We didn't get spotted by anyone on our way up the Volcano, thankfully. It was also lucky Callie kept that shield around us, because more than one of us fell on the way up. Though we had incredibly powerful physical bodies, most of us couldn't actually fly, and the mountain was much less durable than we were. The rock crumbled out from under us a number of times, bu...
2022-08-15 22:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 9th 2016 Gemworld 5:00 PM EDT
I had a decent hope that Zee might get branded after we fucked, but whatever the thing was that would make her submit this wasn't it. Given her fanatical research obsession I was guessing it would be magic based. It made me wonder if it was harder to brand higher ranked girls. That would...
2022-08-15 21:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostTo the surprise of literally no one Grimmengap DID want to come with us on our last raid. It honestly hadn't even been a question. Danger was a fact of life for cultivators, but this kind of opportunity for self promotion didn't come along every day. The whole "last two items were on everyone's list" thing, was less of a surprise in retrospect. I'd been wondering h...
2022-08-14 23:55:30 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 The Nightside 9:00 PM EDT
The actual bar area in Strangefellows was fairly eclectic. Haphazardly strewn about tables and booths from a variety of times and places covered the floor of the stone pit at the bottom of the steps, each of them occupied by some strange or unusual being. Werewolves, Zombies, Fishmen, and weirdly, an actual C...
2022-08-14 12:06:52 +0000 UTC View PostWe did get the mushroom, bringing us up to four items on our list. With proof of concept we spend the rest of the week using a combination wishes and determination to track down a full twenty three of twenty five items. Unfortunately, that was when we ran into a little snag. The less items remaining on the list, the more expensive the wishes got because of the smal...
2022-08-13 21:49:59 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 9th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT
Showing Levka the forge had been a strong step and he had basically drooled over the building. We managed to talk him to our side and get the farmers onboard, but they had to actually get their farms packed up and finish bringing in the last of their crops so it was going to be a few days. I ...
2022-08-13 19:28:04 +0000 UTC View PostStarting out the fight against the wolf riders taught me multiple important things. First, most of my combat training had been against humanoid opponents, and I really needed to address that flaw if I was going to keep fighting monsters. Animals were distinctly different in terms of goals and execution during fights. The wolves not only had different methods of att...
2022-08-12 23:00:52 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 The Nightside 8:00 PM EDT
The train ride wasn't great. I managed to nap through more than a bit of it but even then the howling and scratching resulted in some less than pleasant dreams. Zee and Drea were there with me though, and woke me up when things got dicey in dreamland. We didnt talk much, the atmosphere not conducive to a...
2022-08-12 22:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostTen. Ten G ranked goblins riding giant wolves, and backed by a much larger force of goblins on foot, all glaring at me like they wanted to tear me apart. Normally ten G ranked cannon fodder monsters wouldn't scare me, especially not with my team around, but those wolves had BIG teeth. Something about the fur and the smell and the glaring hate in their eyes made the...
2022-08-11 22:49:15 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 7th 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT
We made it back to the village the next morning, but this time we took a more relaxed approach. We wanted ourselves to be seen coming so they could adjust. I thought we should make a rickshaw or something and have one of our heavies pull the thing, but Barbie nixed the idea, playing the...
2022-08-11 20:32:28 +0000 UTC View PostRaleigh's Raiders were less....military than I expected. Given the theme and vibe that I'd had described to me I was expecting to be dealing with uber serious soldier of fortune types, but everyone was actually really laid back. Red mohawk guy, whose name was Chester, was the leader and one of their G tankers. He sat us all down and got us drinks, and within a minu...
2022-08-10 23:22:35 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 London, England 3:00 PM EDT
The train platform was...unsettling. Not just the big obvious stuff either. I think the most unusual things were the subtle little discordant elements. The walls were plastered with posters of familiar famous people, but mostly in strange and disturbing movies that would never make it to theaters in r...
2022-08-10 21:09:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip to meet Raleigh's Raiders was NOT a fast one, for several reasons. Firstly we were now a few days into the hunt, which meant people would have finished their base prep and started making their way out to start scavenging. Granted, we'd done some scouting of our own already, but assuming that Jessie's ravens were foolproof was a good way to get knocked out ...
2022-08-09 22:40:24 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 6th 2016 Gemworld 8:00 PM EDT
We made pretty good time getting to the village. I considered stopping to fuck Barbie, but I had a better idea for getting her off and keeping her happy. It would have to wait until later. Due to that we didn't linger on the way to the village and we got there in just two hours, which I ...
2022-08-09 21:56:36 +0000 UTC View PostBetween the ravens and Callie's ability to track their scan ring, we were able to get eyes on the new group we wanted to trade with pretty quickly. As before, Jessie was able to describe them to us when she found them, and Celine knew exactly who they are, her noble Job clearly giving her an advantage in statecraft and cultivating sources that the rest of us just c...
2022-08-08 21:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 London, England 2:00 PM EDT
After we finished breakfast we walked around for a few hours, Jim showing us all the places he used to go when he was younger. Eventually though Jim pulled out an old silver pocket watch, checked the time, and tsked in annoyance. "Ah, I'm afraid our tour is at an end children. Our meeting with the illustrio...
2022-08-08 20:01:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe swim was relaxing and fun, of course. I'd always loved swimming, and despite not having been in the water like that for years I took to it quickly. Still, it didn't last forever, and after we all finished our swim we spent the rest of the evening just chilling out and talking, learning more about each other and introducing ourselves to everyone else sans masks ...
2022-08-07 23:16:28 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 6th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT
I considered just grinding out the rest of the buildings from the village, but in the end I was getting stir crazy just doing merges all day. Even Zee's constant attempts to drag me off for a quick suck session got old after a while. I was, at heart, a city boy, and this wilderness bulls...
2022-08-07 04:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt took about forty minutes to pack all the gold and artifacts back into the back and return it to the bag. I debated keeping the cane out for myself, but since it was communal I could probably use it as payment for a wish so I decided to wait. Once we had everything set up Callie and I walked over to sit on the edge of the open top floor of the hatchery, staring o...
2022-08-06 21:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostJune 2nd 2016 London, England 10:00 AM EDT
We took the car to London. I had to convince everyone else it was a feasible option, but after some wheedling I got them to agree to try it, and I couldn't have been more excited. We left from the island, where it had been dropped off (in a giant box of all things), and when I rolled it out I mostly ...
2022-08-06 19:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the rush of excitement we were feeling Zeke didn't seem in too big a hurry to start. He took his time clearing the table away so he could have some free space on the floor to work in, and then had as put the box down on the ground for him to open and sort through. Despite his power I couldn't help but issue the same warning we'd been repeating ad nauseum. "...
2022-08-05 22:50:05 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 5th 2016 Gemworld 6:00 PM EDT
I spread the rest of the farms out over the span of a few days. Rest or not I didn't want Barbie knowing how much I could do in a single afternoon. It also gave me time to search around for some more I ranked materials, and even a few new H ranked items. I was officially down to fi...
2022-08-05 16:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostWe didn't actually nap right there in front of the barely restrained army of ghosts. We weren't idiots. We rested for a minute to get some strength back and let Jessie top us all off with some life energy and then made the trek back to the hatchery where were were finally able to collapse into a nice restful sleep. I really needed the rest after all the craziness, ...
2022-08-04 22:06:11 +0000 UTC View PostJune 1st 2016 Gotham City 6:00 PM EDT
Jim, Blood, and Madame Xanadu all flinched visibly when the name was mentioned, which...wasn't a great sign. Jim actually choked on a sip of tea he was taking, which given he didn't have a windpipe or need to breathe was even worse. Judging by the looks I wasn't the only one worried about that. Everyone at this...
2022-08-04 19:10:38 +0000 UTC View PostI had to admit, on a scale of one to crazy, a whirling funnel of blue flame jamming itself down the throat of a screaming corpse was one of the crazier things I'd seen so far in my life. As the flames were crammed into his mouth his body seemed to bulge as if it would explode. I was half expecting to have to five for cover, but apparently Carks flame didn't react w...
2022-08-03 23:36:09 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 3rd 2016 Gemworld 10:00 AM EDT
I didn't get up at sunrise to start working, because I wasn't a fucking actual farmer. While I was pretty pumped about the whole kingdom building aspect of the village I also had zero interest in becoming a responsible leader. I'd leave the politics and shit to Cherry and Barbie, the gu...
2022-08-03 17:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostMartin and Celine met us as we got to our feet after the explosion. The whole place was covered in flames at this point. Martin had been able to block the attack given how spread out it was, for him and Celine both, and Sarah and Jessie had Cark to hold back the fire. The same could not be said of the ghost cavalry that had been arriving as the Bone Wyvern went up....
2022-08-02 22:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostJune 1st 2016 Gotham City 5:00 PM EDT
It was my birthday. Again. Honestly given how much had happened since my eighteenth I felt like it really HAD been five years since my last one. Still, I was officially seventeen, and my mom was going all out on the festivities. Non stop cooking, which she'd roped Drea and Zee into helping with (in shifts so th...
2022-08-02 04:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I did was cast Sucking Mud on the Wyverns back right foot. Given how soft the ground already was and the weight of the thing it just seemed like a solid plan. As that took effect I saw Cark rain down blue flames at the Lich as Callie picled up my vibe and was trying to chain down the Wyvern. Jessie was imbuing vines with life energy to target the Li...
2022-08-01 21:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary 2nd 2016 Gemworld 5:00 PM EDT
The next morning Barbie talked to her dead and sent him the way of the house, and after a teary goodbye to her old man headed out with Cherry to do recon on the nearby forest. With Cherry's ghostly abilities they should be able to get some top notch spying done if they found any vil...
2022-08-01 17:58:02 +0000 UTC View Post