Sammy set aside her scouting expedition temporarily to focus on a few other pressing matters. Ash had just arrived in Geirkos, and there was a grand organizational affair underway (headed in part by the Cat Sith Morgana) involving her and other wizards of the order to conduct their first ritual. It was something of a test flight. She wanted to pack as much power and mana into [Magical Invention: Mana Items] to produce a solid item.
She arrived at the Great Oak to see a circle already wa...
2024-07-27 15:22:04 +0000 UTC
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Samantha’s day proceeded without crisis. Azure checked in seemingly feeling reasonably fine and had a little extra drive in her, even. That was perfect! She requested Sammy shift her Avatar back to the jungle location so she could meet with and show the place to Redberry, who could move around her own central territory with ease, apparently. Sammy was ultra supportive of this.
Ooh, that’s so awesome! I hope they can connect more and be friends. That would be wonderful. Maybe Azu...
2024-07-26 15:29:02 +0000 UTC
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After her lover departed, Azure flopped on the smooth stone in the rain and let herself be miserable. Miserable and angry. She sobbed and smashed her fist into the rock, which caused her hand to turn into crystal and absorb the impact without damage. She did it a few more times and the stone cracked.
Exactly! It’s what I do. Break things. Intentionally and otherwise.
The connection to Samantha she had not only blocked but ‘smoothed,’ as if to look like everything wa...
2024-07-24 15:17:32 +0000 UTC
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Sammy stared at the symbol of the sun for a long moment, then looked down at the indistinct, sober face of the statue, seemingly mournful.
I’m sorry you’re dead, dude. Bet it was a hell of a run. I bet you were a killer, too. We all are. I am. But life goes on, doesn’t it?
The outside of the ruined temple showed only wildlife as far as activity went. They were almost certainly buried in some barren wilderness.
Azure studied some vines covered over the deterior...
2024-07-23 15:14:13 +0000 UTC
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With the Naugites beginning to pass out in the light of the morning — some of them aided by her REX ‘buff’ — Puck departed from the midst of the camp for a while. Dematerializing, Sammy returned to Heavenpeak to get on with her realm’s dealing.
Before anything else, though, she checked on the noteworthy item descriptions of Dreixia.
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Ta’kla Od, Great Vibrator Bell
(Arcane ...
2024-07-20 15:05:56 +0000 UTC
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The time following the deadly duel with Dreixia went quickly and smashingly for Samantha/Puck and her realm of supposed ne'er-do-wells. Dreixia’s body was stripped of possessions, put in robes, and burned in a great pyre inside the fortress. This became a backdrop for immediate withdrawal proceedings. As far as Sammy could tell, any ‘succession’ issues about who’d be the clan leader were put on hold.
Remembering Dreixia’s last words, she asked casually about an ‘Ogdellos,’...
2024-07-19 15:14:45 +0000 UTC
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In a place without light where life was inverted to something else, footsteps rang out across a void. It should have been somewhere deep below Calrenazzod, but this would ascribe to it something natural. It was not.
The substance of a spiral staircase was an affectation, forged of a mind-bending and unseeable contrivance of timeless purpose. You could know it was there, perhaps, just as...
2024-07-18 15:19:03 +0000 UTC
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This is a soft date, but sometime after that will be Amazon time for it. Cheers!
2024-07-18 01:37:38 +0000 UTC
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Some stuff in here not necessary listed, but no
2024-07-18 01:31:42 +0000 UTC
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As Dreixia flung herself upward, Puck took advantage of the opening and time to dismiss Foolmaker and resummon it to her left hand. At the same time, she prepped to cast a spell, intent to be defensive under the temporary debuff. She was trying to keep cool and rational.
“Anti-flight, huh?” Puck asked in measured nonchalance, the Sammy within pretending to be calm though she wanted to cry. Or scream. A broken right arm. There is no crying in baseball. Or war. “Very h...
2024-07-12 14:30:01 +0000 UTC
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Note: Your partial success for successfully convincing an army of Naugites of beneficial fabrications for your cause has been rolled into the next quest and increased its total potential gains. Lesser partial success is still possible.
New quest unlocked: “A Hillcrusher to Die On?” — Defeat Dreixia Hillcrusher.
● Rewards: +30-200 FE, 3-12 exp in [Goddess], 3-12...
2024-07-10 14:29:13 +0000 UTC
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“No!” Dreixia cried from the parapet top, practically frothing at the mouth. She was incensed. “I won’t brook another piece of shit spiritual parasite sucking at the teat of our prowess ever again! Look what one did to us!” She cast her eyes out at the crowd as an appeal. “And where is he now?! He failed us and he is gone.”
The Naugites muttered and shifted uncomfortably, suddenly reminded of her pri...
2024-07-09 14:49:29 +0000 UTC
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In the scuffle of the night sky flyers over the fortress of Prie Moraan, the next to act was the young wizard, infuriated by his injuries and slinging an almost immediate spell out with a flick of a wand. Cackling energy in a large radius was all the warning anyone had — however, this was enough for Sammy, because she ‘read’ the spell clearly with Detect Magic.
Lighting Storm, or something like that.
With her and her staff in radius, she utilized Spell Absorption to...
2024-07-07 14:05:50 +0000 UTC
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New Quest unlocked: “The Sky of Limits” — Defeat the pack of Dominion flying wizards.
● Rewards: +40-70 FE, 3-6 exp in [Goddess], 4-7 exp in most relevant sub-class used during quest, +10 or 20 Maximum MP.
The first thing Sammy did was bring her crew right back under cover, so she could prepare more properly for battle and add some more members. Buffs began to fly like mad.
Meanwhile, Ba...
2024-07-06 15:10:49 +0000 UTC
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Sammy continued internally scrambling for a plan, some plan, any plan. “Like, ah, healing!” she finally sent to Ba Ra. “Cleansing- hmm. Her or, maybe, uh- what’s his name, Dika, Deiky, what, ah-”
“Deikmorn Brakka.” Ba Ra added helpfully.
“Yeah, him! Healing Deikmorn Brakka! I have this light cleansing… thing, so…” She suddenly remembered to check her timer on Channel Domain — which would be needed for cleansing ...
2024-07-05 15:06:46 +0000 UTC
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109 Followers gained. That is pretty awesome for a day. Too bad my promo bonus is gone. Oh well, at least I still have modifiers to exp gains, and that’s the important thing! Faith Energy is pretty well-covered right now.
Her Specialized FE was at the minimums she wanted, but she figured she might as well bump them again to 200 each over the next day for additional cushion.
Sammy noticed that Ash was active and Estara was just arriving at The Farm in Caneboro, so she sw...
2024-07-03 14:39:37 +0000 UTC
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Rolling her eyes at Glae’s maudlin blah, Sammy sent, “Well, I’d love to continue brooding with you, but I do have things to-”
“One other thing,” Glae interrupted. “If you like, I will offer you the services of the Agatolis Twins for the duration of the war. Two of my finest Antimages. Despite the name, they must always work entirely separately. Otherwise, you can use them to whatever ends you like for the war effort. I will only reassess the arra...
2024-07-02 14:56:06 +0000 UTC
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I probably overreacted.
As she aggressively flew at Ludicrous Speed through a cloudy, endless sky — entirely intended to cool off from her encounter with Ba Ra — the thought came to her rather soon after she was away from the Horned and Horny crew.
Zadkiel always finds some way of getting to me, even seems to enjoy getting to me, but I should’ve been more cautious. Less trusting. I’m a big, dumb, easy mark. I need to adm...
2024-06-30 14:48:11 +0000 UTC
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“Don’t mention it,” Sammy replied, raising an eyebrow between them but saying nothing more.
Ba Ra seemed to sober up as she gazed at Samantha. She straightened her glasses and detached herself from Zadkiel, to walk over and fall to her knees at Samantha’s feet. She bowed her head and placed her ringed, well-manicured hands on the sand. “I owe you my very life, and more importantly, you saved the life of my master. I am eternally grateful for the new chance you’ve given us al...
2024-06-29 14:59:05 +0000 UTC
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Sammy nodded thoughtfully to the admittance of Zadkiel to no new Chimeric admixture of Naugites. Oh, those politics and belief systems. “So, have you fucked up the ecosystem of the Land of Naug yet with invasive new species?”
Zadkiel frowned at her words, somewhat confused. “I think I understand what you mean. No? But the flyers and a line of rats got free in the early days and we could never stamp them out, so it is what it is. Those giant fucking rats are every...
2024-06-28 15:02:54 +0000 UTC
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To Zadkiel’s statement, Sammy was a bit mystified. “You mean… Hell?”
Azure meanwhile, looked as if she were staring at a ghost, her breath caught.
Zadkiel scrunched his face and shook his head. “Eh, that word is irrelevant. We only use it ironically. Even ‘Other World’ — as we found — was insufficient to describe the incredible realm we’d discovered. Well, technically him, but the place was not meant for him, after all. He c...
2024-06-26 14:30:55 +0000 UTC
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Samantha began signing the pages of Zadkiel’s contract, each causing a pulse in her bones from the supernatural gravitas. Zadkiel’s eyes were on her the whole while as though locked, in some combination of grim resignation and… a glint in his eyes. Hopefulness, she sensed, not just naturally but in some deific core of her being.
She came to the final signature and hovered over it with the pen. Everyone was spellbound in anticipation, Sancus nodding approvingly; Azure with her hand...
2024-06-25 14:36:59 +0000 UTC
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Sammy stared at Bast — with his grin as devilish as any Zadkiel had worn — and felt herself just as ‘at a loss’ for how to respond as everything else he’d said since she related the story. She did not know what she could say to personal oaths set for some distant horizon, or to passionate macho rivalry that was probably becoming more and more natural to him.
We’re dealing with an entity far beyond who I’m looking at. Here I was hoping he’d shrug things off since Marj...
2024-06-23 15:11:52 +0000 UTC
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The Cat Sith floating before Sammy gazed at her calmly. “Madam, if you would please refrain from rushing off to chew him out, I’d appreciate it. My consultation on this matter is not yet to my satisfaction.”
“I bet it isn’t, lawyer-cat! What am I supposed to do with that, huh? I’m not even going to suggest that to Red. I feel like… I feel like she’d do just about anything I ask that doesn’t involve burning trees or something.”
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2024-06-22 14:32:17 +0000 UTC
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Gelmak Por sweated and suffered in silence on the watership, grateful for every little uptick of the breeze that happened to blow and provide some tiny relief from the sweltering heat of the southern sun. There wasn’t much wind right then, and the ship sailed like a snail. He could not fathom how all of the little humans ran around on the wooden construct and worked in the heat at all, but then the south was for their kind, not his.
To think, I enjoyed the hot springs and saunas, ...
2024-06-21 14:58:55 +0000 UTC
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For winning an important contest, you have been awarded 7 exp in [Goddess] and 9 exp in [Magineer].
Sammy awoke to the world near the hideout in Geirkos, in the practice yard with the sun's light beaming down. As usual, after the visions and experiences within the System Deck, she was lying face-first on the ground.
But only part of her mind registered she was there. Another part freaked out, still picturing the dark,
2024-06-19 15:31:05 +0000 UTC
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The war was over and the forces of Samantha had lost.
Sitting in the darkness on the floor of a hidden, nameless fortress of solitude in the faraway land of Baladusk — waiting — events ran through Orswyth’s mind as they had a thousand times before. He still lived them.
All the trust and faith of a whole new realm dead to one man’s fanatical desperation to persist. We shouldn’t have underestimated him. Should have remembered [Entropy] can m...
2024-06-18 15:24:27 +0000 UTC
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Sammy stared at the entity across from her, stunned and perplexed by the sheer, extreme difference from anyone else she’d dealt with, not just Orswyth. The closest beings were The FT and Lovie, and this one seemed… somehow more formidable.
It could also be an opportunity for some intel, right?
Sammy ventured, “Is it okay if I ask questions not pertaining to ‘getting the show on the road?’ I’m curious.”
“Sure. So long as you agree that when I ...
2024-06-16 15:18:30 +0000 UTC
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In the training yard outside the original Geirkosi hideout, Sammy watched the two men finish up the staff training sweating and exhausted. Orswyth offered the Personal Refreshment spell to Remus to speed cleaning up, but he declined, stating he’d gladly be doing it ‘the old-fashioned way.’ With that, he said his goodbyes, received his thank-yous, and departed.
Orswyth utilized the spell on himself, however, wiping away all sweat and dirt from his person, before plopp...
2024-06-15 15:12:28 +0000 UTC
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