“Well, that escalated really far, really fast,” I couldn’t help but mutter once I took another glance through my scrying constructs. I hadn’t focused on Luna all that long, just long enough to explain what I had seen, heard and felt, but that bit of time had been enough to bring the entir...
2025-02-07 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs we were marching away from the small farm-turned-village, I was just a little less attentive and vigilant than I usually would have been. Luna and Silva had to pick up the slack but given that I had warned them beforehand, that wasn’t all that problematic. They knew my mind was, quite litera...
2025-02-05 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostSylvia was dragged from the blessed unconsciousness of sleep by the sound of arguing voices. That, in and of itself, was nothing new; arguments were tragically common, an almost inevitable consequence of having too many people in too little space with almost nothing to do all day, leading to bore...
2025-02-03 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe state Stephanie was left in after witnessing Lady Hecate's judgement was quite amusing. For almost a minute after it ended, she just stood there, her eyes flickering from the statues, now no longer concealed in shadow, to the rest of the room before finally settling on Luna and me. Then, she ...
2025-02-01 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s going to happen now?” the woman asked, even as her eyes darted all around my house, taking in the impossibly modern ambience. With a brief wave of my hand, I placed flames on a few strategically placed scones on the wall, bringing light into the dark building. That allowed her to se...
2025-01-31 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe noise from the attack and the light of the fire outside were enough to wake Luna and Silva up, and both were only briefly confused before they recognised what was happening. Not that a whole lot was going on other than the throwing of a few more improvised incendiary devices, none of which ac...
2025-01-29 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You know, I’m curious if any of those complaining about giving me what I’m due remember a fairly simple but incredibly important thing,” I mused, shaking my head at the various possibilities the locals could do something dumb. “At the moment, I’m their boat, I’m keeping them, quite...
2025-01-27 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, Luna hadn’t been idle while I was away. When I left, the house had been somewhat bare, but now, it was nicely appointed with the various fabrics and furniture we had stored in our magical bags, giving it the appearance and feel of an actual home. Maybe we should go and see if ...
2025-01-25 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOnce upon a time, back before Road to Purgatory, when video gaming involved a computer or a dedicated console, escort quests in role-playing games had been widely considered to be the worst of all types of quests, as far too often, the success or failure of such quests was utterly depend...
2025-01-24 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostTheir explanation, which they reluctantly gave while I made sure their wounds were treated to the point that they wouldn’t cripple them while we made our way down the mountain and back to the farm, was fairly simple. It all boiled down to being in the wrong place at the wrong time and unable to...
2025-01-22 17:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Now that things are a little more stable and controlled, care to share what happened to you while I check the rest of your injuries? Unless there’s something very wrong with one of them, I shouldn’t have to concentrate as hard on them as I had with his,” I nodded towards the still-uncons...
2025-01-20 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re who?” the guy asked, looking utterly confused. Not that my identity truly mattered, at least it shouldn’t matter in the slightest, given that these people were in a situation which would almost certainly end in their death if they didn’t get the help they needed, help that only ...
2025-01-18 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a brief interrogation of Cy, as the guy who had returned to get help was called, I realised that the situation was a little more troublesome than expected. Thanks to the time Cy had needed to get back and the time I had wasted on playing with Lenny and Sylvia, there were only a little under...
2025-01-17 17:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time morning rolled around, the house was nicely furnished by the combined efforts of Luna and myself. Stone and anything related was solidly in my domain, while Luna had learned to manipulate wood into any shape she wanted, at least if the wood was fresh off the tree, and once it had the ...
2025-01-15 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe building I entered was quite an interesting construction. It greatly reminded me of the long houses constructed by the people at Apple Gate Farm, to the point that I wasn’t sure if I would be able to pick out large structural differences, but then, there were only so many ways one could bui...
2025-01-13 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt had taken Jenn two days to acknowledge that something strange was going on. She had seen magic in action, from the awe-inspiring feats of Jade to the somewhat pathetic efforts of some neophyte spellcasters, and there were undeniable, fundamental similarities between those abilities. The spellc...
2025-01-11 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostAfter that initial confrontation, I could easily return to my work, with Sylvia plodding along behind me, watching with awed eyes as I was reshaping the world around me. The rest of the people who had been working remained behind, speaking with Luna under Silva’s watchful gaze. We really should...
2025-01-10 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAN: A part of me was tempted to add a few exclamations-marks to the chapter-title.
Over the next few minutes, numerous names were introduced to me. However, if I were to be honest, most of those names were assigned to a face and promptly relegated to a part o...
2025-01-08 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWithout the superhuman grace and agility bestowed upon us all, the only one with the slightest chance to get down the valley and to the village in one piece would have been Silva. Her lower centre of gravity and quadrupedal gait gave her a lot more stability, though even that might not have been ...
2025-01-06 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostFor all my incredible magical power, there were some things I was unable to influence, at least when it came to a meaningful scale. Chief amongst those things was, quite obviously, the weather with its incredibly capricious nature. While I was powerful enough to have a local effect on the weather...
2025-01-04 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostOne aspect of Lia’s absence I hadn’t expected was the effect it had on Luna, or rather, how her absence essentially forced Luna to focus her attention on Silva or me. Sure, we had always been her primary caretaker, while Lia often focused on Alex and their shared love for Alchemy and explosio...
2025-01-03 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Happy New Year, everyone.
Looking at the goat the Windchime Grass, as I was currently calling it in my head, had killed, I could only wonder just how that had worked. The deer I had examined just minutes earlier had been in perfect condition as it fled, only covere...
2025-01-01 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View Post“This is fascinating,” I had to admit, watching as the latest experiment Luna and I had conducted together was getting just a tiny bit out of hand. Given that it was spring and thus the season of, well, reproduction, we decided to get in on the ground floor and see what might happen if we alt...
2024-12-30 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostBeing back on the road, or rather the rugged, still slightly soggy path through the mountains, was strangely liberating. Sure, we had travelled extensively in the area around the tower, often making trips lasting multiple days and covering more distance than we currently had made from it, but now...
2024-12-28 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostLooking at my character sheet, I wasn’t sure if I was supposed to be pleased or disappointed. Over the last few months, almost five of them, we had spent in and around Jademoon Tower; I had made some progress with levels and skills but far less than I would have liked. The lack of danger undoub...
2024-12-27 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a peaceful Longest Night.
It's somewhat amusing, a part of me wanted to make Hecate's reaction to Jade's new trick a little more excited or impressed but when I wrote it, the result came out as nothing but sarcastic. The most I could make th...
There were days during which Jenn had to ask herself, just when did things go this wrong? Was it the original day when reality suddenly flipped its lid, the axle came off, and everything went off the rails or was that merely the first of many steps on the long, drawn-out path ultimately leading t...
2024-12-23 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, there was nothing more to do. The gym I had set up worked as well as I could have hoped, even if I had been forced to add an entirely new building to Jademoon Tower, simply so I would have the space needed to set up. The enchanted statues were acting as demonstration dummies, allowing pe...
2024-12-21 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostGrinning to myself, I watched as a statue made from enchanted stone moved slowly but quite smoothly through a series of movements, emulating some of the training I had been given what felt like ages ago by Mrs. Wu. It wasn’t anything tremendously complicated but given that the figure was nothin...
2024-12-20 17:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostConvincing Murray to learn the style I had demonstrated took very little effort. One might even say no effort at all other than the offer was needed. He immediately agreed, though I still wasn’t sure how I could let him learn without my presence.
Controlling the statue directly, as I had ...
2024-12-18 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post