Despite Leaf on the Wind we were dropping pretty damn fast. I was spreading the skill over both of us so it was kind of dampened, not to mention I didn't want to drop too slow because the Gargoyles were after us. As mentioned they COULD fly. Somehow. I was still in Afterburner, but I couldn't fly, even with Leaf on the Wind so when they started swooping down I couldn't do much...at least not without a little nudge from another skill. I used Cloud Step, plan...
2022-07-31 21:33:28 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Gotham City 11:00 PM EDT
The wind down of the fight for Gotham was surprisingly orderly. I guess having the demonic footsoldiers of the evil gods who tried to kill you floating in the sky kind of evokes a sense of caution. People were pretty happy not to be dead, and I got lots of hugs and thank yous, but everyone kind of tried to keep a low profile when heading out.
The others had finished their fights and the Ne...
2022-07-31 18:16:16 +0000 UTC
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Once we got down to the treasury it was even more apparent that we had hit the jackpot. The place was wall to wall with impressive looking stuff, though granted based on Impact a not insignificant portion of the treasures were just mortal crap. Still, I pulled the backpack with the spatial box off my back, ready to grab as much as we could carry. Callie looked just as starstruck by all the loot as I was, to the point where she was almost bouncing with glee....
2022-07-30 23:08:09 +0000 UTC
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February 1st 2016 Gemworld 8:00 PM EDT
The rest of the day was specifically dedicated to charging the phone. It took tons of electricity to get the damn thing to a point where I could call Gotham. The one nice thing was that it gave me feedback that let me know when I could call and how close I was to that goal. Unfortunately my lightning reserves weren't actually infinite. They were huge and I recovered fast, but the...
2022-07-30 15:06:44 +0000 UTC
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Opening the door back out to the hallway, I finally had a chance to look around. We had hours of time left on the current life force charge, and stealth didn't burn much energy luckily, so we didn't need to rush and could take our time studying the castle before we set out. This went on for about five minutes before I finally decided to say something. "The...the inside of this place is literally identical in every direction isn't it?" We'd tried pretty much...
2022-07-29 19:38:03 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Gotham City 10:00 PM EDT
I woke up in pain. Not too much pain thankfully, my armor had stayed on during my brief time unconscious, but still, it was not fun coming back to reality. My head was pounding enough that I was pretty sure I couldn't use my ability raw again tonight. Luckily I had fifteen thousand points in reserve to use in case of emergencies, and I was still strapped with my armor and keyblade. I climbed to...
2022-07-29 14:20:25 +0000 UTC
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The shadow constructs were surprisingly stable to stand on. I'd expected them to be shaky but my footing was steady as a rock as we mounted the first platform. It was three sided, one below, one behind, and one to the side, leaving the front and back open so we would be able to advance. Once we stepped up on the first one Callie conjured a second about a foot higher and we stepped onto it, leaving the last one behind.
We'd figured out the least draini...
2022-07-28 16:35:25 +0000 UTC
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February 1st 2016 Gemworld 8:00 AM EDT
I slept pretty well. The G ranked cottage had a pretty decent bed. Cherry was the only one who climbed in with me, Zee and Barbie mostly deciding to look around or just generally being too wired to sleep, though Zee cornered me for a blowjob after I woke up to top herself up. I admit I loosened up a bit after getting my dick sucked, and she certainly seemed much perkier after. I wonder...
2022-07-28 14:09:48 +0000 UTC
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The next six or seven hours were an exercise in constant grinding. We spent half the time sneaking around, and we were so thorough about it that Benny actually got the stealth skill just from the effort. Sarah dragged some of them away, killing more than a few in the process. Some we got with Sucking Mud, and a few we literally just crushed as a group because there were no others near enough to hear and we couldn't whittle them down anymore. It took ages to...
2022-07-27 18:38:32 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Gotham City 9:00 PM EDT
I took a minute or two by myself on that roof to get my head on right. My perfect memory was biting me in the ass because I couldn't scrub the image of that sobbing little girl in a barbed wire cage from my head no matter what I did, but I was able to focus and breathe through it until I was centered. Outer Body had taught me to weather some pretty awful shit mentally, even if the damage didn't ...
2022-07-27 15:27:29 +0000 UTC
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After getting the wishes out of the way (Callie paid four Vitality for four Might putting her literally one point short of a hundred) we all took a break in that huge room to once again search for any loot that might be around. As everyone looked around for possible gear or materials the zombies may have dropped, I was taking a short break and checking my stats for the first time in a while.
Wishmaster candidate status. G-rank. Ability: Be...
2022-07-26 22:15:17 +0000 UTC
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January 31st 2016 Gemworld 8:00 PM EDT
The knowledge that we were stranded in another dimension temporarily was understandably not comforting to most of my crew. Zee seemed kind of excited, and Cherry didn't care, but Barbie looked pretty annoyed. "So...we're stuck in some alternate world while Gotham is being consumed by who knows what kind of horrible monsters? You got us here! Why can't you get us home?" She sounde...
2022-07-26 13:13:19 +0000 UTC
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We ran into a few groups of wights on the way down the tunnel, but honestly it was less of a problem than I expected in such cramped quarters. The tunnels were pretty cramped with the exception of the occasional big side cavern, and we'd expected to trip over undead every ten steps. In reality it was more like once an hour, given how slow we were forced to go because of Seek Hidden and trying to keep an ear out for ambushes. The wights were few enough that ...
2022-07-25 21:29:18 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Gotham City 8:30 PM EDT
Gilotina WAS actually really good with a blade. Within three exchanges I was able to confirm she was better with a blade than the Warlord was, and the thought of a new sparring partner in my head was exhilarating enough to drown out my internal complaints about her bullshit sword got ability to cut things. Luckily for me, my keyblade could be dismissing and resummoned without and lasting damage,...
2022-07-25 04:50:32 +0000 UTC
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The first thing I noticed heading into the cavern was that while it wasn't bigger than expected, it was a MUCH longer trip than I'd thought, because we had to work our way slowly down from the entrance. We might have been able to jump...some of us anyway, but the undead would have noticed and swarmed us do we ended up having to take a series of winding tunnels to get to the base of the wall we'd been standing on. Luckily I had access to Seek Hidden so we di...
2022-07-24 22:29:49 +0000 UTC
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January 31st 2016 Wintermark Castle 7:00 PM EDT
Drench was radiating smugness under the spotlight, not that the expression seemed out of place on him. "My employer has invited you here tonight, to bear witness to history in the making. But more than that, to be a part of that history, even as it is written." There was a rumble under the castle, and light flooded the chamber, but not from chandeliers or lightbulbs. The...
2022-07-24 20:45:42 +0000 UTC
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The chamber wasn't the biggest underground space I'd seen. The WCP in Rajak was bigger, but something about this one just made me feel...small. Not the size so much as the untamed wildness of it gave the impression that this was a place beyond the world of men. It was just so other. All my encounters with Ascendant stuff had been in the context of cities and heroes and things I was familiar with. Sure I'd seen some odd things, but they had all been part of that s...
2022-07-23 23:07:43 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Gotham City 8:00 PM EDT
We put out the call to all of our allies and then headed for Gotham via the teleporters. I was fucking pissed. I had been planning this entire thing for days if not weeks if you counted the whole plan as a single series of ideas, and I'd basically been fucked over by my own hubris. Lex and Ra'as hiding from me made perfect sense, they were cautious and I was a badass. Hell, even Savage was known...
2022-07-23 19:01:12 +0000 UTC
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Cark took the other Dullahan apart. We literally just sat there and watched him slowly demolish the thing. The wights were downed fast enough, and the others just came over to sit with us as we spectated. We offered to help but Cark seemed pretty into it so we mostly just enjoyed the show. Zeke hadn't been kidding about undead having a weakness to fire, and given his high Might Cark was already the optimal choice to take one of these things down.
As h...
2022-07-22 20:39:39 +0000 UTC
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January 31st 2016 Wintermark Castle 6:30 PM EDT
There are a lot of movies and books that talk about people having an aura or a presence. They tell you that the impression that something powerful can leave is sometimes dramatically different than it's appearance. This was the first time however, that I was experience that in person, because holy fucking shit, Doctor Gotham was terrifying. Seriously, just sitting there ...
2022-07-22 09:48:10 +0000 UTC
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We woke up about two hours later, and Jessie was already awake and ready to take on the world. It made me smile to see how much happier and more energetic my friend was. Not just because of the rest, but because she had HOPE. She'd been keeping her plans to herself, and probably half convinced she was crazy and chasing ghosts, and knowing that I not only believed in her but had another solution if hers failed clearly made a big difference.
I was prett...
2022-07-21 21:30:00 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Doomhallow Hall 6:00 PM EDT
So I was in the market for a new perk. Forty thousand points and I needed something that could counter Darkseids influence. That asshole was like the Da Vinci of fucking with peoples heads and I needed some way to identify and counter that influence or I was going to have a bad time. I pulled out my phone of course, scrolling through the options I had available to try to find something that ...
2022-07-21 21:06:21 +0000 UTC
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It took a few minutes for Jessie to cry herself out. I imagined she had been building up quite a bit of pressure and frustration, and having a release for all that tension in the form of hope was bound to take the wind out of her sails. As mentioned she couldn't use here energizing ability on herself, and after the tears she had actually fallen asleep on my shoulder. I considered waking her, but we were as safe as were were going to be for the foreseeable f...
2022-07-20 23:42:09 +0000 UTC
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January 31st 2016 Wintermark Castle 6:00 PM EDT
The inside of the castle was, as one would expect from a castle, really fucking big. I mean, I was used to big, I grew up in a mansion, but still, this was larger than most buildings. It was also absolutely PACKED with people. Wall to wall I could see crowds of men and women in suits and dresses and even costumes standing around drinking and laughing and in some cases sn...
2022-07-20 21:29:51 +0000 UTC
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Callie looked mostly unamused at the question. "We go in obviously, before the fight attracts even more of these damned undead and we end up ass deep in a skeleton army." I snickered slightly. In her defense I had known that, there wasn't really another valid move after all this, but I felt like poking fun at her for checking in with us all the time, even if I did appreciate it. I knew from her smile she didn't take the ribbing too seriously though, and with her ...
2022-07-19 22:03:05 +0000 UTC
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April 22nd 2016 Doomhallow Hall 4:00 PM EDT
My talk with my mother had brought home the stakes for this next fight, so of course I'd consulted with all my mentors and friends about what we were likely to face when we got to Savage. Which was, luckily, not Darkseid. Earth was too backwater for him to come in person to deal with this nonsense. He would send some of his lieutenants at worst, probably his furies and a few squadrons of par...
2022-07-19 21:08:23 +0000 UTC
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Cark got to fight two of them. He was the strongest of us stat wise, though I didn't know exactly how many points he had, so he decided to take the initiative and hit one of the two duos himself. I personally was annoyed by the fact, but it made sense so I backed down in the end. Benny and I each took one of the other death knights, as Sarah informed us they were called, while the H rankers mopped up the basic skeletons.
Callie was sadly unable to fig...
2022-07-18 17:15:31 +0000 UTC
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January 31st 2016 Gotham City 5:00 PM
Zee's plan was...not great. I should have probably expected that. The League's basic idea of strategy, barring Batman when he wasn't relying on the element of surprise, was to find bad guys and then do justice at them until they were in prison. How those walking wrecking balls had been granted a UN charter was completely beyond my understanding, the UN probably could have saved some money by summo...
2022-07-18 12:37:13 +0000 UTC
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At the very least it wasn't too long of a trip to the necropolis. Jessie hadn't been ranging out that far, so it only ended up being ten or twenty miles. Given the enhanced physiques and stamina of the people involved in the trip it didn't take long, not even moving as slow as the H rankers. It was actually really nice to bolt through the woods, dodging trees and swinging off branches. The kind of speed we were reaching even without going all out was absurd...
2022-07-17 23:06:29 +0000 UTC
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April 21st 2016 Gojo Penthouse 5:00 PM EDT
I stayed up on the roof after Gojo left. Despite his departure I still had training to do. Actual training that would help me get stronger, not a complete nonsense beating before getting some bullshit advice. Ok, that wasn't fair, it had been decent advice, but it pissed me off that I'd just gotten knocked around before having the obvious pointed out to me. Effective maybe, but it was still h...
2022-07-17 19:57:55 +0000 UTC
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