Give me the text for Eye of the Tiger again, Calvin thought as he headed for the
Sure, Elliot said, bringing it up.
Eye of the tiger: Enter flow state at will. Meditation Correction applies to combat and learning effectiveness. The inverse of a barbarian rage. May make the user overtired with extended use.
…just gonna point out the obvious here. Why didn’t I use that during the fight? 2020-01-17 01:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
***Ussein***
Despite Orson’s haste in abandoning everyone else in the castle, the princess was a piece that the old man couldn’t afford to lose, and even in the off-chance that the threat was credible, Ussein needed to get her out of the danger zone.
“Alright Princess, let’s go. We’ve got to get the men out of here. No sense waiting around for the place to blow,” Ussein said, touching her shoulder to get her attention.
“This is the safest pla...
2020-01-16 02:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
“Okay, this is the way I see it.” Calvin took a deep breath to weigh all the possible ways this could go. That vast majority of them ended up with at least a significant portion of his company dead.
“The best solution to this situation is…”
Is..?
Calvin forced the words out.
“Is to abandon the fort, take an escape tunnel and head back to Uleis with the Cobalts in tow…and play the long game like Kala and Nadia s...
2020-01-15 04:37:37 +0000 UTC View PostSo this guy
https://www.amazon.com/Ravagers-Wake-Kelthus-Zad-ebook/dp/B083S12K1M/ref=sr_1_88?pldnSite=1
copied WotR into amazon. Pretty please write a 5 star review calling them out on the plagiarism, and link to the story.
also does anyone know the ins and outs of how to report plagiarism To amazon because last time I tried it made m...
2020-01-13 23:12:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Kala let out a quiet sigh as the carriage glided down the road. Calvin’s public outreach program was very successful in making Gadvera and Kala in particular very popular with the native population, but getting through to the men in charge was a much more daunting task.
Nadia blew any chance I ever had of entering the palace. Ever since the sadomasochistic bitch had stepped foot inside, they’d been on lockdown, and because Baroke was Gadveran, they looked...
2020-01-13 22:46:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Calvin was sitting under the eaves of the west wall, out of the sun, at the outdoor mess, fixing himself a sandwich, while around him, chaos reigned. There were glass bolts peppered in the eaves above him, wounded men running back and forth, screams of pain and the occasional explosion.
There were three major Knife-Work Skills he was interested in, and Calvin decided that he could fix himself lunch while he took a minute to think about it.
Arguably the most powe...
2020-01-12 02:04:44 +0000 UTC View Post
“How in the Abyss did you manage to get so wounded fighting these scrubs?” Grant muttered, cutting Calvin’s pants off of him and inspecting the burns that wound up his leg and back.
“Three at a time, without Bent.” Calvin said, puffing up his chest a little. “Had to save as much as I could for the plan.”
“Yeah, but these guys were average soldiers. Beating three of them doesn’t really impress me.”
“Bah, you’re just talking out your ...
2020-01-11 02:32:20 +0000 UTC View PostHeld off on picking the new one until the next chapter. Here's the previous list! Blade Body is included because i don't want an identical mutation suggested for some reason. looks like what we're missing are abilities that don't require Bent.
Abilities:
Bleeding Strike: 1 Bent. Does what it says. The bleeding will not stop without extreme interference.
Penetrating Strike: 1 Bent. Softens material that com...
2020-01-10 00:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post
“We’re under attack!” Calvin shouted, pointing at the mercenaries dressed like sand pirates as they flooded down the mountain, some twelve hundred of them, kicking up dust as they sprinted at break-neck speeds down the near vertical cliff-face, led by Grant sporting a couple fancy new swords.
I didn’t give him the budget for that. Calvin scowled.
Decent swords were moderately expensive, but fantastic ones, made by men with Skills, those cost alm...
2020-01-09 23:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
“What the hell is taking that brat so long?” Orson asked, glancing over at Ussein. “Yesterday was the day he asked you to take a day off.” He glanced over at the mountainside where men were hiding, ready to ambush the upstart’s company with vastly superior force.
He couldn’t afford to keep so many of his men in one place much longer.
Orson’s spies had reported the entire troop march out the west gate nearly a week ago, before heading south. Since t...
2020-01-08 02:34:18 +0000 UTC View PostI don't do this often, but I Really, really want a review up on the front page for the next couple days. If you're interested in helping Wake of the Ravager out, go here and upvote a review that looks like this:
***Jinnei Gadsint***
The island looked a bit like a balding man’s head. The gentle swell of a storm-eroded mountain, mostly covered in emerald jungle, save for an inexplicable bare patch of shredded branches and black dirt, seemingly a mile wide.
“This is where the ships are coming from?” Jinnei asked, standing up in the crow’s nest with Kip, her pirate blood-slave.
“According to the Shuweya, anyway.”
The Shuweya were the islanders who po...
2020-01-06 23:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The faint sensation of being roughly jostled alerted Calvin that maybe he should snap out of Medi-tate.
“What?” He said, blinking the sand out of his eyes. Five days and he hadn’t been able to use Meditation to work on any of his skills, instead forced to recover from his last Mutation. He was almost completely back to normal, now, having healed the rough equivalent of nine weeks.
Calvin expected to open his eyes to a princess, and when it turned out to be...
2020-01-05 01:56:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Calvin walked up to the ruddy glass mansion, thankful to be back on his own two feet. He craned his neck to look up at the towering spires jutting out above the fanciful mansion, supposedly home to one of his prey.
Why does everyone like spires so much In Uleis?
“Can I help you?” one of the guards asked, a lighter-skinned Uleisan with a hook nose.
“Is this…” Calvin slid a paper out of his vest and double checked it. “Princess June’s ...
2020-01-04 01:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post
“Damned Savage,” Maya muttered as she jogged along the side of the slope, carrying her unstrung bow, aiming to outflank the battle proper.
“I’m a hunter. I’m a scout. Not a godsdamned pickup ball, or a crazy…battle junkie.”
Maya jumped over a tall rock as she went, the scrapes along her right side and palms stinging viciously. There goes any rapport I might have had with the giant savage. After that, I think it’s safe to say that she is compl...
2020-01-03 01:06:25 +0000 UTC View PostI've been threatening a dump of WotR for some time, and now it's time to deliver. I'm going to publicly release 2 chapters a day until the 15th!
What does this mean for you?
Well, if you're a 10$ subscriber it doesn't mean much. By the end of the release, you should still be about 20 chapters ahead, as I will definitely be able to finish at least 10 chapters over the next two weeks.
For everyone else, the impact is pretty extreme. I'm going to raise 1$ and 5$ access by 30...
The murmur of the ball around her rose and fell like the familiar tide. It was starting to get late in the evening, when the men and women who’d struck out, or had business in the morning retired, leaving the dance floor filled with half a dozen slow-dancing couples.
The musicians had been relieved by one of the older patrons, who played an enchanting melody on a delicate glass instrument.
Diplomacy wasn’t the art of tracking someone down and begging them fo...
2020-01-01 23:16:54 +0000 UTC View Post**Ella**
Here we are, Grant said, tacking as they headed into the wind, gradually slowing down. Were not going to get much farther than this, put the brake on, will you?
Ella put her foot down on the brake in the back of the sled, jutting a steel spike into the ground. It was the only part of the sled that wasnt glass or canvas.
The sled bucked a little, then gradually began to slow down as they came to a halt in front of the rocky desert outside the Cobalt mountai...
2019-12-31 02:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostHows it hanging Nadia?
Im in the sewers with Baroke. It is absolutely foul down here.
Good, keep him alive unless I tell you otherwise. I dont think Calvins ready for a solo act yet, anyway. Hes got a lot of growing to do, and the right friends help facilitate that.
Why do you keep giving him unsolicited advice, anyway? Nadia asked.
Because its the kind of stuff I wish Id heard when I was his age, obviously.
Its ridicu...
2019-12-30 08:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostThis is what we have currently. A few more couldn't hurt.
Abilities:
A mile in his shoes: 1 Bent to disguise yourself as the target for an hour, including voice and tactile effects. Does not lend supernatural knowledge of the targets mental state.
Good for sleeping with other mens wives, if thats included in the mile.
Infectious emoting: 2 Bent. Act...
2019-12-29 22:11:16 +0000 UTC View PostYou know the drill. He got level ten last chapter and I forgot to come up with new options.
These are the ones he got access to last time.
Poker Face: Give away little by way of facial expression.
-Shes got to love nobody!
Open Book: Gain an intuitive understand of the relationship between two people who are looking at each other.
-Lover, Stranger, friend...
2019-12-29 22:09:14 +0000 UTC View PostCalvin stood on the second floor, overlooking the ballroom floor, a single slab of glass filled with brilliant color, where swirling dresses made him think of blooming flowers.
He put his weight on the railing as he leaned foward, picking out where Kala was chatting with some other young aristocrats, searching for this Asabei fellow.
Go down there and dance. Elliot interrupted Calvins thoughts for the umpteenth time.
Thats not the mis...
2019-12-29 00:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostIm gonna kill him, Nadia said, squeezing her fist as she imagined her brothers head popping off in her grip. The little puppet had it coming anyway.
Who, Calvin? the muscle-bound idiot beside her asked with a wry grin as they walked down the street.
No, not him, Nadia said, glancing over and up at the towering archer. Although Calvins lack of reaction to her provocations was infuriating, it wasnt enough for her to kill herself over. The casual disregard ...
2019-12-27 09:34:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe first step is to mix your composites. The enchanting layer needs the most flex so we add a little extra softening agent to the silica and Nem mix. Cobalt keratin, if you were wondering.
Jinei sat crosslegged in front of three ceramic bowls, happily in his element as he demonstrated the glass procedure to Calvin and his friends.
You mix Dust in? Youre practically burning money to make that stuff. Baroke said, frowning.
Where do you think the enchanting ...
2019-12-24 23:38:20 +0000 UTC View PostDue to christmas being what it is, I may not be able to do a chapter today or tomorrow. I'm gonna try, and probably get something done, but no guarantees.
In the meantime, I've always been curious about where you found me, and what you read first, so I've made this handy Poll
1 . Royalroad Outer Sphere
2. Royalroad WotR
3. Scribblehub Outer Sphere
4. Scribblehub WotR
I expect it'll be heavily weighted in royalroad Outer Sphere's favor, but I'm just curious.
...
Jinsei Tan, or Crackle to his friends, of which he no longer had any, tried to liberate the last few drops of precious alcohol from the stubborn rim of his flask with his tongue.
My brothers been missing a week, my fathers dead, my fiancée was withdrawn, and my fathers company is rapidly circling the drain.
Not all was lost though. Once his brother began selling Jins new glass, everyone would want a piece of them.
Better armor, better weapons, and be...
2019-12-22 00:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostSomebody asked for this. I had to fiddle with the MC's base stats manually as Will broke 24 and the points started getting redirected, lowering his Will and raising his Intuition and such. you can probably consult his first Break chapter if you wanna know what his original base stats are.
2019-12-21 20:29:05 +0000 UTC View Post***Orson***
Someone killed my poor, sweet Leben! One of Orsons men, a waddling merchant who oversaw a large part of Orsons Cobalt imports, blubbered in front of him like a child, pressing a silk hanky into his dripping nose.
I dont have time for this, Orson said, flipping through the reports with increasing ire. In one night, someone had just sold lace around town in quantities that dropped the value to barely more than the silk it was composed of. A precipito...
2019-12-21 00:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostKurawe Oquv, the silver haired leader of the Order of the seeking hand, slipped the rich silk robe over his shoulders. Hed completed the ceremonial bathing, hed fasted well, mostly. There was that sandwich. And the soup, and the beer. the ceremony was ready to begin.
Cant kill people on an empty stomach, anyway, He thought as he strode down the narrow hallway, his robes held off the ground by a junior member of their order.
Polluqs son migh...
2019-12-19 22:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post+2 Endurance, Strength, Kinesthetics.
Sense Grafting has reached level 14!
Stealth has reached level 8! 40% correction.
Knife Work has reached level 8! 40% correction.
Your Princess is in another Castle has reached level 7! 35% correction.
Its funny when I stop to think about it, Calvin said aloud, musing as he snapped off...
2019-12-18 03:15:39 +0000 UTC View Post