Vince had tucked the device Ryker had given him away.
After that, he’d mostly just talked about random things with the god. He found that in the end, he was actually rather easy to talk to, if a bit eccentric. Reminded him of Felix in many ways, realistically.
Methodical, planning, logical, everything in its line with a place.
“Thank you, by the way,” whispered Ynes, her hands clutched to and holding onto his wrist. The woman who had spent decades doing policing duties...
2022-09-07 00:46:52 +0000 UTC
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Standing at the edge of the camp, staring at the besieged capital, Vince was wondering how to make this happen as quickly as possible. To make this situation wrap itself up and move straight to the ending so that he could get back to the frontlines.
While he couldn’t deny that he was an important piece that should be here, to be part of the history of the situation and make it “theirs”, he also simply didn’t feel right here.
Felix would tell me it’s inefficient. That...
2022-09-07 00:46:16 +0000 UTC
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The border camp had gone up in the same day that the forces of Yosemite arrived.
Elven mages, Dryads, and a number of magicians from Magi-Vale casually threw together a fortification that looked ready to withstand an onslaught. As well as a siege from artillery in fact.
Multiple sloped walls, causeways that ran along them, barricade embankments, and the fact that it stretched into the distance in either direction. No section of wall didn’t have someone watching it, either.
2022-09-03 00:23:40 +0000 UTC
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Vince couldn’t see anything going on with the enemy camp.
They’d only barely put down the hordes of Zathira’s Undead an hour ago, and were now trying to reorganize themselves. Likely expecting another attack from Francia or the Undead.
“They really should back out at this point,” Johanna murmured with a small shake of her head, causing Vince to look over at her. “Really, they should. I know I said they couldn’t, but at this point, they can’t afford to stay either.<...
2022-09-01 22:50:20 +0000 UTC
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2022-09-01 22:49:47 +0000 UTC
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Elizabeth demurely, or at least as much so as she could mange, let out everything Vince had just emptied into her mouth, into the glass cup. Letting it roll out of her mouth without spitting.
She even went as far as to move her mouth and tongue around, then opening it over the cup to let it drip down into the cup as well.
Vince was getting his belt into place and making sure it was cinched up now that Elizabeth was done draining him.
“I know it’s weird, I’m so sorry, I...
2022-08-31 23:03:27 +0000 UTC
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“Alright my dear Elizabeth, it’s time to come back,” demanded Vince, laying a hand to Elizabeth’s brow. “You’ve visited the other side long enough. Time’s up.”
Elizabeth’s blank and unseeing eye blinked, followed by her body taking in a long and slow breath. Then she coughed lightly once, then took another breath.
Her eye blinked to the side and focused on him, standing next to her head.
“Welcome back, beloved Maiden Elizabeth,” Vince said with a wide g...
2022-08-31 23:03:18 +0000 UTC
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Rolling forward, Vince managed to get out of the way of the net. Hitting the ground and rolling forward a short distance. Landing flat on his stomach.
The grass the lightning hit burst into flames and smoke began pouring out from everywhere the magic touched. Spewing it out as fast as it could.
Holy shit.
Scrambling to his feet, Vince looked up and began scanning the sky. Looking around to find his opponent.
There was no mage to be seen. She wasn’t above him...
2022-08-30 01:31:21 +0000 UTC
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Elizabeth pulled backward and her wings moved slower for several seconds, causing her to dip down. She descended fairly quickly, though Vince couldn’t tell if it was controlled or due to the large wagon she was carrying between her paws.
Just before landing, she set it down to one side and then landed on the turf with a huff.
“Well, that’ll cover us for a few days as far as supplies go. I still find it amusing that they tried sending supply convoys across anyways,” Elizabe...
2022-08-27 02:20:59 +0000 UTC
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Panting, Vince slumped down to his knees.
Not far off, the last soldier groaned and then stopped breathing on the exhale. The joint where his arm attached to his shoulder continued to pump blood freely, though it began to slow.
Dropping his sword, Vince pulled out his pistol and then released the magazine. It hit the grass inaudibly and laid there.
Setting down the pistol, Vince tore up a chunk of the field to get to the dirt beneath. Pushing aside the turf, he then jammed t...
2022-08-26 00:36:25 +0000 UTC
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“I was wrong,” Vince stated as he looked out to the wrecked camp. It’d been where an army of Francia had been holed up just this morning. A camp that had log fittings for many of the buildings around the base, walls that went around the majority of the camp, and a number of beaten paths that’d been made through sheer repetition of booted feet hitting turf.
This had been here for a signficant time.
Before Prussany had stormed through this morning and crushed it, rolled thro...
2022-08-25 01:38:22 +0000 UTC
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Vince yawned, sighed, and then rested his head against the curtain.
They’d been very careful to make sure no one would suspect they were watching the cafe from their room. Even when they’d left to get their equipment and belonging from the other room, it’d been done as carefully as possible. They really didn’t want to alert those they were watching to the situation.
Though he’d taken a risk despite not wanting to.
When he’d gone to get the gear, he’d drifted cl...
2022-08-24 01:34:24 +0000 UTC
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Vince felt rather strange looking at Fes right now.
She was wearing a dress fit for humans, her hair was styled, and she was wearing makeup that fit and suited her skin tone as well. If he didn’t know it was his Fes, his wife, Berenga, than he’d honestly assume it was a different woman entirely.
Though she was wearing gloves that came up past her elbows to disguise her prosthetic arm. For her legs she’d put on some type of legging that was dark enough to make it hard to dist...
2022-08-23 00:16:40 +0000 UTC
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Vince waited, crouched down and keeping himself out of sight. Next to him was Fes, the two of them nestled up against a wall. It was deep in shadows and there was no light from any nearby buildings that made it here.
Fes and Elizabeth had scouted out the area while Vince remained with Ynes in the inn. Where they sat around, talked, listened to people around them, drank a bit, ate dinner, and then he left.
They’d planned for Ynes to follow along an hour after that, which meant th...
2022-08-20 01:55:10 +0000 UTC
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Walking side by side with Fes, Ynes, and Elizabeth, Vince couldn’t help but feel strange. The city of Toulouse was strange to him in many ways.
Bordeaux had been more predominantly a city dominated by what he’d say were classes. Each class being restricted to their own area and each almost a city to themselves.
Toulouse was nothing like that, but not in a better way.
There was the military, and there wasn’t the military.
The former was deliberately taking liberti...
2022-08-19 02:17:00 +0000 UTC
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Grunting, Vince dropped the large load of wood down with the rest. Making a long wall of wood that could be used for small building projects or just burning.
“Wow, you always have such long hard wood whenever I see you lately,” remarked Ynes from where she stood. There was a faint sheen of perspiration along her hairline, though a single drip had gone down from her temple to her jaw.
While he’d been gathering wood, she’d been lugging stones around to build an enclosed fire...
2022-08-18 01:32:07 +0000 UTC
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Jerking awake just as the dream swapped to a nightmare of watching Leila being taken apart piece by piece by a formless force, Vince started up into the foliage above him.
Panting, taking slow deep breaths, he felt like he’d been running a marathon. His heart was pounding and his head was swimming.
“Ugh,” he groaned and rolled to one side. He lifted a hand and then rubbed at his face.
Especially his damned eyes.
They felt like they wanted to tear up and that was ...
2022-08-17 01:26:07 +0000 UTC
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Peeking out from where the trees thinned out and up to the Nullifier’s flying above, Vince knew he didn’t have a lot of time. If Atis and Zathira were going to catch up to the others he needed to give them a window.
A big one.
One that they could use to completely break free and get into an area that wouldn’t be watched.
That meant making sure all eyes were completely focused in on him.
“There’s only two right now,” Vince murmured to himself while pressed u...
2022-08-16 01:03:55 +0000 UTC
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Rushing ahead Vince threw out his left arm and clothes-lined the woman he’d kicked. His arm was in motion as it struck her on the head and neck. The force of it slapped her to the ground like a bowling pin being blasted to one side.
Even as Vince got right up to the Nullifier and Zathira the man broke free of Zathira’s bite. The Lamia’s unhinged jaw and fangs coming loose as the man thrashed about.
He did so by releasing the blade and leaving it stuck in Zathira.
Getti...
2022-08-12 23:57:32 +0000 UTC
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Vince brought his sword around in a low slash from the right that rose up on a diagonal angle that’d end to the left. Using his right foot to push forward he drove the attack with strength and speed.
Not bothering to defend themselves to begin with, the Nullifier had no opportunity to move away, change his angle, or move away from the attack. He had no alternative other than to take the blow dead on.
There was a high pitched whine as the sword struck a shield. One that looked a ...
2022-08-12 00:49:42 +0000 UTC
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Zathira moved out of the foul culvert and joined Vince after moving forward. She let out a slow breath and shook her head.
“There’s a large number of dead nearby. I think they’re in a mass grave. There’s also a great deal of dying nearby that aren’t far from death. Many will pass after nightfall,” she whispered as she laid down in the tall grass near Vince. They were fairly well hidden all things considered. “If we can keep them focused here with an undead force sieging th...
2022-08-11 03:11:13 +0000 UTC
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Zathira had lowered herself down considerably. Nearly laying down on her own coils in fact, but she’d managed to put herself at a similar level to Vince’s.
The intelligent Lamia had apparently realized he’d been doing this to help alleviate the Ratkin’s inborn wary nature. Vince could only be thankful for those surrounding him had a bright mind.
A number of Ratkin had scurried this way and that just after Vince had spoken.
None of them had approached him, but he coul...
2022-08-10 00:05:50 +0000 UTC
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“That-what’s going on?” asked Leila, looking back the way they’d come.
Distantly the sound of the Portal-storm was growing louder.
Raising in intensity and volume in a way that was far outside what they’d been hearing over the last several hours. There was even an echo and rumble to the sound that felt odd.
“They’re crossing, aren’t they?” Leila asked to herself. “That’s what that is. They’re getting the portals to act up elsewhere so that they can cr...
2022-08-09 02:28:58 +0000 UTC
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Enjoy.
And yes.
I know.
I'm not sorry.
It was important for the story for it to happen.
2022-08-05 19:04:09 +0000 UTC
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2022-08-05 15:58:20 +0000 UTC
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“Maybe… we shouldn’t be going in there,” Vince muttered under his breath as they looked out onto the village. They were holed up in a small number of trees and bushes off to one side.
More than likely near where citizens threw out their chamber pots given the smell of the area.
“Definitely feels like there’s way more going on than we thought,” agreed Leila. “Petra told you that everyone was moving south that could be, to be ready for Yosemite, right?”
“Ye...
2022-08-05 04:30:14 +0000 UTC
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At this point, Vince really didn’t even know what they were doing anymore.
The corpse he’d dragged out had been little better than a shrieking spirit that offered nothing else other than unending wailing. Despite Zathira pushing at them firmly, even threatening them, there just were no answers coming.
Then, the “road” had ended abruptly at a river. There’d been no bridge, no crossing, no ferry, either.
The road just ended there and for no reason at all, despite it ...
2022-08-04 02:51:49 +0000 UTC
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Vince started awake the very instant he heard a noise. One that didn’t belong amongst the gentle rustle of the wind pushing through foliage barely covering them from view.
His eyes snapped open and his left hand snatched up the pistol and brought it around to hold in front of himself. Waiting to hear, feel, or sense whatever it’d been.
With any luck he’d get the drop on them before they realized the bush held three people in it.
That or it was Red coming back, but it d...
2022-08-03 01:30:12 +0000 UTC
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“Vince, I feel there’s something… very wrong here. We should leave,” Leila murmured where she sat next to Vince. He got the impression she wanted to say more, but not right at this moment.
For the last three or four hours, they’d sat, talked, and ate with the Duke in more or less congenial company. The man had indeed brought his kids over, tea, and a great many side dishes.
There’d been no sign of anything being out of the ordinary in any way. Not at any level. To the ...
2022-08-03 01:30:01 +0000 UTC
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“Well, they’re not shooting at me,” growled Elizabeth as they circled over the large city. There’d been no move to actually respond as far as they could tell, but that didn’t mean it wouldn’t be coming.
Chances were they were scrambling to figure out how to respond, or waiting for them to land.
“That’s certainly a good starting point,” Dea muttered. “Whenever someone shot at me first I figured there wouldn’t be much need to try and converse with them.”
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2022-07-29 23:30:09 +0000 UTC
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