“Why is it so empty?” Yuriko asked as she exited the tunnel. Avos Zarek’s path led to the rather familiar outskirts of Synkrasia. The ceiling perfectly reflected the outside skies, with the Luminous Moon setting, and the Radiant Sun just about to peek from the Eastern Veil. The past few day...
2023-04-17 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostVindictive pleasure suffused Yuriko as she saw her Radiant Barrage drive the Primordial Spawn out of its hiding place. The explosions covered her view, so she activated Enhanced Sight. A moment later, she changed to Chaos Sight, then huffed with annoyance when both techniques weren’t able to pe...
2023-04-17 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Chaos flooded around Yuriko, she felt it invade her Anima. It was not the distilled Chaos she was used to handling, nor the rather tame ambient Chaos in the planes. It was the wild, primordial Chaos that was too volatile to exist anywhere else other than the Chaos Sea. It burned her skin, ...
2023-04-17 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostEven as Yuriko fought against the big skelly, now humongous skelly, she was painfully aware of the deaths of several of her allies. Most of the casualties were from the Federation explorers simply from the fact that there were nearly five times more of them than her group, but the battlefield was...
2023-04-17 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the Avos was revealed, and was the probable…well, almost certainly the source of the mental influence, Riley felt both angry and afraid in an unwholesome mix. That his mind had been violated so blatantly, and the aftereffects were rather obvious, and upon introspection, were still occurrin...
2023-04-17 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Knight of the Abyss winced when he heard his master’s invocation. He could feel his connection to him grow tenuous as more threads than Lord Qatir was capable of holding bound to his Anima. At the same time, the Knight’s vision recognised the wisps that materialised all over the place. 2023-04-10 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
“You! Ancient. Aid me!”
Yuriko heard the voice, but only in her head. It was accompanied by a powerful urge to obey, one that her Anima instinctively rejected. She felt the voice fade, but the compulsion continued to push at her mind, growing stronger by the se...
2023-04-10 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostAidan fought through the mists within his mind. But even as his internal self struggled against unseen chains, his body continued to fight. It was as if his mind was split in twain, with the true him only able to watch the false self pilot his body. He could see and feel everything, but his quest...
2023-04-10 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Yuriko’s eyes met the large skelly, she felt the wave of revulsion, anger, and hostility. The creature was head and shoulders larger than the common kind, and its armour, even encased in red mud, showed ominous details. Where most of the skelly’s armour was sleekly designed, even i...
2023-04-10 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostQatir, Spawn of Delgora, Primordial of Curiosity and Vengeance floated in the plane’s single ocean while letting his tentacles and eyestalks sway with the current. The tips of the tentacles and eyes were embedded into the mirror realm, or dreamscape, as the locals called it. He watched with no ...
2023-04-10 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostRiley’s head snapped up as the strange otherness and cobwebs filling his mind pulled taut…then snapped.
“Huh, what…?” He looked around, finding himself in the middle of their campgrounds. But the more important question was, which camp was it now?
His memories were hazy ever...
2023-04-03 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“What happened here?” Yuriko gasped. She had expected a city much like Cerkala. Well, probably more like the previous one, but this?
The tunnel opened up into a cavern, except that the middle of it…well, collapsed. There was a giant mound, and from the centre, she could see more dirt ...
2023-04-03 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostFor a very long moment, Yuriko was tempted to begin Spell Shaping. Not by using the Radiant Lance implement but by going through all of the steps of proper Shaping. The results would have been magnitudes greater and the destruction would have been complete. Why, she was sure a full Radiant Lance ...
2023-04-03 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Chaos… take… you…”
The man spat at the Knight of the Abyss even as he bled out on the pavement. This one had struggled harder than the others and the Knight had to liberate his limbs in order to subdue him. The rest of his comrades were scattered in pieces inside their makeshift ...
2023-04-03 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Leave with your loyal warriors and make your way to the depths. Find it and slay it. It needs to die so that I may use this plane for my purposes.”
Salter Bloom jolted out of his daze. The temporary camp by the Garamus expedition was quiet, with most of the members hoping to c...
2023-04-03 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLucian’s group had roughly the same numbers as Yuriko’s, so there were twenty-one of them travelling down the narrow, debris-filled mess. But, every now and then, members of the Federation expedition joined them. Haggard and wounded, sometimes even half dead and with missing limbs, they came ...
2023-03-27 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostStones the size of her fist, head, and even a couple that were more than three paces wide, fell from cracks in the ceiling. The reflection of the night sky, with the Chaos flows and the Waning Moon, persisted even as stones dropped through them, giving Yuriko the notion that the illusion was proj...
2023-03-27 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I saw someone, across the road.” Yuriko said as she returned to where the others were hiding. “Ah, and a bunch of skeletons in armour are fighting the Femorants. They’re winning, I think, since they’re pushing back the ants.”
“Skeletons?” Asami frowned. “From Uaran?...
2023-03-27 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWorryingly, Faeril and the other man were still unconscious by the time morning came along. Yuriko, Asami, and Orrin prepared breakfast. While the porridge was cooking, Yuriko relented and used her Anima perception to get a better look at the two.
Faeril’s body, though it had recovered so...
2023-03-27 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostOrrin’s antennae were laid flat against the top of his head, and if it weren’t for Yuriko’s perception aura, she would have missed it within the tangled mop of blonde hair. As it were, she only saw them after she cleared the gunk off his head. Feeling more than a little trepidation, she cle...
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2023-03-14 15:12:05 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s reaction was immediate. Her Anima flared to its full might, and she activated all of her sword dances and prepared to use the Ender’s Waltz. Free Shaping had been denied easy use, but her Implement and Sorcery were still very much in play. Radiant energy vented out of her Essence, th...
2023-03-13 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe oppressive feeling lightened when Yuriko pushed against it with her Anima, but the weight of attention grew instead. It continued for several eternal moments before parts of her Anima cracked and blood seeped out of the corner of her lips. Then, she felt the Will’s condescension, and dismis...
2023-03-13 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostOrrin’s consciousness swam between waking and sleeping. For the moment, he didn’t remember that they had been ambushed. He didn’t remember that he and his brother were underground, looking for a strange city that should have the key to victory in the current war. He didn’t remember that h...
2023-03-13 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSunshards didn’t cost Animus to use, but manipulating the shards without the sword dances activated made the movements feel hollow. Yuriko defaulted to expressing the Four Phases of the Sword with them, and instinctively grouped them into four instead of three, with a shard using a Phase.
Even though Rumiga had a single ocean as its southern border, that didn’t mean that there weren’t any under its surface. For the Knight of the Abyss, the moment he found the underground bays and rivers, was the moment he could send his Revenants across the entirety of the plane.
Weeks o...
2023-03-13 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt only took killing ants for a couple of blocks for Yuriko to realise that she was wasting her time. She didn’t need to kill every last antman. She needed to catch up to the ants that had captured her friends. How long had it taken Heron to get to them? Ten minutes? Maybe half an hour? The cit...
2023-03-06 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostA purple plasma bolt drilled into the creature, a Wyldling of some sort, Riley thought, though they were stronger than swarmlings but weaker than the individual Wanderers. The bolt barely did anything more than melt its outer rocky carapace, however, so he had to follow it up with another bolt, w...
2023-03-06 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostHeron carefully positioned the hand mirror close to the ground. It was a circle the size of his palm and wasn’t really all that clean. That helped a bit since it prevented more light from reflecting, which made it harder to be spotted. He was next to a corner, hidden from the turn of the street...
2023-03-06 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are they empty?” Gwendith asked from inside one of the buildings constructed along the side of the pillar.
“Empty?” Yuriko repeated.
“Take a look.”
“Huh.”
The building was basically a cuboid, and when she entered inside, it was just empty space. Except...
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