Malcolm Tent

Sell you a Bridge chapter 279

June 13th 2016 The Street of Gods 8:00 PM EDT

We  stepped down from the carriage and into the street as a group. Everyone  had come along, and we were all prepared for some trouble, strapped  with every powerful artifact and tool they had available. Taylor had  even shared some of his stash, and Suzie had let Artemis borrow a few  guns, which my surrogate sister seemed to be geeking out about more  emphatically than I'd seen her react to an...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 213

I'd met Abel a few times now, and every one of them he'd come across  as a carefree, somewhat loony man, who just did his own thing and didn't  much care what anyone thought. He was friendly, polite, and most likely  laughing at you behind that mask even if you couldn't tell, but not in a  malicious way. Seeing him here like this though, I didn't see any of  those things. The mask was still a black rabbit, it should have looked  ridiculous. It should have been im...

Greed God chapter 140

March 15th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 PM EDT

Sindara,  not being D ranker, did NOT notice my use of Eros and Psych as I slowly  fanned the flames of her desire, though honestly it was barely  necessary to begin with. The spoiled little rich girl was pretty pent  up, and the handsome wealthy foreigner would have been soaking her  panties if she'd been wearing any. Add that to being raised around all  these gangsters who were so free with their affe...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 212

There were six new robed figures, all wearing hammered bronze masks  just like the ones on the other men. The one at the front, who based on  position I assumed was responsible for the wave of corrosive black gas,  turned to the downed figures. "Honestly. The three of you had one job.  This is what happens when we let Andy go on jobs, so I own that one, but  I expected better from you Paul. Honestly, can't even handle some  nobody G ranker and an old man. I'm ash...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 278

June 12th 2016 The Nightside 8:00 AM EDT

We  headed home after the job and I went directly to sleep. Discussing  everything we'd learned was important, but it had been almost four AM  London time, even if we were still mostly running on east coast time  zones. We got home and I collapsed into bed and when I woke up the next  morning, I filled everyone in on the information we gathered. As usual,  we turned to Taylor, our resident expert on ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 211

We set up on top of a building near the east end of G district to  watch the meeting. We hadn't known where it was, but the guy we were  following showed up early, so we had some waiting to do. We hid up on  top of a building with Callie using her stealth field to cover us. The  wishes should cover us even if something went wrong with that, but there  was no use advertising that to Alden, plus it was more amusing to be  able to talk during the wait instead of sit...

Greed God chapter 139

March 15th 2016 Gemworld 9:00 PM EDT

The  next night I made my way to the headquarters of the Bone Barons. I'd  left the stockpile of pills at home, since I wouldn't be needing them  tonight. I had my glamour on, and my mask on under it. The glamour would  serve for dealing with nobodies, but I couldn't swap the features on  the mask because of the randomization. Having a stable Opal accepted  face would be important for multiple situations...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 210

The preparations for the meeting we were crashing began the next day. Benny made the wishes after talking with Callie for a bit. It  seemed like I was running into a wall on storing more than ten of any  one kind of attack, and Benny was best able to supply a new type. Callie  was thinking about trying to supply a stealth ability for the next try,  but we figured experiments should be done when we didn't have so many  important things on the line, so Benny paid for th...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 277

June 12th 2016 The Nightside 11:00 PM EDT

It  took us another hour or so to get through the rest of the hallway. Jim  was fine after the trip as expected, and after a minute to recover so  was I. We slipped through the wards and protections on the second level  with the eye, having to stop every few feet to deconstruct some horrible  death array or reverse summoning curse that would have dropped us into  an eternal abyss, and they got even ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 209

The next week passed in a blur. With my new ability to grant wishes  for three stat points instead of two, the thirty five wishes accrued  over those seven days came out to over a hundred total stats. Given the  lacking foundations of one of our members, namely, Benny I made sure my  friend got twenty four of those, which he paid off with four of those  triple strength density shifted blows, and four of the triple strength  tranq hits.

He chose to dump thos...

Greed God chapter 138

March 14th 2016 Gemworld 9:00 PM EDT

The  next day was spent making preparations for my meeting with the nearby  forces. Cherry had done her job well, finding plenty of information  about the gangs and criminal syndicates in the city. As she mentioned,  they were here at the sufference of, and sometimes with the backing of,  the nobility. For our purposes however, we were looking for powerful  forces that weren't backed by the nobles, ones ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 208

Alden looked damn impressed by our results, as well as pretty pleased  by his obvious winnings. He let out a long whistle. "Damn, you kids did  not disappoint. You made me a mint. Especially you, little miss. Gust  is known for being nearly impossible to pin down properly. Odds are  always disproportionately in favor of him. Personally I think he's a  showoff with no substance who uses his power as a crutch, but I don't  deny he gets results."

After stoppin...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 276

June 12th 2016 The Nightside 10:00 PM EDT

It took them a bit less than an hour to dissolve a portion of the wards  for us to slip in through. Once it was open, we all hurried through,  with only Tommy staying behind to keep the wards from noticing us, and  Suzie staying with him as a guard. She seemed actively annoyed that  Sindella was going to be going in with Taylor, but she also obviously  knew that letting our conceptual 'don't look here' m...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 207

Callie's match, the last one, wasn't ready right after Benny's. We  had a little while to digest the battles and think over what had  happened, as well as strategize for her match. From what Alden had said,  this one was going to be the toughest for any of us to manage. Benny  and I were in at this point, if a single fight was enough. We'd proven  ourselves, but more importantly, we'd learned. These had been huge  growth opportunities for both Benny and me, and C...

Greed God chapter 137

March 13th 2016 Gemworld 8:00 PM EDT

The  next three days were spent preparing. My first move was to use the  supplies on the first list I'd given Cherry to put together a couple  disguise items. Since the point was to be pretty much invisible to  anyone higher ranked, and the Opal bloodline wasn't perception based  anyway I decided to stick with a couple of F ranked disguise items.  Thirty thousand used left me at one million, two hundred ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 206

Next up for combat was Benny. Where I'd been fighting the werewolf,  Benny was up against the metal man. An appropriate match up considering  that iron hide was his original power. I was sure this Mountaincrusher  person was able to synergize some more skills in to make himself even  tougher, but Benny was going to have a tough time taking the man down  based on what Alden had said. I was looking forward to the match, and  based on his fidgeting I was pretty sure...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 275

June 12th 2016 The Nightside 9:00 PM EDT

We  all headed for Griffin Hall together after making preparations for the  break in. We headed in at nine PM eastern, which is two AM London time.  In the Nightside it's technically always three AM, but people here DO  sleep, and we needed the Griffin to be in bed when we got in there. Or  at least, we wanted that. If he was unconscious it would be  exponentially easier to use clairvoyance to figure...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 205

My opponent, as it happened, was ready first. I'd been worried that  we would need to wait, but apparently Alden had taken 'is here right  know' as unspoken criteria, and all of our opponents were on the  premises. I was glad not to have to wait for my big match. I was raring  to go at the moment, having more than recovered from any exhaustion from  my earlier training with Jessie's help on the elevator ride down here.  Having a teammate who could mainline pure l...

Greed God chapter 136

March 10th 2016 Gemworld 4:00 PM EDT

Once  I retreated to seclusion to 'stew over my dilemma' I arranged for  Cherry and Zee to meet me so we could set out immediately for Dark  Opal's territory. Finding it wasn't tough, I still had that ridiculous  skull map memorized, and with Cherry and Zee helping I was able to cloak  my presence as I flew there so I didn't get noticed by any random Duke  or something. After letting Barbie know what was...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 204

The days wishes were used on attacks. I was able to get two from  Callie, though she had to rest after the first before giving the second.  It seemed that drawing out the attacks worked the same as just  executing them, and her full power blows weren't so easy to toss around.  Vitality seemed to have a lot to do with energy and recovery time, and I  made a note to remind her to keep up with that one.

Luckily  I had other roommates, and I was able to get two...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 274

June 12th 2016 The Nightside 8:00 AM EDT

The  next few days passed by in a blur. The adrenaline dump from leaving the  Arcadia Project had balanced out, and the good memories didn't have the  same bittersweet feeling after a few days with my girls and reminding  myself that the real world had good times to experience too. The  experience in there also helped me take a breath and slow down. I wanted  to help Kit, but rushing wouldn't do that...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 203

The next morning we headed down to the training room. The wish for  the shadows manipulation skill had been the fifth of the night, and it  had worn me out enough that I slept in, but we didn't have any hard  commitments so we decided to go test things out. When we got downstairs  Callie was practically vibrating in excitement. She was warming up as we  got ready for some tests, shadow boxing with a big grin on her face. I  felt the need to burst her bubble. "Jus...

Greed God chapter 135

March 8th 2016 Gemworld 1:00 PM EDT

The  next few days were a whirlwind of activity. By which I meant lots of  fucking. Mostly Emerald, but I made sure Barbie got plenty of dick too.  All good things, however, must end. Eventually Amy tracked me down to  let me know that we had been requested at the capital. Her mother had  been apprised of everything, and Graciel had sent a few people to begin  subtly mining up the Amethyst. Now I was expe...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 202

By the time we got back to the house, I had a pretty decent idea of  where my girlfriend's head was at. Even Jessie, who normally tried to  lighten the mood with her happy chatter, was uncharacteristically silent  during our drive home. Once we got inside the three of us split up,  with Jessie bounding off to say hello to the wolves and Callie and I  retreating to my room to sit and talk. I escorted her inside, closed the  door, and waited until she seemed to hav...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 273

June 7th 2016 The Nightside 8:00 PM EDT

Leaving the Arcadia Project was rough. Even the absence of the joy and  contentment felt like pain and there was a massive come down once we  stepped back into the alley. I saw Zee subtly wipe away a tear as we all  felt the weight of the world crash back down on our shoulders, and I  felt for her. Still, rather than be depressed or upset, I was just  nostalgic. Even the memories I'd made in the Arcadia Pr...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 201

Callie was staring at the man in the black cloth covering hard. Her  eyes were hard and cold as permafrost as they bored into the dark form.  "So that was what? Some kind of test? You ATTACK my boyfriend just so  see what I would do about it? Because if that's the kind of place this  is we have no interest in staying. We have enough to worry about dealing  with our enemies, we don't need attacks coming from our allies too."  Her teeth were gritted as she hissed o...

Greed God chapter 134

March 5th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT

Waking  up naked with a pretty little princess curled into my side was nice.  Hearing her mewl in satisfaction when I moved was moreso. Every hole she  had was pretty much demolished, and if not for my own abilities via  Eros and Psych I was about ninety percent sure she would be pregnant.  Possibly with twins. I climbed out of the bed, ignoring her moans of  complaint and went to go tak...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 200

The trip back down to E district the next day was quieter than the  last one. Callie had used yesterdays wishes to arrange several  safeguards and contingencies in a way I hadn't expected. Things like shields and threat activated teleportation. Unfortunately the shields wouldn't stop anyone above F rank and the teleportation would take us  about ten miles. Still, it had been a brilliant maneuver I'd never even  considered, and I felt much safer going down there today....

Sell you a Bridge chapter 272

June 7th 2016 The Nightside 1:00 PM EDT

The  other side of the door was...unspeakable. As we stepped past the frame,  the world shifted in an instant, the environment changing from a dingy  alley to what could only be described as a paradise. The bright, golden  sunlight shone down over an idyllic landscape of the most emerald green  grass I could imagine, reflecting off of the clearest, bluest water I'd  ever seen, and sifting through the ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 199

Much like the rest of his place, the Peace Lord was...underwhelming.  As we entered the small but mostly empty office and I spotted him behind  the desk, the first thing I noticed was how utterly normal he appeared.  The biggest thing that stood out about him was probably his eyes.

The  icy blue of his irises clashed dramatically with his unassuming  features, giving him a sense of placid steadiness that wouldn't have  been easily discernable from his sligh...