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Multiform
You may assume the shape of any Form you know. All Forms reflect yourself and all Forms are reflected in some manner in your Chimera Form. Detailed control of Forms increases with familiarity. Any Forms above the minimum require a continual maintenance cost of both Mana and...
2023-09-01 01:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Death watched the two Beast Gods from her position in the shadows. They didn’t know she was there and she was going to keep it that way until everything turned out the way she thought it would. She didn’t want to handle the reactions she knew she’d get if she went out there now. She was used to solitude and ...
2023-08-30 23:25:42 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The wave of magic that swept over Serenity filled him with far too many sensations. The first was that he was surrounded by food, but far too much of it and it was all mushed together to make an unappetizing mess. It was cloyingly sweet, eye-wateringly sour, overwhelmingly bitter, burnt, and incredibly salty, a...
2023-08-29 21:36:17 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The demon snarled at Serenity. “You did this. You took my passion from me.” It didn’t wait for him to respond; instead, it charged.
This time, it wasn’t an insubstantial shadow where he only had to avoid the points. This time, it wasn’t a magical attack his ax could cut. This time, the demon wasn’...
2023-08-28 23:16:37 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Aide wasn’t able to provide the creature’s exact location; the cameras didn’t cover the right areas. They were all pointed at the sphere, not the hallway. They had some coverage of the hallway but not enough; they didn’t have a good view of anything past the watch room and none of the side rooms were co...
2023-08-28 00:59:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“...trouble obtaining certain of the properties at the price you wanted.” Landon Carter smiled the charming, well-kept smile that had gotten him the trust to get started and continued to get him trust as he skirted the edges of both legality and morality to get the most for himself and, according to his own wor...
2023-08-27 00:54:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Can I skip the evolution?” Serenity muttered the words out loud. He wasn’t enthusiastic about the whole evolution thing by now; sure, he mostly liked being a dragon, and most of the others weren’t too bad, but demon wasn’t one of the ones he’d chosen. It was just a form he’d acquired through Sovereign ...
2023-08-26 05:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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As if in response to Serenity’s thoughts, Collapsing Labyrinth (timed) was one of the options. If this was anything like the similar self-destroying floors Serenity had seen before, there would be more than enough time to get out; he’d carried allies through similar levels as Vengeance. It would shake a bit ...
2023-08-25 04:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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[Themes offered based on current circumstances: {}]
[Expand the Theme set by offering options]
That was remarkably unhelpful. What even was a Theme?
Wait, he knew that; Aki had talked about it. It was sort of like a setting, wasn’t it? Was a historical dungeon ...
2023-08-24 04:42:55 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity went from light to darkness, then to light again. The light was dimmer the second time, more bearable. He saw all of A’Atla, both the surface and the depths, from the spire that was slowly emerging as the building that had hidden it was blasted away by overwhelming mana to the dead spot wrapped in mana-...
2023-08-22 22:01:40 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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When the moment finally came, Serenity was in a room only a little ways down the hall, watching the cameras he’d installed wherever he could get access. It meant he had a view of about half of the sphere; the other half was inside walls or through connections that were so many miles out of the way without being ab...
2023-08-21 22:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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With all the effort required to set up the more open exploration of A’Atla’s powerplant, it was several days after Serenity’s own exploration was complete before he could really break away and check on how the task he was really interested in was coming along.
It wasn’t done. Serenity was fairly c...
2023-08-20 23:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Over the next few hours, they explored the control room. That did indeed seem to be what it was, though Serenity wasn’t certain why it was here; it seemed to be entirely redundant with A’Atla’s AI managing the ship and its engine.
Samantha and Liam were excited, at least.
Eventually, Serenity a...
2023-08-19 22:36:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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They moved on, but that wasn’t the last body they saw. The area where the corridor they were following crossed another had clearly been heavily contested. Serenity saw six others in similar garb to the first dead man and one man in armor.
The armor wasn’t the same as the armor on the statues near the entr...
2023-08-19 04:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Roberts was not with the group the next time they traveled into the tunnels. Other than him, however, everyone was ready to return two days after the fight, even the man who took the shoulder injury. Serenity learned his name was Ron Williams. That was really all he knew about the man; he was good with a rifle and...
2023-08-18 05:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Several more shouts and some gunfire were the only clues Serenity got before the others crossed back out of the stream. Ita was fine, as were two of the soldiers; of the other two, one walked with Ita’s help and the other was carried by the other two soldiers.
The basilisks definitely didn’t go down witho...
2023-08-17 04:30:13 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Checking on the complex object Serenity and Amani designed to stop the strange leak in A’Atla’s artificial ley line nexus only took a few hours. Serenity couldn’t even tell if there was any effect from it. All he could do was have patience; it would be several more days before he expected to see results and p...
2023-08-15 23:45:49 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“You should take Liam with you next time. No, Samantha. Actually, why not both?” Rissa tapped her bowl with her fork. “Definitely Blaze, too, in case you get bitten again. You said there are only two functional protective shawls, right?”
Serenity nodded, confused. How did she expect him to get ever...
2023-08-15 00:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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A fourth gaze impacted against his shield, then another. Serenity could feel as the overlapping gazes tore a hole in his shield against curses. He had to hold them here until they died or start over; if he waited, he’d only be in worse circumstances. They’d all be aware and watching the shore if he took time t...
2023-08-13 23:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostI was hoping for early, but I managed on time. I'm going to be happy with that.
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With the enchanted cloth wrapped around his shoulders, crossed over his front, and tucked into his belt, Serenity stepped forward into the fiery-looking stream of mana. The first few steps were shallow, but the level quickly r...
2023-08-12 22:47:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Were the bites taken before or after the person was turned to stone? It wouldn’t matter to the long-dead body, but it might matter to Serenity. There were a number of different creatures that had petrification abilities of one sort or another, but only a handful of creatures actually ate stone.
At the same t...
2023-08-12 06:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Getting Amani back to Rissa and calmed down took a while even though Serenity and Amani took one of Ita’s portals back. Convincing her that it was fine if she didn’t accompany him the rest of the way to the Deep Gate took even longer. It was late enough that Rissa told Serenity to wait until morning.
<... 2023-08-11 05:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter. It was very, very Wed today (and I think I got a little food poisoning too). I'm feeling mostly better now, just more tired than usual for this hour, but it did delay the chapter.
I expect tomorrow's will be late as well.
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The night before they left, Ita showed up for d...
2023-08-10 03:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Rissa, Amani, and Blaze were eating when Serenity looked up from Psyche’s only slightly ominous warning. Jenna wasn’t eating; instead, she was playing with her food.
Serenity blinked, surprised. “Blaze? I wasn’t expecting you here.”
Blaze flashed a grin at Serenity. “You should have. Can yo...
2023-08-08 23:17:09 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity was grateful when Rissa came in to make dinner and interrupted the awkward moment caused by his thoroughly failed attempt to distract Amani. He was even more relieved when she shot him a glare that was more amused than angry and ushered Amani away to help with the mean. Amani was happy to go.
That ...
2023-08-07 23:28:05 +0000 UTC View PostShe hadn’t believed him?
Serenity figuratively shook himself. Of course she hadn’t believed him! Would he have believed someone who told him the Earth was destroyed if he hadn’t seen it? He wouldn’t have. Not without evidence. This was just as big a loss to him as that had been to Vengeance. Maybe bigger; Vengeance had already lost...
2023-08-06 22:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Blood trickled down Serenity’s arm where the salamander’s teeth had penetrated his robe and bit into his arm. It was painful, but not too bad. The only real problem was that it wasn’t healing the way he was used to.
It was just like after the summoner, but this time he knew what was going on. He was in...
2023-08-05 22:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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When he finished, Serenity slipped out of the rubble and back into the shape of his Crystal Hilt. For all that the dispelling knife spell was cheap, he was low on mana; that had to be because of the secondary effect he was having on the residue. It was like it pulled mana out of him.
It was easy enough to co...
2023-08-05 03:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity glanced back at the trident. The message and the fact that he couldn’t sense any magic about it made him feel positively paranoid. If he’d been affected by something he couldn’t see, putting it in his Rift wouldn’t hurt anything. On the other hand, if the hologram was truthful, it was just a mes...
2023-08-03 23:57:32 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Team Two, Liam, and Mark met “Tom Cooper” at the outer camp less than an hour after Serenity’s alarm went off. He was the last one there, because he’d stopped to eat some breakfast. If he couldn’t have a good night’s sleep, he wanted to at least be fed.
There was no sign of any Night Fire on any o...
2023-08-03 00:23:10 +0000 UTC View Post