The collective vibration of the squeaking mischief of rats above me rings out in a unified symphony, the high pitch of their conjoined voices creating a distinct vibration that is different from any of the machinery, that is different from any of the heavy hammering and thrusting of the heavy fou...
2020-12-31 12:34:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe further I depart from the slop I leave behind me, the fainter the churning of the poison water grows. My body aches in a way that is unnatural for the creature that I am. Slimes, oozes don’t really have the capacity to feel pain. But here it is nonetheless. Ache, a straining pull on the liq...
2020-12-30 10:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostThere are many of us here, we are all individuals but we are all the same. We are all disgusting, broken things. Unwanted by the dungeon, unwanted by everything. Everyone. Yet here we all are, together in this bleak mire in which we wallow as a collective. A collection of miserable existences, ti...
2020-12-29 11:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhirring gears and grinding mechanisms fill the encapsulated space with a heavy, dense pressure. As if the air around me, around us was compressing and pressing tighter with every surge of the pistons just outside, with every crank of the levers surrounding the pipe. A deep series of vibrations t...
2020-12-28 12:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostWow. Okay. Uh.
I float, my ethereal presence once more in the void between my last life and the next. The vague shapeless form that I am, just a massless ball of thoughts drifting through some black ink, outside of the plane of the living. Anyways, uh, moving on from that.
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2020-12-27 10:19:18 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, well this was unexpected I think as I continue crawling backwards away from the creature pressing herself against the glass pane of the menu; her fists still smashing against it. Can a menu break? I don’t know, I’ve never seen it happen. But there’s a crack there so that’s good enou...
2020-12-26 09:36:38 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, well that sounded just a little bit ominous and a little bit creepy I think to myself as the intonation of her voice plays back through my mind again; my body pressed against the rattling door to stop her from getting in. The thrashing stops and I stand there in quiet worry again, wondering...
2020-12-25 11:40:39 +0000 UTC View PostMy soft leather boots thud against the large-stone floors as I sprint down the corridor, doing my best not to step on any of the cracks between the brickwork. You know how it is, don’t want to break my mother’s back after all. Poor woman had to work all of her life, the last thing she needs i...
2020-12-24 09:29:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey Georg! Wait!”
I stop and turn around to the side as I hear the heavily accented voice call me from a doorway.
“What’s the hurry? Hold on, can I get your opinion on something real quick?” asks the man in the doorway to the small alchemical laborator...
2020-12-23 08:10:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe fight goes on like this for a while, the golem charing towards the thief who manages to easily dodges every single one of its heavy strikes and charges, the gigantic metal being is simply much too slow to strike her in any of its attempts, let alone catch her agile form which is darting aroun...
2020-12-22 09:13:09 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a gentle patter of two old leather boots against the stone, the only sign giving credence to the presence of the coming thief. The room is bright and decently lit from the warm hue of the industrial machinery flowing with magma and viscus goo. Hammering sounds ring out as part of the amb...
2020-12-21 09:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostArrows fly by me, each just barely missing my scampering form. The ring of each silver-tipped arrow striking the metal gears I run across like the ringing of a crystal bell, each a deathly finger pointed towards my frantic heart telling it that they were meant for it. Each clink and toll is a sig...
2020-12-20 09:42:44 +0000 UTC View PostI run up the same secret staircase as before and I am uncertain as to what I should expect. In a sense I am wary about moving on higher. I am unsure why I am here again, why I haven’t respawned somewhere else. Why I haven’t respawned as something else. I was in that nightmare and I died there...
2020-12-19 14:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostI can’t help but stare at the desecrated body of the frozen goblin submerged deep in the ice before me. I remember him. That has to be the same creature, right? I look at the talisman around his neck, the one each goblin carries. I’m sure those are the same symbols, I’m sure this is the sam...
2020-12-18 15:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostPen runs as fast she can, the world around her literally falling apart as she sprints down the breaking walkway, her hands never leaving the crystal to grab onto the railing or to try and steady her balance. Rather she opts to run in full sprint, to jump and land with bent knees on the walkways b...
2020-12-17 16:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe thought is absurd right? Why wouldn’t I be in the dungeon anymore. After all, I’ve only always ever been in the dungeon. It’s all I know. All I can do is be a creature of the proverbial depths. Everyone has to make a living somehow, right? And this is how I make mine. In a sense. But, n...
2020-12-17 09:01:19 +0000 UTC View PostBasically at this point I am just full on sprinting, burning the little energy I have left in my tiny rat body to escape. Just running and running as I look for a way out. The ice is everywhere though, the sounds of the monstrosity are everywhere. I wonder, how long have I been alive at this poin...
2020-12-16 11:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostUh, okay. So there are eyes staring at me out of my menu, guy. That’s weird, right? I feel like that’s weird. For sure. Right? Yeah. Yeah I think so. Apart from that, this is the worst state I’ve ever seen it in and uh, well, the map isn’t of much use if I’m gonna be honest with you. Fe...
2020-12-15 10:57:44 +0000 UTC View PostScurrying over the ice, my nails that are digging into the surface as I run are the only things stopping me slipping and falling down flat on my pointy, but beautiful, rat face. The frozen floors beneath me are sleek and smooth. My tiny body aches already from the burn of the icy air around me. T...
2020-12-14 17:38:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe steps are much larger this time than the last pair I went up, these clearly not having been made with a rat in mind by whatever dark creator crafted them. As I awkwardly push myself up the steps that I feel are human sized, I listen closely awaiting the sound of boots thudding behind me in pu...
2020-12-13 07:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostSlight edit to last chapter. The door is now hidden behind one of the tapestries because that makes more sense
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It’s a struggle friend, to say the least; to drag this burning log backwards up this incredibly gradual incline. If I was literall...
2020-12-12 10:25:18 +0000 UTC View PostWhat an odd creature fire-elementals are I think looking at the curious little flame that is subduing itself down to only a small glimmer, in order to burn less of her sustenance away. Magical creatures are odd to me friend, I mean I was just a ghost and all but, you know? There’s nothing there...
2020-12-11 16:04:57 +0000 UTC View PostStanding on the edge of the table I hop down onto the chair, my little body thudding against the wood as I drop down. Then again a second time as I spring down to the floor. Blood splashes around in the air, coating my already gross fur as I land. My feet feel sticky and wet, which is fine since ...
2020-12-10 07:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a surprised shriek from the priestess, who is just a little squeamish apparently. The hero who reached out to stop the one closest to him is now on the ground trying to stop the man’s bleeding. What a great guy. He calls to the priestess, who is still processing the situation, only for...
2020-12-09 18:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostSprinting up the staircase as fast as I can, knowing I am living on borrowed time as always, I don’t stop to admire the architecture as one might say. This staircase I am rising upward, this tiny little construction fit only for a creature my size. Perfectly made for a rat and a rat alone. Well...
2020-12-08 14:55:06 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that happened. At least I got to die to white-magic again which was nice. But on the other hand I failed to learn anything. So… the same as always? The more things change the more they stay the same I guess.
So, guy, can we talk? I feel like we need to talk. It’s not yo...
2020-12-07 17:13:14 +0000 UTC View PostI look at the group of humans walking past me, walking down the way; I assume towards the chamber of the rat-queen. Did I just understand them? The priestess and the monk? I float after them, gliding behind them just above the surface of the green water. I’ve never understood them before. Does ...
2020-12-06 12:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostWell. Okay. This isn’t going great. Uh. Hmm. Let’s just chalk it up to being unlucky? Ah. Everything feels… bad.
Once again I fall down below, returning to the dungeon and coming into a new body and life. I open my eyes and look around. Ah! A skeleton today. Nice! Okay. Uh....
2020-12-05 14:49:36 +0000 UTC View PostI die.
In an instant I am ripped from this strange mortal coil and am flung up into the all encompassing darkness that is the ‘other side’. Only after my spirit shoots out of me as if propelled by the force of the explosion itself, as I fly and spiral wildly out of control in...
2020-12-04 16:55:02 +0000 UTC View PostGold coins fly around us, rolling and falling down to the floor below as we dig into the heap of treasure that is piled high against the wall. Soon enough I see it, the tip of the dark-metal spear buried in the mound of treasure beneath us. Together we both grab the weapon by the neck just beneat...
2020-12-03 15:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post