The rainbow swirl of light faded, depositing Kat in the center of a circular marble chamber. Diffuse white light filled the room, seeming to emanate from the walls themselves.
She frowned. Rather than the usual single pathway exiting the entrance to the dungeon, four circular archways, equally spaced around the circumference of...
2021-05-03 05:23:08 +0000 UTC View PostKat grinned through the nylon pulled over her face. The improvised mask wasn’t much, but then again, neither was Copper Spook. It would keep anyone monitoring Spook’s video feed from making out her features before Whippoorwill could delete the evidence.
She touched the earpiece to her smart panel, eyes not moving from the p...
2021-04-26 17:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure about this?” Whippoorwill brushed a strand of pink hair out of her face, shifting the car into park. “That building looks like warcrime wrapped in a maintenance violation and dipped a dumpster. Any information broker that can’t afford to move out of a place like that isn’t going to be worth a bent credit.” 2021-04-23 22:18:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The maglev to Schaumberg seemed to last forever, the handful of minutes stretching out until they lasted months. The landscape hummed by. The neon and bustling streets of Chiwaukee giving way to the bombed out shantytowns of the suburbs. Their residents, little more than ghosts, crowded around the mouths of alleys as they stare...
2021-04-18 19:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostKat backpedaled, a whirlwind of spinning blades glittering in the air in front of her as the Flesh Crawler advanced on her, thrusting what resembled a garbage disposal on the end of a metal rod at her. Two of its multi-jointed piercing arms spread themselves past her, ready to attack Kat’s flanks on a moment’s notice.
With a grun...
2021-04-17 16:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you ready Miss Kat?” Dorrik asked, the big dark four armed lizard standing just in front of a dungeon portal. A pair of sword hilts stuck out above their armored shoulders as their crest fluttered placidly. “So far we have only conquered wood tier dungeons. This will be our first iron tier, and the increase in ...
2021-04-15 08:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostKat’s lunch tray clicked against the wood of the table as she sat down next to Jasper and Iris. They stopped talking for a second to toss a pair of smiles her way before they resumed their discussion on labor theory for their upcoming exam.
She stuck a fork in her baked potato, splitting the steaming tuber open so that Kat could ap...
2021-04-13 07:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe planet hung like a sapphire off the Undaunted’s bow, brilliant and beautiful in a sea of glittering stars. Dorrik turned to the captain, an elderly male lokkel with greying scales.
“Commander Tosset, how long until we’re within scanning range of Earth?”
“Patience,” Tosset shook his head as he crossed bo...
2021-04-08 15:13:01 +0000 UTC View PostMana swelled in Kat’s chest, erupting as she cast Dazzle on the heavily chromed samurai only for him to not blink, his rifle pointed unflinchingly at her throat. He grinned without any real warmth.
Internally she swore. Flashbangs were popular enough that it only was a matter of time before she ran into someone with an immuni...
2021-04-05 02:06:58 +0000 UTC View PostXander’s rifle barked twice and the guard that rounded the corner dropped, hole in the faceplate of their helmet. Another stepped into the open only for Kat to fire a three round burst from her stolen weapon, missing wildly but forcing the figure to dart back behind cover.
Kat let loose a burst of stamina, pouring it into Cat Step ...
2021-04-04 18:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostHestia fired a handful of shots in Dorian’s general direction to keep him under cover. Rage twisted her face as a quartet of blue flames appeared behind her, twisting into the shapes of butterflies and drifting through the air toward the impostor’s hiding spot.
“You didn’t give me a chance to contact my handlers before the pr...
2021-04-04 18:51:20 +0000 UTC View Post“I can’t believe they offer tours of this place,” Kat remarked with a shake of her head as the Hestia, Whippoorwill, Xander and her walked by the looming skeleton of a dinosaur. “It seems like a security risk to me.”
“At some point that risk became a status symbol.” Xander frowned as Hestia stepped past her in ord...
2021-04-03 07:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Three sevens beats pair of aces,” Iris laid her cards down on the cheap plastic table, drawing a groan from jasper. The woman grinned, leaning forward to rake the pot, the metal pull tabs from some fifteen vacuum sealed meals, over toward her.
“You should have known better Jasper,” Kat said with a click of her tongue as she ...
2021-04-01 16:48:23 +0000 UTC View PostHumbrass Atoll wasn’t what Kat was expecting. She’d expected another dingy shantytown made out of bleached driftwood and populated by half-awake locals. Instead, the Marka sailed past a necklace of gorgeous tropical islands filled with will maintained and multi story brick buildings. Here and there a shop or house would ...
2021-03-31 05:14:22 +0000 UTC View Post“I hope you’re excited for the Humbrass Atoll,” Kaleek said with a grin, plopping down on the bow of the Marka next to Kat and letting his paws hang over the edge. “It isn’t the biggest hub on the fourth floor, but it’s fairly popular. A good chunk of my pod spent time there so I was able to get us some good reco...
2021-03-29 00:59:43 +0000 UTC View PostAs you can all probably see, Blessed Time Book One is done. Clocking in around 255k words, I'm assuming any release on kindle for Blessed Time will likely be 2-4 Volumes in length.
What does this mean and what am I up too? Good questions!
Will there be a book two?
Probably eventually! Ri...
“Your mind is made up?” Jo asked, leaning against a nearby tree. “After all of this you’re really just going to Sandrovok?”
“I’m not sure I’d say ‘After’ all of this,” Micah chuckled, putting a crate of clothing in the back of the crude wagon he’d made with wood magic. “I think it’s more fair t...
2021-03-27 17:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostKrosst looked at Micah curiously, cocking his massive head to the side slightly as Micah took a defensive stance, spear held horizontal to the ground in his right hand while his left faced the Durgh, palm out and glittering with rings.
“You know my Blessing human?” The Khan asked, surveying him calmly.
Micah nodded.
...
2021-03-27 17:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostA massive Durgh, bare-chested and covered in tattoos stalked out of the crowd. In each hand, he held an axe almost the size of Drekt’s great cleaver, large silver bracers glittering on his muscular arms.
He strode confidently into the clearing, stopping abruptly in its center. A hush fell over the soldiers surrounding them, t...
2021-03-26 16:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostCongratulations Adventurer!
You have completed the Wood Tier Level Four Dungeon, Lost Forest.
Three of Three party members surviving. Good Job!
Assigning awards:
+1 Spirit
Kat dismissed the notification, walking away from the dungeon portal as she waited for Dorrik to exit. Kaleek and her were in a small...
2021-03-25 06:51:17 +0000 UTC View PostEidrak led the way, pushing through throngs of Durgh en route to the Khan. The massive warriors glanced at Micah and his party bemusedly, but let them pass with little more than some off-handed curious comments.
A cheer went up from the mob of soldiers as a warbeast, easily as tall as the walls of Westmarch itself thumped toward the ...
2021-03-24 07:24:39 +0000 UTC View PostDawn brought drums. The great, repetitive bass thump of the Durgh war machine spurring into motion woke Micah from his restive slumber. For a moment he just lay there, staring up into the cloudless sky. Birds chirped from nearby berry bushes as a gentle gust of wind rustled their branches.
It was a perfect day to end thin...
2021-03-23 04:05:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe SUV’s wheels screeched against the highway, throwing Kat into the wall as the vehicle swerved through traffic, cutting off another car. Iris practically spun the steering wheel, returning them to the fast lane as she hyperventilated noisily.
Inertia pulled Kat back into her seat and the engine revved, switching gear. She ...
2021-03-22 03:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure this is going to work?” Trevor asked, standing over Martin Osswain’s bound and unconscious form. “The Durgh look pretty angry.”
He shrugged, a wry smile on his face. “Well, they seem to be angry even for Durgh. Durgh always look angry.”
“Probably.” Micah glanced down at Ma...
2021-03-20 21:03:55 +0000 UTC View PostAir rushed past Kat as she quietly jumped from the roof of the squat concrete building toward the ground. She hit with a muffled thud, quickly glancing back and forth for any of the guards she might have alerted with her descent.
A moment later, Xander landed next to her with noticeably less grace and more noise. She winced as ...
2021-03-18 17:25:05 +0000 UTC View PostMicah crept through the tower’s hallways, occasionally ducking into a side room when he heard voices. This high in the building, there weren’t regular patrols. Apparently, the alarm on the roof was considered sufficient.
On one hand, he was surprised that there weren’t more guards keeping the VIPs on the upper levels safe...
2021-03-16 07:23:20 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t see why the new girl gets to drive,” Xander complained, his arms crossed.
Kat glanced back at him from the front seat of the SUV where she sat next to a white knuckled Iris. Xander was sulking, arms across his chest in the middle row of seats.
“Because I can’t drive safely in this traffic and you’re a mania...
2021-03-14 06:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post“We’ve been over this Jo.” Micah shook his head. “You’d be helpful on the raid, but I’m going to need the rest of the party for the final encounter. There’s no way in hell they’re going to let me just challenge the Khan without proving myself, and right now I just don’t have the spare mana to fight his lieuten...
2021-03-13 04:49:50 +0000 UTC View PostXander and Kat walked into the restaurant together, and the quiet conversation stopped. A dozen pairs of eyes dissected them as they stepped through the door. Kat shifted slightly, feeling exposed as every aspect of their dress and demeanor was inspected and catalogued.
It’s not that the two of them were explicitly underdress...
2021-03-11 17:33:40 +0000 UTC View Post“I really thought we were past this sort of thing.” Jo stood shirtless facing away from Micah, his hand on her back. “Seriously Micah, we had that big heart to heart and everything. I thought we made progress and then you told me to take my shirt off. At least buy a girl some flowers or something first.”
“...
2021-03-09 08:30:52 +0000 UTC View Post