We ended up back at the Academy the next day, specifically in the dorms. We'd decided to ask Celine a bit about whatever F rank events were going on around here. Chances were good she would know, given her sources at the school and her position as a diplomat. Of course, some &nb...
2022-08-30 21:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostJune 3rd 2016 Prospero and Michael Scott Memorial Library, The Nightside 2:00 PM EDT
John hissed in shock at Taylors words. "What? But I thought the Harrowing track you through your gift? You only tapped into it for a second or two there. How the hell did ...
2022-08-30 20:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't commission new costumes. We went home. Immediately. If Zeke felt the need to tell me Mr. Jack-tastic was in town now there had to be a reason for it. I didn't believe for a second he'd just been informing me because it was amusing. This had some relation to me, and I &...
2022-08-29 16:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 13th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT
It was time. I'd been waiting for this for a while. This was going to be an extremely important step in creating my new kingdom, not to mention a proof of concept for some very interesting possibilit...
2022-08-29 07:46:53 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast the next morning (I made quiche) we headed for the Academy to meet up with the others. We took the skyride back over, though we left Cark at home with Cass since he wasn't a student. We'd promised to hand him a cut of the sales from the hunt, despite him ac...
2022-08-28 18:27:37 +0000 UTC View PostJune 3rd 2016 Prospero and Michael Scott Memorial Library, The Nightside 1:00 PM EDT
We stepped through the door and into a room covered wall to wall with shelves. When you hear library you think neat and ordered row, dewey decimal systems, cheap carpet an...
2022-08-28 16:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe got home in short enough order, Jessie driving of course, and headed inside to check in on Cass. When we arrived we found her sitting in front of a huge screen, watching a replay of the stream from the scavenger hunt. Since she hadn't been able to come with us, she hadn't &nb...
2022-08-27 12:20:10 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 13th 2016 Gemworld 4:00 PM EDT
It took me literally days to finish converting all the bandits to Gemsworn (I called the village to let them know I'd be away, Barbie had pouted). Cherry had been right sadly, none of the Barons made...
2022-08-27 11:57:49 +0000 UTC View PostTales of your exploits have begun to spread. You have done a great deed and whispers of your power are disseminating in the ether. You've received fifteen points of Vitality, twenty five points of Focus, forty points of Perception, and thirty nine points of Might! 2022-08-27 01:15:26 +0000 UTC View Post
June 3rd 2016 The Doormouse's Door Repository, The Nightside 12:00 PM EDT
Tommy had been absolutely fascinated by the points gain when the clock ticked over to noon. I was up to one hundred twenty thousand, and he was somehow able to sense the shift in my ...
2022-08-27 00:44:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe spent the rest of the week recovering, keeping an eye out for attackers and preparing for the points boom when the stream came out. Everyone was excited. Grimmengap was looking at a probably rank up, and while the rest of us (aside from possibly Cark if he got VERY lucky) &nb...
2022-08-25 20:39:48 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 10th 2016 Gemworld 7:00 PM EDT
"So you're saying dragons are a big deal here?" I was sitting in Malcolm's throne inside the fortress, with all the bandits staring at me raptly as they crowded around me. I was still transformed, si...
2022-08-25 20:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostBeing unconscious, while not enjoyable, was a pretty convenient way to travel. I passed out in that hot stuffy cave and woke up again on the top floor of the hatchery, mask off and costume stripped away so they could treat my wounds. I looked down at my leg, which while wrapped ...
2022-08-24 16:39:05 +0000 UTC View PostJune 3rd 2016 Blaiston Street, The Nightside 11:00 AM EDT
We got out of the carriage on a random street full of unremarkable buildings. I was a bit confused as to what we were doing here, since none of these places looked like a library. As the others clim...
2022-08-24 16:07:50 +0000 UTC View PostAt my word, Cark dropped the shield as soon as the stalactite hit the ground, letting the huge cloud of ash and debris cover us as everyone grabbed onto me, and I used Seek Hidden to find a safe place to hole up. I had to shove a bit at the skill to make such a vague idea work, ...
2022-08-23 17:58:37 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 10th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT
I'd honestly expected the big boss to be...bigger. Or more bosslike. Or just more impressive in general because I honestly wasn't seeing it. The guy was youngish, probably only a bit older than me, s...
2022-08-23 17:21:00 +0000 UTC View PostWalking into the chamber where the heart was waiting, I wasn't really sure what to expect, but it definitely wasn't what I found. The place was a war zone. I saw the redheaded form that had to be Fisher straddling a motorcycle, with his arms outstretched to either side. St...
2022-08-23 00:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostJune 3rd 2016 Julian Advent's Manor, The Nightside 10:00 AM EDT
I actually slept better than I expected in Julian's house. For some reason I'd expected to be tormented by strange and disturbing nightmare visions or something when I slept in the Nightside, ...
2022-08-23 00:26:23 +0000 UTC View PostWe were all pretty exhausted after the fight. The Wavestriders had been pretty tough, and this had been one of our first run ins with an elite Ascendant force from the Academy. If anything we'd gotten lucky because they weren't taking us seriously, but it had really shown us the...
2022-08-21 22:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 10th 2016 Gemworld 5:00 PM EDT
This new hydra pouch was officially my favorite thing in the world. Not only could it hold pretty much anything, it basically resized things as they went in and out. I expected to have some trouble g...
2022-08-21 22:25:21 +0000 UTC View PostDespite them being assholes we had Jessie patch them up first thing. The last thing we wanted was their deaths on our conscience, and since we triggered their beacons we didn't need to worry about them attacking us. They were out, and they'd lost all their materials to us, which...
2022-08-20 21:49:05 +0000 UTC View PostJune 3rd 2016 Julian Advent's Manor, The Nightside 12:00 AM EDT
I felt my another five thousand points drop in, bringing me to one hundred fifteen thousand, even as we finally arrived at Julian's manor. As we pulled up outside I had to admit, it was pretty...
2022-08-20 09:20:02 +0000 UTC View PostBoreas and Raleigh came at us hard, leaving Astara once it become clear that her wound wasn't going to get worse. There was no bleeding because the tear in the flesh had been cauterized shut with poison fire, which while excruciatingly painful, was actually helpful in terms of &...
2022-08-20 00:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 10th 2016 Gemworld 4:00 PM EDT
We circled around the side of the fortress before entering. I'd been leaning towards the back, but Cherry had set me straight. "First rule of being a thief is avoid any obvious entrances. People have...
2022-08-19 23:31:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs described, The Wavestriders (which made zero sense as a name because none of them had water powers) were a pretty intimidating group, visually speaking. The leader, Boreas, WAS short, but the green haired bearded man made up for it with some seriously wide shoulders. The &nbs...
2022-08-18 23:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 The Hawk's Wind Bar and Grill, The Nightside 11:00 PM EDT
The man who strode up to sit down at our table was...impressive. He was tall and imposing. His hair and eyes were both pitch black, and his features were handsome in a serious and reso...
2022-08-18 22:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere were good and bad aspects of finding the location of the Akkadian Fire Beads (I used Seek Hidden to confirm we had the right pool just in case). The upside was now we knew where to look, not to mention the Tinderlings weren't lurking around here guarding this place so we &...
2022-08-17 20:27:42 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 10th 2016 Gemworld 3:00 PM EDT
Cherry and I, as suggested, decided to go alone to scope out the bandits. Obviously I wasn't letting her travel without protection, I had no way of getting another hand of glory, or a pretty ps...
2022-08-17 18:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostDespite my earlier words to Callie, once I found the right spot and got ready to use Sucking Mud in the way I'd envisioned, I found myself hesitating. Callie's fear at the idea of being buried alive might be more extreme than I expected, but as I was preparing to actually ...
2022-08-16 23:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 The Nightside 10:00 PM EDT
We headed out to the cobbled street with Taylor and John accompanying us. I half expected us to get jumped by someone when we came out, but standing in the gas lamps under the massive moon the street was compl...
2022-08-16 22:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post