Malcolm Tent

Sell you a Bridge chapter 115

O'Malley Penthouse November 5th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

We  made it to the penthouse without much more trouble. I guided us with my  stealth skills just in case because I didn't want to get caught in  another ambush, but it didn't seem like it was necessary. Once we were  safely at the building we headed inside, and I felt a slight shift as we  walked through the door, showing me that Gojo was apparently taking  things at least a bit seriously for...

Stronger Together chapter 247

Magic wasn't the only thing the attack drained from me. I'd been  running on rage and hate and fear and a thousand other emotions, and  when I poured it all into that spell it all just...left. I fell to my  knees, almost boneless. Not with exhaustion mind you, but with the sort  of bone deep weariness that only loss can really inflict. The second the  shield came down my girls were there Raven got to me first, with Kara  hot on her heels. Yang piled on as Barb pe...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 114

Gotham City November 5th 2010 7:00 PM EDT

I  had to admit I wasn't necessarily against it, given the current  situation, but I still had to point out the obvious. "I mean, you say  that, but most of the time when I want to team up with someone I don't  surround them with assassins. This feels less like an invitation and  more like 'ye olde join up or die ultimatum'." I gestured around us at  the crowd of cannon fodder. "Not that I feel exce...

Stronger Together chapter 246

I admit to being a bit smug, which mixed with my simmering rage was  an interesting combination. There was a distinct undertone of vindictive  pettiness to the concoction roiling in my gut too, and I was pretty  sure I was not hiding that cocktail of emotions very well because He Who  Stands Above looked less than enthused to be trapped in a giant ass  force field with me. More than that though, with the shield up I  wouldn't have to hold back so much. I could us...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 113

The Clock Tower November 5th 2010 6:00 PM EDT

The  wait had been agonizing. Well...no. It really hadn't, it had actually  been pretty fun. My friends and I had taken to combing the island to try  to find any leftover secrets, and it was fascinating some of the things  we turned up. Granted, we were worried in the back of our minds, but  our loved ones still had phone service (most of the towers and power  lines were uninterrupted by the shi...

Stronger Together chapter 245

I blinked at the small form of the outsider...king? Whoever he was he  seemed pretty sure he could beat me even in my ascended state. His  loss. I flickered across the field, smashing out with the fist that  still had the cestus on it. I expected surprise and for my punch to  land. I appeared right next to He Who Stands Above and threw my  strongest blow. Which he took. Head on. To the face. Without moving  literally a single inch at the impact or even trying to ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 112

Doomhollow Hall October 31st 2010 3:00 AM EDT

I  swallowed, hard. Hard, that was a funny word, it described pretty much  everything about me right now. Staring at my perfect angel of a  girlfriend in skimpy fishnets and a thong with those perfect, pale  teardrop tits hanging down, I was having trouble forcing my brain to function. Her nipples were the sweetest looking pink, like strawberry cream  candies, and I actually licked my lips as I stare...

Stronger Together chapter 244

Two of them. Two outsiders glaring at me hatefully. Well, I mean  really still one doing that, since Sharkface had no eyes, but still I  was positive he wasn't going to be signing us up for a couples massage  anytime in the near future. Regardless they both seemed pretty pissed,  which I got because I wasn't exactly in a good mood either. I sneered at  the freakish abomination that was he who walks behind. "You think you  can kill me scavenger? Your little buddy ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 111

Doomhallow Hall October 31st 2010 1:00 AM EDT

I  wanted to run out into the night and track down my loved ones, to round  them all up and bring them here. But we only had the one teleporter and  it would be stupid to drag them through a freshly contained Gotham.  This...was going to get bad. Gotham was already enough of a nightmare  without being stuffed in a snowglobe. I cursed as I stared up at the  glowing green sphere. I couldn't believ...

Stronger Together chapter 243

The outsider creatures were...awful. They looked sickening, like a  mix between black sludge, bugs, soldiers, and some kind of cancerous  growth. The things were all pitch black and covered in sickening green  veins. As I watched, I saw them fall upon my forces, some of them  stopping to tear into Draugr on the way. I spun to glare at Loki, the  mad god was still laughing his ass off and I just about lost my mind. I  cranked my klurkor state to the max I could ha...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 110

Doomhollow Hall October 31st 2010 12:00 AM

Obviously  with the harbor full off pissed off Amazons we weren't going to be able  to sail to the island. Instead I'd burned the extra points to shadow  port us back to the tower so we could use the teleporter to get there.  Mom was safe with Gojo, and Paula was there too, but Reggie called Bette  and his mom and sister and told them to stay inside while we bypassed  their whole fleet by jumping s...

Stronger Together chapter 242

Despite what we expected we weren't thrown into pitched battle as  soon as we stepped into the territory of the ritual, with Loki's army  falling back to allow enough room for a few of us to approach but not  all. Naturally the girls and I went first because we were the strongest,  though Vikram came along as well, the demigod being one of our heavy  hitters, and Ebenezar followed along, though he left Joe to babysit the  little wizards. The Draugr were fearsome ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 109

Gotham City October 30th 2010 8:30 PM EDT

"What  the FUCK just happened?" Not the most eloquent response to things sure,  but this was completely out of left field...except it wasn't. She'd  basically TOLD me it would happen. Told me how jealous she was, how she  wanted to get stronger, and I'd ignored it. Hell I had a fucking road  map to this exact situation in the form of the game itself, which was  probably where she got the fucking ide...

Stronger Together chapter 241

The next few days were both peaceful and hectic at the same time. As  much as I'd like to say Kara being part of our little group was some  blissful life changing experience, the fact was we had far too much to  do to sit around fucking or cuddling all the time. Not that we didn't do  a bit of both, but most of the time we spent contacting allies and  asking for support, with anyone from the meeting calling in their  markers to try to cobble together an army for ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 108

Hell October 30th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

It  was time. Three months of constant growth and accruing power. Three  months of training and fighting and combat against monsters and demons. I  had a plan for killing Annabel, as much as I wished I didn't have to.  It had taken us hours today to clear our way to the pentagram leading to  Annabel's chamber, but we'd done it, and I felt my final level click  into place after hundreds of monsters killed, ...

Stronger Together chapter 240

When I got back to the house almost everyone was gone. Clearly Kara  had picked up the girls and our other roomies had headed to Charity's or  Harry's to wait their tests out. Two people however, were there, and  surprisingly one of them was Kara herself. I must have looked surprised  as I came in because she gave a quiet nervous laugh at my face when I  froze in the doorway. "Hi, Cam. I finished my trial already, so I came  home early to talk to you. Raven agree...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 107

Hell October 29th 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Level  fifteen was mostly done. With the extra power and my massive boost in  skill from the constant Outer Body Training nothing down here so far had  really been able to give us trouble. Between my training hours of daily  training with the Warlord, fifty dexterity, my King's Sword of Haste,  my reflexes, my ability to teleport, and my three dimensional movement  from my flight I was basically a fucking ...

Stronger Together chapter 239

So here I was, undertaking a trial to be the Champion of a god. Since  Hades pretty much doubled as the greek pantheons banker we didn't need  to go to Olympus or anything, which was good because of the time crunch.  Kara was able to go pick the other girls up from a nearby entrance to  the Underworld and after she left, I was asked which of the gods I would  like to represent. The girls would take their trials on their own, and I  avoided Hades because I knew Ba...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 106

Unnamed Lair Island October 24th 2010 12:00 AM EDT

The  extra two hundred points I felt blaze through me was a nice boost to an  already portentous moment as I gaped at the new base screen. I had to  admit, game elements of the email aside I didn't expect...this. I mean,  of course it cost points, but still this was unbelievably cool. I walked  into the castle, feet echoing on the stone floor and the others  followed, clearly clued in to my...

Stronger Together chapter 238

The entrance to the underworld was really stylish. I mean sure, the  marble was a bit flashy, white with gold veins and all, but the rest of  the decor was pretty understated. Sleek lines and lots of black wood  furniture that wasn't too intricate or over the top. There were even a  few tasteful couches and a nice water feature next to a black marble  desk built into the floor. It looked like a really high end office  building, with the sole exception of the skel...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 105

Gotham Harbor October 23rd 2010 11:00 PM EDT

Twenty  days. Twenty days of constant training and grinding had led me to this  point. Twenty days and seven levels. We'd carved through level fourteen  of the dungeon in that time, finally reaching fifteen and officially  setting foot on the last level. The final boss room could be considered  as being technically on level fifteen, though you teleported there  through a circle. Regardless we wer...

Stronger Together chapter 237

"I don't get why you're so grumpy about this. Henry's place is in  undertown and we got there all the time." Kara, as was her habit, seemed  mostly unbothered by pretty much everything when in mixed company. I  knew that she had more doubts than she let on of course, but in public  she always tried to be the bastion of hope. We were standing in front of  an old run down house she had spotted with X-ray vision from above.  "I'm sure it won't be that terrible down ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 104

The Clock Tower October 3rd 2010 9:00 PM EDT

Killing  the Warlord was NOT easy, even after I pincushioned him with my whole  wall of swords trick. With him slowed down I was able to keep up with  him. Barely. But even between me and the others it took most of a half  hour to whittle him down. I committed every second to memory, and went  out of my way to test the limits of what he could do with his sword,  pushing him to show me new respons...

Stronger Together chapter 236

The aftermath of the meeting was less of a success than I'd hoped. We  got people on board, sure, but we also got some pointed questions.  Namely from Ebenezer and Joe. Nemesis, as it happened, was considered  something of a state secret by most of the supernatural factions, and me  knowing not just his title but his actual name was incredibly  suspicious. So now I was on my couch being glared at by ancient ass  wizards, and honestly I couldn't really blame them....

Sell you a Bridge chapter 103

Hell October 3rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Finding  the Warlord turned out to be as easy as expected, having the quest to  guide us was...interesting, but convenient. We hadn't really gotten any  quests like this, most of the ones in diablo were given by NPCs and  aside from that shitty Satyr we hadn't really met any that didn't try to  kill us immediately. But despite how weird it felt I couldn't deny how  nice it was to have an easy path to follow...

Stronger Together chapter 235

The drive back to the house with Aiden was...novel. Apparently  whatever made him able to literally eat part of an outsider monster and  digest it for power made him a little nuts. Or vice versa I supposed but  either way. We'd decided that since Maeve was gone we were unlikely to  get any clues from soldier field, especially with the monster eater  hanging around, so we might as well bring him with us so we didn't come  back empty handed. I turned to look over t...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 102

Hell October 2nd 2010 8:00 PM EDT

Hell  was pretty unpleasant, to the surprise of literally no one. Aside from  the walls made of bone, the unidentified stone of the floor,  and the  weird troughs of blood mysteriously sitting around, the fucking monsters  were nightmarishly strong and WOULD NOT stop coming. We were currently  fighting what appeared to be some kind of evil demonic centipede  humanoids, and even fifty strength couldn't ...

Stronger Together chapter 234

After Odin left the meeting mostly broke up. People fractured into  smaller groups and began discussing strategies and other business and I  slipped out the front door with Raven trailing close behind. I smiled at  her slightly as she climbed into the drivers seat of the car. I'd been  planning to call a cab, but with Rae here we could just take the quick  way. " So, you know where we're going?" I had exactly one lead right now  and since I knew for a fact that r...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 101

The Clock Tower October 1st 2010 11:00 PM EDT

I  was exhausted. Again. We'd been dealing with fallout from the plant  monsters for a day or two now and it was just non stop. Granted we  weren't rebuilding shit or anything (well Zee was with her Uncle Kent  and her dad) but in general it was just reacting to the shit storm that  had blanketed the world. The wrecked streets, the loss of life, it took  us a day to make sure no one we knew died...

Stronger Together chapter 233

Explaining Cowl was...tougher than expected. Since Dead Beat hadn't  actually happened yet (if it even would now) Cowl had never shown up,  which meant he never fought Harry. It was frustrating trying to explain  to everyone here why Cowl was so dangerous without dropping the  different reality bomb, but I did my best. Because I knew he was  dangerous. There was no question of that at all.

Cowl's  ability with rituals was impressive enough that he had surv...