Zelsys stood leaning against the brick wall, smiling and inspecting the gemstone as she waited for the three soldiers to be ready to leave. While at first glimpse it had seemed to be obsidian-black, it was in fact partially translucent and heavily...
2020-09-16 10:31:10 +0000 UTC View PostShe also saw the foreigner, zigzagging at inhuman speeds towards the beast and trailing silver-green ribbons of Fog as she went. Expecting it to do no more than distract the monstrosity for a brief moment, she tried invoking Headpiercer Arts, to c...
2020-09-15 12:11:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe very glass tubes that once connected it to the still had been melded to what was left of the creature’s arteries by crusty, scab-covered clots.
Something had punched a hole into its rib cage, whether it was the shot she hit it with dur...
2020-09-14 13:32:38 +0000 UTC View Post“T-the next step up. It’s a Necrobeast. How the fuck did it cross the conversion barrier?! Those things are two thirds pure Nigredo by volume!”
None of them knew what a Necrobeast was. Zelsys was not willing to admit that ignorance, bu...
2020-09-13 08:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostStraining to move, Sigmund raised his left hand and pried the fingers of his right open one by one. Threat turned to condescending pity when the officer realized what was happening, remarking “Some sort of paralytic sickness from mucking about i...
2020-09-12 11:56:40 +0000 UTC View PostHis eyes leered toward Zelsys. He scanned her up and down before he added, with notably less venom to his tone, “You too, snowtop.”
She chuckled at the remark, waiting for the officer to begin walking before she did. He effectively backe...
2020-09-11 08:35:48 +0000 UTC View PostShe stretched out on the hard mattress, her feet hanging out of the bunk, head resting on her hands. All it took was a couple deep breaths, and she slipped into the realm of sleep.
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2020-09-10 08:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostSigmund was just about to play into the conversation further by asking how he’ll distinguish the Rubedo bottle from the others if all of them are completely covered in seals, but Makhus interrupted him with an offhanded gesture at the Tablet. ...
2020-09-08 08:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The blonde chuckled, turning her eye toward the beast’s carcass. “Yeah, that’s fair. Seen weirder shit in the zone,” she remarked. Zelsys had noticed her looking, but she didn’t particularly care. She’d let the riflewoman ...
2020-09-07 07:26:30 +0000 UTC View PostZelsys was very much content to continue leaning against the transport’s pleasantly cool metal, but she wasn’t one to eavesdrop. When she heard Spliteye mumbling something about a foreigner in her unconscious state, she decided to join Makhus ...
2020-09-06 08:19:20 +0000 UTC View PostMakhus did his best to ignore Zelsys as he walked out onto the clearing, making a beeline for the still. The entire time she watched, casually leaning on the transport. “How’s the sickness? No aftershock seizures?” he offhandedly asked Sigmu...
2020-09-05 07:38:09 +0000 UTC View PostA full C would’ve been good enough to qualify for further specialist training back during the war. “Were I more talented, I would’ve been there when they stormed central command,” he thought, justifying his low military position a...
2020-09-04 21:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostHe remained motionless, but he blinked thrice in a row.
“Three blinks?” asked Zelsys.
“That means yes. Two mean no.”
A loud rumble echoed from Zelsys’ stomach, and she instinctively looked around for her unfinishe...
2020-09-04 21:20:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt was lumbering towards her in some lopsided approximation of a charge, fangs bared and black foam bubbling from the corners of its mouth. The absence of its left foreleg made the creature’s gait skewed to the right as it tried to compensate, e...
2020-09-04 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Zelsys ripped the cleaver from its back, raising it in preparation to butcher the thing as it thrashed helpless on the ground.
The moment her blade left the beast’s back, its flesh pulled itself back together and even its spin...
2020-09-04 08:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostSpliteye’s bullet was embedded into its forehead, but it seemed unaffected, ponderously making its way towards the source of its newest pain. Zelsys could see most of its front half now, its wretched heart visibly beating beneath exposed ribs. 2020-09-03 16:00:33 +0000 UTC View Post
For a brief few minutes she sat there, eating food offered up by damned soldiers and taking in the beauty of a place at the very edge of desolation, acutely aware of how transitory this situation was.
It was a peace like n...
2020-09-03 06:12:24 +0000 UTC View Post“...And that’s what it’s doing,” she said in a hushed voice. “It’s already halfway done. Do we just wait for it to finish?”
“It’s a better idea than trying to interrupt the process,” Zelsys responded with faux authority. ...
2020-09-02 17:31:52 +0000 UTC View Post
RECORD FORMAT NOT RECOGNIZED
REGISTER NEW FORMAT
OVERWRITE RECORD
Not a bit of hesitation crossed his mind before he pressed the latter, only to find himself paralyz...
2020-09-02 05:49:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe Swordsman watched it unfold with some amusement before his attention returned to the silver-haired amazoness across from him.
“Second question?”
“Why were you out there when you found me?”
“We were hunti...
2020-09-01 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEventually, the Swordsman piped up again. “The Tablet. Mind if I take a look?” he asked.
“I’ve got a couple questions first. Three of them.“
“Shoot.”
“What exactly is Rubedo Sickness?”
A dark chuckle rumbl...
2020-09-01 07:45:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe bottle rang with a sound not unlike someone pouring water down a well, small wisps of bright red Fog escaping his ears.
When the flow stopped he hurriedly corked the bottle shut, coughing up a few puffs of Red Fog. “It gets easier the ...
2020-08-31 18:12:50 +0000 UTC View Post
As she pondered whether they could be altered to fit given the tools at hand a faint buzzing static washed over her legs. Having noticed that this feeling typically meant something arcane was at play she tried to pull them up again, a...
2020-08-31 07:16:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was matte-black with a silver shine to its edge, and somehow the only thing on that door-table that was completely clean of blood. She couldn’t tear her eyes off it until she walked into the transport and its wall did it for her, and she imme...
2020-08-30 18:37:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a metal pipe that led from amidst the embers of the fire pit to what Zelsys recognized as a repurposed Fog Engine, atop which there sat a befuddling tangle of rune-etched flasks and tubes, held together with wire and pieces of scrap metal. ...
2020-08-30 09:06:41 +0000 UTC View PostA mischievous spark made her want to place the Tablet atop the blonde’s head and use it to measure just how much taller she was, but the mental image was sufficient. For a while the four of them walked down the trail in silence, the Swordsman gi...
2020-08-29 20:36:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Swordsman raised the bottle to his mouth, pulled the cork out with his teeth, and took a short swig of the greenish liquid, then put the cork back in. A couple drops of the liquid clung to the stubble of his chin, evaporating into barely-visib...
2020-08-29 11:28:00 +0000 UTC View PostShe grumbled as she jumped and grabbed it by the exposed portion, and it slipped out of the bandage with little resistance. With a relieved sigh, she turned her gaze in the direction she had heard human voices from, which had now become quieter an...
2020-08-29 01:17:05 +0000 UTC View Post
She turned her gaze to the landscape that stretched out beneath her, a gloom-cast sky hanging overhead. The hill whose slope she stood atop was surrounded by dead plants, gnarled leafless trees shook in the wind.
With caution an...
2020-08-28 15:18:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe cartridge fit snugly into the chamber, its base bearing a small etched symbol in the center. A forward push, another clack, and a twist to the right to lock the mechanism. The lever again sat in her palm, but it was no longer locked in place. ...
2020-08-28 05:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post