It took us a few more inconclusive tests before we gave up. The stupid plant in the lake, or whatever it was, didn’t react in a predictable manner, making the entire process pretty much a waste of time. Or maybe there was a pattern but I hadn’t been able to isolate it, or there were specific ...
2023-09-16 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“What in all hells is this?!” Mark couldn’t help but curse, looking at the basement the group had led him to. It was one thing to be told, ‘Boss, there’s something you need to see for yourself,’ but an entirely different thing to actually see what they had reported and still try to di...
2023-09-15 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I remained near the water, Lia and Silva went and tried to hunt something that I could use as a test subject. Since I had no desire to personally meet whatever was in the water, or whatever had struck before, I kept a distance and started to experiment. Luna stayed with me, using her eyes t...
2023-09-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI was no dwarf, but damn, could I dig a hole.
After sleeping for a few hours, curled up next to Lia and Luna, I had concentrated on doing just that, taking the relatively small hole I had initially created and enlarging it. It was partially to continue training my Earth-Magic, partially bec...
2023-09-11 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostRealising that we were about to reach the area Lia had mentioned, I shook myself out of my thoughts. It was incredibly difficult to ascertain anything about the connection between Luna and myself, to say nothing about the strand that connected us to the Grandmother. For now, I could only say that...
2023-09-10 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Mother, I stumbled across something we should check out,” Lia told me, as she returned from one of her nightly wanderings. Over the last few months, she had started to habitually roam the land during the night, simply exulting in her physical strength and speed. Running, jumping, exploring, ...
2023-09-09 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLooking at Luna, I could only shake my head. During the last two months, she had grown over ten centimetres, her body maturing at a rate I couldn’t quite believe. A part of me suspected that the change was driven by the levels she had gained, but I couldn’t be certain and wasn’t about to us...
2023-09-08 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, what do we have here?” I mused out loud, looking at my latest magical experiment. It was one of the few things I wasn’t willing to share with Luna and took quite a bit of effort to hide from her, simply because I wasn’t willing to let her see this.
In one of the basements we h...
2023-09-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWith a twirl of my hand, the snow swirling around me took on another shape, forming into a javelin. It wasn’t quite as hard as Ice, but closing my hand and focusing my magic changed that, right before the Javelin was launched forward, piercing into my target before shattering, tearing it apart....
2023-09-04 18:35:32 +0000 UTC View PostRebuilding my throne might have been premature, but it most certainly was comfortable. Just sitting on the sturdy edifice of Ice made me feel calm and empowered, the runes I had engraved into the back and the armrests helping me to connect to the circle around me, letting my mind slip into the As...
2023-09-03 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWith no pressing matter to attend to, we settled in for the summer. The long, hot days meant that Lia was near-permanently confined to our underground shelter while it was hit or miss for me. I could be out in the Sun but it was uncomfortable, even if I could sustain the constant drain on my Astr...
2023-09-02 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostTeaching people about magic was incredibly interesting. Even speaking to somebody of the same affinity but with different experiences revealed an entirely different approach, not only to the intuitive parts of elemental manipulation but even the relatively consistent Rune Masteries were individua...
2023-09-01 15:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostTaking a deep breath and letting it slowly flow out of me again, I looked outside, hoping against hope to spot some thick clouds anywhere nearby. Sadly, the weather wasn’t cooperating, the day outside was picture-perfect, with a deep, blue sky stretching as far as the eye could see, the tempera...
2023-08-30 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we reached the brewery, I stopped for a moment, simply looking at the building in amusement. There was the grave we had dug for the people previously living here, still faintly smelling of Hecate’s magic from the benediction Silva had placed upon it, and all around the building were traces...
2023-08-28 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWith the rising Sun, the people of Apple Gate Farm got up to work. There was always more than enough work for everyone and while the community had grown from a few survivors driven from their homes and banded together for shelter, the growth hadn’t been without its costs. Long gone were the day...
2023-08-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe I had underestimated the effect of levels, just a little bit. To me, Luna was just a cute kid, not scary in any way, shape or form. For the people at Apple Gate Farm, Luna was a cute kid, with the aura of a being able to squish most of them with ease, giving an impression almost on par with...
2023-08-26 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt took us two more nights to reach Apple Gate Farm after Lia crossed the first divide. During those two days, Lia and I discussed what had happened during her crossing of the Divide and tried to understand how that might have fed back to me. Or if the title I had gained the moment she did had an...
2023-08-25 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter another day of discussions and deliberations, Lia made the decision to challenge the first divide, using the middle of the night, or witching hour, to make her attemp...
2023-08-23 17:33:42 +0000 UTC View PostWalking around the park, I was hit with some strange, mixed feelings. Here, at ground zero of my attack, I was both a little amazed at what I had accomplished but also scared of the devastation I had caused. Knowing that I could snuff out many lives with the equivalent of a gas attack, using my t...
2023-08-21 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, when people talked about something being a walk in the park, I had a feeling that they weren’t referring to what we experienced the night after the ritually boosted attack on the Withered.
Walking into the area they had previously occupied was a fascinating experience. Maybe it w...
2023-08-20 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time I woke from my strange dream, I felt a headache creeping up on me. It was one thing to get some information in regards to childcare, something I was incredibly grateful for, and getting information on Luna’s class, possible future path and what to look out for was valuable, too. All...
2023-08-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA tiny part of me was incredibly amused at the situation. Before the change, I had occasionally consumed amusing stories about parents and the troubles they had with their children. Even now, I wasn’t quite sure why I had liked those stories, maybe it was some sort of subconscious attempt to ma...
2023-08-18 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostGiven how exhausted all of us were, with Luna and Alex still out cold, the three of us who were still standing decided that moving any sort of distance would be foolish. The streets were quite dangerous right now, thanks to the Withered that were now running wild and I wanted to check out the par...
2023-08-16 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFeeling the world fade around me, I bit my tongue, using the pain to focus my mind. It helped, though I was still wobbly, sinking to my knees instead of completely keeling over. I needed to remain active, simply because I had no idea what was going on around me, the battle might still be ongoing,...
2023-08-14 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIn the beginning, there was a cold, damp mist. It came and when it went, it left behind hundreds of bodies, providing ample nutrients for the colony. With that near-limitless amount of fuel, the myce...
2023-08-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBreathe in… Hold… Breathe out…
Slowly but surely, I let more and more Astral Power flow into the ritual circle around me. For once, I had forgone the throne I had commonly used for rituals on Mundus, simply because I had something else in mind. When I first used ritual magic on Mundus...
2023-08-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostGetting Luna to level ten was fairly trivial in the grand scheme of things. Just hunting down a bunch of Undead, letting her help by using her ivy vines to restrain them, before either Lia, Silva or I finished them off. She didn’t get the full amount of EXP, something we expected given that she...
2023-08-11 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMaybe I was just evil, but watching my munchkin flounder around with her newly acquired Life Magic was incredibly amusing. Luna might have borrowed the Grandmother’s affinity but it seemed that the instincts for that sort of magic hadn’t been transferred over, or maybe little Luna was simply ...
2023-08-09 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“So, what’s new with you?” I quietly asked Silva, once my conversation with Luna was finished and she was drifting off to sleep. Given that I was playing pillow for my little moon, I had to be still and quiet, so I wouldn’t disturb her, but I still wanted to know what my canine companion ...
2023-08-07 16:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Luna Morgana…” my munchkin let the names slowly roll over her tongue, repeating them a few times, likely to get used to them. Given that she couldn’t see her own eyes without a mirror, I conjured up a polished shard of Ice, allowing her to see the obvious inspiration for the name. The sm...
2023-08-06 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post