Kept punching away at this. Let me know what you think! Obviously the Chrysalis chapters are in the works, they'll be up shortly.
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Bbllizmthblilbbl, the third of his name, lived and prospered on the world of Flloloshl, an aqua...
2019-08-14 23:22:01 +0000 UTC View Post
[So how many people did you bring?] I led off with.
Isaac drew himself up.
[I've got eighteen o' the villagers finest, as well as some of me old guards back from Midum. They'll give a good account of themselves, no doubt about it.]
I nodded.<...
2019-08-12 07:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After discussing a few other things with the members of the council in the forward HQ, I headed out, collecting my two pets, and made my way to where the delegation from the village was purported to be waiting.
I wasn't entirely clear on how the hu...
2019-08-11 01:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It feels good to charged up and not on the verge of a horrible death! Whoo!
Thankfully we were able to make it to the discreet Dungeon entrance the colony had prepared close to the forward HQ without too much mana leaking out of our cores. Using my...
2019-08-08 11:31:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We slaughtered a heck of a lot of monsters in the third ambush. By abusing the limitations of the control used on the monsters we continuously charged, battled, retreated and recovered until our entire force was battled out and exhausted from the slaughter, un...
2019-08-08 11:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We continued to kite the monsters for five minutes, pulling them further and further away from the main body of the horde. Our plan for this strategy depended on a few things: that Garralosh and wizard-lizard wouldn't bother to chase us, the former due to a ne...
2019-08-07 11:09:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I should learn to hold off on the healing gland. Was I missing part of a leg? Maybe. But right now, as I charge into the literal teeth of a horde of angry monsters, I think that perhaps holding off on spending it might have been the better choice. Because this...
2019-08-06 23:44:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Expose by the light, the scouts turned to retreat after I ordered them, taking advantage of their now rear facing commercial zones to fire a few parting shots at the horde as the monsters charged toward us. I positioned myself between the enemy and the retreat...
2019-08-04 11:39:26 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the shorter chapter and missing days, I've had some SHIIIIIIITE at work lately. I humbly apologise.
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Hunkered down amongst the trees, I waited along with my fellow ants, mostly scouts, for the enemy to arriv...
2019-08-03 10:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
We lay in wait, ready to spring the third ambush. It's been six hours since the second battle, which had been another successful ambush, something that seemed to make Victor very irritated, a feeling I was also beginning to share.
The horde was massive. ...
2019-08-01 11:48:36 +0000 UTC View PostObviously there is something else I should be doing right now but I wanted to get this out of my system.
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Theo awoke sometime later, stretched out on a narrow bed that he was
Author note. I'm aware that I'm behind on Chrysalis, apologies to all for that, I'm working on it. Felt nudged to revisit this concept from a while back and churned out a chapter. For those who haven't seen it, it's a sort of Kingdom building novel set in hell. I posted a couple of chapters a few...
2019-07-31 04:18:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Bella retreated from the Queen's chamber, an inexplicable excitement building in her thorax. The evolution of the Queen was a subject of particular import to Bella and her partner Elligant. The two Core Shaper members of the council had struggled ever since th...
2019-07-30 11:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Deep in the nest, the Queen contemplated. She thought back to the difficult days just after she had spawned in the Dungeon, when she awoke by herself in the dark tunnels that bordered the shadow levels, surrounded by the roar of monsters and consumed with a bu...
2019-07-29 10:45:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The first ambush had been a rousing success, even though fifteen of my family members had been lost in the fight. It was a small taste of the carnage that was to come. I swallowed my sadness as best as I could. It didn't help anyone if I threw a tantrum and go...
2019-07-26 11:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post
I was blessed many times over to such events occur, not only in my lifetime, but in my vicinity, allowing me to take a direct hand in the magnificent triumphs that transpired. But that isn't what I value most, the thing I gained the greatest joy from. The ...
2019-07-23 10:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
As the waves of monsters began to rush forward to attack the pesky ants who were tormenting them from the low hills surrounding them, Tiny burst out his hiding place, crackling with electricity. He'd been hidden much closer to the horde than I was, and it had ...
2019-07-22 12:04:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I huddled beneath the earth with my brethren. The narrow tunnel was claustrophobic to say the least, the ceiling hung low over my head and knowing just how thin it was didn't help my space issues. My digging skill conveyed to me the awareness that the tunnel w...
2019-07-21 11:09:27 +0000 UTC View Post
It took a good bit of travel before we were able to reach the first staging area on the path between the nest and the anticipated direction the horde would be travelling. A steady stream of workers ran back and forth in long lines, bringing information back to...
2019-07-21 05:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Filled with energy and a surging sense of purpose I launched myself out of the colony and into the open air of Pangera, my new world. Crinis, Tiny and I move with deliberate haste and make our way toward the village. Before we move to the front line and engage...
2019-07-19 12:31:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It took some time for the itching to pass, as it always did. When I finally regained full control of my body again, I picked myself up from the floor, dusted myself off, cleaned my antennae and attempted to move as if nothing had happened.
The sold...
2019-07-17 09:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Curious about Crinis new Shadow eye I dive deeper into the information hidden within her core, laid bare before my core surgery skill. Ah, interesting. It's dense bloc of information, clearly a powerful organ, far more than the average, if anything I would thi...
2019-07-15 12:07:06 +0000 UTC View Post
With the main bulk of the planning done, it was time to get my group rested and ready to head back out into the fray. Not long after the council broke up, Tiny stumbled into our chamber only to flop onto the floor and returned to sleep, absorbing the mana of t...
2019-07-14 11:27:54 +0000 UTC View Post
"With your permission Eldest, I will leave the council and begin to organise a workforce to prepare our initial fortifications" Tungstant said.
I waved an antennae in approval and the small, dextrous ant climbed up the wall and out the roof of the chambe...
2019-07-12 09:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
"Welcome back Eldest" Victoriant, the budding queen to be greeted me.
At the sound of her voice, the others turned their antennae toward me, signalling that their attention was with me as I crawled down the wall and onto the floor in the centre of the ch...
2019-07-10 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
THWACK!
HIYA!
SNAP!
The moment I entered the Queen's chamber, a powerful antennae came flying at my head. This time though, I was prepared, I'd thought ahead, inspired by Morrelia's thoughtfulness I had anticipated how my reception would begi...
2019-07-08 11:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
By the time we came within reach of the colony's scent trails I'd managed to level external mana manipulation twice, and we were completely exhausted. Tiny was stumbling with every step, the poor guy was the heaviest of all of us by quite the margin and the ha...
2019-07-07 11:03:39 +0000 UTC View Post
We had to delay our escape for a few minutes until Crinis had back to herself, but we didn't dare wait around until she had evolved. We needed her fighting strength to help us in the tunnels. If we managed to break free and make it to the surface then she coul...
2019-07-06 11:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all. I have a new commission from Kevin Glint who drew the new novel cover for us! I asked him to take a stab at doing some line art sketches of a few characters and first off the block is Tiny. I gave him a few directions and this is his interpretation of what he might look like.
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