Finding a seat at the arena the next day was harder than expected. I don't know why I hadn't assumed it would be packed, maybe because it had been so sparsely populated all the other matches. People had watched from home or just ignored most of the lead up fights, since there we...
2023-05-26 21:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the rest of the day moving all of my stuff into the mining company. The place was safe as far as I could tell, with the only sentient creature I’d met being Barew, who never came above ground. Doing it this way let me clean my room out and leave without having to make a hundred trips, o...
2023-05-26 21:16:18 +0000 UTC View PostI had to admit that the people running this tournament were smarter than I'd given them credit for. The next day was downtime before the semi-finals, and to get everyone pumped they released the names. At this point, everyone had fought enough times and there were few enough &nb...
2023-05-25 21:23:54 +0000 UTC View PostAnother gdocs chapter link, because I like how it's working out. This one is posting early, but it's 2:30 AM on Thursday where I am. This one is a bit of a dive into Nick's headspace after the funeral, since a lot of people were interested in seeing more about how he handled his humanity as it de...
2023-05-25 06:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostI was surprisingly pain free when I came to. Well...my body was. My head was fuzzy, but that was to be expected with overtaxing my soul. Oh, and the yelling. The yelling wasn't helping. "Look at him!" Screamed a voice. "How many bones did you break? Do you even know? Now he won'...
2023-05-24 22:15:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe inside of the tent was bigger than the outside. Markedly bigger. I had no clue how the magic actually worked, but I knew exactly what kind of mana specialized in these kinds of spells. My kind. This was spatial magic, the first example of it that I’d ever seen.
It looked like some kin...
2023-05-24 19:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostMy first move was to immediately trigger Moonlit Night. Danger Sense wouldn't stop trilling in my head, but with the push a second ago it at least dimmed. I'd need to adapt it to the situation so it would actually work. Sensing that you were ALWAYS in danger wasn't actually a wa...
2023-05-23 20:42:00 +0000 UTC View PostI'm thinking about trying to upload GG like this from now on, as long as nobody has trouble accessing it. Just to save future hassle with 18+ chapters. If anyone has problems let me know and I can switch back to regular posting.
Hey folks, Greed God 240 was tagged as 18+ and the site gave me some trouble, so for any GG fans I went ahead and uploaded that chapter, warnings and all, to docs, with the link below. Next chapter goes up momentarily.
Today was the day. Round twelve. I got up early so I could finish my goal of ranking up DS Mastery, and was just finishing up the last step of that. Yesterday I'd ranked up Earthseeking to 'Song of the Soil', which increased the range and specificity of my seeking ability by usi...
2023-05-22 21:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostThree weeks. It took me three. Weeks. A hundred plus gold per day sounded like a lot, but it really wasn’t. The condenser pushed one percent of the mana in a mana stone or crystal into me, which, while much more wasteful than regular condensation formuli when it came to the crystals, was also m...
2023-05-22 18:02:24 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 16th 2001, British Royal Museum, 10:00 AM EDT
Once we finished eating, Jean made some calls to some of Uncle Chuck's friends on this side of the pond and got us access to a cabin in the woods. It wasn't exactly a novel hiding place, but it was a d...
2023-05-21 23:02:57 +0000 UTC View PostTime. Something I'd had plenty of in the last few rounds, but not enough of to accomplish a goal I was now planning to accomplish in just a few days. I needed to finish my last two upgrades, then synergize DS Mastery with Enchanting permanently to hopefully eliminate the whole &...
2023-05-19 21:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the emerald raptly as I rolled it through my fingers. I was in my room above the shop, having finished up my mining for the day, but I was far too wired to sleep, even exhausted and sore as I was. This was…amazing.
Despite the existence of magic, there were some hard and fast ...
2023-05-19 17:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostI was able to get a bit of sleep before my match. Not as much as usual, but enough that I wasn't really tired or jumpy. Despite that, I was at least a little nervous. The chances of me fighting a team member again, even with the smaller pool to draw from, were low. For the ...
2023-05-18 18:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostApril 16th 2016 New Jersey, Rosewood, 12:00 AM EDT
The cocky smirk on Hobbes face lasted for about fifteen seconds into the fight. Fifteen seconds until the point where a massive spire of Amethyst shot out of the ground in three parts, wra...
2023-05-18 06:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostNat was grinning at me as I entered the barrier, but I ignored that and yanked her into a tight hug. She eeped in surprise before tapping on my back. "Ribs." She wheezed. "Breaking." I flinched and pulled back, grabbing her by the shoulders to look her over for any injuries I ha...
2023-05-17 22:12:33 +0000 UTC View PostI started with my most commonly used tactic. “Oh, don’t you remember? You told me to close down the other day. You came home really drunk and mentioned that we should take some time off to get the customers excited for our grand return.” This had about a fifty percent chance of working. My ...
2023-05-17 17:06:37 +0000 UTC View PostState of Grace flowed through me as I dropped to a knee, planting my hands on the ground to trigger my usual magma limb and introduce poison into the mix. I was about to charge forward to help, but a hand caught my shoulder. I turned to see Abel frowning at me. "No." He said blu...
2023-05-16 21:48:35 +0000 UTC View PostApril 15th 2016 New Jersey, Rosewood, 11:00 PM EDT
Shifting into my draconic form was...kind of nice. I hadn't really noticed it, but being humanoid felt kind of confining, like wearing a shirt that was too tight and choked you a little bi...
2023-05-16 21:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostI hadn't visited the location where my cousin and her guards were living. With the tournament ongoing and my team's deal not to seek outside help, it seemed smart to minimize contact, but I had at least gotten an address from her in one of our conversations, so I was able to &nb...
2023-05-15 22:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Ninety-nine…one hundred.” I counted aloud as I slotted the last coin into the slot next to the elevator. Stepping in, I checked the dial that appeared last time, and sure enough, aside from one and two, there was a number three. Spinning it to the proper digit, I threw the switch, and felt...
2023-05-15 20:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 16th 2001, British Royal Museum, 3:00 AM EDT
"Shouldn't we...I don't know. Go help with cleanup?" Said Jean uneasily as we watched the fire crew dig out the destroyed building. We were far enough away that the thick fog Ororo had barely been able ...
2023-05-14 22:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostApril 15th 2016 New Jersey, Rosewood, 10:00 PM EDT
I hurled another shimmering wall of destructive light at yet another hedge, and we stepped through. I turned to Scott, who looked about as annoyed as I felt. "So." I said gruffly. "Exactly...
2023-05-14 22:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostRime came through. Or rather, Frostbite did. Upon receiving the call, our ally combed through the local information sources and got us a location for a recent fight matching the parameters we gave her. She wasn't able to actually locate Celine, but she told us where the elf &nbs...
2023-05-12 18:30:32 +0000 UTC View PostI grunted out a pained exhalation as I dropped the pickaxe, walking over to slump against the wall. I’d been using the one from the second floor, which was a sturdy steel model, rather than the iron pick that had been on the rack on the first floor.
Unscrewing a vial of stamina slop, I gr...
2023-05-12 16:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe next three days passed relatively quickly. While fighting on the first day of each bracket was a pain because I had to be one of the first in the round, and there were many more powerful opponents for me to draw, it was also a benefit because I got the full four days off for...
2023-05-11 20:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostApril 15th 2016 New Jersey, Rosewood, 9:00 PM EDT
I admit to being a bit distracted by Jenny's thick green booty as we walked out the doors of the drawing room, but I was ninety percent sure I wasn't distracted enough to miss us leaving th...
2023-05-11 18:28:06 +0000 UTC View Post"You made me work for that one." I grunted as I slumped down on the couch. We hadn't talked much on the drive home. "I was worried a few times there. Your main stats are so much higher than mine. Can't believe you could see through my Moonlit Night. Even close range."
She ...
2023-05-10 20:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostMine. Smith. Condense. Three simple words, three very un-simple actions, and ones I repeated ad nauseum. I found that breaking my body down with mining before getting into the condenser actually helped me absorb the mana faster, and that I’d been doing things in the wrong order. So I made sure ...
2023-05-10 18:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post