The next morning was pretty nice in all honesty. We'd had this sort of general tension since we got here, and while I won't say we had fucked all that tension away, we definitely both felt much more at ease. This was going to be nuts sure, but we were strong as fuck and we just ...
2022-02-04 11:09:43 +0000 UTC View PostTower of Fate August 19th 2010 6:30 PM EDT
Nobody moved. Literally we all just froze. People talk about fights and encounters between capes all the time, but they never mention how absurdly awkward things can get, and running into a random team here was &n...
2022-02-04 00:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostFinally the last night before we left arrived. We'd spent the last three weeks working on magic, and it had paid off. My earth magic had improved immensely and I was so close to forming a new aspect I could taste it, and Yang had taken to lightning like a duck to water once I &n...
2022-02-03 22:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostSalem August 19th 2010 6:00 PM EDT
The next week or so had been busy as hell. We spent six days constantly running the dungeon, stopping home for family time and going to school before hand but still spending hours every night down there. My new powe...
2022-02-02 22:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks flew by, constant training and unrelenting beatings for everyone. Well, everyone in my team, so just Yang and I. But still it was a rough few weeks. The stupid training room updated as we fought our copies forcing us to find new and creative ways to exploit &n...
2022-02-02 18:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral August 13th 2010 11:00 PM EDT
We left Reggie and Kit behind on this trip, but since there was no real boss on the fourth floor just the three of us were more than enough. We took the portal down and as we walked I had to marvel at how my body...
2022-02-01 23:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostI imagine many people would refer to fighting yourself as masturbatory. That would be inaccurate for two reasons. Firstly there are genuine gains to be gotten from finding holes in your combat style and leaning the weak spots your enemies can probe. Already i was finding g...
2022-02-01 12:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower August 13th 2010 8:00 PM
I closed my eyes, focusing on the blazing numerals behind my lids. Three hundred and fifteen points. That was enough for me to finally get my next power. My epiphany in the battle with Leoric made choosing them properly e...
2022-02-01 00:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe training room inn the high class in near the castle was impressive as hell. The walls were that same white marble with gold and blood crystal veins, and the floor was a woven straw mat, though one thin enough that hitting it would still hurt like a bitch. Yang and I made &nb...
2022-01-31 22:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral August 10th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Tonight was the big night. We were about to kill the skeleton king. I stared at the entrance to his crypt along with the others. Reggie raised a hand questioningly. "Umm, anyone else getting a bad feeling from thi...
2022-01-31 01:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostNow from an outside perspective sending us to fight in a planar death tournament seems like a random and stupid decision, but looking at it logically I saw where he was going with this. We were expendable assets who had proven we were strong enough to put up a fight. It made a t...
2022-01-30 11:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostO'Malley penthouse August 9th 6:00 PM EDT
So here we were, at dinner at our penthouse. It was Paula, Artemis, me, my mother, Zee, Wally, my moms new boyfriend Satoru, and a partridge in a fucking pear tree. Mom had wanted to invite Reggie's family too, as ...
2022-01-30 00:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe castle of the Lord of Dis was imposing as hell, no pun intended. The massive dark stone building with it's pulsing runes didn't just loom, with the constant appearance of shifting and heaving it seemed like the thing was hunched over me panting to get a taste. Walking ...
2022-01-29 23:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Docks August 9th 2010 11:30 AM EDT
Today was the day. My mom, Paula, Callie, and Claire were all coming back. Their cruise got in at noon and I had begged off school to meet them, with Reggie, Artemis, and surprisingly Zatanna joining me. I'd told ...
We woke up the next day feeling...well not better but less bad. The bed here was more comfortable than expected. I hadn't noticed that before, though it made sense since I guess sin was their whole schtick and sloth was one of the biggies. Comfortable beds to pass out in after &...
2022-01-29 00:15:32 +0000 UTC View PostMirror House August 7th 2010 8:45 PM EDT
Turns out vampires are real. Which shouldn't be a huge shock with all the other shit I've seen but...vampires? They were pretty stereotypical vampires too. Pale skin, dark hair and frilly gothic clothes. It should &...
2022-01-28 00:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe city of Dis was, pardon the pun, disturbing. Not because of all the crazy demons or heinous monsters, though there were plenty of them, but because of what they were doing. The ugly bastards were just living their lives, shopping and lunching and traveling and just gen...
2022-01-27 20:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostMirror House August 7th 2010 8:30 PM EDT
Despite The Dealer having literally no distinguishing features from the rest of the people in here, somehow after a while it became easy to tell him apart from the others. He just had this kind of...presence about h...
2022-01-27 01:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the journey to the city was more of the same. Get attacked, kill attacked, occasionally eat the less gross ones. We managed to get water by boiling the blood of the various hell beasts we killed and collecting the vapor. Took a bit of trial and error to get rig...
2022-01-26 22:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostMirror House August 7th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Arriving at the auction was somewhat underwhelming. The Silver Ghost pulled up outside an abandoned building and we all got out, already wearing gas masks. We mostly had our costumes on under them, except Zee becaus...
2022-01-26 01:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe meat from the lizard bird creature tasted like ass. This was not unexpected because it's blood was toxic sludge green and it's flesh was grey which just did not look appetizing to begin with. Not to mention having to basically charcoal brick it with soulfire to be as safe as...
2022-01-25 21:29:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower August 6th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
The next day was another dungeon free day, but not because of Zee. In fact, my girlfriend was here now. She came through the town portal so she didn't know where we were, but Jim admitted that she would be useful...
2022-01-25 01:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in pain. Not like the pain I used to wake up in when I was normal where my back hurt from sleeping wrong or I tweaked my neck. More like bruises all over my body and small jagged rocks stabbing into me pain. It was also hot. Like weirdly unnaturally hot, like standing in &nb...
2022-01-24 21:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower August 5th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
We were exhausted. All of us just collectively beat. Zee was home tonight, her dad had taken time off to spend time with her because the Labyrinth didn't appear to be going anywhere. Despite my intention to avoid...
2022-01-24 00:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostRaven pretty much passed out after we were done and I picked her up and carried her down the hall to where Cinder and Barb were sleeping. The bed was pretty soaked and I didn't feel like changing the damn sheets so we just dropped into bed with our girlfriends and curled up &nbs...
2022-01-23 22:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostShadowcrest August 3rd 2010 9:00 PM EDT
It wasn't hard to use my phone to buy a skill book for cooking. The book only cost twenty points as I had figured, and insisted it could make someone and iron chef quality cook. It didn't promise a time frame, and &n...
2022-01-22 23:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how many times I saw her naked, I could not get over Raven's body. My other girlfriends were gorgeous, don't get me wrong. Barb was athletic and sexy and toned, and Cinder was a pillowy sexpot, but Raven. If sex was food Raven was a fucking cheesecake. Thick and ...
2022-01-22 06:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur introduction to Samuel and Bernard was much less dramatic than expected. Samuel was a short, slim Turkish man with long hair drawn into a ponytail and a close trimmed beard. He had a friendly smile on pretty much all the time and sort of reminded me of Dalton. Mina and he we...
2022-01-21 23:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral August 3rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I expected to be able to crush the third floor with our new ringers, but unfortunately I had momentarily ignored something fairly important. Fucking skeletons had a magic immunity. As did zombies. I briefly checked...
2022-01-21 21:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostCastle Drakul was surprisingly normal looking. I say that with the context that no castle is really normal to someone from the US but it was just a big stone building. I was expecting darkness and flashing lightning and eerie howls but it was just a nice large stone structure &n...
2022-01-21 02:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post