The announcement went over about as well as predicted. Worry and panic bubbled up but nothing crazy happened, which was good. I wouldn't go far as to say people took it in stride, but it wasn't as big a blow as some might've thought.
It was ...
2024-11-14 21:20:59 +0000 UTC View PostCarson
Watching the City Owner ruminate over what Carson had just told him, it was reassuring that he took the threat seriously. From what he'd heard, the other pylon they reached out to didn't fully understa...
2024-11-13 21:32:55 +0000 UTC View PostChris
"Demons? Really?" I asked before I fully comprehended what was said. It was just so outlandish. Sure, we knew of them now that the world had changed but it was still odd to think of them as real.
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2024-11-12 21:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostChris
I shifted in my seat as the time stretched on, waiting for the meeting to start. While it was usually Council meetings that would take place in this room, it was arranged for a different reason today. 2024-11-11 22:25:43 +0000 UTC View Post
My office was a flurry of activity as everyone seemed to need something right at the same time and my fun few days of forging were exchanged for managing.
I needed a break from my forging spree anyway. The only thing saving me from a mountai...
2024-11-08 21:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostNothing unexpected arose from the process and it seemed to be going smoothly based on what I was told. I checked in every once and a while but other than that, I kept myself busy.
Sitting around knowing what was happening was a...
2024-11-07 21:38:29 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you sure about this?" I asked skeptically as I looked over the building in front of me. The heat rolled off the building and distorted the air if I looked close enough.
It reminded me of when it was me standing where Vincent was getting...
2024-11-06 21:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe wave the other day went smoothly, like the previous four had, and now I was back to managing our growing populous. Honestly, it was a bit of a shame they only came once a month to break up the monotony of governing.
It gave everyone a ch...
2024-11-05 21:15:40 +0000 UTC View Post~~
Name: Christopher Zalenski
Race: (E) Human*
Class: (E) Hammer of the Jotnar(Legendary) – Level 68
Profession: (E) Runesmith(Rare) ...
2024-11-04 21:23:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs the Spring rains came to wash the snow away, it completed the first year since the World was altered. While Chris and his fledgling City were slowly making progress on rebuilding, the rest of the world did the same.
Some had a head start,...
2024-11-01 21:21:19 +0000 UTC View PostTime was a funny thing. It could, at certain points, feel like it moved at a snail's pace, like how the three months of the tutorial had felt like 3 years. Or, at other times, fly by faster than you thought possible.
With the bare necessitie...
2024-10-31 20:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostLuckily, we knew that names could be changed. Tracy had a funny story about finding out that tid bit of information. Nick had apparently named their Outpost something stupid and Tracy had to convince him to change it.
She never ended up tell...
2024-10-30 20:22:37 +0000 UTC View PostFinding the pylon was easy. It would be harder to overlook it than it was to find it. Its beacon effect hadn't diminished or disappeared over our months of travel or construction.
Even if Abigail tried to play hide and seek with it, which I ...
2024-10-29 21:32:57 +0000 UTC View PostMy shovel bit into the ground and I heaved the separated earth up and out of the way. Even as cold as it was, sweat ran down my face briefly before freezing to my skin.
Pulling the shovel back down, I slammed it into the hardened ground once...
2024-10-28 20:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostA flurry of activity overtook the group after they realized we would be setting up camp for most likely the last time and people had a pep in their step doing so.
Tents were set up along with the preliminary defense line that was common prac...
2024-10-25 20:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostAbigail
She tried her best to keep the caravan going but the ever-worsening conditions made things hard. They were running out of thick furs for clothes and blankets, firewood was running low and they would h...
2024-10-24 20:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post[Shattering Hammer] was the skill I had picked up after reaching level 60 and from my initial tests of it, it was a great skill.
The three I was offered all had their perks, but this was the one I felt fit me best for right now. One was a mo...
2024-10-23 20:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostChris
I pushed my Law to go further. Both in the strength of my Ice and the cold it produced. Some of the constant growth I had felt from the tutorial was missing and I wanted to make up for that.
Chris
It didn't take me long to run into the first of the wolves around our camp as I walked out. They kept a tight perimeter around us and once I broke it, they made themselves known.
I liked to ...
2024-10-22 20:29:00 +0000 UTC View Post"Chris, the wolves are circling again," Abigail said as she approached the stump I was sitting on.
As we pushed on toward the first marker in the chain we had set, we were beset by a number of things hindering our travel. The snow and weathe...
2024-10-21 20:48:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the dungeon was a bit of a wash. Gabriel got to fight on the lower levels and he did pretty well in my opinion. He could fight up quite a few levels and only got stumped on the fifth floor.
He had a good fight against the fourth-...
2024-10-18 20:40:44 +0000 UTC View PostMy horse riding skills still weren't perfect, but they were enough not to fall off while traveling at a decent speed. Full gallop was still hard to control but I was getting there.
Gabriel was newer at it than me, with only recently getting ...
2024-10-17 20:55:33 +0000 UTC View PostChris
"Come on, Chris, it will be fine. Just there and back, nothing else." Gabriel once again tried to plead.
Ever since he got his legs back a few days ago he had been insistent about doing more. Join...
2024-10-16 20:12:57 +0000 UTC View Post"Now be careful. The muscles are still new and it will take a while to get used to again." Abigail lectured Gabriel.
The last healing session had just completed and she was giving him the final warnings about his regrown legs.
"We will...
2024-10-15 20:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTwo months.
It took us two months for them to come upon civilization again. Well, civilization that was more than stragglers and small groups living in the newly created wilds.
After leaving what used to be the capital of Indiana and t...
2024-10-14 20:30:46 +0000 UTC View PostChris
It took Sarah an inordinate amount of time to tame one of the horses and after seeing how long it took, I looked for a way to speed things up.
Someone came up with the idea of separating the horse...
2024-10-11 20:13:23 +0000 UTC View PostChris
I trusted Jonathan fully to take care of the other end while I shifted my focus to what I needed to do next. The herd was through the gate and now it was time to close it.
A giant [Icy Bastion] sp...
2024-10-10 20:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't spend much time in the city and were on the road again in a day. Tracy helped us get everything we needed and even some things we didn't know were available. It put a dent in our newly acquired coins but it was well worth it in my opinio...
2024-10-09 20:16:57 +0000 UTC View PostI followed her back to the keep that was under construction and there was already a table and chairs set out for us. Austin wanted nothing to do with the lunch and left me high and dry saying he had important things to do.
The bastard.
Hendricks
The mana in the air was so thick he could almost taste it. It clogged his throat and there was a suffocating weight he had to fight through just to move. The area had turned into one of the highest ...
2024-10-07 20:16:58 +0000 UTC View Post