Crossing open fields that were gradually shifting into light woods, Kaius walked with his team. His eyes roved over the various clusters of trees that dominated the flat horizon, searching their depths for any sign of beasts that might challenge t...
2025-01-12 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostBlinking rapidly to clear the blinding afterimage that cut across his vision like a streak of white paint, Kaius looked back to where the corpse of the bramble ball had fallen. No longer hidden by the overwhelming brilliance of Ianmus’s working,...
2025-01-11 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius drew his blade in a moment, smokey crystal edges catching the light. His eyes snapped to the source of the voice, seeing the lead caravan guard staring off to the right of the caravan.
What had caught the man's attent...
2025-01-10 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days were a flurry of activity. Right after leaving the guild they returned to the Dusty Stables for a quick visit, getting Ianmus set up in a far smaller room on the same floor he was in. Ianmus, the lucky bastard, only had to pay th...
2025-01-09 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostGetting Ianmus a membership to the guild had been even easier than Kaius had thought it would be.
When they’d entered the guild hall, he’d spotted Ro flitting around in the workers section behind the counter, directing p...
2025-01-08 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLeaving the artificer’s shop Kaius made his way through Deadacre with Porkchop glued close to his side. It was interesting to watch how the general populace of the wider city’s reaction to them had changed now that they were not fully suited u...
2025-01-07 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius let out a sigh of satisfaction, patting his stomach as he walked down the street with Porkchop at his side. He’d decided that Hensch must be a mage, because it was only by actual magic that the food could be that good.
Lit...
2025-01-06 20:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe stairs leading to the entrance to the Dusty Stables were wide things that tracked up the side of the building, shading the various pens that were set into the building at street level.
A sign hung over their rise, showin...
2025-01-05 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostStill sitting in the silence room where he had undergone his interview, Kaius stared at the copper emblem in his hand, before looking back to Ro with a slight frown on his face.
“How does it work? I know the emblems are s...
2025-01-04 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSitting at the table with the truthstone in a room enchanted with silence, Ro—the Guild receptionist—smiled at him and waved at the other chair.
“Chop chop, we don’t have all day.” she teased.
Kaius sigh...
2025-01-03 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius let out a low groan, bent over with his head throbbing like he’d just been smacked upside the head with a blacksmith’s hammer. As soon as the pressure of a dozen different analyse skills pressing his Mask faded, so too did the pain and d...
2025-01-02 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs Kaius crossed through the gates to Deadacre, the sounds of the city washed over him. The heavy background buzz of chatter and thumping boots, the clack of carts rolling over uneven cobble, and the odd cutting bark of a laugh or crying babe.&nbs...
2025-01-01 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the sheer volume of people lining up outside of the city gates, the queue moved surprisingly quickly. It seemed that Deadacre had developed a well built mechanism for efficiently dealing with the dispossessed and weary travellers that had ...
2024-12-31 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe grass started to die about a league from Deadacre. First it grew pallid and limp, a few tough patches holding on desperately to life while they eked out a meagre existence in rock hard cracked dirt.
It took maybe fifteen paces...
2024-12-30 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter spending the rest of the day working with Ianmus and Porkchop on Masking, Kaius had gotten better at the strange focus-intensive skill. Somewhat. It was still ruinously fatiguing to falsify his class identifier, though that had gotten a ...
2024-12-29 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostWaking early the next morning with the rising sun, Kaius had set about breaking the fast of their little troupe with a hearty meal of fried potatoes and bacon. Despite everything that had happened, he could see the appeal that artisan classes held...
2024-12-28 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius breathed deep, clenching his fist and concealing the new sigil that was splayed across his palm. Sitting up from his brother's side, he grasped A Father’s Gift by the hilt and lifted it up. Firelight danced across its ...
2024-12-27 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius laid his hands on the flat of the blade, feeling the cold chill of the inscribed steel. Breathing deep, he emptied his mind, allowing himself to come to a slow calm.
In tune with his senses, he felt the worl...
2024-12-26 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius gasped as he chose Initiate’s Glyphic Bladerite, the system's formless power slipping into the confines of his soul space. His soul shone resplendent in his mind's eye, even while his physical ones stayed open, drinking in the gre...
2024-12-25 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius hooted in delight as he saw the notification that his next class skill was available for selection. It amplified the rush, the slowly retreating joy that he always felt as he proved himself the superior fighter and was rewarded for it. ...
2024-12-24 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe irontusk taking its eyes off his brother to stare at him with wariness proved to be folly. Insistent on keeping as much of the beast's attention on him as possible, Porkchop plunged his claws into the irontusk’s shoulder, tearing a chunk out...
2024-12-23 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius stood in his saddle, absorbing the shock of Porkchop’s bounding leaps by crouching slightly with every impact.
His eyes were trained firmly on the irontusk, watching and waiting for the moment it would notice them wi...
2024-12-22 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith a new companion in tow, they crossed the frontier. As they crossed the rolling, rock-studded, hills that made up the lowlands of the distant mountains, Kaius found that the terror birds had become…something of a local nuisance.
Ianmus sat on a rounded stone, his hands propped on his knees as he watched the delver-scion work. Kaius, he had said his name was. After the human and his beastly companion had finished the flock, he’d offered a chance to talk.
Standing in a field of cooling corpses, Kaius gave the strange mage a friendly wave. He was still a good ways off, up the hill and far away from the front lines.
Even if the man hadn’t fled when he suggested, he’d...
2024-12-19 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIanmus was having a really bad day. He knew he should have turned back when the system had updated, or at least headed to one of the semi-maintained roads that connected Mystral with the rest of the continent.
In his...
2024-12-18 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostHeavily spiced meat cut into thick strips sizzled as Kaius dropped it into his lard-greased Traveller’s Pan, the heady aroma of cumin filling the air. It was one of the few spices he did know from his stock, and a powerful...
2024-12-17 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKaius dashed towards the second hunter that had tried to harass him, bliss and satisfaction pulsing with every beat of his heart.
Even with the regenerative power of its Health and the power of its beastly body, the ...
2024-12-16 20:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAstride Porkchop’s back, Kaius took in the rolling hills of the frontier. It was a gorgeous environment, shining with bright green grasses that stretched as far as the eye could see. Rocky outcroppings broke up the landscape, jutting out of the ...
2024-12-15 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostKaius sat on the floor of his room in the Stout oak, a veritable cornucopia of items and artefacts arrayed on the ground before him. Porkchop lay across, staring at them all in dismay.
They’d had a fast paced, but pleasant few d...
2024-12-14 20:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post