Announcement: PtM 18 Audiobook
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Pandora Unchained - B1C88: Fury
Two chapters today, but no chapter tomorrow. Enjoy ^^.
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The Governor's Manor was not too far from the building they'd been hiding in. The only signs of life they saw was the occasional soldier on patrol, who scanned them with a demon...
2024-01-30 15:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C87: The Role of a Physician
Sorin had always been a composed person, especially around critical patients, so he found it odd to suddenly reminisce about his childhood as Haley's situation worsened, and Stephan grew increasingly frantic.
As his hands pierced ...
2024-01-30 15:44:45 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C86: Hidden Cards
By the time Gareth noticed the elementals, it was too late. Their team could only try to make ground as the shelter collapsed under the weight of the many fists smashing down on it.
The intentions of the elementals were clear: by ...
2024-01-29 15:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C85: Deforestation
Sorin and his companions raced across what used to be the well-maintained cobblestone roads of the Bloodwood Outpost. Vines and tangled roots were spreading rampantly across entire city blocks, barring roads and tearing down buildings.<...
2024-01-26 23:43:14 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C84: Breach
Sorin and his team soon discovered that it wasn't just two but four bone-forging cultivators who died in battle that day. The heavy casualties provoked a shuffling in the assigned adventurers, as well as the conscription of b...
2024-01-26 02:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C83: A Somber Interlude
No one mentioned Orpheus's condition upon returning to the guild. To any outside observer, it was clear that the greedy cultivator had gone out to take advantage of Team We Don't Need a Life Mage's questionable presence on the battlef...
2024-01-24 23:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained B1C82: Hit and Run
Stephan and the shadow-pawed were both in rough shape. A mixture of red block and black gore covered their bodies, and Stephan's Armor, newly repaired and upgraded since their last round of corpse collection, was in tatters.
Des...
2024-01-23 23:14:32 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C81: Skirmish Outside the Wall
The curly-horned demonic bull was the fastest of the three demons. The tiger-pawed musk deer, in all its vampiric glory, was just behind it. As for the shadow-pawed demonic badger, Sorin couldn't see it. Only a parting wave of demons co...
2024-01-22 15:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C80: The Tide Comes In
The bell tolled a total of six times before letting out, sending a loud and clear message that this was not a drill, and that the demon tide was heading into its final stages. Soldiers and cultivators scrambled to their station...
2024-01-19 23:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C79: Clan Politics
Mr. Primrose's coffee awoke Sorin to a whole new world of possibilities. "I just – I just can't stop thinking about it," Sorin confessed in an all-too-quick voice. "Poisons. Lots of poison! And no side effects!"
His four compani...
2024-01-18 16:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C78: A Different Kind of Hero
Having a workable escape plan, Sorin focused on the steel door connecting the cellar to the rest of the basement. The door was conspicuous now that they'd rolled the barrels away, so they kept the barrels ready to move back in case they...
2024-01-17 16:04:00 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C77: Espionage
"Absolutely not," said Lawrence, throwing himself down on a comfy chair and picking up a cup of hot chocolate. "You listen to me, Sorin Kepler. Drink some hot cocoa and have a few cookies to calm down. You'll soon realize that life is w...
2024-01-16 22:55:10 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C76: Overhaul
"Blink?" said Daphne when Haley confessed her heroic ability. "You mean, like the spell?"
"Like the spell, but without magic," said Haley, looking quite pleased with herself.
"But that's… that's at least a flesh sanctifi...
2024-01-15 17:13:34 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1Chapter 75: Hero
When Sorin awoke, he found himself inside the Adventurers Guild on a bed reserved for recovering patients. The room was a semi-private one, with two other occupied beds.
"Urgh…" Sorin felt his pounding head as he lifted himself ...
2024-01-13 00:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained B1C74: Toxic Metabolism
Note: I edited this chapter after posting because the initial chapter didn't quite mesh with my portrayal of Sorin. For one, while Sorin looks out for the common people, he's not completely altruistic. He yearns for vengeance and truth an... 2024-01-12 00:21:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Pandora Unchained B1C73: Blood Corruption Poison
Mr. Primrose was experienced in assessing environmental contamination. In the time that Sorin was able to brainstorm ten ideas as to what might be the cause of the corruption, the man had thought up dozens and taken out an array of te...
2024-01-10 16:20:17 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C72: Toxicology Assessment
The next day was an off-shift day for Team We Don't Need a Life Mage. After verifying that his companions were fine and that they'd all unlocked a few additional silver meridians as he had, Sorin returned to the poison workshop in the A...
2024-01-10 01:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C71: Casualties
Having experienced a harrowing battle, Sorin and Barbara's teams were taken off rotation one day early. "I just got here, and now we're already getting time off?" said Sorin, wincing as he rolled his shoulder. Flesh-melt poison and heal...
2024-01-08 18:57:09 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C70: Bear VS Stag
The first thing Sorin did after finding Stephan was coldly analyze the situation to see where he could best jump in. Our battle with the minotaur tainted my expectations of what a two-star battle should be like, thought Sorin a...
2024-01-05 21:25:40 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C69: Rescue
Time slowed to a crawl as Sorin weaved through ten stunned boars, cutting three in passing to inject a lethal dose of poison. Due to the constraints of the Veridian Smoke Bomb spell, the paralytic poison keeping the boars in place was...
2024-01-04 16:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C68: Corpse Patrol
Shortly after seeing Lawrence, Sorin paid Gareth a visit to the east end of town. He arrived late at night, but fortunately, the archer was not yet asleep. Upon hearing of Sorin’s success with Lawrence, Gareth had Sorin unlock his Thr...
2024-01-03 16:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C67: Lab Rat
On the sixth day since the start of the demon tide, Sorin received a letter from Stephan informing him that he should prepare to return to the team. The demons were becoming increasingly aggressive, and there was no telling how long it ...
2024-01-02 22:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C66: Third Encounter
Sorin spent the next few days that followed amassing gold by concocting the more lucrative poisons on the apothecary request board. He managed to earn 3,500 gold before realizing that this was the limit of easy money to be earned.
Pandora Unchained - B1C65: Stent and Spear
Lady Duchene had a total of three obstructed meridians. For a mortal, that wasn't a big deal. Still, for a bone-forging cultivator, this was not only a massive impediment to their cultivation but a lethal flaw.
In Lady Duche...
2023-12-30 02:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C64: Probing
The long weekend is coming up, so I'm uploading three chapters at once. Happy New Year!
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Sorin spent the next three days concocting all manner of poisons. He cleared the simpler poisons required by the outpost's physicians out first, th...
2023-12-30 02:06:30 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained B1C63: Thankless But Lucrative
Mr. Primrose took his time in evaluating Sorin's answer. The white snowflake-like powder was now dehydrated. He peeled off a sheet of filter paper from the filter flask's funnel, then carefully knocked the dry contents into a pouch, whi...
2023-12-29 16:03:35 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained B1C62: The Apothecary
Hey Everyone! I'm back from a wonderful holiday feeling refreshed. There are 7 chapters this week, then we're back down to 5 per week.
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The following day, Sorin headed out to Sanderson's Leather Outfitting to retrie...
2023-12-28 16:43:47 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained - B1C61: Investigation
The week following the banquet was uneventful, and Sorin spent most of it learning from the spell books he'd rented from the Mages Guild. Threading the Spear was easy enough at lower levels, but learning the 'spear spray' spell necess...
2023-12-19 19:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostPandora Unchained B1C60: Hero Emblem
Sorin didn't like wine. It was much too sweet, and he'd never been able to enjoy the complexities wine aficionados liked to educate people on. Instead, he liked more potent drinks like whiskey in all its regional variants. Near Bloodwoo...
2023-12-19 19:23:11 +0000 UTC View Post