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2021-04-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostCome morning, I was rather glad that I had used my blood magic the night before, otherwise I was quite sure my head would try to kill me. Just thinking of the amount of wine I had drunk, as tasty as it had been, made me stumble a little as I made my way to the bathroom. Checking on Sigmir t...
2021-04-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Sigmir and I had thoroughly stress-tested the bed, and washed off the result of our vigorous… testing, it was time to move downstairs, for the promised feast. Now that I was no longer engaged in the testing-process, I realised that the room was filled with the familiar magic of Lenore. It ...
2021-04-23 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe rooms Olivia led us to were just as good, or maybe even a little better, than the main-room downstairs had made me expect them. While a little narrow, they were light and gave a feeling of openness thanks to high ceilings and large windows. In addition to that, the rooms were immaculately cle...
2021-04-21 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, I exchanged looks with the others, not sure if I wanted to enter the inn, even on recommendation from Olivia. Curiously, only Adra seemed to be bothered by the sign, making me wonder if the other two had looked closely enough or were simply following along. After the two of us excha...
2021-04-19 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs we were covering the last stretch on our way to Neamov, Olivia went over the rules of the city once more. While she had touched on some of their customs before, now she wanted to make sure we really knew what we were getting into. The biggest, other than the obvious laws about assault, arson, ...
2021-04-16 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostNeamov was impressive, there were no two ways about it. In a certain way, it was the most fantastic of the cities I had visited thus far. While it lacked the mystical element of the crystal-forest surrounding Neyto and the sea-shell ambience of Yugan, the Naga-Town Sigmir and I had visited a long...
2021-04-14 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI let out a long, drawn-out yawn as I climbed out of the capsule. On Mundus, I had slept for about three hours before moving into my Hallow, using the fact that Lenore could move with the others to get a...
2021-04-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was already late in the night, just after midnight, when Sigmir and I returned to the area where we had made camp earlier in the night. Ylva, who had stayed behind with the others, raised her head as we approached and I noticed that she was sharing guard-duty with Olivia. Over the last week, t...
2021-04-09 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, talking to the Grandmother left me with a profound feeling of satisfaction, even if my body and mind were completely exhausted, the last of my energy used to return to my body. But I had learned some things, especially regarding Divine Magic. Unsurprisingly, the Grandmother had more i...
2021-04-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“I see, you made progress.” the Grandmother greeted me, a kind smile on her face, looking very much like the kindly Grandmother she was named after. Not the elder power that I thought her to be.
Smiling back, or at least trying to, I nodded. The shell of Astral Power I had constru...
2021-04-05 18:17:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Somehow, it’s almost like coming home.” I chuckled, making my way down the hill, towards the ancient, imperial road. Travelling through the rough terrain of the mountains, with unpredictable, suddenly changing weather, unstable footing and overall sparse vegetation had been more of a chall...
2021-04-02 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostPart of me wondered if I qualified as an intellectual masochist, or however one wanted to label someone who enjoyed smashing their head against a metaphorical wall, to the point that they did so repeatedly. In the three days since meeting Olivia, I had tried, again and again, to wrap my head arou...
2021-03-31 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTalking to the raven, whose name I didn’t even want to try to pronounce, as my mind conceptualised it as ‘the sound of the south-wind whistling through a particular gap’, was strangely boring. While he had a lot of knowledge about the local area and the unkindness he was part of but outside...
2021-03-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere were times that Nature reminded me of my own insignificance, when looking at the grand scale of things. Sitting within the golden soap-bubble of protection, watching the weather batter the mountainside managed to make me feel small. The winds were bad enough to pick up small rocks as the wi...
2021-03-26 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTalking to Olivia was an interesting, yet very frustrating affair. When it came to talking about the places she had been to, and the things she had seen, it was fascinating, the recollections of someone who had spent the last four decades wandering Mundus, never staying for long in any place, the...
2021-03-24 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Say, how did you manage to travel these mountains before you met us?” I asked Olivia, as we were packing up our things after breakfast. It was fascinating, to watch her move and work, the way she compensated for the lack of her hand, to the point that I had to make sure I wasn’t staring, a...
2021-03-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“That Neamov you mentioned. Where exactly is it?” I asked Olivia once we were done with eating. My group was, at this point, a little lost. Originally, we had been travelling on the ancient road, steadily going west, neither because of open air nor for sun in wintertime, but because that was ...
2021-03-19 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning came a little too early for my tastes. After my short log-out, I had returned and promptly been kicked out of my Hallow by Lenore, the irritation due to the recent use of our Av...
2021-03-17 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOfficial Road to Purgatory-Beta Forum
Greetings and Salutations, Gentlebeings
Today, I come as a humble seeker of knowledge, a wanderer lost in the desert of ignorance, asking for advice on a matter dear to me.<...
2021-03-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You should go back to sleep.” Adra advised me, or maybe this Olivia-woman who was sleeping in our camp. Or maybe both of us, as her eyes were moving between us quite quickly. For a moment, I wanted to decline but a combination of the throbbing between my temples and exhaustion convinced me o...
2021-03-12 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostA strange sensation overcame me, I felt watched. Somewhere, in the darkness around me, was something focused on me, giving me a feeling that I was being measured to my very soul. It was disconcerting, not only the feeling of being watched but also the darkness, instead of the usual, comforting em...
2021-03-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time I heard approaching footsteps, I was mostly back to normal and had a good idea what I had done, even if not how I had done so. It was the teleport-trick that Rai was able to do thanks to his class, the one I had used once before, in Sigmir’s home village. It had eluded me ever since...
2021-03-08 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe managed to get out of the fog.
It took us a while, far longer than the way in had taken, and none of us was eager to speak. I could feel that the experience had changed us all, had changed me. Before, when I had thought about power and powerful beings, I had mostly thought of the Grandmo...
2021-03-05 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFear
Awe
There seemed to be little difference, just the scenery in front of us was able to invoke both, shaking my core, my very soul. It had taken a moment, a split-second in which my brain tried to make sense of what I saw, to bring perspective to the images my eyes were witnessing....
2021-03-03 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostSlowly, ever so slowly, we made our way into the misty forest. For the first time, since coming to Mundus, I was forced to appreciate my own methods, the discomfort of having your senses muddled and obscured. It was not a pleasant feeling, the lack of sight, the muffled sounds and the strange way...
2021-03-01 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s not ominous at all.” I muttered to myself, the vision I could see with my eyes just as disturbing as I had anticipated. We had managed to get close to the valley Elder Brightsun had told us about the day before and during the night, Lenore and I had used our magic in an attempt to g...
2021-02-26 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh Flamelet, why didn’t you talk to me?” a familiar voice, filled with compassion and pity asked. At the same...
2021-02-24 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“We should get there tomorrow, right?” I asked Adra, while focusing on a distant image, shared with me by Lenore.
“Unless something serious happens, yes.” she replied, making me nod in acknowledgement. We had almost made it to the place of power Elder Brightsun had told us about and...
2021-02-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“This…” I admitted to Lenore, over our mental connection, “might have been a mistake.” Once again, my curiosity managed to cause me trouble, or should I call it anguish? Earlier, when checking on Rai, I had managed to increase the amount of information I learned when using my Blood Magi...
2021-02-19 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post