Still working on Tyron's full status in the next chapter. Should be up tomorrow.
It was no exaggeration to say a new rift could do the same amount of damage as the break that occurred at Woodsedge. Magick would flood through the rift, bringing with it a greater risk of instability to every other rift in the province.
Slayers needed to be dispatched, and soon. They could manage the flow of monsters through the rift, culling their numbers, keeping the people safe. T...
2023-02-24 08:27:36 +0000 UTC
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Strong monsters are known to have an ‘aura’ of power that affects those who draw too close. This can begin to manifest quite early on, as the key element in determining the strength of such an aura is the disparity in strength between the one producing the effect and the one receiving it. Even tier three monsters have been observed being able to suppress and terrify tier one monsters through this aura alone.
However, such cases are rare, and minor in the grand scheme of...
2023-02-24 06:22:20 +0000 UTC
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I'll double post BoD tomorrow, still working on both chapters. Have a great day out there everyone!
The power wielded by the Eldest, that of Gravity, was examined by the Mage cast many times. After all, it had shown incredible destructive power, which could prove vital to the Colony, especially in times such as these, when the Eldest is asleep.
However, research was difficult to perform. Learning the Skill was difficult, so some mages were tasked with...
2023-02-23 05:54:09 +0000 UTC
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Just to be clear people. I'm not starting a new novel. Switching between Chrysalis and BoD is enough for my tiny brain. A third would cook my neurons.
But I love coming up with new worlds and concepts. So when I'm inspired, expect me to take some time to play with ideas and post stuff up here. Of course, I'll make sure that I'm hitting my quotas though!
Enjoy some Anthony action! :D
I’m tempted to just start throwing gravi...
2023-02-22 02:35:53 +0000 UTC
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Should I be working on BoD or Chrysalis? Yes. Yes I should. But I did this instead today.
Playing around with other worlds and concepts is one of my favourite things to do and it feels so good to have time for it again. Whoo!
After listening to the Cradle audiobooks I started playing around with a cultivation concept in my head and this is my attempt to put it on paper. Let me know what you think!
Not to worry, Chrys...
2023-02-21 07:39:32 +0000 UTC
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Well aint this something. Monsters and lava boil forth in equal measure from the tunnels below and an absolute free-for-all has broken out across the Plains of Leng. Well, a bigger one. Although, to compare this scene to the normal endless fighting between larvae is to compare a volcano eruption to a candle. It's to the point where I might have to rejig my plans.
My original thought had been to bottle up and annihilate all the monsters coming through the tunnels, but that was clearly im...
2023-02-17 06:19:47 +0000 UTC
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Edit: WHOOPS. Rest of the chapter is here now.
Three bod in a week? What madness is this?!
A few things snapped into place at once for Tyron. He was no rift expert, but he had obsessively studied everything related to slayers since he was able to read. A rift forming was a major, disastrous event, shifting the flow of magick in a wide area. Depending on the size of the rift, it could manifest in a cataclysmic detonation of power similar to what ha...
2023-02-17 05:04:57 +0000 UTC
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“I really thought you were over this….”
“What do you mean, ‘over this’? Are you talking about my aversion to murder? That’s a healthy thing to have!”
“For most people, sure. You aren’t most people. You’re a Necromancer on the run from the law who’s actively being hunted by superhuman killing machines. The same attitudes don’t really apply. When you wasted those two Marshals, I figured you understood that.”
“I didn’t have a choice,” Tyron gro...
2023-02-15 23:57:32 +0000 UTC
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Sorry folks, there will be another tomorrow. This one's a bit short, but I didn't want to drag it out and stuff it with filler. Another tomorrow, and at least one more after that this week. Thanks for your patience!
It was tempting to reach out and tap at the array with a finger, just to make sure it was working. Poranus glared at it, unwilling to believe what he was seeing. The eyes could lie, he knew it well, especially when a person was tired.
And he was
2023-02-14 07:03:03 +0000 UTC
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Granin stirred as the wave washed over him.
"W-was that?" Corun asked breathlessly.
"It was," the triad leader stated.
Torrina sucked in a breath, letting the shock register on her face instead of her usual stoic expression.
"This is a lot sooner than we expected," she said after calming herself. "Are you sure?"
Her teacher shot her a slightly annoyed look and she looked down. Granin snorted.
"You're too smart to ask a question like that," he scolded her, "...
2023-02-13 06:18:47 +0000 UTC
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Morrelia braced herself, though it likely wasn't necessary. Inside her heavyset Legion armour, she could be battered with a tree and barely feel it. Even so, she braced herself.
The wave, when it came, was almost visible. A ripple of ultra-dense mana rose through their legs and passed the top of their head in a thousandth of a second, sending her reeling. She felt as if she'd been punched in the gut, but a whine from her armour caught her attention. Lifting her arm to check the...
2023-02-13 05:51:55 +0000 UTC
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The Colony is in a frenzy of preparations, still. There are over a million of us within range of the Vestibule now and I have to admit, it's a little more difficult than I'm comfortable admitting to hold onto myself in the face of this vast, endless torrent of Will. Impressions and thoughts pour into me like an river dropping into a bucket.
I can't possibly contain it all, yet still it comes, and if I dip my toe in the stream I risk being swept away in an instant. Were that to happen, h...
2023-02-13 05:51:15 +0000 UTC
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Finished up at work on friday.
Sorry for the lack of activity this week, been hectic getting everything sorted out and I decided to chill with the family over the weekend.
There will be a chapter of BoD tonight (aus time) and then I'll do my best to make it up to you next week.
Very excited! For the Colony!
2023-02-12 01:27:05 +0000 UTC
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I can feel it. I’m not sure exactly how, or why, but I can feel it. Far, far below where I stand, something has shifted. I feel as though I’m standing in a rail tunnel and somewhere out in front, the very first rumblings of the train coming my way can be felt.
My antennae tingle at the intensity of it. It’s like a rush of blood to the head. I can practically smell the rush of mana building far below.
[Ever lived through a wave, Mr Odin?] I ask my new demon friend.
We...
2023-02-09 09:51:53 +0000 UTC
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“Look, I said I’m sorry.”
“Don’t talk to me.”
“You’re being silly.”
“Oh am I? The traitor doesn’t like my attitude to their betrayal? I find myself not caring very much. Weird.”
At the word traitor, Cobalt flinched back but her determination didn’t waver.
“They were going to build all over the place even if one of us wasn’t involved!” she declared, antennae waving wildly. “Someone had to get involved to make sur...
2023-02-09 02:31:03 +0000 UTC
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Katlyn pulled her cloak tight around her and drew deep, steadying breaths. One finger kept the tension on her bowstring taught as her eyes flicked from tree to tree, watching for any sign of pursuit.
Stay calm. Be steady. That’s how you stay alive.
The words of her mentors from the academy rang in her mind and she heeded that advice. Analyse the situation, make a plan, then execute on it. That’s how a Ranger was meant to fight.
She’d lost her cool back at the ...
2023-02-06 09:18:26 +0000 UTC
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When night fell that evening, Tyron found himself in increasingly familiar surroundings.
“Is it really inevitable that Necromancers end up in graveyards all the time?” he sighed.
Dove was not impressed with his melancholy.
“Are you damaged in the head? You fucking moron. Of coursea Necromancer is going to be frequenting graveyards. That’s where all the bones and dead bodies are!”
“I get that! It’s just… a little bleak.” He gestured to the cem...
2023-02-04 00:19:09 +0000 UTC
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Tungstant brushed her antennae through her elbow joints, using the fine hairs there to clean and cleanse her sensitive feelers. After a stressful day on the job, nothing relaxed like a good clean. She revelled in the sensation that spotless antennae gave, that flawless connection with her sense of smell, but only for a moment.
She didn’t want to be accused of slacking….
Although, she didneed to rest sometime soon.
“How long since my last torpor?” she wondere...
2023-02-02 08:41:27 +0000 UTC
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Among demonkind, there are as many different species as there are tunnels in the Dungeon. As with any distribution among a monster-type, some are common, while others are exceedingly rare.
The reasons for this are worthy of a dissertation of their own, but in brief, some species are more stable, leading to a higher survival rate, some are weaker at earlier stages of evolution, leading to a lower survival rate, and some require a unique inclination within the mons...
2023-01-30 10:15:04 +0000 UTC
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My day job.
Schedule has been absolute chaos lately due to wrapping things up and going back and forth with my family over this decision, but as of this morning, it's official.
Paperwork is filed and in two weeks I'll be out. Done. Over.
Full time writing babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
Two bod a week? What about three?! Seven chaps of chrysalis?! Skies the limit! BWAHAHAHAHAAAAA.
All right. Calm down Rino....
We'll see how productive I manage to be, but I'm more tha...
2023-01-29 22:09:51 +0000 UTC
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Late as it gets. Big news tomorrow though.
At a certain point, the rolling foothills, pierced in places by ragged outcroppings of rock, or torn by ravines, gave way to the true mountains.
The Barrier mountains were, like their name, a veritable wall, one that scraped the sky with jagged claws formed from the bones of this plane. If a way through existed, the people of the Western Province did not know it. To them, these mountains were impassable, anything that lay...
2023-01-29 13:10:36 +0000 UTC
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The demon glided through the air with such exquisite grace, only to land in a perfect kneeling posture in front of me. I’m surprised to say the least and reflexively lash a bridge together so I can communicate with this odd specimen.
[Are you bowing?] I ask after my initial exclamation.
This seems very much an Earth thing to do. I can’t recall seeing demons bow to each other, regardless of the circumstances. Unless this is some as yet unseen custom of the denizens of ...
2023-01-26 09:45:30 +0000 UTC
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I have this vague idea that all of Odin's assassination stories are some flavour of ridiculous.
Odin skulked amongst the larvae that covered the ground. Now knee deep, the newborn demons were even more frenzied than normal, hacking and tearing at each other with wild abandon.
He’d been one of them not that long ago, it was difficult to remember that sometimes. Weak, having to climb up over his own kind in order to survive. Just like his life as a human.
2023-01-25 07:49:58 +0000 UTC
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“Is that smoke?” Tyron squinted into the distance.
The early morning light seemed thin in the foothills, the fog that rolled off the mountains lasted until the sun was high overhead on cold days. Even so, the dirty streak that stained the sky seemed to trace its origin down to a point on the ground.
“I don’t fucking know, you fuck! Why do you insist on saying this shit out loud?”
“Shut up, Dove,” the Necromancer muttered absently as he continued to examine the ...
2023-01-22 09:51:45 +0000 UTC
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The Cults have competed for thousands of years, attempting to craft the most superior monster, one with the potential to become an Ancient in its own right.
Such a thing was a dream within a dream, yet it is our purpose. I myself strove for over a century at this very task. I am proud of the work that I did, and the monsters I created were strong, surprising a number of my peers with their capabilities.
A key argument, and one I have listened to and participa...
2023-01-20 09:35:53 +0000 UTC
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Delicious, delicious mutations. Horrible, horrible itch.
How could I describe the itch I experienced when I locked those three in and confirmed them with Gandalf? I’d expected it to be bad, obviously. The moment the wizened, gruff tones of the grey one faded away, I had braced myself for the worst.
It turns out, my understanding of ‘worst’ was appallingly incorrect.
I felt as if my itches had itches of their own. The first itch, unaccustomed to the sensation, took out ...
2023-01-19 07:55:24 +0000 UTC
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Well…. This is going to be interesting.
As it turns out, there are new mutation options… crazy ones. Holy moly. What’s this all about? Have I ascended to a new stage and at tier seven you get funky new mutations? Is it the insane level of mana saturation I’ve been living in lately? Is it the Biomass rich diet of more highly evolved monsters?
A combination of all of the above?
Whatever the case, there’s some seriously sweet selections, ripe and r...
2023-01-18 07:07:45 +0000 UTC
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Children smiling with a tired sort of joy was a balm to the heart, Elsbeth decided. She rose from where she had been crouched as the small gathering of young folk ran back to their parents. Such expressions had been rare over the last few weeks, more often than not, families were in mourning, mothers and fathers having fallen in the chaos that followed the breach.
She brushed her hands on her skirt before looking around the small clearing. A fire crackled on the eastern side ...
2023-01-15 13:16:10 +0000 UTC
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I really need to mutate my stomach. After powering through the remains of two tier seven demons, I’m absolutely stuffed. Without my capacity upgrades, it would have been impossible to fit them both in. It’s a little saddening that my efficiency upgrades give me absolutely no benefit when eating another monster of my own tier, but such is life. Those mutations exist, but I’ve gotten far more value from my higher Biomass gain from lower tiered food.
As I flop on my side, still surro...
2023-01-14 01:20:47 +0000 UTC
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Lore Bomb of the highest order!
Let it be written here and in no other volume. In these pages, find the collected wisdom of the Cults on the subjects of our reverence.
This page deals with the domains of the Ancients and what little is known. Though none have seen these hallowed places with their own eyes, shards of information have been gathered in other ways, through interrogation of monsters who may have some connection to the Great Ones, through e...
2023-01-12 09:53:26 +0000 UTC
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