The forest! One of the gems Eurus had given him as a gift when Albert was summoned here was a healing incantation called Prayer of the Forest. It was there, in his pocket! He just needed to reach it.
The forest lurched. The pain followed. Albert was suddenly clutching his chest in pain and ...
2023-05-18 19:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a thin veil of energy protecting the thick spear of stone, as well as the other impaling implements, from the effect of the Hazegem’s anti-entropic field. This was a tried-and-true method for transporting inanimate items backwards through time without seeing them disappear in the flur...
2023-05-18 19:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostHe had all but given up on his hopes to make it work. But there he sat, visualizing the elven village with its large square, the fountain and the jovial atmosphere of the night before when the world around him lurched. It’s quite difficult to describe what Albert saw when the teleportation happ...
2023-05-18 16:34:25 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert walked under the shade of the tall fir trees with the utmost care not to make the slightest of sounds. In the distance, thanks to his enhanced senses, he could first sense and then see the golem standing perfectly still near a large rock outcropping. It was drooping slightly, with its head...
2023-05-18 16:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time morning came, Albert was tired but still functioning. Meditating was not like sleeping but it wasn’t very tiring either, but it wasn’t like he could ever hope to sleep after having been transported to an elven village in a fantasy world.
The day was off to a great start thou...
2023-05-17 15:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a small pouch in the man’s other hand. Correction: in the elf’s other hand. And inside the pouch were small stones, shiny and luminous, red, green and blue. Albert did not know what they were, but he pocketed them to later Appraise them. For now he simply let the elf, who introduced...
2023-05-16 14:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe night was very productive. Working on spells with someone else meant having a second set of eyes on the task, and another creative mind at Albert’s disposal that could come up with all sorts of ideas and improvements that he did not think about. As such, among a couple garbage bins set on f...
2023-05-16 14:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostWhat followed was a thorough grilling about what happened, with Marc prying every little secret from Albert’s reluctant lips. The plan had always been to rewind this particular part of the conversation, as it was leading into not very nice topics, but he found that talking about it with someone...
2023-05-16 14:53:47 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert thought about how to approach the subject of magic. In the end, he decided, why not have some fun with it?
“Hey,” He said, right when Marc was about to hit play and start the third movie. “Wanna see a magic trick?”
Marc frowned. “Magic trick? What do you mea— shit....
2023-05-16 14:53:08 +0000 UTC View Post“What the fuck is this?” Samantha exclaimed, losing her cool for just a fraction of a second. “Is this PsyOps?”
“Affirmative ma’am.”
They were in the middle of one of the many nameless fields surrounding the Tryte exclusion zone. They had all been abandoned by the farmer...
2023-05-16 14:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert was pondering about the secrets of space and time when the doorbell rang. His mother was out, he was home alone.
Marc’s face greeted him when he opened the door.
“Yo, what are you doing here?” Albert asked.
Marc was not pleased. “What, forgot about today’s sessi...
2023-05-16 14:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe video window appeared in the space between Albert and the wall, hovering in the air like usual. There were, like there always were, tiny differences with how it looked compared to last time. He wondered—
“Finally, another skill video. Welcome back, Albert.” The alter-ego said in t...
2023-05-15 13:58:26 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Albert finally opened his eyes, an unknown amount of time had passed, and he was suddenly thrust in the familiarity of own room. In his own house. He knew he was there before the image of the familiar walls and posters even reached his brain, the abilities gained with [Perception] beginning ...
2023-05-15 13:57:53 +0000 UTC View Post[Orson ‘PsyOps’ Smiths. Dangerous individual with Psionic powers, capable of manipulating mind and matter from a distance. Avoid at all costs.]
Albert’s eyes struggled to focus on the understatement of the century, the letters appearing in the right orientation even t...
2023-05-15 13:56:16 +0000 UTC View PostHe was back in the car again, time passing almost unnoticed, completely drenched in icy water. The heat of the car had barely been enough to dry him a little bit, moving him past the discomfort of having wet clothes into the not-noticing they were wet because they were warm enough to just stick a...
2023-05-15 13:55:34 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert - Tryte Outskirts
The clouds loomed. As he got closer and closer to the village, Albert could see the full extent of the weather anomaly with his own eyes. It unlike anything he had ever seen before, going even beyond the superstorms he saw in some odd documentary late at night. And ...
2023-05-15 13:54:42 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert Grassman. Before the blast.
Have you ever watched the world go by in bullet time? Albert did, in the car, knowing that by the time he got to Tryte he would be stock-full of mana again. The fact was, he thought, that he could spend 21 minutes every hour in Bullet Time, meaning that ...
2023-05-15 13:53:51 +0000 UTC View PostSamantha Cromwell. Before the blast.
The plan was foolproof. Use the containment field, retrofitted with the contents of the Cache buried under the Quadrangle, to contain the nuclear blast inside the Exclusion Zone. A nuclear blast that, while already on its own strong enough to wipe the wh...
2023-05-15 13:53:14 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday morning came and went. It was not the notable part of the day for sure. What was, instead, was the inexplicable flash of light that immediately followed the spotting of a streak in the sky. It was so bizarre in fact, seeing a second dawn in the middle of the day, that it warranted a rewin...
2023-05-14 22:34:44 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday, September 23. Dead of night. Tryte.
The blinding strobing light of machine gun fire, and the deafening roar of explosions thundering in the distance mixed with and were swallowed by the raging thunderstorm. Winds strong enough to uproot trees, to demolish buildings and to lift enti...
2023-05-14 22:34:13 +0000 UTC View PostStill, it was something. Not enough to consider the quest as complete, and so he read on. Now the book mentioned that there were ways to make circuits with magic that were able to absorb the mana in the air and make the items function even without him supplying them with mana himself. Although, t...
2023-05-14 22:33:23 +0000 UTC View PostMonday afternoon – Albert.
It was post-rewind. Which meant that all the studying was done, as well as some physical training coupled with a good session of [Healing] and a nutritious meal. Now it was time to focus on magic until it was dinnertime again and then maybe even afterwards! Albe...
2023-05-14 22:32:53 +0000 UTC View Post[Skill proficiency increased.]
The fireball was launched with unprecedented spee...
2023-05-13 23:33:52 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday. Sunday, September 21. Location unknown.
The waving tail of the Scalehorn undulated under the bright noon sun, its shape partially hidden by the translucent superheated air that hovered above the ground and shrouded it in mirages. Three fireballs had already exploded in the vicini...
2023-05-13 23:32:47 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday. Sunday, September 21.
Crossing the street in [Bullet Time] had been one hell of an experience. Something that carried with it not only the adrenaline of knowing Albert was doing something he was not supposed to do, but also the knowledge that he was indeed using magic in the real...
2023-05-12 10:20:21 +0000 UTC View PostTryte – 122km from Temalas City
Monday, September 22
Samantha studied the swirling clouds with a somber expression, eyes unfocused glossing over the stream of soon-to-be rain rapidly passing over her head. The stormfront was looming in the distance and getting closer, the actual cen...
2023-05-12 10:19:46 +0000 UTC View Post“I have this idea for a spell,” Albert told Lloyd. His grandpa had been briefed on everything that happened to Albert ever since the arrival of the system and was now adamantly asking to be kept in the loop, even going as far as getting a smartphone so he could text his grandson more often. ...
2023-05-12 10:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a model being prepared, by a team of scientists under the supervision of the one called SpaceOps. A model trained on the weather data that attempted to correlate the anomalous pressure differentials in the upper atmosphere with the sites where Events had taken place. Because, and this w...
2023-05-12 10:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostAlbert braced himself. As soon as something was out of place, he would react with overwhelming force and leave no room for the kidnappers to take him. Even if they overpowered him, he would not make their job easy for them. He would not.
Yet time passed, and the only thing that happened to ...
2023-05-11 21:05:37 +0000 UTC View PostThere was just one way to deal with the situation. Albert needed to use [Perception] tuned onto magic to spot any residual magic from a teleportation or whatever was used to kidnap the girl. Perhaps the guy was still there, but invisible, and he could spot him with the skill. But that wouldn’t ...
2023-05-11 21:05:08 +0000 UTC View Post