Having no mercy with her glare for Dax, Sammy scoffed at the latest lame response. “Yes, that! I’m waiting.” Sammy crossed her arms.
Sighing again in frustration, Dax flopped back in her chair, her face pointed at the ceiling. “I’m sorry! I was worried it would upset you… but it’s just something I want and feel would be best… it feels like what I’m supposed to be — to do.”
“If I let you, that is.”
Dax’...
2024-06-14 15:13:30 +0000 UTC View PostAsh began conjuring her preliminary disguise as a raven-haired goth girl, toning down the makeup, which was logical for the culture they were in. No one would bat an eye in Geirkos, at least, which Sammy was sure to point out, since Ash seemed to like the makeup.
Sammy copied the image and spat it back at Ash through her [Mirror Other] ability for the bonuses and her ease at relatively cheaply stacking long durations. Once this was done, Sammy had Ash shown to her room by the maid, thou...
2024-06-12 14:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostSammy cocked her head and raised an eyebrow at Ash, her curiosity quite piqued. “You betrayed me? And, if I’m understanding this correctly, I incinerated you for it?”
Swallowing visibly, Ash nodded while never breaking eye contact. Somewhat hoarse, she replied, “I saw it all in a flash… Visualized, I should say, how it might occur. If I had the vision and it was revealed to the others as it inevitably would be — voluntarily or not — it would’ve led to your persecution. N...
2024-06-11 14:57:46 +0000 UTC View PostWith the item out of the way, Sammy also utilized [Draw Mana] while she had the opportunity for a quick double MP fill — quadruple, actually, because it also counted as High Mana. 84 Mana Points returned to her.
With that done, she swam back to the shore, quickly banishing any water clinging to her by refreshing her ‘image’ through [Create Phantasms]. She donned her earring and checked it out in a mirror. A sizable crystal, but not gaudy. It had a faint blue glow, slightly more lu...
2024-06-09 15:37:02 +0000 UTC View PostTashome glanced up at Samantha, then looked down at the arrow. He sat back in his chair and picked it up. His brows furrowed instantly upon touching it. He inspected it for a long few moments. There was a feel of him weighing it in his hands — a weight nothing to do with physical mass.
Haunted eyes closed as he asked softly, “Do you want… the original way of this thing, or the altered? Does that make sense to you?”
Sammy couldn’t keep the scowl off of her face. She cross...
2024-06-08 15:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostArthen Wybayer, Deputy Marshal of The Hunt, dismounted from his warg Winterseed some distance from the three whimpering ghost hounds most called Witchkillers. It was a logical alteration within the Dominion, as they did not care to be thought of as using spirits, at least not to the common public.
The twice-doomed canines, shrunk and half faded to nothing already, rose from sitting in the torn-up weeds and dirt. They turned their heads to him, obviously recognizing him. Their tails wagg...
2024-06-07 15:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostThere was another minor issue related to Sammy’s [Bound] staff, which she thought about as she went through the motions of mirror travel — being an Artifact, it was supposed to have a name. The System seemed to taunt her with an empty custom entry just waiting there.
Well, all of the abilities are pretty disruptive. Shitting on lawns, raining on parades. And it brains people. Okay. I’d like it to sound like a diss… hmm… ah!
...
2024-06-06 14:50:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Sammy nodded thoughtfully to Azure’s musings about past lives. It was less likely that the System contrived different ‘eras’ because they knew the main point of worlds was their game, even if various other souls lived and died before, during, and after, never knowing jack shit about it.
Setting enrichment, I guess? Management of too many spawns? She was fairly certain the vast majority were actually strangers newly met, many likely with th...
2024-06-05 15:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs Ash cracked open her notebook and moved her stylus to the paper, Sammy replied, “I will keep this even from others in my realm, even my Servitors. And I can read any runes, I believe.”
Ash’s eyebrows raised though her eyes did not move from the paper, as she began to draw runes with a furious scribbling. Pulses of magic indicated the stylus was no normal item, but then that was standard for wizards. “Truly? A pity I didn’t have you back in… well, I’ll just...
2024-06-04 15:27:47 +0000 UTC View PostYou have gained 1 exp in [Magineer] through spell acquisition thanks to [Comprehension: Accelerator].
Nice! Hopefully I can snag a few more this way, too.
Designing the spell took up most of the available time, though she certainly had other things that needed doing. Hopefully she’d get lucky once Ash was safe, and run out of bonfires to put out for a while. She could reeeeally use that.
Gotta remember to futu...
2024-06-02 15:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostSammy scoffed a bit at Ash’s words, though chuckling simultaneously from her hilarious curse. “I also fucking killed him, so don’t worry your pretty little head. Also… buttfiends?”
“Fiends that crawl out from the butt,” Ash muttered absently.
“That’s not real, though, right? Like, not literally real?”
“No.” Ash cleared her throat after the completely ambiguous answer. “Anyway, I’m glad that he’s dead. That is usually ...
2024-06-01 15:35:25 +0000 UTC View PostIt occurred suddenly to Sammy that healing spells did not need levels to be useful, even more so than buffs, since their effect was instant. And she had something that allowed her rangelessness if she had some sort of link, though at pretty bad penalties to effect levels if the link wasn’t strong. Dart more than qualified, though.
Ignoring the mirror, Sammy put her perceptions back in her goddess body on the throne in Heavenpeak. Utilizing [Sympathetic Targeting], Sammy ...
2024-05-31 15:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostSamantha released her 'captive' from the Mirror Maze, and Ash materialized out of it like a liquid crystalline blob turning into a solid humanoid form, before finally transforming fully into flesh. Ash gave a little yelp as she fell to the ground, but soon she laughed as her hands dug into the grass and dirt. She lifted it up, muttering, “Real, it’s real…”
“Ash,” Sammy began, frowning down at her from the mirror face, “it’s only a temporary-”
Her head sh...
2024-05-29 15:04:34 +0000 UTC View PostSammy contacted Jeeves immediately after the realization. “I need to make a transfer up in the Everwood. We’re going to move Ash into another mirror and take our hot one elsewhere while hers goes to Stokefield. Just in case. Feasible?”
“Very good, Madam,” was Jeeves’ reply to Sammy’s query. “Prepare for the worst and hope for the best is the saying, I believe. I shudder to think of the implications if they can chase such a thread. In any case, all S...
2024-05-28 15:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostSammy took a deep breath, closed her eyes, and activated [Spirit View] on her mirror. A new sort of vision came as her third eye opened and she sought signs of magic in the pathways of pneuma, hoping she’d finally get over the edge and know the spell for what it was.
Utilizing [Spirit Sight], the spell's existence blossomed like a huge, new magical reality to Sammy, surrounding the city like a giant sphere. The word Ash had used, ‘transition,’ was apt, as passing through it was li...
2024-05-26 14:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostSammy made ‘Beltrand’ wave his hand angrily behind him as he turned, to eliminate the callers' line of sight. She soon discovered a dark alleyway that she had him duck into, and then took one last look around to make sure he was unobserved before making him completely vanish.
Sitting back on her throne, Sammy breathed a huge sigh of relief. “Stage One of the Great Escape complete. Now for Stage Two.”
Sammy took her mirror array far, far away from the vicinity of the scene ...
2024-05-25 15:43:24 +0000 UTC View PostNew Quest Unlocked: “The Mirror of a Great Escape” — Escape the Dominion forces and get the captive to safety.
● Rewards: +50-100 FE, 3-9 exp in [Goddess], 2-6 exp credit to most relevant sub-class used during quest, 1-3 exp credit to second most relevant; over 75% reward grade: Mirror Powers +1, with lower reward grades providing a less broad bonus.
Not now, System! Even as the information was injected i...
2024-05-24 15:24:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe voice shooting through Sammy’s realm like a lightning bolt barely paused. “Tell me you exist — Please. I have no other option… I’m almost caught, I’m… lost… so lost…” She almost broke into hysterics but seemed to steel herself with deliberate discipline. “There’s no time. Death, then. So be it. I deserve nothing less.”
Sammy was stunned as she felt, for the first time in a long time, that definitive familiarity of One of Hers reaching out. Goo...
2024-05-22 15:23:33 +0000 UTC View PostDick raised an eyebrow and shrugged, puffing on a cigarette. “You always were a firecracker trying to shoot to the top, Dame of Dames. I’m in. But there’s a lot more book learnin’ to do on this kind of occult business, unless you want to end up awakening an ancient devil, an ancient mummy, or worse — an ancient tax collector. Who knows? Best to go in as prepared as possible because this real estate is a bit of a fixer-upper, to say the least.”
Azure was right there, putting ...
2024-05-21 15:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostSammy watched the revitalized, robed figure of Marjorie go, floating on a giant lily pad into the drowned forest in the fading light leading up to dusk. It was a very surreal vision. Then again, the whole experience had been surreal from start to finish.
She’s so beautiful. Ageless. Vibrant. Angelic. Dryad rebirth is really something.
Nearly all of the druids and such that had been a part of the ritual had faded away like shadows. It was just the mirrors, Bast, crickets...
2024-05-19 15:31:12 +0000 UTC View PostMarjorie was not super conscious initially, more lodged in the memories and dreams of her and the tree. It mixed together like her human life was interposed and interrupted by sleepy winter seasons and big record growths in spring. Sorrow long, long ago, feeling many cousins far away burning and dying. Joy at the restoration of the Great Mother, Redberry, whose name meant fiery, meant sweet, meant spring and summer blossoms, meant poison and fury to Burners, meant… many, many ...
2024-05-18 14:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostSammy shot out in flight from Heavenpeak into the spirit world, to more accurately deduce the location, primarily through the ease of simply targeting Azure.
It was nearly right in the middle of the large forest immediately east of Rivermount, in what was no doubt former elven territory aeons ago. Jeeves reminded her of the name she’d heard once: The Elekeserries, or the Eleks for short.
The forest — and the wood of the trees themselves — was said to be cursed, and few utili...
2024-05-17 15:39:16 +0000 UTC View PostWith some effort, though feeling a lot better as the Realm Rules went up in smoke and the psychic pain abated (not to mention the new resistance bonus coming into effect), Sammy forced herself to stand. Her own connection back to reality was a kind of noise in the background that was slowly unraveling into something navigable in her mind.
The Goddess of Pneuma suddenly declared from Sammy’s mouth, “What is muddled is made clear under the light of divinity and creation. All u...
2024-05-16 15:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe demon elf had not moved, still staring down at her, perhaps pleased at watching her suffer. “Heartstringer. Do you hear me, Pretender? The arrow in your heart, that was its name. Is. But the meaning… do you know what it once did? Music.” He leaned down slightly and held a hand out insistently to her, coughing a hysterical laugh. “Music, haha! I shot it as a buff to streak across the sky! Before warriors, before fighting forces! It encouraged, it bolstered ...
2024-05-15 15:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe fireball that went off around them was something like a connected-together nuke and there was no avoiding it. All was blasted and scorched, and the ambush precluded Sammy from attempting absorption.
Fortunately, it was over in an instant, which for Sammy and Ozra, meant only a wound negation taken out, Sammy’s shield being damaged, and getting knocked to the ground — Sammy might’ve even avoided the last if not for a detonation right on her shield. The golems, however, were blo...
2024-05-14 15:21:47 +0000 UTC View PostContinuously moving, Sammy checked off one foe as helpless and largely defeated while turning her attention to the other specter still ‘lighting up’ Ozra. She did not have a good angle or distance to try eye shots, so she slung her last two stones into its torso to keep adding damage there. It had one arm flopping uselessly, so Sammy directed her attention to the other shoulder area, aiming to disable its other arm.
She cloaked her attacks in illusions to make it look like last-ditc...
2024-05-12 15:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostI got stuck with an automatic wound from a projectile. He’s not exactly strategizing or he’d be using that on me like mad. It might be asking for it, but maybe I can take advantage. Automatic wounds will wear these bastards down at least.
Forced to make the choice immediately or lose the initiative, Sammy decided what she’d do — fortunately, she still had the distance, which also meant she could re-summon Ozra for some extra firepower… doing largely — very&...
2024-05-11 15:24:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The Goddess rises up through the ashes of dead divinity to light a beacon for a world of ancient shadows.
2024-05-10 15:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post
To conquer the reflections beyond, she must face the one that lies in the mirror.
A cherished companion left in jeopardy, the Mystery Cult...
True to her internal intentions, Sammy blasted the specters right in their backs as they remained distracted. Dispensing with pure AoE to ensure she put down these tougher types, Sammy crammed in two precision shots of [Light Manipulation] with [Twisted Light] for an elemental change and [Pneumanic Empowerment] for improved wounding.
She switched from (Cold) to (Acid). She got the sense from intuition and [Exploit Weakness] passively drawing info throughout the struggle th...
2024-05-10 14:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostA horde of burning, floating specters swept toward her and her golems at great speed, all of them like various stage corpses inside of a fiery aura, their hands flung out before them to send the oily, shimmering flames still further out.
The auras seemed to sustain them even when blackened to little more than skeletons. A few even had gaps in their limbs where the middle was burned to nothing, or half of a chest or head burned away.
I’m not going to run. This is something th...
2024-05-08 15:29:38 +0000 UTC View Post