It took Nyx no time at all to lead some vitiate beasts to the corpses of those she’d killed. Each infected animal forgot about her in an instant. The free meals before them were much more appetising than the small human that flew outside their range.
Now that she’d set her mind on it, s...
2025-03-02 08:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostNyx slumped into the grass with a groan.
Despite benefiting from both the ritual of wellness and the empowerment of a self-sacrifice, she still felt beaten up. All her wounds had closed, yet she was sure her ribs were still broken. Some cartilage in her wings might also not have healed prop...
2025-02-27 13:08:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, I wasn't intending to post this today - I hadn't thought i would stay up this late to write - but i think you'll see why i did with this chap, ahah. As with the last two chaps, i still need to go back and edit, but I hope you enjoy :D
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2025-02-26 12:26:37 +0000 UTC View PostNyx faced down the two Fleshsmiths that stalked towards her.
Both men’s weapons were daunting to face, and she somehow had to take them on together.
A cudgel with cinders channelled along the metal and burning all flesh that clung to it swung through the air. The cultist practising ...
2025-02-26 03:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s quite the mess you’ve made,” One of the Fleshsmiths said as he walked from the line of trees. His gaze locked on the headless corpse of a wombat Nyx had just butchered. “You do all that with that tiny knife?”
Nyx stepped back as she watched the four other cultists spread...
2025-02-24 12:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post"Nix! You’re later than usual today. Something happen?”
Nyx suppressed the urge to correct the man on her name. It wasn’t something she wanted people to know about, no matter how much her soul desired to be called properly.
“I went to meet with a couple of friends,” she said...
2025-02-24 04:41:10 +0000 UTC View PostNyx didn’t hesitate.
Before she could spend too much time in her own mind, her wings snapped back, and she rocketed towards the fox. Claws held to her side, ready to rush forward and crush whatever she struck.
The vitiate beast leapt to the side, barely avoiding her first arm, snarl...
2025-02-24 04:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostCeph could hardly believe it.
They’d found the snake.
Or, well, it was more apt to say the serpent found them, but the reason they’d descended into these tunnels was finally before them. Ceph had been sure she would… but with every day they’d spent lost down in the depths, it ...
2025-02-22 06:45:33 +0000 UTC View PostFuck.
That was Ep’Nanorschi, wasn’t it? It definitely was.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
Of all the people to have seen Nyx, it had to be her.
At least she hadn’t chased her down. That was the only relief Nyx had. If the woman had been determined to capture and...
2025-02-20 10:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dark Star was large enough that it didn’t matter where you stood, as long as you weren’t intentionally trying to ignore the thing, you would notice it.
As Nyx walked down the wide road towards it, long black solar flares struck out at nothing. It had already been a few days since th...
2025-02-20 10:16:22 +0000 UTC View PostNyx dove off the bed and immediately began sketching a ritual circle.
Her ethereal touch shifted along the cursed surface of her name. It was intense and fuzzy. The combination of three cursed names having made it much more difficult to feel than before. Yet, her touch moved along the indis...
2025-02-20 08:43:43 +0000 UTC View PostNix crashed into the bed she assumed was hers. It wasn’t like there was anyone else here to say otherwise, so for now the room, and this bed, were hers.
This would be the first time she evolved.
The most important event in every Coral resident’s life.
She was giddy… and te...
2025-02-17 23:58:07 +0000 UTC View PostNix took off K’tan’s robe to reveal her new mutations. Almost without her input, her wings snapped wide. Having been bound ever since they grew in, they felt amazing to stretch. While the feeling was slightly different, it was similar to the freedom of her arms after days of the fleshchain ho...
2025-02-17 00:19:07 +0000 UTC View PostA little bit of corruption.
That’s what Tarchon said. Only a little bit.
This is not what I would call a little bit.
Nix stood before the supposed safehouse and could only think how unfitting that term was for what she was looking at.
It was one of the ...
2025-02-16 12:08:33 +0000 UTC View PostThey just had to go and ignore my warnings, didn’t they?
I hadn’t intended to let myself be seen; just reveal my presence enough that the group of sapients go running away from the tunnel down to the Magma Ocean. Never have I seen creatures run towards me when trying to flee.
Why ...
2025-02-15 07:35:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you always getting yourself in trouble, or is it only when I’m around?”
Something in his arm hissed as the contraptions clicked and unwound themselves from preparing some attack. Tarchon stepped up to her, took one look through the sacrificial chamber, and hummed.
“Only w...
2025-02-14 21:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostWhispers.
Nix could see whispers. Flickers of memories bound in an incomprehensible cluster. They burned in her mind as often as they were fleeting. Each jittery, unclear image flashed in and out of existence and struck Nix with wave after wave of agony.
…or maybe that...
2025-02-13 02:22:32 +0000 UTC View PostNix tried her best to relax on the alter as her eyes followed the man who intended to sacrifice her. She didn’t fight the chains; whenever she did, they would grow tighter. If they slackened when she wasn’t fighting, then she would take as much length as she could for when the time was right....
2025-02-13 02:20:22 +0000 UTC View PostK’tan-thar had dedicated the past decade of his life for the promise of assisted evolution and a path out of the dregs of the lower creeds.
Life hadn’t been kind to him. While others received useful names or quickly evolved away the bad ones, he’d been stuck with nothing but a half-do...
2025-02-13 02:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostA few days passed and there was yet to be any sign the lockdown would end.
Nix couldn’t deny Dan and Ari’s efforts were commendable… but they were ultimately pointless. Between the two of them, they somehow managed to be anywhere K’tan ended up, without alerting the man to their obs...
2025-02-10 21:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostToday will be a good day.
Maybe it was already too presumptive of Nix to assume so, but considering their lockdown, there was unlikely to be more horrific scenarios where she would be forced to fight for her life.
Two days in a row is enough.
This third day aft...
2025-02-10 11:46:32 +0000 UTC View PostNix pulled the bloody, torn robes out from under her bed. She’d tossed them there when she’d returned so nobody would notice, but she would need to take them with her the next time she went for a bath. Not now. There would be too many of her ward-mates wandering around despite the late hour.<...
2025-02-10 11:44:40 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Nix turned away from K’tan, she found Tarchon’s eyes on her. Those glass lenses flicked to the man she’d been discretely watching, but he revealed no emotion on his face. Though when Nix glanced back, K’tan was sweating.
It was impossible to tell how much Tarchon knew, and whil...
2025-02-10 11:42:10 +0000 UTC View PostHe’s not dead.
Why is he not dead!? Nix screamed in her mind. K’tan should have died there with all the other ass-hole Fleshsmiths.
Nix’s return through the streets had been anything but easy, yet she’d found her way back through the secret hole in the floor ...
2025-02-08 12:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostHirsh was conflicted.
On one hand, the situation was certainly stressful and beyond what any of them had expected. Not only had they never thought the spatial twisting would ever be this dense, but the idea that a creature would take out their breadcrumb trail seemed ludicrous. They were lo...
2025-02-08 01:08:44 +0000 UTC View PostNix dashed forward. Ari, despite being in the depths of slumber, followed close behind. The dream-bug guided her mind to move her body in a state without consciousness.
It would have been nice if she could run around the monsters — maybe use the space warping tunnels around them to lose t...
2025-02-06 23:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostA spike of pain rushed through Nix’s back, but she ignored it. Growing pains were nothing.
Beneath her robe, her feathers fluttered involuntarily. Nix grimaced, knowing that to get to the mutation she wanted, she would need to let those stubs at the back of her ribs make their reappearanc...
2025-02-06 23:17:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe world became a nightmare.
There was no longer a wall. Nor was there the hole, or any sign of the explosion that would have caused it. Darkness consumed everything, but it hardly stifled her sight. It only revealed the morphing of space that twisted and wrung her mind beyond what she cou...
2025-02-06 23:06:05 +0000 UTC View PostNix ducked down an unused side corridor. She didn’t want to stay out in the open where any of the cultists could trip over her on their way through Fleshsmith territory.
She was barely aware of how she got here. The late night whispers and screams echoing up through the depths were haunti...
2025-02-05 00:55:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you not intend to follow?”
Nix woke to an eye floating mere inches from her face.
She reacted. Her hand swung forward as a yelp found its way out of her throat, and she dived into the wall bordering her bed. Once again, her fingers slid through Little God’s gaseous form with...
2025-02-05 00:53:28 +0000 UTC View Post