, which was fine, but I had other things to address. Questions for Abel, more specifically. "Ok." I said heatedly. "What the actual fuck was that? I mean congrats on the win, but you were really holding back ...
2023-05-29 22:24:38 +0000 UTC
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One of the things I was going to miss about having time to myself was sleeping in. I didn’t always do it, but I always had the option. Somehow, I was less tired when I woke up naturally, as opposed to being woken forcibly.
The Guild had a bell for the student quarters, a big, loud, brayin...
2023-05-29 19:25:15 +0000 UTC
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Decided to start doing all my fanfiction with gdocs links, they've been busting smut on patreon and while there hasn't been much in this one it'll be coming up soonish lol. This particular chapter is a fight, hope everyone enjoys. To clarify though, this is Ultimate Juggy pre ruby. He has super s...
2023-05-28 23:53:19 +0000 UTC
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New chapter up. Had some fun with this. Going for an Eyes Wide Shut vibe, which is tough since I never saw Eyes Wide Shut, but the general debauchery is there for this party. It's a fun way to get Nicky back to his roots, and some of the things people liked best about him, with a twist.
2023-05-28 23:47:48 +0000 UTC
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