Quindalias
There was nothing quite like being at ground-zero for a pressure still explosion. Theo dusted himself off after standing right next to one of Throk’s pressure stills after it blew up. At least he was within the Dreamwalk, immune to injuries. But he had only added the alchemical residue to the container, noth...
2024-09-13 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostShadow
The Great Shards were more than just giant crystals that looked pretty. They were massive lodestones that worked to stabilize the world’s energy. Without them, the ascendants could do whatever they wanted to rewrite the rules of the system. Bend them, anyway. They soaked mortal energy, preventing the worst of th...
2024-09-06 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEvolution
“Sweet. Now we have a juiced up super detective from Earth roaming the northern wastes. What could go wrong?” Theo asked.
“We don’t know what his plans are.”
“Is it a coincidence that I cast Twist from Death’s realm at the same time Jan went rogue?” Theo asked. “He’s going after ...
2024-08-30 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostTara’hek Union
“Oh, hell yeah!” Tresk shouted, jumping into the air and pumping her fist. The horns on her head grew as her eyes flared purple. Her fat tail grew thin as it whipped through the air.
Theo’s features took the opposite turn. He wasn’t sure what he thought about his dronon-marshl...
2024-08-23 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCreepy Statue Man
Crossing the 100 Wisdom threshold had extended Theo’s precognition to an absurd level. It had more than doubled since he last tested it, making Tresk’s attempt in the Dreamwalk almost futile. Even when she looked through his eyes, she had trouble keeping up with the predictive effect. The alchemist ...
2024-08-16 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Barn
Theo couldn’t simulate the creation of new cores within the Dreamwalk. It allowed him to do things that worked with his cores, such as creating golems. But new things like cores just weren’t possible. What it did allow him to do was mess around with energies. This gave him a chance to consider the relationsh...
2024-08-09 11:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWho Slept With Who
Theo stood in the system’s realm, standing on the raised platform and looking over the twelve spots. He assumed he had the entire place to himself, but a faint glow issued from one spot. Golden light pooled on the ground, soon creating the form of a young person. Or one of the smaller races of the wo...
2024-08-02 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostBal’gon
Constructing a mixer artifice to suit Theo’s needs required the keenest mind in the region. Throk acted annoyed when he was called back to Broken Tusk. But his annoyed expression melted away after a while. Especially after he saw Tresk standing in his workshop. The alchemist's ploy to pull at the grumpy marsh...
2024-07-26 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostTwist in the Wind
A pulse of light burst from Sulvan, sending both Jan and Twist tumbling back. Theo placed a boot on Jan’s chest while both Sarisa and Rowan restrained Twist. Golems patrolling the town lumbered over, taking the powerful elf and holding him there. The alchemist looked between both parties, watching the...
2024-07-19 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostNew Alchemical Methods
Theo gave Sulvan access to a piece of the administration interface, allowing him to give updates about the new arrival. The alchemist settled into the lab. Salire had a way of clearing his mind of the outside world, helping him focus completely on alchemy. It didn’t hurt that the hired artificer ...
2024-07-12 11:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostQuaff Your Potions
The Dreamwalk had become a place where Theo exploited Zaul’s core. While Tresk and Alex spent their time grinding out levels or improving their combat techniques. He doubted it would help them if they needed to fight a wave of Level 90 monsters, but there were other threats they could handle. The mar...
2024-07-05 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostInsight Overwhelming
It took the raiding parties a while to break through the collapsed stone tunnels. Theo folded his arms as he watched them pour forth, extending his aura to ensnare them all. He would have felt bad for them, had they not been so completely prepared for war. Instead, he saw the battle as a reaping of w...
2024-06-28 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDeathbloom
The wind whipped by as Theo took the tram north. Several golems working in Gronro-Dir needed maintenance and it had been too long since he had seen the area for himself. While Fenian’s battle with the Worldbreaker had been bad for the continent, he avoided slicing the southlands up. While it was normally fun...
2024-06-21 11:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostPotent Poisons
Theo walked through the swamp with Sarisa and Rowan for the remainder of that day. Something he learned about this area was the expansiveness of it. The swamp behind Broken Tusk went on for miles. While the mountains in all directions but east were visible from Xol’sa’s towers, approaching them was ano...
2024-06-14 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostCurious Potions
Getting a handle on this new class of reagents wasn’t easy. Theo had woken the next morning, his mind focused entirely on the topic. He moved like a zombie, heading down to the first floor of his manor to pick at his food. Sarisa forced him to eat like a concerned mother hen. When he finally snapped out ...
2024-05-31 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostPurge
Qavell was a massive city. Even after losing half of its area, the city sprawled in every direction. Theo and his newly formed strike team stalked the halls of the palace, the king following closely behind. He had only stopped stammering about the monsters within his inner circle after exhausting himself. The alchem...
2024-05-24 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostA Curious Journey
Boulders fell from the sides of a stranded city. The once-capital of the Kingdom of Qavell rested amongst the waves, pieces falling into the ocean below. Wooden constructions leaned against her sides, holding her as firmly as they could as a demon watched from the sides. Theo Spencer observed the teams o...
2024-05-17 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostSure, Buddy
Tresk stalked the halls of the king’s palace, sticking to the shadows to remain out of sight. Alex waddled close behind. This wasn’t a suicide mission, though. They had a way out of things got dicey. She only needed one hit on the critter to be happy. A single slash to apply the Venom effect. That way, if...
2024-05-10 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAscension
Harvesting souls didn’t appeal to Theo. His mind twisted, trying to find a way that this could be a good thing. Any souls that were invited to stay within Tero’gal could be sent to the Realm of Healing to join Glantheir. Was dragging souls out of undead vessels better than allowing them to languish on the m...
2024-05-03 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSilly Splicing
“We could try something silly,” Salire said, kneeling to pat the marshling children on the head. They giggled.
“I’m feeling pretty silly. What do you have?”
“Attribute reagents. Let’s smash them together and see what happens.”
That wasn’t a horrible idea. Attribute reage...
2024-04-26 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostBombardment
The distance between Broken Tusk and Qavell was something like a hundred to two-hundred miles. If Theo had to guess. He remembered a time on Earth when making firing solutions was easy. They could poke a screen a few times and send a shot from orbit. The alchemist would have dismissed Zan’kir’s idea right...
2024-04-19 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostPrivate Army
It was always a pleasure watching Ziz’s team get to work. They had created so many weird structures, starting with the bridge and the harbor, that they were now a well-oiled machine. Instead of going with a tower design, which was required for the ocean dungeon, they did something different. First, they re...
2024-04-12 11:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostDeadly Toxin
Theo reached a hand out, helping Ziz remove himself from the deep quarry. The wooden ladder strained under his weight, but held. The half-ogre clapped a hand on the alchemist shoulder and beamed a smile.
“Don’t delay,” Ziz said. “You don’t get that look on your face often enough, Theo.”
... 2024-04-05 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostEarth Sorcerer’s Core
Unfortunately, Xol’sa had adopted a local Broken Tusker tradition. As Theo sat with him and Zarali in the wizard’s tower, a faint fire crackled in the fireplace. If not for the Coat of Rake, the alchemist would have been uncomfortable. Instead, he sat among those musty tomes with his companion...
2024-03-29 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis Ain’t Zalaban
Theo flailed in his mind, desperate to move or dispel the potion. Nothing worked. He could only look around the remnants of Vesta as words came into his mind but were never spoken aloud. The figure below laughed, soon releasing a rattling cough that chilled the alchemist to the bone.
“What sp...
2024-03-22 11:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe
2024-03-15 11:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostA mossy forest, filled with conifers, smooth boulders, and bubbling streams stretched as far as Theo could see. He touched the bark of one tree, finding it to be a fair recreation of Earth trees. Tresk had pushed herself as far as she could go to imagine the dream landscape, and the alchemist was ...
2024-03-08 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe cottage in Tero’gal was stuffier than normal. A fire crackled in the fireplace as several gods sat around the table, sipping tea and trading war stories of times-gone-by. Theo watched as Drogramath, Uz’Xulven, Glantheir, and Benton chatted about the way things were. The bear god was the one w...
2024-03-01 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA familiar landscape spread into the distance from Theo’s vantage point. Standing on the battlements of his imagined town, he looked down to the harbor below. With little effort for his two main cores, he planned to toil the night away to hit Level 28. But it was as important to not neg...
2024-02-23 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of the dwarven smith Thim’s hammer rang out in the early morning. He formed it into a spherical cage of Drogramathi Iron, magically setting glowing hunks of iron into place with his class core. Theo watched nearby. Artisans were always happy to get rush orders because they got paid rush prices. ...
2024-02-16 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post