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2024-05-10 17:03:08 +0000 UTC View Post“ALL RANGED UNITS, FOCUS FIRE ON THE SMALL MONSTERS! DO NOT AIM FOR THE BIG GUY!”
“Are you sure about that, Tower Master?” Madame asked, but she was already targeting the smaller monsters, aiming to maim.
“Yep. How long does it take you to cast Final Revel?”
“I see. That does make sense. About three seconds.”
“Not ideal, but okay. Start casting it when he’s five seconds out from the wall.”
The Hobden Clan did not have offices or residences in Confen. Their nearest office was a rented suite in an office park outside of Gwaju, which, as far as the vet knew, strictly handled logistics coordination for the mail order pet food and pet medicine business. He had never been there. He didn’t know anyone that had been there. He had only called there once, to find out where the hell his delivery was. Apparently, their communication altar was directly connected to a siren. Simply by atte...
2024-05-10 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostI got my hard working artillery into place on the wall. “Pomoroy, can I upgrade you to fire grapeshot? Or canister?”
“Pardon, my liege?”
Guess that’s a no. I waved her into position. “Miyuki, up on the roof with the Young Gentlemen please. Prioritize killing stealthed units, otherwise do your usual job piling them up and nailing them down.”
“Miyuki hears the words whispered in the wind.” She still had the grappling hoo...
2024-05-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I mean, I’m not a ritualist.” Truth explained. “But I’ve seen this performed a couple of times by an expert.”
“You are a credit to your teachers.” Thrush “loyally” agreed.
“And, you know, everyone always goes on about how important experiential learning is. About not being afraid to fail, so long as you learn from it.”
“That is a lie cough thing that teachers do say, yes, Omnibenevolent One.”
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2024-05-09 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTruth looked at the box, with increasing confusion and excitement. He wasn’t a big believer in coincidence. There was simply no chance that this was placed here with the expectation of catching his attention- if he had no idea he was coming to Confen, how could anyone else know? What’s more, who would think his snake would get cozy on a warm spot behind the Jade Bamboo Restaurant as it stubbornly refused to hunt rats?
The only logical explanation was that this was somethi...
2024-05-08 16:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostI very quickly noticed something annoying about the existing “defenses.” They were short. They were barely more than chest-high walls, many of them, which did me no good whatsoever since I was putting my crossbowmen up on the roof.
The thugs might have benefitted from some barriers, if they had spears or something. Instead, some utter genius decided that what thugs would carry would be hatchets and meat cleavers.
I stared at them. They stared ...
2024-05-08 16:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I need you to tell me exactly how this plays out.”
Osain smiled and shrugged. It was a brittle, scared thing. “What’s to say? A few of the very weakest thugs in the district stand behind some loosely stacked crates. The monsters rush down the street, and everyone dies.”
“Nobody comes out? Not Sebastian, not Jim, not Madame?”
“How could they? Their appearance costs money.”
“The troops under them?”<...
2024-05-07 16:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostLate night takeout in Confen was a thing, of course. This was Jeon. Workers coming home at midnight was nothing more than proof of middle management potential, assuming you weren't talking about one of the big four employers. Then it might be a sign of insufficient commitment. The real high flyers were sleeping at their desk and giving themselves towel baths in the washroom.
And the real-real high flyers would be parachuting in through family...
2024-05-07 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe stood at the top of the street and looked down into the bonfire of the Floating Quarter. The squalid horror and brutality of it. The fierce pride and the vibrant life of it. The Floating Quarter wasn’t someplace where sophisticated people gazed at things with detached disinterest. It surely wasn’t a life lived without regrets. It was a place that said “We can’t fix what ails you, but for a little while, you can find comfort here. Whatever that means to you.”
And ...
2024-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth carefully observed his target. Very carefully. Cops had a sixth sense about when they were being watched. While he had never enjoyed the ‘pleasure’ of an Internal Security Officer’s company, they were notoriously, and justly, paranoid. He would put money down on her either being here on a job, or being here under immense family pressure. She sure didn’t look like she was having fun.
She wore a thin black leather jacket, black wet effect synthetic flesh pants, bl...
2024-05-06 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFirst things first, I had to clear out my stockpile of stuff. I had gotten some beautiful lootcakes, and everyone was going to get a slice. Pomoroi and Radz especially, as they each got a weapon upgrade and three Stone Tapes. I had some hopes for a significant improvement in performance, but we would see.
Miyuki, despite my misgivings about her yandere tendencies, had to get every Stone Tape I could spare. She was my number one anti-infiltration unit. Just...
2024-05-03 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth woke feeling remarkably refreshed. He took a moment to savor the feeling, then another to savor the sectional sofa he was sprawled across. The microfiber fabric was really nice. Not fancy. Not terribly expensive. Just really nice under the hand. No bets on how well it would hold up to long-term use, but he’d chance a modest sum on it being very stain resistant. He stretched and flexed, running a quick internal inventory.
His spells were as they should be, filling his ...
2024-05-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostProblem- I don’t know where my personal quarters are. My first guess was off the Throne Room somewhere, but it wasn’t. Nor was it on its own floor, which seemed like a reasonable next guess. Wasn’t pinned to a notice board, nor did some item randomly appear in my inventory that might be a key. I knew it had to be in the Tower somewhere, as the announcement said it was unlocked. But, despite the limited size of the Tower, I wasn’t able to find it.
“Rache!”&nb...
2024-05-02 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth kept the scrubs. They weren’t dirty, really, and he liked having a costume change on hand. One trip into the locker room, a quick change of clothes, and Doctor Bone-Bro, M.D., Ph.D. (U. Jeon) D.Thaum (Hons. Behem U.) vanished. Exiting the locker room was Peuth Reduchi, Talisman Service Technician First Class, Ever-Rite Equipment Rentals Corporation (a Starbrite Family Company.)
Amazing how you can be invisible two completely different ways, in the same place, at rough...
2024-05-02 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe dachshund appeared to be running. His ears had flapped upwards, a derpy grin of doggy joy on his face. Tiny little legs flying forward and backward as he seemed poised to leap off his plinth.
Unique Throne Room decoration: The Snoot of Joy. #4 of the Supreme Beasts Decoration Set.
No buffs. No unique bonuses. Just decor. It was a nice statue. I leaned back on my throne, and the footrest came up automatically. No cup holders...
2024-05-01 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth was fairly flummoxed. “So, having considered all the relevant information, you just decided to die?”
“Yeah. Basically.” The kid nodded.
Truth had to control the urge to say something about “smart to leave early and beat the rush.” Kid had tried to kill himself with a cloud of poison gas. He deserved better than someone laughing at him. Not that Truth thought his personal views on the subject made a lot of rational sense.
The night sky crackled and writhed with red lightning. I had the sudden feeling that I was watching blood veins throbbing on a black eyeball, like I was looking up from the inside of the eye and now the sky was bloodshot. Blotting out the moon was the number 9. Then 8. Then 7. The temperature dropped sharply. Winds, gale force winds, bent tall trees like a demon’s hand running over moss.
“MIKA KILL THAT MONSTER RIGHT DAMNED NOW!”
I didn’t hear her bar...
2024-04-30 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth moved through the emergency room with surprising (to him) efficiency. It seemed that this specific job, a sort of phase two of an intake, did not actually require much medical knowledge. What it required was someone recognized as a doctor, looking at the patient.
That was it. You looked at them, listened to them, and told them they would be looked after. Maybe gave them a little preview of what would happen next. Because what was actually happening wasn’...
2024-04-30 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostEvery stick-load was a victory. Not, you note, every shovelful. The prohibition on using my summons’ tools was no joke. But you know what I could use? Sticks. I could use sticks. And you can dig a lot more than you might think with just a stick.
Did I manage in an ‘hour’ what Judith managed in eight seconds? Yes. Ish. I’d like to think. But I didn't get tired, and every speck of dirt that I shifted now was dirt that my workers wouldn’t have to sh...
2024-04-29 16:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostTruth had gone to the hospital with some vague notion of just… wandering the hallways, treating the ill and infirm. Learning more about Cup and Knife as he microscopically made the world a better place. Alas, the kneecap of dreams must always confront the lead pipe of reality.
I do not have the faintest goddamn idea of what I am supposed to be doing here.
The Emergency Room was a wash of people. Some stacked up in the waiting room, more in little c...
2024-04-29 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostMonsters were alarmingly evenly distributed through my switchback path for them. Alarming, because this combined the worst of both worlds- able to overwhelm my defenses with numbers, but too spread out to be easily blown up with artillery. Fortunately, I had planned for such an occurrence. Unfortunately, I had invisible murder-baboons to deal with.
So. Mixed bag.
Miyuki seemed to be dropping the new monsters from all over the clearing, whenever the vile...
2024-04-26 16:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostTruth flat out refused to believe it. His world had become a very strange place in the last year or so, but that was a bridge too far. Botis, Earl of Notoriously-Bad-Place HELL, was a good guy who was apparently famous for reconciling enemies.
And yet, not one Goetia he had read mentioned that. He started scrabbling through the pile of books to find the Goetia he had pulled. He flipped to the section on Botis. Foresight, public speaki...
2024-04-26 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostI felt my brain congeal. It was suddenly all too much. Too many things to keep track of. Too many decisions to make. The most crucial decision was- do I keep Miyuki looking for invisible units? Because where there was one, there would be many. Or do I send her to help Versai?
It was dumb. It was short sighted. She was a looper- her deaths were never forever. She was the only other real person in here with me.
“Miyuki! Keep your eye out for any more invisibl...
2024-04-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth called the Tongue to hand, and casually hopped up onto the roof of the bus shelter. From there, he jumped to a lamp post, then the side of an office building, kicking off hard enough to launch him up to the roof of a nearby parking garage. From there, it was a tiny hop up to one of the tall lamps on the roof of a parking garage. All while the long sword rested casually on his shoulder.
He stood on top of the lamp, looking down at nothing much. Not that there wasn...
2024-04-25 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth tried to sort out the gains and losses for the day. The initial idea- moving the denizens with greed, turning them on their “betters,” was fundamentally viable if he really wanted a bloody revolution. It wouldn’t help bring a better world, though. Neither would rampant do-gooderism. The people he helped would mostly just shrug, say thanks, and feel lucky that they saved a wen.
He kept coming back to the notion of the get-back. What do I “get back...
2024-04-24 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Versai, Miyuki- no need to keep letting them through. Resume Plan A!” I was getting better at yelling across the battlefield, though I think there was some kind of magic effect at work there. Maybe the Tower was helping me out or something. My summons always seemed to hear me, which was a mercy. Can’t imagine trying to order them around if they couldn’t.
“Yes, Tower Master.”
“Miyuki hears the whispers in the wind.”
The number...
2024-04-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTruth sat on the bus next to the vile little rat. Maybe he shouldn’t look down on his unenlightened cousins. Fair to say, his life had not been typical. But he absolutely did look down on this particular specimen, for one very simple reason- this rat had never tried to climb. He had probably never even looked up.
The little rat sprawled across a couple of seats on the back of the bus. Glaring at anyone who dared to look at him for more than a second. Making sure his colors ...
2024-04-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostI know what I think Defense in Depth means. I also know that it is a phrase with an actual, official, definition. A definition that I don’t know. I feel like what I am doing is Defense in Depth. On the other hand, as someone who traced an idiot’s IP address just to make sure even their alts got roasted for calling Eden of the East a shojo anime instead of a josei anime, dare I be so casual in my nomenclature?
I mean, a girl’s 2024-04-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
An inexplicable outbreak of altruism broke out across suburban Gamphe. It spread, seemingly without reason, along stale residential streets and through mall parking lots. It climbed over overflowing sinks and under subfloor heating. It even, unprovoked, helped a little old lady cross a street, got a cat down from a tree and returned a toy thrown out of a pram.
When the sweating, swearing, miserable band of intelligence analysts eventually isolated the source of the chain reac...
2024-04-22 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post