Mist of Shadows

Boosted Villainy Part 11

"No flying in the house…" Carol trailed off when she glanced back at her flying daughter and realized that Vicky wasn't the one flying down the hallway. "Amy?" she sputtered.

Amy landed, looking a touch sheepish. "Yes?"

"How?" Carol asked, wondering if she'd found some tinkertech or a cape that loaned her the ability.

"Classified," Amy replied with a shrug.

"Actually classified or you just don't want to tell me?" Carol asked.

"Do I need to pay you a retainer to...

Boosted Villainy Part 10

"Do I have…" Amy trailed off as she got close enough to get a decent look at the broken teenager that was strapped to a gurney. "What happened?" she asked the cop that was standing next to the patient the intern wanted her to heal, looking far too calm for the injured guy to be innocent.

"Karma?" the cop offered with a shrug. "The owner of the shop said that someone in a duct tape mask walked up to him with a baseball bat and just started swinging."

Amy reached down and touched ...

Boosted Villainy Part 9

"Danny?" Jimmy asked after picking up the phone, not sure who else would be calling him from the union.

"Yeah, I might need to call in that favor you owe me," Danny said as he leaned back in his office chair.

"What's up?" Jimmy asked.

"Is your wife still on the school board?" Danny replied.

Jimmy glanced towards the kitchen where he could hear his wife doing dishes. "Yeah, why do you ask?"

"Taylor has been getting harassed by a track star all year and the princip...

Boosted Villainy Part 8

Myst knelt down on a piece of cardboard in the mall parking lot and used a touch of his energy to boost the last shock absorber on the RV so that it would absorb impact and help reduce the weight of the vehicle. "That should make the ride smoother. The potholes around here are still insane."

"Wouldn't upgrading the shocks do the same thing?" Taylor asked.

"I'm planning on upgrading the internal volume which means we're going to be putting far more weight on the frame than it was d...

Boosted Villainy Part 7

Taylor glanced around the interior of the brand new RV then took a seat on the bench. "You can boost things and make things like Dauntless?"

"Basically," Myst agreed as he stepped into the RV and closed the door to keep the heat in.

"Why are you so open about being a parahuman?" Taylor asked.

"I'm trying to form a group of parahumans that want to avoid getting press ganged by the gangs," Myst admitted.

"How many have you recruited so far?" Taylor asked.

"We have ...

Boosted Villainy Part 6

Assault blinked when he heard a familiar song playing and saw Luigi in a go kart zooming down the street, driving like a madman and swerving all over the place. 'Is he drunk?' he mused as he checked the PHO on his phone and pulled up Uber and Leet's channel to see if they were doing something live. "Road work? Is that code for something?"

"Hell if I know, I just saw Mario flying through the area driving like a maniac," Battery replied over the radio as they’d split up to cover more gr...

Boosted Villainy Part 5

"I'm surprised you didn't go for the challenger with how quickly you devoured that burger," Rose teased Myst as they left the restaurant.

"I'm not a fan of grease at the best of times, it's like they're intentionally trying to kill people," Myst grumbled, coming to a stop when he saw two suspicious guys in their twenties walking towards them. His gaze jumped to the shorter man's t-shirt where Mario was fucking a half naked Bowsette while Princess Peach sat on a green toadstool, playing ...

Boosted Villainy Part 4

Myst collected the bag and the receipt then left the new age shop. He frowned when he noticed an overweight guy in a security outfit ranting at the attractive dark haired security guard from earlier.

"You can't just tase people and call the police!" the man ranted at the girl, his face red and his breathing labored as he tried to physically intimidate the girl, despite the fact that she had a good four inches on him.

"Are you saying that we're not supposed to protect people?" the ...

Boosted Villainy Part 3

Myst stared at the stacks of money sitting on the hotel bed, surprised that it had turned out to be just over two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. On the upside it certainly helped his conscience and the lingering doubts about the man's connection to the Empire were put to rest. 'More money than I've ever seen outside of the movies,' he mused then started putting the stacks back in his bag. 'I'm going to need to upgrade my wallet to store everything and give me proper change, maybe a stra...

Boosted Villainy Part 2

Myst was rather happy with his haul, not only had he managed to boost his boots and clothes a couple of times but he'd found a bag filled with old electric engines and wires that he'd promptly stuck in his backpack for later testing, two broken umbrellas, a shoe box filled with rusty screwdrivers, four broken or filthy coolers, five broken plastic recorders, a bag of shock absorbing gel shoe inserts of different makes and models, a bag of worn out gloves, and a small rechargeable fire extingu...

Boosted Villainy

An: Hopefully everyone has a safe holiday.

Myst opened the envelope and absently pulled the postcard out as he left the post office, wondering who was sending him a postcard as the letter hadn't had a return address on it and why they had put it in an envelope to start with, it kinda negated the reason for buying a postcard in the first place, no envelope. He had a second and a half to look at the picture of a girl in black body armor with a swarm of bugs, behind her a decayi...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 13

"Give me something," Myst muttered as he set Arion's crown in the middle of the star carved into his enchanting altar and glanced over the item's details that appeared on the altar's floating display. He was a bit annoyed but not particularly surprised when he noticed the grayed out option for disenchanting the crown. "So much for the easy way," he muttered as he read the description floating above the crown, 'Always active: Nearly indestructible, Well of Power (Order aligned). Wearing the cr...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 12

Myst glanced in the mirror on the table in the room he'd rented for the night, trying to make sure that every hint of her hair and face were covered by the ski mask and hoodie, on the off chance that her invisibility didn't extend to the cameras or failed. She checked her gloves and the rest of her outfit then cast her invisibility spell and checked the mirror. 'Okay, even if one of the cameras catches you, you're just a random thief and you can leave through the skylight.'

She opened a...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 11

Myst glanced up from the boss fight he was currently fighting on Final Fantasy IV when Alura sat down on the beach towel next to him. "What's up?"

"You're going on an adventure, aren't you?" Alura asked.

"What makes you say that?" Myst asked, curious where she'd gotten that idea, mostly because he was.

"You were asking Aqualad about the location of the ruins of ancient Atlantis and you asked Athena about the location of Xebel," Alura replied.

"So?" Myst asked, trying a...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 10

Myst did his best to ignore the massive ring floating in the sky in the distance as he checked the address on the sign above the door against the piece of parchment in his hand that Sapphire's grandfather had given him, fairly sure the address matched, but he'd been reasonably sure the last time and that had ended up being a 'mundane' antique dealer.

"Worst case, you have to ask someone else for directions," he muttered under his breath as he opened the door and walked into the shop fil...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 9

"This is going to be easy," Tommy bragged in his thick southern drawl, as he walked towards the jewelry store with his sister, looking forward to scaring people and grabbing a bunch of jewelry.

"It's going to be fun…" Tuppence trailed off when something gold and glittering was tossed at her. She reached up and caught the gold coin then looked at the tall and well built teenager wearing black pants, heavy duty boots and a white t-shirt that was leaning up against a pillar flipping anot...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 8

“Come to papa,” Myst said as he picked up the golden ring from the small pile of magical items and slipped it onto his finger.

“Shouldn’t that be mama?” the old wizard asked.

Myst’s form shifted, breasts shrinking into a broad chest as he gained a foot in height and his shoulders broadened, femine features giving way to a mascline grin as there was a sound of tearing cloth. “Not anymore,” he said with a pleased grin, momentarily surprised by how deep his voice was....

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 7

Myst's grand plan of stepping through a door to Waterdeep and wandering around asking people until he found a magical items shop hit a bit of a snag when he stepped through the portal and heard the sounds of the city and realized that he didn't recognize a single word anyone was saying. "This might be a problem."

"I don't recognize any of the languages they're using," Kara admitted.

"What were you expecting, English?" Lewis asked as he looked around the old fashioned looking town ...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 6

"That's cheating," Myst muttered as he watched Kara roll a 'sheet' of molten glass and sand into a giant tube, blurring between the various points of the tube to keep it moving so that it didn't melt or break into a useless mess as it cooled enough to support its own weight.

Kara snickered as she pushed and stretched one of the ends into more of an arch shape rather than sort of melting it together like she'd done to the rest of the tube. "Just because you can't do the math in your head...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 5

"Are you sure she's up?" Hal asked.

"I doubt she'll be able to sleep through the sun hitting her," Kara replied as she knocked on the door, unwilling to admit that she'd already checked with her X-ray vision and found her standing in front of the mirror in a pair of pajama bottoms staring at her reflection.

"Just a minute," Myst called out as he pulled his attention away from the bathroom mirror and pulled his t-shirt over his head, curious how long it would take before he got use...

Bit of a Glitch...

Messed up the tier bit on the Tara dungeon post today and also charged for it... so Friday's post won't be charged and I'll try to have another character of Tara's dungeon out soon to make up for the glitch. 

Tara Pixie Dungeon Part 52

Metal stabbed her shadow for what felt like the thousandth time and blinked when the darkness in the rather small room vanished and she was able to see everything as if it was illuminated by indirect light. 'I can touch the walls on each side and I could kick the other door, no wonder my shadow didn't have any problem getting to me.'

She looked at her character sheet and smiled when she saw her new abilities listed on her character sheet. 'Fifty points of shadow affinity and shadow immu...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 4

Myst absently grabbed another chip from the bowl sitting on the bed as he selected the water breathing enchant and hit the button, creating yet another magic ring of water breathing that he could sell or give away after he collected it from the game. He finished eating the chip then glanced at the bathroom door that was being taken up by a portal to Ivalice where the girls and Robin were doing some shopping, wishing he'd went with them to Final Fantasy instead of doing the responsible thing o...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 3

Kara glanced away from the screen where Myst was loading the game for the thirty seventh time after stabbing the shopkeeper to reset their inventory when she heard someone quietly approaching the door. She used her X-ray vision on the wall and door as she floated off the bed and over to the door, wanting to make sure it wasn't someone that wanted to cause trouble. She opened the door with a grin as Robin reached out with his foot to knock on the bottom of it. "Nice timing."

"Cool, I hav...

Myst and the Magic Shop Part 2

"Feeling better…" Robin trailed off as the door to the hotel bathroom opened and the clone walked out wearing a white towel around her waist that barely covered everything it needed to and another towel around her blonde hair, leaving her breasts uncovered. "Sorry!"

Myst smirked when Robin turned around so he wasn't looking at 'her' chest, rather amused by the fact that he was keeping track of 'her' reflection on the microwave's door, though he wasn’t sure whether that was because o...

Myst and the Magic Shop

An: Had an idea that wouldn't leave me alone.

Myst blinked as he went from sitting down at his computer to read a fic to standing in a strange antique/souvenir shop with an older oriential man that looked suspiciously like a certain cartoon character turned real.

"Ah, you are here to buy from Uncle," the old man said as he gestured around his shop filled with strange trinkets that looked like crap sold in tourist traps.

"Right…" Myst trailed off as he reached into his poc...

Replacement Boy That Lived Part 14

Myst dodged under a tentacle and stabbed the fake looking tentacle monster with her dagger, moving better in her unfamiliar female body than she had any right to thanks to her magical girl transformation and the agility she'd stolen from the last twenty monsters she'd killed. She slashed at the tentacle that was heading for somewhere it had no business going then viciously drove the blade into the monster's body, causing the burned and battered creature to vanish and leave behind a high tech ...

Replacement Boy That Lived Part 13

Myst walked around the corner and blinked a couple of times when he noticed the aisle seemed to slowly warp and twist when he wasn't looking directly at it, causing sections to bend and stretch in ways that were disturbing as he couldn't quite remember what they'd looked like a second ago but knew they'd changed or at least was reasonably sure they'd changed. "Is anyone else getting a bad feeling about this?"

"Nope!" Scarlet cheerfully lied as she tried to keep her eye on everything, de...

Replacement Boy That Lived Part 12

Hermione glanced around the depressing and dingy looking alley that Myst had teleported them to then looked at the rest of the group. "Are you sure this is safe? Professor McGonagall warned us about it."

"Not particularly," Neville muttered, hoping his gran didn't find out that he'd been in Knockturn alley.

'Not remotely.' Myst frowned and pulled his poison staff out of his inventory when he noticed a hag looking at them from the shadows on the other side of the alley with a less ...

Replacement Boy That Lived Part 11

"Mystic Boots of Asskicking," Myst mused as he looked at the leather boots they'd picked up from the dark elf.

"What are they really called?" Hermione asked as they walked out of a hole in the hedge and into the courtyard with a two story stone tower in the middle of it surrounded by various torn up flower beds filled with half eaten flowers and a curious lack of gnomes.

"Boots of Asskicking," Myst replied with a grin as he glanced around the clearing, rather amused that he wasn't...