Hey all, I was thinking of going back and adding a few chapters on the tower climb from when Emily joined the Kat. It wouldn't be the entire climb, but just a floor here and there. Possibly a few chapters about the swamp-themed floors. What do you think?
Just so y'all know, climbing the tower will only be about a third of the story once it really gets going. Most of it will be about the world and what is happening in it.
2022-01-04 08:56:57 +0000 UTC View PostNew Toys
“Yo, you alright there?” Monkeyman’s voice asked. Freya opened her eyes and saw him approaching.
“Yep, just …” Freya said, trailing off as she realized how stupid she would sound if she told him the truth. In the end, it didn’t matter.
“You forgot to adjust to a...
2022-01-03 11:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostLily looked on the stump that was also the back emergency exit of the bunker beneath them. It looked just like a normal stump. It was gray with little to no bark left on it. The top of it was jagged indicating that the tree had fallen not by human hands, but by something else. The jagged part stuck up about three feet from the ground....
2021-12-19 11:07:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe follies of arrogance
After spending time between floors, the Tower totaled up her rewards. She got a staggering amount of power coins for the fifth ten set. Twelve to be exact. Three per the four floors where they didn’t get attacked by the elementals. It didn’t say exactly why she got them, only that she did. Kat chuckled as she found herself back in Massachusetts city for the first time in about two years.
She found a dark haired woman...
2021-12-19 02:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostUnedited
Working on the next chapter to Sage tonight.
What we are up against
Freya nearly ran into a female army soldier after hearing the telepath’s voice in her head. Thankfully she was able to dodge the woman at the last second. The soldier frowned at her, but then continued on to where Freya assumed was the soldier's place in the formation. She looked back at the PsyOps agent, but he wasn’t looking at her an...
2021-12-18 11:34:40 +0000 UTC View PostRunning late with this next chapter. Christmas and kids. Lot's to do. The rest of the DM chapter will be out tomorrow, Sage will be sometime this weekend. sorry again for the delay.
Duc
2021-12-16 10:55:04 +0000 UTC View PostClimbing the Tower
It was late in the night when Emily finally moved her stuff into her room. She had, Kat counted, seven ...
2021-12-11 04:38:31 +0000 UTC View PostCity of Massachusetts
Kat found herself in a very large room. It was easily a couple of hundred yards across. The room reminded her of the descriptions of the ancient Greeks coliseum in Athens except there was no seating. The walls went all the way up several stories to meet the dome ceiling. The walls themselves were made up of huge brick blocks that reminded Kat of the pyramids in Egypt except these blocks fitted perfectly with each other.
Kat found herself at ...
2021-12-11 04:34:57 +0000 UTC View PostFrom puzzles to lizard knights
Kat found herself surrounded by water. There was no land or sun for that matter. The light came from all over above her. It was sort of like the first floor except without the clouds. All she could see as far as she looked was water. Looking down, trying to figure out what was keeping above the water, she found herself looking down at a stone path that ended roughly six feet from either side of her feet. The path was roug...
2021-12-11 04:29:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lashinear
Kat felt the icy cold feeling of getting a new power for her attributes and asked the Tower to assign it to her Vitality. She felt her Vitality stomach grow when out of nowhere she was blasted by the coldest wind she had ever felt. Opening her eyes she found herself standing in a white tundra. She hunched over as the cold stole her breath before her healing ability kicked in. Still freezing, she was at least able to breath, now.
Still curled over, s...
2021-12-11 04:28:29 +0000 UTC View PostMagic sight
Her muscles burned as she walked down the hill. She stopped briefly and imagined two copies of herself and without any input from her one of her copies had a glow around them. It was glowing darkly red around her arms and legs, but there was also a darkish glow around her stomach. She mentally spun her copy around and saw that while her arms and legs were still glowing darkly, most of her back, all the way up to the bottom of her skull, and...
2021-12-11 04:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostYellow grass and green children that aren’t children
Pulling out a stick from her waist she put it in her mouth before she moved her staff to her other hand. As she did she looked over the grassland in front of her. It seemed to go on forever. Sipping on the vitality from the stick in her mouth she slowly turned around to see what she had to work with on this floor.
It all looked the same. Endless knee grass the color of straw surrounded her. Not sure what to d...
2021-12-11 04:25:16 +0000 UTC View PostOut of the Desert
The Flux started with a pain that felt like her intestines were knotting up in her stomach and it got worse and worse in a matter of a few minutes. On top of that fluid came out both ends not long after the pain started. The pain was so bad she was unable to remove her pants before things started to come out. Luckily none of it remained on her pants. Instead it flowed down her legs and ...
2021-12-11 04:24:06 +0000 UTC View PostFood poisoning
The two Tower Guards at the entrance to the Tower opened the gate as she walked towards them. Unlike the two guards at the front of the tax building, these two didn't seem to be very alert. She showed them her paperwork as she approached. They glanced at it, but didn’t seem to read it at all. They handed it back and motioned her through.
“If this is your first time, take the door to the left.” One of the...
2021-12-11 04:22:28 +0000 UTC View PostUnedited.
Sorry this was supposed to go out yesterday, but I put the wrong date in. Working on the new DM chapter now. It will be out this weekend. New Sage of humanity will be out middle of Next week.
Thank you for sticking with me. This means a lot.
Duck
Royal Climber
The Tower
“In the news today, King Jasper has elevated the station of thirty common climbers of Bightmore’s Tower in keeping...
2021-12-11 04:17:30 +0000 UTC View PostI'm sorry for going dark for so long.
I posted on discord, but I want to post this here. I work on a neonatal and pediatric ambulance. I had a few bad calls and we lost a few patients in a little over a week. It sent me spiraling. I plan on posting the next DM chapter this week. I'm not sure about the sage chapter. I have a story that I wrote while I was in that dark place. Wrote a hundred pages in four days mostly because there was nothing to read of RR. Not my best work and I'm not su...
2021-12-07 11:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post“What about the bugs?” Lily asked, looking down at the still living changeling she had used her Cut Earth on. Aside from the white film over its eyes, the thing's face looked alive. Sickly, she admitted to herself, but alive.
Her first spell hadn’t done any damage to the thing’s head. The spell had started on the thing’s neck, and sliced downwards leaving only one limb, its right arm, still attached to what was left of its tors...
2021-11-13 14:36:37 +0000 UTC View PostIntelligence Services
The assault pilot, Freya decided, was still a jackhole as the crush of bodies finally swayed away from her. The jackhole had taken the last turn pretty hard, and the marines in the back all got slammed into the side of the bulkhead. The same bulkhead that she and Monkeyman had been resting up against. She was not hurt, but that was only because her armor protected her. She turned towards the camera and gave it the finger. As if in...
2021-11-07 14:15:20 +0000 UTC View PostVisions
“Boss, my feed just went down.” Anderson, Third Squad’s drone operator, told her over the radio.
“How far out?” Freya asked frowning as she looked at where the feed had been only seco...
2021-11-04 10:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostLily held back her spell as she realized at the last second that they would set the forest on fire. The spell was designed to only set living things on fire. The forest in front of her was definitely alive. She dropped both spells as everyone in the truck started shooting except for Jules, who started pointing her stick and shouting nonsense words. While Lily couldn’t see the magic from the spells her friend was shooting, she certainly...
2021-10-24 09:31:42 +0000 UTC View PostInto the tunnel
“Seth, send your drone into the hole. Let's see if we can at least get eyes on.” Lily ordered her drone operator.
“On it.” Seth replied. Freya watched as one of her feeds started moving towards the hole. The feed didn’t show a hole of course, so it s...
2021-10-23 05:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, can you help me out?” Jules asked Lily, who had her head down looking at her hat in her lap. Jules had just come from the tiny room between the cab and the back of the truck that contained the bathroom.
“Sure.” Lily said looking up. “What do you need?”
“I need help checking the defenses on this thing.” Jules told her.
“Oh, yeah.” Lily replied remembering that she had agreed to help.
...
2021-10-16 18:45:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis is gonna suck
Inside, the assault shuttle shook a little making the marines in Freya’s platoon shift in their seats uneasily. Freya had already linked up her tablet with the ship so it was simplicity itself for her to use her Personal AI to check what was going on. What she found made her snort. While the pilot was following all the regulations on flying his ship he was doing so right at the edge. His speed was right at the maximum for non-comba...
2021-10-12 11:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostLily groaned as her phone went off. They weren’t kidding when the description said it was a loud and annoying alarm. It really was. Her head was pounding, but unfortunately it wasn’t because of the alarm. It was because she had just spent roughly eight hours using her trance skill. She didn’t use the skill the entire eight hours, she took breaks, but she was mentally exhausted. It felt like her head was filled with fog and she foun...
2021-10-05 11:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe high Freya felt from respawning stayed with her for about ten minutes. In that time she made her way towards the building that Kruz told them to meet her at before she disappeared to meet with Captain Thompson. The building was a repair facility for ground vehicles, but it had a fairly large empty room with a bunch of chairs. She and Monkeyma...
2021-10-04 12:02:53 +0000 UTC View PostMedical Respawn
Freya jerked away. She had been dreaming of Lurch dying. He had been screaming for her to help him, but she ignored him while turning her back to shoot an unending wave of monsters. She closed her eyes and tried to force the memories of the dream away. It had been ugly and painful, ...
2021-09-13 11:40:42 +0000 UTC View PostLily walked along the street, checking out her new auras. She had fifty-three of them and they all stacked together. It was probably why they were all ...
2021-09-10 07:25:22 +0000 UTC View PostGoing back
Freya...
2021-09-06 04:21:09 +0000 UTC View Post“So no living things will survive in there.” Jules said, pulling a lizard out of the darkness in Lily’s bowl.
Lily looked up from her plate and looked at the lizard. The lizard was a very dark brown, almost black. It was roughly six inches long, if you counted the really long tail. It was also a pest that Quebec paid kids to kill. The bounty was a penny per lizard. They got into the food supply and multiplied at a very scary...
2021-08-27 06:41:20 +0000 UTC View Post