New York City, Midtown, February 12th 2001, 11:00 AM EDT
It didn't take as long as I expected to get to Peter's house. I took the Subway for the first time since moving to the city, and people gave me a wide berth, probably because of my size. I wasn't com...
2023-01-15 22:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Mysterious Tower, 6:00 PM EDT
I couldn't help it. I cracked up. Marluxia's face when his corridor dropped him right in front of a slamming door was too good. Most of the others seemed confused, but Zee had been close enough to notice him and...
2023-01-15 18:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostApril 4th 2016 Brightedge City 1:00 PM EDT
I admit, I thought the dragon thing would be enough to keep them from going off on me, but apparently I was wrong. Not that it did them much good. I barely had to try as I ducked under a bottle Bridger the rock &n...
2023-01-14 15:51:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day we didn't end up going to some gambling den or fighting pit. Instead, Abel brought us out to a corner of Doomtown where a large cavern lake sat, and paid a guy in a small shack a few chits to rent us a boat. As he was doing this, Wren, Vector, Sloane, the other Beas...
2023-01-13 19:40:18 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Mysterious Tower, 5:00 PM EDT
I considered carefully what I should do. I weighed my options, studied all angles of the situation, and contemplated a plethora of clever strategies designed to maximize our chances of escaping without con...
2023-01-13 18:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostI'd like to say I was surprised to see Wren. But after even a split second of thinking, I'm kind of not. Weird coincidences are part and parcel of being an Ascendant, at least in my experience. Whether it was because I was guided to exciting things by my Fantasy stat or some kin...
2023-01-12 20:30:37 +0000 UTC View PostApril 4th 2016 Brightedge City 12:00 PM EDT
I was so excited to get out and wreak some havoc I headed down into the tunnels under Brightedge without considering that they had drastically changed from when they were below Gotham. Luckily for me, I found an ...
2023-01-12 18:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we left the casino, Abel and Mel brought us deeper into Doomtown. In the inner reaches of the city, the lights weren't quite as red, bleached out by streetlamps glowing a blinding white. I noticed as we walked that the place seemed much more relaxed here. Not completely &n...
2023-01-11 20:27:47 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Mysterious Tower, 4:00 PM EDT
When we came through the portal it was into...nothing. Well, not really. Empty air, more like. Nothing implied a howling abyss, and we'd been IN one of those recently so I knew the difference. This was just empt...
2023-01-11 17:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostSince we weren't the ones spinning the rainbow wheel, I wasn't too worried about missing out. I doubted Mordaunt would allow them to screw her over anyway, but this was clearly much more interesting. Macgregor was clearly here to start trouble. To her credit, the Darkling Instit...
2023-01-10 22:21:44 +0000 UTC View PostApril 4th 2016 Brightedge City 10:00 AM EDT
The house didn't collapse while we slept, which was nice. I'd seen in the appraisal it wouldn't but some small part of me was relieved anyway. Repairing it would have been a bitch. I'd still upgrade the place, bu...
2023-01-10 21:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostSloane was understandably upset about losing, but we made sure to let her know how well she'd done. "You were awesome." Callie stated with finality. "Seriously. You were so fast. You just met the exact wrong opponent. Solomon or I would have had a hard time beating you and you'r...
2023-01-09 19:54:05 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Twilight Town, 3:00 PM EDT
The fenrir keyblade looked awesome. Way cooler than mine. I wondered if I could switch, but I felt bad even thinking it. I was pretty sure some keyblade wielders did the swapping thing, but that wasn't how I worked...
2023-01-09 17:50:11 +0000 UTC View PostApril 4th 2016 Brightedge City 12:00 AM EDT
Amy did not, in fact, start without me. When I entered her room she was lying in bed, back facing me. I could tell from her breathing she was awake, but she didn't turn over when I came in. I walked over to sit o...
2023-01-08 17:18:43 +0000 UTC View PostNew York City, Frost Safehouse, February 12th 2001, 10:00 AM EDT
I'd expected Felicia to stick around after she dropped me at the safe house, but she just passed me a clean phone she with her number on it and told me she would call when she was free. She a...
2023-01-08 14:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Twilight Town, 2:00 PM EDT
The first thing I did after we got clear was head for Rana. We didn't have a place to stash Namine at the moment, but I needed to reach my daughter in case the other wielder had been attacked like she had. Luckily,...
2023-01-07 13:43:28 +0000 UTC View PostSloane had already merged with her companions by the time she reached the sand. They had somehow restored the arena to its original state, sans big circle of rock, but I noted with interest that her feet seemed to skim over the ground without imprinting too deeply. I wasn't sure...
2023-01-06 18:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostApril 3rd 2016 Brightedge City 11:00 PM EDT
As much as I would have liked to go bang my wife into a sex coma, I was unfortunately going to need to discuss this whole mess with some people who could actually give me decent advice. Zee was at Shadowcrest. Sh...
2023-01-06 18:05:47 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we got back to the waiting room, Wren was gone, but Abel, Mel, and Sloane were there waiting. Sloane was particularly impressed, cheering loudly when she was us. "That was FANTASTIC! That guy was a monster, his Might must be insane. I was afraid he'd kill one of you by mist...
2023-01-05 21:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Twilight Town, 1:00 PM EDT
The biggest surprise of unleashing the new and improved ghostly wail was that the fucking mansion wasn't leveled. My outburst had been directed and shaped by my intentions, as one might expect of demonic energy, an...
2023-01-05 13:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostAvoiding Wren's wrecking ball charge didn't mean that we escaped it. As he landed from what I now saw had been an incredibly long, low leap, the impact sent sand geysering up into the air around him and shook the ground beneath us, displacing our footing. Unfortunately for Wren,...
2023-01-04 17:23:12 +0000 UTC View PostApril 3rd 2016 Brightedge City 10:00 PM EDT
Amy and I fought for hours. I'd gone into it pretty confident, and I had done well enough. I learned fast because of the leftover enhancements from the blood of Apophis which helped make up for the steep learning...
2023-01-04 15:39:03 +0000 UTC View PostOwen was incredibly relieved to see us go. Sloane and the others were disappointed to leave, but when they heard we were heading for an arena they perked up. Arenas were pretty popular among Ascendants from what I'd been able to find. We were all show offs who loved to make a sc...
2023-01-03 19:24:38 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Twilight Town, 12:00 PM EDT
Getting everyone sorted out for pairs was annoying. The only real bright side was the realization that 'every team needs a powerhouse' was pretty much pointless in my current group. Every person with us was a scar...
2023-01-03 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Dear gods." I said through a mouthful of rice and cheese and sauce. "These enchiladas are amazing. Like, top five of all time in terms of sheer deliciousness. These are only H-rank?" I shoveled in another bite happily, ignoring the blistering glare Owen was shooting all of us a...
2023-01-02 22:51:10 +0000 UTC View PostApril 3rd 2016 Brightedge City 7:00 PM EDT
Checking my pouch, I easily found the Iron Dragon Cestus I was planning to use for my bump to D rank. My physical body was strong as hell for an E ranker already, but the Vital Tempest bloodline leaned more toward...
2023-01-02 19:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostJune 21st 2016 Twilight Town, 10:00 AM EDT
My head hurt. I'd learned so much about myself, about the reasons for things happening to me. Granted, I had more questions still. But most of them were basic shit like 'why me?' which I somehow doubted I'd ever &...
2023-01-01 22:28:54 +0000 UTC View PostNew York City February 11th 2001, 10:00 PM EDT
I ditched my mask and took a few walks around the neighborhood about halfway to the warehouse to make sure I wasn't being followed, then I headed inside, ready to count my haul. I just shoved the coat and mask...
2023-01-01 16:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostApril 3rd 2016 Brightedge City 6:00 PM EDT
I was relieved to see that Donna and her protege weren't at the house yet by the time we got back. We'd made the arrangements for them (not hard to do in a house the size of mine) and gone by all the territories t...
2022-12-31 12:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Raving Baby was pretty much exactly what you would expect a dive bar to be. Low light, smoky air, pool table, old worn chairs and tables. It looked like someone had written up a 'seedy dive bar' checklist and gone down the list one item a time just to make sure it was as aut...
2022-12-30 18:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post