2/11 Bent remaining.
By the gods, Im actually doing it, Cal thought, overlooking the dozen siege towers and their thousands of men that had been brought to a standstill. We just might make it.
In another ten minutes or so, they could expect the runners to get back with reinforcements, and everyone currently on the wall could drag themselves to their bunks and sleep for a week.
You totally jinxed it.
Stick out your tongue and say ah.
Ah, The tiny Gorn stuck out his tongue and Garth used a tongue depressor to check his tiny tonsils, followed by a stethoscope to the chest to listen to his tiny heartbeat.
Well, Mr. Gorn, from what I can see, you seem to have come down with a sudden case of Avatar Syndrome, Garth said, taking the stethoscope off his ears. Garth wasnt the absolute most knowledgeable man in the multiverse, but compared to everyone else in this d...
2019-09-04 00:36:42 +0000 UTC View Post***Calvin***
Calvin made it three steps away from the strange creature, when a thought occurred to him. He glanced over his shoulder at the curled-up monster pinned to the stone wall like an old mans prized arc beetle.
I wonder if I can use Harvester on it? I only have five Bent left, though... Calvin put his fingers into his vest pocket and yanked out the tiny vial of viscous black Bent, popping the tall cork off with his thumb.
One out of eig...
2019-09-03 00:25:45 +0000 UTC View PostSo I gave him the ability rather than any of the other awesome hunting abilities because exotic creatures are going to come along fairly often and I want the MC to have a story-based way to quickly and easily harvest their more interesting pieces-parts.
I previously wrote that the previously damaged scent glands were repaired and packaged, so if The robot is eligible, the ability may be able to restore all the the robots parts to functionality, albeit separated completely from each othe...
2019-09-02 08:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostCaptains log:
Two months in, and heres where we stand on Practice Stone research.
First, the obvious. An object has to be being used for its purpose for the Practice Effect to come into play. This means that something that passively does its job, like the sun or the water condenser, is constantly Practicing, while something like a bow is not being used for its purpose if its just sitting there.
Second. Sentient and Sapient creature...
2019-09-01 17:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe apocalypse begins.
The original intention of Jean One was to be the first of a kind of hybrid human killing machine...Kind of like Species...a dumb alien movie from the nineties whose only saving grace was the supermodels.
So the question is, what direction should we go with her?
Lolimaggedon: Stuck at 12-ish years of age, superpowerful, natural inclination to exerminate humans. (except mommy) possible vomit reproduction.
Like her Dad: Grows to adult size su...
The toe of Calvins boot pushed against the stone, his fingers felt a brief sensation of the stonework as he clawed his way forward, moving faster than his mind could keep up with.
He felt like he was watching his limbs move from a long tunnel, detatched from the image moving in front of him.
Wait, why are you moving towards it!? A distant voice echoed in his ears, but he was already passing it by, mentally and physically.
It wasnt about h...
2019-08-31 01:54:19 +0000 UTC View PostDragus was meditating and upkeeping the intricate spellwork inscribed on his heartstone by his very soul, sharpening the lines, modifying the distribution of colors, seeking the ideal. In the unlikely even that someone were to tear out his heartstone right this second, it would be like the most hypnotic opal anyone had ever seen, with purples, greens, oranges and yellows flickering like fire inside.
Dragus knew because hed done it to people like himself before.
In the dis...
2019-08-30 00:18:21 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turns out, Wasp behavior is rather limited. Cal thought, tapping his vial of Bent on the wall, watching it glitter in morning sun that was rising over his left shoulder. The orders a wasp could be easily expected to perform were go there and kill.
As if Ella needs a reason to be any more smug.
After experimenting for a while, hed discovered their carrying capacity was a little over two thirds of their body weight.
And that meant he ne...
2019-08-29 00:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostSo heres what I want to do, Garth said, sitting beside Alicia in the village hot tub, taking a dip with the rest of the Terrafell natives. Needless to say no one was wearing anything, including the wrinkly village elder.
Bleh.
They had kicked the kids out to have a moot of the more influencial villagers. The Elder, a few hunters, and their wives.
The Practice Effect has to get its direction from us. A purpose has never been an objective fac...
2019-08-27 22:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostYou know one of them?
The big one. Cal said, handing the spyglass back to her.
Andra peered through the tube for a moment before letting out an appreciative whistle.
Damn, that boy could match a Guar. Shame hes an archer.
He did just put a hole through solid stone.
You sure it was him? Andra said, glancing back at Cal.
Hes the best archer in the village, by far. He was practically a savant with one Break. If hes h...
2019-08-26 21:24:56 +0000 UTC View PostJeez you guys had a lot of ideas, I was blown away. I'll try to get as many of them as I arbitrarily deem passable as I can in here. I'll narrow down similar ideas to one to clean it up.
Chimera: The user may rearrange parts from any slotted creature onto any other slotted creature in any combination.(New slot every 10th level)
Heart of the Swarm: Your mass may be added to the effect of Calvinian Summoning. You disintegrate into the summoning, controlling the swarm from i...
I realized that Calvinian summoning is going to level next, so I need ideas for abilities to vote on.
I want the benefits from Calvinian summoning to focus mostly on the physical. maybe mutating it's creation, or making it more poisonous, or adding mass, armor, or strength. etc. all physical things.
on the flip side, I want benefits from Chained Spirit to mostly be intangible, such as the ability for the summon to remember what happened i...
They were getting closer to the Core. The plant-based tunneler had popped out into a benign room, and Garth took the opportunity to take a break for the day. His body didnt strictly need rest, but his mind did. That seemed to be the currency that this dungeon dealt in, Effort of Will.
Just because it didnt kill us right away or make us try to kill ourselves doesnt mean its benign. Id like to know what it does before Im willing to sleep in it. Alicia said, glancing...
2019-08-25 00:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostHow can such a little thing hit so hard? Ella said, rubbing the bruises across her body as they lay across from each other in the barracks.
They had gotten a few strange looks, but after a while, the other soldiers simply dismissed Ella as a quirk of Cal being a Wizard and further evidence that he couldnt possibly as common as he professed to be.
Nobles often took their servants or trusted slaves with them anywhere they went.
You got in a few good hits, too. S...
2019-08-23 21:10:29 +0000 UTC View PostDunno when I'm gonna get this in, but might as well compile the ideas.
Foresight: See .1 seconds into the future per level of Seer.
Augury: 8 Bent & consume intoxicants to reveal the answer to any yes/no question
Flashback: 1 Bent. Read an object's past. User may affect what is seen based on what they individually deem important.
Spurn Fate: See user's death 24 hours in advance. Consumes all Bent, redirects Bent regen toward stabilizing new timeline for...
Get back here, you sonofabitch, Stick-Together Garth growled, tackling the sprinting Finish-the-Dungeon Garth to the ground and pinning him there with thick bands of wood.
No, you dont understand, Ive got to get to the end!
And you will, but we need all of us to get there, damnit! Stick-together said, glancing at the other Garths aimlessly wandering around the room, one laughing manically while one wept into his palms. The rest just seemed kind of d...
2019-08-21 21:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post1. Constant nuclear fission. Tiny, self-contained area of ridiculous heat where everything is constantly treading the line between matter and energy. I could see this, when properly harnessed, to provide matter or energy of whatever kind desired...or you know, just toss it at someone and watch them melt.
2. fnord. everything inside the effect of the crystal becomes psychologically uncomfortable to process, and therefor quickly dismissed.
3.Mistaken identity/roofie : creatures insi...
2019-08-21 18:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So the first day there, we almost died to dangers I forgot to mention: Hypothermia and bumblefucking.
so after a good ten hours on the road, heading north from where we lived, we arrived at a gold claim just north of Chicken Alaska, which is a gold mining camp in it's own right. it was nine forty, an dthe sun was starting to go down (Since it's summer)
The old sourdough who was showing us where our claim was (she bought it from him) was like, "Are you sure you wanna set up camp ...
Well, it's the day of. Heading out the door to go goldpan in just a couple, but it's an eight hour drive to get there, yeesh. In the meantime, I thought I'd put up a stupid poll with no real meaning that's been rattling around in my head.
I'll be gone for a while, no electricity, no internet, so in the comments, I would love to hear where you think either of the series are going, especially what surprises might be waiting for us. If your guess is better than my plan, I...
***Kala***
So the Guya, when used properly, Ella said, motioning with her hands. Establishes a very strong, very stable bond, with an uenha, and a Poeor.
Kala glanced up at the translator, who shrugged. It seemed like the words went over his head too. She looked back down at the pink aura flickering out of her body, looking like a flame that pointed in the direction of Calvin. It was like the Genosian girl was a Calvin Compass.
Ella wasnt really looking at w...
2019-08-14 01:19:34 +0000 UTC View PostSo I wanted Kala to be POV when she gets Seer level 5. Let's throw up some skills to vote on. Remember, no mutations, but what's a skill and what's a mutation are kind of fluid.
I've got two maybe examples to put forward. The Seer skill is mildly drug related, so drugs can be used to gate extra powerful abilities, like the ability to receive the answer to any question.
Foresight: See .1 seconds into the future per level of Seer.
Augury: Pay 1 Bent and consume intoxica...
I dont exactly have all of forever to spend down here, so lets do this the most efficient way, Garth said as they rested against the wall of the dungeon. This particular place had smooth cobbled walls that stood straight up, unlike the previous layer of the dungeon.
A dungeon was created as an extradimensional spore burrowed through the planets crust, looking for the juicy center to feed off of. This particular dungeon had an unknown number of layers, and was mutated as...
2019-08-12 21:47:56 +0000 UTC View PostSo every dungeon has a valuable export. Except for this one, which no one has ever returned from. It is also mutated to focus almost all of its effort into creating special rules for how reality works inside the dungeon, rather than make monsters or anything. People wind up killing themselves or starving before they get out.
a thought that occurred to me is that this place has never, ever been harvested, and in a dungeon this highly mutated, it might be growing some unique rea...
They were standing in the practice yard of the castle, in the center of a flurry of activity. Young men and women of Gadveran descent were running, sparring, practicing putting on armor, and shooting at straw targets placed against the wall.
I spent the entire night in a fevered state, even woke old Isaac out of his bed to finish, broke a few of the prototypes, and I owe the old bastard a new steel table, but at the end of it, I got these two to show for it. Borus said as he ...
2019-08-10 20:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostI struggled with the decision to put a permanent mark on Ella, because it's awful, but what the fuck, I wanna do it. Can't have a slave harem without identifying marks of some kind.
2019-08-10 19:07:14 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up!
As an Alaskan, I am legally required to go out to a gold claim once a year and do yardwork. That is going to be from Wednesday the 14th to...most likely four days later. But prepare for a whole week just to be sure. If I'm not back with pictures by next Wednesday, I am most likely bear food....
Or I found a fuck-off big nugget and am currently looking for more.
Neither of these things is very likely.
I'll be up there in the wildernes...
Ah, Garth, what to do with you? Argus said, toying with the tiny symbol of the Inner Spheres on the desk in front of him.
Do you have any idea what that little stunt cost me, in influence, in prestige, in honor? My father still plays the memory of it every decade at the Festhall. He jabbed his finger into the desk. Every. Decade.
Nothing worse than that has happened to you in eight hundred years? Garth asked, genuinely confused. If life had taught h...
2019-08-09 20:24:41 +0000 UTC View PostYo you remember that one time I very very briefly mentioned dungeons mutating special regional effects that make it difficult to conquer them? 'course you do.
I want to design a fun dungeon with cool regional effects, that'll keep the MC going for, let's say, 10 or so chapters...maybe more if it's a lot of fun.
the effect that is 100% going to be in there, is that the dungeon cannot be exited, meaning it must be destroyed before you can leave.
Example regional effects: