I wasted no time heading over to the svartalf compound, and made my way down to speak with Etri the very next day. I didn't need Gard to make it through the gate this time, Etri must have mentioned I might be coming because the svartalf at the gate in the human mask let me right...
2021-12-21 21:30:14 +0000 UTC View PostHokus and Pokus Occult Curioso July 11th 2010 1:30 PM EDT
I turned to Jim with a horrified look on my face. This was all because of us, hell, because of me. Annabel had only pushed Reggie into that stupid heist to try to get control over me. Now the knife we'd &...
2021-12-20 18:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I did after we left the field was fix my body. I was up to about eighty five percent godsteel, and it felt...wrong. I felt inhuman, like I was becoming something other. Luckily I didn't have to worry about it as much anymore since I'd discovered my new trick. I &...
2021-12-20 15:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostHokus and Pokus Occult Curioso July 11th 2010 1:00 PM EDT
Madame Xanadu's shop was wrecked, but we couldn't see it until we got closer. She must have had some sort of illusion over the place because until we were about ten feet away from the store front it...
2021-12-19 17:54:34 +0000 UTC View PostI was stunned. These bastards had fused together like some kind of evil douchey wolf megazord. Fifteen feet tall may not have sounded like much, but the actual power this combined version had was much more than doubled. This thing was undoubtedly at least twice as strong as the ...
2021-12-19 14:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower July 11th 2010 11:00 AM EDT
Sleeping at the clock tower was miserable, the beds here were awful, I considered ordering a super deluxe mattress through my power, but it seemed like a huge waste with everything going on. I needed a new power,...
2021-12-18 16:40:06 +0000 UTC View PostI managed to hurl myself away from another blurring strike by Remus as he came in with a hard right aimed at my jaw, and it gave Cinder just enough time to hurl a soulfire and fall maiden infused glass sword made by her semblance at his back. Unfortunately the bastard had starte...
2021-12-18 12:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post??? Gotham City July 10th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I admit to being a bit disappointed when Jim pulled up on a street corner and we all got out of the Silver Ghost. I looked at my mentor dryly "Wow. This is a nice street corner. I can't wait to tell all my friends...
2021-12-17 22:34:01 +0000 UTC View PostOk, I had seen some impressive shit, but building a roman coliseum out of the last rays of the setting sun and dragging us into the nevernever with it was pretty fucking impressive. I turned to look at an equally astonished Gard. "Any chance this was all within Odin's calc...
2021-12-17 18:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostUnknown Warehouse July 10th 2010 2:00 PM EDT
The meeting with my dad the next day was a few hours after noon. I'd slept...poorly the night before. I'd expected the nightmares, but I also had a sense of growing paranoia about being alone. Being by myself &n...
2021-12-17 00:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostGard was of course onboard. The weapons we had were all we needed for this show down. With the exception of the Beast killing flintlock, which pretty much didn't do anything anymore except fire subpar ammunition, all the rest of the gear was long term viable. Granted I was ...
2021-12-16 12:14:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower July 9th 2010 11:30 PM EDT
Getting in touch with the others to arrange a meeting wasn't too tough. Artemis was right next door and Reggie had finished his date with Bette at around ten. Jim meanwhile pretty much lived at The Clock Tower so ...
2021-12-16 00:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostWe had a few days of quiet after The Beast was put down. Honestly I was a bit antsy to start looking for the twins since we only had a few weeks left to deal with the bastards. But aside from my own mental and physical exhaustion, Andi was in a pretty fragile state. We had somew...
2021-12-15 21:42:33 +0000 UTC View PostGetting home I was exhausted. Even my insane body had limits and apparently running across town at three hundred miles per hour was where I hit my wall. When I got home I asked Kara to draw me a medicine bath. Every muscle in my body was screaming at this point, honestly it was ...
2021-12-14 23:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostPowers Estate July 9th 2010 7:30 PM EDT
I don't know what I expected after Annabel died. Hell, I don't know if expected anything. The only girlfriend I ever had had just drugged me, told me she loved me, and then died, all within the last hour. She'd been ...
2021-12-14 17:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostPowers Estate, July 9th 2010 7:00 PM EDT
Ringing the doorbell at Annabel's place was nerve wracking. I was in my best suit, which I'd splurged and burned ten points on when I found an email for a discount suit sale that promised the highest quality and a f...
2021-12-13 19:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostGabby, fortunately, was not an orphan. Chastel had snatched her off the playground rather than from home so her parents were most likely fine. However, a random guy returning your kid was bound to stir up questions, so I called Harry and asked him to pass a message to our ...
2021-12-13 17:44:07 +0000 UTC View PostWayne Manor, July 9th 2010 7:15 PM EDT
I was a bit skeptical of Jim's plan. Admittedly I doubted Dick would have time to keep an eye on me with such a good show going on, but this seemed wildly dramatic and ostentatious. As I had that thought however I rem...
2021-12-12 12:16:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe snide french voice on the other end of the burner phone sounded less amused when I answered this time "I am not enjoying this game anymore. You have cheated. I had more fun planned, but if you cannot follow the rules we will skip to the final stage. Meet me at the field &nbs...
2021-12-12 07:15:19 +0000 UTC View PostWayne Manor, July 9th 2010 7:00 PM EDT
Wayne Manor was really big. Like, I'd thought the Drake Estate was big but the Wayne's took it the extra mile, the place was the size of a damn castle. I turned to my girlfriend, who was just getting out of the limo &...
2021-12-11 22:39:43 +0000 UTC View PostI was about to lose my damn mind. I'd been feeling so powerful lately, taking out all my opponents one by one, and then The Beast shows up and rakes me over the coals. I felt like I was hurtling down a set of tracks in a cart and no matter how hard I tried I couldn't stop. I'd &...
2021-12-11 20:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Academy, July 7th 2010 7:00 AM EDT
Once again I was exhausted in class. I'd stayed up late last night at the lair, working on trying to crack into the security on Wayne Manor. After about five hours of attempts to get past their firewall I had decid...
2021-12-10 19:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostSwinging home to pick up the gun made to kill Chastel was pretty quick, but extracting myself from the throng of agitated women that really didn't want me to go meet a serial killer in the middle of a dark Chicago park was a much more long term project. I got their concern, &nbs...
2021-12-10 16:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower, July 4th 10:30 EDT
Artemis was glaring at me as she pulled off her mask when we got back to the clock tower. I winced and averted my eyes. After a minute or two of silence she finally erupted "I can't believe you knocked out a nine year &n...
2021-12-10 00:47:46 +0000 UTC View PostBarb's call came as we were walking out of the field museum. I had been a bit worried about not seeing her earlier so I was happy to hear from my redhead. I picked up the call with a smile "Hey babe, we missed you at the house earlier. Big day on our side. How goes the exciting ...
2021-12-09 22:43:46 +0000 UTC View PostDrake Manor, July 4th 9:00 PM EDT
I was annoyed. It was the fourth of July, and instead of being curled up next to my girlfriend like I was supposed to be I was sitting in a copse of trees outside a huge manner house. I glared at my boss, who was flo...
2021-12-09 00:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostI completely understood why Lycaon had collapsed under Fenrir's gaze when he was younger. I had been thinking about it like resistance training, like I had been around enough terrifying things to weather the pressure. But I had been wrong. Fenrir's gaze didn't crush down on me &...
2021-12-08 21:34:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe phone ringing wasn't an unusual turn of events. It was pretty common to get calls now that our friends had phones they could use. No one gets more giddy about technology than wizards who spent decades watching everyone else have fun with it. However, out of all the people &n...
2021-12-08 01:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Park, July 4th , 12:00 PM EDT , four weeks later.
It was a good day. Annabel and I were at the park for a picnic for the fourth of July, enjoying the sunshine and each other's company. After our first date the day after the heist we started spending...
2021-12-07 21:05:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe fingers on the Hand were getting a bit low as I stumbled out of the cellar doors. Avoiding that shitty green thing had been annoying, I assumed that it was for some reason considered to be outside the Hand's restrictions. I had to use my shadow movement again to get out, but...
2021-12-06 21:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post