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2022-05-17 14:24:41 +0000 UTC View Post“So let me get this straight, Eric. You’d like to arrange for the surrender of an unknown number of troops at fortification 2W which, along with the capture of that fort and 1N, will give us a clear route into the city without having to worry about enemy fire?”
Eric cracked...
2022-05-17 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHeart racing with an odd mixture of anxiety and exhilaration, he slid through the darkness toward his goal, stopping right where the blazing lights were swallowed by the gloom.
Flashing an icy smile he was almost certain his enemies couldn't see, hidden under an apartment buildin...
2022-05-16 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEric wasted only moments lost in a rapturous daze as he came to grips with all the ways he had grown in both body and mind. Now when he moved, it was with such exquisite precision that the Eric of just a year would have been absolutely slack-jawed. He knew he could walk almost effortle...
2022-05-15 04:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, look, it’s the brewmaster!” said one of a pair of orcs guarding the northwestern watchtower, tusked maw warping in a wide grin showing too many teeth as it slammed the but of its poleaxe against the pavement, and Eric could almost feel the tension radiating from the pair, a...
2022-05-14 04:01:18 +0000 UTC View Post(Shorter chapter today. Next one will hopefully make up for it!)
Eric choked back a fresh groan. Before he dared do anything else… he had repairs of his own to attend to.
He glared down at the ruptured handful of crimson scales making up his armor, not even surpr...
2022-05-13 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostStealth check made! You have critically struck your target!
Eric glared down at the spasming orc that had collapsed to the smooth concrete pavement in a growing pool of its own blood, gasping for air that would never come with the massive rent in its back, spurting so mu...
2022-05-12 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the crow’s worried mutterings, both the second and third stops for the night had gone off without a hitch. There were now four massive cannons in the sewers of Gilton, and a pair in Eric's personal storage, giving him thirteen working cannons, two absolutely massive, that he ...
2022-05-11 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was effortless for him to avoid the massive red signatures weaving half drunkenly through the city in the darkness, long before they ever knew he was near. And for all that he could have made some easy kills… perhaps a dozens easy kills… now was definitely not the time.
No...
2022-05-10 06:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post"What the hell, Morlekai! This kid's plan is as reckless as it is insane!" snapped a glaring Louie. "He's going to try to goad the chieftain? Those damned orcs have at least a hundred flintlocks. That's a hundred guns against our... count them... zero firearms. And this isn’t our war...
2022-05-09 11:58:03 +0000 UTC View PostShorter Chapter :)
Synergistic use of Demolitions and Extra-dimensional Storage Space in effect.
You have used 10% of your level 9 potency on artifacts labeled. 'Super Flame Resistant Cloth' and 'Balls of Fire!'
You have successfully put to...
2022-05-09 11:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Elves! Elves have dared to rob our sanctuary! Find them destroy them!”
“Boss, it’s too hot!”
“No excuses! Find them and bring me their heads!”
The booming voice of the shaman washed over Eric as he made full use of his Strength, snatching up Drake and r...
2022-05-09 11:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Eric, they're just ahead!" Eric nodded at Drake's comment, not quite sure if it had been whispered or thought through the party link. A possibility to explore for another time as the four of them prepared themselves, well hidden in the gloom of the rundown train shed the sewer had o...
2022-05-09 11:51:18 +0000 UTC View PostEric tilted his beak. “I will be happy to answer your question. But first, for our mutual safety… are any of you under direct orders to kill any particular party who might be in alliance with the Sylvan Faction, or report anything said here back to the Chieftan, or anyone else?”<...
2022-05-09 11:47:57 +0000 UTC View PostHours passed before night’s gloom was pierced by the first crimson rays of dawn. The sporadic rooftop patrols slowly diminished when it seemed clear that no midnight Elven ambush was imminent. Certainly no patroller seemed alarmed by there being three less musketeers than there had b...
2022-05-09 11:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostMorlekai glared at a grinning Eric for long moments. “Eric, what the hell just happened?”
“Glorious things, that’s what,” Eric enthused. “We just got a green light to rob a fucking fortune in gold, while the orcs are all distracted by the elves pushing to claim this c...
2022-05-09 11:42:45 +0000 UTC View PostEric froze. A cold shiver raced down his spine.
There were so many things he wanted to say at that moment, but a tiny voice in his mind was screaming at him to be very, very careful with what he said, all too keenly aware of certain gift that could so easily be taken away. A gift...
2022-05-09 11:37:28 +0000 UTC View PostEric, still speechless with relief, couldn’t quite hold back his cheeky grin, taking a deep swig of milk, before passing it to a suddenly wide-eyed Alice.
Magesight enhanced Infravision skill check made!
Infravision is now at Rank 13!
“Shit, Eric...
2022-05-09 11:35:34 +0000 UTC View PostJust heartbeats before Eric could initiate a plan involving a lot of blood and very little he could take back, his now exquisitely acute hearing made out two faint voices that froze him in his tracks.
“So, you think that asshole’s actually going to show up, dad?” queried a ...
2022-05-09 11:34:11 +0000 UTC View PostHis attempts at cultivation ended unexpectedly when he fell into an exhausted slumber, dreaming of furious battles with vicious orcs, giant rats, and CSA Rangers before waking up with a gasp, feeling both wonderfully refreshed and foolish for having so utterly let his guard down.
Eric's heart began to pound with a killing fury.
Bone bow clenched firmly in hand, he spun around the corner to behold a city square that was every bit the vile hell-pit his nose had made all too clear he was approaching.
Though even he was shocked by the sight of the massi...
2022-05-09 11:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostEric couldn't help grinning, feeling a curious mixture of triumph, satiation, and just a touch of exhaustion. Now that he thought about it, he had been up and fighting for what must have been close to two days. He hoped his friends would understand why it had been so important, even if...
2022-05-09 11:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostHis footsteps pounded against the bone-strewn limestone corridors, no longer worried about Stealth, well aware that his nemesis could sense him coming.
Eager to spring the trap she had set.
Doing his best to ignore the sibilant rustle that first whispered through the ether ...
2022-05-09 11:22:51 +0000 UTC View Post“I sense the prey approaching. Come, prey. Come closer. Embrace your doom.”
Eric flashed a tight smile even as slimy words, slick and frigid as ice picks, slithered into his brain.
Vile words that sought to freeze and cripple, to ensorcell and destroy.
Rank 6 ...
2022-05-09 11:03:38 +0000 UTC View PostYou have successfully gotten to within 3 feet of your opponent!
Iado skillcheck made!
You have successfully struck your opponent 3 times within 1 second!
Giant rat has perished to your blows!
Eric ignored the stream of interfa...
2022-05-09 11:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe entire group stared for long, silent moments at the gold-plated keys Eric solemnly handed Morlekai, along with the little black code book, receiving a fierce handclasp and hug in return.
“Thank you, Alex.” Morlekai swallowed and shook his head, actually sounding choked up...
2022-05-09 11:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe hallway was now painted in a patina of shrapnel and body parts, and Eric could only thank the heavens that he and his friends had made it through relatively unscathed, thanks to their armor, the 4-way intersection the bounty hunters had stopped at, and the 15 yard distance.
...
2022-05-09 10:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostYou have successfully placed Modified Necromantic Bulwark (Venus Flytrap) formation behind Steel Cage Wagon.
Your Modified Necromantic Bulwark has taken Severe Damage!
Never had Eric felt greater exhilaration, terror, or regret than when his arrow tore thr...
2022-05-09 10:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post(Plot-appropriate naughtiness in this chapter.)
It was all Eric could do not to gag, nauseous with unexpected pain from his ripped-open cheek, certain his jaw had been broken. He froze, not daring to move when he felt the expertly held stiletto pressing against the back ...
2022-05-09 10:55:15 +0000 UTC View Post"Christoff! You said you owe me a debt, right?”
The boy Eric was gazing so intently at blanched, but forced a nod, his exquisitely polished bronze helm catching the light the entire chamber was bathed in. “Fuck it if I don’t feel it like a weight on my soul.”
Eric f...
2022-05-09 09:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post