I pulled the ancient door open by the mask-shaped handle. Every other person in the room stiffened as they stared straight ahead. Jen grabbed my shoulder, Kaivai’s forehead creased, and Tarsus turned pale. McClure laughed behind his mask, and Nil grinned with its mouthful of shark teeth. Gnaeus...
2021-03-06 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostPrince Chadrigoth of the Diabolus Diaboli, of the Eritreus Elite, stood with the First Cohort in the massive entryway of the Mines of Madness. The walls were chiseled stone, any moisture frozen into ice. Various mine carts, rusted and useless, lay beside piles of yellow dirt and rough stone. The ...
2021-03-01 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven without Ed the Rot Troll livening up the Shadowcroft Academy, the next day dawned bright and glorious. Logan was glad for that morning’s intense training with Rockheart, though he did have to wonder if the Rector Prime could customize his hounds like they’d customized their minions in Ar...
2021-02-26 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was about to say something to Inga, to try and make her feel better, when Tet beat him to it. “I can understand your worry, Inga. However, keep in mind, this is a controlled environment. Arketa is monitoring us all. If there is an issue, she can help, but more than that, you are in contro...
2021-02-24 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe crypt should have been spooky—the flickering green light, the whisper of shrouds, the bodies and skulls—but Logan found the space rather comforting. Morta Apothos hung heavy in the air like a morning ground fog, and it set him at ease. Inga, on the other hand, looked like someone had just...
2021-02-22 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Morsheim isn’t so bad, once you get used to it. I’m not saying I’d want to spend my vacations there, but it would be tolerable if I wasn’t dead.
As it was, I was being dragged and my face was scraping across the rocks. My nerves were dead too, by this point, so I wasn’t in any pai...
2021-02-20 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLogan, Marko, and Treacle walked out of the DIE portal and found themselves at the entrance of the Blasted Barrows, the southernmost dungeon on Arborea. Rough-hewn stones were piled into an archway set in the side of a grassy knoll. The Vralkag Hills were a low series of ridges between the two so...
2021-02-18 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was able to get his cohort back in the Akros Coliseum that night after dinner, but no one was happy about it. Even Inga was less than thrilled and she loved training and unnecessary work. But she insisted they’re normal routine was to study in the library in the evenings, and adding a sec...
2021-02-16 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA thousand thoughts raced through Roark’s head as he stared at the place the Tyrant King had been moments before. So tantalizingly close. The bastard had been here, right in his grasp, and he’d let it all slip away like black sand through his fingers. They’d captured the Vault and Lowen was...
2021-02-16 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sudden shift in the Vault seemed to have jarred Lowen’s troops into action, quickly transforming the tense duel into a chaotic free-for-all. The remaining Heralds went on the attack, assailing the surrounding Troll Nation mobs with renewed vigor. Shots popped off at every corner of the thro...
2021-02-15 20:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe timer on Roark’s Draconic Form spiraled down to zero, and he dropped to the floor, stumbling a few steps before catching himself.
“What’s the matter, trash?” Lowen taunted, beating his wings and rising higher toward the vaulted ceiling. In his right hand, he drew a shining Basta...
2021-02-14 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostRandy meant to just jump right into a Deep Dive POD as soon as he made it to the VIP lounge and changed into the sensory suit. The Griefer needed him, the fate of several worlds hung in the balance, and yet…
And yet this was his probable death he was staring down. He was old enough to rem...
2021-02-13 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe tank ran out of shells in the corridor just outside the Vault of the Radiant Shield’s throne room. It could blast its way no farther. Likely for the best, Roark thought. Between the tank’s devastating shells and the relentless bombardment from the siege engines, many of the load-bearing w...
2021-02-12 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMarek Konig Ustar, better known to all of Traisbin as the Tyrant King, felt the snap of unbinding the moment the World Stone came free of that cur von Graf’s soul. Though the sensation filled him with no small amount of joy, Marek kept his expression impassive. With bored annoyance, he gazed at...
2021-02-11 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was happy to be in a desk and not loitering like a hobo in a toolshed. But just seeing Professor Nekhbet made Logan sleepy. The classroom’s windows showed a bright blue sky outside the central tower of the school, where the classrooms were.
Inga’s crush was a balding vulture man i...
2021-02-11 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe bombing started while Randy was typing furiously at his workstation. His books slumped on the shelf, everything from Rational Database Theory and Applications to Refactoring slipping sideways, the perfect model of the way this defense of three dimensions was suddenly going. ...
2021-02-10 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe allied dungeon mobs weren’t the only ones feeling the rush of optimism as Roark and his troops blasted their way through the golden corridors of the Heralds’ lair. All this time, Roark hadn’t allowed himself to think there was any chance he would kill the Tyrant King and escape with his...
2021-02-09 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan hit his moldy bed in his new room with a glad heart. He laid on his back, in the gloom, everything cast in a hazy purple light thanks to his Fungal Vision. Around him spun a world of glowing spores, hidden to the human eye. The gleaming particles allowed him to see the outlines of his furni...
2021-02-09 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostScott Bayani leaned against the wall, tucked away in one of the murder corbels the Griefer had added to the tops of the walls when he battle-modded out Frontflip. All in all, the changes were pretty awesome. He had to admit the dude knew his siege defense. Made sense. Based on that slaughter Roar...
2021-02-08 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostRoark took a step back from the massive piece of Flash he had just Tattooed onto the front armor plate of the tank—a skeleton finfolk woman with sparrow’s wings jutting up from her back, long hair flowing around her exposed skull, a snake slithering out of her grinning jaws in place of a tong...
2021-02-06 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I looked at Nil’s unsettling red eyes, full lips, and shark’s-tooth smile and said, “You can put me down, now.”
“Are you sure?” it said.
“Positive.”
“Because it’s my understanding human males are quite comfortable being carried by others.”
Gnaeus and ...
2021-02-06 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRather than return to the encampment outside the Vault of the Radiant Shield, Roark had used the portal stone to transport himself, Mac, and the tank to the open grassland he’d crossed with Zyra what seemed like ages ago tracking down an ingredient for Kaz’s Gourmet quest. Roark was eager to ...
2021-02-05 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe groans of the injured filled the makeshift infirmary as Roark, Kaz, and a few humans from this dimension passed up and down the rows, handing out—and in some particularly severe cases administering—Ultimate Healing Potions. The chamber, which Randy and PwrnBwner referred to as a “cafete...
2021-02-04 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostChadrigoth of the Diabolus Diaboli, of the Eritreus Elite, hadn’t been in a good mood since he’d tried to kill Logan Murray and terrible cohort the year before. Things hadn’t improved since then. No, they’d only gotten worse. To be fair, the Terrible Twelfth weren’t to blame for Chadrig...
2021-02-04 15:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLowen was in no mood for bad news when he returned to the Vault of the Radiant Shield. That von Graf bastard had found some new way to cheat—altering the entire structure of Frontflip Studios and then somehow turning into a twice-damned dragon. So, it was with terrible grace that he di...
2021-02-03 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving behind half the defenders under the leadership of Grozka and Pang, Roark took Kaz, Randy, and the rest of the troops from the newly christened Shieldwall and crept through the tunnel under the green. PwnrBwner had been indignant at the message to watch the sky, but he’d finally agreed t...
2021-02-02 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan had help getting his things down into the bottom of the Ladder Hole, which was yes, four rooms stacked on top of one another connected by a ladder set into the stone wall. Logan couldn’t be happier. He was in the bottom room, which was set deep underground, but had a window that showed th...
2021-02-02 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe CEO’s throne turned out to be a bit of a letdown after the various thrones Roark had claimed in the Cruel Citadel. It was little more than a stark if comfortable chair with sleek black upholstery, though it did preside over the head of an ostentatiously long, smooth table. It rolled on a se...
2021-02-01 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter loading his Inventory with as many Peerless weapons and as much armor as he could carry, Roark took the portal plate from the Troll Nation Marketplace back to the encampment around the Vault of the Radiant Shield. Noonday sunlight hit him like a gauntlet in the face after the gloom of the C...
2021-01-30 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostScott Bayani finished up in the first-floor men’s room, then headed for the cafeteria, taking a couple practice swings with the bat as he went. The halls were plenty wide. He got the full follow-through without having to pull his arms in even a little.
Frontflip had some majorly nice faci...
2021-01-29 20:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post