For two days, as Kuronoth, I offered guidance to Dishonored Knight. He was already an established dungeon, of course, and knew how to make traps and puzzles to slow invaders, and he knew the strengths and weaknesses of his monsters like the back of his metaphori...
2021-10-20 23:49:57 +0000 UTC View PostDr. Daniel Fletcher was quite reasonably proud of what he had accomplished in his life. He was twelve when the Awakening happened. By the time he reached college, the University of Seattle had just opened its Thaumaturgy Department, and he was part of the first cl...
2021-10-17 22:13:03 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I did it. No, I am not sorry.
I gaped as Shadraus brought out the weapon he wanted to show me. Like, full on, completely unashamedly jaw trying its best to hit the floor. This was something I had never expected to see.
Unique weapons and a...
2021-10-15 20:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh Great Kuronoth, thank you for hearing my plea! A host of followers of Binja and Idos have descended upon Atara, and are cleansing the world of dungeons, which they say are the source of the world’s corruption!”
OK, so someone went a...
2021-10-14 23:51:26 +0000 UTC View Post(Magical World Disharmony Server, General Chat)
UsualSuspect, manoutoftime, muon, MewTwo, Avariel, Chummer, Golddigger, CrazyCelt, Blaze, DoYouEvenLyft?, MarcoPolo, MightMakesRight, MacD, Inquisitor, OrangeQueen, Lizard, RedFox, SemiSolidSnake, BabyShark, Not...
2021-10-09 16:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostI started my staffing concerns with the Necrozians. They would be the easiest to deal with, with the Master being able to control all his underlings. Fifty drones, ten workers, and one Master were what I needed for the shipyard.
“You’re in luck, there,”...
2021-10-08 22:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostI was minding my own business, just putting a few people through the Breeding Halls. Nothing major, just a party out of New York that cut a deal to get out of a nasty situation they’d found themselves in on the eleventh floor. They got too close to some of the curse...
2021-10-07 21:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostFour individuals met in a darkened room. No names were shared. Those who knew about this meeting already knew who the other attendees were. There was no need for introductions.
Each individual represented a faction of power. While they were not the nominal hea...
2021-10-01 22:22:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, my friend! It is so good to see you again!” Shadraus smiled his skeletal smile as I stepped into the System Shop by the mall. Leading me towards a back room, where we could talk in private, he continued, “I saw when the kovald ship made landfall, but I di...
2021-10-01 12:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostYou read for some Trade Chat?
(Adventurer’s Guild Official Forums, Miami Branch)
SunnyBunz, MightyMouse, ImAPally, DontYouWantMe, AsaAkiraIsBae, BestGirl, LatinHeat, Salty, Backpage, Craig34, l33tpally, Anonymous3, Anonymous4, RedFox, Kimik...
2021-09-29 22:50:38 +0000 UTC View PostI waited until nightfall to make my move. Not because I had to, but because I knew that the Sumiyoshi-kai would spend time getting their enforcers on alert. If they were smart, they would have had those enforcers already in place to counter any reprisals the In...
2021-09-25 23:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostLegal got involved, as I knew they would, and the contracts and financing people did, as well. In the end, the flat 2% of everything that ever came from the tech they pulled out of the pirate ship was completely unrealistic. I knew it going in, but it was a solid s...
2021-09-24 21:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the slaughter was done, I sent my little messenger on his way, so that he could spread the news of what had happened to his bosses. He was probably going to have to change clothes along the way. Seems like watching all his buddies get slaughtered caused him t...
2021-09-19 19:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post“So, when is your friend getting here?”
Kate Pearson sighed as she heard the impatience in her boss’s voice. She looked back out to the tarmac at Boeing’s test facility, where one of her old friends from college, that was now in the Atlanta Police Depar...
2021-09-18 21:50:51 +0000 UTC View PostTatsumi was listening to her radio as we moved towards the stairs. The explosion had already knocked out the elevators, setting off the safety mechanisms in place to deal with earthquakes. That meant that our prey would be advancing up the stairs. So, to meet them, ...
2021-09-10 22:47:15 +0000 UTC View PostYes, it is time for some Trade Chat.
(Community Building and Civil Defense Chat, formerly Life in the City Chat Room)
abby_gail, bento, RainyDayze, GringottsGoblin, DoritoMan, D.VaLuvr69, RadicalEdward, DarkLord, FusionGal, NotACop, Scholar, ...
2021-09-09 21:58:18 +0000 UTC View PostI will be going to DragonCon next week. That means that I will most likely not write anything from Wed to Tues. Regular content will resume after that.
Also, if you're going to be at DragonCon, I'll be hanging around the Newbie Tours and Q&A on Thursday, and will be at the Fa...
2021-08-29 23:21:41 +0000 UTC View PostA week after the sword was finished, it was time to meet the oyabun of the Inagawa-kai, and present the blade to his granddaughter for her ascension. I could have delivered the sword early, of course, but the oyabun had different ideas. He wished for a sp...
2021-08-23 00:06:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe last month flew by, as everyone quietly started making as many last-minute preparations as they could. My core team was on the cusp of Level 27, and the others were all coming along into their low 20s. I could have probably pushed it to get that extra level, but...
2021-08-21 16:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Eeew. Do we really need to go through this?”
Father Jacobs was not surprised at Mary’s reaction. It mirrored his own, after all. He was a firm believer that anyone who was jumping for joy at the ‘opportunity’ to walk through what looked for all the...
2021-08-19 20:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post“One vehicle approaching the gate.”
The men reflected in my scrying mirror frowned at the radio message from the front gate, as they watched the approaching car. Clearly, they thought something was off, with someone coming to visit, unannounced, w...
2021-08-15 16:38:55 +0000 UTC View PostWith one month until the aliens arrived, all my preparations suddenly needed to go into the final phase. Things that I had put off, because I didn’t have a timeline, and needed to be available to respond if the first raiders came with only a few hours...
2021-08-13 22:31:03 +0000 UTC View Post“I think we’re coming up on a boss!”
All eyes turned to Lowe as the little gnome looked over a console full of instruments. Clark grunted, and said, “What makes you say that? Looks like just more ocean out there.”
The gnome was unperturbed by the...
2021-08-12 20:33:45 +0000 UTC View PostAfter seeing my unwanted guests off, I turned my attention to the meager spoils of the fight. Well, meager by my standards, at least. However, for this world, the souls of your enemies and the bone ash of an oni was far from meager.
Actually, now that I tho...
2021-08-08 19:14:45 +0000 UTC View PostI spent a bit more gold outfitting my new minions appropriately for their classes, as well as getting some actual clothes for them to wear. After all, their former owners had stripped them naked before putting them up on the marketplace, so if I wanted them to do an...
2021-08-06 19:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostBook 2 of The OP Lich is a Returnee is now LIVE on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BTDQBSG
“OH FUCK!”
Brad cursed as the blade of bone scythed out of th...
2021-08-05 19:52:22 +0000 UTC View PostI decided that, for this little bit of ‘guidance’, I didn’t want to scare off whoever it was that might be coming to my door, by appearing in my full ‘lich queen’ form. Instead, I decided to appear in my human form, with my miko outfit. That outfit wa...
2021-07-30 23:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, buying through the System allowed me to get my items where I wanted them to go. I still didn’t have the technical knowledge to manage the satellites or get any actual information off them, but the four big satellites were positioned at their Lagrange p...
2021-07-29 22:15:58 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the unplanned break. I was hitting a bit of a wall in several projects, so, instead of risking burnout, I took a week off to recharge. But we're back now, and rolling!
It was, truth be told, an excellent day to be on the water.
The s...
2021-07-28 22:26:24 +0000 UTC View PostNow, if someone was going to go with a traditional forging process for a katana, using all the old ways, the time to complete a blade could be a whole year, from the time you start making the tatara to when you finish polishing the blade. And that was with a...
2021-07-18 01:55:10 +0000 UTC View Post