Alexandra
"Now," I said, facing the man I had left up during the brawl. "What say you and I have an honest conversation."
"There's only so much I can tell you," he replied, crossing his hands behind his bac...
2025-11-14 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostMortaine took a while to show up, which wasn't a big surprise to Beth or the group, though Andrea, Adam, and Neph didn't have much, if any, experience with the Exalted. Beth had gathered the team up after Mortaine had popped up, and they were read...
2025-11-13 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostBeth rolled her shoulders as she looked down at the supposed leader of the bandit gang, though she had a suspicion that he wasn't the true head honcho. Mortaine had asked them to retrieve a specific item for him, something that had come into the s...
2025-11-12 18:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostThat focus lasted for a few more than six months as they had made a good impression on the little secret society of hidden elites that took a hand in training them and helping them out. As with all good things, they eventually must come to an end,...
2025-11-11 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostOld Tom was a bit of a gregarious individual himself, constantly chatting while they worked, often about the most inane of things. While his banter could be amusing, as they had had demonstrated once before, it sometimes took a turn into the odd o...
2025-11-10 18:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostKnight Errant Lester
Sitting in this fucking warehouse almost every night and watching these criminal assholes steal petty cash and push small amounts of weak contraband was really becoming a pain in the ass. The Convo...
2025-11-07 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post"Anyway," Old Tom said, tossing the sword onto a bench to do the finishing work on later, "what exactly can I do fer ya three? Ya all smiths?"
"Sera and I are," Beth said, gesturing at herself and her fiancée. "Blood is a leatherworke...
2025-11-06 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBeth wanted to check Sera's Mana Physique; well, she wanted to check them all, but other than Sera and Blood, she was going to wait and not push the others. Them having shared what they managed to make in terms of rank, if they had been truthful, ...
2025-11-05 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostA subjective year, or a bit more, later she was done with the quest requirements and decided she needed more time with Sera. She had basically not stopped, barely even resting, for more than fourteen months, and so she took her fiancée out for a ...
2025-11-04 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor a Beast Tide, it wasn't really all that big of a deal, especially considering the kinds of situations that Beth and Sera had found themselves neck-deep in over the last couple decades. The Monster problem Baelvyr had had them go and help out w...
2025-11-03 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWe moved through the town quite quickly, the Count having landed to try to attract a little less attention, though I wasn't sure he was doing all that great a job of it. The good side of him standing out and his apparent age and power was that, de...
2025-10-31 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostThat big problem was that she had made some assumptions and hadn't really looked at her True Rebirth requirements until now. That seemed like a minor thing, but she had read about this and been warned about this and was now experiencing things her...
2025-10-30 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the first things she decided to check was just how much progress she had made over the past year. Well, she might have not been paying too close attention for a little more than a year, only having a vague idea of where she was at, but she ...
2025-10-29 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostMedics had rushed to the field just behind the referees and, while not strictly necessary, the amount of damage Beth had done still meant that her opponent should be checked over, particularly considering it was enough to warning flash the barrier...
2025-10-28 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe men carried the unconscious person, who I was just thinking of as the victim, down to B5, where they noisily banged their way out of the stairwell and into corridor. With the amount of noise they were making, it was pretty clear they weren't r...
2025-10-28 03:34:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, I woke up bright and early, and without having to suffer through pissant (I think his name was Bill, of all fucking things), pounding on my door and being a nuisance. I likely wasn't done with the Apartment Penisheads, or whateve...
2025-10-27 23:57:24 +0000 UTC View PostThat put them at a solid five wins, no losses, and Beth was expecting an easy win from Veren. It would come down to her to sweep, but there wasn't a ton of pressure, as they really didn't desperately need to go undefeated, it would just be nice. N...
2025-10-27 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day was the second day of the party, which I was not at all thrilled about, especially considering my performance from the day before. The funny thing was, the day played out almost exactly as I had expected; while I had been a warrior, s...
2025-10-24 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post"We will be staying in here," Tazeen said. "I will go out for each match with the selected contestant. They invoked an old rule to not allow additional team members on the floor during the fights, so you will have to watch from the ready room. I d...
2025-10-23 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostWhen it was the appointed time, they all met up in a room reserved by Tazeen, the tall elf already sitting in a seat at the front of the room as the team filed in. Veren walked in right after them, the man predictably and impeccably on time, for i...
2025-10-22 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostMonths ticking by got Beth much closer to the next layer of the stone cube, but the matrix was incredibly difficult. Maybe a person who was a lot more advanced, like someone who had really studied runes, and not just runes, but spatial runes, woul...
2025-10-21 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostNot that it was anything bad, but they were back to their leveling, or they would be, considering it had been long enough that all their materials for their next rebirth were in. Selene surprised them while they were still staying with her and Ale...
2025-10-20 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostEmmanuel
I sighed as I ran a hand over my face, watching the girl, who I was sure hadn't displayed her fully capabilities straighten up and dust her dress off. She had just put one of the top students at this country's...
2025-10-17 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe auction had proved exciting to watch, as they often were, and Beth had made a strange purchase, but mostly the group was happy that they had gotten a bit more cold, hard cash. It was also a nice recruitment tool, as Andrea and Adam watched the...
2025-10-16 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostGold missions, as they had found previously, were not a dime a dozen, and they couldn’t just grab them freely. It was a good thing Beth had parleyed with so many Hall Masters as they were getting to Gold Emblem so that they could get the drop on...
2025-10-15 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostBeth pocketed the skill crystal, throwing it in her necklace before starting to make her way back out of the little cave through the cramped tunnel. She had to say, the grating noise of her armor scraping along the rock walls was not at all pleasa...
2025-10-14 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHammering away at their ninth rebirth took a lot of time, though they were a lot faster than many that had to make the same slog, especially those choosing to go to max level. The bigger issue, though it did give them a lot of time where they didn...
2025-10-13 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostI used the train to head back to Mercer, walking a different route than the previous one, though I wasn't varying it by all that much. He was alone again, other than Voronov and all the guards, of course, and I sat at the table as soon as I got ba...
2025-10-11 05:11:16 +0000 UTC View Post"An impressive show!" a voice boomed out right before Reginald could say something that he would probably live to regret, or maybe die regretting. I don't know, I was feeling less and less generous by the minute. I had just provided his students w...
2025-10-10 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostBeth just wanted to get the ship work done, and with a functioning cruiser, they didn't have much to worry about. Not only that, but the airship was strong enough to fly around in Jupiter's atmosphere at the depth they were working, which gave the...
2025-10-09 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post