They say that time flies when in good company, but the same applied to while being busy. It was hard to believe that it's been nearly a week since I took Percival into custody, and in the meantime, my life settled into a predictable rhythm.
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2023-07-14 13:16:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhat the actual, canonical, Dante Alighieri-inspired hell was up with this island and underground facilities?
Yes, yes, I know I keep ragging on this, but seriously? Why did the arch-mage's home also need to have an extensive underground fac...
2023-07-12 12:27:55 +0000 UTC View Post"Are we calm yet?" I asked with just the tiiiniest hint of exasperation in my voice, and the two trigger-happy idiots in front of me nodded in unison. They were both sitting on their heels in the middle of the living room with the conference table...
2023-07-11 12:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Yeah, it's so cool!" Penny sounded more excited by the minute. "You can have car chases, and fights with hover-bikes, and you can even build your own mini-mecha and fight other robots!"s time for recreation. Some were socializing in the lounge ar...
2023-06-30 16:24:52 +0000 UTC View Post"Udug Blood Amalgam?" Snowy's voice sounded quite startled, to the point I could perfectly imagine her face even through the phone. I waited for her to continue, and after a few long seconds, she whispered, "It's very dangerous, and highly restric...
2023-06-26 16:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a quiet afternoon in the Dracis mansion. Once the initial panic over the disappearance of a certain wildly popular, devilishly handsome, and criminally humble Leonard S. Dunning quieted down, everyone's daily routines reasserted themselves,...
2023-06-23 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time we got back to my designated quarters, I was feeling exhausted in more ways than one. Maintaining my Polemos persona was tiresome at the best of times, but when I had to do it in front of a small crowd while pretending to know what I w...
2023-06-19 17:16:50 +0000 UTC View Post"What's your impression so far?"
Mountain Girl considered my throwaway question way too seriously, seemingly paying little attention to where she was walking. Unlike with my girlfriends, I didn't bother with her safety, but to be fair, there...
2023-06-17 18:09:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment I returned to my quarters, I couldn't help but exhale a long sigh. It was a long day, and I was feeling pretty out of it. My limbs were hurting, no doubt the result of my bout with my 'honour guard' in the morning, made worst by my head...
2023-06-16 14:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostSo, another complication. What's new?
While the oddly friendly (but not any less irritating) director was looking for a glass to sample the wine I brought, I quickly reconsidered the situation. First off, we apparently knew each other. Or la...
2023-06-12 16:22:41 +0000 UTC View PostJust a heads up.
I'm completely out of it at the moment. I strained my back last Sunday while gardening, and because of it, I've been unable to get a decent night of sleep throughout the entire week. Right now, brain fog had completely set i...
2023-06-09 10:46:51 +0000 UTC View PostAs they say, time flies in good company, and who was I to argue with such universal truths?
In the blink of an eye, the whole afternoon rushed by me like a bullet train, leaving me a touch disoriented by the whole affair. Between the heart-t...
2023-06-05 14:59:27 +0000 UTC View Post"So… are we going to sit down, or…?"
Josh sounded unusually awkward, and his expression told me that he had a lot on his mind, but at the end of the day, I simply shrugged.
"Whatever suits your fancy. I've been sitting for a while ...
2023-06-02 13:27:18 +0000 UTC View Post"Sometimes, I feel like I'm running a daycare centre," I grumbled as I sat down between my girlfriends, once all the nuisances had been successfully chased away from the premises. They promised they would be back though, but I put that headache in...
2023-05-29 17:02:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe reception room was plunged into a chilly silence. Sitting on one of the benches by the far wall, I continued to lock gazes with Mountain Girl, yet even as the tension (and awkwardness) of our staring contest caused the air to positively crackl...
2023-05-26 16:15:45 +0000 UTC View Post"… and that's the gist of it."
The silence left in the wake of my straightforward and not-at-all rambling description of the recent developments was about as deafeningly still as expected. My girlfriends already knew most of it, so they we...
2023-05-22 17:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as I stepped through the door, the main hall erupted into cacophonous noise.
"Haha! See, honey? I told you he'd be all right!" dad-in-law's voice rose above the wall of sound as he hugged his wife to his side.
"Kihihi! Galatea,...
2023-05-19 15:59:47 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed by quickly after I returned to my designated quarters on the fifty-second floor. Despite the initial hubbub, there didn't seem to be much for me to do as an Archon, but I still managed to find ways to fill out the rest of the morning. ...
2023-05-15 17:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post"Oryah!"
Following the rather odd war cry, midriff-woman lunged at me with her cutlass. Before it could connect, I deftly leaned out of the way of the strike and focused on her other hand. Instead of following through with the initial attack...
2023-05-12 15:53:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhile it could not compete with the capital's restaurants in quality, the Adventurers' Guild of New Reedcourt had a menu extensive enough to match theirs in length, if nothing else. After about an hour of ...
2023-05-11 17:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post"Did you really have to build literally every facility into the towers?"
My question was entirely rhetorical, yet the burly Celestial by my side felt obligated to answer anyway. Not that I really minded; we were heading to the ground floor, ...
2023-05-08 16:33:25 +0000 UTC View PostTo say that the elevator ride up to the one-hundredth floor of the tower was awkward would be the understatement of the century. Since I disappeared from his home turf, Director Tsephanyah didn't want to let me out of his sight for even a moment, ...
2023-05-05 08:41:09 +0000 UTC View PostJust a tiny heads-up about a few changes, my dear readers.
First off, I somehow managed to completely and consistently mess up the Archon's name, and I have no idea how. It was supposed to be Polemos (Greek for "war", and the first half of t...
2023-05-04 18:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Olives, you say?"
My host, a heavy-set middle-aged Celestial with a well-cut beard nodded with a hint of pride on his face.
"Just like my father, and my father's father," he stated with a delighted hum, which caused his wife to chuckl...
2023-05-01 14:37:13 +0000 UTC View PostNew Reedcourt's was a common tale. A bustling agricultural town, sitting on top of a busy trade route leading into the heart of the Monarchy. It was, without a doubt, on the straight and narrow road to grow into a respe...
2023-04-30 19:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhere to begin, where to begin…?
Normally, the obvious answer was 'at the beginning, stupid', but there were too many different beginnings for such a simple answer to work. Still, I couldn't let the girls wait indefinitely, so I e...
2023-04-28 15:52:51 +0000 UTC View Post"Dormouse, please stop," I pleaded, yet my girlfriend remained steadfast.
"You deserve this," she fumed and lightly tugged on my ear. "I keep telling you to think twice before you get involved with anything, and yet every time I take my eyes...
2023-04-27 17:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn the end, my earlier predictions were off, though it made little difference in the grand scheme of things. By the time I finished hearing out the long yet straightforward explanations of Jaakobah, the sun had long set. I had no access to my phon...
2023-04-24 14:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostAll right. Now that we finally had a stretch of straight and level rails in front of this runaway train of a situation, it was time to spend a moment gathering my wits and summarizing what I knew.
So, Sir Percival was working for some Celest...
2023-04-21 14:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, let's calm down and try to figure out what the hell just happened. A weird weapon-thing came flying at me, I grabbed it, and then I was suddenly disembodied. That never happened before… unless I manually initiated it with a phantom limb, t...
2023-04-19 13:13:45 +0000 UTC View Post