+ Reid +
On Nyx's insistence, Reid stumbled his way into the shower in Dr. Ferber's sparse bedroom, and let the water wash him clean of the blood and gore. He emerged clean, and laid down the doctor's towels and some clothin...
2025-11-19 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid gently ran a hand over the mutated Vuxarinan child's head.
In one of those amusing, ironic situations that life was so full of, Susan was often out traveling or pulling double shifts as a nurse when Sara ...
2025-11-17 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post./\.+ Lycra +./\.
Hirv and Vidita grabbed onto the side of Lycra's cart to stabilize themselves, then both looked at the mouth of the tunnel where light was spilling through the defenses. It intensified and drew closer as th...
2025-11-14 15:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
For a brief moment, the room was silent. The scarred man and his fellow black-armored bastards lowered their heads as they watched Reid's dropped weapon and shield clatter on the floor.
He didn't waste it.
... 2025-11-12 15:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Requiem's ivory flanges smashed their way clear through another wall. Thick chunks of the reinforced glass and twisted metal were thrown into the room, where they obliterated a set of delicate looking equipment aime...
2025-11-10 15:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Light grew from the bottom of the elevator shaft as Reid's descent carried him past the named floors. He caught glimpses of each. Imagination was a hall full of glass-front rooms filled with assortments of plants, o...
2025-11-07 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
The Ferber Compound was a truly massive complex. From the air, Reid could see four separate layers of walls and defenses that surrounded the entire area. Inside, there were two runways next to a sizeable aircraft ha...
2025-11-05 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post<+=/ Jenna \=+>
Jenna sprinted across the crystal sorting room to the far wall, between the two freight doors on the right side. She let her back slam into the metal structure, where it groaned and bent slightly under ...
2025-11-03 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post./\.+ Lycra +./\.
Inside the belly of the digger, it was a tedious fight.
Every narrow hallway and corner was a stronghold. Every door was a reinforced gate. The enemy held on like every inch of ground lost would be th...
2025-10-31 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post<+=/ Jenna \=+>
Magic swelled from the third member of their squad, and Jenna had to shield her eyes as its intensity grew with tremendous speed. Visible arcs formed and leapt out to six separate points further at the ...
2025-10-29 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post<+=/ Jenna \=+>
A memory of the final pre-mission brief was still vivid in her mind as Jenna stepped foot through the narrow gap, and out into the mine.
---
Hirvonen had briefed a room set deep with chairs ...
2025-10-27 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Reid tightened his grip on a specifically made, weak bone sphere. It was one of twenty he'd crafted in preparation for the wave - a throwable strong enough to break a spider, but not so strong that it would also sai...
2025-10-24 14:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post./\.+ Lycra +./\.
He watched on with rapt attention as Norton concentrated and his magic flared. Before Lycra's eyes, chopped up sections of worm morphed into thick cuts of red and white meats. The newly altered food was qui...
2025-10-22 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Clouds formed and swirled against the barrier of the massive mountain range to his left. Each peak rose imposingly into the sky, with steep slopes and often jagged sections of rock that appeared as though they would...
2025-10-20 14:00:31 +0000 UTC View Post/-__+ Talcinor Debrine Jr. +__-\
He walked along the familiar streets of the undercity with uncertain steps that echoed off the sealed stones. His head was fogged, and he had long stopped thinking about what he was trying to...
2025-10-17 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
After an hour long shower that pruned his fingertips, Reid was almost entirely certain he'd washed all the gore off himself properly. He emerged to find a fresh set of clothing, and a note that food would be deliver...
2025-10-15 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
His fingers rubbed against both temples. Dayo Evni was proving to be a goddamn headache.
Its former 'leader', Hester, was bound with a series of custom-made bone manacles, and had been fitted with a solid bone...
2025-10-13 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
In the days of travel since his revelation - and the resulting confirmation from Nyx - Reid hadn't been able to relax. The system was overloaded, and it also for some goddamn reason had a grudge against Rei...
2025-10-10 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post^+ Nyx +^
She shuddered at his words. He wasn't... wrong, per se. But he also hadn't come nearly close enough to what she wanted him to understand. It wasn't his fault for being off the mark. Not at all. It was hers...
2025-10-08 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
+ Reid +
[ Time is a bitch. It changes everything. There's not enough in a day, and there's too much in a year. This last quest took me a decade to complete. People died while I was gone. People were born - now t...
2025-10-06 14:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post..+.. Quinlan ..+..
Quinlan chewed his meal - and his face twitched a smile. It probably felt bigger than it was - but it felt... good.
'Do you want to take a break, or keep going?'
'I want to take a break.'
<+=/ Jenna \=+>
**In The Tutorial**
Lycra was a liar.
The thought came unbidden, amidst a raging torrent of pain that sent her body convulsing and twisted her throat in a silent scream....
<+=/ Jenna \=+>
She eyed the large, generator-like contraption on the cart. It had wires snaking out from various points, connected to the control in her hand and the cannon set atop her shoulder. Lycra was behind at t...
2025-09-29 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post<+=/ Jenna \=+>
Jenna watched on with rapt attention, mesmerized again, as Lycra's fingers moved and flexed with deft precision to carve the final crystal into its necessary composite shape. He looked at the completed ...
2025-09-26 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Another airborne arachnid accelerated towards their group, and Reid casually tossed a slug-powered marrowbomb into the oncoming beast. It deformed around the sphere and popped into a puddle of smoking goo. Behind hi...
2025-09-24 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
He stirred to the indistinct sounds of activity in the street below, and the smell of grilling fish wafting up and through the window to his room. Reid slipped himself out of his dreamroll - yes, he had used it on t...
2025-09-22 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe storefront he'd haphazardly chosen for the meeting with Dayo Sovni's leading trio was a bar. A long, L-shaped wooden bartop dominated the space, with a band of wide-hole, perforated metal near the floor dirtied by hundreds or thousands of shoe...
2025-09-19 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
His original plan had been to fly in fast, and take down as many beasts as possible to save the most lives he could. When he slowed and opened his eyes to take in the situation, he instead found himself faced with a...
2025-09-17 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post+ Reid +
Air rushed over his exposed face under the cool light of two intact moons. Flying without a helmet made everything better. It gave him a better sense or orientation and speed, expanded his peripheral vision...
2025-09-15 14:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post)+\( Hugo )/+(
Hugo stumbled back on unsteady feet, and looked down at his shaking hands. The bone armor that covered them was beset by a series of harsh cracks, and he knew Serroc's bone gauntlets would not last much longer...
2025-09-12 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post