Malcolm Tent

Sell you a Bridge chapter 174

February 14th 2011 The OZ 10:00 AM EDT

I  had to admit, the Queen's tower was...imposing. It was also ugly. Like a  serious eyesore. I turned to Cain.  I was trying to distract the man, he'd been taking it hard since we'd realized the mystic man had been taken along with DG, a fact that I personally hadn't even noticed. "Seriously who does her decorating?  This place looks like a standing collection of rusty dildos. I've seen  literal dumpsters ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 36

I spent the next few days getting ready. I took my daily jobs, trying  to focus on accruing skills this time. Both new ones and addendums to  strengthen the ones I'd already gotten. I got a few doubles, bringing my  skills up a bit. A single instance of Minor Inventing Mastery, though  that was far from enough to even put a dent in the necessary progress to Lesser. Aside from that I got extra instances of my Guitar, Swimming, and Piano Mastery. I also managed to gain ...

Greed God chapter 35

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 9:00 PM EDT

Sitting  down across from the Calculator was...jarring. I could read people  extremely well. Their breathing, perspiration, pupil dilation,  microexpressions, all of these things blended together to give me a  sense of what they were thinking or feeling. I included that in my  interactions automatically, without even thinking much about it these  days, but I sure as hell noticed when it was gone.

Sell you a Bridge chapter 173

February 13th 2011 The OZ 11:00 PM EDT

I  sighed as I sat next to the fire, rubbing the bridge of my nose. No one  was near me, they were all steering clear after they saw how pissed off  I was. Which was fair. I was pissed. I'd burned through thousands of  points fighting that possessed psychopath so they could get DG away and  they'd screwed it up. Now I was down to only five thousand points, not  to mention I fell for an obvious and stup...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 35

Since I knew I was leaving I could make preparations for my trip. The  first thing that came to mind was obviously grinding up my last few  points to G rank so I could give Benny an ability. But despite how cool  that sounded I decided that ranking up now would be too suspicious.  Massive influx of points from killing Stricture or not, the capital  branch would be expecting an H ranker and if I had a whole ten more  points of impact it would be a dead giveaway. 2022-05-03 17:07:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Greed God chapter 34

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 8:00 PM EDT

I  sent Whisper to her place to lay low. She was to call in to her  superiors in the cult on the phone and delay anyone seeing her for a  while. We needed to figure out exactly how to let her blend back in with  the Religion, and if we couldn't how to get as much from them as  possible on her way out. In the meantime I decided to hit two birds with  one stone and hit up the Iceberg Lounge to ask arou...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 172

February 13th 2011 The OZ 10:00 PM EDT

I  wasn't sure exactly what Azkedelia had inside her, but it was fucking  powerful. Within the first thirty seconds of combat I'd hurled a dozen  bolts of ectoplasm and opened just as many Holes to intercept return  fire (thank god for my high dexterity) and she managed to deflect or  intercept all of them. Her teeth were bared in a manic rictus halfway  between a snarl and a smile as she flicked her f...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 34

I found Callie sitting in a nearby apartment with the door partly  open. She was sitting on the bed, staring at the floor. It was strange  to see her so...meek. She was usually so in your face about everything. I  knocked on the frame, but she just grunted without looking up. I stood  there for a minute, just waiting for her to speak, before finally  saying. "Well, that was dramatic." She snorted out a laugh at my  understatement, breaking out of her mood a bit.<...

Greed God chapter 33

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 10:00 AM EDT

Understandably  being caught in an alley wasn't Jade's idea of a good time, so after I  got her number I had whisper move. As she was leaving though, she  paused. She gave Whisper a once over. "What happened to you A'daire? You  look so different? You were a two bit religious nut last time I saw  you, not...this." Her eyes strayed over Whisper's body. The delicate  tracery of crystalline scales, the...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 171

February 13th 2011 The OZ 9:00 PM EDT

The  scene in the mirror was cozy, the woman laying next to her daughter.  "Two little princesses dancing row, spinning fast and freely on their  little toes, where the night will take you there's only one way to know,  two little princesses dancing in a row." The woman had a pleasant  voice, nothing impressive or earth shaking but mellow and soothing even  without any real attempt at flexing it. She sm...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 33

I woke up with my head in pain...again. But at least I did wake up,  which I hadn't been at all sure would happen. Apparently my desperate  last strike had been effective. I groaned and sat up, a bit shocked at  the give of a mattress under me. I looked around, finding myself in a  familiar room. Or rather, not a familiar room exactly, but a room with a  familiar layout. One of the apartments at the guild. I felt...good.  Weirdly good. Which meant that I'd gotten...

Greed God chapter 32

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 10:00 AM EDT

I  had a LOT of sex with Whisper for the rest of that night. Enough that  even I was slightly tired after. Her body was G rank now and seemed to  be able to keep pace with mine. My mutagen was on the edge of F rank  sure, but it was just a mutagen, Whisper was an actual G rank being. She  was fast as shit, incredibly flexible and her scales were generally  pretty absorbent despite only visually seem...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 170

February 13th 2011 The OZ 8:00 PM EDT

Cain  executed Zero, because of course he did. But he did it quickly, a  single shot to the head and he waited until all the others had left. His  aura was...conflicted. He'd been so focused on this goal for so long,  so focused on his hate when he was in that box, that now he didn't know  what to do with himself. The problem with being the determinator, is  what to do when that determination wanes. Cai...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 32

I woke up with a headache, which was confusing for a minute. Then I  remembered what had happened and I kind of wished I was still confused.  Stricture was the Evil Eye, he'd caught me...somehow, and then tracked  me down and knocked me out. Now I was...actually where was I? I looked  around. Well, I tried to look around, but my body wouldn't move even an  inch so I ended up mostly just scanning the room with my eyes. It  limited my field of view, but gave me eno...

Greed God chapter 31

January 8th 2016 Gotham City 11:00 PM EDT

So  I had fifteen thousand points and a whole bunch of stuff to fuse. My  first real decision was what direction to go in. Whisper had gotten me a  few animals, and I wanted to try to work those in somewhere, but not  all of them obviously, because that would turn her into a mess. Once I  got her a new race, hopefully a G ranked one, I wanted to be able to  upgrade it later, which meant being able t...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 169

February 13th 2011 The OZ 2:00 PM EDT

Zero's  smug expression vanished pretty quick when he had to throw himself out  of the way of a bolt of ectoplasmic force. it was hard not to smirk at  the terror and shock on hos face when he realized his stupid magic  blocker didn't stop my ghost powers. The look only got more horrified  when the bolt hit the booth behind him and the fucking thing exploded  like a toilet with an m80 dropped down the h...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 31

The next five days were a blur of activity. I was even more committed  to making the most of my wishes, bringing myself up by another eighteen  points for a grand total of fifty, putting me halfway to G rank, as  well as getting two instances of Minor Enchanting Mastery to stack on  top of my current skill. It wasn't enough to bump me up to Lesser, but  my rune carving was much smoother and faster now which was a huge plus.

Wishmaster  candidate...