Just a small housekeeping thing - I'll be away from the office for the next 4 days. I've scheduled chapters for next week so no change in our regular chapter programming, but I won't be answering any messages.
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2024-05-11 16:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post"Jason, Garet, hold the door!"
The warriors nodded and ran to the reinforced gateway with spear and polearm at the ready. Phuong trusted them and turned back to his task: slaughtering everything.
They were in a timed event and nearly at the end.
Phuong almost groaned with relief...
2024-05-10 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[You have defeated Chief Engineer Toofik, completing the mortal challenge and the dungeon Engineering Guild . You have earned enough experience for level 11. Please select a power to upgrade.]
Blake watched the goblin leader fall with a True Making spear lodged through his skul...
2024-05-09 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Morning, sleepy. Time for breakfast!”
Mason blinked awake and found himself on the couch in the chief’s hall covered in a blanket. Haley had called from the kitchen, and he glanced at the dim light coming through a window and slowly remembered the amazing sex with Rosa and Haley. And...
2024-05-08 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason walked arm in arm with Haley and Rosa towards the chief hall, his mind still swirling. A part of him wanted to run full speed towards the mountains to check on the players, a part wanted to sit with Becky until she woke up.
But he couldn't be everywhere all the time. He wasn't a god w...
2024-05-07 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason stepped out in front of the great tree, feeling it radiate warmth and pleasure as his feet touched the temple floor.
"Oh, druid, it's...it's beautiful."
The old 'elf' woman knelt at the sapling and made some kind of maybe religious gesture, muttering quiet words. Mason thought o...
2024-05-06 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostMason was tired of getting blown up. And buried alive. And swallowed whole. He pushed at the floor and rose to his knees, blinking at what seemed to be a glowing blue and white mist. He still couldn't hear anything.
"Blake," he vaguely heard himself mutter, then felt his heart rate rising. ...
2024-05-03 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostRebecca followed Annie, keeping her Sacred Aegis active. It was essentially her usual Arcane Shield, except now it fully worked on one other person and still only drained her 'energy', which regenerated very quickly, especially due to another faster regen power. But the range of the thing was ter...
2024-05-02 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"That's...not the door," Mason said when he got to the far end of the hall.
Blake had apparently dug or cut a path through the stone wall, though there wasn't any trace of rubble. Or even dust.
A few long-shot weapons still pinged and knocked bits of rock next to the players, but Blak...
2024-05-01 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostBlake failed his Animate attempt for the second time and kicked the iron door.
"Ow. God damnit." He glanced at Pliny. "Any luck with the key?"
"Not yet, human friend. But getting closer." The strange but intriguing creature was intensely focused on his task, and Blake thought it best ...
2024-04-30 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMason hadn't exactly planned on 'sneaking', but he would have liked to at least gone unnoticed for a minute. Blake's constructs put an end to all that.
With the collective gait and volume of a small herd of buffalo, the five living statues lumbered behind and in front of their creator like ...
2024-04-29 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostMason forgot where he was when he woke. He smiled when he saw Becky's brown hair draped over his chest, pushing a little from her face until he realized they weren't in bed.
Then the reality of the goblins and looming battle came rushing in. A piece of Mason shouted 'we have no room for...
2024-04-26 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason hurried through tunnel after tunnel with Becky's hand in his, looking for somewhere far and private and comfortable enough to...settle in.
"Druid," Calypsa stepped beside him and held out a hand. "Are you searching for something in particular?"
"Ah. Somewhere...slightly nicer."<...
2024-04-25 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostMason and all the others followed new and improved Pliny through the winding tunnels. After the spider they were all a bit on edge, but Mason couldn’t hear anything nearby and frankly was starting to get a little bored.
“So, any cool new powers I need to know about?” he whispered to B...
2024-04-24 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnnie closed her eyes and forced her feet forward. She could do this. She'd survived the end of the world and the 'school' and all the things after. She could do this, too.
The door slammed shut behind her, the 'Martial' affinity symbol pulsing ahead.
"You stand in the hall of the Mak...
2024-04-23 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRebecca stepped into the dark and felt the girl freeze at her side.
"It's alright," she said, putting an arm around Annie's waist. "We'll do it together."
That seemed to help, or at least got the girl moving. As they walked in further little torch-globes lit along the walls, and Rebec...
2024-04-22 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostMason was seriously stuck in the damn web. It didn't trigger his titles or Apex Predator, and though Duality of Strength was going crazy it seemed like strength was really not going to get him out.
The webbing just flexed like elastic as he pushed and pulled, the length of his limbs not eno...
2024-04-19 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnnie stared at the pretty, spinning dark, and breathed. "Holes in the world," she heard herself say. Like holes cut in a black curtain letting in moonlight, swirling and swirling and swirling.
"Stay together!" she heard Mason say. Why should he say such a thing? Of course they were togethe...
2024-04-18 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostMason, an unhappy Calypsa, and the rest of the players followed 'Pliny’ up a winding path from the undead cavern. Blake soon had to dissolve two of his larger constructs, then three, with only one able to squeeze itself through the narrow passages.
"Not exactly how we'd like to start a fi...
2024-04-17 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason obviously didn't trust the little half-dead goblin for a second. Still, the thing posed no obvious threat and he did trust in Blake's ridiculous luck to find just what he needed.
"Alright," he said with a sigh. "How can you help us kill the 'big bosses'?"
"This way, humans," the...
2024-04-16 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMason tried not to cringe at the incredible racket produced by Blake's constructs as they moved down the giant hall. One even slipped down a ramp and slid to the next platform with a metallic screech before righting itself.
"Sorry about that," Blake wiggled a finger in his ear. "Not really ...
2024-04-15 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBlake stopped with everyone else when he heard the alarm-like blare. He and his constructs were busily tearing apart the engineer's quarters looking for blueprints or runes, but weren't having much luck.
"Was that us?" he squinted and tried to hear the direction of the sound before he heard...
2024-04-12 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe entrance to the Engineering Guild was a long, narrow corridor that didn't even bother to hide its traps. Mason stared at the holes on the ceiling, the arrow slits in the walls, and what looked like large slots for some kind of blades to come out. He sighed.
"Send in a construct? Set off...
2024-04-11 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"We don't have much space, but when we do—John with me up front, Garet and Jason on our flanks. Seul-ki and Alex behind. Any questions?"
They all shook their heads, so Phuong led the others back down the winding 'Engineer' corridors, back to the main tunnels and the first branch that led ...
2024-04-10 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Good idea," Alex said as they walked down the large 'Engineering Guild' tunnel. "With Bomb-bait out front, I feel very safe."
"That's because they didn't blow you up last time," muttered Phuong, sounding somewhat less enthused.
"I save you, old man, no problem. Don't worry."
"W...
2024-04-09 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"So...ya'll figure we should just...knock?"
Blake, Mason, and most everyone else gave Becky a glare.
"I'm just sayin'." She held up her hands. "Maybe it's like...a magic door."
Navi had identified it already, so Blake knew it was in fact not a magic door. Of course that didn't m...
2024-04-08 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMason led his increasingly large and powerful pack of players across the forest, his mind on the battles ahead. He didn't want to get overconfident, but it was hard to imagine anything he'd seen in the forest posing a threat.
The only thing he could think of was another giant pack of goblin...
2024-04-05 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBlake ran along behind Mason like everyone else. Well, not exactly like everyone else. OK, and he wasn't actually running.
Realizing his brother would soon send them all on another wild hunt, Blake had taken the time to try a little experiment. Being carried like a sack of pot...
2024-04-04 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Sorry to bother you." Blake's voice popped into Mason's mind. "But the, um, scary hot nymph...uh, the tall one. Apocalypsa? God I can't remember any names without Mental Influence. No, no it started with a C. Callico? Whatever she's here and she says it's urgent. I thought this would be less int...
2024-04-03 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as Blake left, Mason had Haley bring him Carl and Phuong. They sat and drank another cup of coffee, stuffing themselves with Haley's pastries as Carl explained what had happened leading up to the attack.
Mason told them they'd found Billy the Brewer, who'd been the one to bring them...
2024-04-02 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post