Soft noises pulled me back into the dim, gloomy light that filtered through the mist. Blinking my eyes, I noticed some crud crusting them together and tried to move only for my arms to feel so incredibly heavy, far too heavy to move. Warm, familiar fingers started to caress me, gently wiping my e...
2023-01-24 17:22:21 +0000 UTC View PostWith each step I took, the mist became denser. At first, I was able to vaguely s...
2023-01-24 17:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe evening’s gloom couldn’t have come soon enough for my tastes. After my short speech, overall interest in magic had been intense, it felt like everyone who had an affinity had approached me and even those without were showing interest. It hadn’t been limited to me, Mrs Wu had received ju...
2023-01-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Public Speaking... Yuck
A part of me wanted to continue straight away, to try pushing Sandy into Rune Magic, simply to see if it would work. If it did, and I managed to get another EXP infusion similar to the one I had received when Kevin learned...
Soon after Kevin dropped into his meditative trance, Sandy returned, looking a little disgruntled.
“No idea what you thought would happen,” she grumbled, sitting down across the table from me, “So, any better ideas than to think really hard and try making something happen?”
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2023-01-21 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe emotions I could feel over the mental link I had established were almost amusing. Fear, amazement, disbelief and an overall sensation that I could only verbalise as a loud scream of ‘what the f…’ flooded over loud and clear, to which I tried to send back a sensation of collected calm. G...
2023-01-20 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“So, affinities,” I began, once I had my two prospective students seated across the table from me, “Affinities are the easiest place to begin learning magic. Having the trait means you have enough innate talent that the system deems it worthy of recognition, or something along those lines, ...
2023-01-18 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMrs Wu’s story took far longer than it took me to finish my food. Thanks to Parallel Processing, I was able to eavesdrop on the people around us, even as I focused on her words and participated in the conversation. That way, I not only had her perspective but was able to glean some more informa...
2023-01-16 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Change came silently, and yet, somehow, a sleeping figure managed to wake just moments before it hit. Maybe it was instinct, honed by years of intruding into places she wasn’t welcome in and doing things nobody was allowed to know, maybe it was simple coincidence, a result of having a littl...
2023-01-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAt some point, I decided that I should speak to the locals and Mrs Wu some more. I didn’t want to permanently stay here, hell, with the effect the proximity of this many humans had on my sleep I didn’t even want to briefly stay here. If not for the persistent feeling of obligation towards Mrs...
2023-01-14 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe talk with Mrs Wu was interesting. On one hand, I initially wasn’t sure how much of the backstory I should give her, as the things that I had done as Morgana weren’t things normal people would consider ‘good’. Hell, if I merely looked at my actions on Mundus through an outsider’s len...
2023-01-13 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAmusingly, the last bit of the way was the hardest for me. Not because of enemies but because of ever-increasing tension and worry. Even before the change, I hadn’t been good when it came to handling other people and now, with the change hanging over us all, I doubted that my clumsy and often a...
2023-01-11 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEven with the number of bruises and scrapes Silva had suffered, she didn’t look like she was in too much trouble and I still had over half my Astral Power and Stamina. With that in mind, I decided that we would try to fish for more. I had no idea if there would be Shattered of similar power to ...
2023-01-09 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostUnder a dreary, grey winter sky, a trio of dishevelled figures is fighting to contain another figure, this one barely looking human. The three are bruised and dirty, their clothes sporting numerous stains and a few rips, but compared to their foe, they appear to be in pristine condition. That foe...
2023-01-08 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something weirdly satisfying about throwing a Shattered off a roof. I wasn’t sure why it felt so damn good, if there was some strange, primal...
2023-01-07 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI've been thinking about the future of Interludes.
During the Beta, they have served to add outside perspective by using scenes Samantha/Morgana wasn't necessarily part of but could witness, due to them being on the Forum or in videos or something similar.
That, obviously, won't work ...
2023-01-07 15:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs Silva and I walked away from the foursome, I could hear them for a little while. For a few seconds, they were completely flabbergasted, stunned to the point that they were completely silent. If not for the voices that I could hear after those first dozen or so seconds, I would have thought the...
2023-01-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt took quite a bit of time for Silva to calm down after the earth stopped shaking. Using that time, I finished off the rest of my laundry, getting dressed in gloriously clean clothes. Getting the moisture from the fabric was a bit challenging, requiring me to use a combination of Rune- and norma...
2023-01-04 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostNo powerful Shattered, angry felines or swarms of rats attacked Silva and me on our way back to our shelter. If anything, the amount of Shattered we came across was incredibly low, as if the Shattered were purposely avoiding the area around my shelter, but somehow, I didn’t truly believe that. ...
2023-01-02 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLooking for trouble was an interesting activity. Given how sensitive Shattered seemed to be to Blood Magic, or rather to miasma, I had decided to try and use that to my advantage. Simply looking for Shattered on the...
2023-01-01 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe list of blue boxes that greeted me was… exhaustive. I didn’t even try to read through all the different kill notifications, there were hundreds of them, a long list that I simply let scroll by, barely reading it. It looked like the vast majority were mentioning rats, spiders or various bu...
2022-12-31 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMy new cape was a wonderful creation. While it was hard to judge just how well I was hidden, I felt a lot more comfortable with it wrapped around me, the magical formation I had embroidered into it taking just a bit of Astral Power to maintain. It felt a lot more efficient and easier compared to ...
2022-12-30 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLooking around, Rai was quite proud of what they had accomplished in the months since the black flames. After Adra had decided to accept her fate as the last dryad on Arbortoma, the two of them had searched for a good spot to settle and start their efforts to rebuild. The black fires had burned f...
2022-12-26 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe past few weeks had been difficult. Leaving Teacher and her lover, running on their own, Rai had been wondering if he and Adra made the right call. Could they have changed the course of events? Made it so that insanely powerful Ice-Magic would never have been used, preventing the destruction o...
2022-12-25 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDense, white mist was billowing all arou...
2022-12-24 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTo my annoyance, it hadn’t been enough. Despite killing any and all Shattered I came across on our trek back to our shelter, I didn’t manage to get either Darkness Rune Mastery nor my actual level to ten. It was a massive pain in the rear, even if I was planning to get those last points in Ru...
2022-12-23 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostUndyed, creme-coloured bio-cotton.
That was the material my Blood Magic was flowing through comparatively well. Why cotton, I had no idea. It might just be one of those things I shouldn’t even try to understand but simply accept that it was the material of choice for Blood Magic. It was f...
2022-12-21 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSkulking through the costume shop was an interesting experience, as so many things were. It was a mix between haunted house and shopping, the deep shadows and the darkness of the night creating a curious contrast. I noticed that my returning Darkness Magic was slowly increasing my ability to see ...
2022-12-19 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Shattered we killed during the next two hours were spared the humiliation of getting disabled before being turned into experimental subjects by virtue of being part of larger groups. It seemed like they were congregating, instinctively forming groups, even if they didn’t do more ...
2022-12-18 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post