I looked up at the absolute unit of a unicorn, suddenly thinking that the extra-wide and tall passageways were a little on the small side.
Some questioning noises came from the inside, and a delicate elvenoid “pushed” aside the unicorn. She looked frail and pale, like a single snowflake drifting in the breeze. Her purple eyes were clou...
2022-07-01 14:13:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Auri has the most ADORABLE hat.
2022-06-29 12:35:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy bird’s eye view of the island vanished as we rapidly landed just outside the School area. A few dozen other barges were parked in the area, members of the School boarding another boat even as we landed. The doors opened, the ramps came down, and the surge of passengers exited. Shirayuki didn’t even gesture, simply striding off the boat wi...
2022-06-29 12:33:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I tried something new - AI generated artwork of the School. Flying island! With mini islands floating around it!
2022-06-27 19:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok.
Not the most popular character, I know.
Nor is this the most timely artwork.
Sometimes, just sometimes... there's a bit of a lag between the idea, the commission, and actually getting it delivered.
One moment I was fighting a small mountain of metal, the next I was in a small room. The teleportation was disorienting, and I was still in the middle of some high-speed maneuvers and blasting my Radiance around.
Being teleported hadn’t stopped either of them, and I crashed into the wall of the tiny room before reorienting myself.
...
2022-06-27 12:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post[*ding!* You’ve unlocked the Class Skill [Searing Slap]. Would you like to replace a skill with [Searing Slap]?]
I dismissed the notification, mentally cursing my second class. It was supposed to be easy to pick up new skills - which it was, I could barely get out of bed without...
2022-06-24 12:00:40 +0000 UTC View PostI’d gotten in a small catnap after a few more duels, getting a feel for how strong people were. What tricks I needed to be on the lookout for, what had changed.
Frankly, it was hard to tell. On one hand, the world clearly had more. More skills. More fields. More ways of fighting. There were angles to consider that I...
2022-06-22 12:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostI was crushed, but made out of stern stuff. The examiner explained in a bored monotone that my details and information had been sent to the [Bursar], and that I was to report to that department to pay. If I didn’t pay before the School left, I would need to retake exams the next time the school came by. I nodded my acknowledge...
2022-06-20 12:47:30 +0000 UTC View PostI slowly, carefully peeled the mango.
“Brrrpt?” Auri hovered near my hand, staring longingly at the fruit.
“Of course.” I carved off a piece, giving it to her.
One small bite at a time, carefully licking my knife to p...
2022-06-15 04:08:35 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Part 1 of this month's bonus content!
As usual, use discretion when at work!
Pride colors!
https://imgur.com/a/6q9EKpy
5/8 Guardians! Guardian artwork! Yay!
A reminder that this week is my admin week, AKA catch up on all the other stuff that needs to get done. The web comic script is a big one this week. I know this is relatively close to my last admin week, but that's because this week is the wombo-combo of my birthday and anniversary.
...
The walls of Lyon were tall, durable constructs, much higher than the town walls in Remus had been. They were hewn out of sturdy grey stone, and some [Architect] or [Builder] had smoothed and merged the rock into a uniform face. Colorful banners hung over the wall, a golden lion prominently featured again and ag...
2022-06-10 11:16:54 +0000 UTC View PostWe jogged through the night at a modest pace, occasionally alarming some merchant group’s sentry or another as we passed by. I lit the way with my Radiance, and all of us were used to long, hard days.
Well.
Almost all of us. Poor Auri was curled up in my hands, sleeping. Iona was still carrying Fenrir.
We didn’t move back n...
2022-06-08 13:34:05 +0000 UTC View PostWith the death of the [Tyrant Tarantula], the spiders became significantly less coordinated, and there was no longer a powerful monster pinning down Iona. We were able to focus our efforts more broadly, and the remaining spiders were quickly wiped out.
Iona’s helmet slid away, and she spat half a spider out of...
2022-06-06 12:33:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Yeah, I encountered a vorler and killed it. Was that wrong?” I asked Iona. I thought I knew the creatures that roamed around Pallos - mostly dinosaurs and other normal creatures, enhanced by the System, but I’d never seen or heard of anything like a vorler before.
Learned something new every day.
I didn’t want to think about...
2022-06-03 12:39:48 +0000 UTC View PostMy disappointment was immeasurable and my day ruined. I’d met someone that spoke English for the first time ever since arriving at Pallos, and by my System status, that had been 22 years ago. 22 years of wondering. Doubting. Wondering if my prior life was simply an artifact of a vivid imagination.
It had been so long.
Then...
2022-06-01 11:37:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all!
The first installment of the world maps series, Rolland! Red are the dukedoms, yellow are the counties, and blue are the major barons. Naturally, there are more nobles running around, and don't get me started on landed knights, but it's a start!
I have hopes to get similar quality maps for all the countries, which will help ...
2022-05-29 20:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
So, my notes have kinda gotten away from me. The rest of the Sentinel Series!
I think.
Some repeats might be in there....
Enjoy!
2022-05-27 19:02:41 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
Announcement time!
Ok, let me get the bad news out of the way first: Next week is my break week. I'm taking the entire week off, and it's actually going to be the ENTIRE WEEK like I've said.
And today's post was a double chapter, AKA the next came came early... which means it overflows until afte...
Usually, speaking in a person’s native tongue was great for settling people down. A fantastic conversation piece, as Iona always knew what language a person was most comfortable in, never needing to awkwardly speak in one of the keystone languages.
It wasn’t the case here. Far from being settled, Elaine went pale, needing to clutch at ...
2022-05-20 13:19:36 +0000 UTC View PostIona was sick. She didn’t have the fancy words the healers all had to describe the various types of sickness. She had a more practical take on it. Burning-vomiting-oozing pus sick. Useless for any sort of medical diagnosis, great for describing what was happening.
Iona had been utterly shredded by the adult frost wyvern, barely ...
2022-05-20 13:19:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Artwork just a little early. Enjoy!
Hope you'll all survive until tomorrow's double chapter post!
2022-05-19 17:47:09 +0000 UTC View PostI exploded out of the bushes onto the road.
“Oh praise the road!” I dramatically yelled as I fell to my knees, then raised my arms in the air as if in prayer. “Praise civilization! Oh blessed road, I am never, ever leaving you again.” I bent over to kiss the road.
Or rather, the ‘road’. We must be in some backwater, the r...
2022-05-18 12:19:25 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in a panic, stone inches away from my face. I instinctively tried to lash out, my arms hitting more stone that surrounded me like a coffin.
This is where I’m supposed to be. This is right. I reminded myself, which did absolutely nothing to calm the panic and claustrophobia threatening to overwhelm me. This...
2022-05-16 12:15:23 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the notifications, reading them, not processing the individual words but the implications. The meanings.
A few of them jumped out at me, the...
2022-05-11 18:36:32 +0000 UTC View PostIt was once again entirely clear that I was in a new world. The same world, the old world.
Pallos.
I didn’t have time to take everything in. I was in trouble, and as I felt power flood through me once again, I acted. [Bullet Time] wasn’t activating, but my bond with Auri was letting me think faster.
<... 2022-05-11 10:46:36 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's bonus content! Elaine!
Use discretion!
“Themis!” Julia roared through their house. “You’re going to be late! Hurry up!”
Elainus slid up behind Julia, and put his hands on her shoulders. Slowly massaging, he knew exactly the right spot to help bleed some of her tension away.
Thirty years of marriage tended to do that to a couple.
“I swear you’ve said th...
2022-05-09 13:20:23 +0000 UTC View Post