"Explain to me please, why you would ever think that sticking your head into a blast furnace would be a good idea?" I demanded of the hatchling, still dangling from one of Crinis' tentacles.
"I wanted to see what it looked like insi...
2021-05-24 10:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe hatchling is practically vibrating with excitement as she watches all the action and I can already sense the thought of running off to explore further forming in her mind. This little thing! She needs to chill out, yeesh! Rather than toss her ...
2021-05-22 10:28:00 +0000 UTC View Post[Alright Invidia, you can spit her out now.]
With a wet splat the hatchling is deposited onto the tunnel floor in front of me still dripping with demon saliva. With a shiver she begins to shake her legs and abdomen in an attempt to cleanse h...
2021-05-20 07:58:16 +0000 UTC View Post"You must be kind of a big deal, huh?" the hatchling observes, staring up at a giant statue of me carved from glittering stone.
"Ahem! You can ignore that. Come on, we have more interesting things to see."
"This is amazing to look at,"...
2021-05-19 11:34:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhile the hatchling enjoyed a little solitary education, we moved back out beyond the defensive lines of the territory to drive back the swarming monsters for possibly the final time. The mana levels continued their slow draw down and with every h...
2021-05-18 07:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostUniversal education. It's a desirable principle, but how many times has it been achieved on Pangera in any meaningful way? The only large society to apply this idea in a wide scale, to my knowledge anyway, is the Colony. Though it might not la...
2021-05-17 11:38:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing about the tunnels in the second stratum is that they're freezing cold, like really cold. What's more, when you get this deep, they reek of death mana, which when combined by the near total darkness makes them a rather unpleasant place to...
2021-05-15 11:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post"How long have you got?" Advant asked, her scent distracted and her antennae wavering busily back and forth.
"Not long," replied Brendant, similarly occupied, "I'm only off shift for under an hour and I had to travel to get here."
"I a...
2021-05-14 11:47:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe battle yet raged, a full hearted defence of the Colony demanded the attention and resources of every caste and every council member worked (almost) around the clock to ensure the family would ride through the trouble, greater and stronger than...
2021-05-14 11:47:07 +0000 UTC View Post"You could have told me what was coming," she groused to her father as they settled into a more private setting, "I might have worked a little harder if I'd realised what the Legion was looking to put me through."
The commander actually laug...
2021-05-11 10:58:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe third stratum remains a point of fascination for many researches due to several of its unique properties. For similar reasons, the various powers of the world make it a priority to establish and maintain vast swathes of territory within th...
2021-05-10 12:03:31 +0000 UTC View PostAnother one coming today.
The heat was pervasive, radiating out from the rock around her, from the open pits of flame that guttered and belched smoke in the distance and from her own suit. With a grunt of effort, Morrelia br...
2021-05-09 20:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostTravelling the wildlands of the uncultured south wasn't pleasant, dear reader, not at all! The depredation! The sheer lack of fortified beverages! I jest, readers, of course I jest. Who am I, after all? Tolly! The bold explorer of the unknown!...
2021-05-06 10:17:59 +0000 UTC View PostWhilst trying to do everything I can to distract the vortex of water I keep my focus internal, driving and shaping the mana as best I can to create the most powerful fire spell I've ever attempted. The spell shape isn't too complicated, not compar...
2021-05-05 12:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostNow that it's in front of me, I can sense it far more clearly, the aura of mana that had been spread throughout the tunnel has concentrated in one area, the hidden core of the monster now exposed and pulsing with power. This beast is no small fry,...
2021-05-04 11:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostWith the pupa safely ensconced within Tiny's muscular arms, we move at speed through the nest and back out to the front lines again. I've been doing this walk a great deal lately and I swear it gets busier every time. The vast farms that have been...
2021-05-03 08:03:07 +0000 UTC View PostMuch like Tiny, Crinis wasn't satisfied with her initial rampage and pursued her opponents deeper into the tunnels. I use the word pursued in the literal sense since they were actively running away from her at that stage. On some level, it was fas...
2021-04-30 11:23:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhat follows is an hour in which Tiny goes completely berserk on every monster unfortunate enough to poke its nose into the tunnel in which we stood. So quickly was he mowing down the lower tier shadow creatures that he ended up pushing forward se...
2021-04-29 07:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostTravelling the lands of the Colony was not something I was too eager to undertake. My decision to pursue this venture was only made after repeated, and passionate, requests from you, my dear readers. I was as intrigued as all of you, I'm sure,...
2021-04-28 06:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostIt's not only the pets that need to get some mutating done, I'm in the same boat myself! Whilst I haven't been packing on the Biomass at the moment, I've been making sure I keep a steady intake in order to continue accumulating points and there's ...
2021-04-27 06:32:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe soft glow of evolution is gradually fading and the two of them are looking significantly different. Well, Tiny is, at any rate. Crinis remains blobbed up in a small ball, wobbling slightly as whatever internal changes that are taking place com...
2021-04-25 09:47:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe society of the Colony was alien to me at first, as one may well expect. The differences in origin between I, a surface born sapient of the Iron Sands, and the ants who made up the insect empire (as I like to call them. They dismiss the tit...
2021-04-22 08:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe first time I met Anthony, I honestly didn't think much of them. Insect type monsters were weak, such was common knowledge. In fact, that knowledge was so common, that it was some time before I realised I didn't actually know much about tha...
2021-04-21 08:18:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe wave ground on as Tiny and Crinis continued their evolution, the ants of the Colony working industriously as they always did. The never ending spawns of monsters were a blessing and curse, disrupting all usual business, but flooding the nests ...
2021-04-20 11:28:53 +0000 UTC View PostWith Tiny and Crinis asleep in the evolution chamber, I feel as if something of a weight has been lifted off me. Not in the sense that I don't have to worry about them anymore, I'll always be worrying about them, but it's nice that they're going t...
2021-04-19 10:44:04 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time her master returned, her perfect, wonderful master, Crinis was practically vibrating in excitement. What a wonderful day! What a precious opportunity! To have her dearest master devote his care attention to her evolution on a personal ...
2021-04-16 06:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe master spoke long with the stone people and Tiny did his best to pay attention. What had been done to his core seemed to help his concentration, and he was able to follow the conversation better than before, but he still felt a little itchy al...
2021-04-15 11:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing that must first be known about the Demon Cities, is that they are constantly at war. At war with each other, at war with themselves, at war with the great civilisations of +, at war with the very real limitations of time and space. I...
2021-04-14 10:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
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2021-04-13 23:34:27 +0000 UTC View PostIt takes a day of near constant fighting to help the Colony shove back the wave to the outer defensive walls and once again the endless defence against the monsters continues. It's all worth it though. Every hour, the family is harvesting ridiculo...
2021-04-13 11:22:48 +0000 UTC View Post