Learner’s notes.
Calvin has come to the lab every night for the past three nights. Between then and when I see him performing his duties during the day, He has approximately two hours per solar cycle that he could possibly be sleeping. Not including travel time.
I doubt he is, though. None of the evidence seems to point to it.
My brain tells me that this cannot be a good thing, as humans need the regular cycle of sleep to h...
2020-09-08 01:54:19 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 13: Blue Serpent Furnace
There was a wrenching squeal from the side of the camp, drawing everyone’s attention.
Jessica was unclasping a piece of torn steel from her neck, scowling down at it.
“Whazzat?” Jeb asked.
“Some kind of magical control collar. Eddie was planning on using it on me, but he didn’t have the Myst for it.”
“What is he, some kinda incel?” Brett demanded, scowling.
Ron snorted.
“Can I…see it?” Jeb a...
2020-09-06 17:35:15 +0000 UTC
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My creativity is limited. I can rattle off maybe...5?
the complacency aura
the flying organ from refraction spinners
The dimensional blades from refraction spinners.
intent perception from Lures
The wings 'n horn obvs.
What other little goodies could Elliot and Nadia have cooked up? Don't worry about having to stick to a creature that's already been shown, this is for fun, and she should have some surprises.
2020-09-05 09:11:12 +0000 UTC
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Okay, bring up Drafting. Calvin thought, kicking his heels from the side of his tower, the light of Soscath shining down on him as he surveyed his domain.
I have a domain. Sometimes none of this feels real…gods, I wish I could sleep through this boredom.
You know, that face on the moon is a result of a burning mine? If you had a telescope you could see my former office.
“I did not know that,” Calvi...
2020-09-05 00:01:29 +0000 UTC
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Kala yelped and grabbed onto Ella for support, and Calvin did the same, his balance suddenly thrown off by the falling sensation.
Y’Kuingi’s legs splayed out and touched either side of the wall, her pincers grabbing the corrugated steel.
Learner just stood there, frowning at them curiously.
A few lightweight seconds later, the elevator began slowing drastically, ramping up their weight over the course of a couple seconds.
Having prepared for it, ...
2020-09-03 22:18:43 +0000 UTC
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After they were done with the visit to the Ooze-weavers and the impromptu slime-fight, it was getting late in the day, and they decided to go to bed for the night and tackle negotiating with the Knick knack delegates in the morning.
Calvin laid in bed, staring at the ceiling, counting the seconds.
The gentle snoring around him was calming, but it did nothing to lull him to sleep. He was as wide awake as he had been this afternoon.
I said I didn’t wan...
2020-09-02 00:22:12 +0000 UTC
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Calvin cracked his undead knuckles.
Alright, let’s do this.
Calvinian summoning
Atom ant
47/54 Bent remaining
Calvin created a swarm of thumb-sized Knick-knacks, which were as small as he could make them. Each of them had the strength of…forty-five thumb-sized knick-knacks.
Which honestly wasn’t a lot, but it made them able to carry and manipulate larger c...
2020-09-01 02:49:24 +0000 UTC
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Calvin’s first instinct, naturally, was enemy mind control.
When he saw the procession of Ooze-Weavers drowning themselves in the lake, he honestly thought for a just second that Jonathan Ilestar was doing what they said he could do: making an entire city kill themselves.
Calvin was right in the middle of swearing eternal vengeance when he noticed the bubble of mucus they were wrapping around their breathy-parts, and the relaxed way they were swimming under th...
2020-08-28 22:15:12 +0000 UTC
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I'm attending a wake for that aunt in law today, so here's some of the stuff I've been working on a couple days in advance. Sorry about the lack of WotR.
Chapter 11: Generic Villains
There was pandemonium in the camp as people snatched up weapons, leaping to their feet and preparing to defend themselves, but Jeb only had eyes for his bag and the douche with his hands in it.
Jeb cleared his throat.
“What did you do!?” Eddie shouted, dropping Jeb’s bag and ...
2020-08-27 20:25:33 +0000 UTC
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“Y’Kuingi!” Calvin shouted upon seeing his erstwhile pseudo-fiancee.
Is it just me or has she grown a couple inches? Calvin wondered as he did the traditional crabwalk-arms-raised greeting of The People.
“Welcome to the village, my lord.”
“Your lord, is it?” Calvin asked. “Since when?”
“Since I discovered the human custom of feudalism. If we take you as our lord, you are honor-bound to protect us from all comers.”
2020-08-26 00:59:18 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 9: Air Force
***1 Day 16 hours remaining***
“How is this safe!?” Jessica demanded as they floated over the vast forest.
“All falling or crashing injuries are dependent on inertia. Since you can bring yours to effectively zero, this is perfectly safe for you.”
“Are you saying we’re gonna crash!?”
Jeb shrugged as the forest rolled by beneath them.
He wasn’t flying so much as picking himself and Jessica up like duffel bag...
2020-08-24 23:03:02 +0000 UTC
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After several hours of debate, Calvin took Two tiers of Bulk Split, then Atom Ant. His Dupdomancy skills had never been about long term solutions to problems, it had been about effective solutions to pressing issues. With Atom Ant, he could create equipment that was up to forty-five times stronger than it had any right to be, allowing him more power and flexibility.
He tried it against Karen and was pleased to note that she couldn’t easily tear through Abyssal Steel...
2020-08-24 22:54:02 +0000 UTC
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From the records of Sigmund Velmont, Undead Hunter on the planet Korat.
The Maculat Mulieres is a horrifying creature that solely preys upon the weakest among us. Among the thinking undead, they are some of the most difficult to suss out, apart from simply poking everyone you meet with a beeswax rod.
They prefer densely populated urban areas where the disappearance of young women can go unnoticed for days, weeks, or sometimes indefinitely.<...
2020-08-21 19:58:11 +0000 UTC
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Now that he had free time, he was able to deal with the passengers in his head, starting with Nadia. Her new body bristled with a litany of augmentations from half a dozen different species of warped creatures, Some of which he’d hunted down specifically for this. The combination of potent mutations made her a terror in her own right, without even including the mind magic she was skilled in.
She looked slightly different than she had before, as though an artist had ...
2020-08-20 00:15:52 +0000 UTC
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I’m hungry, Calvin thought to himself as he sat on top of the train headed toward his territory, taking the scenic route so he had time to think about his life and where he wanted to take it. The wind blowing in his hair felt nice.
Wait a minute. I’m hungry! Calvin started, having grown accustomed to not being hungry at all. The familiar feeling of hunger was sitting right there, making his stomach feel like it was slowly tearing itself apart.
2020-08-18 01:35:03 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 7:
***Jessica***
A little projectile hummed from Jeb’s hiding place toward the monster, then the three mermaid heads, a good chunk of the water and the monster therin, simply vanished, in a ten-foot sphere.
Crack! The implosion sounded like a gunshot as the air rushed in to fill the void. A moment later, the Siren boss floated to the surface, the oversized body missing the top of its gargantuan skull.
“The fuck was that?” Jessica d...
2020-08-17 00:09:15 +0000 UTC
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“That’s interesting.” Calvin murmured, watching his index and middle finger burn with white flame. They were losing their color and turning into grey ash as the flame advanced from the very tip down past the first knuckle.
“Calvin!?” Kala’s voice snapped him out of it.
Blade body.
One of Calvin’s knives manifested in his hand, and with a few quick strides, he’d pinned the burning fingers on the hardwood desk, knife...
2020-08-14 23:11:03 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, I’m starting to get a feel for the Maculat impulses. It seems like if someone states that they are adamant that they or others should do a certain thing, behave a certain way, or consider something taboo…
Fervently ascribe to a moral code? Elliot asked.
“Yeah, that.” Calvin said, snapping his fingers. “Now, I want to see if I guessed right, and if I did, we’ll use this as training to control it.”
Calvin had ...
2020-08-14 01:05:45 +0000 UTC
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I’m not one to get stage fright, but this is nuts, Calvin thought, sliding out of his seat and shuffling to the left.
“Other way,” The marquis Surrak said under his breath.
Calvin glanced up and saw that left was indeed a dead end.
Son of a bitch. I guess I do get stage fright.
Calvin reversed course and slipped by half a dozen old men until he got to the aisle, walking down the steps until he got to the round bench.
“...
2020-08-12 00:27:50 +0000 UTC
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The dignitaries filed in, following some incomprehensible pattern based on rank followed by power, then seniority and in one case, height.
The shorter of the two dukes of identical age glared at the man ahead of him as they entered and found their seats.
Calvin, being a Marquis, was toward the front of the pack, just behind the Hash’Maje and his dukes, Ahead of the earls, viscounts, and barons.
Why is your king called a Hash’maje, but all t...
2020-08-11 01:29:23 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 5: Necrobarter
Jeb let out a choked cry as Jessica flung him backwards into the tiny dungeon, charging out to meet the creature face-to-face.
Jeb landed on his ass right in the middle of the beam of light, triggering the magical swarm a second time. The Myst shot out of the ceiling, blinking like a strobe light, stirring the dust on the floor a bit, but not doing anything other than that.
Thank god I disarmed this thing, he thought, turnin...
2020-08-10 00:54:30 +0000 UTC
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“Wanna run that one by me again?” The Hash’Maje asked. Calvin could hear the teacups rattling in place as papa Entredez’s eyebrows raised.
“Kala got killed, but I took care of it, invented a cure for death and am currently persuading her to take it, but she’s still a little hesitant. I’m guessing it’s mild PTSD from getting murdered.”
How could you possibly think this was the right approach to this situation!? Kala dem...
2020-08-07 23:45:44 +0000 UTC
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Alright, here we go, Calvin thought, kneeling down and touching the frozen pile of parts that was all that remained of Carem.
Consume.
11/47 Bent remaining.
Entire creature eaten.
Chained Spirit detecting additional links connected to primary soul. Inheritance protocol initiated.
Carem Sageva: 35 M Mutant hum...
2020-08-07 01:02:11 +0000 UTC
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Once he calmed down, Calvin reneged on the whole ‘eating him alive’ plan and simply killed Carem, cutting off his head, removing his heart and lobotomizing him before putting his body on ice.
The reasoning was such: It takes at least a month to eat a human body the old fashioned way. That was an extra month he wouldn’t have his wife back, and during that time, Kala would be sitting around in the Black Room, going crazy from isolation.
That was also an extr...
2020-08-05 19:40:47 +0000 UTC
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*Author’s note* This one’s got a decent amount of cussing...mild NTR threats and light cannibalism.. You’ve been warned.
Okay, eight of us immediately available, we’ve got six Bent each. In another eight to seventeen hours we’ll have another…several hundred of us.
Yeah. Let’s find this fucker.
The eight Calvins stepped out into the warm jungle air, raised their hands and burst into wasps, heading in eight differen...
2020-08-04 00:17:03 +0000 UTC
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This is what we got this weekend. Tomorrow we're back to our regularly scheduled content.
Chapter 3:
***Jessica***
He’d done something.
She didn’t know what, but in that instant, she knew he’d done something.
George was scary, sure, but he was a definable threat. If he got mad, he’d cut you in half with his axes. It could be avoided by avoiding the axes… but what this man had just done…she couldn’t perceive it at all.
Myst.<...
2020-08-03 01:23:24 +0000 UTC
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*Authors note: This ones gonna piss some people off.*
Alright, thats enough. As nice as it would have been to get revenge, I cant risk failure here. Ill catch you later. The Harbinger muttered, drawing itself to its feet. With its good arm, it pulled out a small black metal handle with a little tube
Dodge! Elliots scream was loaded with urgency, shocking Calvin into action.<...
2020-07-31 23:18:48 +0000 UTC
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Imagine time as a slimy hagfish, an eel with no beginning or end. Every time you poke the future, it squirms on you, changing the result, so in order to achieve a very specific outcome, you have to manually pin it down, checking on it time and again, forcing the wriggling, slimy hagfish to lie still in the spot you want it.
But time is an infinite hagfish, and pinning down one small length of it makes the rest of the eel wriggle like crazy in indignation. When your...
2020-07-29 23:07:41 +0000 UTC
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***Baroke***
Ugh, son of a bitch, Baroke groaned, pushing himself to a sitting position, spitting out dirt that had gotten in his paralyzed mouth.
I get my hands on that bastard, hes gonna wish hed never been born, Baroke thought, climbing to his feet.
The building above him exploded outward, revealing Calvin skating backward on some kind of tentacles, holding an orb of blood, his expression fixed with manic glee.
Immediately afterward, a gigant...
2020-07-28 02:05:37 +0000 UTC
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Okay, so waaaay back in chapter....whatever, it was revealed Calvin would become a Maculat Mulieres should he die.
That's latin for Defiler/Corrupter of women... roughly. I'm not a latin major. Not even a minor, I used google translate.
That's not important. What is important is that we get to create an entirely new form of undead.
What makes undead fun? Its the crazy-ass rules they have to follow.
All the best Undead have three major attributes: Food they use to sus...
2020-07-27 21:37:49 +0000 UTC
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