Tiny black wings beat in the air, working with a vigor of something possessed - which, in a way, they were.
Tiamat’s brood had never stopped searching.
I could see them on the opposite shoreline, their forms wreathed in sh...
2021-10-06 03:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostVeins of gold and blue spread across the floor of the tower-nest, reflecting the light of glow-caps and ore-flesh alike. Tiny thought-hisses pressed against my mind-nest, searching for instruction and meaning. I hissed back.
The m...
2021-10-05 06:09:30 +0000 UTC View PostMy stomach tried to grumble, which was weird because I didn’t actually need to eat in order to survive. Mana alone was enough. Still, I found myself stretching forward to peer into past the open moving-wall, looking for the s...
2021-10-03 04:28:15 +0000 UTC View PostI huddled within my wall-crack. Nearby, the mists roiled and twisted, seeming almost agitated. Alive.
They parted, spitting something out.
I slithered out of my wall-crack, moving to meet it - her - eagerly.
The Gratef...
2021-10-01 06:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe Little Guardian shifted in place, readjusting his coiled grasp. It was strange how little awareness she had of that compared to everything else. Even after a few days to get used to the change, Elara still found herself astounded by...
2021-09-30 06:10:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grateful One’s spine cracked as she bent backwards and turned, ducking under a furious slash from not-Needle before twisting back around again with an impossible, sinuous grace. Impossible for a Coreless, at least. The sharp crack...
2021-09-29 06:36:19 +0000 UTC View PostMan, this took me a while. Dialogue is hard sometimes...
The Grateful One rose, pulling herself to her feet - but something about that thought seemed wrong. It didn’t fit. What should it be called when a body moves so natu...
2021-09-28 06:32:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grateful One melted and boiled, enveloping my tongue with the heavy scent-taste of seared flesh. Her skin almost seemed to ripple before my eyes, undulating like a great snake, twisting and writhing. Every so often, it would start t...
2021-09-27 06:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostI followed the once-corrupted back to the nest that contained the [Little Guardian’s Focus] - or, rather, I allowed the once-corrupted to carry me there.
There was a sense of movement, a mental tugging ...
2021-09-26 05:36:51 +0000 UTC View PostI watched as the Tangleroot twitched and writhed, reaching out in an attempt to grab me again. Sticky sap spilled from the gash in its plant-flesh, dripping down at an agonizingly slow pace.
It was a small one; I had found it whi...
2021-09-25 06:02:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Fire, please,” the-female-who-was-not-Needle hissed quietly, resonating a resigned [sadness]. I understood. I answered.
A column of blue fire spewed out from between my open jaws, wiping away a secti...
2021-09-24 05:51:27 +0000 UTC View PostHer head twitched. Bones popped. She groaned. It was raspy. Painful.
None of that really mattered. She wasn’t in control. Not anymore. Probably not ever again. She tried not to think about that.
It didn’t work. She thoug...
2021-09-23 05:21:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe once-corrupted Coreless wouldn’t stop staring at me. It must have been unimaginable to him, being rescued from a Lesser Core’s enslavement and placed into the service of the Great Core. I stared back, giving him a little hiss of...
2021-09-22 02:02:36 +0000 UTC View Post2nd chapter today, don't skip previous one
Erik stepped past the threshold, walking into the mist. It twisted and curled around him with every new movement, brushed to and fro by the slight wind of his passage.
It was ...
2021-09-21 04:34:54 +0000 UTC View PostI'm not very happy with this chapter, but it's been far too long so we're just gonna go with it. Better to put it out then to keep staring at it forever. Working on a second chapter to upload later tonight.
Splintered darkwo...
2021-09-20 23:45:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe thought-light flickered as we left the second [Little Guardian’s Focus] behind, pushing past the moving-wall and into the many-nest outside.
Lesser Core Skill: [Little Guardian’s Focus...
2021-09-04 06:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostI hissed, baring my fangs at the abominable thing before me. I had seen many disgusting sights in my travels through the World Dungeon’s tunnels; few of them could compare to...this.
“Oh, I think he likes this one!”...
2021-09-03 02:22:44 +0000 UTC View PostI hissed in satisfaction as the remainder of the plant-flesh bad-thing’s corpse withered away into ash, mixing into the soil that had once allowed it to grow. Tendrils of [Mana Fire] continued to warm my scal...
2021-08-26 05:51:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe light of [Mana Fire] twisted and contorted, casting shadows across the dimly lit area that I could only see in the few brief moments that Will’s wall of ore-flesh shifted to the side. Acidic spittle sizzled against ...
2021-08-25 05:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostI could feel the-female-who-was-not-Needle’s [excitement] grow as we came ever closer to the large nest my Coreless had pointed out earlier. The others were more subdued, tinges of [worry] 2021-08-24 03:48:38 +0000 UTC View Post
The green mist swirled in my vision. From this close, I could make out the tiny spores that formed its mass, floating idly in the air for a short while before they died out and fell to the ground. Even as they fell, the green spores beg...
2021-08-23 02:18:12 +0000 UTC View PostHer throat burned, ripping and shredding with each additional retch and spew. There was nothing left, but Valera’s body seemed to have forgotten that - or maybe it just didn’t care.
Her blood pounded, beating against her ears like a drum...
2021-08-21 04:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post3rd chapter today, make sure you didn't skip the other ones.
I recoiled at the sight, horrified. The green-black veins, small though they were, formed a tangled mass at the nape of my Coreless’ neck, centered around a ligh...
2021-08-19 05:11:02 +0000 UTC View Post2nd chapter today, don't skip previous chapter.
...we weren’t getting any closer to the Core. It wasn’t hard to notice, even without the scent-taste of the Lesser Core on my tongue; after all, we had found ourselves at t...
2021-08-18 22:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back, and we'll likely be going for a breakneck upload pace for the remainder of the month. First chapter today, going for at least three (already have two done).
The female-who-was-not-Needle listlessly cut the-root-tha...
2021-08-18 22:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostValera’s breath caught within her throat. It lodged itself there, holding fast, while her eyes roved over Verdant Grove.
More accurately, while they roved over what it had become.
Though she had never visited it herself, t...
2021-08-10 03:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe scent-taste of darkwood and glow-caps, intermingling with a variety of other scent-tastes that I had never encountered, only grew stronger as we grew closer to the Lesser Core. Yet, unlike the tantalizing scent-taste of the Core its...
2021-08-06 04:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post` My Coreless did not sleep comfortably that night; they shifted around in fits and spurts, a certain degree of [restlessness] in each nearby [Little Guardian’s Totem]. In a way, tha...
2021-07-31 05:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostRecreating Tiamat was just as difficult as I had expected, which was part of the reason that I hadn’t tried to do so in the past. I hadn’t wanted to risk the Coreless dismissing the threat that she posed, especially when there was s...
2021-07-30 02:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostValera felt her brow furrow as she watched Orken’s Little Guardian. The tiny snake was acting strange; normally, he seemed extremely eager to devour anything and everything that he could fit down his tiny throat. But right now, instea...
2021-07-29 00:58:56 +0000 UTC View Post