One poorly-made meal of turtle soup, a not-too-long day of sprinting, and a single self-healing session later, Reid looked down into Snug Valley with a brow raised. It was more of a mix of a gorge and a valley than one or the other. Grasses lined a series of rolling hills that sloped upward the further they got from the water, until they turned ...
2025-04-30 14:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post[ The longer I live, the wider the gap gets. Circles get smaller. I've had to start looking off-world just to find people strong enough to spar with. People stop pushing themselves, or they get comfortable. I feel the opposite. My mission still drives me, but so does the challenge. The fight and the contest. It would've been nice to spar with yo...
2025-04-28 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid's head stung as he woke up to a starry night sky. His body felt heavy, spent, and empty in ways it was hard to describe. He stayed there, staring at nothing while he waited for the headache feeling to go away.
It didn't.
Nyx didn't answer him when he called out, so Reid groaned and sat up straight, then scooted aw...
2025-04-25 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
The transition from mountainous forest to grassy plains was somewhat abrupt, and also saw a change in local wildlife. Birds with black and yellow feathers, fan-like tails, and hooks at the end of each wing blotted out large portions of the sky whenever they left their home trees. They took flight as large, beige felines scrambled ...
2025-04-23 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostHugo rubbed his chin with one hand, and gave Reid a trepid look. The two of them were properly alone now, following a bout of revelry and celebration from the Vuxarinans that notably didn't extend to bad-hair Yudel and a few of the other officers. Maybe they'd come around, in time.
"My apologies for putting you in such a position without d...
2025-04-21 14:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostReid let himself into the simple looking building, and resisted the urge to pinch his nose. There was a smell to this place that, unfortunately, reminded Reid of his time on Thad's ship.
Three of the cages were empty, but stained floors indicated that people had their lives ended on that metal.
Another seven cages only held women and...
2025-04-18 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostNew Quest: Faction Wars!
Objective: Select Your Faction [ 0d 4h 34m 31s ]
As a new entry to the tutorial with no established faction, you fought your foes as a warrior and took control of their base. By killing the base leader, you have been deemed a individual qualifier. As an individual qua...
2025-04-16 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRequiem's ivory flanges slammed into another set of burgundy armor. The hard metal resisted for a moment before his weapon tore it apart. Crushed by the blow and stuck inside the armor, the man popped open like a grape.
You have defeated Belar Trade Corporation Guard - lvl 16. Experience awarded.
A bolt of energy sla...
2025-04-14 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post<+=/ Jenna \=+>
Before the invaders came, she'd been a pilot. Technology on Vuxarina had advanced precipitously after the discovery of the alien ship, and with that came the ability to experience possibilities that were exciting and new - if you had the right credentials to access them.
The ship Jenna dreamed of was far less gr...
2025-04-11 14:00:29 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid's fingers pressed against the beacon's surface. In the back of his mind, he expected to recoil - he anticipated pain. The burning, awful experience from Sanctuary's beacon was still solid in his memory. But this time was distinctly different.
Instead of burning heat, Reid only felt a comforting warmth as the connection ...
2025-04-09 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post[ I'm at your statue again, writing in my Djournal. It's been a rough few weeks, but I'm alright. I took time for myself. No matter how bad things get, I can always go let the waves wash over me - or sit still and watch tree leaves slowly turning towards the sun. There's a beauty in nature that's simply hard to rival. One good sunset is ...
2025-04-07 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post<//| Fozz |\\>
Fozz had approached the start of the conversation the same as every other. People down here had been mistreated and left to their own devices. The only interaction they'd had with authority was probably corrupt and morally bankrupt local enforcers - and the people that had put them in this hole. It was natural for them...
2025-04-04 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen their bodies and tear ducts were sufficiently dried, the trio made their way back into the cavern.
The area was still a mix of people eagerly waiting in line and groups that were sticking to the walls, as far away from the new arrivals as they could manage. More ships had arrived on the cavern floor, and the net was removed to make la...
2025-04-02 14:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post<//| Fozz |\\>
Fozz's hand gripped hard on the transport's grimy, rusted outer wall. The ship's descent was slow, but steady. He hated that this poorly maintained craft would be the first one down into the prison, but his options were few. Inside, most of the seats were poorly secured. It was still better than the smaller options. Th...
2025-03-31 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostReid had made a lot of assumptions. There were recent ones he'd made about the mole king, quite a few things he'd assumed about stats and power, but he mostly made assumptions about people.
In his mind, Reid had assumed Win's role in fights was healer first, and everything else second. He saw her as a clinician and apothecary, the...
2025-03-28 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
He found himself, once again, immensely impressed with his friend. It had only taken Win five hours to go from identifying the potential of an insect attack, to rallying what felt like the entire mine to her call. She'd just as quickly established roles, groups, and areas of responsibility. Reid viewed Ma...
2025-03-26 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post<//| Fozz |\\>
Fozz looked over his prisoner. The man was thin and showed signs of long-term stress and malnourishment, but was also conspicuously clean. He wore a uniform for a local cobalt mining company that was too new to have ever been used. He showed signs of recent healing, and shied away from looking in DenWu’s general dire...
2025-03-24 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid moaned and spat. He was breathing through his nose, but his mouth filled with more blood and saliva every few seconds, and he had to either swallow it or spit it out. The bucket he had for doing so was half full, and Reid had been a bit shocked when he first realized his altered blood was a blue hue instead of the normal red....
2025-03-21 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe guns mounted to the assault bus swept over the crowd. The second ship halted 20 feet from the cavern floor, and dropped a rectangular platform with high railings. The platform carried a a lone enforcer decked out in reflective, but battle scarred armor. It covered every inch of his body - including an eerie relief of a face set into the fron...
2025-03-19 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post[ You'd think that, after a certain point, people would stop doubting that you're strong right? Especially after you've proven it time and time again. I swear, it's like the more I do and the more people see me doing, the more they question whether everything about me is fake or not. There are so many damn stories and rumors. The zealots...
2025-03-17 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid's pulse pounded in his ears as he ran. His mind worked through the implications of the last few hours.
They'd lost the mole skulls. Almost all of them, aside from the king's head, had been out with Lycra while he worked. That meant they had to hope the ones left would get them far enough along in their debts to see them...
2025-03-14 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
[ I started talking to Gina again, after the subterranean excursion. I didn't see the sun for four months. Tunnels suck. Bugs suck worse. I never want to go underground again. There's more shit down there, things that even I'm not ready to fight yet. But yeah, writing because Gina asked me to, unrelated to the tunnels. A man...
2025-03-12 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post[ Until this past week, it had been a while since I fought a person. Usually Marlene or one of the others takes care of them before they become much of an issue. This one only got the chance to fight me because they were secluded and I went alone. Little island, middle of the ocean kind of thing. When Queen's Edge bit through his F grade...
2025-03-10 14:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post[ This whole time, they tricked me. The doubling in the points I gain and the bonuses they shell out was never about me finding some wonderful loophole. Pathfinder just made the best of a bad situation. My contract is based on the creation of a new 'framework' that Blasdej gets to license. I've had to type this message ...
2025-03-07 15:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Okay, Reid. This is your final exam. I need to confirm you have this shit down well enough to get yourself the rest of the way to the limit on your own, or I'm not going to rest easy. Give me the summary of your understanding on the five basic Stats."
Reid pictured himself in his library, looking at an encyclopedia on stat knowle...
2025-03-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostReid breathed deep. He'd lost track of how much time it had taken him to get through the stats he'd progressed thus far - but it was at least weeks. He popped a bit of steak into his mouth and sent all of its nutrients and resources to his stores. He wanted to remain wholly focused on Nyx's lesson, and needed to be ready to drain himself dry to ...
2025-03-03 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post./\.+ Lycra +./\.
The device in his hand let out the rhythmic, nearly imperceptible vibration that let him know it was ready to be activated. He'd once imagined mana reactor technology as solely belonging to ships, but that was so very incorrect. Nyx dissuaded him of that notion, and made him realize a reactor was anything where an engrave...
2025-02-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostReid was forced to rest for nearly two full days following his constitution work - and that was with Win healing out the fatigue he'd accumulated. Just like using his power for explosive strength, using constitution's vitality stores to extend his stamina had massive backlash. Reid checked the description again as Nyx had him lie down.
&nb...
2025-02-25 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post(((..-- DenWu --..)))
Water droplets slammed hard into the windows and flowed slowly down to the gutter below. Each one flashed with its iridescent shine. Some complained about the fact the water needed to be filtered for consumption, but DenWu knew such things were simply the price of progress. Denduram would have faded into obscurity wit...
2025-02-24 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
"Alright - you should be exited - but lie back down. You won't want to do this sitting up."
Reid sheepishly lowered himself from sitting back down to a prone position and closed his eyes. His muscles were... less than happy with him.
"I want you to picture your metaphysic...
2025-02-21 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post