January 5th 2010 Gotham City 9:00 AM EDT
Riley came through the next day as promised I skipped school because I didn't feel like dealing with all of that and honestly I was pumped as hell to start using my new costume. Seriously, I'd put it on like six times during the night just to admire myself in the mirror. I kind of wanted to call Sarah over and fuck her in it, but I reminded myself that the whole point of the damn thing was to h...
2022-04-05 05:15:21 +0000 UTC
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January 4th 2010 Lord Mansion 8:00 PM EDT
I headed back to school after my run in with Dinah. I considered texting her to keep her thinking of me, but I decided the better move was to wait for her to get angry with her boyfriend and text me, or at least to give it a day or two. Haste makes waste and all that. So I contented myself with a quick blowjob from Sarah in one of the bathrooms to take the edge off as I planned my next move.
2022-04-04 22:37:16 +0000 UTC
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We both froze as we were getting up. Well, I froze, Jessie sort of stuttered, but still she was obviously shocked. I swallowed hard. "I get to meet Nightstrike? Also Nightstrike is fucking G rank? She's like my age!" Nightstrike was...well there's no real way to say it that doesn't sound pathetic, Nightstrike was my celebrity crush. To be fair, she was EVERYONE's celebrity crush. Blue Fox was an idol and everyone adored her, but Nightstrike was a superstar....
2022-04-04 20:47:31 +0000 UTC
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New Genesis December 30th 2010 9:00 PM EDT
I know I should have been surprised, but honestly, shit like this happened to me way too often. Of course the natives were hostile and decided to capture us. Because why not right? But unfortunately I wasn't even remotely confident in beating all of these people. My clones were glass cannons that could only fire once, and these people were literal gods from what I knew of this place. Even jus...
2022-04-04 08:08:22 +0000 UTC
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January 4th 2016 Gotham City 12:30 PM EDT
The system did not, of course, deign to answer any questions I asked it while driving to the coffee shop. Zack had begged off when he figured out where I was going, just tossing me the keys and informing me that I "Would owe him a Porsche if I scratched it". Honestly I wasn't too upset, having the time to myself to think was preferable, because there was a shit load to think about. The system ...
2022-04-03 21:42:33 +0000 UTC
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The time after we found Verdant's body was kind of a blur. I'd done quite a few things since I got my powers. Going to the WCP, Vengiello's, and The Night Market. I'd begun to think of myself as a pretty worldly guy in most ways. Seeing that mutilated corpse brought that impression of myself crashing down in the most dramatic way. I wasn't worldly, I was a total rookie, I'd never seen a body before, much less someone killed like that. Was this something com...
2022-04-03 21:36:59 +0000 UTC
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New Genesis December 30th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Traveling on the surface of New Genesis was weird. Half the time we were bored out of our minds and had to entertain each other talking, the other half we were running for our lives from horrifying freakish bug monsters so terrifying even I didn't want to mess with them. I was still a ways out from being able to get us that Whiz Wagon thing, so we were hoofing it for the most past, though Wal...
2022-04-03 06:18:51 +0000 UTC
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January 24th 2016 Brentwood Academy 12:00 PM EDT
I did not, as it happened, go to school in Metropolis. Not that I wouldn't have preferred it, but the schools in Metropolis were all garbage, so I commuted to Bristol Township to Brentwood Academy. Bristol Township was in New Jersey, right over the river from Metro but not actually IN Gotham. Bristol Township was where people like Bruce Wayne lived, so I grudgingly agreed to go to schoo...
2022-04-02 23:10:52 +0000 UTC
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Pack Rat was shockingly quick at designing my gear. By the time I got out of the training room shower it was all ready for me to try out. I wasn't sure what kind of costume makers the other branches used but Pack Rat was aces at his job. He had me all wrapped up snug in perfectly tailored armor within an hour or so of getting the order, and he didn't even need to do any measurements or alterations. The armor felt snug and perfect around me and I couldn't he...
2022-04-02 19:10:04 +0000 UTC
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??? December 22nd 2010 12:00 PM EDT
I should clarify. When I say giant, I don't mean giant by the standards of a normal city. I mean giant like there was a fucking continent floating off in the distance. The sun was massive and shining white, the sky was the clearest crispest blue I could imagine, everything above the skyline looked like a wonderland. The actual planet however, was anything but friendly. I didn't see any sign of life ...
2022-04-02 07:11:19 +0000 UTC
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January 3rd 2016 Metropolis 9:00 PM EDT
I'd been pretty excited to hit a local store and rack up some Greed Points, but I'd run into a slight problem. I didn't know how to rob pretty much anything. I knew, for instance, that everywhere in Metropolis had some level of security, what with Lex Loser's whole "City of the Future" schtick. I could have driven to Gotham, but honestly I'd rather dip my hands in sulfuric acid than expose mysel...
2022-04-01 23:26:21 +0000 UTC
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Once I had my name picked out it was time for next big portion of the event. Captain Polaris was all smiles about this and clapped me on the shoulder proudly. "You lucked out here kid, for a few reasons. First of all because most initiates have to pay the guild back for their gear, and second because most of them get their costumes designed at I rank. H rank, as you may know, lasts much longer than I rank, requiring ten times more point to break through, so...
2022-04-01 20:34:50 +0000 UTC
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??? December 22nd 2010 11:00 AM EDT
I woke with a groan. My head hurt, my body hurt, my hair hurt somehow. I was basically just a walking concentration of pain at this point and I did not enjoy that. I shifted slightly, checking for broken bones, and fortunately I didn't find any. I was surprised I'd even taken this much damage with my frankly absurd vitality. As I moved however I noticed something slightly unnerving. Pine needles. Al...
2022-04-01 06:15:13 +0000 UTC
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January 3rd 2016 Lord Mansion 8:00 PM EDT
I was bored. Which, you know, pretty standard for me, but still not something I actually enjoyed. One would expect that being the son of THE Maxwell Lord would make things interesting. They would unfortunately be wrong. Metropolis in general was pretty stagnant most of the time, with the exception of the crazy villain rampages and alien invasions, and we lived on the outskirts so we mostly avoided t...
2022-04-01 00:47:42 +0000 UTC
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The next day I arrived back at the Unity building as early as possible. Which was about noon for me, I am not a morning person, but hey, they never gave me a time to show up anyway. As the bus pulled up to the building I'd hopped off energetically, excited to start work on my cape identity. My name and costume were fundamental aspects of my legend and of my path in heroic cultivation. Even someone like me, who was going to be leaning hard on my Wish power, ...
2022-03-31 22:13:30 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 22nd 2010 12:30 AM EDT
The massive sucking energy vortex in the middle of the room was, unfortunately, a bit distracting as we tried to fight. The Amazon's had been swarming my team and the sidekicks as we fought Circe, but even they were kind of frozen in terror at this point. I was pretty sure, however, that we didn't have much time before everything went to hell again, so I shadow ported over to where the oth...
2022-03-31 19:02:33 +0000 UTC
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I stepped up to the door, leaving Stricture behind as I knocked, and before I even touched it the door swung open. I jumped a bit at the sudden motion, but Stricture caught me by the arm and gave me a reassuring nod. With a loud gulp I stepped forward into the office of the guild master. When I first stepped in all I saw was smoke, it billowed up around me, filling my face and nose for a few steps blocking my view of the room.
After a few steps ...
2022-03-30 23:10:31 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 22nd 2010 12:00 AM EDT
There are some times in life where you go into a situation perfectly prepared. You execute a flawless strategy and demolish your enemy, establishing a well deserved reputation for excellence and frightening all your enemies into being way too scared to ever think of crossing you again. This, sadly, was not one of those times. Mostly because in all my planning and admittedly impressive trai...
2022-03-30 10:45:10 +0000 UTC
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My destiny did await, but it had to stand in line. There was only one of the scanner devices so as we went down the line the rest of us talked to Beaker. It turned out most of us had heard of Beaker, or at least his accomplishments. The eccentric Enchanter had apparently created several products that were in regular use in the Conglomerate. Beaker explained that crafters could, for the most part, still gain stat points through crafting.
He smile...
2022-03-29 21:27:28 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 21st 2010 11:00 PM EDT
Getting everyone together and helping them slip off to the boiler room took hours. Specifically I had to go and help several of the justice bros disengage with clones to get them here and Superboy actually got lost. Finally, after running around getting ducks in rows, we got everyone gathered together in a single room. The boiler room wasn't exactly spacious either, so it ended up being ex...
2022-03-29 17:22:48 +0000 UTC
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Jessie and I followed behind the humorless man in the suit as he led us further into the back of the first floor and then up some stairs. As we began walking up I noted that the stairs looped around and that the steps beneath us were crystal clear. I doubted they were glass, since no one seemed to be looking up at us, but still looking down on the various floors as we climbed the spiral staircase was wild.
Jessie was clinging to my arm as we walked, c...
2022-03-28 20:24:40 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 21 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I exhaled a cloud of frozen mist from my spot in the closet, opening my eyes as I exited the Outer Body trance. I'd spent the last week in here, occasionally communing with my friends but mostly just pouring my focus into training with my new body. It had been excruciatingly painful for most of the time, but I'd managed to progress rapidly with time to really beat my head against that wall.
2022-03-28 08:57:09 +0000 UTC
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In the end, I did manage to get enough with my final three wishes to both get the obfuscator and buy the ruby, and even had some left over. The ruby ended up being a million flat, and only that because I made a deal with the guy who was selling it, Simon, that he could contact me about any future Ascended materials. I figured even if I couldn't buy them I could set him up with someone through the WCP who could.
I made nine million on the other three wishes...
2022-03-27 21:46:20 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 14th 2010 10:00 PM EDT
The actual pain from the transformation hit me after I repeated the words, but suffice to say it wasn't as bad as I expected. Somehow I got the feeling my devil transformation had made this easier, like the two were especially compatible or something. Still, there was a wave of freezing energy inundating my bones as the "half ghost" transformation altered me at a fundamental level.
N...
2022-03-27 12:32:13 +0000 UTC
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I hadn't expected to see a rock with stats. I knew that other ascendants had them, but I'd kind of expected them to be human specific. I reached down to open the case, picking up the ruby to feel it's smooth surface. Vengiello's wasn't the kind of place a thief could get away from easily, so touching was allowed as long as the goods weren't too delicate. The man in the beret behind the table didn't stop me as I rolled the stone in my fingers, trying to get ...
2022-03-26 20:39:46 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 14th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I had to admit. I was annoyed. I had expected searching Arkham slowly to be a bit of a grind sure, but I expected it to take a few hours even at my current speed. However, I had neglected an important fact. The person who designed Arkham BELONGED in Arkham. The entire place was a never ending loop of back tracking corridors, dead ends, and hallways that I was pretty sure actually extended p...
2022-03-26 08:52:04 +0000 UTC
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Naturally the first thing I did after this storm of revelations was go and talk to Benny. I texted him to meet me at the park and hopped a bus down there, stashing my suit and mask in the bag. I would eventually need to get an actual costume once I did the intake, but establishing a brand now (so to speak) was going to link me to my current actions and might give the Unity some clues about what my powers actually were.
He stayed quiet as I told him th...
2022-03-25 22:42:37 +0000 UTC
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Arkham Asylum December 13th 2010 2:00 PM EDT
Climbing out of the car I glanced up at Arkham. The Silver Ghost had been parked at the old penthouse and we'd driven over from there. I'd expected the roads to cause trouble but Jim appeared to have made some modifications to the thing because we drove right through most of the barricades when we got to them. Arkham itself looked...well, the same. Zee climbed out after me and stared up at ...
2022-03-25 07:08:06 +0000 UTC
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The trip home was shockingly slow to me. With so much information forthcoming and with all the action I'd just gone through my adrenaline was singing, and sitting on a bus like a chump waiting was basically torture. Still, I closed my eyes and took a deep breath to center myself as the bus pulled into traffic. I'd taken my first big step down the path of an Ascendant, but I still didn't know what that meant.
Finally after what felt like hours but was ...
2022-03-24 21:22:20 +0000 UTC
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Doomhollow Hall December 13th 2010 11:00 PM EDT
The next morning was...quiet. Artemis didn't seem to hold my decision against me, nor did Reggie, but from their auras I could tell they were giving me space after the ordeal. It would have been a much bigger deal without Zee there to keep me grounded and I was grateful for my girl. Sex was only part of it, the genuine connection and love she showed me made it clear that she was with me ...
2022-03-24 07:55:58 +0000 UTC
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