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Serenity followed the young man through a maze of identical-looking corridors to a door near the end of a hall; just a little farther on was an exit. Serenity knew he’d want to find out where that door led when he left, so that he could find the room on his own next time.
The young man rapped on the door...
2022-04-09 22:56:19 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It took Serenity six hours to cleanse the rest of the Sterath memories the next day.
Each Sterath was faster than the humans that were his only previous experience, because they were far younger. Sterath grew up quickly, but they didn’t usually live very long; they were a prolific race, and most died in co...
2022-04-08 23:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Neither Ita nor the Scout Strike Group’s memories had any information on where Tranquil Conviction might be; none of them had known he was present on the planet.
Ita simply seemed to accept that Serenity could remember some things from the Sterath he’d killed. Serenity almost wanted to ask her why, but he...
2022-04-07 22:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity looked down at himself and saw a carapace clean of rank-marks and achievements; the only mark on it was his own Lordship symbol. It was more complex than he’d realized when he looked at Ita; not only was it his own wings, from his dragon or chimera forms, colored in the bluish-purple of his scales and ...
2022-04-06 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity walked up to the policeman and the military liaison discussing where the Sterath should be taken. The soldier seemed to be the older of the two, and appeared to be winning the argument.
Neither of them seemed to notice Serenity consciously until he spoke. “The first place they really should be ta...
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Her Lord turned to the two humans and asked something. Ita couldn’t understand it and she also couldn’t understand their response, so she didn’t understand why he grumbled something and became fluid again, turning into a human again! That ability to masquerade as something he wasn’t was still deep...
2022-04-04 22:52:21 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity didn’t care that he’d lost his ax somewhere in the melee; it would come when he called, and he had weapons at the ends of his fingers anyway. He clenched his right hand around the Sterath’s throat; there wasn’t chitin there, and it was the easiest vulnerable point, similar to a human. Blood had to...
2022-04-03 22:49:49 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Battlelord Flameheart frowned. Any of his Scout Strike Groups should be back by now; they could all move quickly. That was the point of having Strike Scouts; all Strike team members had movement Skills. They should have been able to do the distance discreetly in less than ten minutes each way, yet it’d been more...
2022-04-02 23:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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BattleLord Flameheart turned to his aide. “What were the results at the portal site? Were they able to clean it up enough?”
The aide shook his head. “They’re not back yet.”
“Odd. It must have been more difficult than I expected. Let me know when they arrive; I’d like to get their impressio...
2022-04-02 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Ita tza’Unkaa shivered as she huddled in the dimess and mist her new Lord had suggested she make. She couldn’t very well see out of it; hopefully no one else could see in.
Only she wasn’t Ita tza’Unkaa anymore, was she? Unkaa had fallen; they had to have failed for the Kaelitha to treat her the way th...
2022-04-01 23:30:07 +0000 UTC View PostApril will continue the schedule we've had: 8 chapters a week for Chimera and an extra chapter every other week for Pathed.
In May, we'll start at 17 chapters ahead for Pathed. I'm planning to stop expanding Pathed at 20; I can either reduce it to 1 bonus chapter a month starting in May to line it up with when Chimera will hit 50 (which is...
2022-03-31 23:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe poll closes at TONIGHT!
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Serenity glanced around the room. He’d checked it out before, but mostly paid attention to the portals instead of the room itself. It had four entrances; other than the one he stood at, there were two pairs of double doors in the far wall and a single interior door on the l...
2022-03-31 22:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostHave I used this title before? I might have. Ehh, it doesn't matter. It's still a good title, right?
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“Battlelord?” The messenger panted, barely able to express the single word after his dead run into the Battlelord’s presence.
Battlelord Flameheart hoped this wasn’t yet another unexpected pro...
2022-03-30 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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She spoke in a strange, mode-less version of Sterath. Serenity could understand it, but it was only used when you didn’t know the relative relationship to use the correct mode; even then, it was an unusual mode. Serenity somehow hoped she’d used it on her captors, but it was more likely she was using it here...
2022-03-29 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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If the portal had just disappeared, chances were that any magical residue would be gone fairly soon; waiting would simply make it harder to find. If it was regularly used, that wouldn’t be as much of a problem, but they didn’t know what was there at all.
If it was created by a person, that person might still ...
2022-03-29 00:09:21 +0000 UTC View PostToday's chapter will be out soon.
Sorry for the delay; my cat had a vet appointment this afternoon. I thought an hour and a half would be plenty, but here we are two hours later ....
The cat's fine. Pissed at me and needs a dental cleaning, but fine. So yay?
2022-03-28 23:23:06 +0000 UTC View PostReminder for the Pathed: Please vote in the Chapter Schedule Poll if you haven't already. I'm planning on shutting it down after this weekend based on the results.
Right now, 'space out the bonus chapters' is winning.
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Althyr looked up from his book to find he had a new visitor. His study certainly h...
2022-03-27 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the second draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Training Abilities
Training abilities are abilities that are given as part of your Path to help you learn what’s needed to follow the Path. For example, a warrior might ...
2022-03-26 23:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the third draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe, as revised for the tenth draft
Experience
Your Path requires experience to advance. That’s obvious; what’s less obvious is how to get it.
In the Tutorial, it’s...
2022-03-26 23:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity stared at the numbers. They whipped by almost too fast to see. Serenity kept his eyes on the numbers anyway, hoping he’d notice a pattern. After a moment, the only thing he’d noticed was that there were spaces between some of the numbers.
It was a start. He’d need to get a good long sample t...
2022-03-25 22:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the second draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Common Utility Path Abilities (Continued)
Party
The Party skill (also often known as Group or Team) provides a semi-customizable interface with lim...
2022-03-24 23:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the second draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Common Utility Path Abilities (Continued)
Equip
Equip is like Inventory in that you must have access to whatever you are wanting to “equip”. While...
2022-03-23 23:14:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the second draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Common Utility Path Abilities (Continued)
Inventory
Inventory is an odd skill, because it requires the use of an external item or location. All it...
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Excerpt from the second draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Common Utility Path Abilities (Continued)
Identify
Identify allows the identification of the properties (and sometimes characteristics or history...
2022-03-21 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the second draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Common Utility Path Abilities
There are many different abilities that are available from different Paths; one thing to remember is that many Paths overlap. This is especial...
2022-03-20 23:06:36 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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[Select your mode for the Round Two: Dungeon Manifestation, Avatar, or Core (Unavailable - protected by Avatar)]
Dungeon Manifestation had worked well; Serenity decided to see if he could try out some other options. He hoped something would change; if they could both just keep doing the same...
2022-03-19 23:14:35 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It wasn’t long before Echo pointed at the corn next to the stalk that held the core. “There. And there. I can’t tell what it is, but it’s there.”
Serenity’s voice was cold; danger in the dungeon core room was a sign of an excessively dangerous core. The standard action was to destroy any core th...
2022-03-19 23:10:36 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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After the trapvine, they all tried to stay near the center of the cleared area of the path, where the vines couldn’t reach. It was all too easy to get close enough to one of the sides, though, and they quickly found out that this dungeon really liked trapvines, at least in this section.
Fortunately, no one...
2022-03-18 23:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity’s eyes flicked from the words “Growth Available” to “Contained”. This was a disaster waiting to happen. “Well, hell.”
Morwen’s “What’s the matter?” overlapped with Doyle’s “What?”.
“It’s a contained dungeon, growth-contained at that. They’re one of the few du...
2022-03-17 23:07:48 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Excerpt from the fifth draft of An Earthling’s Guide to the Larger Universe
Dungeon Types (Continued)
There are a few competitors for “most dangerous dungeon type,” but the one that is probably the most dangerous to the surroundings is called ...
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