Randidly turned to Thea first. Of them all, he expected the surly and conflicted woman to be the easiest to handle, at the moment.. “Congratulations.”
To his horror, Thea started to shake her head, slowly at first, but then with increasing speed, her brown hair bouncing back and forth. “No… no. I’m so sorry. I didn’t deserve this at all… I just… cleaned up. And I almost messed it up…”
She straightened, her eyes bright, and offered Randidly a stone that sh...
2017-11-24 05:12:12 +0000 UTC
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Randidly opened his eyes. The he winced. His entire perspective was still vibrating with a vicious, insidious pain. He wanted to vomit. With his will, he wildly pressed down on the vibrations, trying to get a handle on what was going on around him. What was he doing…?
The raid boss, the Wild Rider, the being inside of his chest…
Well, at least he was alive, but… he didn’t really feel like that was a positive thing right now. His body felt… extremely strain, bare an...
2017-11-24 05:11:36 +0000 UTC
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Simon was profoundly disturbed by the Wild Rider. Well, perhaps disturbed wasn’t the right word, but the other person, shrouded in furs with the large moose antlers spreading from their head, certainly cut an impressive figure. In comparison, Simon felt profoundly underwhelming, just a regular, skinny teen wrapped in leathers.
That feeling was reinforced by the Pledgees of the Wild Rider.
After Thea and David had combined forces to kill the Raid Boss, and Simon was shocked...
2017-11-24 05:10:30 +0000 UTC
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Randidly looked around slowly. So what the Wild Rider was saying was… he already had a companion, and it lived here, inside of him? Here, at his core, deep in Aether.
A smile danced across Randidly’s face, slowly growing, stretching across his skin. Then he stepped, crossing through the deep darkness inside of himself, flooded with Aether. It was a lonely and echo-y area, not a place to exist.
Us.
Randidly‘s memory of that moment still shook him, the fre...
2017-11-23 16:42:46 +0000 UTC
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Thea dug her heels into Chrysanthemum’s sides, causing the bear to skid to a halt. It was strange but… the more they traveled forward… the more this strange, dull pain in the back of Thea’s skull grew. To her horror, when she checked her Status, her health was also ticking down, albeit slowly.
Was this a power of the Raid Boss…? If it was, this boss was a nightmare for group battles. It could slowly rip away at the health of the backline fighters, pushing them so far bac...
2017-11-23 16:32:24 +0000 UTC
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Weird releases due to to holidays. These first three I wrote last night in the car, so please forgive if they get a little loopy. I was writing with my eyes closed xD.
After I post these, I'm going to spend some time writing before I'm going to Thanksgiving dinner, but I might not upload until later.
Randidly looked up at the towering goliath above him just in time to see its leg smash forward, aiming for his chest. The thing appeared to be made ...
2017-11-23 16:23:29 +0000 UTC
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Traveling yesterday and today to see family. If I can borrow a laptop, might release today, otherwise not until tomorrow.
2017-11-22 19:47:33 +0000 UTC
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Randidly ripped their bodies to pieces as he fell to the ground. Although they were illusions, they still seemed capable of hurting him. Perhaps it had something to do with a skill though, that affected him mentally, causing him to think he was wounded or something dumb like that…?
Which also didn’t make sense. Why wasn’t his high Willpower or Resistance negating this…?
“Point me to them, I can’t see them.” Randidly growled. At least Simon’s distance was conv...
2017-11-21 05:17:28 +0000 UTC
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Drake looked at Iznock. Even though his head was a flaming skull, the expression of annoyance was clear on his face.
“We were misled,” Vandal said, sighing. After turning away, the young boy rummaged in his pockets and removed several small pieces of meat and tossed them into his mouth. Instantly, his expression turned blissful.
Drake’s hackles raised, but he hid it well. Vandal harvested the flesh of those he defeated, monsters or men, and used it to cook varying dish...
2017-11-21 05:16:53 +0000 UTC
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Simon frowned. “You want us… to head south and east, looking for the Wild Hunter? Isn’t he… more to the North.”
Thea shook her head, her lips pressed into a thin line as she loaded bags onto Chrysanthemum’s back. The bear laid still, seeming to be tense with the whole situation. “No, we believe that the movements of the East End Village and the Skeleton Knight will have driven them away from their usual spot. Our scouts reported rapid movement, and we are trying to k...
2017-11-20 03:32:35 +0000 UTC
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Only two right now, unfortunately. Friendsgiving. Its a bougie american thing, I guess.
In his dream, Randidly was in his bed, struggling against the darkness. The ticking was eternal, a constant companion, the slow passage of time. His sheets were heavy like lead, all of the strength he had gained from the System swept away, leaving him with only his weak, human body.
His hands felt thin and frail, trembling as he tried to wrestle with the covers. The so...
2017-11-20 03:32:04 +0000 UTC
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Drake stood at attention, his hands behind his back. Sydney sat at her desk, her chin in her hand, as she meticulously read every word of his report.
They had marched hard for a day and a half, back towards the East End Village, Drake driving the men ragged in order to report the failure as soon as possible. It was a personal failure, one that he was furious over. But they had truly encountered something they could do nothing about.
That man…
So they had arrive...
2017-11-19 05:00:48 +0000 UTC
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Simon’s spirit body flew much more quickly than David’s physical one, and he quickly sat up. “David killed the spawner!”
Thea gave him a look, seeming to size up whether to believe him. But then she slowly nodded. “That… explains a lot. They’ve become much more… disorganized in the past few minutes. But it’s just that…”
Thea gestured. Simon’s eyes went wide. Perhaps he should have guessed, based on the amount of skeletons that he flew over in his spir...
2017-11-19 05:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Drake Graft shifted his hand position on his halberd, trying to choose his next words very carefully. “Let it go kid, the Skeleton Knight is gonna win this war. This is just one Reanimator of many. Just pledge to-”
But the young man started moving in the middle of his statement, and moving with such speed that he was past him and his men before he could even blink. That level of speed… at least 100 Agility?
Drake felt a sinking in his chest as he swore. He KNEW when Sy...
2017-11-19 04:59:29 +0000 UTC
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Although it looked flashy, Randidly regretted using most of his Mana pool and all of the mana from the few energy storage rings he had been able to make in the past several days. Honestly, he hadn’t given much thought to the aftermath, but without access to the Golden Roots of Yggdrasil and Meditate, his mana regeneration was half of what it usually was.
230 an hour was probably an amount that would make other people horrified, but to Randidly, it simply wasn’t enough. Inwardl...
2017-11-18 21:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Simon was trembling, but there was something about David’s cool confidence that helped ground him. Still, the other man hadn’t seen what was coming, so there was still a vicious live wire of worry at Simon’s core. After all, in his Astral Projection form, he had managed to see how large the assault was.
And based upon what he saw, these first waves were only the beginning…
The two of them walked out of their small tent, seeing people respond in an impressively orderl...
2017-11-17 14:03:39 +0000 UTC
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No chapters today, but I'll skip the gym tomorrow morning to get some more early.
I've been plotting out a lot of what I want to happen coming up, and my headache is growing increasingly large as I realize the scale of things. Ugh. Why did I start Randidly~
Well it's also very fun. But I should have the ideas for the immediate arc.
2017-11-17 05:10:47 +0000 UTC
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Thea Glasshammer saluted to the Executive Directors of Star Crossing.
“Report,” Andre said, the tall, African-American man who had seized the golden coin to found the town and established himself as chairman of the village.
“The Wild Rider… actually thinks the Skeleton Knight is losing the war against the villages to the South, based on his movements.” Thea said with a frown.
“This is a bad thing?” Denise, a thin Asian woman, interjected.
“From wh...
2017-11-16 05:24:23 +0000 UTC
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Luckily, it seemed that the man in front of the inn, Kirkland, was widely hated, and Teo readily accepted the fact that Simon had David break Kirkland’s arm to demonstrate his healing. After all, Kirkland couldn’t deny that they healed him while also claiming they maliciously attacked them.
Teo herded the still huffing and trembling Kirkland away, then turned and spoke to David. “The village spirit will be down soon. You owe me a favor. And you know what I want.”
...
2017-11-16 05:23:53 +0000 UTC
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Sorry folks, no chapter tonight. Me and the girl at the bar next to me ordered the same food, so I was obliged to stay and chat her up a little. Her being cute was irrelevant in this decision.
Schedule for the rest of the week should be something like
Wednesday: 1
Thursday: 3
Friday: 2
Saturday: 3
Sunday: 2
2017-11-15 04:15:32 +0000 UTC
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The group of the 6 of them arrived as Star Cross, everyone in a rather good mood. They had encountered a recently spawned Tier I Raid Boss, taking it by surprise due to David’s quick warning, and were able to harvest three pieces of equipment from its corpse. One of which Thea offered to David, but he shook his head firmly, gesturing to Simon.
So Simon found himself with his first piece of System generated equipment.
Chainmail of the Metal Scarecrow Lvl 22: An armo...
2017-11-14 05:13:35 +0000 UTC
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Simon looked at his companion with some concern. “Are you sure you are recovered enough to travel…?”
David nodded, his eyes calmer that Simon would have believed based on how he had seemed wracked by pain over the last three days. Simon did value how little David seem to speak, content to nod and gesture rather than communicate. Which was a relief, in a way, because they seemed to fit well together, Simon waiting silently and the older man just seeming to struggle with his i...
2017-11-14 05:13:07 +0000 UTC
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Dragging the man back to his cabin was more difficult than he anticipated. Truly, though Simon had the strength in his gangly, 14 year old body that a grown man would have, he still didn’t have the size to heft him over his shoulder, and could only drag him.
Which wasn’t good for his wounds, so Simon stopped periodically, checking him, before continuing his journey. Once back at the cabin, Simon stripped the man as best he could, cutting away the ripped leathers, reveali...
2017-11-13 14:13:33 +0000 UTC
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It was a time of three long weeks, filled with dread. Simon put off his travels for a class, instead waiting within the sphere of influence of his spring, just hoping that nothing would change around him. The monsters around him grew abruptly weaker too, and then abruptly stronger, as dungeons came into being around the 4 towns.
Then one of the towns fell to its tribulation, and became another dungeon they had to worry about.
From Simon’s position, there was a village dire...
2017-11-13 04:53:03 +0000 UTC
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This fall was much shorter, but paradoxically much more painful, as it didn’t seem like the fall was enough to knock him unconscious for the worst of it. Instead, he was forced to deal with every jolt of vicious pain from the knife stuck in his calf.
More concerning, the slimes appeared slightly stunned, and otherwise unaffected, and began climbing over each other to cover his face.
The next few minutes were a series of desperate struggles, grasping at the cores and squish...
2017-11-13 04:52:31 +0000 UTC
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This was a kinda cute series of chapters to do. A brief little restart, but I thought we needed a change of pace.
System initializing…
Simon Bliss had seen a lot of things that surprised him in his life. As the 14 year old son of two mothers, as the guy who had tried every drug under the sun and had convinced a lot of people to try the more reasonable half of them, he was no stranger to weird phenomenon. Even hallucinations could be con...
2017-11-13 04:52:02 +0000 UTC
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The end of an era. Woo, this took so much longer than I thought. I originally thought the Shal arc would be 50 chapters. And now its been what, 160?
Shal was left momentarily dumbstruck as Lucretia, the Eternal Witch, the one his memories confirmed was his true birth mother, disappeared abruptly. Her blood flowed in his veins, and she was from the opposing forces beyond the frontlines, which made him-
A string of curses refocused Shal’s attention to the...
2017-11-11 17:27:45 +0000 UTC
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Shoutout to astronomy nerds who told me I was wrong about singularities, hahaha. Sorta fascinating, but you'll have to let make things up this time.
“You fuck cunt! Get out of my way!” Helen bellowed, fighting against the huge press of bodies. After Aethon left with the Ghosthound in tow, and that projection followed, destroying a 10 meter section of the stands in the process, the crowd around her rioted, running to get out of the arena.
Which was dum...
2017-11-11 17:26:02 +0000 UTC
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Drank a bit too much, will update tomorrow.
Sometimes I am social, like a human.
2017-11-10 06:04:35 +0000 UTC
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Oh man, I wonder how many people saw this coming? But this does mean this arc is wrapping up. Soon, back to Earth...
The crowd jumped to its feet, roaring and cheering after the referee had made a count to 10, and then pronounced the Ghosthound the winner of the match.
The winner, for his part, stood still, staring solemnly down at his opponent, his eyes strange. Both arms were at his sides, unmoving. The right from the muscles being severed earlier in th...
2017-11-09 05:56:29 +0000 UTC
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