“BAYBEE!”
I sigh as I watch Livvie roll around on the ground with the as-of-yet unnamed creature… thing that is apparently my sort-of offspring while it rapidly cycles between snarling, giggling, and looking wildly around as it half-crawls, half-rolls around my throne room with her.
Or my old throne room, anyway. For some reaso...
2024-09-17 12:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostShe’s crying again.
I understand why… but…
Despite everything we’ve been through, that she’s been through, this is the hardest I’ve ever seen her cry.
And I don’t know how to comfort her.
I already tried resurrecting Pearl, in the same way I reconstructed Omorth…
When I got to the point...
2024-09-17 12:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostI… can’t put this off any longer.
Pips…
She’s getting worse. For a while after I returned, yes, she followed me like a puppy… but…
It’s that dead look in her eyes, and that forced smile…
I don’t know what to do about it. About her.
Maybe…
No.
I can’t.
I can’t do that to her....
2024-09-17 12:19:41 +0000 UTC View PostHyperion.
Her new name is Hyperion.
Unsurprisingly, I had no trouble at all getting Izzy or Livvie to agree to help, since I still consider my former hero as part of my family. She’s been a good little sister.
Although her grim dedication to the thought of having to kill me to protect… I don’t know what, was both respecta...
2024-09-17 12:18:19 +0000 UTC View Post“I’ll have to think about it. You’ve done a lot of really bad stuff…”
I take a sip of my tea… that same nostalgic blend, the one Olive always made… after hundreds of years Nula has come close to replicating the brew quality, but she’s still not quite there.
But I don’t mind. Variety and all that…
As for my c...
2024-09-17 12:16:53 +0000 UTC View PostSure enough, my worst fear – in this situation anyway – has been realized, as demonstrated by that same look of love in her eyes.
I was trying to free her from this.
“What happened?” I ask the pitch-black woman entwining herself around me – thankfully clothed at least. “I resisted it… I thought you would too, or at leas...
2024-09-17 12:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that turned out exactly like I’d expected it to.
And hoped it to, but I know that’s the compulsion again. Despite the contentment washing over me from the feel of my wife’s skin against me as she sleeps peacefully.
It’s probably been a bad idea, but I’ve found myself not wanting to sleep and instead just watching her ...
2024-08-28 12:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s… not actually that… can we not stand like this? Please?”
I blink. “Oh. Sorry. This is really important though!”
“Then,” she sighs, “can we at least sit down somewhere? This is far less than civil. Do you intend to simply invade my home any time you have a question of some kind?”
Apparently, I took to...
2024-08-28 12:24:58 +0000 UTC View Post…This isn’t working.
Once again, I’ve tried a number of different things… and again, even the words of creation are failing me.
I tried removing the title, thinking maybe we needed both for it to be in effect… but I simply got an error about ‘cascading’ something-or-other. The same thing happened when I tried to remove ...
2024-08-27 18:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwo hours, she said. At the fountain.
I’m not sure why we’re meeting in such a public place… some of my… past self’s past experiences with watching humans interact seem to imply that she may be trying to prevent me from making a scene? But if she was going to give me some kind of seriously bad news I’d have thought she’d just...
2024-08-27 18:53:28 +0000 UTC View PostWell, I guess now I actually know what my financial advisor has been doing with my assets…
Whether I understood any of that is another question entirely, but if nothing else I’ve been made aware that he’s definitely been busy. Also, our dealings with Sekhmet and her… oh, what was the word… silverfish? Sending cat?
(Syndicat...
2024-08-27 18:52:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnd here we are, at another gala!
…Uninvited, of course. Although I’m sure if she wanted one, my fox wife could have requested it…
She didn’t. But that didn’t stop me from attending anyway, nor from dragging her along with me.
The look on Livvie’s face hasn’t gotten any less hesitant since we arrived...
2024-08-27 12:47:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Yes. No… Yes? Yes.”
That’s what she’d said when I asked her. Whether she actually wanted to be with me, I mean.
And I don’t know how to process it, or even how to interpret it.
I’m pretty sure that for at least some part of our thousand-plus-year relationship, she’s rationally wanted to be literally anywhere el...
2024-08-27 12:44:56 +0000 UTC View PostYes, I’m pleased. Quite pleased.
With what? Why, my new throne room, of course! It’s spectacular!
…And something about it feels more like home. I’d say I’m not sure why, but I have my suspicions.
Hells, they’re not even suspicions so much as observations. I was born in the void, apparently.
Probably.
And...
2024-08-27 12:42:44 +0000 UTC View PostWhile tormenting my adventurer ‘friends’ for a few dungeon dives – without a break between them, it’s so wonderful seeing them struggle – I had an idea.
A wonderful idea.
Why do the gods all have these boring, repetitive architectural designs for their audience halls?
I can do better.
I can do ...
2024-08-27 12:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostA massive sigh reverberates in my throne room.
It’s mine, of course. I’m not sure who else it would have been. Some things never change, after all.
Hades… or Izahne again, rather, has resumed her old habit of dungeon diving.
Not that she has much room for advancement. I do suppose she could try to level her Class…
"I would rather you hate and fear me than fear everyone and everything around you. I've seen that future. I don’t ever want to see it again."
That’s what they said.
But I’m just not sure how to feel anymore, other than betrayed. I don’t think I asked much… it was so simple.
Don’t change others without their consent....
2024-08-27 12:35:55 +0000 UTC View PostNothing is working… not in the way I want. Hades continues to lack herself… I still don’t recognize who she is now.
And I’m not sure what to do about it.
I’ve been nursing her slowly back to stability little by little in the same way I’m helping my fox wife recover… though both are slow indeed.
I’ve already trie...
2024-08-27 12:27:16 +0000 UTC View Post…And one extended argument involving a lot of weapon pointing and threatening with feelers later, the situation is at least defused…
For now. Probably.
But Vulcan isn’t happy. Also, I don’t care. I have more important things to handle.
Like my wife’s ongoing panic attack. The altercation with the special guards or wha...
2024-08-27 12:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostA tube trip and some walking – okay, drifting – later, and we’re outside of a familiar building in the industrial district.
This is going to be the hard part… even if she remembers, they’re gone.
They’re all gone.
But the place is still here, regardless of who owns it now. I’m sure I can convince them to let a pai...
2024-08-27 12:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Why does he only hate me now?”
Nyx shrugs while Hades has joined her in fawning over the cat.
And it’s pretty clear that my wife recognizes him.
…
And he recognizes me.
Well, I’ll have to ask Hades if she remembers anything else now too.
Later.
For now… I’m still being stared...
2024-08-27 12:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostI keep forgetting to upload the chapters I write in the mornings before work - but they're up now, to current! Sorry, entirely my fault.
-Ember
2024-07-29 02:55:22 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral hours have passed, and Hades and I are still waiting.
What are we waiting for you ask? Nyx and Vulcan to stop talking on and on and on about technical aspects of runesmithing and blah blah blah, blah blah.
Which, to be fair, is my former Assistant’s primary interest, and also something Vulcan literally invented ...
2024-07-29 02:52:17 +0000 UTC View PostWell, she didn’t.
Maybe it’s easier that she doesn’t remember them… especially since Sodaca was so awful.
“Couldn’t you just resurrect them? You know, like you did Omorth, or all your weird homunculus priests, or whoever else back in the day.”
Nyx isn’t wrong. But, well…
“Should...
2024-07-29 02:49:29 +0000 UTC View PostUntil now, anyway. Brand new in my Status is the Infernal Common language.
Which doesn’t really matter much. I don’t even have to use the words of creation to learn a language, I’m a fucking god. I can just will those lesser things to happen, and they just happen.
…Although now that I’m aware that it exists as a...
2024-07-29 02:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe former eldra’s glaring doesn’t stop as she continues tearing through wave after wave of goblins…
I guess I may as well take a peek at her progress. It’s a bit more difficult than just pulling up her Status through our bond… considering we don’t have one.
No, not even Erebus made a bond with this poor creat...
2024-07-29 02:45:56 +0000 UTC View PostSurprising to absolutely nobody who knew about it, u-comms are now everywhere, not even a full month later. I’d volunteered the Adventurer’s Guild on my own plane as a test group and Nyx had unsurprisingly refused, choosing to offer them to Gramr instead.
Because of course she did, and that’s fine.
The damnable pink...
2024-07-29 02:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post“…And when they pull up a list of other users they’ve registered as members of their party, they can-”
Yeah, so this is a lot more complicated than I was expecting. I thought Nyx was just going to ask for, I don’t know, a sword that kills gods or makes pancakes or something.
But this?
“I can tell y...
2024-07-29 02:30:48 +0000 UTC View PostAnnoying.
The best word to describe this situation.
Sure, the four furies are quiet enough… it would seem they’re just as scarred as Hades was.
But Eros?
Annoying. Just annoying. She’s constantly hanging herself on me, my wife, my castle staff… if she didn’t move so damned fast w...
2024-07-29 02:28:38 +0000 UTC View PostWell, the walls are definitely familiar.
I find myself in a place made of water. She’s dreaming of Ceto’s palace, or lodge, or whatever you’d call this place, but it’s definitely a part of it I haven’t seen until now.
Before me stands a row of angled tables covered in straps and steel fetters, the purpose obvi...