Terok was so awesome. He was affable, quick-witted, and genuinely interested in everything Garth had to say, especially if that was Garths businesses and where he kept his Mythic Cores.
Because he was such a good friend, Garth didnt mind letting him borrow one. The way his face lit up was reward enough.
The black haired man looked human, but he was from a race of elven hybrids that were very long-lived, which was all he wanted to say about himself, preferring to return ...
2019-01-08 00:15:25 +0000 UTC
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Garth sliced a bit of steak, while the rest of Sandis family tore into their prey. Three of Sandis sisters had taken the opportunity to visit Earth, and predictably, they all looked exactly the same, right down to the black tank top, low cut jeans and thong.
In order to avoid sit-com family drama, Garth had immediately bought four different colored ribbons and handed them out. Now all they had to do was keep the damn things on and he wouldnt accidentally get anyone...
2019-01-06 19:45:05 +0000 UTC
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Sandis mom and tentacle monster dad werent coming right away, since they had to time their trip between harvests, and so Garth had a month and a half to get his act together.
The first week was the hardest. Being in magical time-out was rough for someone whod gotten used to putting on his shoes in the morning with telekinesis and floating around half the time.
Garth spent the time designing his own Status band and pretending everything was totally fine to Tyler when h...
2019-01-04 20:55:58 +0000 UTC
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Garth was kicking himself as he flew down the side of the mountain, Wilson desperately holding on to his shoulder against the wind. Hed brought the best people with him, without thinking about leaving Paul, Samantha, or Clark to watch the town. Cass clenched his teeth and reached into his pocket, hand closing on the Mythic Core.
The rush of magic flooding his awareness accompanied a redoubling of speed and blast of wind. Garth had barely enough presence of mind to throw a Force...
2019-01-04 01:04:40 +0000 UTC
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How did humans ever build anything so large without magic? Sandi asked, her jaw dropped at the spectacle down the slope of the mountain. She was sitting beside him, casually weaving grass into a wreath. Itet was watching Tylers group with predatory intensity.
Science. Garth said.
Garth looked down at the city below them, stretching out into the horizon. It was only thanks to his superhuman sight that he was able to see all the way to the smudge of the ocean at the...
2019-01-03 00:35:47 +0000 UTC
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The first thing Garth remembered was eating Tommy Carter, the barbers kid from the apartment down the road. The slender teens corpse was torn apart like a frog in a high school biology lab, limbs spread apart without any semblance of respect for his humanity.
The next thing he remembered was his name. Garth. Im Garth. He lifted his head, cocked to the side, bits of blood and viscera congealing on his chin.
Im Garth and Im a human, so why
He loo...
2019-01-02 00:48:57 +0000 UTC
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The two of them stood in the center of Clark’s burgeoning village, a stand of enormous dead trees that had no earthly right being in a desert, their unnaturally long limbs woven together to provide relief from the sun above. The dirt under Garth’s feet was earthy and soft, somehow transformed from the hard-packed desert sand. Clark had some good taste.
There was a fountain where a cactus shaped like a spout poured water down into a trough, its long roots finding w...
2019-01-01 00:44:33 +0000 UTC
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“I can’t believe it,” Garth said, scratching his scalp. “I’m gonna be a dad, and my kids are gonna be man-eating monsters.” He took a deep steadying breath. Everything’s fine, you’ve got almost a year to prepare.
Cassius grunted, eyes on the Mythic core he was carving. They were in a room carved out of a towering sequoia, lit by a magic lamp and lined with ornate tools of every shape and size. Garth didn’t know where they came from, so he as...
2018-12-31 01:21:53 +0000 UTC
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“Sandi? Is that you?” The young orc said. He seemed rather skinny compared to others of his race, and Sandi couldn’t help but think he’d be a poor, bony meal. She wasn’t hungry anyway, Garth had treated her to a Jindari mega-grub the day before.
It was rather squishy, but the meat had an interesting texture that- Sandi shook off her wandering thoughts and refocused
What was his name again? Guldar?
“Oh, Guldar, I just had to see y...
2018-12-30 01:29:09 +0000 UTC
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“Okay, from now on, only repeat everything I say.” Garth said, watching Itet’s antennae make the Panic/Fear gestures madly as his spell carried his voice to her ears.
“Okay.” She said.
“Okay, what?” The clerk behind the counter asked.
“Okay, let’s get started,” Garth said.
“Okay. let’s…get started?”
Garth clenched his fist and swallowed back a correction. The last thing he needed now was for her to repeat his instruc...
2018-12-28 23:40:05 +0000 UTC
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“There were some very expensive spellbooks in that Status Band,” Garth said, trying his damnedest to stay calm. So far the bum had showed up, showed a modest talent at Telekinesis, a fair amount of paranoia and spouted a random location. His reasons for being here were cryptic at best and involved a bet. He also seemed to harbor some kind of grudge against Garth. Mind control spells I hardly knew ye.
“You can still dive in there and save the finger pain...
2018-12-27 22:57:10 +0000 UTC
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“Why are we branding them?” Itet asked as Garth reheated the wire floating above his palm with fire mana for the second unconscious thug.
“So they don’t forget.” He replied, touching the wire to the man’s forehead before moving on. “Humans have very short memories. Especially people like this.”
“I see. I think.”
The men had postured and threatened to hurt Little Timmy (The illusion) in order to steal from him, and so Garth felt little g...
2018-12-24 22:01:35 +0000 UTC
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Don't expect any chapters for the next 3 days, I'm taking Christmas off for some guilt-free relaxation with my wife. I'll be thinking about plot stuff in the meantime.
After three days of chilling out, I'll be right back
2018-12-24 07:10:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey Clark, how’s tricks?
I’m sending a guy named Tyler to help coordinate our business in the south and clear L.A. This is dangerous, but he’s got connections that will get bodies where they need to be. He got off a stint of military service after being deemed less hazardous than me and a couple other people. Ipso facto, he’s not that bright.
He’s probably gonna be the toughest fighter there, but make no mistakes. You are his boss...
2018-12-23 21:06:28 +0000 UTC
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In a distant part of a distant universe, in one of the trillions of warehouses dedicated to the exact same purpose strewn across countless worlds, a red scroll tucked in a clear glass tube, nestled among countless other glass tubes, turned black.
A young orc named Guntar Hukil unlocked the warehouse door and started his day, followed by his superior who was lazily chewing on a stalk of illium grass, his pupils slightly dialated. The man had spread the weed out the bac...
2018-12-23 01:44:16 +0000 UTC
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So the reason Beladia was cut off, and quite possibly the driving force behind the entire series is...One of the gods, and i'm not sure which, wants to die.
The gods, the only way they can die is If the entire system of the Inner Spheres is annihilated, and so this one suicidal one is trying to take everyone with him/her. It could be the god of death,who wants to try it themself, or the twin gods of fate, who knows.
of course the main character is very
2018-12-22 19:24:17 +0000 UTC
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Garth rushed down the empty streets, sprinting to converse mana. His head was already aching with the amount he’d used in the last minute. Where the hell is everyone? Garth thought, heading for the main square. If the governor had marshalled the army anywhere, it would be there.
Behind him, he could hear the sound of the walls crumbling to the ground, torn to pieces by the shark-sized worms. He pictured the hundreds of remaining goblins spilling into the st...
2018-12-21 21:26:51 +0000 UTC
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“What do you think, Erelia?” Irios asked, ducking underneath the massive kipling’s feral swipe, being sure to tilt his horns out of the way. “How does getting away from it all and getting the opportunity to research kipling in the field differ?”
Erik roared. The kipling was a pale seven foot tall juggernaut with no clothes, swinging at Irios with his blackened claws. Their battle was tearing up the forest surrounding Erik’s lovely cabin.
...
2018-12-20 21:08:27 +0000 UTC
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Garth looked down at the unconscious governor and considered his options.
Use illusion and polymorph to pretend to be the Governor? That wouldn’t work. Despite the Universal translator, they would be able to tell he was speaking English instead of whatever the local language was, giving him away immediately.
Fly away out the window? Garth glanced at the window, then back to the massive gold bars. He could snag them, but it would m...
2018-12-20 03:23:49 +0000 UTC
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You have learned Illusion! Proficiency 8%
You have learned Floating Eye! Proficiency 8%
You have Learned Scry! Proficiency 8%!
Spell Theory Proficiency has reached 53%
You have learned Stone shape! Proficiency 15%!
You have learned Wall of Stone! Proficiency 12%!
Spell Theory proficiency has reached 54%
You have learned Create Water! Proficiency 20%!
You have learned Warding! Proficiency 15%!
You have learned Charm...
2018-12-19 08:36:14 +0000 UTC
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Garth surveyed the destruction, eyes squinting against the blowing dust. The outpost had been torn asunder, some buildings collapsed while fires had consumed others. In front of him lay the gnawed upon disembodied arm of an orc child.
Whatever had done this hadn’t been human, well, not human, obviously, but not civilized. The few corpses that remained looked to have been eaten by ravenous monsters. Inspecting the remains, Garth recognized two separate bite ...
2018-12-17 21:50:07 +0000 UTC
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“Alright, grab everything you can carry, nobody says they’re gonna send us back here.” Garth said. “Raid the stockroom and the armory. Make sure you’ve all got a handaxe or machete, fifty feet of rope and enough food to last a couple days. An extra pair of undies would probably be well advised.”
“Jamal!” Garth shouted, attracting the young man’s attention from across the courtyard.
“Steal two of those big-ass cauldrons from the kitchens and b...
2018-12-17 05:18:44 +0000 UTC
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Garth walked into the courtyard, squinting against the glaring light of the afternoon sun. All the other apostles had already received their orders, leaving Garth’s small group of one hundred and twenty-eight people the only humans at the castle. The delay in their assignment made him more than a little suspicious.
Jim had sent him a letter telling him he’d been sent to singlehandedly suppress a mutated mother who’d begun moving across the Kipling infested count...
2018-12-16 19:19:48 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 41: Letters
Dear Mom and Dad.
I hope you’re both okay, I know this is a long shot, but I don’t know any other way to get in contact with you. I’m alive, Garth is too. We’re on an alien planet, if you can believe it, fighting monsters for some Colonial alien regime. We’re both doing okay. Garth is doing better than me, if you can believe it. He seems to have found his calling, taking to all this crazy shit like a fish to water. I’...
2018-12-15 07:10:28 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 40: Garth’s Speech
Garth swept his gaze over the stunned crowd. “Nobody? Okay, you don’t need to actually raise your hands. If you’re cruising for a cervical bruising, when they send you back go to Earth outpost three thousand five hundred and seventeen. That’s three five one seven, ask for Brian the minotaur. He’s a pretty nice guy, real down to earth, has a six pack, his own business, a house safely inside the city walls, and a cock like this...
2018-12-14 04:55:24 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 39
Sandi’s clothes reappeared as if by magic, and without waiting for Garth to get dressed, she opened the door and left the room, her face bright red, forgetting to take the tray with her. Garth just barely managed to pull the covers over himself before Tyler strode inside, craning his neck to follow Sandi’s Lure down the hall as long as he could.
He whistled, “Damn, didn’t think the girl doing the walk of shame would be that hot. You know where...
2018-12-13 07:28:44 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 38: Throw the Wizard a Bone
Garths eyes opened to the sound of clinking glass. He was in an unfamiliar room grown from the same shiny black stone as the rest of the castle. Still alive, I guess. There was a basket with bloody bandages beside the door, and a blanket pulled up over his chest. He was in a soft bed, and the room was softly illuminated by a magical lamp with a low-grade core shard as its base.
Wonder who brought me here.
A secon...
2018-12-13 07:24:42 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 37
First things first. Show me your wrists. The general said. The pathetic excuse for a shinra was sitting across the table from Irios with a smug grin, as if the demon lord wouldnt tear his soul from his body and subject it to every horror hed devised in over eight thousand years.
Maybe when he had the time.
Irios put his wrists on display on the table in front of him, showing the wriggling ball of fear that the slave magic keeping him under control hadn...
2018-12-11 21:32:09 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 36
Oh, thats, wow
Umm
Garth said as he started getting dizzy. First things first, gotta cancel the Haste spell, or Im gonna die that much faster. Garth dispelled the construct maintaining the spell with a minor effort of will, and the world seemed to speed up a little bit, causing a bit of nausea. Or maybe that was the sword in his back.
Sandi arrived beside him, her soft body propping him up. Garth was grateful for something to lean on, but he k...
2018-12-09 20:24:29 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 35
Garth reached for the dependable acorns in his largest bandolier, ready to grow one around himself if he had to survive being swallowed by a giant worm. Youre such a pill, Garth Daniels.
It didnt have any eyes, but it seemed like it was studying him, sizing up whether or not hed be a decent meal. Garth could guarantee that he wasnt. he might even be able to slip between the damn things rock-breaking teeth without so much as a scratch.
O...
2018-12-09 20:21:38 +0000 UTC
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