My style of combat in Doom Sovereign was quick and brutal, it was incredibly agility centric and required lot's of jumping around. It also involved lots of skill use but beggars couldn't be choosers with this kind of thing. When I got close enough to Markie I saw the overlay shift a bit and finally turn green. In Doom Sovereign a red overlay meant you couldn't hit at all, a yellow overlay meant it would be blocked, and green meant an opening.
Granted ...
2022-03-23 18:51:11 +0000 UTC
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Doomhollow Hall December 13th 1:30 AM EDT
No matter how many times I had sex with Zee it never got less exciting, but something about this time was different. There was a frantic air to it, a sort of tension. I suspected it was what I'd heard some blonde guy I'd eaten next to at a local bar call "thank god we're alive sex" or a variation on it at least. Still, it was shocking how eager she was as she fisted her hands in my hair, kissi...
2022-03-23 05:50:04 +0000 UTC
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As I confirmed the wish and I felt myself change. Fantasy, whatever it did, didn't interact directly with my body, but Vitality did. It didn't make me stronger, or tougher, but it made me more ALIVE. I had more energy, more life force. It felt fucking awesome. I'd never experienced anything remotely like this in my life and I loved it. There were plenty of stats, but I now knew at least some of them affected my body directly, which was...interesting.
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2022-03-22 22:08:23 +0000 UTC
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Doomhollow Hall December 13th 2010 1:00 AM EDT
The trip back to the teleporter after we rescued the Shadows was...quiet. Paula and Artemis didn't seem horrified judging by their auras, but they seemed a bit wary, and I didn't blame them. Reggie was quiet but he didn't seem upset, just sad. Zee...Zee was a lot of things at once and it made reading her aura much harder. We made decent time getting back after Paula said goodbye to Cheshi...
2022-03-22 05:06:27 +0000 UTC
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The next few day saw me going over my gains. Five hundred thousand credits, five minor skills (guitar, singing, swimming, gymnastics, and cooking) and while that was absolutely amazing I was forced to face that fact that Doom Sovereign wasn't going to be enough. I scowled at my account five hundred and forty thousand credits would put a dent in the cost for my obfuscator but it wouldn't pay it off, and the number of customers who could pay cash was pretty l...
2022-03-21 23:30:36 +0000 UTC
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Gotham City December 13th 2010 12:00 AM EDT
As I watched that five thousand jumped to fifty two hundred as it hit midnight, but the usual exhilaration of my points arriving was absent. Or rather, it was overshadowed. I had found a way to gain points outside of my daily allotment. It was almost impossible to put into words how big of a game changer this was for me. I'd been a slave to my point allotment since I first got my powers all ...
2022-03-21 06:17:52 +0000 UTC
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The next step was, obviously to get a few people to make wishes. But I was somewhat worried I'd end up screwing myself over if word of my powers got out, so I had no idea how to do that. Benny, to my surprise, had an easy answer ready. "Doom Sovereign." I stared at him blankly. "Is there any reason you need to be physicall standing next to a person when you grant a wish? Like is that stated in the rules?" I opened my mouth to respond but then paused to thin...
2022-03-20 22:42:22 +0000 UTC
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Gotham City December 12th 2010 11:30 PM EDT
I admit, I actually stopped what I was doing and gaped at him as I reformed my wings extended. "The fuck? Dude, you broke my arm!" I realized it was a bit petty to point that out after attempting to lop his off at the elbow, but come on. That was just cheating, I'd been a shadow, how the hell do you break a shadow's arm? I had to grit my teeth against the pain, but I was used to physical dis...
2022-03-20 07:04:32 +0000 UTC
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The trip to my Uncle's office wasn't long, but it seemed to take more time than I felt it should have because none of us spoke. I was trying to come to grips with the fact that my drunk Uncle was a Deacon of the WCP. Even out here in the boonies we knew what a Deacon was. Specifically the strongest person at a branch, and the leader of that particular Wish Curse Palace. I didn't know what rank you had to be to become a Deacon, mostly because I hadn't known ...
2022-03-19 19:13:37 +0000 UTC
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Gotham City December 12th 2010 10:00 PM EDT
Detective vision made tracking Paula a breeze, it did not however, make the streets and safer. I heard Jim's bored voice sound in my head. "Left on Sycamore, there appears to some sort of riot up ahead on Wiltshire." The roads had become infinitely worse since we'd retreated to the island. Because the city had been mostly area locked no one was driving anywhere anymore. The street...
2022-03-19 08:27:21 +0000 UTC
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The doors opened to a scene I couldn't have possibly imagined. I'd expected some kind of cave or underground room, but this was so far beyond that. Almost a whole city was down here. Granted a very small city, but it was easily several miles in every direction. The elevator must have been moving insanely fast to get us this deep this quickly. I inched out onto what seemed like some kind of grated catwalk, my shoes causing a slight tremor in the metal as I t...
2022-03-19 00:24:34 +0000 UTC
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Doomhollow Hall December 12th 2010 9:00 PM EDT
The news that I could grow my stats was welcome, and I made plans to come back tomorrow and try the Tier 2 dish. Based on the way Tiers seemed to work here I was betting it would be ten points, though I wasn't sure in which stat. I wondered if it was random or if Jambalaya was some kind of strength boosting specialty. Maybe because of all the meat? What would boost Dexterity? Dessert? Reg...
2022-03-18 06:28:35 +0000 UTC
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Doomhollow hall December 12th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I stared out the window of Doomhollow Hall in interest as we watched the distant skyline, hoping to see some trace of what was happening in Gotham. We didn't, of course, but I'd taken to looking out across the bay as a form of relaxation. Zee has next to me, a sheet pressed to her front and curled against my side. In the last month we had picked up quite a few people who were calling the ...
2022-03-18 00:16:16 +0000 UTC
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The Wish Curse Palace did not, oddly enough, move. It was ostensibly hidden, but asking around a bit near where we had seen the symbol tags the next day got us concise directions. It turned out that none of the Five Faction Alliance were quite willing to piss off the secretive force of fanatically loyal spies and assassins who lived hidden amongst their civilian population, go figure. Because they weren't willing to break into an outright war and they thems...
2022-03-17 07:33:06 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 11th 2010 4:00 PM EDT
As soon as the ceiling came down on Myrina I turned and blasted the other Amazons holding up Ivy and co with a ten point burst of shadow and we fucking booked it. I was absolutely not equipped to fight her again here. I might manage something outside the island where I could teleport but for now discretion was the better part of valor. I focused on the sending stone "Hey ba...
2022-03-16 21:27:35 +0000 UTC
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The trip to the park was both way too quick and agonizingly slow. I took a bus to get there, mostly because I blew all my credits on Doom Sovereign but at least had the presence of mind to buy a buss pass at the beginning of the year when I still had a bit of money. The bus was pretty empty at six PM on a Friday night, so I mostly just sat by myself and thought over my options. I'd decided to wait a day or two before I did the intake process for the Unity. ...
2022-03-16 05:41:10 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 11th 2010 3:30 PM EDT
I can't exactly explain how I knew this woman was so dangerous. It wasn't just the aura, or my experience with the Warlord in my Outer Body trance, though both of this contributed. I just got this sort of horrifying sense of danger from her, and I was not at all happy about it. I'd beaten the Warlord in the dungeon, but it had taken everything I had, and my teleportation powers had...
2022-03-15 19:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Now, one might think the thing that would scare me in that situation was the purple flaming piece of paper that seemed to have swallowed my blood. That person would be wrong. Mostly because I recognized the name printed on the paper and it belonged to someone even I had heard of. Callus, the planet I lived on, was a pissant backwater production planet on the outskirts of the Conglomerate. We were probably the poorest planet in this solar system, if not the ...
2022-03-15 05:21:34 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 11th 2010 3:00 PM EDT
Just like Zee and the other said the trip to the cell block where Miss Martian was stationed was smooth sailing once we bounced those losers out of our way. I secretly thanked the gods for having the foresight to buy that map because it was basically the perfect tool for a thief, especially combined with the sending stones. Zee and Artemis were able to walk use around all the obstr...
2022-03-14 21:37:04 +0000 UTC
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I groaned as I pushed the door shut. I was exhausted. Today had been my monthly compulsory education download, and those always took it out of me. No matter how many times I sat in that uncomfortable metal chair and got let them stick those awful leads to my temples it never got any less jarring or uncomfortable. Still, it was better than the alternative, rumor had it back before the download had been perfected they forced everyone at or under majority to s...
2022-03-14 06:45:33 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 11th 2010 2:00 PM EDT
This was not an ideal situation. Clayface was annoying to fight. I'd expected the flash freeze to finish him but once I shattered the bastard the pieces had melted the ice somehow, some kind of vibration I was pretty sure. Water and Ice were out, but upon studying the villain I realized something pretty interesting. He seemed smaller. Like he's lost some of his mass shaking off the...
2022-03-13 22:52:25 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 11th 2010 1:00 PM EDT
Despite my quick reactions, the fastest person to respond wasn't me, it wasn't even Robin. Surprisingly at was Arthur who shook of the shock first and dragged us out of the way. He pulled us over under the bleachers, further back into the shadows as things started to go south. Robin, Wally, Kaldur, Superboy, Red Arrow, and I all got dragged into the dark where we could stay hidden ...
2022-03-12 19:02:06 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 11th 2010 12:00 PM EDT
I'd expected the actual breakout to be the most stressful point in the prison break, but I'd been wrong. I'd underestimate Blackgate, or rather prison in general. More specifically I'd underestimated that most hallowed of prison experiences, yard time. The absolute discomfort of being trapped in a small courtyard with dozens of incredibly tense and pissed off criminals, some of wh...
2022-03-11 20:55:21 +0000 UTC
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Blackgate Penitentiary November 10th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
"Alright, off the boat you fucking animals!" The guard's thick New York accent made his disdain even more noticable as he banged his flashlight on the roof of the cramped boat cabin, gesturing at us to get out. The trip to Blackgate has been slow and annoying. According to Robin, who sat across from me not wearing what I knew was a later mask, they were only bringing the worst of t...
2022-03-10 22:27:33 +0000 UTC
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Gotham City November 7th 2010 6:00 PM EDT
Triangulating Wally through the map was helpful, but it wasn't exactly the instant solution I expected. Once I actually showed up to follow him I realized he wasn't really always with his team. Since I was planning to enlist all of them to help (team work makes the dream work, and also I wouldn't have to risk my own crew) I ended up having to follow him around for a while. This was extremely a...
2022-03-10 01:05:23 +0000 UTC
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It was time. Time to leave, to head to parts unknown. We had contacted everyone on our list and invited them along, and more than I expected had decided to come with us. We'd gotten in touch with Brynn and had her get a message to Lucifer. He'd sent back instructions to gather at Sibiu so he could open the portal. He was going to use the weak spot at the bottom of the lake there to make the transfer easier, and his appearance there wouldn't violate the rule...
2022-03-08 22:11:13 +0000 UTC
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Doomhollow Hall November 6th 2010 10:00 PM EDT
We weren't ambushed surprisingly, but that made sense since they wanted to hire is for a job. However, the gems weren't really useful to us, which we told them. We arranged to meet up again once they had sufficient compensation and we would take a few days to think about it. Most of the restaurants seemed to have a decent enough surplus to run for a few more days. Luckily Gotham was a nig...
2022-03-08 18:51:10 +0000 UTC
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The rest of the funeral was just as heart wrenching. River's son spoke for him, and Dr. Pounder told a few stories about the big sasquatch. They went up together since each person only got one eulogy, and Sam was with them. I half expected some kind of drama but Dr. Pounder had clearly gotten over River a long time ago, and she was nothing but supportive to the tiny vampire. After the rest of them went we thanked everyone for coming and then headed home, an...
2022-03-08 00:24:19 +0000 UTC
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Gotham Botanical Gardens November 6th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
We cased the place before going in, obviously. Rather than bring everyone it was decided Jim and I were strong enough that anything that could bounce the two of us would probably just kill everyone anyway, and since they only actually extended the invite to us we would go alone. Zee and Artemis had been pretty pissed about that, though Reggie had been distracted showing his girlfr...
2022-03-07 17:57:14 +0000 UTC
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"So he knows how to get us home?" Kara's eyes were wide and hungry as she listened to my story about my talk with Lucifer. She was cuddled up with Inari on the couch. On the other side of it Cinder was sitting with a still inconsolable Sam, but despite being distracted by her friend's grief I could tell she was listening. Raven was in her chair, sitting with Barb curled up next to her, with Yang at the table watching us all. The reactions to my news were......
2022-03-06 23:29:08 +0000 UTC
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