I was still lying on the hard stone ground when I woke up. The others were all crowded around me. Kara, Cinder,Barb and Harry were the closest, staring worriedly down at me while the other's gave them space. The tangible relief on the girls faces and even on Harry's was honestly heart warming. I groaned as I sat up, looking around the temple cavern. The whole place...
2021-10-03 19:20:37 +0000 UTC View PostStrength of the River in his Shoulders is a badass. A who knows how old member of a race of magical titans with life force so powerful a juvenile non magic one can play battery to a baby succubus for a year and not even notice, and a magical genius to boot. He'd stood up to fucking Drakul in the books with some help and despite not actually winning that fight by an...
2021-10-02 20:39:22 +0000 UTC View PostMaking that big decision and committing to a plan felt like the climactic moment, like we were about to join the battle and finally do what we came here for. Unfortunately life is rarely so accommodating. We were at the foot of the mountain now, which meant we were close enough for the potion Harry had made, but we still had to use it and subvert any of the Skinwal...
2021-10-01 22:10:18 +0000 UTC View PostApparently, there was a ritual to contact a Genius Loci without doing the whole sanctum invocation thing. I actually proposed we have Kara do the invocation, since the spirit clearly liked her, but since she didn't have any magic River and Joe nixed the idea. Apparently there was a way to make a similar binding with faith energy but neither of them were really awar...
2021-09-30 20:17:14 +0000 UTC View PostBarb arrived a few hours later, we went over the plan just the four of us as best I knew it and discussed battle tactics. Barb was in prime fighting shape after her healing bath same as I was, and every one of us went over the details of our new spells and tricks in preparation for the big fight. We talked for a few hours and finally the sun started to set. It was ...
2021-09-29 20:53:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of the week flew by. Between training in Klurkor with Kara and working on potions and improving my shield I was swamped. I trained with my aspects and combining them with the shield or Aura or even just normal casting, though I kept my word to River never to try too many of those things at once. My Aura reserves grew incredibly quickly and my strength soar...
2021-09-28 22:08:27 +0000 UTC View PostI felt almost drunk on adrenaline as I stumbled out of that crater, cackling like a madman. I threw my hands in the air and whooped with joy. Destroying stuff is fine, but there's something intoxicating about bodily smashing into a solid object so hard it explodes and just walking away from it. Hell even flying through the air was amazing, I totally got the whole h...
2021-09-27 21:43:30 +0000 UTC View PostWe took the potion outside behind the motel. We only scooped out a single vial of the stuff from the giant pot, but Harry was insistent that was plenty. "A pot like that will supply all of us no problem. Potions aren't really a more is better kind of thing. As long as you get at least three good swallows it'll last as long as the recipe will work. This brew will pr...
2021-09-26 21:18:42 +0000 UTC View PostI grinned proudly as I walked into the room I shared with Barb, who was just now waking up. My bewitching redhead was sitting up in bed with her hair a mess staring at the wall and blinking rapidly. I recognized the look as that thing that happens when you wake up and your brain isn't really working yet. I sometimes sat around for five or ten minutes just spaced ou...
2021-09-25 19:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostWe all headed to bed after that, and sleep came oddly quickly. We had all been on a hair trigger through the mess with the vampires. The next morning came quickly and without dreams, I woke next to Barb, spooning with the gorgeous redhead and sat up, refreshed. My Aura was back to full, thrumming with power under my skin, and I knew today would be the day I would g...
2021-09-24 22:32:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe had Kara go get the wizards so they could come tell us what the hell to do with these poor thralls. River tagged along and between him and Joe we figured there was a solid chance of them being able to help somehow. Luckily these weren't turned vampires or even Renfields. Joe explained to us these were "Rough thralls" who had been ordered to go berserk. Normally ...
2021-09-23 22:07:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy immediate reaction to the noticing our waiter was to jump and crush him, but on reflection I decided the note was a better course of action. The girls needed to know but saying it out loud would have alerted him. Cinder looked momentarily confused and I realized remnant hadn't had vampires that I'd seen, so I scrawled a quick explanation and passed it to her. I ...
2021-09-22 21:02:29 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next few hours sitting in Marcus watching the girls try on clothes. Despite one might imagine it wasn't exactly thrilling since they were trying on winter clothes. My hopes of gorgeous girls in skimpy lingerie were met with thick ass jackets and cable knit sweaters, which while very cute, didn't exactly show off their figures. I'm all for a man waiting ...
2021-09-21 23:44:43 +0000 UTC View PostI groaned in agony as my eyes fluttered open. I wasn't in a hospital bed, or even a bed at all I was just layingin the snowy ground with Ebenezar grinning down at me. He looked up with a chuckle "He's fine" He was addressing who I could only assume was the girls and the other wizards. His eyes flicked back down to me with amusement and he held out a hand "Get up bo...
2021-09-20 19:48:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe next week went by much the same as the one before, only without much supervision. I spent the entire time working on aspects and my new spell. I couldn't use two aspects at the same time not matter what I tried, but I learned over the course of the week to use an aspect fueled by a normal spell while I had another in my aura. It took immense amounts of concentr...
2021-09-19 21:48:44 +0000 UTC View PostI spent the next week or so working on force spells. I almost died about eleven times doing it, Ebenezar hadn't been kidding about how easy it was to overdo them, if my control slipped even a bit any frustration or excitement I was feeling would ride the spell and tear the energy right from my soul. At the same time I felt my soul growing, Yang told us about how Au...
2021-09-18 18:37:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe trek back to the hotel felt much faster than the journey there. Part of that was distraction I assume, and part of it was that we were heading downhill. Regardless we made it back in what felt like twenty minutes as opposed to the grueling hour of our first journey. Everyone seemed quiet on the walk back, knowing we would be here for weeks was unfortunate. I al...
2021-09-17 18:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostAfter my talk with Kara I stopped in to talk to Listens-to-Wind who was talking with River, Mccoy, and Liberty in his room. We decided to head to bed now, it was a bit earlier than we would normally go to bed, but still early evening wasn't too far off and today had been pretty damn exhausting. We agreed to get an early start the next morning, figuring that going o...
2021-09-16 21:51:13 +0000 UTC View PostMeeting the spirit shook us all up, but despite searching for a good hour we couldn't find a single trace of her again. We figured the Skinwalker would have the same problem even if it came back so we reluctantly decided to head into town to get our room and board settled. Luckily the Way had been chosen specifically because it was so close to town, so our trip to ...
2021-09-15 18:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe condition of the bodies affected us all differently. Barb was stoic, Cinder mainly unphased, Listens-to-Wind was sickened and sad, River and Harry were angry, and Ebenezar and Liberty just looked...tired. Like they had seen too much and come too far to feel the shock anymore and that was the saddest thing of all. Kara was the one I expected the biggest reaction...
2021-09-14 17:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostIf I'd expected a long drawn out preparation for us leaving for Colorado, I'd have been disappointed. River and Harry had been on the way to meet up with Listens-to-Wind before stopping over and we all had to hurry and pack before leaving. Cinder, unfortunately, didn't really have any things, her Aura changelings didn't take what they saw as her abandoning their wh...
2021-09-13 19:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostHarry and River Shoulders showed up a few hours later. Barb, Raven, and I finally dragged our happy asses out of bed and out to socialize with the others before it happened. Sam's (she said Samantha was too formal) crush on River had surprised Barb but not Raven, which I suppose made sense given the whole empathic abilities thing. It was just genuinely nice to spen...
2021-09-13 03:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning was as peaceful as usual. Seeing both my girls here with me after Barb's first time was pretty damn blissful and they looked adorable all snuggled up against me. Barb had one blue eye sneakily peaking open to stare at me and when she saw me open mine she snapped it shut. I chuckled and reached down to tickle her ribs eliciting a squealing giggle as...
2021-09-12 20:24:45 +0000 UTC View PostWe were all exhausted after getting home and managed to push back the questions from Yang to a later date. She recognized Cinder, but since they'd both left before the Vytal Festival she had no issues with the girl and was actually excited to see a fellow Remnant native. I left her to talk to the brawler with a warning glance to behave but she seemed perfectly happy to just sit and chat.
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2021-09-11 23:08:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt was almost anticlimactic in a way. I mean, it actually wasn't, a guy got vaporized by fire magic and Cinder was trapped in an obsidian cage, but it felt that way. This had all been such a colossal mess and it could have gone so much worse. Cinder's compulsion, which had driver her so hard to defeat me, had ultimately been the only reason we avoided a massive rit...
2021-09-11 18:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostMorgan was easy enough to settle down with Kara around, gleefully engaging in the Kryptonians introductions to Barb and Lily and Harry. The big wizard took the change of teams surprisingly well, but then I knew that Harry had a weakness for women in trouble, and it had become clear that Morgan had been treated very badly. His eyes were soft as he looked at the tiny vampire and he smiled a bit a...
2021-09-10 16:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post