Mist of Shadows

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 24

"This is a horrible plan," Dennis muttered under his breath as he studied the death knight sitting on the frost covered throne.

Ziz glanced around the massive audience chamber and focused on the death knight's sword that was giving her an unsettling feeling. "If it doesn't work, I'll pick him up and bash his head against the ground until he dies."

Admin gave Ziz a thumbs up, fairly sure the Simurgh could deal with the boss or at least hold him in place if their plan failed.

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Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 23

Taylor glanced up from the engineering book she was reading when Armsmaster and Dragon walked into the lounge. "How did the run go?"

"Efficient and frustrating," Colin replied as they walked over so they didn't have to talk across the room. "Wings flew up in the sky in Zul'Gurub then grabbed all of the trolls she could see and compressed them into a ball for us to shoot."

Taylor glanced at Dragon then looked back at Armsmaster. "Let me guess, you wanted more of a challenge?"

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 22

'I'm going to have to recruit her if we end up keeping our powers,' Emily Piggot mused as she watched Skitter carefully line up a silvery hoop with the other two links on the belt she was working on, demonstrating a resourcefulness with her phasing spell that Shadow Stalker could learn something from.

Taylor let go of the truesilver link she was holding with a pair of pliers and sighed in relief when the hoop dropped out of phase without merging with or phasing through the other loops. ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 21

Amy jumped and nearly screwed up the symbiote gloves she was working on when Skitter started laughing. "What's up?"

"I just found a really nice staff," Skitter replied as she opened a void portal to her puppet and handed herself the staff.

Amy studied the metal staff that was crackling with pink energy. "Define really nice."

Taylor let the portal close. "1955 spell power, 341 magic, 512 stamina and 228 critical strike and haste, not to mention 1047 to 1571 damage per strike ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 20

"There's something seriously wrong with the designers," Taylor muttered as she read the notes on the quest one of her puppets was working on.

Leet looked up from the book on magical theory that Skitter was letting him read. "What did they do this time?"

"One of the quests in the Blasted Lands involves blasting goats off cliffs with a goat punting device," Taylor replied as Ember walked into the lounge.

Leet laughed. "I remember that quest, you should bring the gauntlet back,...

Bracelet Hero Part 6

Myst wasn't sure if he was supposed to be annoyed or relieved that only a third of the priests in the area were corrupt as hell or at least guilty of providing support to the corrupt governor, mostly because it would have given him a solid reason to deal with the local branch without worrying about witnesses. He wasn't particularly surprised that the rest of the guards at the checkpoint had been guilty of a combination of crimes, either murdering people when they couldn't or wouldn't pay the ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 19

Amy froze for a second when she finished her latest modification to the 'standard' symbiote shirt and noticed Skitter's grin. "Why do you look like a cat that just caught the canary?"

"Because one of my minions just killed the leader of a group of ogres in Alterac and he dropped a crown that makes you immune to mind control and possession," Taylor replied smugly.

"Seriously?" Amy sputtered. "You just happened to be clearing random monsters and you found something that blocks mind ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game part 18

Amy glanced away from the mostly naked blood elf sorceress that Taylor was talking to and looked at the bookshelf that Taylor's black robed minions were looting. "Anything interesting?"

"Not really," one of Taylor's puppets replied in a gravelly voice.

"It's just the guest quarters," another puppet finished the first puppet's sentence, sounding less gravelly but still deeper than Skitter's normal voice.

"It's mostly just history and what passes for romance novels but I picke...

Bracelet Hero Part 5

"This is your fault!" the merchant screamed as he frantically waved the reins, trying to get his tyrellas to move faster and wishing he hadn't taken the group's silver, mostly because there was something about them that seemed to draw the monsters like moths to a flame.

"Bullshit!" Myst lied as he ducked behind the wooden rail of the man's wagon as the group of porcupine-like monsters sent a volley of spikes at the slaver's wagon, causing the enchanted wood to splinter and crack where t...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 17

Despite her earlier goal of making their gear overpowered, Taylor couldn't help feeling like a cheating cheater that cheated when she looked at her insane stats. Even without doing something crazy like piercing her nipples or other parts of her body that shouldn't have holes in them they'd managed to toss together an insane collection of magical items that effectively made them mid tier brutes and low end movers. "I feel a bit guilty using substandard trinkets for a base but we're missing som...

Bracelet Hero Part 4

The priest scowled at Myst and Anna. "Why are you here so late?"

"Because I was hunting monsters and taking care of other business, you know that thing I was summoned for, i.e. being a hero," Myst replied with a touch of sarcasm, not seeing a point in mentioning his shopping trip for tools. "I want to link to the dragon hourglass and I want some of the dragon sand so I can unlock a teleport bracelet."

"How did you learn about that?" the priest asked.

"Every hero gets certain...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 16

Sherrel pulled her attention away from the pile of blood elf bodies that Uber and Leet were stripping for loot and looked at Wings. "Now that we've hit level seventy are we going to hit one of the dungeons?"

Ziz turned to look at Taylor. "How long will it take to craft some halfway decent gear?"

Taylor glanced up from the dungeon guide she'd downloaded on her phone. "That depends on what you consider halfway decent gear."

Ziz walked over to check Taylor's phone. "We just nee...

Bracelet Hero Part 3

Fifteen minutes later found the pair outside of the city killing balloon monsters, mostly Anna but he'd killed his fair share by kicking them as he dusted off his martial arts skills, which left him wondering how anyone could be scared of the little monsters. "We're getting next to nothing for experience, how do you feel about looking for something more impressive?" he asked Anna in a whisper as he looked at the other heroes that were gleefully slaughtering the little bastards in waves.

Bracelet Hero Part 2

Myst resisted the urge to do something stupid as he walked into the tent filled with people in cages like animals. 'I'll come back when I get higher level and make sure things improve.'

"Ah, guests and potential customers," a man dressed like a circus ringleader said cheerfully as he stepped out of the shadows.

"We're looking for assistants," Myst said as he glanced around the various people in cages, knowing he couldn't help most of them without helping himself first.

"What...

Taylor and the Twisted Gamer Part 15

"You're completely, gloriously bullshit, you know that right?" Leet asked with amusement as he looked over his new racial abilities.

"I'm aware," Amy replied with a smirk.

"What did you get?" Ember asked as she dropped the blue silk dress that Skitter handed her on her chest equipment slot, causing it to change into a sheer silk dress that left nothing to the imagination and clung to her curves. 'At least I look good.'

Leet glanced at Ember then read off his abilities. "Immu...

Bracelet Hero Part 1

Myst blinked a couple of times when he went from sitting down at his computer to work on his latest chapter to standing in what looked suspiciously like a throne room holding a familiar short sword, except that it had a large jewel in the hilt for some reason. He glanced at the grey haired man sitting on the throne then looked at the four teenagers that were holding weapons. "What the fuck?"

"Excuse me?" the richly dressed man on the throne sputtered.

"Let me rephrase that, what t...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 14

Taylor grinned as she pulled another book off the shelf in the Scarlet Monastery library and got a point of archeology. "Even if the loot wasn't good, I'd run the place just for the books and the points of archeology."

[It's certainly interesting. I'm going to want to read your copy of Rituals of Power] Admin replied as she pulled a glowing book off the shelf. [It's strange that we're seeing different things.]

"It's probably a game thing," Taylor replied as she headed towards the ...

Tayler and the Twisted Game part 13

Taylor frowned as she studied the image of Amelia's arm and the 'empty' room she could see in the mirror. "There's something disturbing about not having a reflection."

"You'd think not having a heartbeat would be more disturbing," Amy mused, slightly annoyed but not particularly surprised that she wasn't able to sense Taylor's genetics since vampyrs were undead.

Taylor checked her wrist for a pulse. "I hadn't noticed. Can you fix the sunlight vulnerability?"

[Not a chance, y...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 12

Dennis looked up from the notes he was working on as Admin walked into the lounge with four people he didn't recognize, three elves and a human male. "Welcome to the party."

"More like briefing," Emily cut in as she glanced over the group with Admin. "Names?" she asked, not sure what they'd told Admin or Skitter.

Sophia pointed above her head where her name plate should be floating over her head. "Stalker, Warp, Noelle and Chevalier."

"I didn't want to cause a mess for the P...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 11

[Neat!] Shaper squealed as she examined the 'biology' that allowed the four legged animals to surround their hooves with fire and breathe fire.

'And the voices are back,' Taylor mused as she watched Amy pet the large felsteed's neck. "Anything useful?"

Amy grinned as she headed back to where Skitter, Sophia and Chevalier were waiting for her near the warp in space that led to the walkway that would take them to the room with the giant wolf. "I might have an idea how to give people...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 10

Taylor completed her teleport spell and blinked a couple of times when she went from standing just outside of Stormwind on a cliff in the early evening to the middle of a stone room with half a dozen people standing around a couple of braziers chatting. "Huh, not quite what I was expecting."

"Let me guess, you were expecting a bunch of dwarves?" Juli Stormkettle asked with amusement as she studied the blue skinned dwarf wearing a blood splattered black robe that clung to her body.

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 9

"We got her!" a rather large, muscular and stupid looking human called out as the girl with blue fox ears and a fluffy blue tail that he was chasing darted into a deadend alley. He scowled when he ran around the corner and realized the fox girl had vanished into thin air. "Fucking rogues, spread out and start swinging, make sure she can't get away…" he trailed off when he noticed the two teenage girls making out in the shadows further into the alley, both dressed as naughty school girls wit...

Replacement Boy That Lived Part 3

"Sleeping in a bed has restored your mana and health to full," the female voice announced.

Myst yawned and looked around the unfamiliar room until he noticed the clock on the hotel room desk. 'Six fifty nine? Automated wakeup and the clock being a touch slow or just issues with sleeping in strange places?' he mused as he slipped out of the bed that he shouldn't be in. He glanced around the room then carefully made the bed so that no one would notice he'd 'broken' in to ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 8

Uber tightened his grip on the sword he was in the process of sharpening and stepped forward when the group of twelve ugly ass men that looked like rejects from the Teeth rushed into the room holding nasty looking swords and axes.

"Welcome to hell fuckers, you belong to us!" the leader of the group announced as he rushed towards the nearest tech, who happened to be some type of green haired blood elf demon hybrid with wings.

The busty red haired blood elf wearing a pair of translu...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 7

Taylor nearly shot Void in the ass when she suddenly found herself looking at Amy standing in front of the pond in the garden holding a wiggling purple tentacle. It was like she'd used her Eyes of the Beast ability on another pet, giving her two extra windows in her mind instead of one. "What the hell!"

"Skitter?" Amy asked, recognizing her new friend's voice and face even if her ears were fox-like to match Admin's.

"Yeah…" Taylor trailed off when she twisted her head and she sa...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 6

An: Sorry about the late post, the power went out for a day. 

'So much for having money,' Taylor thought as she used the last of her silver to pay for her hunter skills.

"Give me your money," a hunter wearing decent looking leather armor demanded as he pointed his gun at Taylor's face.

Taylor glared at the overly muscled human male that was trying to rob her. "I just spent everything I had buying skills."

"You're lying," the man replied. "Give me the mo...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 5

"Vicky?" Dean blurted when someone in the crowd moved and he saw Vicky walking towards them or at least someone that looked like his girlfriend, if you'd dressed her in a black and red corset and a short black skirt.

Dennis grinned when he recognized the demonic version of Vicky and one of the girls with her as the suspiciously snarky girl he'd done a raid with a couple of weeks ago. "Nice to see you again Amelia."

"Smurf," Amy replied with a grin as she walked over to where her f...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 4

Amy stared in disbelief as they walked around the bend in the path to what should have led to the Beggar's Haunt and saw Skitter's mansion. "When you said you had a mansion, I was expecting a large house."

"Same," Taylor admitted as she stared at the stone keep that peeked out from behind the stone wall that enclosed a decent amount of space.

Ezra raised an eyebrow when she read the cloth banner hanging over the gatehouse. "Home of the Demon Queen of Escalation?"

"No clue," ...

Taylor and the Twisted Game Part 3

Noelle Meinhardt stumbled as she went from logging into the VR game for a bit of escape from her current troubles to stepping out of the portal in Stormwind's wizarding tower. "Weird message…" she trailed off as she realized she could hear the sounds of the city and smell the scent of old books, something the VR headset shouldn't have been able to duplicate.

"Welcome to Stormwind," the pink haired gnome offered.

"Thanks," Noelle replied absently as she glanced down at where the ...

Replacement Boy That Lived Part 2

Myst watched his health bar as he finished his burger, wondering if it would actually change now that he'd finished his burger and fries. He waited a couple of seconds then sighed in annoyance when it was obvious that his health wasn't regenerating any faster. 'So much for a cheap way to restore health.' He pulled the two leatherbound books he'd gotten from the chest out of his inventory and opened the first one.

"New skill acquired: Lightning, spray unlocked." a female voice an...