Not long after the Eldest had departed the colony, Cobalt stood in the Queens chamber watching the small Aphid Queen amble about under the watchful eye of his mother. Another ridiculous, unheard of practice, brought to life with a seeming absence of effort at ...
2019-05-26 11:47:43 +0000 UTC View Post
It takes several more hours of hard travel before we make it to the first group of building we've seen on our journey. A small cluster of farmhouses built close to each other, a family holding perhaps or a collection of folks gathering together for protection ...
2019-05-26 11:17:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Couldn't keep up eh? The monster kind is supreme, huh? We can faster, further, longer! Morrelia must have been laughing up her sleeve whilst looking down at my stupid, fat face. After we left the Village, giving Morrelia a short period of time to inform her sq...
2019-05-24 05:14:50 +0000 UTC View Post
There must be something serious going on up there for there to be all of this smoke and noise, but what could it be? We haven't had an attack for a few days now, perhaps there is another one massing? Someone definitely needs to go and check it out, and I can't...
2019-05-21 11:14:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The idea of peaceful cooperation between nations or even species is quite the foreign concept to these ants and I shouldn't be surprised. They are Dungeon monsters after all. I may have made them smarter but their fundamental nature as ants is to serve the col...
2019-05-20 09:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The Queen seemed quite taken with her new pet. After giving a little advice regarding skills such as Pet Communication, Pet Growth among others. The Queen eventually decided to take the communication skill, the growth skill and the skill that allowed her to vi...
2019-05-19 11:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post
As the villagers return to their homes and the rapidly expanding buildings that make up their new town, I breathed a deep sigh of relief. That was not something I had expected to have to deal with upon my return. Turning to one side I face Sloan, the general a...
2019-05-19 06:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As he walked towards me Beyn displayed a face splitting grin, his eyes alight with energy and passion. This moron is still obsessed with the colony, the ants and me in particular. He probably thinks the village is being 'blessed' with a visitation to the nest,...
2019-05-18 10:43:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy moly, I'm completely wrecked. Each of my three brains feels like seared mush; soft and jelly-like, yet wreathed in hot, hot flames. I managed to gain two whole levels in cerebral endurance in just under two hours, that's how mentally intensive this work w...
2019-05-16 11:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
After collecting my small collection of aphid cores I get Tiny to carry them and we descend from the trees to battle amongst the monsters once more as we make our way back to the shortcut. To be honest he non-stop grind and battering of battle against the mons...
2019-05-14 11:29:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In my quest to domesticate the aphid, there are a few options available. I could try and tame them as they are, not changing them in anyway, though I'm not sure exactly how that would go. Aren't monsters supposed to be brutal, ruthless and cold-hearted killing...
2019-05-12 13:08:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The Marsh Expanse is teeming with monsters and the constant roar of battle. I have a ton of Biomass that I need to collect and a whole host of skills that I need to grind. With Tiny and Crinis by my side I feel perfectly confident wading into the expanse and b...
2019-05-11 04:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Moving with some hesitation so as not to tax my aching body we advance down into the Dungeon, fulling in any gaps on my tunnel map as we go and earning me another level in that skill for my troubles. Unlike before we liberated the Marsh, the tunnels are filled...
2019-05-09 11:13:36 +0000 UTC View PostChecking in with Tiny and Crinis status before delving. :)
I briefly contemplated paying a visit to the village and checking in, I just don't know what I would say. I don't think I'd explain the changes in the colony, I'm not exactly sure how humans would react ...
2019-05-07 11:23:55 +0000 UTC View Post
My immediate goals have mostly been achieved. The twenty hatchlings of the new era have made a successful debut and with my teachings ringing in their ears and the ideal start to life that they've enjoyed they have already begun to lift the burden of leadershi...
2019-05-05 12:15:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Knowledge of Demon societies of the Third Strata is limited, to put it mildly. I've no idea why you would contact me seeking such knowledge, it's hardly my area of expertise! I suppose it is true that my academy has amassed the most records regarding deep ...
2019-05-04 10:25:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The twenty young ants depart the chamber of the eldest in silence, allowing their Senior the rest and quiet that they seem to crave. They don't quite understand it, this desire for solitude and a reprieve from work, an unnatural concept for an ant, but due to ...
2019-05-03 11:46:44 +0000 UTC View PostTook ages to write this one, coming up with the names was a pain. Thanks to those who suggested names.
HAZZAT!
I'm up!
My mind sprung to alertness and the first thing I noticed was that the pain inside me had eased a...
2019-05-01 11:39:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally back!
In reality it probably didn't take that long, but leading these hatchlings around and making sure that they don't get themselves killed has been a royal pain in the global financial markets. Although they displayed surprising tactical acume...
2019-04-30 09:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostDropping some more bombs here today. Enjoy! ^^
"Then we were fighting theshe monsters and they are like freaking shombies, I'm tellin' you. No matter what I hit them with they just don't shtay down. Finally I burn the shtoopid...
2019-04-29 12:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostBack with the Legion for a two part, gritty special. Enjoy folks :)
Trying to flesh out the world a little more in these chapters. Let me know how it works.
'The Civilised Races' is a term often bandied ...
2019-04-28 06:14:12 +0000 UTC View Post
"Stop your slacking, aren't you ready to work for the colony?!"
"Ugh. Of course, Senior!"
The hatchlings are once again suffering from the effects of being stuffed full of cores and then absorbing a special core. Packing all of them full has deplet...
2019-04-27 12:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
[We need more of this. As soon as you can get it.]
…
[Uh, okay? Maybe take it out of my face a little so I can see it?]
An unusually forceful and intent Enid is waving something in my face with shaking hands. As soon as I waddled my way int...
2019-04-26 10:42:55 +0000 UTC View Post
The rare core sat on the ground in front of me and I knew it was time to pay the piper. As much as I'd derived a strange sense of joy forcing the hatchlings to absorb a special core, this process seriously hurts. I've already maxed out my core AND absorbed a s...
2019-04-24 04:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The hatchlings are herded into my chamber where Tiny is instructed to keep a keen eye on the situation whilst I go to find Vibrant and see what the situation with the workers is like. I find Vibrant hovering around the two hundred larvae that recently hatched,...
2019-04-22 08:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
After speaking to the Queen I took my class down into the farms for further instruction. I honestly can't say what Mother was thinking when I spoke to her, she seemed a mix of happy and mad. I have to say, I was quite nervous talking to her. I mean, how am I s...
2019-04-21 11:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Sensation returned to the Queen in increments. A leg twitched, then one of her antenna crackled into life, overloading her fuzzed mind with sensory information she wasn't ready to process.
As she drowsed, the feeling of change, of difference, ro...
2019-04-20 11:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post
After a couple of hours I was able to get the hatchlings to operate in a reasonable way. The first few enemies we defeated with acid and then let the little workers chow down after I'd dragged the Biomass clear of the farm. They ran out of acid quickly though ...
2019-04-19 12:38:47 +0000 UTC View Post
"Ok. Let's try this again. The enemy is down there. We can see them, we are in a superior position where they cannot fight back. All of the advantages are ours. So, what are you going to do? What is your strategy?"
The twenty hatchlings and I are positio...
2019-04-17 14:30:27 +0000 UTC View Post
As the voices of the new hatchlings ring throughout the room, and I start to wonder just what it is that I've done, another voice sounds within my mind.
[Original Species has been detected. New species type has been assigned.]
Gandalf?! What the he...
2019-04-16 11:16:48 +0000 UTC View Post