In those beautiful days come to pass after the happenings in the central-city, after the strange and finally horrible year that befell the heart of the world comes to an end, something new has found its way to the presence of the hearts and minds of those who remain.
While it’s...
2022-03-23 11:10:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe spring of a year ago had brought with it such an energetic, vibrant, flourishing breath of life into her spirit, which had not known such a sensation for a time as long as she could have remembered during those frightening, but oddly exciting days. That verdant season was followed by the hazy...
2022-03-22 20:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostEverything shakes, rumbling and quaking as a gloopy, fetid, wet mass presses itself out from beneath the crust of the world. Thick, viscous black ooze shoots out between the cracks in the paved streets, spraying out through the breaking foundations of the houses like pus from a deeply infected wo...
2022-03-21 16:53:59 +0000 UTC View PostFresh hovers in the air, looking around at the chaos. People are screaming and running through the streets, flooding towards the castle. Somewhere, nearby, but out of sight, a baby is vehemently crying and not being quieted.
She turns her gaze, looking towards the walls of the ci...
2022-03-20 19:16:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe familiar sound of metal being bent into shape echoes around the tower, floating together with the fumes of the fires, as the wavy heat of the furnace carries it all up towards the ceiling in a rising draft.
It has taken a while, but they’re starting to finally use the charc...
2022-03-19 19:23:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s a shame, really.
Fresh pushes a brick over with her boot, turning around to watch a group of mounted soldiers rushing past the destroyed marketplace, on their way to fortify the walls of the city.
She sighs, turning back to look at the mess.
“Ah~” Fresh clutches her hands together next to her face, looking at the world around herself. A color comes to surround them. Just on time. Just as expected.
A chilling hue, indistinct of the color of the hero, who has stopped moving, indistinct of the color of the wizard, w...
2022-03-18 19:05:38 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing?!” yells Fresh at the snake-like man.
Patala shrugs, lifting his arms and stepping out back through the broken seam that’s ripping through the shield. “Oh, you know,” replies the man coyly. “Just getting some fresh air.” He laughs.
Hineni smiles, lowering his head in a moment of familiar comfort to smell her hair, which smells distinctly of owl. Obscura lifts her gaze, looking at him with wide, curious, yellow eyes. “Sorry,” says Hineni as they move to the right again. “I was just being weird.”
The ...
2022-03-16 20:06:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe mechanical hand swings back and forth, an audible ticking noise filling the basement. Fresh smiles, closing her eyes and listening to the nostalgically familiar sound.
“Well, that’s annoying,” says Jubilee dryly.
“Hmm…” Basil leans over, looking a...
2022-03-16 17:10:23 +0000 UTC View PostEdited the last chapter, added some lines, cleaned up a lot of stuff.
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“Seriously, you smell,” says Jubilee. “Go take a bath.”
Fresh lifts her arm, smelling herself. “Sorry...
2022-03-15 19:25:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello?” calls Fresh, looking around the settlement.
Stone houses surround her on all sides, built tightly together to form what looks like an outdoor complex of sorts. It is a place of many doorways, but none of them are closed. Rather, every opening is simply carved into th...
2022-03-14 10:48:28 +0000 UTC View PostFresh flies across the landscape, leaning down against the front of the broomstick and holding on as she shoots through the colorless night, guided by the glow of the lantern.
She looks down at her hands, which fearfully clutch the shaft of the broomstick. The color has faded fro...
2022-03-13 12:38:12 +0000 UTC View PostA sweltering heat washes over the man’s face as he stands there, gazing down at the red-hot glowing metal held beneath himself. Hineni turns the thing over, examining it. His eyes scan the piece, searching for something wrong with it.
There, on the far right, there’s somethin...
2022-03-12 18:46:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.
There is something different about this magic, about this spell, about this crystal. There’s something else in the air, as her hands hover above the crystal-ball, the eyes of her friends on her.
“Is this wise?...
2022-03-12 07:43:57 +0000 UTC View PostThere are many things that people look for during their lives. Some of these things are of greater meaning and some of these are of lesser. Sometimes it’s something simple, a lost item, a lost person, a lost feeling or a spirit of what might have once been a time that has now passed, despite th...
2022-03-11 16:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostSoft moonlight shines in through the tall windows of the room, encasing them all.
Fresh lets out an excited noise, gasping. “Jubilee! Jubilee!” she exclaims, pressing her ear against the elf’s stomach.
Jubilee rolls their eyes. “Will you get away from her...
2022-03-10 07:42:47 +0000 UTC View PostHineni sighs, keeping his eyes closed as his body moves from side to side.
He already knows that he’s dreaming again. That his mind is some place where it ought not to be.
The man stops, or at least tries to. But he finds it hard to do. It’s as if his body we...
2022-03-09 19:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe four of them walk up the street, rising around the bend of the giant tree as they head along the crooked path towards the castle, which sits upon the roots of the world-tree. Fresh lets her hand run along the wood of the giant thing as they walk alongside it. She stares up towards the crown, ...
2022-03-09 07:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostFresh sighs in relief, a sting running through her warm body as she lets her shoulders droop and relax.
“I said hold still!” fusses Basil, taking an unusually sharp tone with her.
Fresh stiffens up, not daring to move an inch anymore, until the priestess is d...
2022-03-08 15:03:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe strange girl lets out an excited yelp, hardly able to contain herself.
“Ah~!” she cries in excitement. “I can’t wait!” she says, humming to herself as she walks around the room. The pitter-patter of stubby legs, together with the rustling of foliage fills the space....
2022-03-07 09:23:32 +0000 UTC View PostThey sit there in silence, the sound of Basil’s teacup breaking the quiet of the room as she, holding her palm over its top, slowly wobbles it around on its base as she thinks.
“Reincarnation,” says Basil finally. “The core tenet of the faith is that none of this,” she ...
2022-03-06 18:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe bellows hiss as Rhine presses the weight of his entire body down onto them, wanting to push some air into the furnace.
“Boy, put some muscle into it,” says Hineni, watching him from the other side of the forge, the hammer still in his hand. “We need to speed up.” The ...
2022-03-05 19:02:37 +0000 UTC View Post“- And that’s what you gotta do,” says Fresh, patting the spriggan on the head.
“Pakew?”
She nods. “Yeah. For sure,” she says. “Just apologize.” Fresh rubs her arm, looking out of the window. “Sometimes friends come and go, you know?” she as...
2022-03-05 12:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostUnusual poll today, friends. Dungeon Item Shop is getting closer and closer towards the end of the story with every passing day. Once it's finished, I will have capacities to do other things. As such, I want to get a feeling for the vibe in the room.
Would you p...
2022-03-05 10:11:53 +0000 UTC View PostFresh stands there, downstairs in the store, her hand resting on the empty shelf that needs to be restocked. This was the shelf for vitamins.
She turns her head to the side, staring at Basil’s section, which is still full of medicine, despite the price-tags having been struck t...
2022-03-04 12:29:57 +0000 UTC View PostFresh sits down by the front door, leaning backwards, her palms resting on the stoop as her eyes wander up towards the world-tree, towards the bubble above and around the city.
It is early in the morning and they’re already open for business, but nobody is coming today by the l...
2022-03-03 09:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostHineni stares at the darkness and the darkness returns the favor, peering his way through the glowing silhouettes of two large, yellow eyes that stare from the distance.
The man looks around himself, gazing down the many roads of the bustling city, before his eyes wander back tow...
2022-03-02 19:23:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You still don’t get it, do you?” asks the voice.
Fresh floats there, upside down, her arms crossed as she glares at the entity, which has once again summoned her to it in her deepest dreams. She furrows her brow. “I think you’re the one who doesn’t get it,” replies...
2022-03-02 14:02:51 +0000 UTC View Post“This is a terrible idea,” says Basil.
“Yeah,” agrees Fresh, her hands hovering above the crystal-ball. “But I really wanna find out too, Basil,” she notes.
The priestess frowns, playing with the red string on her hand. “Some things are better left ...
2022-03-01 19:19:19 +0000 UTC View Post