Of course the world ended while I was in the middle of nowhere, with only a blunt sword for defense.
Specifically, a hunk of metal that resembled a sword enough to look good in a movie, but would decidedly not be able to fulfill the same task as an actual, well, ...
2024-08-26 14:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostHill of Allen, Ireland
There were few thi
2024-08-26 14:04:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, so Museum Core 1 is fully edited and formatted, if you're interested in getting your hands on a copy, here's the link.
And if you were to leave a review on Amazon on August 20th when it releases, that'd be really great, thank you.
2024-08-06 13:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe second chapter of the day, brought to you by: the bloody thunderstorm that is making it impossible to sleep.
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Yesterday had been a bloodbath. Half the people she’d been training up ...
2024-07-31 21:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post“THIEF!”
Alaxia’s furious roar shook her sanctuary all the way down to its very foundations.
She’d been lounging sideways on her gold-and-emerald throne, back resting on one armrest, legs dangling off the other one, a platter of crystalfruit grapes resting on her stomach. Some...
2024-07-31 16:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostJaclyn hadn’t really been too present for Granger’s training, while she’d been dueling dinosaurs, he’d been blowing stuff up in the panacea area, but she’d heard it. All the way on the other end of the Museum. A constant barrage of explosions and the crackle of electricity, with the occ...
2024-07-30 18:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostOh, this was going to be fun. Twenty early F-Ranks, and by early, Thomas meant that they were standing at the very beginning of having any powers, but they weren’t nervous at all. Or at least not in any way he could recognize.
They were experienced in whatever they normally ...
2024-07-29 18:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostJaclyn woke up in a puddle of her own drool, head resting on her desk, thankfully clear of any papers that might be damaged. She sighed as she pushed herself back into a sitting position, brushing the wrinkles out of her suit as best she could.
Wow, falling asleep at her desk. She hadn’t ...
2024-07-27 23:11:14 +0000 UTC View PostThey hadn’t come back yet. That was … not great. Sure, there’d always been a chance that they’d stay overnight due to the nighttime jungle being dangerous.
But there was also the option that the thing that was keeping them was a lot more … final.
Signing the treaty with the ...
2024-07-24 17:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a calm evening, all things considered. Something had spooked the ever-loving fuck out of the animals earlier, but things had calmed down over the course of several hours.
But while Thomas was watching the sun fall below the horizon, a lesser version of the earlier unrest returned. Un...
2024-07-19 13:07:10 +0000 UTC View PostLevels were all well and good, but they really didn’t matter in the here and now.
What mattered was, well, the fact that her insides felt like they were made of broken glass and ground meat.
And beyond that, her self-created martial Skill came with a hefty dose of self-diagnosing po...
2024-07-18 16:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostThese people were all cowards. At least to the eyes of a dragon, however human their current shell might have been.
Alaxia Mystscale had finally managed to track down that damnable thief who’d dared pilfer the treasures she’d prepared in anticipation of having to make use of he...
2024-07-17 21:52:57 +0000 UTC View PostCambridge’s campus looked much like how she’d seen it last time. A mess. Consequences of stuffing every conference room with all the people required to do all the minutia required to run a modern government.
Seriously, why hadn’t they moved everything straight to Bristol, which was be...
2024-07-15 15:17:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I think your schedule should be clear enough to work on making magical items,” Elias said after the sabertooth that served as the “queen” on their chessboard chased off Thomas’ king. “I know you told me to wait until you brought it up again, but I’m pretty sure you forgot I ever of...
2024-07-10 19:57:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs natural as having two Dungeons at once felt, Thomas was rapidly starting to figure out some of the limitations of that process.
Firstly, being able to freely control either dungeon wasn’t the same as the ability to control both, so his theoretical workload for Dungeon upkeep had double...
2024-07-10 11:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostFor what felt like the millionth time since leaving the Museum, Jaclyn reached under her jacket and felt for the vial of healing potion, making sure it was still there.
She hadn’t been able to identify it, of course, but Gula had also struck out by quite a lot. She could tell it was a reg...
2024-07-08 19:39:28 +0000 UTC View PostThis was going to be an absolute masterpiece when Thomas was done with it. Or so he hoped.
The first step was simple. All he had to do was maximize the distance between the entrance and the core, a process that obviously involved ensuring that it wasn’t going to be as easy to access the m...
2024-07-07 16:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostYou have used your ability to create a Subcore in [British Museum].
Number of uses at current rank remaining: 0
Subcore Type has been determined as [History’s Guardians]
A domain has been automatically established and now covers the entirety of the building, and the archives b...
2024-07-06 22:21:58 +0000 UTC View PostHonestly, Elias had been right. And Thomas would never, ever, tell him that.
He couldn’t, not after how he’d reacted to the advice he’d gotten. Sure, it had been an absolutely assholish piece of advice, but “stop worrying your pretty little head about it” had been the onl...
2024-07-05 15:36:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe world was a weird place. It had always been odd, with unexplained phenomena up to wazoo, but with most of those, people with the necessary knowledge just hadn’t bothered to investigate. There was an explanation, it just hadn’t been found. Unexplained, not unexplainable 2024-07-02 16:05:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally. They were out of that damn jungle. Between having a vanguard immune to toxins and access to a method of healing that specialized against toxins, Jaclyn’s group had been an effective counter against this place and yet it had utterly kicked their ass.
In fact, other than the fact t...
2024-06-30 21:55:38 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s a creepy sign,” Jaclyn commented as she stepped up to the start of the muddy pool with a narrow metal walkway in its middle and two mesh fences on either end that acted as the next challenge.
“BEWARE THE TATZELWYRM’S LEGACY!”
It was like something straight out of a...
2024-06-29 21:05:26 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone was looking at her. Even Gula. Though the orc seemed to be less expectant, more curious.
“We’re going for the panacea,” she finally decided. “If things get too dangerous, we can always retreat.”
Jaclyn didn’t currently have any relatives in dire need of healing, a...
2024-06-27 19:29:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe whole affair had shifted from a ritual to a celebration in an instant. Or at least that was what it felt like.
Jaclyn had been to plenty of formal events in the past, both as an attendee and as security, and she was more than familiar with how those normally went. Even once the scripted...
2024-06-25 20:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostPower leveling a specific creature pattern was difficult when Thomas wasn’t getting any visitors, but there were ways to get around the issue. Throwing money at the proverbial wall. Well, in this case, the money was also proverbial, but the principle was the same.
He made sure to fill nin...
2024-06-23 15:53:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt was great that Owens was delegating, it really was, but unfortunately, that meant that Jaclyn had even more paperwork to do than normal.
Not to mention that even if she did not join Frye’s as-of-yet unnamed agency, she was going to be working with it enough that there was already a boa...
2024-06-21 22:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostHow did the saying go … if you pay in peanuts, you get monkeys?
And Thomas wasn’t paying his critters anything, so how could he be surprised that his new area was turning into a literal monkey house?
These damn monkeys were a mess. Most of Thomas’s creatures had some kind of agg...
2024-06-18 21:45:44 +0000 UTC View PostCambridge Campus was far different than Jaclyn had imagined. Sure, the architecture was there, buildings that had become the backdrop for much of the Harry Potter movies, the wide open fields of grass that any modern campus would doubtlessly have dismissed as a waste of space.
But it was em...
2024-06-15 16:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostThere was nothing like letting oneself get hit by a car to make you question your life choices.
But honestly, it was a little too late to worry about that right now.
So Jaclyn held up her arms as though she were trying to block a punch instead of a one-ton block of metal hurtling at h...
2024-06-12 16:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe anti-dragon redesign of his Dungeon wound up coming out rather simplistic.
Vines became a more common design element, covering a lot of ceilings, designed to be easy to break free via the boomslangs’ vine control ability.
Dragons might be too tough for almost any nets he could c...
2024-06-10 18:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post