Malcolm Tent

Sell you a Bridge chapter 264

June 5th 2016 The Nightside 3:00 PM EDT

I  gaped at Taylor as I asked for clarification on our target again. "What  the fuck do you mean, the moon?" I gaped in horrified confusion at the  big detective, because I was absolutely positive he hadn't just said  what I thought he said. He just raised an eyebrow at me. "How the hell  do we rob the moon? I mean, I've stolen from some crazy places in my  time, but none of them have been in space." ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 183

I lowered Callie to the ground as the shield collapsed. My head was  killing me, multiple skill manipulations aside, channeling Stone Limb  into a shadow construct was...hard. I was pretty sure we would have  caved if that had taken even a second longer. I wasn't sure if it had  really been eight minutes, but even if it hadn't I was damn relieved  Abel had conceded the match.

Once the shield dropped it  became more than apparent WHY he had done so. Abel was...

Greed God chapter 125

February 27th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT

The  rest of the trip went basically the same way. Bit of teasing, bit of  flirting, bit of stopping myself from grabbing a handful of that sweet  little ass. Despite not being huge, it was amazing perky and round, just  big enough that it should have been impossible for it to be so bouncy  without being more toned than it was. I spent WAY more time staring than  I probably should ha...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 182

I was surprised he had offered, honestly. That seemed  counterproductive for a guardian, but then again having been stuck down  here for so long would make any squirrely. It was odd how hearing we  were from the Academy had changed his mind, and I realized that Cicero  hadn't mentioned that and might not even know it was the case. I turned  to Callie, muttering under my breath. "I don't think we have a  legitimate chance of beating him at full strength. What he j...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 263

June 5th 2016 The Nightside 10:00 AM EDT

Taylor,  as it turned out, WAS willing to take Zee to see where her mom had used  to live. She had apparently moved into a house near to Taylor's when  they were teenagers, and he brought us by his old place first, looking  nostalgic and a little afraid to be back in such a long forgotten place.  He told himself that it didn't bother him, that he was happy to do this  for Sindella's daughter, but I t...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 181

The rest of the labyrinth was even worse. We spent two hours getting  through it. Snakes, bats, locusts, a huge red dog with horns, more  traps, guards, and a dozen other equally annoying obstacles sat in our  way. After hours of effort though, we managed to get past them all, and  we finally trekked into a huge chamber where we didn't see anything  except...a person. A tall man standing in the middle of the room  stoicly, looking pretty much completely unbothere...

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Greed God chapter 124

February 26th 2016 Gemworld 8:00 PM EDT

We  came to a stop for the night about a six hour ride from Lord Town. We'd  made solid time on the horses, and during the whole ride, I'd managed  to get Amaya to the point where she didn't want to do anything but talk  to me. This process involved LOTS of listening, responding quickly and  attentively to her stories at time, and occasionally telling my own  stories, usually about my...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 180

I was not proud of my reaction to the cloud of arachnids trying to  tear through the shadow dome. "Spiders! Holy shit no! Keep them away!"  Despite NOT having a phobia, something about a huge swarm of spiders  raining down on us was absolutely the most terrifying thing I could  imagine. The bone wyvern had absolutely nothing on these things, despite  being literally a thousand times the size at least. Without thinking at  all I triggered Boiling Cloud, unleashing...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 262

June 5th 2016 The Nightside 10:00 AM EDT

Waking  up the next morning in bed with my girls was...odd. Not because I was  in bed with them, that was pretty consistent. I was stupidly in love  with both of them and they were absolutely knockouts, aside from the  consistent sex with both of them, I also never missed a chance to hold  them as I slept. No, what was odd was the feeling of waking up with the  two of them nuzzled against me and know...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 179

Getting out of the trap corridor without triggering the traps was a  lot easier with Callie's directions, though admittedly my ability to not  touch the ground for several hundred feet didn't hurt. Once I settled  down where we had landed, I leaned against the wall to wait. Cicero, who  was apparently waiting up there, yelled down to me. "Are you giving up?  I didn't expect you to leave your lady love behind. Children these days  are so cruel. Shall I send you do...

Greed God chapter 123

February 25th 2016 Gemworld 8:00 AM EDT

I  was fucking exhausted. I hadn't even known I could still GET exhausted,  but apparently it was more than possible, because I was ten seconds  from falling over. Luckily the Vital Tempest still raged within me, and  my energy was refilling, but it was taking a while. Apparently the more  power I had the more I produced, and I regenerated it slower after  draining myself dry, which w...

Wish Upon the Stars chapter 178

The hallways in this labyrinth was boring. Yellow stone blocks  stacked in a staggered pattern for stability, lit by more of those weird  green torches that had sparked up as soon as we got down here. As we  moved further into the hall, we crept carefully. Lies or not, Cicero's  mention of stealth had definitely put the idea in our heads, and it was  obvious that we'd be less likely to be attacked if nothing noticed us,  so we slowed our steps along the rough sto...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 261

June 4th 2016 The Nightside 5:00 PM EDT

Before  we figured out our next move, I wanted to know more about The Griffin.  Naturally, I asked our resident source for all things Nightside. Taylor  didn't disappoint. "The Griffin is Nightside royalty. His family is a  bit like our version of the Kennedys back in the US. Only evil." He  paused. "Or maybe they're exactly like the Kennedys. Regardless, he's  rich, and powerful, and he has influence...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 177

This entire thing had gotten way out of hand. From our original  mission all the way to this crazy trial, we'd been reeling since we  first came to this place. While joining up with Cicero might be a bit  premature, and I wasn't planning to let him know about my ability (G  rank wasn't nearly strong enough to consider partnering with) it put us  firmly on offense. While I knew punching all my problems didn't work, I  was deeply uncomfortable being so reactive all...

Greed God chapter 122

February 24th 2016 Gemworld 7:00 PM EDT

Graciel's  eyebrows rose in surprise. Not shock, which I would have expected, but  she was thrown off balance at least. It was an admirable display of self  control given the circumstances. She studied me carefully, clearly  going over the things she knew and thought she knew. My bloodline was  probably obvious to her even now, being a B ranker, I was betting she  could sense it in th...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 176

I wasn't sure how to respond to that. It sounded like a pretty sad  story, and part of me didn't want to pry, but at the same time we needed  to know what the fuck was going on. I decided to let Callie handle  this, she was better with people than I was mostly, and was mostly  taking charge right now anyway. Sure enough, she broached the subject in  the most tactful way possible. "I'm sorry to hear that, but I wonder if  you might clarify a bit about what exactly...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 260

June 4th 2016 The Nightside 4:00 PM EDT

We  headed away from the Londinium Club after Hadleigh left. We had our  answer apparently. Once he was gone I'd asked Taylor and John about  things, and they had informed me that The Griffin, was a renowned power  in the Nighside, and that a large portion of his legend was having made a  deal with the devil. The Griffin was almost definitely the next clue we  needed to follow, but it wasn't a clue th...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 175

The assistant lead us to Cicero Castleton directly, though we did  stop to say goodbye to everyone. Despite being here to thwart their  plans, the Jerks seemed enthused about the results I'd gotten, and Way  Crazy Wyatt in particular was insistent that we were best friends now.  Despite my insistence that I barely knew him, and that my name was NOT  Sally, he refused to hear a word of it, loudly proclaiming to the other  Jerks that even though the money was given...

Greed God chapter 121

February 24th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT

Despite  looking like a slightly evil porn star, Mordiel was actually really  fucking good at negotiating terms. I'd expected someone as naturally  powerful as her to be kind of shitty at it, considering the absolute  dominion nobles held over this world, but on second thought, it made  some sense. The noble houses were not allies, at least not all of them,  and kept each other in che...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 174

Bulls, as it turned out. Were BIG. Like, most people knew that, they  knew Bulls were large, and I'd seen this one from a distance before.  Given that, and my own Perception, I should have been prepared for the  size of the animal I was preparing to ride. I should have remained stoic  and unbothered as I closed in to climb onto the back of the best that  was currently being held confined in a small area, waiting for its next  rider. I wasn't.

Standing there...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 259

June 4th 2016 The Nightside 2:00 PM EDT

I  had no idea who Hadleigh Oblivion was (aside from Tommy's brother  apparently), but if Taylor was so wary of him I was guessing 'no one I  should fuck with' was the first possibility on the list. I had a feeling  if I tried to look at him with my aura sight I'd suffer for it. Still,  there was something...wrong, about him. Something off. Even without my  aura sight I got a strange impression. Not l...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 173

When we got inside, we were able to confirm the rules of the bull  riding competition. You had to put up a single G ranked chit per  attempt, if you managed to stay on the bull for a full three minutes you  got to keep all the chits anyone had paid over the course of the month.  It started over again on the first of each month, and the previous  month's stockpile was divided up amongst the management of the  cavalcade.People HAD passed the trial a time or two, bu...

Greed God chapter 120

February 24th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT

I  was down to a hundred and ten thousand GP after merging all the G  ranked crystals, but that was still plenty to keep me nice and sane. The  rest of the night I spent out picking up things I would need, getting a  custom suit made and making sure I was well dressed for my meeting with  Mordiel. I decided to go with purple as a color scheme, because it  looked fucking awesome and w...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 172

We waited until an F ranker came to pick up Ronnie to head to the  Cavalcade. While the higher ranked Ascendants weren't supposed to come  down here to interfere picking up a package wasn't a big deal since we'd  already subdued him. He was grabbed in short order, and I couldn't help  but assume he was probably going to die. I knew they would question  him, but I doubted he would be able to tell them anything, there was no  way the other candidate didn't leave a ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 258

June 4th 2016 The Nightside 1:00 PM EDT

The  inside of the Londinium Club was...fancy. That wasn't a surprise based  on what we'd heard about the place, but I had expected something like  Julian's place when they mentioned this club being a haven for the rich  and powerful. Julian's manor was one of the nicest places I'd ever been,  and everything inside it was carefully chosen and beautifully placed,  creating an elegant harmony that none ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 171

Seeing Ronnie laid out because of skills was immensely satisfying.  Much like everyone else, the big man had massively underestimated what  my enhancements could do. While they did provide a boost to the  channeled fire, the main point of both skills was to enhance the melee  capabilities of the weapon. The stick was G rank anyway, so it probably  wouldn't have broken in one shot, but it definitely wouldn't have  survived repeated use as a bludgeon. As it was tho...

Greed God chapter 119

February 23rd 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT

Spending  all day drinking incredible wine and spending money I stole from  bandits I owned now was surprisingly fun, but the whole exercise was  more than just an excuse to screw around. I'd memorized every word I  heard spoken, and spent the entire day building up a basic understanding  of how things worked here so I could get some real use out of the  information I'd gathered. My b...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 170

Ronnie wasn't really prepared for Cark going all out. My friend had  previously been holding back a bit because he was feeling out his  opponent, but he wasn't fucking around when he made his second attack.  Rather than anything small and contained like an orb or some kind of  spray, the next attack was a fucking TORRENT of aqua flame that hissed  as it ate at even the air around it.

I'd never considered  the synergy between my poison fire and something lik...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 257

June 4th 2016 The Nightside 12:00 PM EDT

We  arrived at the Londinium Club at noon, just in time for my top up to  twenty five thousand. It was a nice surprise, but not really important  at the moment. With my recent lessons and practice I'd already gotten to  the point where I could substitute my ability with points when using my  powers for the most part. It was still taxing, but more in the way a  good workout was taxing than a 'my head ...