"You don't need to do anything, Theodora. You just need to watch."
Ironically, the person least excited to be performing animancy is one of the two people here who happens to be animated by it. Theodora seems to quite enjoy the biomancy rese...
2021-08-19 04:42:50 +0000 UTC View Post"Capita," I growl, spear still raised. "What are you doing here?"
She doesn't feel hostile, but emotionally, Capita is one of the most complicated people I’ve ever tried to read. Something about being two fragments of a person spliced toge...
2021-08-16 19:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe sight of my body being ripped apart in front of me is different when it's not a simple bug. I designed Evelyn Tinkerbell, after all. Those deaths and the resulting macabre horror show I witnessed as they got disemboweled was terrifying, and ar...
2021-08-14 17:55:42 +0000 UTC View PostAbout a tenday later, as I sit through the incredibly surreal experience of eating breakfast with my family, I'm mildly surprised to hear a knock on the door.
Not in the sense that I don't see it coming, since of course I can feel a person a...
2021-08-13 17:01:53 +0000 UTC View Post(Hey everyone, Thundamoo here. This cha
2021-08-11 23:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostObviously I pull my blow on Lyn, not wanting to hurt her or myself. I'm not moving as fast as I can, I'm not stabbing as directly at a vital as I might otherwise. Yet when my mom flashes me a contemptuous grin and easily steps to the side, I start...
2021-08-09 21:13:41 +0000 UTC View PostMy hill looks exactly the same as when I left it, which I suppose is only to be expected when all of my enemies live underground. Now, however, I have new ways of seeing.
It doesn't take long to find a hole, and I saunter up to it as Evelyn ...
2021-08-08 17:30:55 +0000 UTC View PostAfter all the crap I've been getting lately about not looking at people, finally someone is looking at me. Two people, actually, and they feel the same way about the sight.
I feel very differently about each reaction, however.
"So, Penelope," Vita tells me, speaking up as soon as I finish weaving a bubble of silence around us. "I think the two month mark is a good time to betray him. What do you think? I want to fuck up his plans but I figure he probably gave himself a ...
2021-08-05 05:44:55 +0000 UTC View PostReal quick before we start, I actually added a few paragraphs to the prior chapter. I'll post them here.
"What the fuck am I, Mr. Mooshi?" I hiss.
"You're Evelyn, last time I checked," he answers.
Which means wha...
2021-08-04 18:22:07 +0000 UTC View PostDay arrives too soon, light oozing in through the windows and frustrating my body enough to force it awake. I lie motionlessly in bed for quite some time after, however, not paying attention to my soul sense or meditating or cycling mana or thinki...
2021-08-02 20:23:27 +0000 UTC View Post"W-what did you just do?"
Bently stands shaking, so overwhelmed by confusion and terror that he denies the obvious reality I made sure to keep explicitly clear. Norah's corpse lies face down in the grass and dirt of the forest, collapsed lik...
2021-07-30 20:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostOkay. Okay! Things are progressing nicely! Evelyn Bork has managed to catch a decent amount of food with which to get her impending sister, Evelyn Bork 2, quickly up to speed. Then, I'll see how the pair of them do against the weasels plaguing my ...
2021-07-30 03:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostI explode into motion, fueled by panic and terror. As is our habit, I sleep when most of the rest of the team is awake to ensure that while best scout is down, we are at our best versus potential ambushes. This time, I had been in a particularly d...
2021-07-29 01:33:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt always feels nice to do a good deed.
I walk away from the storage shed with a spring in my step. I admit to being a bit leery to let Lark go, but I'll trust my instincts on the matter. Ultimately, isn't our job as hunters to protect peopl...
2021-07-26 20:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostWaking up is a procedure of increasing confusion, wherein I slowly begin to acknowledge the uncomfortable position of my body parts, certain that each one could not possibly be more absurd than the next, and repeatedly being proven wrong....
2021-07-25 17:41:17 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know what I was expecting this fish to be, but it definitely wasn't a jet engine. Not that I'm complaining; whatever it was I had in mind, this is definitely way cooler.
Rather than acquiring propulsion through lateral water displace...
2021-07-25 05:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostDripping tears mix with black splotches of blood as I sob quietly on the floor, one lower arm clutching the stub of my other in a half-hearted attempt to prevent myself from bleeding out. My fight with Vita left me broken, and I know her biomancer...
2021-07-23 19:34:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Rawr! Got you, Lark!”
“No you didn’t!” I protest. “I dodged!”
“You can’t always dodge, Lark!” one of the other kids protests. His name is Danny. "It's no fun that way!"
"But I'm the hunte...
2021-07-21 23:02:44 +0000 UTC View PostUgh... what's going on? Where am I? Oh yeah, I’m in bed. Nice and warm. Actually, it's kind of cold. Where are my blankets? What time is it? Oh shit, what time is it!? Damnit, I was up too late last ...
2021-07-21 18:32:34 +0000 UTC View PostPanic shrieks through me, and I have to take a split second to confirm which of my bodies actually got injured before I understand what just happened. It's Evelyn Prime, my original body back at the cave! Evelyn Experimental is potentially a...
2021-07-20 23:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostA nightmarish beast towers before me, reeling up on its snake-like body. It must be over twenty feet long from tip to tip, with a tail ending in a wicked spike and a head fused seamlessly to its main body, jawless and horrifying. The m...
2021-07-19 23:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post"Blubie… did you just talk!?"
I'm more than a little incredulous about the prospect of a talking arachnid. They don't even have lungs, at least not ones that expand or contract or otherwise make any noise. Mr. Bubbles hisses b...
2021-07-18 06:29:45 +0000 UTC View PostWell. That happened. Nothing remains of the creature I smashed with a rock. I have to give myself this: if nothing else, my body is not wasteful.
I dismount the best of all Mooshis and walk over to myself. I've got a lot going through my hea...
2021-07-18 06:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Blubie!" I chastise, lifting the huge bug from the terrarium I scrounged together for it. Mr. Bubbles wasn't happy I took her big tank, but she is never happy so she can deal.
"Blubie, you can't eat that much, you'll get sick! ...
2021-07-18 06:26:14 +0000 UTC View PostA rush of ecstasy fills my body, one that is quickly becoming all-too-familiar. The grass’ fuzzy fronds tickle my tongue as they dissolve, decomposing cell by cell, protein by protein to tell the story of how they germinate. It's pollen, kind of...
2021-07-18 06:24:14 +0000 UTC View Post"I can't believe my pelvis unhinged itself," I mutter, too shocked to care very much about how I'm clearly suffering from shock. "A pelvis isn't even supposed to have a hinge, Mr. Mooshi."
And as intellectually interesting as that is, the pr...
2021-07-18 06:20:43 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a bug.
That's right, I found a bug that day. Of course I did. That's normal, I find bugs all the time. It's why I go out to the forest, after all. But this was a very special bug. A kind I've never seen before in all my l...
2021-07-18 06:16:50 +0000 UTC View PostI hit the river with a crash, opening my eyes underwater to find myself face-to-face with a lamprey-like maw of teeth. The creature's mouth is wide open, two long, thin tongues protruding from its gullet and strangling me. I manage to catch panick...
2021-07-18 06:07:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of my unnatural, smooth-bored cave is entirely uninteresting. There's nothing else to note inside its dull, grey walls. In many ways, this is fortunate. No critters are hiding within. I'm no closer to getting a source of food or water, th...
2021-07-18 06:07:00 +0000 UTC View Post