Where the fuck had Vesp found this guy?
That was the most prevalent thought running through Bear’s mind as she raised her guard to block the next incoming attack. The guy’s fist hit squarely against her shoulder, and it stung. It was a mi...
2024-08-31 20:20:42 +0000 UTC View Post[049]
“I really don’t like this.” I commented, looking down at a metal staff with an acrylic green clump screwed on top. There was a tiny button half-way down the staff that made an LED inside the clump to light up.
“Too late to back out of the fight.” Isia ...
2024-08-27 15:11:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe dense canopy of trees loomed overhead, their gnarled branches intertwined in a twisted embrace that shut out the last vestiges of daylight. The forest floor beneath was a mottled patchwork of dark loam and decaying leaves, the air thick with the eart...
2024-08-26 18:17:21 +0000 UTC View Post[048]
“Wait, this public spar, it’s… a good thing?” I frowned as we hopped on to the car, the device set on speaker so that Isia could listen in as well. She could’ve just as easily set up a virtu call with Vesper directly, but had insisted on the ‘analog experi...
2024-08-23 16:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostMoving forward all subscriptions will be made cheaper.
This is the TLDR:
Tip Jar
2$ / Month -> 0$ / Month (AKA: the tier will be deleted)
Bronze
5$ / Month -> 3$ / Month
Silver
10...
2024-08-23 14:03:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Here’s your cut from today’s session,” Vesper said, handing me a small pouch. “I included a basic communicator.”
I glanced inside, face immediately turning into a grimace. “This… is a phone.” Not just any phone either, the sort made out of c...
2024-08-21 22:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post[146] [Human Factor]
“Look who finally shows up! What took you so long, Throag?”
“Once you grow stronger, perhaps you’ll find out what it means to help the clan.”
Rick immediately ignored the maidens as they snarled and postured and needled. Instead, h...
2024-08-20 02:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post[046]
Quinn’s leaned forward, mechanical arm perfectly applying the final layer of paint against Axel’s skin. The newest recruit and biological freak let out a little chuckle, but it was easy to tell his mind was elsewhere.
“Give it a minute to dry, and we’re ...
2024-08-18 13:27:47 +0000 UTC View Post[045]
I realized I was awake a few minutes after I’d opened my eyes. I’d been staring at the ceiling for a while, quietly marveling at how far away it was from my face. Why, I could sit up on the bed without needing to worry about my head banging against anything. And i...
2024-08-15 21:24:38 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as the system conked out, I realized I had a problem… well, several problems.
Concerns for the system’s health aside (what counted as ‘healthy’ for an entity that created text pop-ups?), my preoccupation had turned towards how everything about ...
2024-08-13 00:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostCamilla, leader of the Elven Grove, former Green Empress and ruler of the four continents, sat down on the simple wooden stool. There was nothing particularly impressive about the piece of furniture, oak-wood carved with rudimentary tools. The El...
2024-08-11 20:27:28 +0000 UTC View PostNumber of known, categorized, and studied G-Class monsters: 104.
2024-08-10 20:35:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Number of known, categorized, and studied F-Class monsters: 412.
Number of known, categorized, and studied E-Class monsters: 1,750.
Number of known, ...
[042]
Grasping the monster’s skull, I clamped my hands together with everything I had, causing its head to implode in a shower of brown debris. I heaved, breath ragged, dropping the monster’s body, watching as the creature’s clay-like body began to violently boil, tur...
2024-08-08 19:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post[041]
I stared at the fork, then at the last spot the Shadow meguca had been in. I checked the area a hundred times, with senses so fine I could spot individual grains of sand from a dozen meters off. I could smell the bugs hidden underneath the shadows of the boulder, I co...
2024-08-06 22:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostEva stirred awake within a large tent, the setting sun peeking through the flaps. Her sleep had been light, ready to jump at the first sign of anything amiss. But tonight, much like the previous night, and the night before that, the Vampire...
2024-08-05 20:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s your deal anyway?” Carl, previously ‘tattoo guy’, and pilot of the hauler, asked. “First time we’ve ever hauled anyone out of NF. And you said you wanted to be back…”
I wriggled a bit on my seat, staring out the hauler’s tiny window...
2024-08-02 22:16:01 +0000 UTC View Post---
“Take care, Axel Garcia, and have a good day!” Grills waved at me, and I waved back as I stepped out into the pre-dawn lukewarm air, the black sky overhead yet to find the first hints of sunlight.
My mind was abuzz with the things I would, hopefu...
2024-07-30 20:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostRick opened his eyes to the night sky and let out a pained sigh that was followed by a coughing fit as pain blossomed all across his chest. He wasn’t restrained, but he could barely move. Everything burned and ached and felt as if his body was t...
2024-07-28 18:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe party itself went on much as it had before Bear had shown up, with people seeking to mingle and using Spike as the excuse. Though Isia had hammed up the rat’s role in the exchange, singing praises over how brave the rodent had been, and how its handsomeness ha...
2024-07-24 02:41:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Leave the Sewer Saints.”
If the silence before had been bearable, now it turned deafening. Someone had gone so far as to cut the music, or maybe was that just me? The room certainly felt colder and more threatening as everyone began glancing at us a lot l...
2024-07-22 16:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostKnight Captain Cecilia beat her wings as hard as she could, the Mikila flying away from the battlefield as fast as possible. The battlefield smoldered beneath her, screams and chaos, knights and Vampires slaughtered in equal measure. She could ...
2024-07-21 17:09:29 +0000 UTC View Post---
“So… where’s the party going to be at?” I asked, searching for a seatbelt and not finding any.
Vesper and Isia had come to pick me up from the motel on a fancier truck than the one I’d seen them running around in. “Fancier” in the sense...
2024-07-20 13:01:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Those cuts look nasty.” Isia commented. “You sure you don’t want Angus to give you a look-over?”
+Speed: 5+
. .∟Agility: [72%] -> [79%]Charisma: 7 -> +8
I checked the b...
2024-07-19 14:41:35 +0000 UTC View PostLevel 6 endurance was making itself felt today. It was a subtle thing that I hadn’t thought about until after I’d spent a good minute going at a dead sprint. At a glance nothing felt entirely out of place, my limbs operated just fine, the weight of my weapon rem...
2024-07-18 11:00:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe air was heavy with the scent of blood and death, choked with smoke and darkness. The fight had moved them towards the food-farms around the city, but not far enough that Monica might use the spiky walls as footholds. Instead, she was limit...
2024-07-15 21:57:34 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Sorry for delay, will be speeding back up now. Enjoy!
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“When you say costume… what do you mean?”
Though I asked the question, I got no answer out of Isia as she hurried along up flight after flight of sta...
2024-07-11 20:53:57 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the tiny little panic attack at, apparently, being targeted by a meguca, I couldn’t let Isia stall any longer and had her take me to meet their ripperdoc. We walked down the corridor and some stairs towards the Sewer Saint’s ripperdoc, my mind tumbled and ...
2024-07-09 11:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post[BOOK 1][BOOK 2 START][PREVIOUS][NEXT] 2024-07-08 08:51:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I slowly opened my eyes to an unfamiliar ceiling, in an unfamiliar room.
The jolt of panic calmed down as soon as I confirmed I was neither restrained nor in some sort of prison. Or at least, if this was a prison, then it had to be some sort of house-arrest. T...
2024-07-06 20:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostCLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
The Bear greeted me to the massive concrete ring with a slow clap of her bandaged hands. She was tall for a meguca, sculpted arms, scars hidden under tattoos, looking like a brick-house that’d made it through a war and then assaulted by g...
2024-06-28 16:17:24 +0000 UTC View Post