Immediately upon entry into the dusty zone, Sammy summoned Athos, who polymorphed into a hulking muscular minotaur to help get everyone unpinned. Her, Bast, and others were no slouches working together, either, moving wooden beams and brick chunks out of the way.
Under the influence of Samantha’s aura buff ‘The Dawn Will Rise’ and her commanding direction, everyone moved with more zeal than usual. They were more determined, stronger, quicker — whatever their task needed, inspira...
2023-10-23 15:52:21 +0000 UTC
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Samantha ensured everyone continued to take precautions and stayed on alert for trouble. No heavy drinking. Lookouts, guards, eyes staying sharp, so on. She moved Dart to Geirkos for another lookout from above, and had Athos on standby for deploying wherever and whenever needed.
Meanwhile, she was sure to refresh her illusory enchantments on the items for her people in Caneboro. Once more and they’d be permanent. The trio of Dax, Bob, and Estara were on their way to meeting with membe...
2023-10-22 15:50:36 +0000 UTC
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Naturally, Azure had sat down right next to her at the table right from the get-go. Close. Chairs touching. Had insisted on serving her. Putting food on her plate. Filling her chalice. And Sammy had never once argued — in fact, she liked it. A comforting familiarity somehow, in that somewhat bewildering and overwhelming social environment.
But…
Just then, when she turned to the blue beauty, the latter had a colorfully garnished little cracker of some sort in ...
2023-10-21 15:55:45 +0000 UTC
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The simple enjoyment of the flight went on for a few minutes, Azure gasping and exclaiming this way and that at sights and ‘how tiny everything looked.’ Any time she pointed, though, her hands inevitably, perhaps anxiously found their way back around Sammy’s waist. She was glued to the back of her goddess, who couldn’t stop smiling at her Phoenix’s reactions, such a mirror to her own on her first flight with Dart.
This is so much better than flying alone. Feels ni...
2023-10-20 15:31:19 +0000 UTC
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Light and Illusion made a ‘trait’ available that didn’t cost anything: Body of Light, which meant they would be a complex hard light construct instead of faux-flesh.
This was physically harder, immune to physiological effects, nearly immune to [Shadow] and [Darkness] tagged effects, and could have functional, premier craftsmanship armor and weapons packaged with them, but they were more fragile to crushing attacks (especially the wide or AoE variety) and especially to son...
2023-10-19 15:44:47 +0000 UTC
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The voice of Jeeves resonated in the throne realm. “Right away, Madam. But it may prove difficult without an actual shadower. Mirrors facing out are hardly ubiquitous here, and many puddles have dried by now.”
“Dispatch someone! Either Belvedere or summon Alfred down, whichever is better. I’ll try to track him myself in the meantime.”
“Arranging to have Alfred in-world now… it’ll take time…”
In that time frame though, they lost him, as he got a lot less ...
2023-10-18 15:09:41 +0000 UTC
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Samantha was sure to ‘betray’ Crow’s exit to the sleeping Dax so that she could wake up and say goodbye to him — with of course another unappreciated hug, lots of teasing, and difficulty adjusting to the name situation. After that, there were a few tears shed, assurances he’d be back professed to yet another sad woman, and he was gone, already under a disguise as a human minstrel. Dart scouted for him, to minimize any noticing of his route — just in case.
Dax was of course b...
2023-10-17 15:21:46 +0000 UTC
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Oh man, it’s gonna be so cool, I’ll make jewelry and crystal swords and-and a statue! Hell yeah, I can make fucking statues! Well… it’s kind of an investment though, making it permanent… and it might be suspicious as a material…
She had to curb her enthusiasm a bit, but it was at least a nice idea. And more fun for that future of abundance she hoped to bring.
Next up, a few changes to Dazzling Spectrum:
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2023-10-16 16:30:32 +0000 UTC
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2023-10-15 22:36:29 +0000 UTC
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Marjorie smiled at the revelation about Light. “I see. Well, don’t let me keep you. Congratulations on that too, dear.”
Sammy couldn’t help having a strong, mundane warmth at the casual motherly term, as well as just that tone of ‘Oh, well, go ahead and have fun, don’t get back too late, now.’
“Thanks, Teach — see you soon!”
I wish she could meet the others… well, shit, she could if I Maze people… omigawd, she could have tea with Tashome! Chat wit...
2023-10-15 22:32:48 +0000 UTC
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Zadkiel laughed into her mind. “I’m extremely pleased with myself, yes! We’re drinking ridiculous amounts of the finest rum because we crushed the last big potential drainer of my resources thanks to the well-earned betrayal of quite mercenary mercenaries doing what they do best — living on and making money! Duke Kenstrom is such a putz.”
Sammy sighed inwardly. As Greenleaf, she sent, “Fabulous for you, I’m sure. You’ll exe...
2023-10-14 21:48:06 +0000 UTC
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With her Followers all resting and a lull in any crises, Sammy’s time was directed more toward study and skill development. She took a trip to Marjorie’s realm and basked in the brief but oh-so-sweet praise of her motherly teacher’s approval on her completed assignments… and then she received even more homework.
Ugh… only temporary though! We’ll get through this trying time…
When she eventually flashed over to her own mind-house for a relaxing environment to...
2023-10-13 21:45:23 +0000 UTC
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With everyone held in suspense, Merril leaned back in his hammock, hands behind his head in smug nonchalance, while seeming to muse to himself. “The buff reward, I’ll note, allows any death to bestow a new mortal class, but the level of the class is determined by the authenticity and meaning of the death… based on proprietary System protocols of circumstantial judgment.”
“Sounds like the System,” Samantha commented wanly. “Your death was exceptionally authentic and dramati...
2023-10-12 01:39:05 +0000 UTC
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The new Merril did not look like Merril except for his eyes. He was bigger and a bit taller, and looked far more mature — a catman in his youthful prime, perhaps just into the mid-twenties. His coloring was changed completely as well, skin an odd charcoal black-gray and white streaked, with a long, glorious mane of white hair… and even a tail. That had always been a curious lack, for reasons she’d never asked.
Three observing women all gasped in amazement, utterly shocked. Bob too...
2023-10-10 21:58:22 +0000 UTC
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Precisely where Merril’s psyche was, Sammy couldn’t say, only that it was like a precipice down two sheer drops — an edge he had run along that he was now sitting upon, dangling his feet over one final decline. So he stared into it, the abyss of Somewhere Else, Some Other Time, the shedding of one Systemic-Meatsack-Devil-He-Knew and all its agonies for the tantalizing blind horizon of Whatever Lay Beyond.
Shadows without the pain of revelation. Without light.
Samantha walked...
2023-10-09 22:21:30 +0000 UTC
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Everyone in the vicinity was frozen like ice by that pronouncement. The only exceptions were those who’d been standing close to the exit — they’d disappeared like roaches when the light switch was turned on. This included one of the goons Dax had brought with her.
So much for loyalty. Fuck! We’re really in the mud this time. This is bad no matter which way it goes. It’s from the shit I pulled in Restwater, isn’t it? Damn it…
Sammy, despite her dread and the ...
2023-10-08 22:12:00 +0000 UTC
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Delegation.
That was the word of the day to describe the way things were rapidly changing amongst the Order of Her Stunningness Samantha, at least as it occurred to Azure, sipping mint tea on the first floor of the Brackenhome inn and watching the coming and going of the busy business. And it wasn’t only for the obvious members, that delegation. Hooks were in far more lips than Her Most Dimpled One realized, even there in Brackenhome.
Hooks her High Priestess was better...
2023-10-07 22:09:13 +0000 UTC
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The naiads were sad. “Already? But you just arrived!”
“Perhaps a change of scenery instead?” one of them asked. “We could go for a swim! The water leads down and out to a lake even more beautiful than the real Yura.”
“It’s alright, sisters,” Ellepetra intoned, rising and approaching Samantha. “I think that she didn’t anticipate her lack of resistance to the nectar and our auras.”
“But isn’t the whole point to lose oneself in it? In us?”
El...
2023-10-06 22:04:58 +0000 UTC
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Her feet splashed in shallow, clear water on smooth stones, as all around was a mood-lit cave of natural stone in hues of blue and white and turquoise. In the shallows and upon the stone shore were neon rainbows of colorful aquatic plants, swaying in the air as if indeed still underwater. The walls and ceiling of the cave reflected shimmers from the light sway of the water, and a beautiful, soft harp melody played from somewhere or nowhere.
The natural beauty was further facilitated by ...
2023-10-05 21:33:53 +0000 UTC
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The first and only touch that pervert will get! Hmmph!
Greenleaf left Zadkiel and his self-pleased airs immediately after her statement. While she was in the wilderness realm, Sammy checked up on the small group still exclusive to the hippy goddess.
The hostage Mekias was still doing alright in Zadkiel’s big palace. He’d been given access to a courtyard with archery targets and such setup. Some of the soldiers and palace guards made a little contest out of it, which h...
2023-10-04 21:58:01 +0000 UTC
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The World Map is Below! And as an attachment.
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2023-10-03 22:33:06 +0000 UTC
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Estara’s dress pockets were shown off — which were legitimately impressive, because she had two small dimensional pockets, one in a sleeve and another behind the back.
The party of four otherwise scrambled to get everything together so they could hit the road.
Dax mentally connected with Sammy shortly before they left. She had gone to her quarters to collect a few things. “Before I forget — can we uh, well, let me just hit you with it…”
2023-10-03 22:03:11 +0000 UTC
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The first thing Sammy did was try to deal with it calmly — and calm down the frantic Dax. “Alright, Dax, we’ll figure it out. But. I’m — just saying this, now — but maybe — just maybe — he’s with, you know, a, um, a fan-”
“He isn’t bedding some- some aristocratic cougar, Goddess! Nor a random sighing servant girl. I told you, he’s quite smitten with Estara. That’s not it.”
2023-10-01 22:14:33 +0000 UTC
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“I don’t suppose you have another match in mind, Goddess?” the young man of Traesh asked with a mild grin.
“I do not,” Samantha stated flatly. “I am an oracle of Fate, I do not know the details. You should think of it as a message from the future itself, Son of Traesh. It is a service, with no manipulative intent in your politics as I am not invested in it. Not yet, anyway.”
“Interesting. You have some motive, though. To helping.”
“Curiosity and a desire ...
2023-09-30 22:08:39 +0000 UTC
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Tashome raised an eyebrow at Samantha through the mirror. “Telling ourselves ‘there must be some point to everything’ is a key to coping, but I can see you mean a lot more by that.”
“Yes! You’re saying you think I’m different and things have changed. It has to be because of my separation from the System, right? Earth, or… that universe? I don’t know. I mean, fuck, was I still reincarnating? Whoa. Now that is a weird thought…”
She had no real sense of it. If i...
2023-09-29 22:00:09 +0000 UTC
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After assuring Dick that his ‘partner’ was quite capable and ready — and that they should all be thinking positive thoughts instead of talking about ‘disasters’ — Sammy had to see about actually getting her agent into the city. Instead of waking Orswyth, who needed his rest anyway, she decided to ping Tashome, noticing he was awake.
Instead of waking Bast, she could just get the priestification thing out of the way. She let Tashome know to prepare if desired, as she’d wait...
2023-09-28 22:19:41 +0000 UTC
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Jacka related that he was a pooka and there were three others that lived nearby in the forest, surviving off of the tree’s mana energy as well as general foraging and some limited farming. The latter was mostly conducted by a dryad, sometimes with the aid of two pixies.
A couple of satyrs were regulars in the fall and winter, and others were more occasional. Sometimes a leprechaun would come to trade, but wasn’t one to linger long and did not want anyone to know where he lived. A tr...
2023-09-27 22:13:30 +0000 UTC
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Samantha lay back down in her spot to continue her meditations for as long as it took. She did check in with Azure and make sure she took advantage of the fresh meals and such, while also congratulating her on level 1 priestess, which she was plenty jazzed about. She had never gotten spells out of Bard and the concubines were certainly never allowed to peruse runebooks on the island.
Nonetheless, she had snuck a few in while also squeezing a bit of exp from quests, so intended to finish...
2023-09-26 22:29:21 +0000 UTC
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Despite the initially quite dignified farewells with Marjorie, Sammy couldn’t help herself and went for a big hug before exiting. Mr. Perfect approved of this with tail-wagging, as well as an insistent request via woof for his own like treatment — which of course he received.
Lover’s Bond… a naughty spell… wonder how its details read… ‘both subjects remain at the height of arousal and performance capability for the duration,’ hehehe… Alright, enough of tha...
2023-09-25 21:53:16 +0000 UTC
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She would make two more priests when she was less drained on her FE. But while she had the opportunity, she did have Bast copy over a bunch of ‘normal’ books, expending an FE to have up to 100 slots for the beginning of a library. It was a general assortment. She was sure to get some that were storybooks for entertainment purposes…
Namely because she wanted to copy them into the Maze realm so Marjorie had some material to keep herself occupied.
Time for a little visit to...
2023-09-24 22:26:00 +0000 UTC
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