Sometimes, I wondered if living with other humans was worth the hassle they brought. Would it not be much easier to settle in some secret facility, something similar to Technica’s lair, only somewhere without humans other than Sophia around? Maybe at the bottom of some ocean-trench, dug deep in...
2021-09-11 10:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you ready?” I asked Ylva, making sure that she was on the same page as me. What I had in mind wasn’t that much different from the experiment on Sigmir and myself, only that I was now working with the one I ultimately wanted to change. If I managed to gather Divine Power, this would be ...
2021-09-10 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReturning to wakefulness was a slow process, my mind not willing to let go of the wonderful dream I had been having. I wanted to close my eyes again, to fly some more, on my own wings, not merely on borrowed wings. But once I was aware enough of my surroundings, the urge to sleep faded from my mi...
2021-09-08 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You think this will work?” I asked Lenore, looking at the circle we had prepared on the floor. Since fighting the first Manticore, we had encountered two more, both young and about as powerful as the first one, but things had gone a little awry during the second fight. While the fight itself...
2021-09-06 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIf there was a deeper level of hell, I did not want to visit. Just getting copied on the various reports sent to Technica, with the obligation to read them, made me consider weapons of mass destruction, simply to get rid of the paperwork. With the added responsibilities regarding the convention, ...
2021-09-05 17:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostAn angry growl escaped me, as I smashed the vial of Manticore-Blood I had been working with on the floor, the destructive act helping me vent my feelings. Working with the blood had been a bit of a headache, the connection between the blood I had and what I thought were the others of the sa...
2021-09-03 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostWith the beast lying dead, we first made sure that nothing else was nearby, about to attack. Olivia and Lenore had been tasked with keeping an eye out for danger during the fight, but it was better to ascertain something as important as that. When none of us called a warning, I began checking my ...
2021-09-01 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe process of isolating the divine portion that might be within my Avatar, a remnant of the creation of its race, proved as difficult as one should expect. I had spent a couple of days trying to isolate it within myself, had tried to delve into the bodies of Sigmir and Ylva, trying to get an ide...
2021-08-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“And, did anything happen while I was gone?” I asked Lenore, once Maggie had left my capsule-space and I had returned to Mundus. My Avatar had been stashed in her Hallow while I had been gone and she was currently flying over the grassy mountainside of the White Mountains, some distance above...
2021-08-27 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me a second to shift myself to the emergence-point I had set for the Door, the timing just coming out right, with me regaining my awareness a few moments before Maggie appeared in my space.
“I bid you welcome on the Frozen Spire. Act without malice, leave without hindrance.” I f...
2021-08-25 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Maggie rapid-fire questions at Raia was quite amusing, but asking questions without giving the other time to respond seemed to be in poor taste. Instead of watching, I wondered how I would react within Mundus, if I was truly embodying Morgana, not just wearing the body, so to speak.
<... 2021-08-23 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a while, since a message sent over the Pantheon-Entertainment Forum managed to catch my eye. Mostly, I received a mixed bag of hate, mindless adulation and people feeling entitled to the information I had gathered in Road to Purgatory, which I routinely ignored, slowly config...
2021-08-20 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA group of well-armed soldiers is slowly advancing, each of them clad in uniform chain-armour, carrying a spear in one hand and a shield in the other. They move in a well-practised formation, their shields overlapping with spears thrust through the gaps.
Ahead of their formation, throwing r...
2021-08-18 15:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Didn’t we plan to rest up in Carinthia for another day or three?” I asked, right after emerging from my Hallow, taking in the camp-site on the upper slopes of the Carin-valley. Much further down-hill, I was able to make out the town, and obviously the massive Thia-Lake. Judging from the di...
2021-08-16 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWho would have thought that the Outsider-Trait would have a positive effect. One useful enough that it had moved from my discard-list to my keep-list, when looking at optimising my character in the live-version of the game. Sure, it was annoying to get treated like dirt in most societies, but tha...
2021-08-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDespite my best efforts to push those thoughts aside, the Curse that had surrounded the Lycantroll kept lingering in my mind. It was a gorgeous piece of magic, mind-bogglingly complex, yet I suspected that at its core, barely any power was required. The crux of the matter was quite simple, to the...
2021-08-11 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post“You won’t be able to help him.” Olivia spoke up, as she slowly moved around the downed, still squirming, form of the Lycantroll. I had been staring at my Athame, still bloody, with Lenore’s sight, trying to understand the devilishly complex magic. It was only thanks to my growing experti...
2021-08-09 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostIf it were only the beast’s eyes, deep-set but looking greedily at my Sigmir in a way that made me want to take a shower, despite it not being directed at me, it would have been one thing. I would still have plucked the thing's eyes out for it, and killed it soon after, but I wouldn’t have an...
2021-08-06 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“By the gods.” Olivia muttered, before her voice took on the slow, deliberate cadence of spell-chanting. She wasn’t alone with the sentiment, even if none of us expressed it the same way. Adra readied her spear with a look of grim determination, aware that engaging the monster with multiple...
2021-08-04 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEating in a filled common-room was rarely pleasant, with countless people milling around, too much noise and, far too often, drunk people being drunk. But when we came down, to eat before hunting during the night, the locals quickly recognised that we were travelling Adventurers, planning to rid ...
2021-08-02 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostWalking the short way from the gate of Carinthia to the Adventurer’s Guild, essentially across an open square, felt incredibly weird. Even at the Brighthollow Clan, the orcs had looked at us with a mixture of interest and dislike, but here, they received us with an almost giddy excitement. It m...
2021-07-30 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWalking up the Carin-Valley, I let out a content sigh. While I wasn’t yet close enough to the snow-capped mountain-tops to magically reach them, just seeing the white glaciers up there, blending in with the clouds in the blue skies above, made me happy. Just knowing there was a large body of Ic...
2021-07-28 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs we made our ways down the highway, my mind was still on the events of the night before. After I had returned to my body, and been violently sick, Sigmir had helped me to get myself back together, carefully feeding me some water, while Lenore remained within her Hallow, trying to help my mind p...
2021-07-26 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostMy discussion with Sigmir and Ylva went roughly as I had expected it to go. Sigmir was quite happy to help her companion become stronger, easily agreeing to suffer what I could only describe as horrifying pain on her behalf, though, also as expected, she was quite wary of putting me through the s...
2021-07-23 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a little disappointing, but ultimately I decided that heading back to the arachnids was something I wouldn’t be able to do during the beta. As annoying as it was, I simply didn’t have the time to ingratiate and integrate into an entirely different form of society, not if I wanted to be...
2021-07-21 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time I closed my Capsule, ready to delve back into Road to Purgatory, I was feeling bone-deep exhaustion. There was something about the presence of other humans that just took a lot out of me. That was especially true when they were like Jenn and looking at me as if they were trying to set...
2021-07-19 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWith my own video posted and a comment made under the thread from Kerrin, one of the Crusaders of Light, I was reasonably certain that nobody would think to connect me with the troubles the Crusaders had run into. It was unlikely to happen in the first place, with nothing but general vicinity, wi...
2021-07-16 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostOfficial Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum
Raiding - Or how not to do it.
A word of advice, for all those who want to challenge the open-world dungeons and raids in Mundus: Don’t.
Well, maybe that...
2021-07-14 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe separation from Morgana when our Avatar-state ended was working more and more smoothly. One moment, We, together as one, had been flying above the trees, propelled by wind-magic and wings, before dropping through the foliage and splitting, slightly disoriented but far from the utterly incapac...
2021-07-12 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostCome morning, Lenore and I were ready and waiting. We had overheard enough from the Travellers to have a reasonably good idea of their plan, namely to launch a direct magical attack on the small valley, hoping that their apparently powerful area-of-effect magic would allow them to carry the day a...
2021-07-09 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post