The break-slash-conference room in the staging building outside of the Dharan Exclusion Zone was unsurprisingly humble. A single long wooden table and chairs set alongside a kitchenette. Lillian barely paid any attention to it even as Snow fiddled with one of the chairs, probably carving somethin...
2025-05-10 16:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostPOP! POPOPOPOP!
The rhythmic sound of gunfire carried over the hill followed by shouts. A roar broke through the noise. Crusader pushed her legs harder, the strain falling away as gold washed across her body. She could already see which direction she needed to move in. Al was in po...
2025-05-10 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostHa ha! Surprise! I have a few Side-Stories featuring Team Crusader coming out shortly for you guys. I'm planning on putting them into the story at various points and will update the ToC once I've got that figured out.
What I would really appreciate from y'all is some feedback on these stori...
2025-05-10 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe office floor of the precinct hadn’t changed all that much since she’d left. The desks and furniture were still a scattered pile of broken wood, metal, and plastic all over the floor. She pushed a piece of debris with her foot and opened her inventory, pulling out a glowstone. The light of...
2025-05-10 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOtis crossed his legs and got comfortable. He didn’t have long to have this meeting, but there was at least enough time to enjoy the seat in a luxury car. He smiled to himself as the young man next to him collected his thoughts. Felwinter got into the driver’s seat and Riot into the front pas...
2025-05-09 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostAs Sonya stopped in front of the door leading to the judge’s room, she took note of the sole person inside. Her smile widened a little, and she pushed in, her gaze settling on Lillian. The up-and-coming hero was sitting on the couch; she’d barely moved. Her eyes were fixed on the screens floa...
2025-05-08 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnna wiped a little blood off her lip, scowling against the snow as it blew across her face. She kicked the first of the skeletal corpses and it dissolved into that putrid smelling dust. It was strange, in the dungeon she barely noticed it but out here in the fresh air it was horrible again. She ...
2025-05-08 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostSonya stepped through the portal as the call was wrapping up. “...so just keep that in mind, Barry. I should have noticed what was happening to me when it started, but I figured it had something to do with my cybernetic brain.”
<“Got it, thanks for the heads up. Shame about naps, t...
2025-05-07 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostAs she recalled it, it had been around the time that the first round of Hero Camps had come to a close. New up and comers were shining in the public eye, and there had been some manner of terrible incident at one of the American camps. It didn’t really concern her, but she pitied the young peop...
2025-05-06 16:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostSonya stood alone aboard the Idol. She’d taken a portal there rather than going back to Dharan right away. The boys needed to be dropped off, for one thing, and for another, she had questions. Before she went and asked them, though, she shot off a text to the phone she’d left with Is...
2025-05-06 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe once nearly bare shelves were filled with things now. Small wooden crates filled with stacks of playing-card sized slips of metal and glass. There were rows of jars filled with various powders and substances Anna had never seen before. Odd looking tools with delicate tips and edges that looke...
2025-05-06 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe memory was disorienting. A vision crammed into her head by a power that hadn’t shown any mercy in its application. She saw herself break. She saw life leave her own eyes at the hands of a man who seemed like he was made of stone. She didn’t know what she had been thinking in her final mom...
2025-05-05 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe window appeared like its own menu screen. Anna pulled her hand away briefly to test it and found that the menu vanished immediately. She put her hand back on the book and took a breath as the options filled her vision.
You have activated a Tome of Mortal Wisdom. Contained ...
2025-05-03 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostGreg cracked the can open and rested his head against it, sitting down in the small break room. He took a centering breath, letting the emotions work their way through his chest and out through his lungs. The cool can helped a little. He took a sip and stared at the wall, his lip twitching as tha...
2025-05-02 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostBOOM! BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!
A staccato of explosions rocked up the side of the mountain, and rocks began to tumble towards the ground. An avalanche followed, and snow flowed down like a sea before rising up as more titans, eager to clash with their attackers. Sonya swept her hand again, and sev...
2025-05-01 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no fanfare or excitement with the use of the clemency scroll. Just a single prompt window asking if she was sure. After such an aggravating conversation the last thing she wanted to do was flip through prompts but she knew that more were coming. The chains on Catherine’s arms and legs...
2025-05-01 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostTo the surprise of absolutely no one at all, the ghouls that Hero Crusader had mentioned during her briefing were worse than any of them could have imagined. The extra details on the denizens of Dharan hadn’t helped prepare them either. Not for how strong the things were, but how grotesque they...
2025-04-30 16:01:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt took two portal hops to gather pretty much everyone. As she stepped through the second portal into the windy, snow-choked Tibetan mountainside, she rounded on Blackrazor. He cleared his throat and looked away, hesitating a bit as she gave him an assessing look. She fixed him with her stare for...
2025-04-29 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostAnna only realized she was sitting on the altar again several minutes after she’d been left alone again. All she could do was stare off into space as the words sank in. She slowly pulled her helmet off and leaned forward, cupping her face in her hands. She tried and failed to process it all. He...
2025-04-29 12:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind whipped past Nietz’s face as they passed over the thick, mountainous woodland that surrounded Dharan. He could already hear monsters moving down below, but there didn’t appear to be any large groups to really get started on. The easiest way to get points in this was to destroy as man...
2025-04-28 16:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post