Fortunately, we made it to Detroit without incident. Didn’t even have ‘customs enforcement’ waiting for us at the small airfield near Ann Arbor that Whisper set down in, on the outer edges of what could be considered the Greater Detroit sprawl. Nice and quiet, jus...
2025-10-04 20:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Mistress, not that I’m unhappy, but how are you not dead right now?
I chuckled at Jewell’s words, since it was clear she was saying out loud what most of the group was actually thinking. However, it was Zazriel that spoke first. “Angels and ...
2025-10-03 21:44:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a ‘welcoming committee’ for us when we got outside. Not too close, of course. Vehicle weapons could still be used on people, after all. However, that didn’t mean they weren’t out there. They were just under cover, was all.
The R...
2025-10-02 21:23:01 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving the Sorcerers to their training, I next turned my attention to the Witches. I had bid them wait in the basement that I had dug with my powers, once the castle had been built. While I trusted in the discretion of the builders Lilah had hired through her law ...
2025-10-01 20:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostBit under the weather today, but still got a chapter for y'all.
Thankfully, that was all for the major naval issues. There were some minor concerns that needed my signature to move forward, but nothing that needed more discussion than that. Unfortunately...
2025-09-30 19:53:02 +0000 UTC View PostMaranda looked out at the crowd, and then at the two of us. “The Bonding of two partners in sacred ceremony is an ancient rite, held in one form or another across all faiths. In ancient times, it was a pledge between two people, or two famil...
2025-09-29 21:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostSamoset Nighthawk was an ork from the FAN. Specifically, the Algonquian tribe. However, as Whisper, he was one of the better smugglers working North America. Assuming you didn’t need to get someplace in a hurry, that is.
See, Whisper’s MO was usin...
2025-09-27 20:27:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe made sure that we were all rested and ready before we left the boss room. The next floor, according to the Guild’s reports, held only one creature, and there was no door to wait at before going in. Once we went down the stairs, we would be in the boss ro...
2025-09-26 20:44:27 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, Nemesis managed to bag the battleship, the second cruiser, and one of the destroyers before the remaining four destroyers got to their hyperspace lanes and ran off. As for the orbital station, between Nemesis and Web Mistress, they had found a way to...
2025-09-25 19:35:12 +0000 UTC View PostAfter lunch, I had the mortals split into three groups, based on their paths. It was only natural, since the three paths each had very different methods of learning and growing in power. After some internal debate, I decided to start with the Sorcerers, who were ...
2025-09-24 22:12:08 +0000 UTC View Post“What’s the news?”
“Well, not news, so much as concerns regarding the future,” Stratton said as she pulled up a table showing production schedules compared to recruitment rates. “As you can see, we have the first of the Repulse-cla...
2025-09-23 23:15:52 +0000 UTC View PostIt was one week to the day after the end of the Divine Trial, but all talk about the dragon, and how the Monkey King defeated him, had fallen by the wayside. Oh, it wasn’t like people had forgotten it. In fact, the videos taken from drone cameras were sti...
2025-09-22 22:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostI took a breath as I stepped off the elevator, and into the large open floor. The top floor of the Redmond Towers hotel was actually two floors put together. That was part of the reason why everyone knew this was a dragon’s lair, because Ivaeth hadn’t...
2025-09-20 23:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostFinally, we were at the boss room of the nineteenth floor. I’d managed to fill all twenty enchanted vials with Lesser Dragonkin ‘milk’, with the last batch coming from the boss of the eighteenth floor, Krubud Quickspell. That was an annoying fight, since Krub...
2025-09-19 21:50:03 +0000 UTC View Post(Security Control Nest, Chishk Prison, Temporary Slave Pens, Srusk 4)
Ahozk was bored. Bored and uncomfortable. Bored, uncomfortable, and slightly terrified. That shouldn’t have been possible, but it was the truth.
The uncomfortable part was easiest t...
2025-09-18 20:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostWith the ceremony done, I shifted into my human guise, and an enchanted kimono, so that things wouldn’t be so formal. While some formalities would necessarily be a part of the apprenticeship process and my station, that did not mean I needed to get into everything ...
2025-09-17 20:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostSuffice to say, the Commonwealth officers were happy to hear that the mystery ship that had been raiding the Incux was not hostile to them, though they were less happy to hear that the Kroscyl was only tangentially under my control. Having a livi...
2025-09-16 22:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostWe weren’t holding the watch party in anyone’s actual divine realm. Too many wildly different personalities and potential conflicts for that. Even if we were all there to watch a dragon catch a whipping from the Great Sage, that didn’t mean everyone was s...
2025-09-15 20:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostRedmond had been hit hard by life in general, the last few decades. Things had already been sliding, back when the Awakening happened, but the Second Corp War had really sent the place into a nose dive. That tends to happen when corporate strike teams fight ove...
2025-09-13 21:30:11 +0000 UTC View PostLevel 50, back when we’d gotten it, had only given me 5 new skills, instead of the normal 10. Two racials (demon-themed and angel-themed, like usual), and one for each of my classes and my profession. All five had cost 4 skill points, and they’d been badass e...
2025-09-12 16:21:12 +0000 UTC View Post(Command Nest, Gel-nak Imperial Navy Ship Threefold Destruction of the Unworthy, Srusk System, Gel-Nak Empire)
Ship High Commander Arlushk cursed under his breath as he saw the devastation left in the impossible ship’s wake. The fighters had b...
2025-09-11 17:35:47 +0000 UTC View PostLucia Menton was excited. Well, she thought, as she patted down her dress to ensure nothing was out of place, excited seemed a bit too dull a term for it, but ‘thrilled’ or ‘ecstatic’ sounded a bit pretentious for the moment. She wasn’t going to a concert...
2025-09-10 21:17:57 +0000 UTC View PostI did not even try to give myself the Seer title. For one thing, Seer was one of those ‘uncontrolled’ titles. Titles came in two types, passive, and uncontrolled. Passive titles (like Executioner) had a predictable effect that came into play whenever the circu...
2025-09-09 23:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Divine Trials were a massive success, in my not so humble opinion. Within a week, the ‘problem children’ in Patriarch, Prophet, and Saint Pete’s religions were either gearing up and traveling to Jerusalem to try and ‘reclaim the holy land from the invade...
2025-09-08 22:14:47 +0000 UTC View Post(Shadowmen In-Game OOC Forum, Seattle Section)
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... 2025-09-06 13:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post“[Whirlwind Slash]!”
Linette’s cry echoed through the boss room as the dual-wielding fighter spun in the air like a top, blades extended. Four times each of her blade bit into the hide of Zojek the Flameborn, the Level 50 Flame Drake that was the boss of Fl...
2025-09-05 23:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post(Command Nest, Gel-nak Imperial Navy Ship Threefold Destruction of the Unworthy, Srusk System, Gel-Nak Empire)
Ship High Commander Arlushk snarled as the last of his patrol crafts was turned into a cloud of debris, courtesy of the damned human’s...
2025-09-04 20:29:41 +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, Lic...
2025-09-03 21:25:07 +0000 UTC View PostYour forces have gained XP while under your orders. With Admiral, King, and [Mutual Might], you gain XP. Amount reduced due to actions being taken in another star system. Amount reduced due to not having direct involvement in ac...
2025-09-02 12:15:51 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days and three nights. That was how long it took Kithenin to start making trouble. The dragon had spent the time looking for an appropriate space to make his lair. I had half-expected him to go and turn the tallest building in the area into his lair, but the...
2025-09-01 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post