“Do you want to take first watch? I don’t think we should both sleep at the same time.” Scarlet asked, some time after their training.
“Nightwatch?” Keera asked back, but a yawn cut her question short.
“Well, I guess that answers it. You go ahead and try to ge...
2019-07-26 22:27:09 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Slightly lazy chapter, too hot to think.
Deep in a forest, where only little light reaches, ten people and their horses, nine on them, one walking next to his horse, follow a path. The one on foot, clad in leather, holding a bow and having a quiver on his hip...
2019-07-26 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“Food’s ready.” Scarlet called out to Keera, who had been digging their Latrine behind a conveniently dense bush. While Keera had been busy there, Scarlet had prepared a few primitive eating utensils, borrowing from the idea of chopsticks, even if her version was just a short, ...
2019-07-24 21:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The next morning, after a hearty breakfast, we headed out again, into the drab, grey town, covered by a dreary grey sky. Again, I was wondering how anyone could stay in this grey hell, even after just two days, I was starting to feel depressed. At the gate, I experienced a bit of a s...
2019-07-24 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After my information acquisition in the magic store, we continued walking around Kolyug, partially to sight-see, not that there were any, and partially to restock the few items and products we could not acquire while travelling, salt for one, and quicklime. On advice from Drega, we k...
2019-07-22 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The magic store was, surprising absolutely no one, another, drab grey building, built out of the ubiquitous grey stone. I wondered if the city was deliberately built that way, to promote depression or if the trolls simply had the aesthetic sense of a blind mole. Personally, I had a f...
2019-07-19 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Back at the camp, Scarlet gave Keera enough time to make herself halfway presentable while planning the next steps. As she sat on a fallen log, Cyca jumped, unbidden, from the spot where she had made it sit and landed on her lap, again acting very much like a domesticated cat and dem...
2019-07-18 19:35:04 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, what do you want to know? Or rather, what do you know about clerical powers?” Drega asked, after I had finished my food and was contently sitting with the others.
“Nothing really. I have seen some of the things possible with them but that’s about it.” I answered,...
2019-07-17 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Yay for Lunar Eclipse!
The two of them started back, towards the river, and at first, Keera went along, her mind in too much turmoil to realise what was happening with her, but after a minute or two, her whirling mind slowed down enough for her to make sense of the situation. And ...
2019-07-16 21:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I awoke the next morning, sleeping sprawled over Sigmir in our room, wondering how I had gotten there. My mind was rather fuzzy and indistinct but I remembered talking with the others and telling my story to Drega but I didn’t remember much of the telling, nevermind what happened a...
2019-07-15 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After her success at spear-fishing and seeing the fish flop around at the tip of her spear, Keera had been in shock for a moment, the reality that she had just killed another living being, with her own hand, seeing it suffer and feeling its mind dim and fade, it had been something sh...
2019-07-14 16:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Some experimentation with point-of-view, please give some feedback.
Armed with the crispys critter’s carcass, Scarlet went back to the river, Cyca trailing behind, almost hiding behind her as they approached the room. After making sure that there was some blood se...
2019-07-12 21:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Far too soon, the bowl of stew was emptied and cleaned, using a piece of bread, and I sat back, content with the world.
“Finally finished with stuffing your face and able to listen?” Lenore asked, her voice snarky.
“What do you mean?” I questioned, unsure what was...
2019-07-12 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching her crystal monster scurry towards her, Scarlet decided to act as if the image she was seeing as a representation of the outward existence of the core inside and treat the being as such. It helped that relating to it as if it was a living being was far simpler than trying to...
2019-07-11 10:03:54 +0000 UTC View Post
“How nice of you to join us.” Adra said as we stepped up. “I think I need to use the tub as well, the two of you have such a glow, the bath must be a real pleasure.” she continued, causing my cheeks to heat up.
“You certainly can do that, but I doubt that you alone wo...
2019-07-10 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After everyone’s scanner had been calibrated, the doctor unceremoniously kicked the four newcomers out of town, telling them that they had about four hours until dusk and that the area in an roughly ninety degree cone in front of the gate should be devoid of crystal monsters for ab...
2019-07-10 10:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post
We left the drab Guild-building and crossed the road to get to the inn, an inn that seemed just as cheerful and happy as the rest of the city, grey stone without even a dash of colour in sight. The inside was a lot better, it was pretty much what I had expected from the common room o...
2019-07-08 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
At the front of the building, the Doctor was waiting for Scarlet, Mendar and Nedri to join him and Keera. Scarlet noticed that Keera looked a little rattled, maybe the situation they were all in had taken until now to fully seep in. Once they were assembled, the Doctor looked them ov...
2019-07-08 14:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Using her mind to push the cat back into the crystal, Scarlet picked it up and followed Doctor Oak back to town, again, cloaking herself and stepping carefully. What had previously been a challenging exercise in psionics was now one step harder, due to the need to constantly keep the...
2019-07-07 12:44:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The Doctor led Scarlet to the town's gate, a massive piece of metal set onto rails, but not to the gate itself, but to a small door set into it. Through that door, the two of them left town.
It gave Scarlet the first, unobstructed look at the forest outside, ...
2019-07-05 19:30:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Walking the streets of Kolyug made me realise how little I had seen in the months I had played Road to Purgatory. Kolyug was the first city I was in and I felt like a rube from the boondocks, seeing the bright lights for the first time. Not that the lights were bright, but the city w...
2019-07-05 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
AN: Miraculously, the planet was left too long in the dryer and shrunk, making it roughly the same size of Earth, even that is more than enough space for everyone and I won’t need to resort to too strange things later.
When they got back to the building Scarlet...
2019-07-05 12:44:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Doctor Oak had shown Scarlet a couple more videos and images of the strange monstrous beings on Verdun, before he started to shut down the workstation again.
“Well, those are the monsters out there. Your job, as I mentioned before, will be to dominate a few crystals, permanen...
2019-07-03 23:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the old, imperial road, we managed to travel hundreds of kilometers over the next few days. After the first day of travel, we tried to make stops at the small villages close to the road, seeking information and work. We spent the second night in a village-inn and learned so...
2019-07-03 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
With a groan, Scarlet opened her eyes, blinking away the film that blurred her vision. Not that there was a lot to see, a white ceiling, apparently made out of cheap plascrete, some light filtering in from a nearby window, nothing that gave her an idea where she was. It took her a mo...
2019-07-03 10:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Planet Pandora
Psychic Command [Psy-com] Main-Training Facility
Holding Cells
“Now, I’ve done it…” Scarlet thought to herself, looking around the stark interrogation-room. Maybe, just maybe it had been a bad idea to reject the adva...
2019-07-01 18:48:01 +0000 UTC View Post
After two days that we spent using the forest to hide ourselves, we finally decided that we had put enough distance between us and those we had angered, meaning that we felt secure in using the old imperial road.
Leaving the forest and moving onto the road, I got my first, good...
2019-07-01 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Twenty years ago…
FSV Satoshi [Deep Space Explorer]
In a system, far, far away from Earth, the entry-burst of a Federation-ship bathed a small segment of the sky in radiation as it broke through the barrier between hyperspace and real-space. And then, ...
2019-07-01 02:46:45 +0000 UTC View PostOn a remote planet, life had always been the same. The same cycle of birth and death, over and over.
That is, until one day, the world changed. Beings from out there, out of the endless beyond came to the planet and nothing would ever be the same. The cycle would be forever changed. 2019-07-01 02:46:11 +0000 UTC View Post
This is only about the Crown of Thorns-Project, so keep calm.
Sadly, I have been almost unable to get anything written for that, apart from the work I have done over two months ago, during two nights of insomnia. Since those two nights, I have maybe written fourhundred words for it, what yo...
2019-07-01 02:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post