“No.”
“…N-no?”
“No.” Lydia tapped the pommel of her sheathed weapon. “My love, how come these missions with you so often derail?”
“It hasn’t quite derailed yet.” John stepped forwards. “Ehem, if I may explain. My name is John Newman ...
2024-03-25 19:21:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The Mine’s central elevator rattled. Old gears and old cords went into movement, except that neither the gears nor the cords were old. All of it was just window dressing to give the supernatural resource spawn point the feeling of a deep and mysterious mine. Considering what...
2024-03-23 15:21:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The good thing about having an instant transmission home was that John was not stuck in Prague.
The bad thing about having an instant transmission home was that John was not on vacation in Prague.
“Are ya really going out and working?” Rave asked, once they had...
2024-03-22 14:37:43 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, what did we learn?” Momo asked.
The tone of the sassy support was smug to the utmost and for once John had no room to tease her back. He laid on the couch, his head pounding from the intense hangover that they were working on fixing. The whirring of the mixer on...
2024-03-21 16:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostThey found themselves in a green area. How it had been quartered away between the various caves and caverns, John wasn’t entirely sure about. Above them were manifold silver crystals, basking the environment in artificial moonlight. The silver reflected off the equally argent flowe...
2024-03-19 16:01:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Would,” Maximillian said.
“Really?” John asked.
“You wouldn’t?”
“Never been one for nose rings…”
The duo was looking over the railing that separated their private area from the dance floor. Beer in hand, they were checking out the various ...
2024-03-18 18:46:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe entirety of the clientele turned to the trio when they entered.
There were a great many people around. Exclusively men, John noted, all of them covered in grime. It was like stepping into the company store saloon of a coal mine. Even the furniture fit the bill, being a rams...
2024-03-16 18:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe three of them roamed the streets.
Evening had turned to… later evening. The advanced time of day meant fairly little in the midsummer. “Nice temperature today,” Maximillian hummed.
“…Fuck,” John cursed. The two other men turned to him. “I just thought it...
2024-03-15 17:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Our whiskey is most tasty when poured in this specific manner,” the bartender assured and tipped the bottle. The liquid that came out was an atypical brown colour of the advertised kind of liquor. As it fell, an air spirit flew in little vortexes around the stream, directing its...
2024-03-14 14:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostSunday was without incident, leaving John more time to explore the parts of the city he was interested in. Then, much of Monday was spent just lounging around. John had that particular feeling in his stomach that always preceded important events.
“Planned out a route?” Ehtr...
2024-03-12 16:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post“We will consider letting you find us, if you let me go.”
The answer by the blue-eyed ninja left John puzzled. He was still thinking about it after he had handed Levro and his den off to the authorities. The two authorities, to be more exact. There was the local oversight a...
2024-03-11 13:48:20 +0000 UTC View PostLevro stretched in his seat.
Running a crime empire had always been stressful work, but it had been easier when he had the money. The office he sat in hadn’t seen natural light in a while, not since he had needed to close the complicated system of tunnels and mirrors that had...
2024-03-09 12:36:20 +0000 UTC View PostJohn was used to fantasy coming into his life, but this descent felt more like a dungeon delve than most dungeon delves he had been in.
Narrow corridors led into vast halls where slow-moving water flowed through a large basin, only to disappear through a grate. Doors led into l...
2024-03-08 12:54:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Why are you even here?” John wanted to know. “I know I am benefitting from the fact that you are right now, but the question remains. I can’t imagine Max invited you.”
“You’re too smart to ask that question.”
“You’re someone’s plus one aren’t you?...
2024-03-07 07:56:10 +0000 UTC View PostJohn stood at the foot of Abyssal Prague.
It was a fascinating sight, one he had not gotten to enjoy in all of its splendour last time. Back then, the city had been freshly ravaged by sleeper cells of the Blood of the Proletariat. Today, the city stood proud, any signs of damag...
2024-03-06 03:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostFor all the woes that John had about his own infrastructure, it was pleasant to know that he was not the only one.
Abyssal Prague had been erected well before even the conception of airplanes as a physical possibility. Consequently, there was no strip for the rather large machi...
2024-03-04 22:14:38 +0000 UTC View PostIn the next few days, John’s thoughts circled repeatedly around that talk.
Specifically what Lydia had said kept on popping up: ‘You should begin considering yourself a man that has a harem and stop thinking of yourself as a man building one. That part of your life is comin...
2024-03-02 16:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post“We were supposed to do it together,” Metra complained. “Emrik and his need to complain really get in the way of everything fun.”
“Well, she could have waited for you… but I don’t mind that it was just her.” John played with the short bangs of the First of Hatre...
2024-03-01 18:41:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Break me.”
The two words were as much a request as they were a plea and an order. John pulled away from the angel’s lips and looked at her. She looked back, bashfully, her eyes darting between his face and the floor.
“Don’t make me repeat myself,” Ehtra mutte...
2024-02-29 18:57:58 +0000 UTC View Post“When was the last time you actually governed for a whole month uninterrupted?” Emrik asked.
John actually had to consider that question for a split second. A delay that his opposite caught up on nearly immediately. “My point is made.”
“Respectless creature,” ...
2024-02-27 18:25:01 +0000 UTC View PostJohn looked at the Guild Hall map as it currently was. A scanning look at all of his facilities and current districts, to consider what would need changing.
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It was the ninth day of the grinding session.
Lu Zhi stood alone on her side of the divide.
Eliana stood alone on the other side. Nathalia was a few paces beside her outside the ring.
They had pushed Lu Zhi quite far along already in their numerous attempts the last...
2024-02-23 17:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostMomo’s doubles placed blocks of metal on the corners of the map to assure that it stayed flat on the table. The decision to etch the map into rubber made more sense the more John looked at it. Much of the map was more than just outlines of landmasses or villages. There were grooves...
2024-02-22 14:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostJohn slept in on day seven.
He knew he had done so immediately after taking stock of the situation through the Mandala Sphere. The bed was almost empty, a great difference to the usual carpet of alluring bodies he found himself among. However, he had not slept so long that the ...
2024-02-20 16:38:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hellboar huffed and puffed and sunk down. His giant legs crossed, the Raid boss sat before the gathered party. The wounds covering his enormous form sizzled, then slowly closed. “You have earned the right to try to see the truth behind this world’s desolation,” he grunted. ...
2024-02-19 12:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostLu Zhi stood across from Siena, Sylph, Salamander, Aclysia, Nightingale, and Gnome. Six against one, two if one considered Tianlong its own entity, and yet still John held little hope for his side of the wager.
Lu Zhi was now more dragon than he had ever seen before. Thick lay ...
2024-02-17 10:33:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Beware of his fists, for every strike shall land stronger than the last, should the burden not be exchanged. Beware of his hooves, for every stomp announces a new wave of flames and shadow. Beware of his tests, for every one of us has a purpose, and our mettle shall be tried. Then...
2024-02-16 08:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s something I don’t understand,” Ehtra said. “You said that the Twilight Twins were banished from the Middle Empire after the Warring States period, yes?”
Lulu nodded. The Heavenly Jade Empress sat at the edge of the white stone ring. Had it not been for Gaia...
2024-02-15 11:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Finally,” Sylph purred.
The arcvolt elemental waited for him in one of the many isolated bedrooms of the estate. Their purposes were naps and lovemaking, nothing in-between, and John knew what purpose he was here to fulfil. The already naked, green-haired woman rose from a...
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