Chapter Seventy-Five
Jessica was the last person Harmony expected to approach her after she used dust to cover Len’s Statue’s bits with makeshift pants. “Are you okay, Harmony? That statue was intense.” The sunfire berzerker asked.&n...
2025-03-03 14:36:15 +0000 UTC View PostSeventy-Four
Max stumbled back into the group with a staggered step like he'd been hit in the head several times past too many.
“Check if he’s possessed!” Hagzul shrieked.
“He’s not,” Harmony assured the spirit. “Ho...
2025-02-28 14:23:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Three
The dream scenario for Max, Len, Rose, and Tyler quickly succumbed to reality as geists stopped coming. Spirits and geists tended to only be tier-one entities, and they needed stronger than that to compete. That didn’...
2025-02-26 14:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-Two
“Which one of you is my path out of this cursed woods?” The large mostly-translucent orb of a creature with eyes dotting its limbless body demanded, blocking the path forward.
Len had the book out and started fl...
2025-02-24 14:26:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy-One
It tickled.
'You. You. You. You. You.'
If chronostasis wasn’t on it would be an unintelligible buzz as spirits streamed into, around, and sometimes through her. That was where the tickli...
2025-02-21 14:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Seventy
The large insect spirit who’d disrupted Harmony’s sleep sat perched on the foot of her cot. “Jin wishes to see you at the Grave Society house.” Its black semi-translucent form buzzed with necromantic energy.&nbs...
2025-02-19 14:17:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Nine
“Welcome to Fort Rabble. Get in here before it gets dark!” That was all the greeting the scruffy Sun Temple guard gave them as he ushered everyone in. The wooden wall circling the fort with its single entra...
2025-02-17 16:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Eight
One arm around Adric’s waist while riding double on Bowe’s back wasn’t the most comfortable way Harmony had ever traveled. [Shadowed Graves] cast a long shadow over their journey and allowed Hyacinth to travel with ...
2025-02-14 16:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Seven
Even sitting, Countess Maye was still taller than her. “I was surprised when my niece delivered your letter with an offer to parley.”
Princess Rosaline coming through was unexpected. She'd been distant whe...
2025-02-12 14:38:24 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Six
What a rot-ridden dream. Bloody vivid. Harmony opened her eyes with a deep breath, and there it was, a hint of death and that tang of copper and blood in the air. “Delve me.”
At the edge of the room, ha...
2025-02-10 14:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Five
[Mend] stitched up the nasty cut from the big squirt's last water blade. [Small Armor] not being able to fully block attack was compounded by the fact the cutting power curved and bent getting around spots where her armor ...
2025-02-07 14:36:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Four
After last night's near-disastrous group meeting, Harmony needed time to herself. Ambrosia had another concert, making her busy tonight singing with the Flows. It was time to tackle her greatest rival. In a bubb...
2025-02-05 14:57:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty Three
Not all the mossifants burst nicely. There were too many self-checking skills for Harmony to ignore the irritation at certain princesses' oversized reactions that were causing imperfections in attack techniques...
2025-02-03 14:31:29 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Sixty-Two
Wine with the refreshments had been Harmony’s idea and now she regretted it. It made Len more of a babbler. “I think we should all bond geists, offensive or defensive; they are invisible and reform if dispelled or destr...
2025-01-31 15:07:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter sixty-one
Harmony let the shadows from [Shadowed Graves] recede for the third time. The goal of this training season was to adjust the height of the darkness covering the sky. Ambrosia had birds flying through it reporting...
2025-01-29 15:20:53 +0000 UTC View PostI'm playing with prefixes and suffixes. I'm leaning either toward a Magniphasic or Arcane and one of the below. Feel free to comment. The poll will not decide, but I'm curious about what people like. [Most of the other stuff like rejection optio...
2025-01-27 17:27:00 +0000 UTC View PostChapter sixty
“Aaaaaaagaa – oof!” Max screamed as his legs were knocked out from underneath him, sending him face-first onto the floor. That was with only four of Ambrosias' birds sending softened [Wind Blades] at the man.
...
2025-01-27 16:48:33 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Nine
“You Should have seen their faces!” Ambrosia cackled.
“I did,” Harmony answered.
“They all broke up into excited conversations. Even Madam Peartree couldn’t calm them down. I...
2025-01-24 13:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter fifty-eight
The crowd of roughly five hundred people was more than Harmony expected. Had they gathered all the city’s members? Still, it is much smaller than many of Ambrosia’s concerts. A stage with a podium was waiting bu...
2025-01-22 15:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Seven
No one complained when Harmony skipped practicing [Shadowed Graves]. This time, it wasn’t a matter of control, it was a matter of presentation. Time in the Nae’s Garden had worked out much of the kinks in how to influ...
2025-01-20 17:05:18 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty Six
The pack of five wooze swayed in place, not frozen in fear of death, but in awe. The [Beautician] and [Style and Grace] influenced [Shadowed Graves] effect had them admire the killer in front of them. It was only...
2025-01-17 16:22:27 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Five
“Do you seriously want me to set up a visit to the Grave Society?” Ambrosia asked from her side of the magically heated tub.
It was the disbelieving tone that grated some. “They ha...
2025-01-15 22:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Four
Harmony let [Shadowed Graves] end as the brood mother’s body dropped. Soul strike had improved under the shadows it cast, but not enough to punch through the floor guardian’s defense against that kind of attack. The mo...
2025-01-13 14:35:40 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Three
“Can you please refrain from using that annoying skill? It's embarrassing.” Rose begged, looking ready to bolt at any second.
Harmony guessed the princess drew the short straw among those willing to a...
2025-01-10 14:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty-Two
Whatever Maxwell had done to his oath hadn’t affected his promise to be honest and forthright. The oath hurt but appeared to be working as Max scrambled back the best he could while in the seated position.&...
2025-01-08 14:26:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter fifty-one
Unknown danger. Step one, [Stride Before the Fall]. Ker-chunk. Double the pain, overlapping vision, dislocation, like a shoulder or knee, but worse, as it was different and not physical. There was no ...
2025-01-06 14:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Fifty
“Delve you! You scrawny ass chicken!”
That plan was supposed to work. Create a thick layer of mist, quiet all the sounds and drift in with it. That's being stealthy, right?
The thunder roc...
2025-01-03 17:26:41 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Nine
“I don't think any of you should bond pets.” There was no way to make this statement sound good, but Harmony did her best to try. Pulling from [Poise and Bearing], memories of hard discussions, what it m...
2025-01-01 17:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Eight
Harmony's decision to invite Princess Rosaline to join their informal planning group was political. With Len, Tyler, and Max after some pressure, all the boys will be there. Not having the final member of their...
2024-12-30 16:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter Forty-Seven
“What!?” Harmony snatched her hand away. One thing no one has ever accused her of was being religious.
Thorne touched the gem facets one at a time. “Red, that’s your primal bond wi...
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