We decided to tell our mothers together. Honestly any way we tried to explain two teenagers getting their hands on high rise condos would sound like a lie, the only real way we would be able to manage to convince them was to back each other up. Mrs. Crock didn't know about my old man's business interests and mom didn't know about Mr. Crock's nighttime activities so...
2021-11-21 20:49:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe Crying Limey was just as pirate-y and awesome as ever. Arriving back outside the place reminded me of that time that felt so long ago when I'd first come here and met Dalton. I'd been a much different person, less powerful and influential but...still me, still the same man. Now at nineteen I'd grown and changed so much but I could still remember my roots. Remem...
2021-11-20 21:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning I woke up sore. Luckily I had my handy dandy muscle powder. But I felt...strange. I'd been so tired I went right to bed when I got home. We'd stayed at Teague's all day, Artemis and I trading tips on ranged attacks and weapons and trying out various levels of the training ground. I never managed a level two shot, and I couldn't do the obstacle cour...
2021-11-20 07:42:53 +0000 UTC View PostHenry's face paled immediately after hearing The Beast's name. I really wished people would stop reacting like that, it was starting to make me nervous. He let his head roll back against the chair bonelessly, staring up at the vaulted ceiling in despair. His voice came out small and quiet, almost broken "Why is the world like this? So many creatures out there tryin...
2021-11-20 00:16:20 +0000 UTC View PostAs we walked through the door into the back room it was like entering another world. The vibe in the front of the shop was very old world, like a weapon shop in the medieval era. This new section was very different in terms of theme, looking more steam punk or factory chic in design. Despite that it was obviously top of the line and incredibly pricey in terms of co...
2021-11-19 20:40:56 +0000 UTC View PostI admit to being more than a little relaxed the next morning. Barb had come back and crawled into bed with Raven, Cinder and I, and the pile of beautiful girls on top of me made me smile. I pulled each one close and kissed the top of their head slipping out of bed to pad down the hall to the bathroom. Washing my face I stared at myself in the mirror, noting how dif...
2021-11-18 23:43:44 +0000 UTC View PostThe Narrows were pretty awful, obviously. People call Gotham a sewer and a living hell but the Narrows is one of the few places where I could see what they meant. The Narrows wasn't...a normal neighborhood. It reminded me of those castles kids made in preschool out of the different colored cardboard bricks. Except instead of bricks the place was made of buildings. ...
2021-11-18 12:01:51 +0000 UTC View PostLife sucked. It was pointless and boring and empty. Go to school, come home, and sit on my computer. Read some stories, watch some TV, and hit on random girls. Life was a meaningless mess of empty nothingness. Some people might say that was because I lived in Gotham city in a run down tenement building, but they would be wrong. Life sucked because I was normal. When people like Superman are run...
2021-11-18 00:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we got up to the roof Artemis sat down on one of the milk crates and just looked at me skeptically. “A ninja? Seriously?” She was less impressed than I expected, but I still had some tricks up my sleeves to show off my skills. She seemed more bored than disbelieving though, like she knew tons of ninjas. “I mean, you could have learned normal martial arts or even magic if you wanted t...
2021-11-18 00:26:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning found me dragging myself out of bed sore and aching. Artemis and I had sparred for hours, she kept implying we were almost done and then pushing me just a bit further. Oddly looking back each of her exercises seemed to specifically involve certain muscles or skills that didn’t overlap as much as I would have thought. In the moment I’d felt like I’d been using my whole bod...
2021-11-18 00:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostWe swung back by the apartment to drop of my social security card and birth certificate and so I could hide my new debit card because carrying it around just seemed like asking for trouble. While we were there I changed into some beat around clothes and we went up to the roof to do the training Artemis had suggested. I was kind of excited about the whole thing honestly I knew her dad had her in...
2021-11-18 00:24:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning mom was gone when I woke up. She usually left early enough that even on school days I didn’t see her before work and I had been up on the roof with Artemis until almost five thirty. I booted up my computer to check on my power but sadly the whole one day rule appeared to be midnight to midnight. I would have to wait until tomorrow to try it again. That said I did dig out my m...
2021-11-18 00:22:50 +0000 UTC View PostI felt a sudden wave of exhaustion roll over me. Not enough to put me back down but enough to be noticeable, if I hadn’t just been sleeping all day I’d probably have conked out. If I wasn’t sure I was doing something before I was now. I half expected to have to wait hours, but the doorbell rang again as soon as I saw the one pop up on my trash icon. Apparently my powers worked based on my...
2021-11-18 00:21:42 +0000 UTC View PostDecided to do a smut chapter since it's been so long. It's official though Cinder had now joined the harem!
When we got home we saw that Barb was asleep in Andi's room. We both pulled the blanket up over the girls with a smile and kissed our own redhead on the forehead before retiring to our room. We were exhausted from the day emotionally but not physic...
2021-11-17 08:12:16 +0000 UTC View PostOver the last year we had all gotten pretty close to Dalton. Ranier was working with us on distribution and Dalton was a partner so naturally he was someone we could get in touch with when we needed to. Not to mention he had a scrolltech phone of his own. So when I called him to set something up he was more than happy to meet with us that very same day. Barb was wi...
2021-11-16 10:17:48 +0000 UTC View PostAndi ended up coming home with us. Barb still had a room technically but she pretty much lived with Rae and I so she gave up her digs for her friend. We helped Andi pack up all her stuff. She said once this was over she would find a new place but she didn't want to come back to the apartment she'd shared with Kirby alone. I didn't bother correcting her but I saw Ba...
2021-11-15 20:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe drive to Kirby and Andi's place went by in a blur. I was in shock. I'd known Kirby we'd done game night with Harry and the Alphas. He was a good guy. I thought I'd saved him, thought I'd changed his fate, but I'd made it worse. Shagnasty had killed Kirby in battle in the books, but it hadn't tortured him. Not for information. Whatever had killed him in this tim...
2021-11-14 19:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt was family dinner night at the Carpenter house, which naturally included us. Charity cooked every Sunday and she insisted we come. At first it had just been Kara and Inari, but over time the rest of us joined in. Not just the people at the house either, Harry and Susan were here with Maggie, who was only a few months old and adorable. Tera had come with Conner t...
2021-11-13 21:03:25 +0000 UTC View PostLogic is important. It's a fundamental part of our society, the basis on which we structure our world. Logic can tell you so many important things. However, staring into the four glowing eyes of a fifteen foot tall demon tyrant from beyond space and time, the logic voice in my head froze up just long enough for mind numbing terror to beat it unconscious with a sack...
2021-11-12 20:23:49 +0000 UTC View PostA kitsune, two proto angels, a half demon, and a smuggler crept down the abandoned hallway of a creepy seaside mansion in search of a ruthless shapeshifting psychopath from before the dawn of civilization. I had to force myself not to snort at what sounded like the beginning of the most elaborate joke of all time. My face went serious as I considered the circumstan...
2021-11-11 20:07:45 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the lights went out I froze. Not because I didn't know what to do, but because I knew TOO MANY things to do. The shock sent my easily distracted super fast consciousness reeling into reaction mode and I had to force myself not to move and let my muscles relax. Doing something stupid now would be worse than doing nothing. After a second to calm down I activated...
2021-11-10 21:07:04 +0000 UTC View PostOur first instinct was to rush back to the room the maids were in and bust down the door, but after thinking for even a second we realized that would be pointless. We had no clue which maid was the creature, and assuming our suspicions were correct, the creature didn't even know it was the creature except from brief moments of lucidity when it killed. If we busted ...
2021-11-09 19:36:46 +0000 UTC View PostNadia was the first person to whirl around and look for the missing man. As his wife she was naturally concerned. When she didn't see him anywhere she started frantically yelling for him "Sergei! Sergei!" She devolved into a string of russian I couldn't understand, bleeding back into english periodically before getting so agitated she switched back. She spun around...
2021-11-08 18:47:13 +0000 UTC View PostCarlos's body was...messy. Like seriously fucked up. It looked like someone had clawed through the skin pulled the sternum apart and ripped the heart out with their fingers while making sure to get as much blood on him as possible. Whoever had done it, and I assumed it was someone here, must have used magic of some kind to stay clean because not a speck of blood wa...
2021-11-07 20:57:04 +0000 UTC View PostI only brought out the minimum hundred thousand to start. I didn't know any of these people or how good they were, so I decided to play short stacked to begin so I wouldn't lose it all if I hit a bad beat. The game was no limit texas hold em' of course and Dalton had the button. Vikram was up first on his left. He set the blind at a hundred and Dalton dealt out eve...
2021-11-06 09:46:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe woke up the the ringing of bells. Despite having been expecting that before we fell asleep it was pretty fucking jarring to experience and I sat bolt upright and fell out of bed. Luckily my reflexes were godsteel enhanced so I was able to catch myself pretty easily. Still the stifled giggles of the girls as I landed splayed legged and caught myself looking like ...
2021-11-05 17:09:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe next few days passed without incident. Lot's of time at home with the girls or over at Harry's or Charity's. Harry decided we should push magic lessons back a bit since we'd been slammed since getting here. He wanted me to have a bit of a break between crises. Lily had sent Fix to drop off the treasure from my first favor, and honestly staring at a pile of gold...
2021-11-04 19:53:39 +0000 UTC View PostI had no clue what godsteel was worth. I mean sure it was a unique and uber powerful divine metal, but that didn't help me set a value. Priceless and worthless are pretty much the same thing when you're trying to sell something, what's the point in a commodity too expensive for anyone to buy? So I fell back on that old standby, I shut up and let Lily take the lead....
2021-11-03 19:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up, as I often did. In a bathtub. The water was clear as usual having been drained of all the medicinal chemicals Kara had dumped into it. I expected a bit of soreness but I felt great when I got out of the tub,which I was thankful for. My godsteel weave had definitely mitigated the damage from my turbo charged Klurkor, but oddly, looking back, I also though...
2021-11-02 19:57:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe little girl's name was Beatrice (Bea for short) and her bunny's name was Fig Newton, which was apparently her favorite snack. Beatrice was a talkative girl, apparently she was ten years old and she and her mommy had been camping in their car as an adventure because their house was being fixed. She got really sad when she told me that her mommy had gone away aft...
2021-11-01 19:40:51 +0000 UTC View Post