Nar adjusted Jul’s weight on his back. He did it gently, but Jul still muttered something in his ear.
He tried to hide his grimace. His arms had been sore after the first day of carrying her, and by now, two more days later, they were permanently numb from the moment he picked her up in t...
2024-11-14 11:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, that’s it! Viy, stab it!”
Viy shouted and pushed her spear into one of the soldier’s weak spots. It didn’t go in as easily or as deep as Wik’s attacks went, but it still had an effect.
The soldier roared in anger, but as it shook off Gad’s aggro, the tank hit him ...
2024-11-14 11:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I realize we never introduced ourselves,” the red leader said.
It had been a quiet night. The other party had been exhausted after their ordeal, and Kur had ordered them to bed early, so that they wouldn’t disturb their sleep.
Nar had stayed up late, however, listening to Rel t...
2024-11-13 10:03:17 +0000 UTC View PostJul patted his arm and Nar halted next to her. He waited in silence, while she sensed whatever it was that had called out to her.
After a couple of minutes, she leaned towards his ear and he leaned down.
“I’m sure,” she said, whispering.
Nar held a gasp.
“Okay. Let...
2024-11-13 10:01:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe caster sat back down, hard, and wiped her mouth, breathing hard. She looked around her, unsteadily, her eyes glazed over, looking without seeing.
Nar realized that the explosion must have momentarily blinded her.
“Mul? Mul!” she shouted.
In a panic, she patted the floor ...
2024-11-13 01:19:00 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sorry to see you guys go, but I understand.”
Kur and Row shook and held each other's hands for a moment, neither willing to end the goodbye.
“Us too,” Kur said. “I really hope we can meet again.”
“Outside, or at least, somewhere closer to that damned exit!...
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2024-11-11 14:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post“No Change. You are on the best path for you!” Tuk said, beaming. “You hear that? Ah! The recognition! The validation!”
“I got the same thing,” Cen said.
“To me, it said I was on the only path that was right for me,” Mul said, frowning, clearly unsure about what that m...
2024-11-11 14:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post“... and then, I thought, I have nine more, why not use just a second one?” Tuk said.
Gasps erupted around him.
“Fucking pile, man. You’re insane!” Jaz shouted.
“I thought you were just going really fast,” Nar said. “But now that I think about it, I could feel yo...
2024-11-11 14:26:17 +0000 UTC View Post-[ Quest, Cross the Chasm, completed!
Congratulations, you have made it to the Mid-Levels!
You are closer to atonement.
Other rewards:
1. You have been granted a 10-hour rest period within this safe space. There are no f...
2024-11-11 14:25:57 +0000 UTC View PostA tank stepped out from the gathering of Climbers and stood in their way as they walked down the stairs. He was an altei, and his back was so straight it almost bent backwards.
Nar disliked him on sight.
“Finally moving your ass?” he asked Row. “We’re getting shredded down her...
2024-11-11 14:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostRow urged them to follow her to the line, before another wave of guardians descended from the tube.
“Boss!”
A quam called out to Row, waving at her with four short swords.
Crystal’s mercy! Four blades? How’s that fair? Nar thought, staring at the four bladed DPS...
2024-11-11 14:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing how her words were not having any effect, the woman swore and turned to talk with a big morsvar. The guy held a shield and a mace, just like Gad.
Why is she so close to the guardians, though? That’s so dangerous, Nar thought.
She should be more at the b...
2024-11-11 14:24:27 +0000 UTC View Post“Up! Up! Up!” Kur shouted the next morning. “I warned you guys that there would be no sleeping in.”
A chorus of groans and half-woken mutters met his words.
“Come on, come on!” Kur said. “We’ve got another amazing day of walking through these same corridors we’ve bee...
2024-11-11 14:24:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Cen came too, she made Kur’s anger look like an amicable disagreement between two team leads.
Nar hadn’t known she could be so loud.
She had Tuk almost in tears, apologizing. She made him swear that he was going to be training every single night into the AMs, and informed him...
2024-11-11 14:23:53 +0000 UTC View PostNar was starting to get the hang of it.
He was letting less and less bolts pass him by, and was even considering rushing the poisoner to attack the little guardians supplying it.
A few fights and a couple of gains later, he was now even faster, and his [Reflex] higher. Soon, he would ...
2024-11-11 14:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Cen, hold back for now,” Kur said. “Let’s see how we do first!”
“Got it!”
Gad had stopped the soldier guardian’s charge, and Viy and Mul moved in.
Nar shifted his foot a smidge forward. His legs were bent and his back leaned forward. And on his hand, supported b...
2024-11-11 14:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostHe felt the cut. It stung and shrieked against all the others that he had accumulated across his ankles and shins.
“Again!”
The cuts would heal. They didn’t matter.
Tuk spun his ring and flicked it at Nar once more.
Nar swung his sword, slashing in a diagonal c...
2024-11-11 14:22:23 +0000 UTC View PostHe gazed at his weapon for a long time after she was gone. The colors swirled and shifted. Hypnotic.
Gad’s words burned in his mind, roaring like the Pressure, shredding all doubt and hesitation.
Even her steps taught him about the kind of person she was. The kind of person he aspir...
2024-11-11 14:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post“How are you feeling?”
Nar glanced up.
“Gad?”
“Who else?”
“Sorry, I was thinking.”
She snorted.
“I know! It’s been three hours,” she said. “I thought I’d come check on you, before you melted what little brain you have.”
Nar fro...
2024-11-11 14:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostVoices floated around him.
“Nar!”
“It’s over…
“We need to…”
Nar groaned and opened his eyes.
His shoulder screamed and a whimper escaped his lips.
“Nar?” a voice asked. “Nar’s awake!”
Nar…
Nar’s…
Awake…
...
2024-11-11 14:20:20 +0000 UTC View PostSoon, they found another batch of corpses. And another, right after it.
The Pressure had long faded away, taking its orange, weight and heat with it, but they were still finding more dead cannibals.
They walked well into the night, past what had to be at least a couple thousand corpse...
2024-11-11 14:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostNar skewered the guardian from side to side. He pushed with all his [Strength] and dragged the machine the three steps to the wall, where he pinned it.
The guardian spasmed and thrashed, and Nar covered his face with his arm. The guardian’s wild blades drew shallow stinging lines across h...
2024-11-11 14:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post“You don’t know darkness, little man. Not like we do.” - Anonymous delver morsvar tank, ex-Climber, The Goliath, S739DAF88L46Y, popular drinking establishment for ex-Climber tanks
Excerpt from “Life in the Depths – A Study of the Life C...
2024-11-11 14:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post“These are the last ones,” said one of their guides.
The person he addressed turned their way, and Nar saw that it was the Admin himself.
“Good, thank you. You guys report to the Doors,” he said.
“Yes, Admin.”
“As for you, Climbers, this is where you’ll res...
2024-11-11 14:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostOf the things that Nar had expected the Climb to involve, fighting for the survival of, and then actually going inside another cubeplant, had not been on the list. Now that he thought about it, what had he expected?
He snorted.
It wasn’t this for sure.
Walking in that familiar...
2024-11-11 14:17:44 +0000 UTC View PostSound slowly returned to him, as his ears healed.
The cries of the injured and the dying filled the air, and the Climbers who hadn’t followed the fleeing of cannibals, now roamed the massive room, putting an end to any cannibal that still drew breath.
Nar watched them, with a wearin...
2024-11-11 14:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostFlashes of purple.
Screams.
Grasping hands tearing at his clothes and filling his sight.
Bodies pressing him from all sides.
Rotting breath nearly blinding him.
In the distance, seeming so far away, the spear still danced, glinting purple above the press of heads. 2024-11-11 14:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The cannibals left the defenders well alone.
There was enough to distract them in the middle of that massive room, and the occasional scream still reached Nar.
The thought of being out there, surrounded by cannibals, with no hope of escape, only that it would end quickly, made him gri...
2024-11-11 14:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe purple lit corridor faded in and out of focus.
Nar held Jul’s hand in an unyielding grip, and dragged the crying scout behind him.
His lungs screamed for him to stop and his heart beat painfully, barely hanging on. But his brain commanded him to run, and the noises now coming fr...
2024-11-11 14:15:06 +0000 UTC View Post