The announcement went over about as well as predicted. Worry and panic bubbled up but nothing crazy happened, which was good. I wouldn't go far as to say people took it in stride, but it wasn't as big a blow as some might've thought.
It was sad to say that people were used to this, but most in our city spent nearly a year surviving on thei...
2024-11-14 21:20:59 +0000 UTC View PostCarson
Watching the City Owner ruminate over what Carson had just told him, it was reassuring that he took the threat seriously. From what he'd heard, the other pylon they reached out to didn't fully understand what they were up against.
Not everyone had the urge to expand their knowledge while in the...
2024-11-13 21:32:55 +0000 UTC View PostChris
"Demons? Really?" I asked before I fully comprehended what was said. It was just so outlandish. Sure, we knew of them now that the world had changed but it was still odd to think of them as real.
When one shouted Demons, it was hard not to think of all the depictions from fantasy shows and whatn...
2024-11-12 21:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostChris
I shifted in my seat as the time stretched on, waiting for the meeting to start. While it was usually Council meetings that would take place in this room, it was arranged for a different reason today.
The furniture was hastily moved and replaced where necessary, the walls were decorated with the...
2024-11-11 22:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostMy office was a flurry of activity as everyone seemed to need something right at the same time and my fun few days of forging were exchanged for managing.
I needed a break from my forging spree anyway. The only thing saving me from a mountain of paperwork was the fact we didn't actually have paper.
Some professions could conjure it a...
2024-11-08 21:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostNothing unexpected arose from the process and it seemed to be going smoothly based on what I was told. I checked in every once and a while but other than that, I kept myself busy.
Sitting around knowing what was happening was almost worse than listening to it. My mind kept bringing up the memories of what I went through and m...
2024-11-07 21:38:29 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you sure about this?" I asked skeptically as I looked over the building in front of me. The heat rolled off the building and distorted the air if I looked close enough.
It reminded me of when it was me standing where Vincent was getting asked the same question. When I was the center of everyone's worried glances and expressions of pit...
2024-11-06 21:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe wave the other day went smoothly, like the previous four had, and now I was back to managing our growing populous. Honestly, it was a bit of a shame they only came once a month to break up the monotony of governing.
It gave everyone a chance to get real experience fighting and gave me the chance to hone my battlefield commanding. Not a...
2024-11-05 21:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post~~
Name: Christopher Zalenski
Race: (E) Human*
Class: (E) Hammer of the Jotnar(Legendary) – Level 68
Profession: (E) Runesmith(Rare) – Level 58
Affinity: Arctic
Faction: Frostheim (Outp...
2024-11-04 21:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Spring rains came to wash the snow away, it completed the first year since the World was altered. While Chris and his fledgling City were slowly making progress on rebuilding, the rest of the world did the same.
Some had a head start, planting their pylon and building exactly where they were returned, while others had to seek out ne...
2024-11-01 21:21:19 +0000 UTC View PostTime was a funny thing. It could, at certain points, feel like it moved at a snail's pace, like how the three months of the tutorial had felt like 3 years. Or, at other times, fly by faster than you thought possible.
With the bare necessities taken care of and our pylon placed, there wasn't much we needed to do with great urgency. We were ...
2024-10-31 20:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostLuckily, we knew that names could be changed. Tracy had a funny story about finding out that tid bit of information. Nick had apparently named their Outpost something stupid and Tracy had to convince him to change it.
She never ended up telling us what he originally picked, but the name they came up with afterwards was Stormfront, as a pla...
2024-10-30 20:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostFinding the pylon was easy. It would be harder to overlook it than it was to find it. Its beacon effect hadn't diminished or disappeared over our months of travel or construction.
Even if Abigail tried to play hide and seek with it, which I swore she did with certain materials, by moving it around to different carts intermittently, I would...
2024-10-29 21:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostMy shovel bit into the ground and I heaved the separated earth up and out of the way. Even as cold as it was, sweat ran down my face briefly before freezing to my skin.
Pulling the shovel back down, I slammed it into the hardened ground once again to repeat the action.
The line of dirt leading away from me was longer than it had been...
2024-10-28 20:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostA flurry of activity overtook the group after they realized we would be setting up camp for most likely the last time and people had a pep in their step doing so.
Tents were set up along with the preliminary defense line that was common practice by now, but it would soon see a more permanent upgrade.
We wouldn't rush to build the fin...
2024-10-25 20:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostAbigail
She tried her best to keep the caravan going but the ever-worsening conditions made things hard. They were running out of thick furs for clothes and blankets, firewood was running low and they would have to stop and chop more soon, people were getting sick from staying out too long and Connor was be...
2024-10-24 20:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Shattering Hammer] was the skill I had picked up after reaching level 60 and from my initial tests of it, it was a great skill.
The three I was offered all had their perks, but this was the one I felt fit me best for right now. One was a more defensive option which I felt I had covered and the other branched out in a different direction I...
2024-10-23 20:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostChris
I pushed my Law to go further. Both in the strength of my Ice and the cold it produced. Some of the constant growth I had felt from the tutorial was missing and I wanted to make up for that.
It was obvious that I wouldn't grow as fast now that we were out of the tutorial, but it still felt...
2024-10-23 20:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostChris
It didn't take me long to run into the first of the wolves around our camp as I walked out. They kept a tight perimeter around us and once I broke it, they made themselves known.
I liked to believe I had worked through everything since the change but it was times like this that made me won...
2024-10-22 20:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post"Chris, the wolves are circling again," Abigail said as she approached the stump I was sitting on.
As we pushed on toward the first marker in the chain we had set, we were beset by a number of things hindering our travel. The snow and weather the least among them.
Animals and beasts roaming the area had gotten increasingly cumbersome...
2024-10-21 20:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the dungeon was a bit of a wash. Gabriel got to fight on the lower levels and he did pretty well in my opinion. He could fight up quite a few levels and only got stumped on the fifth floor.
He had a good fight against the fourth-floor guardian which was a level 50 E-ranked ape-like creature but stalled out not long after.
My horse riding skills still weren't perfect, but they were enough not to fall off while traveling at a decent speed. Full gallop was still hard to control but I was getting there.
Gabriel was newer at it than me, with only recently getting the chance but he was a quick learner. The week he spent getting the basics down was enough for our ...
2024-10-17 20:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostChris
"Come on, Chris, it will be fine. Just there and back, nothing else." Gabriel once again tried to plead.
Ever since he got his legs back a few days ago he had been insistent about doing more. Joining with the other groups of scouts. Being a participant when an appropriate level monster was found...
2024-10-16 20:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Now be careful. The muscles are still new and it will take a while to get used to again." Abigail lectured Gabriel.
The last healing session had just completed and she was giving him the final warnings about his regrown legs.
"We will have to do physical therapy for the next few weeks to get your range of motion and the muscles stim...
2024-10-15 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTwo months.
It took us two months for them to come upon civilization again. Well, civilization that was more than stragglers and small groups living in the newly created wilds.
After leaving what used to be the capital of Indiana and taming the herd of horses, we were off at a speed magnitudes faster than our previous walking and cov...
2024-10-14 20:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostChris
It took Sarah an inordinate amount of time to tame one of the horses and after seeing how long it took, I looked for a way to speed things up.
Someone came up with the idea of separating the horses so she only had to focus on one and that sped up things dramatically.
It was a mystery why I...
2024-10-11 20:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostChris
I trusted Jonathan fully to take care of the other end while I shifted my focus to what I needed to do next. The herd was through the gate and now it was time to close it.
A giant [Icy Bastion] sprung into existence to block off the gap while the builders ran in from the sides to fashion the gat...
2024-10-10 20:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't spend much time in the city and were on the road again in a day. Tracy helped us get everything we needed and even some things we didn't know were available. It put a dent in our newly acquired coins but it was well worth it in my opinion.
It was mostly food but there were other things filtered in. Raw materials we weren't able t...
2024-10-09 20:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostI followed her back to the keep that was under construction and there was already a table and chairs set out for us. Austin wanted nothing to do with the lunch and left me high and dry saying he had important things to do.
The bastard.
My mind couldn't comprehend why Tracy was acting like she was and it was looking for some indicatio...
2024-10-08 20:07:11 +0000 UTC View PostHendricks
The mana in the air was so thick he could almost taste it. It clogged his throat and there was a suffocating weight he had to fight through just to move. The area had turned into one of the highest concentrations of mana and they had returned right in the middle of it.
Ever since they had be...
2024-10-07 20:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post