"I'm afraid...I can't do that," Blake said, giving Mason a tight lipped smile. Mason stared for a long moment, no idea what the hell is brother was thinking.
"What? Why? Haley tells me there's nothing preventing you from joining my house. Li...
2024-11-28 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSurrounded by his own people, sitting with Blake and Haley and Lexi—and after a drink or two that probably did more for his brain than his body—Mason found he was almost...comfortable.
"And then we were locked out, so..." Blake laughed a...
2024-11-27 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMason paused as the elevator dinged to his hotel suite. Sometimes he felt like he'd worked out everything with his girls, then other times he realized how complicated it was. Or that things and people could change.
Making a woman happy wasn'...
2024-11-26 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAfter enough sitting on his 'private' balcony and staring at the rest of humanity's players, Mason remembered a survivalist he'd paid to teach him a few things outside Houston.
The man was generally abrasive and hard to get along with, full ...
2024-11-25 15:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostMason woke when Becky did, his lover smiling and cuddling closer on their shared couch, stretching like a cat. She shook with a laugh.
"Did I hear the girls say they were on a sex strike?"
Mason just wiggled his eyebrows, and Becky gri...
2024-11-22 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe system made Mason and all the other players fight for another twenty four hours, approximately every 30 minutes.
Which was at least better than every 15. There were far more individual bouts than team bouts, and Mason's opponents were al...
2024-11-21 15:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostBecky stomped into the hotel room and slammed the door. Mason let her pace back and forth a few times muttering to herself before he decided to test the waters.
“So uh…what happened?”
"Yer Goddamn brother happened."
She kic...
2024-11-20 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTommaso woke up and cringed as he put his hands to his gut. Getting cut in half by some spell hadn't been the greatest experience, but it hadn't hurt nearly as much as he'd feared. Once he’d managed to collect himself, he looked at the clock on ...
2024-11-19 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlake activated Mind Rend as Carl warped. He had learned it was actually targeted mostly based on location, so escaping it physically was a good tactic. But he suspected it had at least grazed the man before he escaped.
Not that he'd 'escape...
2024-11-18 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostCarl stared at the ‘waiting cell’ monitor with the others, blinking dry eyes as he watched the description of the other team’s affinities.
“Arcane/Psionic. Martial. And…unknown? OK. That’s Blake’s team or I’m too tired to und...
2024-11-15 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe system put Mason against two more players he didn't recognize, this time in some kind of Indian bazaar with everything but the people. The players fought him together with practiced teamwork. They fought brilliantly, and with great skill, usin...
2024-11-14 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostMason lay between Rebecca and Lexi, both girls cuddled into him and fast asleep. They’d showered off basically in silence, just smiling and pressed together in the warm water before staggering back to the bed and closing their eyes.
But Ma...
2024-11-13 15:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostMason set Lexi down outside his private 'elevator', then pushed her against the wall. He kissed her and lifted her up, toned legs wrapping around his waist.
"We're supposed to be getting Becky," she said with a grin, chest rising and falling...
2024-11-12 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostLexi wasn't wearing any kind of bra. As the thin, red dress dropped to her waist her small, perky breasts were almost right in Mason's face. He lifted her up higher with his hands on both firm cheeks, sucking her already hard nipples. Lexi gasped ...
2024-11-11 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome, Founder, to The Rose. You honor us with your presence. Would you like to be seated in the private or public level?”
The blue-tinged, system servant at the front of the restaurant smiled somewhere from the uncanny valley. ‘The...
2024-11-08 15:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostMason smiled as he watched his players all fight and win. Then he flicked to Blake’s team and stared, vaguely confused. All he could see was a big metal box.
Then he realized Blake and Seul-ki were inside. Blake must have created it with T...
2024-11-07 15:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Jesus H Christ,” Carl said, watching the six man team take down their first round. They were in the holding cell waiting for their own match, but the system still let them watch their screens.
Becky and Tommaso watched, too, as Seamus e...
2024-11-06 15:07:00 +0000 UTC View PostDaniel Nyman, Sergeant First Class in the Emperor's Guard, had one of the top teams in the capital. Every member had been carefully selected for their individual aptitude, and overall team synergy. They'd practiced several times against other team...
2024-11-05 15:24:40 +0000 UTC View PostMason soon stood in the entrance of his private house 'wing', all his players gathered around him. A few faces looked anxious. Most just looked pissed off.
"Bloody thing could have given us more notice," Seamus said, wearing nothing but a wh...
2024-11-04 15:07:01 +0000 UTC View PostRosa and Mason kicked Becky and Lexi's ass.
"That's cheatin!" Becky yelled as Mason hooked her leg under the water and pulled them both over.
"There's no rules in a chicken fight. I'm a warhorse. Horses kick."
Rosa did a dance on...
2024-11-01 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"The arrogant prick wants to pretend like everything's normal. I'm doing his God damn job while he screws around playing orc house."
Haley sat on their huge hotel bed while Mason paced, trying to look sympathetic. But not too s...
2024-10-31 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBlake blinked as his second arena faded from view. He'd fought some kind of hybrid ranged/caster, who launched exploding arrows and warped around. No doubt it would have been a problem for some slow melee type. Blake had tossed the arrows around w...
2024-10-30 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Macdonald opened his eyes to a domed arena, the air practically sizzling with some kind of energy. He attempted to charge his Lightning Fist, grinning as he filled it practically to bursting in seconds.
The space was also open, mostly c...
2024-10-29 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostA sizable number of Nassau's players were officially drunk. Or stuffed to bursting. Or both. And they weren't the only ones. The general volume of the promenade had increased to night club levels, with music blaring and people shouting to be heard...
2024-10-28 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHaley waited for the doors to the civilian bazaar to open, taking a deep breath to ready herself. As they did, a wave of sound, scent, and colored lights hit her, and she walked through with a pleasant smile.
The 'bazaar' was like a huge par...
2024-10-25 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlake took a seat with Seul-ki and Annie under a giant...pond frond, with a decent view of the eastern leaders. And as close as possible to a bar.
"Two old fashions and...a sprite." He smiled at the alien or robotic bartender and decided Ann...
2024-10-24 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostMr. Simms wasn't joking about the whiskey. He practically chugged his glass as Mason sipped, the eye watering and throat clenching apparently not dissuading him from what was obviously close to addiction.
"Now that's a thing of beauty." Dani...
2024-10-23 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostMason didn't bother trying to push his way to the promenade. Though plenty of other players did. After the eastern elite went through in a vaguely orderly fashion, the rest of the crowd started clustering and squabbling as they all tried to get ou...
2024-10-22 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post[Good morning, players] boomed the ‘polite’, slightly more human voice of the Neutral Zone system. [You are all cordially invited to enjoy a complimentary breakfast in the player promenade. Directional arrows will guide you in your personalize...
2024-10-21 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
(Image: Rosa and Lexi after their evening with Mason...)
Another one down. Book 9 is pretty much written. This one is damn near all tournament, so look forward to a bunch of player vs player action, getting to know Lexi better, and a few sur...
2024-10-18 14:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post