The next morning was pretty nice in all honesty. We'd had this sort of general tension since we got here, and while I won't say we had fucked all that tension away, we definitely both felt much more at ease. This was going to be ...
2022-02-04 11:09:43 +0000 UTC View PostTower of Fate August 19th 2010 6:30 PM EDT
Nobody moved. Literally we all just froze. People talk about fights and encounters between capes all the time, but they never mention how absurdly awkward things c...
2022-02-04 00:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostFinally the last night before we left arrived. We'd spent the last three weeks working on magic, and it had paid off. My earth magic had improved immensely and I was so close to forming a new aspect I could taste it, and Yang had...
2022-02-03 22:31:11 +0000 UTC View PostSalem August 19th 2010 6:00 PM EDT
The next week or so had been busy as hell. We spent six days constantly running the dungeon, stopping home for family time and going to school before hand but still spendi...
2022-02-02 22:34:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few weeks flew by, constant training and unrelenting beatings for everyone. Well, everyone in my team, so just Yang and I. But still it was a rough few weeks. The stupid training room updated as we fought our copies forc...
2022-02-02 18:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral August 13th 2010 11:00 PM EDT
We left Reggie and Kit behind on this trip, but since there was no real boss on the fourth floor just the three of us were more than enough. We took the portal do...
2022-02-01 23:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostI imagine many people would refer to fighting yourself as masturbatory. That would be inaccurate for two reasons. Firstly there are genuine gains to be gotten from finding holes in your combat style and leaning the weak spots you...
2022-02-01 12:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower August 13th 2010 8:00 PM
I closed my eyes, focusing on the blazing numerals behind my lids. Three hundred and fifteen points. That was enough for me to finally get my next power. My epiphany in the batt...
2022-02-01 00:58:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe training room inn the high class in near the castle was impressive as hell. The walls were that same white marble with gold and blood crystal veins, and the floor was a woven straw mat, though one thin enough that hitting it ...
2022-01-31 22:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral August 10th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Tonight was the big night. We were about to kill the skeleton king. I stared at the entrance to his crypt along with the others. Reggie raised a hand questioningly...
2022-01-31 01:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostNow from an outside perspective sending us to fight in a planar death tournament seems like a random and stupid decision, but looking at it logically I saw where he was going with this. We were expendable assets who had proven we...
2022-01-30 11:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostO'Malley penthouse August 9th 6:00 PM EDT
So here we were, at dinner at our penthouse. It was Paula, Artemis, me, my mother, Zee, Wally, my moms new boyfriend Satoru, and a partridge in a fucking pear tree....
2022-01-30 00:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe castle of the Lord of Dis was imposing as hell, no pun intended. The massive dark stone building with it's pulsing runes didn't just loom, with the constant appearance of shifting and heaving it seemed like the thing wa...
2022-01-29 23:26:03 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Docks August 9th 2010 11:30 AM EDT
Today was the day. My mom, Paula, Callie, and Claire were all coming back. Their cruise got in at noon and I had begged off school to meet them, with Reggie, Artem...
We woke up the next day feeling...well not better but less bad. The bed here was more comfortable than expected. I hadn't noticed that before, though it made sense since I guess sin was their whole schtick and sloth was one of th...
2022-01-29 00:15:32 +0000 UTC View PostMirror House August 7th 2010 8:45 PM EDT
Turns out vampires are real. Which shouldn't be a huge shock with all the other shit I've seen but...vampires? They were pretty stereotypical vampires too. Pale skin...
2022-01-28 00:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe city of Dis was, pardon the pun, disturbing. Not because of all the crazy demons or heinous monsters, though there were plenty of them, but because of what they were doing. The ugly bastards were just living their lives, shop...
2022-01-27 20:06:51 +0000 UTC View PostMirror House August 7th 2010 8:30 PM EDT
Despite The Dealer having literally no distinguishing features from the rest of the people in here, somehow after a while it became easy to tell him apart from the others....
2022-01-27 01:45:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the journey to the city was more of the same. Get attacked, kill attacked, occasionally eat the less gross ones. We managed to get water by boiling the blood of the various hell beasts we killed and collecting the vap...
2022-01-26 22:41:50 +0000 UTC View PostMirror House August 7th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Arriving at the auction was somewhat underwhelming. The Silver Ghost pulled up outside an abandoned building and we all got out, already wearing gas masks. We mostly...
2022-01-26 01:28:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe meat from the lizard bird creature tasted like ass. This was not unexpected because it's blood was toxic sludge green and it's flesh was grey which just did not look appetizing to begin with. Not to mention having to basicall...
2022-01-25 21:29:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower August 6th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
The next day was another dungeon free day, but not because of Zee. In fact, my girlfriend was here now. She came through the town portal so she didn't know where ...
2022-01-25 01:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up in pain. Not like the pain I used to wake up in when I was normal where my back hurt from sleeping wrong or I tweaked my neck. More like bruises all over my body and small jagged rocks stabbing into me pain. It was also hot. ...
2022-01-24 21:30:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower August 5th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
We were exhausted. All of us just collectively beat. Zee was home tonight, her dad had taken time off to spend time with her because the Labyrinth didn't appear t...
2022-01-24 00:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostRaven pretty much passed out after we were done and I picked her up and carried her down the hall to where Cinder and Barb were sleeping. The bed was pretty soaked and I didn't feel like changing the damn sheets so we just droppe...
2022-01-23 22:49:21 +0000 UTC View PostShadowcrest August 3rd 2010 9:00 PM EDT
It wasn't hard to use my phone to buy a skill book for cooking. The book only cost twenty points as I had figured, and insisted it could make someone and iron chef qu...
2022-01-22 23:54:54 +0000 UTC View PostNo matter how many times I saw her naked, I could not get over Raven's body. My other girlfriends were gorgeous, don't get me wrong. Barb was athletic and sexy and toned, and Cinder was a pillowy sexpot, but Raven. If sex was foo...
2022-01-22 06:12:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur introduction to Samuel and Bernard was much less dramatic than expected. Samuel was a short, slim Turkish man with long hair drawn into a ponytail and a close trimmed beard. He had a friendly smile on pretty much all the time...
2022-01-21 23:42:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Cathedral August 3rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT
I expected to be able to crush the third floor with our new ringers, but unfortunately I had momentarily ignored something fairly important. Fucking skeletons had a...
2022-01-21 21:36:21 +0000 UTC View PostCastle Drakul was surprisingly normal looking. I say that with the context that no castle is really normal to someone from the US but it was just a big stone building. I was expecting darkness and flashing lightning and eerie how...
2022-01-21 02:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post