Sorry about the shoddy update schedule. I'll try and get it back under control. :(
No real excuse, work is just nuts. Lousy work.
Records of the early days of non-monster habitation of the Dungeon are scarce, to say ...
2020-06-24 10:54:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The return of the Eldest after their brief time apart from the Colony was a momentous event. Throughout the history of our kind, it was always the Eldest who acted as the catalyst of change, the arbour of progress. As we grew in strength, wisdom and capabi...
2020-06-22 11:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
After dropping Sarah and Jim with Florence, I rush back out to the storage area I'm told we stashed our haul from the outpost in. I'm feeling a touch buoyed by the run-in I had with Sarah and Jim. I'm not sure how much they'll be able to help out, but like I t...
2020-06-20 12:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post
[I don’t what know what I was expecting, but it sure wasn't this.]
Jim, the large and ever floppy worm, slithered through the tunnels beside the hulking, menacing form of his friend, Sarah. The two former humans had achieved their goal, a long cherishe...
2020-06-19 04:19:13 +0000 UTC View Post
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaait!"
I won't. I'm running for it. With a great leap, I fly into the air, over the heads of the ant-robed people and crash back down to the ground. My legs creak under the strain, but I care not, forcing myself to sprint as soon as I can....
2020-06-17 06:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
With my circle around me, I eventually find my way into town. It's a shocking transformation that's taken place. Cobbled roads with drainage ditches, a smattering of proper, stone buildings, way more people than I remember and a plethora of other indicators of...
2020-06-15 11:05:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The council meeting was cut brutally short, the revelation of a possible city underground, so close to where the Colony is operating, warranted immediate investigation. If an enormous pile of Golgari pop out of a city, right on our doorstep, our home ground ad...
2020-06-14 08:05:25 +0000 UTC View Post
"Was it really necessary to construct a council meeting chamber? We hardly ever have a meeting…"
It's quite nice too. They even have what appear to be ant specific chairs. They look like a padded bench in three sections, one for each of our body segmen...
2020-06-11 13:13:26 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: We're closing in on 400 patrons O_O
If we get there, I'll introduce another POV poll. I have a few juicy ideas for it this time around. If you can think of another nice milestone reward, let me know!
After my visit to the core shapers and...
2020-06-10 07:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Despite receiving the justice of my mother, I stoically endured her disapproving gaze for as long as I could manage in order to tickle grubs. Their joyful wiggles warmed my heart even as I quailed inside, anticipating another THWACK at any moment. In the end, ...
2020-06-08 08:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
"Oh! Hello there Mother… I, uh, didn't expect to see you here!"
"In the brood chambers, child? Where else would I be?"
I can almost sense another thwack coming… The first one really hurt! She's had a serious increase to her physical stats since...
2020-06-07 11:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor note: There we go, re-write complete. Sorry to drag this out and deny story progression today, but I really wasn't happy with that original chapter, I think this feels a lot better. Tomorrow's chapter will have conversation with the Queen! :3
As if the first ga...
2020-06-05 05:12:21 +0000 UTC View PostChopped my own comment off when I copy pasted. -_-
There was some valid criticisms of the original 550 and I myself wasn't pleased with it, so I've broken it into two sections and will post 551 today with a lot of the content taken out of the original 55...
2020-06-04 10:53:20 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a long 'ol march home, over a week before it's all said and done. It wasn't hard for me to find a use for the time, however, since there was the whole 'impending war of doom and death' looming over our heads. How on Pangera I manage to stumble from one of...
2020-06-03 10:25:08 +0000 UTC View PostAll four of the main gang are well overdue for a stats update. Here it is!
Anthony Status page:
Name: Anthony
Level: 42 (Rare) (V)
Might: 91
Toughness: 79
Cunning: 64
Will: 45
HP: 158/158
MP: 250/...
2020-06-03 04:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostLast stop with the Legion then back to the colony.
Donnelan and Myrrin struggled to breathe. They huddled together in a vain attempt to ward of the suffocating waves of pressure that eminated from the legionaries around them. There didn't seem...
2020-06-02 05:20:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Even a now, a month after arriving in the great fortress of the Legion, Myrrin still couldn't quite believe her eyes whenever she saw it. Along with Donnelan, she trailed behind her commander as they made their way out of the remote barracks she and her fellow...
2020-05-30 11:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Titus walked the long corridors of his new billet with a training report held in one hand, his fast cast in stone as usual. It was difficult though, since the corner of his mouth kept threatening to curl up as he read of his daughter's training exploits. The c...
2020-05-29 10:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Morrelia groaned as she peeled her eyes open. Her eyelids had other ideas and refused to respond to orders. Her brain and muscles immediately fell into a battle, neither side willing to budge until at last, she triumphed and forced her eyes open. A victory, bu...
2020-05-27 11:09:54 +0000 UTC View Post
The tunnels are a complete mess. Huge cracks run through the stone and sections are collapsing all over the place. Before we even meet up with the main group, I know what's taken place. The moment I came under attack, the message was passed to enact the ambush...
2020-05-27 11:04:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Turns out that the tier four healers have a whole new range of tricks up their carapace. Some of them have even replaced their acid production with a variant that allows them to shoot regenerative fluids instead. They've literally got medic guns! The things th...
2020-05-27 10:57:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Like air in a bellows, I can feel the strength within this armored figure rise and fall as he tries to control it. I think he knows as well as I do, that he doesn't have any choice but to unleash it. What will it matter if some of his people become collateral ...
2020-05-26 10:12:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Well nards. I mean, even with a sword sticking in me and an angry Goglari in a fancy suit of armour staring hatefully into my eyes, all I can think of is the unwinding consequences of this action. How many ants, how many creatures, will suffer as a result? All...
2020-05-24 10:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
A nice, light touch. That's always the correct play. Keep it friendly, no need to shout or get angry, that stuff never defused anything. Believe me, I know. You gotta smile through the screaming, that's how you get your bacon out of the frying pan. So far, sig...
2020-05-22 11:21:54 +0000 UTC View Post
YEEEOUCH!
If someone ever told you that getting an enchanted blade through the gizzards is a good time, let me be the first to assure that isn't the case! The pain is immediate and intense and I throw my body to the side in a desperate roll, keen t...
2020-05-21 08:05:44 +0000 UTC View PostJust in case things start to get turn south, I direct my sub-brains to start drawing on my gravitational mana. I'm not confident that I'll be able to subdue this lot, when push to shove I need a way out. As I try to shape up to the looming shadows around me, the dust that still fills t...
2020-05-21 02:10:08 +0000 UTC View Post
As I flee down the dark, cold tunnel of the second strata with my pets, I try to get a sense of the strength possessed by the Golgari behind us. The first few are just massive. Hulking titans of humanoids that seem way too large to move the way that t...
2020-05-19 07:40:58 +0000 UTC View Post
"Why did I think this was a good idea?"
"I have to say, Eldest, I'm not entirely sure. I wasn't surprised when you suggested it though."
"I get the feeling that's almost an insult, Propellant…."
"I wouldn't dream of it, Eldest. My respect f...
2020-05-18 12:28:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Things weren't going the way they were meant to. When things in the Dungeon didn't go the way they were meant to, that usually indicated something was going very wrong. There wasn't a single Dungeon delver who didn't feel the same way. As chaotic and unpredict...
2020-05-17 10:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The ancients surfaced all over the face of Pangera, almost equidistant from each other. Wherever they rose, they caused a unique catastrophe to befall those unfortunate enough to be caught in the chaos. Yarrum consumed all in his path, Kygar caused lightni...
2020-05-15 08:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post