Dispose of him.
- A note wrapped around a windrider’s ankle.
“Say it right.” Will said, prompting Loth to prod their priest with something sharp.
“Gods, I’ll say it-“ Steve was interrupted by a hacking cough. “I can barely see. How are people supposed to hold this pipe without cutting themselv-ow!”
After another poke, he caught his breath and read the...
2024-07-24 19:41:01 +0000 UTC View PostHis name…is Steve Holland. The most powerful disciple of Androth to ever draw breath. William Oh found him working miracles in a women’s hospital and knew he was the one he was looking for. With a wave of his hand, he could cure anything from wounds to baldness and the runs.
He had a particular knack for laying down pre-miracles. He could bless the Floor itself such that whenever one of Will’s party members suffered an injury, they would be instantly healed.<...
2024-07-22 16:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt changed form to resemble a goat when he touched it...because that was cool.
It has a secondary ability to encrypt communication between wearers of similar masks
As for the primary ability?
I was thinking about giving it some kind of 'sneak attack' ability booster that kicks in when an unaware creature is attacked, but that fits with the old no-face theme.
Do we need a unique goat-themed ability or should we stick with a sneak-attack thingy?
If you've g...
“Congratulations…gentlemen,” The Exchange Hall clerk said, glancing at Loth as he handed the two bags of delicious gold to the two of them.
“Feels light,” Will muttered.
“Amounts over five hundred gold are paid in Ivory, to save weight,” The clerk said with a tired expression. “Now if you don’t mind…” he waved them off.
Will was halfway to the door when he made the stunning realization, stopping in his tracks.
This is it. This is the wealth I ...
2024-07-20 17:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostREQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION:
During our stint at site 214, No-face spotted a Target of Opportunity and took him into custody.
William Oh tried to escape six times. We were forced to wipe his memory on multiple occasions, until in our frustration we decided to strip him, Hobble him, put a bell on him and hang him in the meat-locker to wait until he could be delivered to you.
This was a mistake.
The seventh escape attempt made use...
2024-07-17 17:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostI once saw William Oh run away. Yep. Glanced up from sharpening my tool and spotted the afterimage of the one-armed lad bolting like a jackrabbit. I thought ‘that boy’s not so special; there’s something he runs from.’
Then I saw what he was running from: War, Famine, Pestilence, Death…and the concept of Failure.
At the speed he was going, I’m pretty sure he gave ‘em the slip.
Mark Saltminer, level 15 Salter
So we saw this noob-bridge, and we figured we’d just haze ‘em a bit. If they threw their weapons over to us, then they needed to get sent back to the Hunting grounds and rethink their careers, ya know?
Well, we figured we’d show ‘em how to use Barnacles to cross if they stuck it out, or gave us a good cussing, but that’s not what happened.
Before we even knew he was mad, William Oh shot Thomas in the leg with this acidic bolt that nearly crippled hi...
2024-07-13 00:55:53 +0000 UTC View PostUpon reaching the 2nd Floor, William Oh set about asserting his dominance on the local wildlife. Like a fairy tale princess, the local animals bent over backwards to cater to his every whim. The Rocs granted him their down to guard against the cold, the Kaith built him bridges so that he could survey his new domain.
Those disgusting Barnacle-looking things…stayed in their shells.
Yep, just like a fairy tale princess, all it took to get the local animals to ...
2024-07-10 17:07:35 +0000 UTC View PostOn his first Climb, William Oh singlehandedly engaged in combat with over a thousand carnivorous camels. Corrupted and turned foul by Miasma, each one was big enough to build a city between the humps on their back. He grabbed the Boss by its nose hairs, the only part small enough for him to hold on, and used his prodigious strength to steer the creature into slamming its head into the mountainside.
When that didn’t work, William Oh grabbed the mountainside, and steered it...
2024-07-08 17:52:43 +0000 UTC View PostCloak of Misty Escape (Torso)
Provides a passive resistance to high temperature environments as wisps of vapor cool the wearer.
1 Charge: The cloak explodes into a 30-ft cloud of fog, concealing the user’s movements. Takes 30 minutes for the cloak to reform.
“This one’s good for the third floor.” Leon said. “Fifteen gold.”
“Next.” Will said. He only had fifty gold, and he wanted to see...
2024-07-04 17:41:32 +0000 UTC View PostQuest Complete!
Visit your local Exchange Hall for monetary Quest Reward disbursement.
+1500 XP
You are now a level 5 Resourceful Climber!
William Oh
Resourceful Climber Level 5
6 Strength
15 Kinesthetics
18 Resistance 2024-07-02 14:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
When William Oh plummeted to the deepest point of the Netherworld, his body fell into a contemplative trance that allowed him to reach enlightenment. During this state, his mind wandered beyond the bounds of this reality, into other, stranger worlds.
In this enlightened state, he witnessed the circular nature of his own existence, however briefly, and when he awoke it drove him to take the first steps towards his True Destiny, rising back to the surface with the Axe of King...
2024-06-30 22:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam Oh once killed a dozen kaith without moving a muscle. – Jason Salazar.
What, with like, a trap? – Onlooker.
With his very gaze. - Jason Salazer
Case file 8934: Ashwood
“RUN!”
They all knew they didn’t have a chance if the kaith bogged them down. They would be dragged down one by one, their biomass added to the ‘supplies’ the kaith were transporting to their central hive.
With the sheer magnetism of his presence, William Oh attracted a rag-tag army of green adventurers of four different species lost in the darkness. He shepherded them against the encroaching danger, dispensing his wisdom on underground survival as he did so.
They say he shone so bright to their eyes that they didn’t need lanterns to find him in the dark, such was their admiration.
- Jason Salazar
...
2024-06-28 17:31:22 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam Oh once climbed down into the bowels of the Abyss. He went so deep that he accidentally crossed into the underworld itself, where the lord of death himself was waiting to claim another soul.
With his mighty war-axe, Will cleaved the god’s jaw off of his body and brought back his teeth as a trophy.
Naturally, you can’t kill the lord of Death, but if you hear strange sounds coming from the ground at night, that might very well be Lumesh himself moan...
2024-06-27 19:03:27 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam Oh is so popular that he had to turn down dozens of heaving-bosomed young women who wished to join him on his very first quest. He refused them because he knew that only a few days in his presence would create a looming shadow in these young women’s minds that no other man could ever hope to measure up to.
He is not so cruel as to allow these gentle maidens to wither away the rest of their days with a William-shaped void in their hearts.
- &n...
2024-06-26 16:58:09 +0000 UTC View Post
So, Option A was only few % behind F, and the artist was willing to make a mock-up of the variations to help us decide. I figured if there were less choices, we'd be able to tell if more people favored A than F.
The leftmost picture is the SFW version, what will probably go up on amazon, and the two on the right are just me being stupid.
but I mean if you're gonna pay someone to make magica...
William Oh once ate a lightning bolt and crapped thunder. There he was, at the heart of the army of the dead. He had snuck his way past the minions into the shrine holding the Relic that granted eternal life, when the lich rose from the stone floor as if it was made of water. As he faced down the ancient lich, a bolt of lightning shot from the ancient creature’s fingers directly towards his face! So, being William Oh, he snatched the lightning out of the air with his teeth, chewin...
2024-06-25 17:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam Oh once rescued sixteen nubile slave girls from certain death with nothing but bootstrings, a piece of leather, and a shiny scrap of metal
- Jason Salazar
“That…is not going to work,” Will whispered to himself, peering down at the village of maksu milling around the portal. The sheer numbers alone made the idea of sprinting past them to dive through the portal laughable.
Ma...
2024-06-24 15:38:57 +0000 UTC View PostYou don’t get it. William Oh is an expert in guerilla warfare. He’s the best. With slings, with knives, with his bare hands. He’s a man who’s learned to ignore pain. To Ignore weather. To live off the land. To eat things that would make a billygoat puke.
- Jason Salazar
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Please choose your primary Abilities.
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“William Oh is the smartest, most talented, badass, stoic individual that this town has ever produced, bar none.” Jason announced. Let it never be said that Jason Salazar skimps on a job.
“Really?” The priestess asked, leaning forward and putting her elbows on the table, staring directly at him. She bore a symbol of Granesh on her waist, and, honestly, a questionable choice of clothes.
“Have you heard about William Oh?” Jason asked betwe...
2024-06-21 15:13:49 +0000 UTC View Post“Pleaaase let me go with you,” Jason begged for the umpteenth time as Will unwound the bandages, revealing the fresh scabs. The scrawny twelve-year old was on his knees, palms clasped together.
“This look like fun to you?” Will asked, motioning to himself.
“It looks like a way out of this craphole.” Jason said without missing a beat. “I could do anything you want me to do. I’ll dig latrines, I’ll set up the tent. I’ll take night watch, I’ll taste food for poi...
2024-06-19 20:25:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, that’s more exotic, for sure.” Ben mused as they looked down on the hunk of Lava Beetle.
The carefully preserved hunk of flesh must’ve come from climbers on the third floor. The Trial didn’t care that no aspirant could possibly get to the third floor and back.
“Whaddya think?” Ben asked. “Fire and Earth. Two of the most useful abilities for a spellslinger.”
“Also the most hotly contested relics.” Will mused, rubbing his chin.
“For t...
2024-06-18 16:04:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Slow down, you’re going to give yourself a stomach ache,” Gertrude admonished as Will devoured another entire loaf of bread. “You’ll throw up the moment you have to run.”
“Untrue,” Will mouthed past the wad of stew-soaked bread in his mouth, causing the old woman to wince and avert her eyes. “The walk to the hunting grounds is over an hour, so I’ll be fine by the time I get there.”
“If you can afford to walk slow, then you can eat slow.” Ge...
2024-06-17 15:24:48 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the vast majority of people appreciate access to The System and all the benefits that spring from it, from its prevention of uncontrolled Triggers to granting the average citizen the ability to defend themselves from megafauna, making the future retaking of large swaths of wilderness possible, and practically singlehandedly guaranteeing the survival of the human race…
Some idiots have questioned Paradox’s decision to grant humanity universal access to superpowers....
2024-06-17 15:06:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe that will show it. Voting in Pt. 1 below.
2024-06-13 21:29:59 +0000 UTC View Post 
So remember that Cover for Generic System? ^^ I've always thought it was kinda...meh. A few months ago I asked an artist if he could spice it up a notch for shits 'n giggles, and he got back to me today. Lemme know which one you guys prefer. There will be variants with more coverage to dodge th...
Heather.EXE
The spell made an imprint of Heather’s soul, exposing it to the severed piece of Abun’zaul.
Instantly, the sample of the legendary mimic shaped itself to match her. Perry injected it, along with a modified version of his System into Heather.
“That was it?” Heather asked, glancing at the others. Nat shrugged.
“You didn’t get a prompt to choose a class?” Perry asked, frowning. “Maybe you haven’t reached minimum matu...
2024-06-12 17:52:24 +0000 UTC View Post I just realized I should share what I've got going on with you guys, so it doesn't sneak up on anyone (me least of all)
I'm planning on bringing the series to a merciful close soon. I'm not entirely ruling out further books in the same world or even more in the series, but not just yet. Give me some time. In the meantime, the next few chapters will serve as the endcap of the series for a while.
Next month: I will be going on a road trip with my wife to visit her grandmothe...
“It’s time to test ‘The Scruncher’” Perry said.
“I hate that name.” Gramma said.
“Too bad,” Perry said, pressing the button on The Scruncher.
In that moment all meaning, context and purpose vanished from the world, trapping them in a singular moment like a bug caught in amber.
As time marched forward, Perry’s adrenaline lurched, feeling as though he was slipping off a moving boat navigating rough, black seas. If he fell, he would plunge into that bl...
2024-06-10 16:26:10 +0000 UTC View Post