I still wasn’t sure why Pryte had been so upset by the roof collapse in the pavilion. They had been bound to make a few mistakes yesterday. Most of them had no idea about construction work, and Alex wasn’t in any shape for heavy labor. The impor...
2025-03-23 21:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
That fact that Pryte was even doing this was kind of insane, sure, he had been bored with his job, but he was also comfortable. Just because the restless nagging of adventure had started to poke at him the last few hundred years or s...
“John how are you feeling,” I asked the moment I was back into the waiting room. The smile on his face was nearly reaching his ears, which was more than I had seen on him since he was a baby. Was it just pleasant to form a core ...
2025-03-21 03:40:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Monster up ahead, get ready!” Rabyn yelled after several minutes of running, causing everyone to skid to a stop. I spotted what he had already seen: there was a giant blue blob-like creature sitting at the bottom of the path. 2025-03-19 03:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
I woke up the next morning to find Rabyn, Maud, and John in the kitchen waiting for me. “Morning,” John said as I walked in.
“What’s up?” I asked, yawning and wiping some sleep from my eyes, covering which likely...
2025-03-18 04:32:00 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, anyone wanna tell me what went wrong?” Mel said once all of us were collected, healed, and mostly conscious, sitting at a series of newly constructed tables. Only Trolke had not stayed for this conversation. Immediately...
“Alright, the idea here is I want ya all to capture every one of these balls, intact,” Mel yelled before he tossed thirty green balls that looked better suited for a tennis match than whatever we were doing into the air. “O...
“As long as it gets us free from the prison you keep us in. We wish to experience the world again!” one of the two orbs said.
“I will even offer you my knowledge of channeling. Just let us be free!” the second said. I w...
2025-03-15 05:35:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I was able to push myself to level three thirty-nine, not far enough for another fortification yet, but further than I had been before, with both a more powerful primary core, and a fancy secondary core in the form of Corey. Comp...
Mana flooded through my system, far more controlled than before. It wasn’t even Corey’s doing yet, the fortification itself had completely repaired my channels, no, it had done better than that. They were stronger than before. My core rank was u...
2025-03-12 02:25:12 +0000 UTC View Post
“Go, I’ll catch up!” Pryte yelled before I even had a chance to question the scream. I took off at a run, pushing my body as fast as I could. I figured we had walked maybe two miles into the woods, and it took me less than five...
After spotting Elody, I wasn’t sure I actually wanted to interrupt her. Both she and Mel were in front of the cloudwood, eyes closed, and surprisingly for Elody, floating. Mel’s colors were slowly shifting, in sync with different color clouds, ...
2025-03-08 10:24:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hey, Mom, yeah, Dad’s here… Yeah, we can do a speaker call one second,” Alex said. If the cell networks were back up that likely meant some things were starting to get straightened out again. Was that just in the immediate of the United...
“Gathering?” I asked, not entirely sure what he was talking about again. The idea of having some sort of get-together for people like us seemed like an incredibly idiotic idea, considering the warning both of them had made s...
I woke up the next day without my usual sense of dread permeating my brain. It was a welcome change. From the lack of smells, it was possible I was even the first person awake. That meant it was a good time to go track down wherever Chip had sl...
Below is a short story with an open ending I wrote for a Shadow Light competition. This will likely be slowly expanded on in the future.
Chapter 1: There Would Have Been a Fight
“Can someone please turn that light off? James, please, where are you?” The man said loudly as the blinding light shone d...
2025-03-01 08:43:14 +0000 UTC View Post
All thoughts of having a quick conversation on my discovery became lost the moment the tree settled into its new spot. Its bark and leaves briefly shimmered before small clouds appeared around its upper branches. This was follow...
After that conversation, Pryte and Elody left me alone to do my own planning. Pryte wanted to check on the new equipment and make sure Mel was doing okay. Elody had promised Maud she would give her some advice on her leveling up situ...
“So what is being delivered from those prizes anyway?” I asked. I had no real idea what they could contain, considering apparently the orcs had won Earth in level one prize. So it seemed likely they could be just about anythi...
Not that I had ever really doubted our decision to save Glorp, but if I had the moment he showed up and returned us the favor with a save from the monster that had gotten the drop on me and disabled Corey, I would have doubted n...
Maud
Maud wasn’t sure what to make her new life. It was somehow both her favorite dream and worst nightmare. She was glad her parents hadn’t been alive to see it. Sure, she had gotten some of her wildest wi...
Cecile
When Cecile had first spotted Dave, looking barely alive and out of his mind in the Spire his initial thought had been to help him. While most of the species he had seen over the last week had been b...
In my standard reread of the day's chapter before posting, I decided I didn't like how it sounded, so I'm reworking a bunch of it. It may be as late as early tomorrow (but still probably tonight).
We've cleared the first Royal Road metric for a bonus chapter as well, so I will be posting that tomorrow.
Connie was proud of herself, extraordinarily proud of herself. Gramps was going to be over the moon when she got word to him that the plan had worked. They had made contact and none of them were the wiser for it. They all thought it ...
Rabyn looked around the room the moment the door had closed. The item he had to bring to the finish had already appeared in the next room, but he wanted to be sure there was nothing worthwhile hiding in here first. It was always possible...
2025-02-20 00:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Truth be told, Elody wasn’t entirely sure why she had decided to join Dave. Sure, she had given him some reasons that were entirely true now, but they weren’t from the start. There had been something different about that strange man the mome...
By the end of the second day of training, Maud and Glorp had both gotten a pretty good handle on using their new abilities, especially in regards to fighting each other with them. I, on the other hand, had managed nothing. Despite Elody’s th...
“Alright so we skip the class for now then. Maud any idea on a mana orb?” I asked, focusing the conversation back onto the here and now. I decided I’d worry about faction wars later when Pryte explained to me more about them....
2025-02-15 01:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post“The choice may be harder for Maud, but I think I’m already sold on this Combat Rogue. I’ve been eying it since the moment Mel identified it anyway. Mixing that with my courier class is going to do wonders for my battlefield mobili...
2025-02-13 23:02:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Before you start, Glorp already told me. Luckily since the squad still isn’t full, adding Maud to it is simple enough. What I am worried about, though, is you. We’re nearing two weeks of time used up, and you’ve regressed ...
2025-02-13 00:09:34 +0000 UTC View Post