“So what now?” Scule asked, peering at what had to be his own glowing notification. Vin briefly wondered what Scule’s tiny notifications would look like compared to his own, but he forced himself to remain focused.
“What do you mean, ‘what now?’” Shia asked. “This doesn’t ...
2024-12-25 05:51:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe tiny man raised an eyebrow, staring up at Shia. “...A job offer? Are you serious?”
“Deadly,” the elf grinned. “My friend and I here are planning something of a heist… and we could certainly use someone with your expertise that knows the lay of the land within the citadel.”...
2024-12-24 06:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean it’s gone?!”
“I mean it’s gone! The whole pouch is gone!” Shia said frantically, scanning the ground around them. “I swear, I just had it a few minutes ago! I can’t help but touch it every so often just to make sure it didn’t fall off or anything, so I kn...
2024-12-23 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostShia’s plan required them to wait until nightfall, and it relied on a few too many assumptions for Vin’s taste. But in the end, they all agreed it was their best shot at making it into the locked down citadel. Thus, after spending that evening trekking along the outer wall and confirming it t...
2024-12-20 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Look, it's not that I don’t think you’re strong… All I’m saying is a horse sized duck is a lot bigger than you think.”
“Perhaps… but if I don’t have my sword in this situation, I’d prefer only having to focus on a single enemy than trying to deal with such a large group...
2024-12-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostNew Elite Monster Discovered! 500 exp gained.
“No, really?!” He yelled, dismissing the notification as he took in the hulkish monster emerging from the sand before him. When the sand had shifted enough to finally reveal the small mountain of flesh attached to the weird ...
2024-12-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“So what’s the plan?” Shia asked as they made their way out of the Sacred Forest. As one last parting gift, Erik had pointed them in a direction that was free of any monsters, so they were making good time as they walked. They’d had to wait a few minutes to allow Shia to run back to her h...
2024-12-17 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostVin couldn’t help but let out a massive yawn as they made their way to the edge of the elven village, earning himself a raised eyebrow from Shia as they walked. The elf struck a far more imposing visage now that she held the minor artifact in hand. So much so that the handful of elves that were...
2024-12-16 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two more days for Erik to finally finish his preparations, and Vin hadn’t spent that time idly. With his new Capstone in hand, Vin had delved deep into the few spells he knew and tried to figure out what exactly the different runes did.
He quickly learned that while Runic Re...
2024-12-15 01:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostVin spent the next hour getting berated by his new magic instructor. Apparently, what he’d done had been ‘idiotic,’ and ‘reckless,’ and ‘liable to get himself killed.’ According to Shia, reverse engineering a spell from an artifact was already a dangerous thing to attempt, and to do...
2024-12-15 01:19:01 +0000 UTC View PostShia yawned, rolling over with a smile on her face as she realized the dream she’d been having about sleeping on a cloud had been entirely real. She’d been waiting for a chance to try out her master’s fancy shiverwing mattress ever since he’d first bragged about it to her.
She had t...
2024-12-15 01:18:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, the place that Erik had in mind for Vin’s stay was actually the now vacant house that had belonged to the Druid of the Divine before he went missing. The house had been empty for the last three months after all, so Erik apparently saw no problem with Vin using it for a few day...
2024-12-15 01:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostVin blinked at the Ancient One as the strange tree-like man took another sip of his tea, breathing in the deep aroma before placing the cup down. As though he hadn’t just confessed to Vin that his entire race of God-like beings was dead and he’d soon follow.
‘Well… that’s some...
2024-12-15 01:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe elven village was every hippie’s wet dream come to life. Somehow the elves had managed to grow trees in such a way that they formed the very walls and ceilings of their houses, making every single one of the hundreds of houses Vin could make out a living work of art. Some houses were short ...
2024-12-15 01:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostIgnoring Alka’s taunt, Smohl stumbled over to the two elves that had gone down in a tangle of limbs when the Trunkback had thrown one at the other. Dropping hard to his knees, the elf checked their pulses. At least one of them must still have been breathing, as the leader quickly turned and yel...
2024-12-15 01:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post‘Come on, give me the reins, I can take ‘em!’
“You can not take them!” Vin hissed, earning himself a raised eyebrow from one of the closer elves. Clearing his throat, Vin smiled at his ambushers, thanking the System once again for offering him the Polyglot p...
2024-12-15 01:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostVin took a deep breath in through his nose, savoring the fresh air and swaths of open meadow before him. After discovering new world fragments and roaming the open landscape, returning to camp had almost felt like he was willingly walking back into that small cell the System had yanked him from b...
2024-12-15 01:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostVin’s next few days on Edregon were spent doing what he probably should have done from the very beginning. Following Spur’s orders, Vin started in camp at the center of their fragment and travelled outward in ever increasing rings in order to map out all of the surrounding landscape.
Re...
2024-12-15 01:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post“The objective of these council meetings is to decide on the appropriate actions we should take as a whole moving forward, and to ensure each of the three class related factions making up our camp feel like they are being heard,” Spur summed up, looking around the small table that had been br...
2024-12-15 01:09:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out the answer to that question was the hastily thrown together mess hall. All it took was following the smell of roasting meat, and a few minutes later Vin found himself sitting under a tree with a grilled sqerret on a stick and his System interface pulled up in front of him. It seemed...
2024-12-15 01:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post‘This is your camp?’ Alka asked, clearly unimpressed as the two of them made their way through scattered bedrolls and shoddily put together tents on their quest to find Spur. Half of the camp was set up rather well with the tents in rows and all facing the same direction, but th...
2024-12-15 01:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostSpur sighed, not even bothering to look up from the dozens of sheets of paper he had spread out across one of the many foldable tables they’d assembled in their temporary command center. He’d been busy trying to determine if it was smarter for them to prioritize being closer to a water source...
2024-12-15 01:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostDespite Alka’s desire to put the town that had trapped her for the last three months behind her, the group decided to spend one more night within the town’s borders. None of them were in any rush to try and navigate through the snake infested grass in the dark. Especially after Vin repeated h...
2024-12-15 01:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Samtha, do any of you three have the ability to detect secret compartments? Like, if someone was hiding something underground?”
“Yes,” she nodded, looking puzzled. “At least, to a degree. Korey and myself both have the Sense Stone spell. If there is a compar...
2024-12-15 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostVin stared at the glowing woman floating comfortably a few feet above the ground. Slowly getting to his feet, he brushed himself off and pursed his lips. “Sorry… you want me to do what exactly?”
“Kill me,” she said, matter of factly. “You think I want to be stuck like this? A gh...
2024-12-15 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took Vin about a mile of jogging down the dirt path before he stumbled upon the abandoned town. Located between a handful of the massive trees was a lifeless town without a single speck of movement. As he approached, Vin scanned the oddly quiet cluster of buildings, looking for anyone who...
2024-12-14 23:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“They headed east from here,” the elder said, gesturing off into the distance. The two of them stood at the edge of the village while a handful of villagers watched them from a respectful distance. Vin wasn’t sure if it was because of how highly these people valued honesty, but not a single...
2024-12-14 22:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe faint sound of someone chiseling rock somewhere within the village was all that could be heard as Vin stared at the elder, trying to wrap his head around her words.
“I’m sorry… when you say, ‘the world ended’… what do you mean by that exactly?”
“It is as it sounds,...
2024-12-14 21:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBoy I hope these guys know how to fight and I’m not about to get their entire village slaughtered, Vin thought as he ran down the hill; an actual chance of survival that didn’t involve entering a knife fight with a giant mutant scorpion giving him the motivation he needed to keep his...
2024-12-14 20:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs Vin walked, he carefully took in the surrounding area, keeping an eye out for anything unusual as he’d been instructed. So far, everything seemed rather… normal. If he hadn’t witnessed the magic of teleportation first hand, he would have assumed he was just strolling through a meadow som...
2024-12-14 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post