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As far as I can tell, arc will finish tomorrow. Wrap up on Tellus Thursday.
As quickly as possible, Randidly began to fuel his different Health Regeneration Skills to funnel Health back to himself. Ending Aegiant would be a dance on a knife’s edge, and he couldn’t afford to be so close to death ...
2019-02-06 05:04:11 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Very long chapter, because this part was reworked a lot. Might still do a little more tweaking, based on how y'all feel it reads.
Randidly didn’t stop to think very much about the implications as he, lightning fast, opened up his Path Menu once more. He scanned through the option...
2019-02-05 05:16:01 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Ah, a small reveal about some of the ramifications of Randidly's relationship with his Soulskill. Let me know what you think.
Immediately after Randidly landed the attack on Aegian’ts face, he spun and pressed his feet against Aegiant’s chest. Although it was not empowered with an ima...
2019-02-05 04:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
It wasn’t about the pain, Randidly realized as he hopped back to avoid a rippling wave of heat that Aegiant released as a quick follow up attack. What really pierced through his ability to shrug off and into Randidly’s core was how lightly he was treating this whole experience on Tellus.
Aether con...
2019-02-05 04:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
I tried very hard to think of a way that this chapter didn't end like this. But... some things I just can't avoid, I guess.
Aiden Darke stumbled backward, about three dozen dead Witch King bodies around him in a grim circle. Near the portal, Shal was a whirlwind of spear strokes that was ripping apar...
2019-02-02 06:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Ophelia’s face was tight as she exploded with the rumbling momentum of a landslide to smash away about thirty Witch Kings that had been rushing toward her. Most of them would survive the blow, but their legs or arms were broken like dry twigs by the force. They would limp around and hamper the mobility of the r...
2019-02-02 06:12:07 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
BOOOOOM.
The Spearman’s eyes narrowed to slits to look at the razor-sharp point of the scorpion tail that was only a few scant finger widths from his eye. This is why I needed to kill this thing, Ethe. Because it uses your weapon. The perfect needle. And that I cannot forgive. 2019-02-02 06:01:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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Randidly released a low whistle. “After this is all over, we should spend more time in the Heart School. I can see why you transferred over here. The water is crystal clear... holy hell, is that a coral reef?”
With a wan smile, Shal shook his head and gestured at the expanse of sparkling sand and s...
2019-02-02 05:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostI'm gonna rework today's chapters a bit. So they won't be out until tomorrow, and there will be four of them.
2019-01-31 21:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
The Spearman looked up imperiously when Shal and the boy returned. His eyes flicked between them, suspicious. It had taken the two almost an hour to return, and as they stood before him, the boy wiped a bit of frost from his leather. Both were rather soaked.
The Spearman then turned and looked outside...
2019-01-31 01:07:02 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly leaned against the wall in the corner, happy to have even been brought to this meeting. Part of it, Randidly assumed, was that he had just been with the Oracle and Versault when they arrived and tagged along. Both seemed too intent on the developing situation at hand to address his continued presence.
And ...
2019-01-31 01:04:23 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly came out of his Soulskill releasing a long breath. His experience there was to come seeking final answers and to leave with only questions. Difficult, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t progress. He hoped that soon, the population of people in his Soulskill would stabilize and spread out; there ...
2019-01-31 01:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Okay, all of the pieces are in place. Time to slide toward a climax.
Randidly found Lucretia in front of a grave.
One reason that the city around the first Obelisk was so crowded was because everyone had agreed almost immediately that part of the area currently cleared of mist needed to...
2019-01-30 05:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly and Rejt trooped down the long tunnel toward the second Obelisk. The traps and monsters had already been cleared through, but monsters would continue to spawn until the obelisk was claimed, Randidly was informed. Not that it mattered. Randidly kept a sliver of his Perception forward and simply ripped the Level...
2019-01-30 05:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly appeared in his Soulskill at the “center” of the explored area. A tall pearly obelisk stretched upward, and at its tip glowed a bright emerald. There was a sun and two moons in the sky, sliding across the plane of the sky, but despite that the emerald provided enough light to see by in the dark hours...
2019-01-30 04:50:36 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Instead of panicking that he had made some terrible mistake by giving the System access to himself and this data, Randidly simply closed his eyes. He spent some time feeling the shape of the world he had created, humming lightly inside of his chest.
It was warm and, as he watched, slowly growing.
What...
2019-01-29 05:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
“You… you knew something about this!” Versault bellowed as he took a trembling step toward Randidly, pointing a bony finger forward. “That was why you were teasing us! This is all part of your game!”
Randidly blinked. That was pretty quick 180 from dismissive superiority to deva...
2019-01-29 04:40:08 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Ole Monday, back on the grind.
Ophelia looked sharply up when the Spearman’s whisper broke their anticipatory silence.
“...How is this possible…” The Spearman whispered, staring through the wall toward the battlefield beyond where all of their fates were being decided. For the first t...
2019-01-29 04:21:33 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
A reminder that I likely won't release anything until Monday. We will try the twelve chapters a week in this tight bunch and see how it feels for us.
...I'm just sorry about the ending of this chapter in light of that information...
The Spearman didn’t like moving hi...
2019-01-25 05:33:03 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly would very much like to relax and trust the world of these two would-be jailers around him. He would like to believe that they were being honest about what was going on. Hell, Randidly could sense that they genuinely believed that they were leveling with him. In their eyes, he was some sort of sophistica...
2019-01-25 05:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Woo, first week of the new schedule finished. 12 chapters in four days. It really is exhausting xD. But I will have plenty of time to outline.
On toward the Tellus arc finale!
Randidly studied the lines of Versault’s face very carefully. What sort of co...
2019-01-25 04:59:58 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Silo yanked his spear from Darrune’s back. The desiccated corpse fell to the ground and cracked into pieces on the spot. Without the animating energy within it, the Spearsource’s different incarnations were quite fragile.
Silo tried not to imagine himself in just such a situation.
Hiss...
2019-01-24 05:37:21 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Little bit of nostalgia at the end xD
They plunged into the inky black clouds like a candle into a child’s nightmare. All brief bravery followed by hissing silence.
Allica gasped as the temperature dropped to the point that her breath misted in front of her. Or ...
2019-01-24 05:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
“Sir, the Oracle is moving. Heading ashore. Toward us.”
Platton looked sharply up at his second-in-command. “You’re sure?”
“Positive,” The man said. He seemed to hesitate, then say. “There’s… nothing else to see around here. There’s just us in the surrounding areas. We sent...
2019-01-24 05:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly arrived around the time that Alta’s confusion at her loss dissolved into sobs. Almost unseeing, she looked up at him as he stood over her and slowly gathered her hands into his own. “Why…?”
“I’m sorry. Someone should have told you long ago. They should have warned you that this Path was...
2019-01-23 06:02:26 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
Randidly chuckled, despite the panic fluttering in his stomach. It was hard to suppress the memories of the time they had spent together, working on understanding Mana Engraving. “Of course you did. You lost sight of why you are fighting. What did you expect?”
Instantly, some of the old spunk of L...
2019-01-23 05:49:07 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
There was a lot in today's three chapters that I didn't plan. It just settled into place. Really strange day writing. Idk if its the new schedule or the ending of the Soulskill side-arc.
Drawing the vast sea of energy that he had gathered from Tellus to himself took Randidly ...
2019-01-23 05:39:20 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
With the distractions by Creta and Lyra, Alta slipped through their noose and proceeded deeper into the box canyon. For all that she was intrigued that the Monster Prince was the opponent chosen for Lyra while three of their other haymakers were used on Creta, she kept her eyes forward. If she managed to ac...
2019-01-22 05:39:44 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
At two hours and fifty eight minutes, a technician walked up the commanders. Lucretia appraised him quickly. He was a competent man, but one vastly out of his depth here. He had a greying mustache that was dripping with his sweat after the tense hours of examination.
It ate away at the psyche when mis...
2019-01-22 05:28:06 +0000 UTC View PostToC: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23899958
One possible consequence of this method of writing is spending a bit longer on scenes. But I figured a little bit of extra background about how we got to this point in this Soulskill would be satisfying.
Lucretia made sure she was holding Alta’s gaze before she spoke. “The...
2019-01-22 04:40:04 +0000 UTC View Post