“Find Max,” Harmony instructed Hyacinth, and the shadow toad took off through the water again.
Here was a problem she could solve tonight. A glimpse of true sight to find the troublesome Saccerate, and then she should be able to dissolve her out o...
2025-07-18 17:15:50 +0000 UTC View PostAmbrosia - #1
Even without mountains of work to avoid, Ambrosia wouldn’t be anywhere other than in the stands as Harmony opened the Ascendant Games. Too bad the company left much to be desired.
“Does she have to wear that outfit? It's indecent. I have a hard...
2025-07-16 17:58:57 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness covered the trail up the mountain to their plateau at the edge of the sacred valley. Harmony walked at the front of the line. The one with the shortest legs should set the pace otherwise they’d get left behind, right? Maybe if she didn’t have stamina. Red...
2025-07-14 15:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostA hectic two days of experimentation with the loot was interrupted when the clock started ticking again. Loap's astute ears for the time gave a midnight start time.
That made Harmony's project of spider lights all the more popular as the nighttime challenge approa...
2025-07-11 15:57:31 +0000 UTC View PostLife has gotten busy and the cliff of the end of my banked content is getting closer. Rather than try to jump it, Thelma and Louise style. I will be doing a few changes. I will be moving updates to Monday and Friday only for the Main story line and to keep up with posting three times a week I've...
2025-07-09 18:51:32 +0000 UTC View PostLoap, Adric, and Hyacinth were in charge of the heist. No one returned, had any golem limbs, undead torsos, or other potential resources in their arms. [Poise and Bearing] kept the disappointment off of Harmony's face.
Adric moved forward. "There were some complic...
2025-07-09 16:35:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirty
The post-combat lull was a time for assessment. The damage the heir's army had done to Harmony's was twenty percent losses with the bird-bear hybrids nearly eliminated after they took the brunt of the golem rush. The support by competitors ended up negating each other within ...
2025-07-07 15:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostToday's update will be skipped due to all the events of the 4th of July weekend pulling me out of my schedule. Regular updates will resume Monday!
Sorry for any inconvenience.
-Kit
2025-07-04 16:00:46 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Nine
Welcome to war! Competitors may act in a support role attacking enemy units or boosting yours. Directly targeting an opposing competitor will result in a penalty. Follow your troops!
The Front wall dissolved, opening up to the flat stone valley flo...
2025-07-02 15:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty eight
Throwing parts onto tables and pulling switches, the creations started to fill the room as everyone acted like kids with new toys. The monstrous soldiers weren't attacking contestants or bonds, but they did slowly wander directionless. A plant monster with tree trunk le...
2025-06-30 17:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Seven
That situation at their tribe's site settled into a routine. No one took the option to leave early and tasks got done without needing Adric to keep them on task too much. That allowed Harmony to work on crafting, skills, and planning future conflicts.
...
2025-06-27 16:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Six
Gareth leaned in and threw an arm over Harmony’s shoulder. “Look, it’s not that bad. In some way, it is the greatest con ever. Increased difficulty and prizes? The Ascendant Games have never been played. We have no metrics or numbers to compare what is c...
2025-06-25 16:27:22 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty Five
“Ambrosia, let me sleep you demon!” Reality sunk in. Her inky black alarm toad continued to tug at her arm and Ambrosia might as well be a world away. “I know I told you not to let me sleep in, but why did you have to listen to me?”
Her wake-up routine bare...
2025-06-23 16:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Four
Len laughed when she told him they made her the leader of their tribe. A good-natured one, only because he knew enough about her that being a leader was not her favorite activity despite being shoved into aristocracy. “I’m betting ...
2025-06-20 17:30:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Three
One point earned for the red team!
The swampy zone was not without other targets. Muddy skeletons twitched in a pile as Harmony collected this group's copper coin. Buried underneath the controlling aspects in the corpses were old degraded skills. The bodies were p...
2025-06-18 17:10:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-Two
The butler kept his uniform impeccable and posture perfect. Apparently, that was part of the package that came with the undead servant. He was noticeably not floating, his feet firmly on the ground, and Harmony could feel, with weakened soul sight, that his powers were no...
2025-06-16 15:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty-One
[Intruder Sense] radiated out. Nothing. This wasn’t going to be that easy. There is also the risk that it won’t pick up on where the coins might be. Owlsley’s pet dropped down from its climb with her in the giant sloth's arms. The landing zone was about to get crowd...
2025-06-13 13:37:43 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twenty
Everyone got the message and everyone marched their way around the shores of the lake towards the beacon signifying the sacred valley. There was no timer, but it didn’t seem like the thing you wanted to show up last to. It was a reminder to map out the area extensively. Thi...
2025-06-11 14:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nineteen
After three days, everyone had some form of shelter, and Loap still refused to purchase clothes even though she’d earned enough points for them. The spear from the empress spider leg was much more valuable to her.
“Any progress?” Harmony asked the beast kin as s...
2025-06-09 13:17:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eighteen
Twenty competitors in one camp. Not counting bonded pets, spirits, talking swords, an astral copy of someone's grandpapi, a flute who begs to be played, of course, Loap, and Prince Adric. Eight of the twenty-four other contestants who were introduced were among their ...
2025-06-06 13:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventeen
Familiar and unfamiliar faces wore red throw-overs, long one-piece sleeveless outfits. The reward for arrival and their reprieve from nudity. Made everyone look like they were in a cult. Owlsley stood by her giant sloth. Eric's eyes were locked onto her chest. If only he'd...
2025-06-04 13:22:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixteen
A vote was not the kind of contest she'd prepared herself for. Being well known, a threat due to competency, or looked down on due to Necromancy was not the kind of thing that kept you in a competition like this. There had to be more to it.
Empress spiders she could fi...
2025-06-02 13:24:52 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifteen
The empress spider chittered as it stabbed its black spear-like legs in Harmony’s direction. Adric handled the medium man-sized ones dashing to the large openings in the wall of webbing as they stuck their bodies out, whacking them as quickly as possible before jumping to ...
2025-05-30 13:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fourteen
Spiders, Hyacinth could smell spiders! It was getting dark, and Harmony wanted out of the mimic territory before they camped. The woods at the base of the mountain range were ahead of them, and Harmony’s sense finally felt more right. Birds could be heard, and Hyacinth fi...
2025-05-28 13:22:53 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Thirteen
Hyacinth didn’t smell it. Harmony didn’t sense it. It was Adric yanking the pair of them backward from a vicious square mouth of teeth rising out of what looked to be a flat stretch of earth that clued them in. The creature's tongue shot out nearly matching the speed Ha...
2025-05-26 17:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Twelve
“Grrrheept.” Hyacinth’s alert pulled Harmony out of her introspective testing. She’d just about figured out how and how much chronostasis was hampered by the seal. Prey, but almost everything was prey in that toad's senses.
Just a man. At least hyac...
2025-05-23 12:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eleven
Not the dungeon. A sandy, scrubby area with trees and mountains in the distance. No competitors waited. That had been a fear. A giant battle royale. Guessing exactly what the games were going to be had gotten pretty wild at times. The lack of domain and death was next. The vi...
2025-05-21 13:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Ten
Time with Hemlock was unusually informative. Seals were spiritual locks on abilities. Anything considered too strong would be balanced for the games. The best seals would be invisible once they settled in, leaving aspects that needed improvement untouched while suppressing overp...
2025-05-19 13:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Nine
How rude, but how much of that was Rose? Evolutionary mood swings or personality crisis, and that nasty new bonded item, Len’s conspiracy theories around how strong the post-evolution hangover was were getting to her. Despite those nagging thoughts, Harmony was ready to drop-...
2025-05-16 13:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Eight
Harmony waited near where her former team would be teleporting in and focused on presenting a picture of a calm and welcoming friend. Max had been unhappy with her abrupt departure and all the burdens she'd left him with. The others probably were unhappy too. Sweet treats shou...
2025-05-14 13:29:30 +0000 UTC View Post