“The enemy of my enemy is my… friend?” Darkshot asked with an extreme lack of certainty, raising his eyebrow as he looked around to gauge the others reactions to his words.
“No. Nope. This isn’t that.” Aegis shook his head in response. “Let’s think this out, consider all the...
2023-05-02 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA loud, deep bell rang out through the prison halls. It hadn’t been more than a few seconds since Mayiera and Lina had begun sprinting away from the paralyzed Viella before the ringing had begun.
As they made their way down the hallway back towards the corridor with two guards standing wa...
2023-05-01 10:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostLina shadowstepped through the iron bars in front of her and appeared on the other side of them, in the hallway outside of the washing room. From here, she was able to more clearly look up and down the dimly lit hallway and see no immediate guards in her vicinity. She oriented herself as best she...
2023-04-29 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe walls of the City of the White Tree’s prison stood directly underneath the center of the tree’s trunk, encircling the prison itself. Guards patrolled its walls, and it had but a single guarded gate to enter from.
Lina and Pyri had climbed atop a stack of the nearest residential buil...
2023-04-28 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHearing the information that Darkshot had gathered gave Aegis confidence as he went out into the City of the White Tree to complete his task. He’d made it up onto the streets of the lower branches easily enough, just as he had before, but the ramps and walkways that led higher up were under inc...
2023-04-27 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDarkshot, with his pigeon absent, made his way up to the lower branches of the city and began wandering around. Anytime he neared a group of guards, he found himself reactively tugging on his Seeker’s hood to make sure it remained firmly in place.
“Learn about the city…” ...
2023-04-26 10:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m a friend of Iuonok. He sent us here, from Belmiure.” Aegis explained. He remained still, with his hands up, but as silence followed his words he found himself staring at the NPCs with their weapons pointed at him, wondering if raised hands was a universal gesture that carried over into...
2023-04-25 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAegis and his party continued onward through the tunnel. It was incredibly narrow at some spots, and wide at others. On multiple occasions Aegis was forced to pull out his pickaxe and work on breaking apart some of the walls to make enough room to allow Snowflake to pass through along with them.<...
2023-04-24 09:56:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys!
I want to start by saying thank you for reading the story up until now and thank you for supporting my writing.
Unfortunately, for the sake of my sanity I am deciding to alter the chapter release schedule. Right now I don't have the time I'd like to have to enable me to st...
Before them, over the cliff below and beyond a great stretch of flat pale land stood the City of the White Tree. It was aptly named for the gigantic, glowing white tree that was visible to Aegis and his companions despite its great distance from them, at least two kilometers out from where they s...
2023-04-22 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAegis and his party stepped forward into the tunnel leading out of the Ruins of Belmiure. Much like the tunnel they’d used to enter the cavern, the road was paved with broken obsidian blocks under their feet from wall to wall. It was odd for Aegis to hear the sound of Snowflake’s talons tappi...
2023-04-21 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWith Iuomok’s guidance, Aegis and his party were led through the dark streets of Belmiure until eventually arriving at an old abandoned graveyard. It was a wide field of loose Soilrock with black obsidian headstones protruding out of the ground intermittently. The field itself was surrounded by...
2023-04-20 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAegis reappeared in the game world at the ruined town square of Belmiure with the glowing old tree at its center. Around the tree he and his party had set up a campfire and tents, as well as some makeshift stone block chairs to sit on around the fire. However, as he’d appeared, Rakkan and Lina ...
2023-04-19 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“My guys have checked Kordas and the surrounding towns, there’s no sign of them anywhere.” Artaphernes said to Quinn and Christoph. The three were standing around inside Quinn’s office within the Night Hunter’s guild hall. “How’d they get by you? It was your best members, right?” ...
2023-04-18 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSavika sat in the Rene town hall at the large round table with a small sewing kit laid out in front of her. She was quietly working away on a new craft by herself, with several rolls of variously colored fabrics set about on the table in front of her as well. Her eyebrows were scrunched up as she...
2023-04-17 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post1 Week Later…
Anazia, with her hood up, found herself standing outside of the Military Command Barracks within the city of Kordas. It was nestled near the surrounding walls of the castle of Kordas, with a large wide staircase inviting players and NPCs alike insi...
2023-04-16 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Got him pretty easily. The Plashrim were very cooperative.” Herilon spoke to Quinn as he approached her in the Night Hunter’s guild hall.
“Where is he now?” Quinn asked him. Quinn was pacing in her office in front of a desk, while a Lizardfolk NPC sat in the chair behind it filli...
2023-04-15 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I hope you had enjoyable holidays!
Unfortunately my holidays left me unable to work on my story the past week, and as a result I have not been able to edit and write out the next arc of the story as much as I would like. It ties in heavily to the rest of Book II and I want to ...
“First order of business.” Aegis stepped forward in front of his party, then turned to face them as they all stood attentive. “We’ll check out the enemies in this ruined city. We’re searching for good grinding spots.” Aegis explained and got a few nods. “But we’ll search together,...
2023-04-09 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAegis lost track of time as he fought with Lina in the Reltrak Forest that afternoon. Though, calling it fighting was being generous - it was primarily just Lina teleporting around Aegis and punching him. Despite the difference in skill, though, his viewership held steady - they were just as inve...
2023-04-08 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“So, it’s called lure baiting.” Eli shouted to Jillian from his bedroom. Jillian was in the process of cleaning their upstairs hallway while Eli was in the middle of working out using dumbbells in his bedroom.
“That’s appropriate.” Jillain replied.
“Yeah, turns out it's ...
2023-04-07 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“What happened?” Eli asked as he watched Jillian’s Simbox open up.
“One of the elementals shot at Derrick and Snowflake. I couldn’t stop it with cinderbolts, so…” She shrugged.
“Damn.” Eli leaned his head back, frustrated. He hit his wrist implant to bring up his con...
2023-04-06 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Aegis had time to even blink, the white cloaked individual had moved 12 meters and was right in front of his shield.
“You might want to brace this.” He said mockingly with a big mischievous grin. Up close, his facial features were somewhat visible. Aegis saw he looked young and h...
2023-04-05 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure we’re going the right way?” Darkshot asked as Aegis lead the others through the giant mushrooms of Reltrak Forest. They were deep into the wilderness now, far from any of the cavern walls. The light green fog that was usually settled above the mossy cavern floor was absent, ho...
2023-04-04 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s walk and talk, we’ve gotta visit the storehouse.” Aegis said to Chax before looking worriedly towards his party members. He walked forward through the streets of Rene towards the townsquare, and the others followed behind him. “What’s the problem, exactly?”
“It starte...
2023-04-03 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter turning in all of the guard emblems to Ulaipu, Aegis and his party sorted out their inventories before spreading out in Pakro'Vielle to explore the shops. Mainly though, it was Aegis who was busiest. He stopped by each and every one of the crafting buildings to turn in the quests, and for t...
2023-04-02 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Darkshot, which of those Royal Mosmir are the ones we left at low health?” Aegis asked him as he dodged out of the path of a slow moving void sphere.
“The one on the left!” Darkshot replied as he continued to fire arrows. “Incoming Voidreaver Larva.” He added as he saw a hatche...
2023-04-01 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Get its health a bit lower.” Aegis instructed his party. The group was engaged with a Royal Mosmir, Aegis in the front and holding its attention with his shield held high. He had a sense for how close it was to dying based on how long the group had been fighting it, and he wanted it weak bef...
2023-03-31 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThunderous stomping echoed off of the walls of the narrow tunnels around them. Aegis and his party moved forward as quietly as possible, as to not attract the attention of the stomping creatures. They could hear them nearby, but not see them.
The network of tunnels nearest to what Aegis per...
2023-03-30 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAegis and his party approached the Mosmir hive and carefully walked around the giant tunnel in the cavern floor out front of it. It was beckoning them to enter the hive using it - the very same tunnel that the boss had created when they were being swarmed by the hive's defenses. But thanks to the...
2023-03-29 10:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post