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Wish upon the Stars chapter 139

We didn't get spotted by anyone on our way up the Volcano,  thankfully. It was also lucky Callie kept that shield around us, because  more than one of us fell on the way up. Though we had incredibly  powerful physical bodies, most of us couldn't actually fly, and the  mountain was much less durable than we were. The rock crumbled out from  under us a number of times, but thanks to going slow and being careful  the few times someone slipped we were able to interve...

Greed God chapter 103

February 9th 2016 Gemworld 5:00 PM EDT

I  had a decent hope that Zee might get branded after we fucked, but  whatever the thing was that would make her submit this wasn't it. Given  her fanatical research obsession I was guessing it would be magic based.  It made me wonder if it was harder to brand higher ranked girls. That  would make sense actually, given the way rank seemed to interact with  the system as a whole. Regard...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 138

To the surprise of literally no one Grimmengap DID want to come with  us on our last raid. It honestly hadn't even been a question. Danger was  a fact of life for cultivators, but this kind of opportunity for self  promotion didn't come along every day. The whole "last two items were on  everyone's list" thing, was less of a surprise in retrospect. I'd been  wondering how they would pick first place, if it would be based on time  or effectiveness or what have you...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 241

June 2nd 2016 The Nightside 9:00 PM EDT

The actual bar area in Strangefellows was fairly eclectic. Haphazardly strewn about tables  and booths from a variety of times and places covered the floor of the  stone pit at the bottom of the steps, each of them occupied by some  strange or unusual being. Werewolves, Zombies, Fishmen, and weirdly, an  actual Cyborg, sat next to office workers and parking attendants,  sipping a variety of beverages from ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 137

We did get the mushroom, bringing us up to four items on our list.  With proof of concept we spend the rest of the week using a combination  wishes and determination to track down a full twenty three of twenty  five items. Unfortunately, that was when we ran into a little snag. The  less items remaining on the list, the more expensive the wishes got  because of the smaller number of variables in play. By the time we got  to the last two items on the list they wer...

Greed God chapter 102

February 9th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT

Showing Levka the forge had been a strong step and he had basically drooled  over the building. We managed to talk him to our side and get the  farmers onboard, but they had to actually get their farms packed up and  finish bringing in the last of their crops so it was going to be a few  days. I could have worked on new buildings, but Levka wasn't sure how  many if any of the tradesmen he ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 136

Starting out the fight against the wolf riders taught me multiple  important things. First, most of my combat training had been against  humanoid opponents, and I really needed to address that flaw if I was  going to keep fighting monsters. Animals were distinctly different in  terms of goals and execution during fights. The wolves not only had  different methods of attack and priorities in combat, they also worked  together MUCH more fluidly than any other enemi...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 240

June 2nd 2016 The Nightside 8:00 PM EDT

The  train ride wasn't great. I managed to nap through more than a bit of it but even then the howling and scratching resulted in some less than  pleasant dreams. Zee and Drea were there with me though, and woke me up  when things got dicey in dreamland. We didnt talk much, the atmosphere  not conducive to any sort of discourse, and the whole trip had the air  of someone holding their breath and waiti...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 135

Ten. Ten G ranked goblins riding giant wolves, and backed by a much  larger force of goblins on foot, all glaring at me like they wanted to  tear me apart. Normally ten G ranked cannon fodder monsters wouldn't  scare me, especially not with my team around, but those wolves had BIG  teeth. Something about the fur and the smell and the glaring hate in  their eyes made them much scarier than the Bone Wyvern, which while huge  had just been a big fuck off skeleton. 2022-08-11 22:49:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Greed God chapter 101

February 7th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT

We  made it back to the village the next morning, but this time we took a  more relaxed approach. We wanted ourselves to be seen coming so they  could adjust. I thought we should make a rickshaw or something and have  one of our heavies pull the thing, but Barbie nixed the idea, playing  the 'strategic advisor' card, and claiming we didn't know enough about  Gemworld culture to know h...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 134

Raleigh's Raiders were less....military than I expected. Given the  theme and vibe that I'd had described to me I was expecting to be  dealing with uber serious soldier of fortune types, but everyone was  actually really laid back. Red mohawk guy, whose name was Chester, was  the leader and one of their G tankers. He sat us all down and got us  drinks, and within a minute or two he was talking to Cark like an old  friend.

The other G ranker, Olivia, was a t...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 239

June 2nd 2016 London, England 3:00 PM EDT

The  train platform was...unsettling. Not just the big obvious stuff either.  I think the most unusual things were the subtle little discordant  elements. The walls were plastered with posters of familiar famous  people, but mostly in strange and disturbing movies that would never  make it to theaters in reality. The board for arrivals and departures  was old and worn but still readable, and it list...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 133

The trip to meet Raleigh's Raiders was NOT a fast one, for several  reasons. Firstly we were now a few days into the hunt, which meant  people would have finished their base prep and started making their way  out to start scavenging. Granted, we'd done some scouting of our own  already, but assuming that Jessie's ravens were foolproof was a good way  to get knocked out of this thing early. We were taking our time with  the trip, keeping our eyes peeled for enemie...

Greed God chapter 100

February 6th 2016 Gemworld 8:00 PM EDT

We  made pretty good time getting to the village. I considered stopping to  fuck Barbie, but I had a better idea for getting her off and keeping her  happy. It would have to wait until later. Due to that we didn't linger  on the way to the village and we got there in just two hours, which I  considered a win. Once we did, we didn't go into the main square or even  walk through the outs...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 132

Between the ravens and Callie's ability to track their scan ring, we  were able to get eyes on the new group we wanted to trade with pretty  quickly. As before, Jessie was able to describe them to us when she  found them, and Celine knew exactly who they are, her noble Job clearly  giving her an advantage in statecraft and cultivating sources that the  rest of us just couldn't measure up to. Jessie, eyes glowing with life  energy, was happy to pass on the informa...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 238

June 2nd 2016 London, England 2:00 PM EDT

After we finished breakfast we walked around for a few hours, Jim  showing us all the places he used to go when he was younger. Eventually  though Jim pulled out an old silver pocket watch, checked the time, and  tsked in annoyance. "Ah, I'm afraid our tour is at an end children. Our  meeting with the illustrious John Constantine is at hand. We're meeting  him at The Old Rose pub. Excellent timing too, i...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 131

The swim was relaxing and fun, of course. I'd always loved swimming,  and despite not having been in the water like that for years I took to  it quickly. Still, it didn't last forever, and after we all finished our  swim we spent the rest of the evening just chilling out and talking,  learning more about each other and introducing ourselves to everyone  else sans masks for the first time since we'd met them.

In  the end though we finished our downtime and r...

Greed God chapter 99

February 6th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT

I  considered just grinding out the rest of the buildings from the  village, but in the end I was getting stir crazy just doing merges all  day. Even Zee's constant attempts to drag me off for a quick suck  session got old after a while. I was, at heart, a city boy, and this  wilderness bullshit wasn't for me. In the spirit of getting out and  DOING something, I decided to head to the ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 130

It took about forty minutes to pack all the gold and artifacts back  into the back and return it to the bag. I debated keeping the cane out  for myself, but since it was communal I could probably use it as payment  for a wish so I decided to wait. Once we had everything set up Callie  and I walked over to sit on the edge of the open top floor of the  hatchery, staring out into the forest. It was still dark out, we'd come  back mid afternoon and slept for hours, p...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 237

June 2nd 2016 London, England 10:00 AM EDT

We  took the car to London. I had to convince everyone else it was a  feasible option, but after some wheedling I got them to agree to try it,  and I couldn't have been more excited. We left from the island, where  it had been dropped off (in a giant box of all things), and when I  rolled it out I mostly got lots of droll stares and scoffs...until I  activated the flight mode. Then the stares becam...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 129

Despite the rush of excitement we were feeling Zeke didn't seem in  too big a hurry to start. He took his time clearing the table away so he  could have some free space on the floor to work in, and then had as put  the box down on the ground for him to open and sort through. Despite  his power I couldn't help but issue the same warning we'd been repeating  ad nauseum. "Some of that stuff is probably cursed, man. Not that it  could probably hurt you much, but stil...

Greed God chapter 98

February 5th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT

I  spread the rest of the farms out over the span of a few days. Rest or  not I didn't want Barbie knowing how much I could do in a single  afternoon. It also gave me time to search around for some more I ranked  materials, and even a few new H ranked  items. I was officially down to  fifteen thousand points even after the new additions though, a full ten  of the damn farms had se...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 128

We didn't actually nap right there in front of the barely restrained  army of ghosts. We weren't idiots. We rested for a minute to get some  strength back and let Jessie top us all off with some life energy and  then made the trek back to the hatchery where were were finally able to  collapse into a nice restful sleep. I really needed the rest after all  the craziness, and I couldn't wait for my head to stop throbbing.

Despite  it being light out, we'd all ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 236

June 1st 2016 Gotham City 6:00 PM EDT

Jim, Blood, and Madame Xanadu all flinched visibly when the name was  mentioned, which...wasn't a great sign. Jim actually choked on a sip of  tea he was taking, which given he didn't have a windpipe or need to  breathe was even worse. Judging by the looks I wasn't the only one  worried about that. Everyone at this table looked disturbed by the reaction, and I was worried enough to ask my mom and Claire to take t...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 127

I had to admit, on a scale of one to crazy, a whirling funnel of blue  flame jamming itself down the throat of a screaming corpse was one of  the crazier things I'd seen so far in my life. As the flames were  crammed into his mouth his body seemed to bulge as if it would explode. I  was half expecting to have to five for cover, but apparently Carks  flame didn't react with the cold fire the same way mine did. After a bit  of bulging the Lich just sort of...popped...

Greed God chapter 97

February 3rd 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT

I  didn't get up at sunrise to start working, because I wasn't a fucking  actual farmer. While I was pretty pumped about the whole kingdom  building aspect of the village I also had zero interest in becoming a  responsible leader. I'd leave the politics and shit to Cherry and  Barbie, the guarding to Waylon and Sally, and the magic to Zee and  Strega. I had a pretty solid lineup to ta...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 126

Martin and Celine met us as we got to our feet after the explosion.  The whole place was covered in flames at this point. Martin had been  able to block the attack given how spread out it was, for him and Celine  both, and Sarah and Jessie had Cark to hold back the fire. The same  could not be said of the ghost cavalry that had been arriving as the  Bone Wyvern went up. The wave of poison fire had mostly been funneled up  into the air, and it ate through a massiv...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 235

June 1st 2016 Gotham City 5:00 PM EDT

It  was my birthday. Again. Honestly given how much had happened since my eighteenth I felt like it really HAD been five years since my last one.  Still, I was officially seventeen, and my mom was going all out on the  festivities. Non stop cooking, which she'd roped Drea and Zee into  helping with (in shifts so they each got to spend time with me on my big  day) not to mention a cake from Kirbys just like l...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 125

The first thing I did was cast Sucking Mud on the Wyverns back right  foot. Given how soft the ground already was and the weight of the thing  it just seemed like a solid plan. As that took effect I saw Cark rain  down blue flames at the Lich as Callie picled up my vibe and was trying  to chain down the Wyvern. Jessie was imbuing vines with life energy to  target the Lich, and Sarah was helping as best she could with her holy  hand. With them keeping him pinned I...

Greed God chapter 96

February 2nd 2016 Gemworld 5:00 PM EDT

The  next morning Barbie talked to her dead and sent him the way of the  house, and after a teary goodbye to her old man headed out with Cherry  to do recon on the nearby forest. With Cherry's ghostly abilities they  should be able to get some top notch spying done if they found any  villages or anything nearby. Plus Cherry would be able to keep an eye on  Barbie and keep her safe...