When the bellow of pure rage shook the stone around the Legion camp, Aurillia was one of the few who didn't start wildly staring around themselves, trying to understand what had happened. She'd soldiered with the commander for a long time, and it wasn't the fi...
2020-09-18 12:07:18 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: Something a little different from the usual, thought I'd give this a go. Hope you enjoy!
Titus hated dressing up. But the Golgari High Blades were notorious sticklers for protocol and tradition, so his hands were ...
2020-09-17 10:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
It was almost funny, Mendant thought to herself, that such a highly anticipated and foreshadowed invasion would result in such frantic activity on the part of the Colony. None of them were surprised, and yet all them managed to be in the wrong place and behind...
2020-09-16 11:26:47 +0000 UTC View Post
What is mana? It was an embarrassingly long time before the tower had anything even remotely approaching a satisfying answer to this question. Even now, we have no real way of knowing if we are correct, since we don’t know where it comes from, how it's m...
2020-09-13 11:24:40 +0000 UTC View Post
They're digging in for the long haul, and I hate it. I hate it! I don't want them to be this sensible! Constructing a fortified position? Securing their supply lines? Pushing forward with caution? No! This isn't what I want to see! I want them to charge ahead, frothing at the m...
2020-09-12 11:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The ants were not aware of the age old adage from Earth "battles are won on the training ground", but they certainly knew how to throw their efforts into wholehearted preparations regardless. Not that much changed once the invasion forces had been spotted, the...
2020-09-10 11:11:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Deep in the second strata, a furious scout was running as if all the demons of the third were after its delicious abdomen. She had left her relay station thirty minutes ago and was almost out of gas, her mutations specialised in speed, not so much endurance. I...
2020-09-09 11:25:57 +0000 UTC View Post
When he'd rounded the corner and seen the swarm of insects bear his daughter to the ground, Titus had felt the mana in his blood ignite with rage. When they'd fled, and the ape monster had brought down the tunnel, burying his legionaries, burying Morrelia<...
2020-09-08 08:18:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The approaching red-armoured figure clearly hadn't expected to be descended upon by the hereto hidden ant squad. Even I was a little shocked to see them, to be honest, and I'd known that they were there the entire time. I've looked a little deeper into the met...
2020-09-06 00:29:57 +0000 UTC View Post(fun fact, the welcome stranger was the name given to one of the largest gold nuggets ever found, somewhere in Australia.)
Those chasing in my wake don't seem to appreciate my gifts. Angry shouts and a barrage of blade light explode from behin...
2020-09-04 11:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post
The classic deer in the headlights trap! I should have seen it coming a mile away!? Since when is a monster that helpless ever left alive in the Dungeon for more than a minute? This is the Dungeon for goodness sake! An ecosystem with more competition in it that this one surely ...
2020-09-02 12:46:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Dungeon warfare is probably the most studied and practiced craft on Pangera. The Rending was a rude introduction to the intricacies of the three dimensional conflict beneath the surface, but the sapient races of the surface proved to be quick studies, and ...
2020-09-01 12:10:42 +0000 UTC View Post
When the itching finally fades away, Crinis peels herself off the walls and regroups back onto my carapace to reveal something I didn't expect to see. Protectant, her cover dropped without me having to drag her out of the shadows for once, stands right in fron...
2020-08-30 11:31:47 +0000 UTC View Post
After fiddling around a bit, I end up settling on the following mutations:
My Mana Feasting Bind Acid +20 will add the self-propagating trait and become the Propagating Mana-Feasting Bind Acid Gland +25.
That is… quite the mouthful. Hopefully it ...
2020-08-29 10:58:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to bring on the exquisite pain of self-improvement. I have a ton of Biomass to spend and the time to roll around on the floor looking like a fool. Let's get to it!
But what to improve next? I've still got a ton of things that need to be upgraded to ...
2020-08-27 11:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: Hey there you incredible people. Just wanted to take an opportunity to say thanks to everyone who joined up this month and to all those who've stuck around for another month. You're the best, each and every one of you.
It's been a lot harder to wr...
2020-08-25 10:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It is no mystery to the theorists of the Colony why most of the races we encountered were initially hostile. Our kind is dangerous, it's for precisely this reason that we were able to deal with others as equals, because we were strong, a threat. Mutual des...
2020-08-24 12:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
[So your people are called… the Folks?]
[Folk.]
[The Folk?]
[Yes.]
[So… The Folk?]
[That is correct.]
[Is that like… a nickname, or a translation thing? Or is it just… The Folk?]
So far, the wolf-like guy has b...
2020-08-22 11:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Many a recruit has been lost to the Demons of the third strata, despite the Legion's best efforts to prepare them. It provides some comfort that Delvers who belong to the Mercenary Union fall at a higher rate, which means our training does have some effect...
2020-08-21 11:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I find Jim and Sarah in a place I didn't quite expect, visiting the golgari prisoners, which is an unexpected convenience for me. As I bustle onto the scene, my pets in tow, my two fellow ex-prisoners appear to be getting ready to leave.
[Hey there you t...
2020-08-19 10:35:50 +0000 UTC View PostEdit - cut my hand today so I wasn't able to type much :(
A few people commented on some things that Anthony should have brought up explicitly with the council, so I've edited the chapter to include more dialogue on those subjects.
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2020-08-17 11:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
As the Colony expands and grows, it's becoming increasingly difficult to get the Council together. The members are needed all over the place. Victoriant and Antionette have their regular egg-laying duties, which takes the bulk of their time. When they aren't l...
2020-08-15 22:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The centuries following the event that came to be known as the Descent, when the System applied to itself to the peoples of Pangera remain shrouded in darkness. The Cataclysm that came afterward destroyed almost all records, but those scraps we have access...
2020-08-14 11:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
After chatting with Enid a little more, she finishes her tea and heads off to rest. The next day of talks will prove to be an eventful one, I'm sure, given what we've discussed, but for now I have two expectant looking Golgari to deal with.
[Been a while...
2020-08-11 10:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Thankfully, this awkward moment is resolved in the best way possible when both of the humanoids collapse to the ground, passed out. My siblings around me react with general confusion before they shrug their collective antennae and grab the two prisoners to tak...
2020-08-10 11:05:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Another expanse conquered, the great web has been brought low. Vibrant and I lead our group back out into a new section of tunnel as we prepare to launch the next leg of our advance party scouting. The first item on our list of jobs, is to retrace our steps, f...
2020-08-08 11:04:47 +0000 UTC View Post
[Damn spider! Get down here and face me!]
The house-sized arachnid, safe in her hole in the wall ringed with poisonous strands of webbing as thick as a car waggled her fangs at me in derision and pointed one leg at the hundreds of ants standing next to m...
2020-08-07 06:13:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Though the Queen probably wouldn't describe herself this way, to Enid, she was quintessentially a grandmother who was tired of her children and grandchildren fussing around her. To the elderly mayor of Renewal, this was something she could immediately empathis...
2020-08-05 11:52:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The talks themselves were the most straightforward negotiation of Enid's life. Coolant was calm, intelligent and without guile as she spoke clearly and directly with the human council.
The Colony wanted them to assist with negotiations going forwar...
2020-08-03 11:02:07 +0000 UTC View Post
It took ten minutes for the ants to herd the humans into a side tunnel and from there into a small but comfortable room, complete with chairs and at which they could sit. Enid herself had no eyes for the furnishings, instead her focus was laser sharp on the an...
2020-08-01 06:22:59 +0000 UTC View Post