AN: Not really happy with this one. Might go back and work on it some more, at some point.
“Well, that’s another place we can’t visit again. Didn’t you also get kicked out of Yari?” Adra asked with a slight smirk once we got to serious conversation over breakfast.
“Yes, we did. Not that it matters, I have no desire to go back there, ever again. And speaking of going back, is there anything we need to do before we head further south?” I asked, mai...
2019-06-28 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I was contemplating death. Wouldn’t it be the height of irony, if the first time I died in Road to Purgatory was by my own hand? And not in a magical experiment gone wrong, but in a calculated, deliberate decision that death and respawn was an easier way to go about things compared to continuing? The arm I had used to hold up the chunk of Eternal Ice looked like something a scientist had found buried in some glacier.
After we had fled Yaksha, putting another town on...
2019-06-26 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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It had only taken moments to turn the people milling around on the market-square, going about their business, into an angry mob, some even equipped with torches. Looking over to them, I handed Sigmir my bag and mentally asked Lenore to leave her Hallow, which she instantly did.
“You take care of things in here, I take care of things out there.” I told them, as Lenore hopped off from my shoulder.
Then I stepped outside, confronting the angry mob. Thanks...
2019-06-24 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Built on the top of a hill, Castle Everwatch oversees the plains of Evergreen, protecting the people of the Duchy Highever from harm. During the last weeks, a band of knights is stationed here, sallying out to hunt the numerous bandits that plague the abundant plains.
The leader of that band of knights is as unusual as his tactics, for he is one of those not born from this world, one of the undying Travellers, sent by the gods to learn about life. This particular Traveller,...
2019-06-21 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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We made our way towards the inn, well, Sigmir and Adra made their way, with Rai and me staying in the shadows, slinking after them. There was something in the air of Yaksha, almost like an electrical charge, setting me on edge.
On the way towards the inn, Saya, the Caprakin we met at the guild when we were in town the last time intercepted us.
“You have some nerves, coming here again.” she said, looking at Sigmir for a moment before focusing on me but not pushing ...
2019-06-19 16:01:00 +0000 UTC
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“Something is wrong.” Sigmir stated about an hour after Lenore and I had severely chastised the three stooges, teaching them that trying to ambush me and mine was a foolish endeavour that would only end in pain. Their pain. During that hour, we had continued our way through the snowed-in forest, looking for game to hunt, something that could feed the people of Yaksha, netting us coin and goodwill in the process. But Sigmir’s statement stopped our prowling search, causing al...
2019-06-17 16:01:16 +0000 UTC
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“Werewolves?”
Sandra laughed at my continued stream of questions, which popular myths about Metahumans were true and which were false. After I had stared out of the window for some time, maybe an hour or so, watching the unending fields of Kansas draw by, I had remembered words of wisdom my Grandmother had passed on to me, after my father had died. Her words had been, ‘Have the serenity to accept things you cannot change, the courage to change the things you can and t...
2019-06-14 21:14:54 +0000 UTC
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At breakfast, we discussed our next steps. We had quests to hunt general game for meat and reducing the number of wolves and their Alphas. While hunting above the treeline was overall easier, thanks to Lenore’s ability to fly and find game that way, we decided to head further down the mountain, as wolves generally stayed below, leaving the higher areas for other predators.
Soon, we broke camp and headed downwards, looking for trails that might lead us towards worthw...
2019-06-14 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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We spent the rest of the day hiking down the mountains, looking for more Wind Raptors but finding none. During the complete hike, I noticed that only the Wind Raptors were absent, there were still other beasties around. We managed to hunt down two mountain goats and a large Mountain Tiger that was trying to either turn us into lunch or take our kills from us. Luckily, Lenore was still a little unused to the new coldness in her Hallow and had taken to flying around a lot more, kee...
2019-06-12 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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We completed setting up camp in the dungeon and it was Sigmir’s turn to help with cooking. But I hit a bit of a snag in that chore, when I moved closer to the fire, I felt abnormally hot, as if I was standing outside during summer wearing winter clothes. I instantly started to sweat, feeling uncomfortable in my warm clothes, so I started to strip of most layers, just keeping a bare minimum so I was not bare.
“Love, what are you doing?” Sigmir asked when I stood ...
2019-06-10 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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It took me a few moments to gather myself back together after logging in but once I managed to do so, I was rather surprised just where I was. I was comfortably resting on a pile of furs, my head cradled in Sigmir’s lap. It seemed I had survived my insane gambit. But what drew my eyes away from Sigmir was the cave-ceiling above me. Instead of the dark, weakly glowing ice that it had been before, it was not silvery white, shining with clear, icy light. It had been the reason for...
2019-06-07 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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After the first round of magical combat, Big Ugly seemed to mentally sit back for a moment, giving me a moment to think. If we wanted to get down there, we first would have to take down all the Querder. I wondered if that was even possible, there seemed to be hundreds, maybe thousands of the things. So, was the right tactic to directly attack Big Ugly? After a moment of consideration, I decided to test a little, combining three Devour runes, three Magic runes in triangles, formin...
2019-06-05 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The others had not missed the insane amount of power I had unleashed, especially Adra. But neither Lenore nor I were really interested in dealing with them, both of us wera awestruck by the result of our experiment, Lenore instantly went back into her Hallow and we used the close connection to discuss the deeper ramifications of what we had seen.
“It was, as if the Eternal Ice is a solid form of Astral Power. Not just Astral Power used to bring ordinary matter into this w...
2019-06-03 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Once I got Sigmir down onto my lap, I noticed that she was sweating and shivering, obviously in pain.
“Adra, Rai prepare a camp. We won’t move from this chamber until Sigmir is better, so probably not before tomorrow morning.” I told the other two, while gently drawing my healing-rune formation onto Sigmir, getting an impression what was going on in her body. At least that was my plan, but once I connected I noticed that the normally gentle energies I used to heal exa...
2019-05-31 16:01:02 +0000 UTC
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Sadly, the support for tables in the Patreon interface is rather abyssmal so instead of making some strange make-do thing, I started to organise the various information into a google-doc and will keep that up-to date, so you can simply look in here to find out what Morgana's Character looks like.
Edit:
This still exists, but I have a feeling it got kinda lost but during some change to Patreon, the Pin-option was added. So guess what? It's pinned now.
2019-05-31 12:48:51 +0000 UTC
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“Retreat!” I called out to the others, watching them disengage as best from the elemental as they could. After the elemental charged once more and Adra leapt away, dodging, I used Overflow and put my Astral Power into instantly manifested Ice Walls, boxing the elemental in and forcing it to break through the walls before it could go after us. Luckily, the entrance was not blocked and we got into the tunnel before it was upon us again, the narrow walls around us preventing it ...
2019-05-29 16:03:40 +0000 UTC
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Even while the huge lamprey was writhing in its death-throes, it started to dissolve into black mist, absorbed back into the dungeon. I saw that a few items remained behind, in addition to the windows that told me about the gains I had in the fight.
- Mature Glacial Lamprey died
- You gain 5.500 EXP.
- For killing an opponent without a Traveller in your party, you gain Bonus EXP
- For killin...
2019-05-27 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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“...Wake up, Kana, wake up!” I was being shaken and someone called my name, as my mind was slowly struggling back to wakefulness.
Suppressing a yawn, I owlishly blinked, looking at my surroundings. Next to me, a worried looking Sandra was sitting, one hand still on my shoulder from shaking me awake.
“Are you alright? You looked and sounded as if you had a nightmare.” she said, looking worried. I tried to remember if I had dreamed but I couldn’t remember, jus...
2019-05-26 09:50:31 +0000 UTC
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After reading through the threads, I set a filter-system for my messages and returned to the game and Sigmir’s embrace. Part of me was annoyed that my identity had been given away due to Pantheon-promotion but at the end of the day, that might just be the price for playing the game. But, I would have to think of something to drive home the point that I was not a cheater with the three stooges. I took pride in the fact that I beat people in the game with my skills and, especiall...
2019-05-24 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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- Continuation of the Thread in Interlude: Stooges on the Forum
- -Harms, confirmed Beta-Account
So, guys, have you seen the newest Highlight-reel? And noticed someone looking so very familiar? For example, a female spellcaster, standing on a frozen rampart and throwing a friggin’ avalanche at her enemies? Next to a Giantblood that we have seen before?
I looked through a couple of older, official videos ...
2019-05-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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After we set up camp, I spent quite a while trying to interact and understand the Eternal Ice, repeatedly grasping it with Ice Magic, comparing it and its effects with Hard Ice and Liquid Moonlight and trying to come up with theories what it might be.
What I noticed was that, similarly to the Liquid Moonlight, it was able to absorb Astral Power and I thought that there might be a bit of a reflux when I connected with the Ice, using Ice Magic, but I was not certain. The cont...
2019-05-20 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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For the first time in days, I had a normal reason to be grumpy upon waking up, as it was just too early. The dinner with my family yesterday had been rather long, so Sandra and I had only managed to return to her place shortly after midnight. At the same time, her idea to make if from Springfield to Denver in a single day meant that we had to leave at around oh-dark thirty and arrive in Denver twelve hours later after around thirteen hours of driving, thanks to the magic of timez...
2019-05-19 04:10:01 +0000 UTC
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Shopping had been an experience that I would rather not repeat in that way, ever again. Partially, because Mayumi and Sandra had done their level best to make sure I knew just what the different things we bought were and how they were used. The memory of my sister, not only explaining but showing me how a bra was correctly sized and worn is one I would rather forget but I suspect it will be with me, until the day I die, maybe even after that, haunting me in the afterlife.
S...
2019-05-17 16:53:01 +0000 UTC
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Under a relentlessly burning sun, a woman stands alone. Her only companion is her shadow, her only solace is the fact that she found her prey. And what a magnificent prey it is, beyond the next dune, it is sunning itself, absorbing the burning rays that any reasonable being would avoid at all cost. But not that particular prey. Some might call it a dragon. They would be wrong.
But it is a reasonable name for the prey. It is, after all, a huge lizard, almost four meters in l...
2019-05-17 04:00:01 +0000 UTC
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- AN: The lamprey-like worms are now called querder.
- AN2: I reworked Chapter 139, the experiment on using Blood Magic to attack a Player from a distance worked and Morgana made a ticket that it would be a bad idea to leave such a mechanic ingame.
As we crawled deeper into the dungeon, there were a couple more attacks of the stupid worms, sometimes even multiple at the same time, turning the small tunnel into a rather odd dodg...
2019-05-15 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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After a while, Lenore woke back up again. She was moaning and groaning a little but I felt her elation of the joining we had experienced. It had been intense, standing in the storm, feeling the magic surging around us, ebbing and flowing, changing the very fabric of reality around us. I wondered how long it would take until the magic would dissipate, if it would at all. Hopefully it would or things would get rather spicy. But for now, we had a dungeon to explore and I was quite c...
2019-05-13 16:00:03 +0000 UTC
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I never claimed to be a morning person. Or rather, I never claimed to be a person that was happy after waking up. I was generally grumpy. Waking up in an unfamiliar bed, with the memory of burning green eyes stuck in my mind, was not my favourite way to wake up. But, as the short moment of disorientation lifted, I realised that it was better than my last awakening. That memory caused another groan. My grown was answered by a growl, as my stomach reminded me that it had needs, nee...
2019-05-12 16:33:00 +0000 UTC
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The moment I recognised the formation of birds for what it was, a gigantic group-casting, survival was my first priority. The simplest way, running away, was sadly not feasible, the narrow valley we had traversed to come into the basin we were now in, was acting as a funnel, the wind-speed already reaching levels strong enough to rip the flesh from our bones. No, getting away would not be easy.
The others were searching our surroundings, while I tried to come up with a way ...
2019-05-10 16:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Once more, into the breach. I wondered, just how often would I have to drag my broken body out of bed, how often would I have to link into the cybernetic parts that allowed me to move and live. I was so tired, so very tired, day after day, incident after incident, each time wondering if I would lose another part of myself and have to replace it with another part, powered by my nature but how long could I continue like that? When would my power start to fail, when would I have los...
2019-05-10 11:42:34 +0000 UTC
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- AN: Another tasty chapter of Crown of Thorns, to tide you guys over while I finish the Epilogue of Don't label me! Bk3.
I was standing on a broken field, a sloped hill-side, under a red sky. The earth around me was bare, bone-dry and cracked, without any vegetation in sight. Without anything in sight, really. Just the red sky above, cloudless and uniformly red, foreboding in its monotonie. Not the myriad shades of red one could see during a sunset, or the warm...
2019-05-09 15:53:14 +0000 UTC
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