The next morning was pretty relaxed. Cinder and I spent all night in bed, Raven and Barb got back later and joined in but I eventually fell asleep at about four in the morning. I woke up the smell of breakfast cooking, sausage by the smell of it. Probably eggs too, and I glanced...
2022-01-05 20:59:52 +0000 UTC View PostShadowcrest July 20th 2010 8:30 PM EDT
Zatanna's room was...girlier than I had expected. Not pink and frilly or anything, but the baby blues mixed with the midnight blue and the silver accents were all made up of decidedly feminine stuff. She had several &...
2022-01-04 18:51:28 +0000 UTC View PostIf seeing Cinder in her pajama shorts earlier had been an unexpected treat, seeing her in that bright red lingerie was a four course meal. She was...fucking divine. I knew that of course, I'd seen her naked, but something about a woman in lingerie is just...different. The last t...
2022-01-04 16:08:55 +0000 UTC View PostShadowcrest July 20th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Fun fact about being an effortless genius in stealth and subterfuge, able to blend into the foliage and vanish into the shrubbery. It hurts. Being a genius at avoiding breaking branches and rustling leaves doesn't mak...
2022-01-03 21:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostI was exhausted. Just fundamentally tired. Even with my decision to slow down and let other people handle things I ended up running around like a chicken with it's head cut off during this wolf mess and I was just tired. Luckily the next week was totally free of any obligations,...
2022-01-03 19:07:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower July 19th 2010 10:00 PM EDT
So my dead girlfriend wasn't dead. I hadn't even considered the possibility, which in retrospect felt stupid of me. Little details about my interaction with Staunton and comments he'd made when we fought st...
2022-01-02 23:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostSitting in the clearing on Demonreach with Munin next to me I couldn't help but stare at the invitation. It was formal as hell of course, because fairies, but the most interesting thing about it was what was written on the paper. A call for a full conclave of the unseelie ...
2022-01-02 18:56:21 +0000 UTC View PostPowers Estate July 19th 2010 8:45 PM EDT
Aside from the eight Talons that had been dropped by my Uncle's creepy fucking gun (which I was now convinced was definitely evil and would absolutely be showing to Jim at the first opportunity) I managed to drop &nb...
2022-01-02 00:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostWe buried Fenrir near the beach. Not on the beach, because of the tides and because digging in sand is literally the most frustrating thing you can do, but pretty close to the waterline. I wasn't sure if he would have liked that, I hadn't known him that well, but something ...
2022-01-01 21:54:08 +0000 UTC View PostPowers Estate July 19th 2010 8:30 PM EDT
This was...pretty bad. We were supposed to have an easy time here, Jim and Madame Xanadu gang up on Morgana, the rest of us take out that Talons. Granted there were a ton of them and they were immortal super soldier...
2021-12-31 19:36:35 +0000 UTC View PostDespite having the armor to drain off a large portion of the power, the extreme damage from overloading my body ended up serving about the same purpose. I was about eighty percent godsteel at this point, and condensing all of it back down into its original form of one arm and a ...
2021-12-31 17:17:22 +0000 UTC View PostPowers Estate July 19th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
The Powers Estate seemed...bigger and more imposing than I remembered it. I imagined part of that was the trauma I'd gone through here spooking me, but I flicking on my aura sight I could see the entire place was &n...
2021-12-30 23:50:08 +0000 UTC View PostI did not, of course, hold back at all when I punched Fenrir. I shifted into the third form of klurkor and activated the Archangel Armor. I'd only expected to be able to last ten minutes, but the massive soulfire consumption managed to somewhat offset even my klurkor state ...
2021-12-30 15:34:57 +0000 UTC View PostHokus and Pokus Occult Curioso July 18th 2010 6:00 PM EDT
I was glad to see Madame Xanadu relax after she realized what day it was, but that joy was short lived. Once she realized thing's weren't pressing she drafted all of us into service cleaning up her ...
2021-12-30 01:04:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days went by in a blur, between getting Billy and Georgia and the other Alphas back to the main land and making preparations for our big fight we had quite a bit on our plates. My master finished up all the armor for the girls and we contacted everyone and lai...
2021-12-29 21:19:26 +0000 UTC View PostHokus and Pokus Occult Curioso July 18th 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Standing back in the shop after having just been here the other day was fairly surreal for a few reasons. First of all Blood was here with us. After we'd turned the book over to Circe she had just ...
2021-12-29 00:54:52 +0000 UTC View PostStepping onto the beach this time was even more nerve wracking than the first time. Despite the spirit of the island being on good terms with us now I couldn't help but worry about Raven. The thought of her getting captured was only mildly more disturbing than her torturing &nbs...
2021-12-28 18:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Cemetery July 17th 2010 9:00 PM EDT
Once I'd gotten the information from my Uncle I'd called Jim, who had been able to get the venom from Circe in advance. I'd been a bit surprised she'd handed it over, but Jim said she wasn't really worried about b...
2021-12-28 02:43:39 +0000 UTC View PostAfter our little heart to heart my master kicked me out. He insisted he needed to concentrate on his forging. He had me send the girls out two at a time to be measured and then started up the forge to begin work. I asked about watching but he told me being introduced to certain ...
2021-12-28 00:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostArkham Asylum July 17th 2010 11:00 AM EDT
In the papers and on TV they make Arkham out to be this terrible creepy place where all hope goes to die. They paint pictures of madness and despair and the breaking of the human spirit and talk about the place &nb...
2021-12-27 01:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostNaturally the girls decided to invite the old bastard in to stay. Luckily my abusive teacher preferred solitude and chose to retrofit the garage to his own liking. Apparently the girls were thrilled to meet him, with Raven and Cinder being excited to meet an experienced en...
2021-12-26 22:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower July 16th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I had been confined to the tower since the incident with the crazy Talon. Jim forbade me from leaving and honestly I was mostly with him, until I though about how much fun I'd had with Zee yesterday and started &n...
2021-12-26 00:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostSix weeks later...
The sun shone in my eyes as I stepped out of the svartalf compound. For the first week I tried to get home as often as possible but eventually the commute just became a hassle. I'd negotiated with my master to stay full time for six weeks in exchan...
2021-12-25 19:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostGotham City July 15th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I felt pretty amazing. I'd spent the whole day with Zee, having fun and being stupid. We went to the movies, to an amusement park, to eat lunch, we went to Haly's Circus, which was in town, and just generally had fun ...
2021-12-24 20:08:12 +0000 UTC View PostMy everything hurt. Badly. It had been nearly twenty four hours (my sadistic master had at least allowed me to stop and call home so they didn't worry) and I had made over forty daggers. Every time I made one Brokkr would point out half of my mistakes and then make me spend five...
2021-12-24 18:07:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower July 15th 8:00 AM EDT
I adjusted my jacket again and looked in the mirror. I'd chosen one of my world class tailored suits. Then changed into a shirt and jeans. Then changed back into the suit because my mask looked fucking stupid with &nbs...
2021-12-23 21:19:24 +0000 UTC View PostI had absolutely no idea how to forge iron. I knew nothing about smithing or metal at all. I figured this out mind you, after the fifteenth whack with that goddamn stick hit my fucking head. First I tried molding it with my hands, they were strong enough that I could do it...
2021-12-23 17:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Park July 14th 2010 7:00 AM EDT
I had skipped school again today. Not that anyone was aware, I'd hacked into their servers and changed my attendance records along with switching a few missed assignments to A's. It wasn't like I needed the less...
2021-12-22 19:46:13 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the overt threat in the words, I didn't actually feel any danger from the ancient elf. That said, I was in the middle of their extremely heavily enchanted underground city, and even I might have trouble fighting my way out of here. I was pretty sure I could, since my &nb...
2021-12-22 16:10:04 +0000 UTC View PostHome of Jason Blood July 13th 2010 6:00 PM EDT
I glanced up at the townhouse with a bit of trepidation. Over the last few days we'd made zero headway into figuring out what the hell the Court was trying to do, and we'd finally arranged a meeting with Jason...
2021-12-21 23:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post