During the evening all of us kept relatively quiet, occupied with our own thoughts. What I did, however, was asking Drega for the blessing she had used the last time, which she spoke over me, increasing my Astral Power regeneration by quite a bit. In exchange, I answered her question...
2019-08-19 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Scarlet relaxed, stretched out on her bunk, watching the other two women in the room through Crysna’s eyes. She suppressed a smile, seeing them almost petrified, like mouses before a, well, snake. Neither of them moved or talked, they just sat there, almost too terrified to breathe...
2019-08-18 21:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Upon entering Albertina, Scarlet instantly felt a familiar feeling settle between her shoulders, almost like an itch that she couldn’t scratch or shake. That itch that prodded her to keep her eyes open, her back covered and an escape-route prepared, the feeling she got when she was...
2019-08-18 02:05:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A low moan sounded in the forest, with nobody around to hear. What was it that made those horrifying sounds, was it a tortured ghost, was it a tortured soul? Or was it a young woman, slowly struggling back to wakefulness, after a night, spent in blessed unconsciousness?
Obvious...
2019-08-17 16:21:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Three days after leaving the Sparkle behind, Scarlet was wondering if she had chosen the right path. Navigating had been a little challenging, but on the other hand, she had managed to find even more Crystal Monsters, hunting down eleven of them over those three days. She didn’t ha...
2019-08-16 17:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe managed to get back to Kolyug in the early evening, just as dusk was settling in. During the day, I had given a rough explanation of my weakness but I didn’t go into detail. Adra was still sceptical about my actions, but seemed to have decided that I was simply cautious, which was a good tra...
2019-08-16 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, Scarlet woke due to the light filtering through the leaves of the tree she had been sleeping in. During the night, she had been awake for quite some time, looking up, into the starry sky and thinking about life, the universe and everything. Sadly, there had been no light,...
2019-08-16 02:33:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the next two days, Scarlet followed the small stream she had decided to call Sparkle, after realising that Crystal might cause misunderstandings, considering the monsters were called Crystal Monsters. She quickly noticed that her path was slowly ascending, despite the huge dista...
2019-08-15 16:56:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Scarlet was startled back to wakefulness, not quite knowing where, who or why she was. Even just the concept of thinking needed a moment to emerge in her head but the process of waking was greatly sped up when there was a snuffling sound below her, combined with some scuffing.
...
2019-08-14 20:08:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It was late morning, we had been travelling for maybe two hours after breakfast and according to our plans, we should reach Kolyug some time in the late afternoon, unless something unexpected happened. Over the few days it had been since we fought the infernal bear, my hair had grown...
2019-08-14 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Scarlet had been walking for some time, maybe half an hour, when she felt comfortable stopping and orienting herself. She hadn’t felt the pulses for ten minutes and felt them go past her even earlier. Now, she just needed to know where she was. The pulses and the sun had helped her...
2019-08-12 17:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
When I woke up the next morning and let my hand roam over my head, I noticed that I had started to regrow my hair, maybe a centimeter or two, over the night. My first reaction was gleeful surprise, knowing that in the real world, the same length would have taken a few weeks, maybe ev...
2019-08-12 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Walking off, Scarlet heard a soft snicker behind her, coming from one of the people washing in the river. She ignored it, knowing that there was no point, she had ground to cover before it got dark. Staying too close to town was not on her list to do. Before she entered the forest, s...
2019-08-10 18:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Outside, back in the sun, Scarlet felt herself calm some more, as if she had just left the den of a vicious beast. She wasn’t quite sure why she had been so disturbed by the Doctor’s talk, it wasn’t as if he was the first who wanted her in a specific role, maybe gaining his pat...
2019-08-09 19:57:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The Doctor and Scarlet came back into the main-room, where the other three newcomers an Aida were waiting for them. Aida handed the Doctor a folded-up paper and stepped back, out of the way. The Doctor moved to the nearby table and spread the map out, gesturing for everyone to gather...
2019-08-09 18:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We were fleeing. Not that the others would have called it that, but to me, it was flight, plain and simple. After telling Sigmir that we needed to get away, she had, once again, simply picked me up, called out to the others and started running. I felt her use her own abilities to boo...
2019-08-09 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“Morgana?... Morgana?!” I heard Adra call from outside, so Sigmir and I quickly left the bear’s cave and joined her.
“What’s wrong?” I asked, curious. She had wanted to dig around in the bear and while I had taken some time before going into the cave, it hadn’t be...
2019-08-07 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Scarlet took the list from the Doctor and started reading. The entries started simple, with a ten-day box of ration bars for two credits, continued with survival gear, a tent for twenty credits or cookware for five and so on. But there were also more interesting things, like a map fo...
2019-08-05 16:15:59 +0000 UTC View Post
When Sigmir grabbed me, she frantically started to pat and lightly slap my head, before carrying me over to a patch of snow that had yet to be molten, and throwing me into the snow head-first.
It had taken a second to understand her actions but by the second or third pat to my ...
2019-08-05 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow, seeing Albertina again was both uplifting and depressing to Scarlet. Last night, the two of them had camped on another clearing, before continuing their way south, keeping the river nearby while looking for crystal monster that they could hunt and looking at the scanner ever...
2019-08-04 21:24:13 +0000 UTC View Post
After the fiery explosion caused by the bear had lit up the area behind me, I turned just in time to see Adra step out of the forest behind the bear and, while the bear was starting to trundle towards me, she let an arrow fly. Her shot was obviously magical, with streamers of colour ...
2019-08-02 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The two women continued on their way, Scarlet looking for trouble and ways to improve her power. For an hour and a half, they used the sun to keep their direction, adjusting for passing time on the fly. After about an three hours, Scarlet made Keera take over protection again and too...
2019-08-01 20:56:54 +0000 UTC View Post
It was morning when Scarlet decided to wake Keera, after her own watch had passed without anything happening. She had taken the time to probe her abilities a little more, getting a better feeling how much it would take out of her to keep Cyca active and Crysna suppressed. Even after ...
2019-07-31 21:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Adra and Kelgorn looked around the burned-out area, soon finding bear-tracks leading towards and into it, making them agree that the power Adra and I were feeling from the cave was our target. And that attacking the bear in its cave was suicide, they had seen the size of its tracks, ...
2019-07-31 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Hey guys and gals. I'd love it if you could give me some feedback for Scarlet, both the fiction and the Character.
Knowing that she had been handed an opportunity to greatly advance her control over Keera, Scarlet forced herself to stand tall - well, as tall as she ...
2019-07-30 21:43:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Once Scarlet had herself back under control and the monstrous bird had vanished into the distance, she looked over to Keera, realising that the other had taken the influence better than she had. Maybe her higher sensitivity was not just an advantage.
“That was… sporting. Th...
2019-07-30 17:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Ultimately,’ Scarlet thought in the evening, ‘it was the right call to stay here, in the area.’
The day had been unpleasant for Keera and her, the reality of Verdun fully hitting home.
After breakfast, Keera had been easy to convince that staying in the are...
2019-07-30 12:05:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hunting in the woods around Kolyug was not as interesting as I would have hoped. The game was basically the same we had hunted further north, with levels mostly between thirty and fifty making it almost no challenge at all. We spent the most of the second day after leaving Kolyug hun...
2019-07-29 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When Scarlet first woke, grumbled and stumbled off, Keera felt it was funny, the previously highly competent and controlled pixie had been turned into a coffee-zombie. Just what would it look like when she realised that there would be no coffee forthcoming? That thought turned seriou...
2019-07-27 23:36:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Keera had little fun during her night watch. Sleeping on the hard ground had not been restful, her body was sore and aching all over and her mind was calling for a real bed in which she could rest. Somewhere far away, far away from insane, technology hating planets, strange monsters ...
2019-07-27 16:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post