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CH 94: Proper Form

Lycra was 'familiar' with Reid's propensity to improve himself by being catatonic for days, but Win was not - at least, not yet. Calming her down had taken nearly twenty minutes, and included the promise to her - and to Nyx - that Reid would take ...

CH 93: Sand

Reid moved from sitting to lying flat on the bedroll with his eyes closed, as instructed. Unlike his friends, Reid wasn't supposed to take notes - but rather feel himself as thoroughly as possible throughout the lesson. A far dist...

CH 92: Transformative Learning

"You're fully committing to the Vuxarinan disguise, correct?"

"That's the plan. I have Win's medicine to make me look like them - and you've been reminding me on an hourly basis that I need to stay under the radar, so yeah. I think ...

CH 91: Friends and Lessons

Lycra's yellow eyes shone with excitement.

Win had energy in her hands as she moved them both around Reid's skull. "There's... nothing wrong? That doesn't make sense, unless - maybe you're being affected by a skill I can't sense with the sup...

CH 90: Unbelievable

When she made it to the shelf, Win immediately healed Reid's wounds, then let Lycra prattle on about the storage ring's capabilities for minutes. More was discussed, in detail, about being able to stack similar items like rations and waters into a...

CH 89: Loot and Accolades

Reid panted. The King's head, even offered to him, had taken two fully-empowered blows to sever. It racked Reid's body and left him feeling more winded and spent than he had the entire time in the den. He The System's chimes felt out of place next...

CH 88: Preparations

(((..-- DenWu --..)))

Four orders of business sat on his desk. The first was an analysis from his boys that stated the weather for the next few months could result in highly active seasonal storms. Rain wasn't always a given on Denduram, but...

CH 87: Regicide, Part II

Sometimes, nature was just cruel to you. A former classmate loved bread and baking enough that she bought herself a small shop in a nearby town. Nearly a decade went by, with her making her dream life work by scraping and pinching in the hard year...

CH 86: Regicide, Part I

The next group they found was another group of three, digging a new tunnel. They fell just as easy as the first. They repeated nearly the same encounter twice more before anything changed.

A pair of moles, larger than any they'd seen so far,...

CH 85: Secret Dungeon

(---) Jim (---)

He moved, silent and stealthy through the tunnels. His people's darkvision wasn't the most prolific, but he'd earned himself two skills over the years that made his current work easy - invisibility and heat sense. The invisib...

CH 84: Moral Scale

The cavern glowed as green light oscillated and pulsed over Win's entire frame. Her chest and arm expanded. Wounds closed. Scars disappeared. It took mere seconds, and when the light faded, her body started to convulse. Win sat bolt upright, then ...

CH 83: Smells Like Money

Their group moved though the tunnels, path lit by crystal-powered lanterns. There were no lights embedded in the tunnels this far down. Reid had almost gotten used to the constantly-on illumination, and being farther in, with the prospective of tr...

CH 82: Mole

Reid froze. Breaking the rock off the wall was cathartic, just like Win had said. He'd definitely still been more wound up than he realized. The thing was darn tough, but he pushed through and cleaved it off in a series of large chunks - with only...

CH 81: Steam

(---) Jim (---)

Jim paced back and forth in front of the canteen, fuming. He wanted to scream and shout - but he couldn't even do that. Not properly.

Three years. Three whole fucking years he'd endured so far, playing up the hick slang...

CH 80: Backpack

Reid screamed in agony. Everything burned, and ached. Stabbing, throbbing pain lanced its way over every area Reid empowered, and his brain had long-passed the stepped-on-a-lego pain and gone into full on brain-melting and imploding sensations. 2025-01-17 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

CH 79: A Week in the Mines

Lycra and Reid spent another full hour meeting more of the prisoner/miners. Some preferred one term over the other, but most used them interchangeably. They learned the five circular buildings were comprised of three separate only-restroom buildin...

CH 78: First Impressions

The guard raised a hand in threat as Reid continued.

“I promise, we are innocent. Give us a trial, and I'll prove it.”

The backhand was swift but weak.

Reid jangled his shackles as he tried to gesture towards Lycra. “We wer...

CH 77: Rough Landing

+ Reid +

Lycra rose a hairless eyebrow at Reid. "The changes. Everyone gets them when you go through a jump. They'll be in your notifications... What were you so upset about if it wasn't that?"

Reid ignored the question and brought up ...

CH 76: Never Meet Your Heroes

"Reid Calderwall. Father of the Pathfinder Progenitor."

He had seen that title on the obelisk in Sanctuary. The alien recognized his name, and his power - and knew his daughter. Sara was famous - massively, interplanetarily ...

CH 75: Life-Trust

+ Reid +

The alien's arm was light, and fragile. It shivered as Reid held it against the front of the cage, and raised a four-fingered hand in a placating gesture. Reid's first two words had barely rumbled out of his mouth. He was still dehy...

CH 74: Crossed Wires

<]]) Thad ([[>

A clanging alarm rang out from Thad’s console. This was not good.

He’d started the jump procedure, which meant pointing the ship at the direction he needed to go, then pulsing the engines in an oscillating patt...

CH 73: Missiles

+ Reid +

Reid coughed awake on stale air, rife with the smell of sweat and piss.

He was in a cramped cage welded to the floor. Slivers of light filtered in through a series of vent holes, with the majority of the glow coming through a ...

CH 72: Bulletproof Beatnik

+ Reid +

The figure before him was a bipedal humanoid wearing overlapping pieces of leather clothing on its chest and upper legs. It had pale purple skin interspersed with tan fur, and no nose. A wide mouth grinned above a pointed chin, and ...

CH 71: Wheathop

+ Reid +

Reid stumbled through the forest, drawn to the sound of running water. His legs burned with the effort of moving himself forward - dehydrated and spent.

It was reminiscent of his days right after the awakening happened - excep...

CH 70: Ghosts

^+ Nyx +^

Nyx screamed as pieces of herself tore and intertwined themselves with Reid. They melted and melded in an agonizing and beautiful display of high magic and soul alchemy that would've made the pinnacle mages at Zoenuth Academy sing ...

CH 69: Dreams in the Dark

<> Shackle 213 <>

The Shackle - a shapeless entity - spoke in the void. No one could hear its voice. No one could perceive it. It was bound to a dead creature that was neither awake nor aware.

Existing was… difficult. Mon...

CH 68: The Pathfinder Progenitor

+> Sara <+

Barry put an elbow into Sara's spine and pressed as hard as he could. It cracked under the strain, and Sara let out a sigh of relief. The man's smile practically glowed, framed by beautiful brown curls.

Her most recent...

CH 67: Earth's Tutorial

Sara reached a trembling hand out to the stone effigy of her father.

Her midsection strained with effort as she leaned forward and brushed her fingers against the cool, rough surface, and her legs gave out underneath her.

She had wante...

CH 66: Statues

~ Marlene ~

She steadied herself as her van, the caboose to their train of cars, slammed into another rock. If Marlene wasn't careful, the binoculars she was trying to use would slam into her eye. Their vehicle was still close enough for her...

CH 65: Steer Into the Skid

-{///} Finola {///}-

Sanctuary was all but lost.

She'd watched the beasts break through the settlement's second defensive structure, then the people fled in groups. Her nascent planetary lord was already gone, and only a token force st...