O'Malley Penthouse November 5th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
We made it to the penthouse without much more trouble. I guided us with my stealth skills just in case because I didn't want to get caught in another ambush, but it didn't seem like it was necessary. Once we were safely at the building we headed inside, and I felt a slight shift as we walked th...
2022-03-06 17:50:34 +0000 UTC View PostMagic wasn't the only thing the attack drained from me. I'd been running on rage and hate and fear and a thousand other emotions, and when I poured it all into that spell it all just...left. I fell to my knees, almost boneless. Not with exhaustion mind you, but with the sort of bone deep weariness that only loss can really inflict. The second the shield came down m...
2022-03-05 19:25:34 +0000 UTC View PostGotham City November 5th 2010 7:00 PM EDT
I had to admit I wasn't necessarily against it, given the current situation, but I still had to point out the obvious. "I mean, you say that, but most of the time when I want to team up with someone I don't surround them with assassins. This feels less like an invitation and more like 'ye olde join up...
2022-03-05 17:57:02 +0000 UTC View PostI admit to being a bit smug, which mixed with my simmering rage was an interesting combination. There was a distinct undertone of vindictive pettiness to the concoction roiling in my gut too, and I was pretty sure I was not hiding that cocktail of emotions very well because He Who Stands Above looked less than enthused to be trapped in a giant ass force field with ...
2022-03-04 22:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower November 5th 2010 6:00 PM EDT
The wait had been agonizing. Well...no. It really hadn't, it had actually been pretty fun. My friends and I had taken to combing the island to try to find any leftover secrets, and it was fascinating some of the things we turned up. Granted, we were worried in the back of our minds, but our loved ...
2022-03-04 17:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostI blinked at the small form of the outsider...king? Whoever he was he seemed pretty sure he could beat me even in my ascended state. His loss. I flickered across the field, smashing out with the fist that still had the cestus on it. I expected surprise and for my punch to land. I appeared right next to He Who Stands Above and threw my strongest blow. Which he took....
2022-03-04 02:28:42 +0000 UTC View PostDoomhollow Hall October 31st 2010 3:00 AM EDT
I swallowed, hard. Hard, that was a funny word, it described pretty much everything about me right now. Staring at my perfect angel of a girlfriend in skimpy fishnets and a thong with those perfect, pale teardrop tits hanging down, I was having trouble forcing my brain to function. Her nipples were the ...
2022-03-03 18:11:52 +0000 UTC View PostTwo of them. Two outsiders glaring at me hatefully. Well, I mean really still one doing that, since Sharkface had no eyes, but still I was positive he wasn't going to be signing us up for a couples massage anytime in the near future. Regardless they both seemed pretty pissed, which I got because I wasn't exactly in a good mood either. I sneered at the freakish abom...
2022-03-03 00:28:43 +0000 UTC View PostDoomhallow Hall October 31st 2010 1:00 AM EDT
I wanted to run out into the night and track down my loved ones, to round them all up and bring them here. But we only had the one teleporter and it would be stupid to drag them through a freshly contained Gotham. This...was going to get bad. Gotham was already enough of a nightmare without being ...
2022-03-02 16:31:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe outsider creatures were...awful. They looked sickening, like a mix between black sludge, bugs, soldiers, and some kind of cancerous growth. The things were all pitch black and covered in sickening green veins. As I watched, I saw them fall upon my forces, some of them stopping to tear into Draugr on the way. I spun to glare at Loki, the mad god was still laughi...
2022-03-02 00:28:56 +0000 UTC View PostDoomhollow Hall October 31st 2010 12:00 AM
Obviously with the harbor full off pissed off Amazons we weren't going to be able to sail to the island. Instead I'd burned the extra points to shadow port us back to the tower so we could use the teleporter to get there. Mom was safe with Gojo, and Paula was there too, but Reggie called Bette and hi...
2022-03-01 18:11:13 +0000 UTC View PostDespite what we expected we weren't thrown into pitched battle as soon as we stepped into the territory of the ritual, with Loki's army falling back to allow enough room for a few of us to approach but not all. Naturally the girls and I went first because we were the strongest, though Vikram came along as well, the demigod being one of our heavy hitters, and Ebenez...
2022-02-28 23:04:41 +0000 UTC View PostGotham City October 30th 2010 8:30 PM EDT
"What the FUCK just happened?" Not the most eloquent response to things sure, but this was completely out of left field...except it wasn't. She'd basically TOLD me it would happen. Told me how jealous she was, how she wanted to get stronger, and I'd ignored it. Hell I had a fucking road map to this ex...
2022-02-28 15:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days were both peaceful and hectic at the same time. As much as I'd like to say Kara being part of our little group was some blissful life changing experience, the fact was we had far too much to do to sit around fucking or cuddling all the time. Not that we didn't do a bit of both, but most of the time we spent contacting allies and asking for support...
2022-02-28 00:48:26 +0000 UTC View PostHell October 30th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
It was time. Three months of constant growth and accruing power. Three months of training and fighting and combat against monsters and demons. I had a plan for killing Annabel, as much as I wished I didn't have to. It had taken us hours today to clear our way to the pentagram leading to Annabel's chamber, bu...
2022-02-27 16:11:51 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I got back to the house almost everyone was gone. Clearly Kara had picked up the girls and our other roomies had headed to Charity's or Harry's to wait their tests out. Two people however, were there, and surprisingly one of them was Kara herself. I must have looked surprised as I came in because she gave a quiet nervous laugh at my face when I froze in the do...
2022-02-26 22:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostHell October 29th 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Level fifteen was mostly done. With the extra power and my massive boost in skill from the constant Outer Body Training nothing down here so far had really been able to give us trouble. Between my training hours of daily training with the Warlord, fifty dexterity, my King's Sword of Haste, my reflexes, my ab...
2022-02-26 18:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostSo here I was, undertaking a trial to be the Champion of a god. Since Hades pretty much doubled as the greek pantheons banker we didn't need to go to Olympus or anything, which was good because of the time crunch. Kara was able to go pick the other girls up from a nearby entrance to the Underworld and after she left, I was asked which of the gods I would like to re...
2022-02-26 01:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostUnnamed Lair Island October 24th 2010 12:00 AM EDT
The extra two hundred points I felt blaze through me was a nice boost to an already portentous moment as I gaped at the new base screen. I had to admit, game elements of the email aside I didn't expect...this. I mean, of course it cost points, but still this was unbelievably cool. I walked in...
2022-02-25 17:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe entrance to the underworld was really stylish. I mean sure, the marble was a bit flashy, white with gold veins and all, but the rest of the decor was pretty understated. Sleek lines and lots of black wood furniture that wasn't too intricate or over the top. There were even a few tasteful couches and a nice water feature next to a black marble desk built into th...
2022-02-25 00:57:29 +0000 UTC View PostGotham Harbor October 23rd 2010 11:00 PM EDT
Twenty days. Twenty days of constant training and grinding had led me to this point. Twenty days and seven levels. We'd carved through level fourteen of the dungeon in that time, finally reaching fifteen and officially setting foot on the last level. The final boss room could be considered as being...
2022-02-24 15:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post"I don't get why you're so grumpy about this. Henry's place is in undertown and we got there all the time." Kara, as was her habit, seemed mostly unbothered by pretty much everything when in mixed company. I knew that she had more doubts than she let on of course, but in public she always tried to be the bastion of hope. We were standing in front of an old run down...
2022-02-24 01:28:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower October 3rd 2010 9:00 PM EDT
Killing the Warlord was NOT easy, even after I pincushioned him with my whole wall of swords trick. With him slowed down I was able to keep up with him. Barely. But even between me and the others it took most of a half hour to whittle him down. I committed every second to memory, and went out of my...
2022-02-23 16:52:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe aftermath of the meeting was less of a success than I'd hoped. We got people on board, sure, but we also got some pointed questions. Namely from Ebenezer and Joe. Nemesis, as it happened, was considered something of a state secret by most of the supernatural factions, and me knowing not just his title but his actual name was incredibly suspicious. So now I was ...
2022-02-23 01:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostHell October 3rd 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Finding the Warlord turned out to be as easy as expected, having the quest to guide us was...interesting, but convenient. We hadn't really gotten any quests like this, most of the ones in diablo were given by NPCs and aside from that shitty Satyr we hadn't really met any that didn't try to kill us immediately...
2022-02-22 18:41:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe drive back to the house with Aiden was...novel. Apparently whatever made him able to literally eat part of an outsider monster and digest it for power made him a little nuts. Or vice versa I supposed but either way. We'd decided that since Maeve was gone we were unlikely to get any clues from soldier field, especially with the monster eater hanging around, so w...
2022-02-21 23:52:26 +0000 UTC View PostHell October 2nd 2010 8:00 PM EDT
Hell was pretty unpleasant, to the surprise of literally no one. Aside from the walls made of bone, the unidentified stone of the floor, and the weird troughs of blood mysteriously sitting around, the fucking monsters were nightmarishly strong and WOULD NOT stop coming. We were currently fighting what a...
2022-02-21 16:44:58 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Odin left the meeting mostly broke up. People fractured into smaller groups and began discussing strategies and other business and I slipped out the front door with Raven trailing close behind. I smiled at her slightly as she climbed into the drivers seat of the car. I'd been planning to call a cab, but with Rae here we could just take the quick way. " So, yo...
2022-02-21 01:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Clock Tower October 1st 2010 11:00 PM EDT
I was exhausted. Again. We'd been dealing with fallout from the plant monsters for a day or two now and it was just non stop. Granted we weren't rebuilding shit or anything (well Zee was with her Uncle Kent and her dad) but in general it was just reacting to the shit storm that had blanketed the w...
2022-02-20 13:50:28 +0000 UTC View PostExplaining Cowl was...tougher than expected. Since Dead Beat hadn't actually happened yet (if it even would now) Cowl had never shown up, which meant he never fought Harry. It was frustrating trying to explain to everyone here why Cowl was so dangerous without dropping the different reality bomb, but I did my best. Because I knew he was dangerous. There was no ques...
2022-02-19 23:26:24 +0000 UTC View Post