Zelsys took up a wide grappler’s stance with her arms held out, the bayonet nestled in the pit of her thumb as it hung onto the pinky by its finger-ring.
The cleaver-arm came crashing down with all the expected speed and force of an immort...
2021-02-17 20:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostStomp. Stomp. Stomp.
Heavy as its footfalls were, the top-heavy idol that was Delta’s body moved with unnatural grace, only a subtle grinding audible whenever it took a step. Following it up close from behind, Zefaris made out certain deta...
2021-02-16 15:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Apparently it took me a little longer to recover than I expected, 'cause yesterday I got so caught up in getting the writing done that I forgot to actually post a chapter until it was too late.
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2021-02-15 13:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostTo Zel’s surprise she found her blade stopped dead by the crossguard of a strange sword-spear hybrid hewn from blackstone. It wasn’t its wielder's strength that stopped her, but the simple fact the weapon was standing on the ground. She could...
2021-02-11 21:52:59 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Missed out yesterday, doubling down today. Might need to take a day or two off soon to deal with some health stuff, but it's a 50/50 right now.
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2021-02-10 18:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostThey harmlessly brushed across her skin. It was like wearing the maneater’s skin, sewed into a skin-tight coat by the dungeon’s black thread. A moment later, she smashed its head with her gun’s barrel.
In that moment, she felt what she...
2021-02-09 01:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe cyclops elaborated further, “There are so many contradictory fables about Orchid Mantis mutants that one can never know what is true. I’m a little hesitant to believe he was the real thing, even with what he did. What he said.”
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2021-02-07 19:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostCleaver in hand, she walked right up and squatted down in front of him, looking into his motionless face. She was ready to cut him in half the moment he moved, but she was also curious. This one didn’t quite give off the same crusty feeling as t...
2021-02-06 19:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll have to figure out a use for that Fulgur when I’m not close enough to use the saw, but I’ve got some ideas,” Zel said as she rose to her feet, pulling Zef with her.
Zef chuckled, half-jokingly questioning, “What, Thundercan...
2021-02-06 10:51:54 +0000 UTC View PostFlashing a smile so sweet it was unpleasant, the man backed up towards the door, Hands still held up, “I’ll tell them you’re shellshock-ridden conscripts.”
“Uh-huh. Don’t bother calling a guardsman, too much attention,” the alc...
2021-02-04 21:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe bottle slipped from his grip and came spinning through the air, to which Makhus caught it with his free hand. He pulled the cork with his teeth and took a swig, maintaining eye contact with the intruders’ sleazy leader all along.
The m...
2021-02-03 19:17:11 +0000 UTC View PostPutting it away securely in a cabinet he let out a sigh of relief, yet calm didn’t come. His containment glyph tattoo was still red, ever so slightly.
“No choice but to ride it out, I guess,” he sighed inwardly, internal tensi...
2021-02-02 19:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostThen, the worst of it passed whilst his tattoos turned blood-red a third of the way from his wrists to his elbows. He was still far, far more heated than he would’ve liked to be, but there was no turning back now. In his current headspace, Makhu...
2021-02-01 19:58:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt was named “Daytime Dust” for the sunstreaks that its pure form left on damn-near anything it touched. The other name - “Yellow Snow” - was a low-brow term insinuating the Citrinitas used in its production was extracted from urine, even ...
2021-01-31 19:13:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a relatively small hive, just a glorified blockade really, but the extermination was still a mess. Focusing mostly on covering the Inquisitor’s advance, he had to keep an eye on her and make sure nothing got into her blind spots. The word...
2021-01-30 19:11:04 +0000 UTC View PostI realized I had unintentionally made the previous link temporary. This one won't expire.
2021-01-30 13:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe artist just got back to me out of the blue with the completed illustration, so posting resumes as normal.
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Zefaris couldn’t help feeling conc...
2021-01-29 16:42:22 +0000 UTC View PostIt faded, then a new wisp came forth.
Azothic Trait Purged:
Cannibalism
Then, another, this time faster.
Azothic Trait Purged:
Hyper-Accelerated Metabolism
And another.
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2021-01-26 21:44:44 +0000 UTC View Post“How convenient that we’ve met like this!” he sleazed, barely able to suppress the singsong western accent, “The uh… The city quarter’s militia master has given the order to confiscate any military surplus weapons, and we’ve gotten a...
2021-01-26 00:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he stepped in to take a look at its contents, Makhus knew the governor hadn’t exaggerated a single word of his claims, and he felt like a child in a candy store.
Within the box, there were recesses padded with pure white Fog-infused s...
2021-01-24 19:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostMakhus furrowed his brow and nodded. Slowly, exaggeratedly.
“I get it,” he said. “However, are you aware of the fact that I do not have the supplies to produce more complex restoratives and performance enhancers? We’ve scarcely even ...
2021-01-23 18:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe heavy doors opened with nary a sound as one of the guards opened it and the visitors entered. Crovacus felt conflicting emotions flooding through his exhaustion-numbed mind, first joy at the sight of the very investigator he’d assigned to fi...
2021-01-22 16:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostHe’d nervously chewed his cigar for so long it had gone out, so he just tossed it aside and pulled open one of his desk drawers, retrieving from within it a cigar wrapped in an additional outer layer of blood-red seals. Biting off the end and sp...
2021-01-21 15:30:38 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'll be taking a couple days off during which there will be no chapters. I'd say two, at most three. I'm not sick or burnt out or anything of the sort, I just want to take a little time to de-stress and think about the macro...
2021-01-17 18:25:03 +0000 UTC View PostAlcerys purged the thoughts of lashing out from her mind, as she had done before more times than she cared to count. Instead, she started signing out questions.
“Injuries?”
“Uh…” the homunculus drawled, even raising an arm an...
2021-01-16 19:21:24 +0000 UTC View PostLong overdue, since I figured it just wouldn't ever get any use, but I might as well make one.
Patrons get a special role and a private channel, that's about it for now. I'll be adding the invite to the RoyalRoad A/N.
Chop by chop, slash by slash, limb by limb, she dismembered the corpse, and came to a realization, one that explained the gigantism and reduced mental state. This wasn’t a Locust Noble, at least not the normal kind. For one, his insides were rel...
2021-01-15 19:23:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was exceedingly bulky and long, easily large enough to at the very least smash her organs to pulp on impact, were she so lucky as to take a hit without it cleaving through her armor. But to him, it was as proportional as her own sword was to he...
2021-01-14 18:43:11 +0000 UTC View PostAfter she killed a few locusts, she decidedly knew it would take her longer than twenty seconds to deal with the remaining locusts, so she just made her way to the hive and leapt atop it with a lungful of Fog so she could dismiss her Fog tendrils ...
2021-01-13 20:18:24 +0000 UTC View PostInto the next chamber. A long corridor, blocked off by a single hive, from whose doors already poured a crowd of drones and warriors. Too many to safely dispose of just using the flaming sword, even with its greatly extended burn time. Instead of ...
2021-01-12 19:25:42 +0000 UTC View Post