The first part of Nyx’s plan progressed better than she could have hoped.
Solan and her retinue made no effort of discretion. Nyx didn’t even need to poke her head out from where she hid to know they’d blown apart a volcano on their descent to the Dark Star’s core.
She’d wai...
2025-04-22 11:48:42 +0000 UTC View PostNyx was exhausted.
She’d been exhausted for almost as long as she could remember. The time before the Dark Star felt like a lifetime ago. In all that time, sleep was fleeting. The moment she drifted off, swarms struck like the very idea of her relief was antipathy. Only the reliance on he...
2025-04-21 05:51:03 +0000 UTC View PostK’Thorn was in a bad mood.
He’d been in a bad mood for a long time now. It was hard not to be when any progress they made to carve themselves a stranglehold in this hostile environment was, time after time, ripped away.
Angling his rifle, he fired. Despite the projectile’s const...
2025-04-17 08:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostDan slumped into his seat as the trolley rolled into motion. He wasn’t the only one. All around him, acolytes like himself moaned in exhaustion.
One would think that the simple act of staring to the sky could never be draining. They weren’t using their body. They weren’t even meant to...
2025-04-15 11:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe car ride was a unique experience. Unlike the train, it was much smaller — only able to fit five average-sized sapients rather than hundr
The car ride was a unique experience. Unlike the train, it was much smaller — only able to fit five average-sized sapients rather than hundreds ...
2025-04-14 11:31:30 +0000 UTC View PostWith the opening to the furnace growing ever closer, and the flow of boiling flesh impossible to fight against, there was only one path for Nyx. She leapt. Crashing both her legs and the stiffened tentacles into the surface below her, she broke free of the waves. Her wings beat — or as much as ...
2025-04-13 07:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostNyx snapped her wings wide. She fell into a glide far above the churning sea of flesh. Despite the sudden translocation, she was well equipped to survive the fall and keep away from the fleshforged ridden waves.
The cultists… not so much.
All around her — not so close as to see th...
2025-04-10 12:54:32 +0000 UTC View PostI don’t find the ocean to be beautiful, as Ceph said, but the vast structures spanning the length of the coast certainly are. Unlike the nes
I don’t find the ocean to be beautiful, as Ceph said, but the vast structures spanning the length of the coast certainly are. Unlike the nests nea...
2025-04-09 14:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostAn hour later, those few sharks grew to an undeniable swarm. No matter where Nyx looked on the surface, there were more of the small creatures spearing towards the gathering of cultists that slaughtered them in waves.
If Nyx had to guess, it was the number of cultists themselves that attrac...
2025-04-08 07:08:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the differences in the environments were numerous, the sheer vastness remained the same. In the pipe labyrinth, that manifested in an endless maze with brief glimpses of infinity. Here, it was as if that infinity was everywhere except her immediate vicinity.
She glanced over the ledge...
2025-04-04 14:53:44 +0000 UTC View PostNyx had been seen.
She stood at the summit of a forge — or what it had become — and looked down over what was once the revered Fleshforge of the Fleshsmiths. The massive industrial hammer, once a centrepiece, was gone. Lost to the twin seas of flesh and steel. In its place was a sky of ...
2025-04-02 16:22:09 +0000 UTC View Post“K'C͗a̮i̖e̻s, forget her. She’s already dead,” K’Thorn shouted through the twisted husk of the Fleshforge… or what had become of it.
As his junior grunted her assent and ripped her staff from the spine of the lost cause, he fired off a volley of pot-shots, obliterating a dozen...
2025-03-31 13:47:38 +0000 UTC View Post“We appreciate the… gift, but where did you find such a massive bird?”
Ceph glances over her shoulder for the eighth time since leaving. The fat breast of the oversized fowl still peeked over the horizon even from here. Of course, I had to make a few holes in space to see it, b...
2025-03-30 08:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a time in Nyx’s last life where she was suicidal.
Locked away in the depths of the Fleshsmith’s temple, she’d made an attempt on her own life. Cut open her own throat. At the time, it had seemed the better option than allowing herself to wither in her dungeon. It would be an...
2025-03-27 11:49:12 +0000 UTC View PostNyx battered aside a lunging shark as she snapped her claws around the cylinder of metal. She continued moving to not get caught in the burst of its contents. Behind her, the clang of the third long section of severed piping clanged as it tumbled and crashed through its neighbours before getting ...
2025-03-26 11:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostNyx unsheathed her sword as she hopped down a rung of pipes. When the beasts she faced were as boiling hot as these living fleshforged, the extra reach would be helpful. She wanted to avoid being splashed again.
The claws of her off-hand remained extended. It would be foolish to rely on the...
2025-03-25 11:57:02 +0000 UTC View PostLife is bliss. Never before have I experienced such divine flavour. Each gulped mouthful of warm meat slides down my throat with an ease bey
Life is bliss.
Never before have I experienced such divine flavour. Each gulped mouthful of warm meat slides down my throat with an ease beyond ...
2025-03-24 09:21:28 +0000 UTC View PostHe can’t be dead, surely? Nyx thought. If I’m not dead, then there’s no way a god — even if little — could have found his end here.
The anger of the Eidolon god. The shifting attitude of her little companion. It was obvious she had not been the focus of the immense being’s wrath...
2025-03-23 12:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness engulfed the chamber in an instant. A physical wall of blackness shot out of Nyx, yet it clawed through metal and ripped into space like an industrial grinder took to the soft flesh of fruit.
Nyx carefully kept her name open as the ungodly amount of corruption flowed freely outward...
2025-03-20 10:44:17 +0000 UTC View PostSweat rolled down her back and slid between her feathers. The feeling was horrid. It made her feel grimy and in need of an immediate bath.
Nyx had noticed she didn’t sweat beneath her feathers even in the immense heat of these metal halls. With the growth of her wings, she’d lost the gl...
2025-03-19 13:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe gathered warrior caste back away as I come in to land. In an attempt not to crumble the earth as I touch down, I catch myself in a serie
The gathered warrior caste back away as I come in to land. In an attempt not to crumble the earth as I touch down, I catch myself in a series of bends...
2025-03-18 11:54:24 +0000 UTC View PostNyx glanced back at the swarm of bots for the fifth time as she swung from pole to pole. It had only been a few moments, but the machines already had a logistic order in place where the larger carried materials in from who-knows-where and the smaller ones did all the repair work on the massive an...
2025-03-17 04:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostIf not for her wings, Nyx would be flailing around uncontrollably as she tumbled towards the black hole. They snapped wide, keeping her steady, but they couldn’t stop her descent.
Nyx had tried to beat her wings. She’d attempted to pull herself out of this fall that would leave her prey...
2025-03-14 13:46:14 +0000 UTC View PostNyx took two steps towards where she knew the Fleshsmiths’ territory lay before she realised Little God was moving the other way. Off in a direction completely separate from her goal.
“Where are you going?” she asked, already shifting to follow the small creature.
Little God pau...
2025-03-12 11:51:26 +0000 UTC View PostNyx glared at her reflection.
She’d hoped Tarchon had been seeing things, but sitting there, growing along the tips of her hair, was mould. Its glacial blue sheen stood out upon her dark locks.
Stabbing her fingers through her hair, she tore the semi-opaque substance from her head. ...
2025-03-10 10:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostCeph didn’t know what to do.
She had been given the chance to convince the snake before they reached the exit, but had failed. Fortunately, Orm was kind enough to carry them up — it was truly strange to consider a creature like the serpent as kind — so they wouldn’t have to climb fo...
2025-03-09 04:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostNyx made her way back through Technocultist territory feeling disappointed.
She’d made sure to keep the three that chased her down alive so that she could benefit from their sacrifices, but after K’lon, their effect felt inconsequential. Whether it was their lesser standing, or her huma...
2025-03-07 09:02:02 +0000 UTC View PostNyx strode out of the dark alley with empty pockets, but very happy with her purchases. The scabbard of her new weapon was strapped to her waist, but she couldn’t help but fiddle with it. It wasn’t that long of a walk back to the market proper, yet she’d already unsheathed it a dozen times ...
2025-03-04 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostNyx knew she was limiting herself by choosing armoury stores not expressly backed by any cult, but it was a matter of principle. Her measly pocket-full of BD would hardly be a drop in the bucket compared to the near infinite resources of the major cults. Crumbs that would never be noticed even by...
2025-03-04 04:44:03 +0000 UTC View PostThese sapients are slow. I noticed it back when I was watching them tread their way over the Magma Ocean, but even following my guidance, th
These sapients are slow.
I noticed it back when I was watching them tread their way over the Magma Ocean, but even following my guidance, they t...
2025-03-03 05:38:53 +0000 UTC View Post