It seems we're still carrying a lot of the weight of 2024 into 2025.
We've been struggling with our health on and off for a few weeks now, with L and I going through alternating periods of who's well enough to function and for how long. We've been powering through for the most part but obvi...
2025-04-20 11:17:22 +0000 UTC View PostAn Invisible Edge slashed into the base of the tentacles that were about to pulp Multiman but unexpectedly, her Edge barely managed to carve an inch into the shadowy stuff before it got snuffed. Frowning, she immediately infused Radiance into the Edge and sent it off. This time, it visibly cut th...
2025-04-20 09:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko couldn’t help herself. She just floated above the fighting, about fifty paces away, and just watched. She perched on top of a tenement building five storeys high. It had a flat roof and a guard wall that was about thigh high to her. It was grimy and stank of dried feces, rotting pigeon f...
2025-04-15 16:26:54 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko flew about five hundred paces above the ground in a brand new cape costume. It was a form-fitting outfit, black tights, a red half skirt that fell down to just below her knees, a white button-down, and a red cropped jacket over it. She wore black gloves, a long black scarf and a mo...
2025-04-14 13:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHer entire foray didn’t take more than a couple of hours, but by the time she returned to her apartment, Captain Hays still had not replied. She sent the same message to the HAMA club captain, Walter Richards and was now waiting for a reply.
In the meantime, she hurried to Scarlett...
2025-04-13 07:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko pressed down on Scarlett with her Anima, holding her in place. The woman shrieked, but the sound didn’t propagate past her aura. She pulled the girl closer and touched her forehead.
“Scar…” Yuriko said softly. The connecting thread between the two of them pulsed oddly, with d...
2025-04-10 13:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip to return across five biomes took a lot less time than their initial exploration. Yuriko walked absentmindedly while she used her perception slivers to keep a careful watch of their surroundings. Carina looked flummoxed even after the half an hour they spent crossing three biomes. Yuriko...
2025-04-10 13:20:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe Radiant flame tornado roared to the skies. The grey storm clouds dispersed revealing pale blue skies. The tornado rose beyond the clouds and roughly a league above. There it hit a…ceiling. The flames spread out, consuming, propagating. Radiance consumed everything to make more of itself, st...
2025-04-07 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe giant golem was suddenly visible in the distance. The storm pulled back the snow just enough that there was a clear corridor between Yuriko and the monster, and the aftereffect of its prodigious roar cleared the rest. Carina huddled behind the wall of swords Yuriko used to block, but the Ultr...
2025-04-07 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko felt the Arclight Crescent stop midway into the golem’s body. Since it was infused with Intent, Radiance, and Bladeless Sword, she was well and truly connected with the attack. So she felt exactly what happened.
First, the crescent hit the outer shell. It carved through it ea...
2025-04-05 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Are we still going south?” Yuriko asked once they reached the relative center of the biome.
The hills made it a bit harder to make sure, and only her perception sliver could actually sense things. Obviously, it didn’t make for a very good long-range sensor, but if not for the fact th...
2025-04-02 17:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Where and when?” Yuriko asked.
“On the 14th,” Zach answered quickly. “A town west of Neo Prism, almost in the next state, actually. Nordham, along route 16. I’ve got the address here.” He forwarded the message to Yuriko’s phone. “He asked to meet by...
2025-04-02 16:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe two men, despite belonging to different factions, equally stiffened and reddened in outrage. The first one, who had rudely told Yuriko and Carina to leave, choked on his own vitriol as his hand darted to his sidearm, which happened to be a large handgun, or rather, a revolver with lar...
2025-03-31 15:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s perception aura spread across the biome. It was supposed to be a couple of longstrides across, and it was an irregular shape, according to the map. It was mostly flat and covered with wild grass as tall as her waist. The horned bunnies’ burrows were concealed under them, and ...
2025-03-31 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko: Made a new friend. Headed to the planet to test delve. Don’t wait up, might take a while.
Gwendith: Sure. Stay safe. Bring your new friend when you come back. Heron got rooms in the Marlin Resort and Suites.
Yuriko: Will do.
She put away he...
2025-03-28 13:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe holdup ahead caused by a commotion stalled the people on the floatway, and their immediate reaction was to drop to the ground. But of course, that was everyone’s reaction, so instead of people being able to fit because they were floating in three dimensions, they were squished toget...
2025-03-27 13:59:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Heron, you and Saki look for a hotel. Gwen, can you check how currency works here?” Yuriko said as soon as they had some privacy in the lift. The car was just about big enough to easily fit all of them along with their luggage.
“We should visit the Interfaction...
2025-03-24 15:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the edge of the Shangria System, it took nearly a couple of days to actually approach close enough to make out what the planet looked like. Yuriko had been mistaken. It wasn’t an orbital ring around the planet, but five rings, each just offset from each other that from afar, it looked like...
2025-03-24 15:32:31 +0000 UTC View PostBeholden Flower of the Sun’s Desire ripped her way through the intervening Veils. Her mind was torn and weary from the long journey where she couldn’t rest, and more importantly, from fighting the mind-altering effects of the Fysallis she passed through. The hidden paths she had to tr...
2025-03-24 14:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt took several weeks sailing in the Void Ocean to cross districts and quadrants. The resource planet Yuriko and the others protected was in the Draconian sector and crossing that vast distance alone would take a couple of weeks or more. The Rascal wasn’t the fastest of Voidships, so th...
2025-03-20 14:24:31 +0000 UTC View PostGwendith stroked Yuriko’s hair as the pair lounged in bed. She preened under her lover’s fingers as they kneaded her scalp. Her long hair, which would have been unmanageable considering its length, flowed and reacted to her thoughts. She didn’t need to use kinesis to manage it, and ...
2025-03-17 15:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett was unconscious, but Yuriko didn’t let that stop her. The other jail cells had the rest of the defeated club members, but she didn’t have an accurate count. Troubling as it was, she knew that there had been casualties. She only vaguely remembered the people Scarlett mentioned who die...
2025-03-17 14:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostA few minutes after Lilibeth Lawson exited the antechamber, the faceless man came in. In his hand was a smartphone with a video feed of that girl zooming through the tunnels, at a speed that was impossible for a baseline human to achieve.
“So, strength, speed, energy projection, ene...
2025-03-17 13:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t say I didn’t warn you~!”
The voice came from a different point in space, and though it was already within Yuriko’s reach, she didn’t notice the micro speakers until the sound came out. It wasn’t as if she wasn’t looking, but the fact that the design of the speakers, e...
2025-03-17 13:37:35 +0000 UTC View PostDragging the unconscious bird woman along, Yuriko checked her connection with Scarlett. It wasn’t as muffled as before, and she assumed that the other girl was unconscious, but just a few moments after she started moving, she felt a spike of fear and anger through the thread. It was a flash tha...
2025-03-08 14:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostWhen she stepped through the hole in reality, Yuriko didn’t really know what to expect. She posited that they would be like a Fysalli, which shaped itself around the visitor’s perceptions while retaining their basic theme. But then again, the bridge she and the other Lunites—what the cast o...
2025-03-06 12:49:55 +0000 UTC View PostLightfoot dragged Soundwave behind her as they hurried to the danger zone. It was sheer luck, or maybe misfortune depending on how she thought about it, that she and her partners were travelling south on business when the alert came. An ongoing Unfettered attack was as rare as they came, and the ...
2025-03-05 13:32:22 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s flight was just as fast as running, but it had the added benefit of being able to bypass the twists and turns of the zigzagging mountain road and whatever other obstacles stood in her way. Radiant sunshards allowed her to finally triumph against the regenerating lionesses, but the way ...
2025-03-03 13:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe presence of the surviving staff was a shackle for Yuriko that kept her from going all out. She could just as easily disregard their lives and either ignore the lionesses and leave or fight with attacks that could also destroy the environment, but she, in good conscience, couldn’t do that. B...
2025-03-03 13:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostJust letting everyone know that yes, there will be chapters tonight. :D
That said though, we've been having steady health concerns offline so to get a little more rest in, we'll be taking a break next week instead of pushing to push through.
It's honestly been more than a little crazy...
2025-03-03 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post