Over the next couple days, Peter would run Rosha ragged in a number of new and exciting ways. Though in the end, she was still digesting his first lesson and so he refrained from burdening her with more.
Peter, “Yep, I’ll probably head out early tomorrow.”
Rosha breathes a sigh of relief.
To which Peter grins and cheekily...
2025-08-20 05:10:19 +0000 UTC View PostInky points at the passage Gem picked out, “Okay guys, let’s head on out!”
Though their progress down the passage soon comes to a halt once again and Gem laughs. “Look at that! Damn thing splits in three. Won’t those people back at the start feel foolish if this is how things go!”
Inky frowns, “To the left.”
And...
2025-08-19 04:58:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe fifteen-minute break is up soon enough and the raid continues towards the ruins. This doesn’t take long, proving Emrys’ guess right. Though Gem and their team are a bit surprised.
The raid faced a ton of undead, especially that final major battle. And yet? The ruins didn’t look different at all.
There weren’t more undead ...
2025-08-19 04:58:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe morning dawns bright, finding the Guild raid already well on their way towards the ruins. The Lawbound Guild leader hovered ominously above everyone, keeping an eye on the procession, which wasn’t set up how many would have expected.
Instead of the usual blob tactic of surrounding the weak with the strong, the raid is set up with the...
2025-08-19 04:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt wouldn’t be correct to say Doyle found out what changed by accident. While it wasn’t done all that purposefully, it would be an insult to the day or so of work put in.
All it took was to proverbially ball up one of the gates and toss it behind his back in disgust. Not entirely on purpose, Doyle was pretty annoyed at this point. Howe...
2025-08-16 04:53:06 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle and his newest boss still don’t see completely eye to eye. However, the goat matriarch decides the situation isn’t too bad and settles in. This was a Big Thing for the dungeon.
Because the dungeon was settling. Ally didn’t notice at first and Doyle was in the middle of it so a bit oblivious.
A couple weeks passed and the ...
2025-08-16 04:51:55 +0000 UTC View PostSuffering from a headache. Likely going to be calling off work today as well. I'll try to get the two D'sP chapters up late today, though likely they will go up early tomorrow.
2025-08-15 09:52:46 +0000 UTC View PostPeter shrugs, “So yeah, I’ll take you through your forms a few times. Make sure you haven’t fallen into any bad habits. Then I’ll leave. Though it wouldn’t be strange if I end up coming back around again if Andrew has any follow-up questions.”
Rosha nods, “It would be nice to have someone visit every once in a while. Shame th...
2025-08-13 20:31:32 +0000 UTC View PostPeter leans forward, elbows on his legs as the fire crackles in front of him. “Well, you certainly faced some of the more repugnant beings to claim your little piece of land. I’m a little surprised that this close to the edge, the System even allowed such elements to show up. Then again, given the undead menace you just helped the settlement...
2025-08-13 20:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostWith the introductions done, June manages to wrangle everyone into the Sand Bar. Which was easy enough to recognize as the big sign was painted up quite nice and besides that, was made of a plank of driftwood. Likely a part of some ship before it sank or got torn off. That or the owner of the pub had someone rough up a plank of wood to look like...
2025-08-12 02:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostGem waves at the others as they enter the inn’s common room. “Hey guys! Remember that chat from yesterday? Well, who wants to go meet up with InkyCat? Since whatever is happening with the undead won’t start till tomorrow, at least going by what the Guild has said, me and her decided to do a little meet up. Apparently, she’s the leader of...
2025-08-12 02:30:31 +0000 UTC View Post(SoulDive’s official Forum, The Situation in Horizon Oasis Desert chat)
000First, AllSight, BertVurn, DesDose, Filegreen, InkyCat, KillTheKrill, Lem-In-G, MoxieBoxie, Roxie1337hxs, Zap2to2Zap, ZZZJohn
000First: First
{000First has logged off}
ZZZJohn: Really? For a chat?
DesDose: Leave him be. I don’t know how t...
2025-08-12 02:30:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe gang went and found this big ol’ ruin of a town full of undead in the desert. At the center of which, they came upon a nice little seven-sided pyramid. Said pyramid just happened to have a staircase down into some dark place full of even stronger undead so Gem and their friends ran away. Now, though, they've reported it to the Guild and so...
2025-08-12 02:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Goat matriarch is not happy. She isn’t quite sure what to make of the situation. Those strange not-lizards had attacked her kin. Yet the Father wanted peace.
However, She is the matriarch and her kin are simple kin, not Kin. Those others had no right to them for they could not decide for themselves.
She chuffed and paced around...
2025-08-08 20:18:48 +0000 UTC View PostJason claps his hands, “Anyway! Peter, since it isn’t your husband that sent you out here and Rosha doesn’t need more lessons yet. Who sent you?”
Peter laughs, “Well, a new acquaintance of mine, all thanks to you, by the way, wanted to pass on some information and get some from you in turn. Does the name, Andrew, ring any bells?...
2025-08-06 08:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostPeter laughs, “Well, how about we catch up while waiting for dinner?”
And since there isn’t much else to do, that is exactly how they spend the ten or so minutes it takes for the meal to finish cooking. A few more stories are told as they eat, but when everything is cleared away Peter gets down to why he swung by.
Or rather, wi...
2025-08-06 08:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostBelow are the full prompts as the poll doesn't allow the full text. In the case of ties the first option that got there wins. The short story will be finished by the end of the month.
Elemental Lord of fire has to take the mantle of World leardership. Gods have abandoned the world, mortals are squabbling and the wo...
2025-08-05 06:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe Guildmaster stood on their balcony staring down on those below. It was “a bit” chaotic, which meant things were really going wild. Their laws bound the guild in metaphorical chains, keeping order and yet this happens?
They glance at the door. It wasn’t long ago that they had swung open on a returning party for adventurers who are...
2025-08-05 02:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostGem, “So uh, yeah, maybe now would be a good time to leave.”
Samuel looks up from the dark hole, “Why the sudden change in attitude?”
Gem nervously giggles, “I can hear it coming. Hehe.”
Emrys grabs Samuel, and June grabs onto Gem and pulls the two towards the exit.
Samuel puts up only a slight resistance, “...
2025-08-05 02:32:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs Samuel is pushed back, the unresponsive part of the undead torso snake drags behind, causing the withered zombies to stumble. It isn’t much, but it opens up space. Space that Gem needed so as to not worry about hitting him.
Space they use to sneak in a charged wind blade followed by three rapid uncharged wind blades. The charged spike...
2025-08-05 02:32:00 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again I'm here to ask all of you for short story prompts! I'll take the more popular ones as decided by the number of hearts (or that I particularly like) in the comments and make a poll at the start of the month. The winner will be made into a short story of a thousand or so words.
Not many rules on what you can suggest at the moment...
2025-08-02 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt started slow.
Some guy claimed to start seeing blue screens. He wasn’t an idiot, mind you. While he did claim it, he made sure to play things off as a joke after finding out no one else was seeing them. No need to get committed to a mental hospital.
Then, a few more people began to see the screens and not all of them knew to shu...
2025-08-02 18:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle turns his full attention towards the raid boss, ‘You need to stop that.’
The Matriarch goat obviously ignores this.
Doyle focused a bit harder, ‘I can tell you understand me. Don’t force me to stop you.’
Ignored again.
Doyle shakes his core, ‘I’ll give you to the count of three.’
‘One’
<... 2025-08-01 18:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostDoyle turns back to the “Matriarch Stratus Cloud Cyclone Goat” that was now the boss of floor 20. And it wandered off to graze nearby.
Ally laughs, ‘Fair enough. I guess a goat with a mind is going to be different from a kobold or myconid.’
Doyle is a bit distracted but offhandly adds, ‘Or an ant’, then goes back to takin...
2025-08-01 18:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostAfter hearing what Peter said, it took Rosha a while to process things. So long, that by the time she has a response, Courtney is back out and preparing dinner.
Rosha sighs and looks over at Peter Grey-Tail. “And I’m going to guess just letting him bottleneck isn’t a solution?”
Peter shakes his head, “This early on the bott...
2025-07-30 18:50:43 +0000 UTC View PostJason continues his work on the path and as the days pass by, he gets ever closer to completing it. So close that the path finally gets a bend in it. While close to spot on, which in and of itself is a miracle, the path’s direction was going to miss the clearing.
Not that Jason had expected anything else. It was just that with the more f...
2025-07-30 18:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostGem goes around the corner and pulls up their status.
{
Name: Gem Paroxysm
Species: ChaosKin (Chaos)
Level: 9 > 10
Stats
Body: B > D-
Mana: S+ > S-
Stamina: B- > F
Resistances
Air: S > B
Skills
Sens...
2025-07-29 06:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostWith the ground now cleared off by Gem, the other three are easily able to see the foundations of many buildings, now torn down and presumably re-used to build everything else. Though they don’t get much chance to delve into this discovery. Gem’s action of manipulating the Mana did not go unnoticed.
From between buildings, skeletons of...
2025-07-29 06:58:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe “undead” houses are super obvious once they become visible. Samuel spots the first with only a little prompting from Gem.
It is an odd mix of well-preserved and rotten. The bricks are mostly there and look to be in near-perfect condition. Which is odd on the face of it, as every other structure had the edges worn off.
Except ...
2025-07-29 06:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostRosha and Courtney are around the campfire, staring at the stars. Next night finds them in a similar position. A week later has more of the same.
While Rosha does complain about not being out and about, it isn’t like they’re stuck in the clearing. Jason comes back often enough and they visit the town regularly. Besides that, she doesn...
2025-07-25 17:21:51 +0000 UTC View Post