The corridors here are long and spacious, and many people pass through them at once. I watch them walk to and fro looking upwards towards the walls, admiring paintings, admiring me. I stand guard like I always have, making sure the people are safe. Yet I cannot help but feel as though my place here is not my own. I have been in many worlds, and for so many years I have traveled far and wide. 2020-07-20 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I had seen ships many times in my life, but never had I been aboard one. It felt strange to be on the water and yet so far away from it still. Haytham had prepared enough medicine for my colony to cure them, as well as have extra should it still linger afterwards. Daddy also had supplies ready, in case there was a need for food or anything since the outbreak started.
“We have other merfolk within the carnival, but we don’t want to risk them getting ill, so Authaire and I will join y...
2020-07-17 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was so painfully hot and the sand grated against my body as if it were trying to peel it away. I could barely breathe, I couldn’t move at all, I just laid there while the sun continued to beat down upon me. I can’t remember how I got here, I have vague flashes of faces and voices in the back of my mind. I’m so weak. Why am I here?
“Daddy!” The voice screams out in horror.
Am I Daddy? What’s a daddy?
“Echo, go get your mother.” Another voice, perhaps t...
2020-07-17 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m a little miffed that Nectarios has been called away, but I decide to make use of my time and investigate some of the people Nectarios has a problem with. I bite his neck. “I’ll go sit with your mother, just in case anyone tries anything.”
“What a treat you are.” He gets dressed, and quickly we leave together. While the doctor examines Nectarios’ father, I sit with his mother i...
2020-07-17 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun was so painfully hot and the sand grated against my body as if it were trying to peel it away. I could barely breathe, I couldn’t move at all, I just laid there while the sun continued to beat down upon me. I can’t remember how I got here, I have vague flashes of faces and voices in the back of my mind. I’m so weak. Why am I here?
“Daddy!” The voice screams out in horror.
Am I Daddy? What’s a daddy?
“Echo, go get your mother.” Another voice, perhaps t...
2020-07-16 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you were a kid, you had joined a small team of others around your age. It was part of a hero program in the works, this was before Hepheastus made the Academy, and it was a rough time to say the least. You and your group all had special abilities and were tasked with certain missions. You had an ability, passed down for generations, that allowed you to create moveable channels with electric currents. You had also mastered a way of slipping into phone lines and even lines of internet and ...
2020-07-16 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
When I was young, the son of a nobleman became indebted to my family. He was named Nectarios, and I just remember him being tall and thin. His father had cut him off from the family fortune, so he borrowed a considerable amount of money from my mothers’. He hoped to start a business which he would make my mothers partners in, and they would earn their money back threefold by the time the business t...
2020-07-16 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen you were a kid, you had joined a small team of others around your age. It was part of a hero program in the works, this was before Hepheastus made the Academy, and it was a rough time to say the least. You and your group all had special abilities and were tasked with certain missions. You had an ability, passed down for generations, that allowed you to create moveable channels with electric currents. You had also mastered a way of slipping into phone lines and even lines of internet and ...
2020-07-15 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostAges ago, violent sandstorms had plagued the once great Neith kingdom. What had once been a sprawling metropolis of the Rakshasa, Lizardfolk, and Jackal peoples, was instantly destroyed and buried under sand, separating the three for generations across the continent. The great kingdom now lays buried under the desert and I’ve been given the great duty to help find it.
Not much is left from those days, only stories, rotting books, and the vague memories that people had written down. Th...
2020-07-15 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
You wake in the morning, realizing your phone’s alarm isn’t going off. Then you remember that you dropped your phone at the museum, and Rabid probably has it now. You groan, sitting up in bed to see a figure standing at your window.
You walk up to the statue outside, placing your hand on his back. Last night he felt like velvet, but he’s returned to the cold stone you had known for ...
2020-07-15 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostAges ago, violent sandstorms had plagued the once great Neith kingdom. What had once been a sprawling metropolis of the Rakshasa, Lizardfolk, and Jackal peoples, was instantly destroyed and buried under sand, separating the three for generations across the continent. The great kingdom now lays buried under the desert and I’ve been given the great duty to help find it.
Not much is left from those days, only stories, rotting books, and the vague memories that people had written down. Th...
2020-07-14 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re still getting used to things, it was a pretty big move, and this new job is much more different than you expected. Hephaestus Academy is huge, and the mech shop you work in is like a giant mall. The building it’s two stories and open in the center. You have a workshop on the second floor completely dedicated to soldering and tight repair work. You see a lot of students day to day, but mostly your skills have been used on emergency calls.
You enjoy your job, you enjoyed ...
2020-07-14 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Many years ago, the building you work in was renovated by an eccentric man who liked to collect supposedly ‘cursed’ items. He had the building’s exterior made up to mimic old cathedrals, so there was lots of stonework involved. The building was a stark, dark grey thumb sticking out among the rows of glass and brick on either side. Part of his collection was also mounted on the building facade -...
2020-07-14 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou’re still getting used to things, it was a pretty big move, and this new job is much more different than you expected. Hephaestus Academy is huge, and the mech shop you work in is like a giant mall. The building it’s two stories and open in the center. You have a workshop on the second floor completely dedicated to soldering and tight repair work. You see a lot of students day to day, but mostly your skills have been used on emergency calls.
You enjoy your job, you enjoyed ...
2020-07-13 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a time during the day when everything just feels perfect. The sun reaches a point where it filters through the trees and the light scatters like gemstones on the ground through the high windows. What makes it better, is that the windows are coated with a material that makes the light less harsh but casts rainbows on everything. The library gets a glow to it and everything just appears to be magic.
During the summer months and weekends year round, you work on a program in the li...
2020-07-13 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Danvers has revealed her intentions and purpose to me. She has shown me her powers, combined with mine. She is able to soothe the anger of the girls in these walls, granting them wishes which are not always pretty. One would never assume young ladies would have such hatred and bile inside them. No one wants to, but in truth, they sometimes have more than anyone. It is Danvers’ job to alleviate that...
2020-07-13 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThere is a time during the day when everything just feels perfect. The sun reaches a point where it filters through the trees and the light scatters like gemstones on the ground through the high windows. What makes it better, is that the windows are coated with a material that makes the light less harsh but casts rainbows on everything. The library gets a glow to it and everything just appears to be magic.
During the summer months and weekends year round, you work on a program in the li...
2020-07-10 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long time I let things slide, I let things that bothered me be forgiven, I took annoyances with a grain of salt. I wanted to be friendly, to be kind, but I let people get the best of me and it soon became too much for me to bear. I may have snapped, and afterwards I left home. I needed to get away and be by myself for a while.
I finally found a place that made me feel at home. The lake was beautiful, large and crystal clear with so many lilies over the surface it looked like...
2020-07-10 20:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The Blessed Silver School for Boys had already been a fading relic when I came to it. I studied there as a boy, sent into its halls by my father. I was unsure why he did such a thing, as our family wasn’t affluent, nor were we known for having any sort of education. It made me angry to be sent away. I just wanted to be with my family. But every time I went home, I began to realize that w...
2020-07-10 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFor a long time I let things slide, I let things that bothered me be forgiven, I took annoyances with a grain of salt. I wanted to be friendly, to be kind, but I let people get the best of me and it soon became too much for me to bear. I may have snapped, and afterwards I left home. I needed to get away and be by myself for a while.
I finally found a place that made me feel at home. The lake was beautiful, large and crystal clear with so many lilies over the surface it looked like...
2020-07-09 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe corridors here are long and spacious, they fit many people in at a time. I watch them walk to and fro looking upwards towards the walls, admiring paintings, admiring me. I stand in guard like I always did, making sure the people are safe. Yet, at the same time, I cannot help but feel as though my place here is not my own. I have been in many worlds, and for so many years I have traveled far and wide.
During the nights, I stand down from my post and I step away from the stand I...
2020-07-09 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
“Grirsorth watches us, and all the while Sybell and I take turns enjoying the Orc before this really cute Minotaur comes in. I stayed there for two years...” I say unsurely, trying to piece dates together to form some sort of timeline. “Maybe it was only one. I’m not sure. But it was always a lot of fun putting on shows there at Grirsorth’s castle. It actually wasn’t long after that this ...
2020-07-09 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe corridors here are long and spacious, they fit many people in at a time. I watch them walk to and fro looking upwards towards the walls, admiring paintings, admiring me. I stand in guard like I always did, making sure the people are safe. Yet, at the same time, I cannot help but feel as though my place here is not my own. I have been in many worlds, and for so many years I have traveled far and wide.
During the nights, I stand down from my post and I step away from the stand I...
2020-07-08 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostI’m a little miffed that Nectarios has been called away but I decide to make some use of my time and scope out some of the people Nectarios has a problem with.
I bite his neck. “I’ll go sit with your mother, just in case anyone tries anything.”
“What a treat you are.” He gets dressed, and quickly we leave together. While the doctor examines Nectarios’ father, I sit with his mother in the parlor. Clementine is flustered and fretting, terribly worried about her husband...
2020-07-08 20:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I used to joke that my job wasn’t so much gardening as it was bored housewives. It was a cruel joke, but it was the truth. I lie and say it was a rumor, but I know it wasn’t. I got caught one day in the bed of one of my employers’ wives, and then people gossiped. Even the other women I slept with. They did it to cover their tracks, but I ended up with the dirt kicked back on me.
It ...
2020-07-08 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI’m a little miffed that Nectarios has been called away but I decide to make some use of my time and scope out some of the people Nectarios has a problem with.
I bite his neck. “I’ll go sit with your mother, just in case anyone tries anything.”
“What a treat you are.” He gets dressed, and quickly we leave together. While the doctor examines Nectarios’ father, I sit with his mother in the parlor. Clementine is flustered and fretting, terribly worried about her husband...
2020-07-07 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I was young, the son of a nobleman became indebted to my family. The young man was named Nectarios, and I just remember him being tall and thin. His father had cut him off from the family fortune so he had borrowed a considerable amount of money from my mothers. He insisted he could them pay back, or at least, his father would. He had asked for the money in hopes of starting a business which he would then make my mothers partners in and they would earn their money back triple by the time...
2020-07-07 20:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The first time I met her, I had been working as her father’s lab assistant. I remember seeing a flash of red hair before the vixenish qualities of her face. She looked at me with those sharp green eyes, and I was eviscerated by a glance. She saw right away that I was just a doormat her father used. She was the first to tell me I was better.
I never expected a girl like her to even bat an eyel...
2020-07-07 19:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostYou woke in the morning, realizing your phone’s alarms weren’t going off. You then remember that your phone had been dropped at the museum and Rabid probably had it now. You scoff, sitting up in bed and you see a figure standing at your window.
You walk up to the stone statue, placing your hand on his back. Last night he felt like velvet, but he was back to the hold stone form you had known for so long. Looking up at Amadou, you see his gaze is focused intensely outside. You d...
2020-07-06 21:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I was young, the son of a nobleman became indebted to my family. The young man was named Nectarios, and I just remember him being tall and thin. His father had cut him off from the family fortune so he had borrowed a considerable amount of money from my mothers. He insisted he could them pay back, or at least, his father would. He had asked for the money in hopes of starting a business which he would then make my mothers partners in and they would earn their money back triple by the time...
2020-07-06 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post