).-. Beatrice .-.(
A self-satisfied smile was plastered to her face, and she sipped sweet brandy out of a metal cup.
The power-armor golems had performed nearly flawlessly - and the 'soulcrusher' served himself to her forces on a silver platter. On her tactical map, m...
2025-09-10 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post/-__+ Talcinor Debrine Jr. +__-\
His fingernails pressed hard enough into his palms to make himself bleed.
Stupid. Unfair. Again.
He was here, and ready to fight, and he couldn't.
A trickle of blood ran down to his wrist.
He'd only ...
2025-09-08 14:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post)+\( Hugo )/+(
Seven sets of footfalls crunched and scraped against the dirt. Their soft sound echoed off the tunnel's dark walls and joined a tense chorus of heavy breaths, shifting equipment, and whispers.
His attention flicked back to the group that trailed him. 2025-09-05 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
A brilliant, yellow-orange light shone from the top of the mountain like a new sun. It heralded the rise of something new and powerful. Something Legendary.
Reid exhaled.
The heat from his breath left wispy trails of condensation in the air, lit from behind. He flexed his back, and fe...
2025-09-03 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post)+\( Hugo )/+(
Hugo finished frothing the simple shampoo into Vidita's hair. She wiped suds from her eyes, then motioned for him to turn around as she grabbed a handful of the powdered substance and whipped it into its active state. Her fingers scraped and massaged his scal...
2025-09-01 14:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post).-. Beatrice .-.(
Figures and maps flitted by onscreen as her Orbital Fleet Admiral, Isard, spoke to each piece of information with barely-suppressed glee.
"Your advice to practice against orbiting bodies was key to our early success here, ma'am. After forcing ...
+ Reid +
After elite orb weaver spiders came guardians. Deja-vu of the Salamander fights aside, Reid figured it would be a good thing that the system gave a standard set of ranks to denote who the strongest forces were inside of a beast's group. For most, knowing the foes y...
2025-08-27 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid dropped the ropes pulling the bone chests with his pair of captive spiders, and brought Bonewall to the front just in time to have one of the incoming beasts slam headfirst into it. He heard the spider's head pop itself on his shield, and flung the body to the...
2025-08-25 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostReid wrinkled his nose at the smell of the spiders' latest meal, and walked an extra few hundred feet into the forest before he sat down.
His stats were full to their potential, and that meant it was high time for him to get to the next items on his list - equipment. Marrow had been a good ...
2025-08-22 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post).-. Beatrice .-.(
The pen Bea tapped against the scratched and dented surface of her desk snapped halfway through the video. She hurled it into the wall and grabbed another from the cup her aide, Uzochi, now struggled to keep full. This cascade was an absolute mess. It cau...
2025-08-20 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostReid shouted, and every word punctuated a swing of his mace into the corpse of his defeated foes.
"FUCK. YOU. GOD. DAMN. HORROR. SHOW. BULL. SHIT."
He stopped, looked at his notifications and his map again, and panted heavy breaths. The fight was over. It had been over for minutes now...
2025-08-18 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post)+\( Hugo )/+(
A chorus of footfalls on the old, sealed stone roads echoed off the damaged facades of the surrounding buildings. Storefronts where he had passed an afternoon with tea or shopped for small gifts were broken and burnt. Each stayed with him like a pebble in his...
2025-08-15 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid surveyed the area around him as the difficulty increase - or the planetary cascade - continued to literally rain down from impossibly grey clouds.
Despite Nyx telling him that he would be transported to a random spot on Vuxarina's surface, he still hoped to see something...
2025-08-13 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post||+|| Auluwin ||+||
The grey-robed figure slowly counted the physical currency she'd handed him, then held out a hand. A thick stack of photographs, newspaper articles, convoluted financial reports, and old memos wrapped in wax paper popped into existence, and fell into her...
2025-08-11 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostReid used the wall of the mountain to scrape lizard guts mostly off his arms. The corpse of Crinoptera was a mess of partially frozen, partially steaming remains. Its head was largely untouched, but the rest of it was haphazardly butchered down to ribs, spine, and tailbones. He'd left so...
2025-08-08 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostPlease select distribution.
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You have completed [The Beast Lords] questline with exceptional performance. You may now choose to distribute rewards to your party or faction, bestow them on yourself, or transfer them to a known and validated co...
2025-08-06 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostYou have defeated Beast King Crinoptera, the Peerless Scourge - lvl 50 +
Reid panted, and let himself slide down until he sat on the edge of Crinoptera's wound. The glow faded from his body, and with it, a flood of exhaustion and suppressed pain flowed through him. He had p...
2025-08-04 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post)+\( Hugo )/+(
The faint scent of active kitchens drifted through the air and tugged at his nostrils - beckoning him to breakfast. Hugo sighed, and placed his hand against the stacked stones before he rose to his feet. The small burial site was nestled between two thickets of trees, its own...
2025-08-01 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post"Round two, motherfucker."
Crinoptera answered Reid with a cycling pulse - but it took a full three seconds for the ice breath to manifest.
Reid's new spiked boots crunched into ice as he sprinted forward. When the attack came, Reid rolled to the side and used the sli...
2025-07-30 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe first ice lance in the barrage to hit Reid slammed into his armor and knocked him face-first into the ground. The second and third followed soon after, crashing against his armor with ominous shrill cracks. Every moment, ice impacted the rock all around him, plunging into stone and breaking a...
2025-07-28 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostReid felt strength and power coursing through his body as it glowed. The beast lord still looked disinterested, but had one eye open and trained on Reid.
He used the extra few seconds of peace to resummon his thrown projectile - and charged a shrapnel brock.
Above, the grey clouds con...
2025-07-25 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was too far for details, but he'd seen Crinoptera. An impossibly large shifting mass moving amongst the rock. The skinks he'd taken down were mere ants to this thing's size.
What kind of attacks would something that big even use? What could its magic do? How should Reid defend himself ag...
2025-07-23 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostReid coughed a mouthful of blue blood that melted down through the snow.
One hand was pressed hard against his face. The other pushed against the ground and prevented him from falling completely prone. He blinked one eye, and probed a half-shredded tongue over his mouth. He was missing a fe...
2025-07-21 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
The ice encroached and tried to swallow him as he launched himself up and through the hole made by his vertically thrown slug. He had to kick off the side of the hole halfway up to keep himself moving, and then again to launch himself up and free from the ice.
<... 2025-07-18 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThere were a few things that drove Reid to an immediate, somewhat irrational level of anger.
People trying to harm his friends.
Phone calls on speakerphone in cramped public places.
God.
Damn.
Lizards.
Sure, yes, fine, he was still very much aware that...
2025-07-16 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostReid's breath steamed against cold air. The past two days of travel had been mostly silent. He stayed in his own thoughts, and spent a good amount of the time just feeling himself, and all the changes his breakthrough had caused. Nyx's silence mirrored his.
The temperature had dropped preci...
2025-07-14 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
The final barrier shattered, and yellow-orange energy roared forth. It streamed around and through Reid, and propelled itself far away in the other direction, then each surging wave came back around to him and crashed together. The energy around him rose, and he c...
^+ Nyx +^
Her hands - thank the leviathan for hands - danced out and helped to finely manipulate her energies. It was the only reason she'd been able to make this much progress, this quickly.
In her... not so infinite wisdom, she'd...
Reid had grossly underestimated the time it would take to travel to the final beast lord.
Days melted away as he plod a simple course over varied terrain. Mountains rose, and fell away behind him. Rivers roared with churning empowered water. He passed by two separate empty Belar bases - on...
Reid spent days alone in the woods. Truly alone. He worked to keep his emotions tight to himself, to not allow Nyx to be disturbed by his feelings. He made sure his stat affixation work didn't tire him out too much, so she wouldn't feel that either. When she proclaimed herself ready to go back, h...
2025-07-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post