The ritual to transform Murray could only be classified as a great success. I wasn’t sure if it was because the guy was a superior specimen compared to the somewhat mediocre examples of humanity we had access to in Idiot-ville or thanks to the m...
2024-12-16 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, while the process of imbuing the attributes of an animal into a human shared by Lady Hecate was an incredibly interesting one, I also knew I was far from capable of pulling off the feat on my own. There simply were too many variables to kee...
2024-12-14 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Jack, Jonas and Murray a few days to return with their decision. They had gone and met with the idiots in their village, a meeting I had decided to observe using the Oculus and a scrying construct or three, allowing me a front-row seat for...
2024-12-13 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you think about the offer?” Jack asked, looking at his two companions as they were walking away from Jademoon Tower, having just received an offer to have their bodies permanently augmented by the somewhat weird Morgana family who had...
2024-12-11 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostFor two days, I remained in the shrine, sorting through the dense package of information I had received from Lady Hecate. As with so many things with Her, the entire thing was a remarkable combination of homework, headache and boon, all mixed into...
2024-12-09 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Other than possible mental influences, the enchantment works fine, doesn’t it?” Lia asked, looking at the various notes we had taken during our experiments with a curious eye.
“There are probably some edge cases in which the enchant...
2024-12-07 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we returned to the Idiot-ville with Blaise, now a successfully enhanced human, though one with far more empowerment than regeneration, I could only shake my head in disbelief. Two of our earlier experiments either had a grudge match or were s...
2024-12-06 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the first attempt worked out just about as well as anyone could hope, we didn’t have trouble getting the next person to agree. Hel, there was a queue of them, all interested in getting the enchantment once Joshua aptly demonstrated the tan...
2024-12-04 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe procedure used to put the enchantment on Joshua was incredibly exhausting for everyone involved. For Joshua, it meant lying down, completely immobilised and in terrible pain as I literally carved the runes into his flesh while he had to endure...
2024-12-02 17:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, we were met with only very mild suspicion when we offered the people in idiot-village, as we had come to call the community of lucky fools who had been hanging on despite their, objectively, horrible decisions, complete lack of planning a...
2024-11-30 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThere was something slightly surreal about realising just how much one’s actions managed to influence the local creatures. It was one thing to notice they reacted to the tower and the Oculus to a lesser degree, but it was an entirely different b...
2024-11-29 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostLooking at the crimson substance Lia had delivered to me, I couldn’t help but be impressed. I could easily sense the power held within the liquid, similar to the way I had started to sense places where Divine Power was concentrated, places where...
2024-11-27 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Now, Mother, to summarise your explanation, the problem with placing these Blood Rune enchantments on others is that they essentially run out of control, draining the bearer of Astral Power until they have nothing more to give and at that point...
2024-11-25 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostFor once, Lia and I weren’t trying to accomplish anything of our own. Instead, the two of us were out and about, keeping an eye on our respective students as they were trying to raid one of the higher-levelled areas we had previously explored bu...
2024-11-23 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAnother location we decided to explore further was the Foothold, the dungeon beneath Cheyenne Mountain. Once again, we were moving as a group of five, first to see if the dungeon was replenished between subsequent explorations and if it was, we ha...
2024-11-22 17:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostSadly, the creation of my wings was the last major accomplishment I achieved in regards to my draconic body during the winter. Trying to create my breath was met with repeated failure, despite the faint glimpse at the deeper truths of magic I had ...
2024-11-20 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Chapter-Title born from the fact that it has taken me this long to realise that my main character (Samantha Jade Jacobs) and the character I based this one on (Samantha Carter) share their first name... In my defence, she was alway...
2024-11-18 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostA part of me wanted to use my wings to fly back to my tower, though given that I’d have to land up top unless I wanted to show anyone who might be looking far more than I wanted them to see, I wasn’t certain if that was a good idea. Even witho...
2024-11-16 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostFlying was, without any doubts about it, one of the most enjoyable things out there, especially when it came to activities I could perform without Sigmir. Once she was back in the mix, things would shift a bit but until then, it ranked at the very...
2024-11-15 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a fairly short day, filled with sleeping, meditation and contemplation, I was back on the frozen river, sitting near the edge of the waterfall. Down below, the valley opened into a basin with a fairly sizable open area in the middle, most li...
2024-11-13 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt was about an hour after dusk that I started my work, sitting in the middle of the frozen stream, right where it originally tumbled across the edge and down the cliff, though given its frozen state, there was very little tumbling right now. Just...
2024-11-11 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Mucked up the posting, this is the correct chapter for tonight. Enjoy.
After the celebration of the Longest Night was over, regular life at Jademoon Tower resumed. By now, the name for my tower h...
2024-11-09 17:31:07 +0000 UTC View PostBy the time dawn announced itself by sending a painful spark of Light Magic through the window I used to project the Astral River into reality, I was quite exhausted. Staying awake throughout the night wasn't all that bad, not only was I used to i...
2024-11-08 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostEven without actual, active magic, there was something deeply magical about the enthusiastic fervour everyone displayed during the shortest day as the final preparations for the longest night were made. Food was prepared, some of it special, like ...
2024-11-06 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt was fascinating just how focused people could become when they had something new and exciting to work on. Leaning magic had, in an odd twist of fate, lost some of its lustre during the time everyone had spent at the tower, a jaded sense of norm...
2024-11-04 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostFinding out the actual date of the ‘Longest Night’ to celebrate turned out a lot more complicated than expected, though by the time I ran down my list of ideas, the solution was a lot easier than anyone would think.
My first idea w...
2024-11-01 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This counts as the fourth (Saturday) Chapter for this week. Enjoy
The Bearers of Lady Sunna’s Word were hunting the Arch-Heretic, seeking to purify her with their Lady’s...
2024-10-31 16:14:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Mom, when’s Christmas?” Luna’s oh-so-innocent question threw me for a momentary loop, as I tried to come up with a good, satisfying answer. By now, thanks to the chaos after the Change, I had lost any real grasp of the date, mostly becaus...
2024-10-30 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLooking back at the work I had managed in the last two months, I could only feel pride. Sure, I hadn’t done all that much when it came to levels, only gaining six thanks to teaching various people magic and managing to make a few breakthroughs w...
2024-10-28 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIf anybody had suggested that they’d be living in a nice cottage next to a newly constructed high-rise building just six months before, that person would have been deemed insane. The world had just broken, burned in impossible flames, and everyt...
2024-10-26 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post