Being dead had been strange. Arion actually wasn’t sure, now, whether he had been dead. He’d been conscious, sort of. And sort of not. Everything was…Muddled. Abstract. The experience had been on him only hours ago, he believed, and yet alre...
2025-04-30 11:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostRagni’s voice was not quiet.
“You do not speak to me like that, ever.” He growled. “You do not talk back to me, you do not disrespect me.”
It occurred to Emma that he spent an awful lot of time telling her what she coul...
2025-04-29 08:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostBeam POV: Day 155
Current Wealth: 170 gold 21 silver 6 copper
I’d been having a very “Solitairish” afternoon. Which was to say, I’d been listening to a voice in my head and going where it told ...
2025-04-28 11:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostEmma’s time in Vichin was not, unfortunately, reserved only for having fun with her cool new powers. It turned out her incredibly powerful political position actually had work attached to it, for some reason, and the doing of this work dragged h...
2025-04-28 08:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostFundaments:
Energy 2, Matter 2, Force 2, Entropy 1, Cognition 1, Space 1, Time 1
Crafts:
Alchemy 1, Talismans 1, Enchanting 1, Animacy 1,
Cor...
2025-04-28 08:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostEarl Ragni did not seem to be having a very good day. He was being swarmed, most of the allies around him already dead and his own neck seeming next up on the chopping block. He was backing away, eyes darting around and body twitching with the fre...
2025-04-28 08:52:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe newcomer was not, in the end, a rescue. And he was only the first of many who came pooling into the building to, apparently, leer at Emma while she kicked and jerked as the blood went out of her. That seemed about right, given how things had b...
2025-04-28 08:51:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Dumbass. Dumbass. Dumbass. Dumbass. Dumb—” Emma groaned, stirred, sat up. Or…Tried to. She got halfway before something snagged her, something else rattled, and she found herself half-wrapped in…Chains. Leading to shackles, around her w...
2025-04-28 08:51:03 +0000 UTC View PostAexilica was surrounded in moments, and now bereft of her armour. If the enemy had been swinging swords and axes, or thrusting with spears, Emma had no doubt she’d have been hacked apart in moments. They used blunt weapons instead, and those wer...
2025-04-28 08:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostThey arrived in the city of Vichin by foot, rather than river. This was very much against Emma’s will, but unfortunately she could not decide what the terrain around her was or how far a river would extend.
Yet.
It was really not tha...
2025-04-28 08:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe impact was jarring, but, Emma knew, not nearly as jarring as it could’ve been. It could have been with a rock, and that would’ve been all she wrote for Emma. Instead she landed on nice, soft water and had the privilege of feeling her shiel...
2025-04-28 08:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostEmma struggled against her restraints, and found that they were, in fact, more than sufficient to hold down the tiniest girl she’d ever met. She struggled more, anyway. There wasn’t anything logical to it, nothing of cleverness or strategy or ...
2025-04-28 08:43:19 +0000 UTC View PostAexilica managed to last all of a day before she did something stupid. What was it her dad had always said?
Just like your whore mother, go on. Leave.
No, not that—the other thing. Ah, yes. She never could leave well enough alone, an...
2025-04-28 08:33:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe journey only got less interesting as Emma continued her being subjected to it; the sights more familiar, the novelty more scarce, the chafing in her ass more uncomfortable as yet more hours of consecutively riding the same shitty wagon added u...
2025-04-28 08:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostEmma woke up with a headache. That was nothing new, she’d spent most of her adult life in varying states of sick and enfeebled for one reason or another. A lifetime of living off mac and cheese tended to do that to a girl.
Granted, i...
2025-04-28 08:23:43 +0000 UTC View PostEmma was on fire, but fortunately her armour was keeping the worst of it from reaching the skin. She still panicked, dropped down and rolled in the dirt until the magical flames extinguished. She scrambled up, stared ahead to see some glaring, one...
2025-04-28 08:23:07 +0000 UTC View PostSomething hit one of the walls. It was fast, bright. It exploded on impact.
Did someone just cast fireball?
Emma had precisely enough time for that thought, then the explosion grew and a piece of wooden debris caught her in the h...
2025-04-28 08:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostAexilica refused to let Emma up onto the roof, no matter how much she asked or how nicely. She claimed it was dangerous, stupid, insane. Emma suspected she was just jealous of her cool new shield, and taking it out on her. In any case, she did fin...
2025-04-28 08:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing Emma did after her potion kicked in was go outside, and find something really heavy. There was a great deal of choice, but sadly most of it belonged to other people. She skipped those picks over, suspecting that whatever she used i...
2025-04-28 07:58:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, finding things other than hot water to treat illnesses really was harder than it sounded. At least when one was surrounded by pre-industrial medicine. Emma tried a lot of different things, and grew increasingly frustrated at each...
2025-04-28 07:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe ride back to Tepetlmoseua was uneventful, as far as desperate flights for survival went. Aexilica said no more than usual as the sledge carried them down the mountainside and, unlike before, Emma felt no inclination to fill the silence. She wa...
2025-04-28 07:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostEmma had never seen anything alive move as fast as the Grai charging her. Not Aexilica, certainly not anything she’d fought. Maybe horses on a level road compared. Maybe they didn’t. Twenty or so metres separated them, she barely had a second ...
2025-04-28 07:49:46 +0000 UTC View PostAexilica was in a bad mood. It was actually sort of hard to tell, her face seemed perpetually locked in a scowl regardless of circumstances. Emma though, perceptive girl that she was, managed to note that the depths of her frown had grown by no sm...
2025-04-28 07:39:32 +0000 UTC View PostShango POV: Day 155
Current Wealth: 170 gold 21 silver 6 copper
I was in an office, and I had to say…It was a nice one. Actually smaller than mine, thanks to the historic wealth of the Velaharo famil...
2025-04-27 11:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostIt was hard to think. Aexilica’s mind felt foggy, slow. Her own panic was strangling her thoughts. It felt like all the pathways in her brain were being filled up with straw. It felt like the whole thing was going to burn down.
And Emma di...
2025-04-27 08:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostEmma didn’t waste her mana on wind, she just threw out a big cloud of spinning blades and watched as they caught one of the men from five paces away. She’d seen a liveleak video of a cartel execution once, some guy kneeling down while five or ...
2025-04-27 08:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostSilenos did not appear upon the ground, this time. That was a surprise, and not a particularly pleasant one. By the time she had re-oriented herself, located Hexeri and Ensharia falling beside her, the opposing forces of gravity and air re...
2025-04-26 11:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck is a muki?”
Emma grunted the question more than said it straight, struggling with the terrain. Tepetlmoseua was covered in plains, surrounded by them for at least a mile unbroken in each direction. They’d gone a good deal far...
It was, Emma thought, fairly natural that her powers as an Untethered be so extraordinary. She was the main character after all. Putting aside the not-inconsiderable benefits to her ego, which was growing by the minute, she found herself enjoying ...
2025-04-25 11:10:56 +0000 UTC View PostPhelia was spending a lot of her time in the library of late. It was hardly something to complain about, of course. For several reasons. The library was where she found herself most relaxed most days anyway, and, if she were being honest, there we...
2025-04-25 11:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post