Malcolm Tent

Sell you a Bridge chapter 174

February 14th 2011 The OZ 10:00 AM EDT

I  had to admit, the Queen's tower was...imposing. It was also ugly. Like a  serious eyesore. I turned to Cain.  I was trying to distract the man, he'd been taking it hard since we'd realized the mystic man had been taken along with DG, a fact that I personally hadn't even noticed. "Seriously who does her decorating? &...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 36

I spent the next few days getting ready. I took my daily jobs, trying  to focus on accruing skills this time. Both new ones and addendums to  strengthen the ones I'd already gotten. I got a few doubles, bringing my  skills up a bit. A single instance of Minor Inventing Mastery, though  that was far from enough to even put a dent in the necessary progress to Lesser. Asid...

Greed God chapter 35

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 9:00 PM EDT

Sitting  down across from the Calculator was...jarring. I could read people  extremely well. Their breathing, perspiration, pupil dilation,  microexpressions, all of these things blended together to give me a  sense of what they were thinking or feeling. I included that in my  interactions automatically, wi...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 173

February 13th 2011 The OZ 11:00 PM EDT

I  sighed as I sat next to the fire, rubbing the bridge of my nose. No one  was near me, they were all steering clear after they saw how pissed off  I was. Which was fair. I was pissed. I'd burned through thousands of  points fighting that possessed psychopath so they could get DG away and  they'd screwed it ...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 35

Since I knew I was leaving I could make preparations for my trip. The  first thing that came to mind was obviously grinding up my last few  points to G rank so I could give Benny an ability. But despite how cool  that sounded I decided that ranking up now would be too suspicious.  Massive influx of points from killing Stricture or not, the capital  branch would be expec...

Greed God chapter 34

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 8:00 PM EDT

I  sent Whisper to her place to lay low. She was to call in to her  superiors in the cult on the phone and delay anyone seeing her for a  while. We needed to figure out exactly how to let her blend back in with  the Religion, and if we couldn't how to get as much from them as  possible on her way out. In th...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 172

February 13th 2011 The OZ 10:00 PM EDT

I  wasn't sure exactly what Azkedelia had inside her, but it was fucking  powerful. Within the first thirty seconds of combat I'd hurled a dozen  bolts of ectoplasm and opened just as many Holes to intercept return  fire (thank god for my high dexterity) and she managed to deflect or  intercept all of them. H...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 34

I found Callie sitting in a nearby apartment with the door partly  open. She was sitting on the bed, staring at the floor. It was strange  to see her so...meek. She was usually so in your face about everything. I  knocked on the frame, but she just grunted without looking up. I stood  there for a minute, just waiting for her to speak, before finally  saying. "Well, that...

Greed God chapter 33

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 10:00 AM EDT

Understandably  being caught in an alley wasn't Jade's idea of a good time, so after I  got her number I had whisper move. As she was leaving though, she  paused. She gave Whisper a once over. "What happened to you A'daire? You  look so different? You were a two bit religious nut last time I saw  you, not....

Sell you a Bridge chapter 171

February 13th 2011 The OZ 9:00 PM EDT

The  scene in the mirror was cozy, the woman laying next to her daughter.  "Two little princesses dancing row, spinning fast and freely on their  little toes, where the night will take you there's only one way to know,  two little princesses dancing in a row." The woman had a pleasant  voice, nothing impressiv...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 33

I woke up with my head in pain...again. But at least I did wake up,  which I hadn't been at all sure would happen. Apparently my desperate  last strike had been effective. I groaned and sat up, a bit shocked at  the give of a mattress under me. I looked around, finding myself in a  familiar room. Or rather, not a familiar room exactly, but a room with a  familiar layout...

Greed God chapter 32

January 9th 2016 Gotham City 10:00 AM EDT

I  had a LOT of sex with Whisper for the rest of that night. Enough that  even I was slightly tired after. Her body was G rank now and seemed to  be able to keep pace with mine. My mutagen was on the edge of F rank  sure, but it was just a mutagen, Whisper was an actual G rank being. She  was fast as shit,...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 170

February 13th 2011 The OZ 8:00 PM EDT

Cain  executed Zero, because of course he did. But he did it quickly, a  single shot to the head and he waited until all the others had left. His  aura was...conflicted. He'd been so focused on this goal for so long,  so focused on his hate when he was in that box, that now he didn't know  what to do with hims...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 32

I woke up with a headache, which was confusing for a minute. Then I  remembered what had happened and I kind of wished I was still confused.  Stricture was the Evil Eye, he'd caught me...somehow, and then tracked  me down and knocked me out. Now I was...actually where was I? I looked  around. Well, I tried to look around, but my body wouldn't move even an  inch so I end...

Greed God chapter 31

January 8th 2016 Gotham City 11:00 PM EDT

So  I had fifteen thousand points and a whole bunch of stuff to fuse. My  first real decision was what direction to go in. Whisper had gotten me a  few animals, and I wanted to try to work those in somewhere, but not  all of them obviously, because that would turn her into a mess. Once I  got her a new rac...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 169

February 13th 2011 The OZ 2:00 PM EDT

Zero's  smug expression vanished pretty quick when he had to throw himself out  of the way of a bolt of ectoplasmic force. it was hard not to smirk at  the terror and shock on hos face when he realized his stupid magic  blocker didn't stop my ghost powers. The look only got more horrified  when the bolt hit th...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 31

The next five days were a blur of activity. I was even more committed  to making the most of my wishes, bringing myself up by another eighteen  points for a grand total of fifty, putting me halfway to G rank, as  well as getting two instances of Minor Enchanting Mastery to stack on  top of my current skill. It wasn't enough to bump me up to Lesser, but  my rune carving ...

Greed God chapter 30

January 8th 2016 Gotham City 8:00 PM EDT

I  groaned, slumping into bed. I'd explained my newest lie to Barbie,  telling her I'd been targeted by the kidnappers in the first place  because of an experiment I'd been part of, then apologized to her for  keeping secrets and fucked her into a puddle of smiling meat. By the  time we finished she was ove...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 168

February 13th 2011 The OZ 12:00 PM EDT

Everyone  was staring. Not just the OZ locals but even the other gods. My team  wasn't too shocked, Artemis and Zee knew how strong I was, and Wally had  seen me use my ghostly wail on New Genesis, but the others were looking  at me much differently after the display of power.

I  turned to Cain, who was...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 30

Seeing Callie viciously wolf down the cheese fries at the cafeteria  made me smile. She was eating the starchy food like she was trying to  exact vengeance, and apparently she wasn't satisfied because she glared  down at it. "This sucks. I forgot why I stopped eating in the normal  cafeteria." She took a swig of soda and looked at the two of us, both  staring at her. "N...

Greed God chapter 29

January 8th 2016 Gotham City 3:00 PM EDT

[  Congratulations host! I rank member of B rank Religious Organization  Religion of Crime stolen. Averaging point value, averaging difficulty.  Deducting rank for non-powered human conquest. Deducting rank for low  ranking target. Theft value G rank! One thousand points awarded!]

I  ...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 167

February 13th 2011 The OZ 7:00 AM EDT

I  was pretty much flabbergasted to see the Brick Route literally right  next to us when we landed on the shore. Well, twenty feet or so, but it  became obvious pretty quickly. This was pretty amazing luck honestly,  and better than things usually went for us. I looked around. "Well.  Guess we found the road a...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 29

I did, in fact gain three points during my day working in the Jerk's  territory, but even so I wasn't sure it was worth it. During the court  of the day I had fallen into a concealed pit with a giant trampoline at  the bottom, been attack by flying sentient books, had coleslaw fired at  me out of a canon, and been chased by an army of possum controlled by an  old woman ...

Greed God chapter 28

As usual extreme BDSM warning with a chaser of mild potential blasphemy, mindbreak, and other wholesome  activities.

January 8th 2016 Gotham City 2:00 PM EDT

I  walked to the door Whisper had gone through, but I waited a minute or  two before going in. I wanted to see if she would really be waiting like  she said. After a minut...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 166

February 13th 2011 The OZ 6:00 AM EDT

The  trip through the "Fields of the Papay" was long and annoying. We had  to follow Cain's lead, which meant a damn slow walk because as badass as  the old man was, he was still human. In the meantime though it just  meant time to talk and figure out the situation here. Specifically,  while Zee was spending t...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 28

I snuck out the back window again in my costume to meet up with Cap. I  made a note to be careful about using cape names when in costume. Even  though Cap was outed, I very much wasn't, and most of my team wasn't  either so it seemed like a good habit to get into. When my mentor  finally showed up thankfully, it was in a car and not on a two wheeled  death machine. He g...

Greed God chapter 27

January 8th 2016 Gotham City 1:00 PM EDT

Getting  Mal settled after he woke up was easy enough. I told him to take a few  days to get used to his new body and then get in touch with "Nick" to  work. It gave me some to tell Barbie about "Mammon", but those things  were both a problem for future Nicky. Present Nicky had a boring crime  survey to sit...

Sell you a Bridge chapter 165

February 12th 2011 The OZ 11:00 PM EDT

Getting  DG and the others away from the longcoats was a snap with help from  Dreamer and my own abilities. We bypassed the queens soldiers and  waited, watching them fly off once they realized DG wasn't around  anymore. Glitch, a man who had apparently had his damn brain removed by  dark magic and was someho...

Wish upon the Stars chapter 27

The next few days were...busy. I finished Jessie's wand, though I  hadn't had a chance to give it to her yet, and all my other enchanting  attempts I used working with attacks from my Lesser Doom Sovereign  Mastery. Between my tries to do that, I also used up all my wishes,  focusing exclusively on stats and netting myself another twelve points  total. The boost to my s...

SYAB on RR

Just letting everyone know that due to declining interest over time I decided to take SYAB off RR. It'll still update on here daily and at the regular times on fanfiction.net archive of our own and spacebattles. I post on at the regular times.