Randidly pondered the sheets in front of him. In terms of amount of time, he had spent very little going over the dossiers that Mrs. Hamilton had provided to him, as he chose the people who would join him on his trek through the Raid Dungeon. More so, he had admired her fearsome ability to list out an individual’s strengths and weakness, and other notable facts about them.
“Well...
2018-01-30 05:27:21 +0000 UTC View Post
After finishing off the Path, the completion notice popped up.
Congratulations! You have completed the Basic Soul Bond Path! There are many methods of growth, but your path has intersected with another. The entity known as Neveah has become a part of you, and as your strength supports her, it is only with her help that you may proceed forward. It starts simply, but never for...
2018-01-29 07:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly didn’t receive further news until 8 AM the next morning. Stan had continued to sleep, long after the Sleeping Powder wore off, simply laying there. After briefly examining him, Randidly realized that something was changing about the Soul Skill, even while Stan’s consciousness was dormant. The creature in the cage was producing increasing amounts of mist, that billowed outward...
2018-01-29 07:17:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In the darkness of the area outside of his soul space, Randidly felt oddly cold, and oddly exposed as he shaped Aether. But there really wasn’t anything out here, either to help or hinder. There was just a strange sluggishness to the Aether, and a resistance to be shaped, as it wanted to expand and fill the area given to it.
But not today. What is needed is a much sharper hold of ...
2018-01-29 07:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostSo sleepy. I'll post the other two I owe tomorrow.
After that grudging explanation, Thea hurried away, leaving the people behind her with bemused smiles, except Randidly, who was just blinking and staring wordlessly after her.
She had based… her combat Skill… on him…?
Honestly, the fact it had only become a Rare level Skill was the bit of inform...
2018-01-29 07:14:42 +0000 UTC View PostWhen he saw the description of the Skill, Randidly’s eyebrows rose. On the one hand it reminded him a lot of Simon’s Skill, in terms of flexibility. It did not present the same ability to form an Astral projection that Simon’s skill did, but Simon was limited in only being able to explore the world in a linear manner, slowly spreading his influence out over a zone. And he could only focus on...
2018-01-26 04:59:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Even those part of his attention was focused on the woman, most of Randidly’s attention was on the Cathedral around her. Immediately after walking in here, he had felt it, the thick layers of Mana Engraving through the entire building, the funneled ambient Aether down towards that resting space.
Even now, with the Aether slowly being drained, there was a thick layer there. No wond...
2018-01-26 04:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostNo chaps tonight.
Going back and forth on how the next few scenes should play out.
Apologies~
2018-01-25 05:29:46 +0000 UTC View Post
When the knock sounded on her door, Thea looked up. “I’m coming.”
Thea swiftly dressed herself, petted Chrysanthemum seven times for good luck, then walked out of her room into the hallway. With her typical, lumbering gate, Chrysanthemum followed. Thea wasn’t sure if she could have gone through with this without her support.
Not that she was ever really apart from her,...
2018-01-24 05:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly followed after the young man that Daniel had sent over, still musing over the flows of Aether in his mind. It was strange, the more he learned, the less it seemed like learning to handle Aether, but more just… remembering.
For a while, this strange sensation had Randidly deeply disturbed. Could it possibly be a side effect of the strange apparatus that was at the center o...
2018-01-24 05:51:50 +0000 UTC View PostTough week. Nothing today.
2 Tuesday and Wednesday.
Hopefully 2 Thursday, although this is less certain.
3 Saturday and Sunday.
2018-01-23 04:12:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly was quite pleased with the way things had turned out with his stand. Although business was slow at first, after that rabbit had come through, everyone had wandered over. And once that group of people had tasted his food, word of mouth spread news of it even faster.
Soon, dozens of people were swarming around his stall, and his Cooking Skill could be displayed to the fullest...
2018-01-22 06:12:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Razor didn’t think this man would murder him in the public like this, but surely there was something hidden here. With a sick sensation in Razor’s stomach, he examine the pile of meat, which seemed to suddenly take on a sinister color. With a man of ill repute like this, it was hard to know what sort of sources this meat could have come from…
Perhaps… even a low level sheep...
2018-01-22 06:11:54 +0000 UTC View Post
In a surprisingly short manner, Randidly looked at everything and selected the winners, ordering them cleanly and in a manner that Sam could find no fault with. Second place ended up going to a pair of eyeglasses that increased Mana Regeneration, Perception, and Reaction. Compared to them, the Ghosthound didn't put so much stock into the powerful weapons that were entered into the top 10....
2018-01-22 06:11:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Alana sat upright slowly, controlling the movement. With a yawn she wiped the sleep from her eyes and then focused on what her senses were telling her. It was about an hour before dawn, her internal clock told her primly, almost reprimanding her for sleeping in for so long.
Snorting, Alana stood. Although her high stats meant she didn't require sleep, it was still something that she...
2018-01-22 06:10:28 +0000 UTC View PostOnly 5 tonight. I haven't posted it yet, but put the Path entries on Chapter 332 on Royalroad. I will post it after I post these 5.
After an hour of tests, Randidly looked away from his Status screen and realized he hadn’t finished his Path yet. The strange branching path portion had taken his attention for so long that he had simply forgotten about it. Plus th...
2018-01-22 06:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Randidly had… a lot of emotions. Sure, these things seemed amazing, and an improvement, but…
Did he really need to fucking have 19 Skills become 4?!?!? And these were Skills that he used all the time too! Most of them were near 100 in level, and would likely continue to grow, independent of each other, fueling his Path craze… but he supposed if he was switching to the Class tr...
2018-01-19 06:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post
“What do you plan to do with him?” Lucretia asked Randidly. He didn’t turn to look at her, just so he didn’t see her face.
Not that you could even see inside the Soulspace, not really, but Lucretia’s amusement was clear, just from her tone. And how could she not be? It seemed that somehow, Randidly had triggered the use of one of her Skills that allowed her to manipulate a...
2018-01-19 06:52:37 +0000 UTC View PostOnly 3, but... I think you will see why I didn't have time for the fourth chapter after you read these 3.
To pass the time, Randidly studied the shattered remnants of his 2nd Self Created Skill in the Ashen Spear Skillset. Randidly had done his best to ignore the thing, as it reminded him of the deep wound that he struggled against for several months. Even now, a...
2018-01-19 06:51:56 +0000 UTC View PostTuesday was date night, Wednesday is improv classes, so I have been unproductive.
Thursday I'm going to do a 4-er, because I will come home straight from work and slave away like a zombie.
Friday... well...
Saturday and Sunday 3 each is the goal.
Okay! Now first some announcements that I've been puttering around with since Christmas. The first is that this is the start of anoth...
2018-01-18 04:14:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The Assessment on the afternoon of the 1st day was System Knowledge, and it had just as many, if not more, people attending as the combat Assessment had. Perhaps because this was open to all people, and while not everyone had any wish to participate in combat, Donnyton’s almost 4,000 strong population all thought they knew a thing or two about the System.
Because almost 800 people...
2018-01-16 05:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post
After Paolo’s silent transformation, the Ghosthound said nothing, but returned to the crowd. Donny could see that those of his volunteer honor guard that were part of Paolo's crew were particularly reverent in their gaze, while Kayle's crew seemed somewhat displeased.
But the other match ended in a surprise; to finish Kayle off, Tina summoned a Flame Tiger, which stayed in a fixed...
2018-01-16 05:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Luckily, most of the participants didn't need much sleep, so everyone was present at dawn, when the fighting began. It was single elimination to stay in the winners bracket, but the top two individual from the losers bracket, who would be put in battle royal after battle royal until they reached the top 6, would finish out the top 8.
Even then, after the top 8 were determined, fight...
2018-01-14 18:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostImagine me, sitting at a bar, shivering, borrowing a friends laptop, only to realize there is no internet. So I write these two on time, I just couldn't upload them...
For the next week, Randidly isolated himself, turning his attention inward. The actual administration was being taken care of by others, and during that time, he could finally focus and work on the...
2018-01-14 18:03:08 +0000 UTC View PostI was naive.
But I should be good for 3 tomorrow and Sunday, because the weather means I won't be traveling.
2018-01-13 04:05:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Donny breathed in and out, looking out over the sea of faces packed into the quarry. He didn’t know Donnyton had this many people. Hell, in some part of his mind, he probably didn’t even know that this many people were still alive, after the System arrived. It was strangely reassuring, in a way, to see them all arrayed him, looking up at him with serious expressions.
Next to him...
2018-01-12 02:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Stan Culcart was in love with Raina, that much he was certain about. Well… mostly certain. He scratched his beard awkwardly, trying to keep her in sight, so the organizers wouldn’t be mad at him, but trying not to watch too closely while she limbered up by stretching. They were in the small preparation tent behind the performance area, with just them remaining to go out in front of th...
2018-01-12 02:26:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Mrs. Hamilton leaned back in her chair. “You are morally against this, I assume?”
Randidly sighed. “I just… can this really be considered a prize?”
“You...are too used to your own life. Let me paint you a picture.” Mrs. Hamilton leaned back, her face becoming shrouded in darkness. But from the shadows, her eyes still gleamed. Randidly, slowly, forced himself to r...
2018-01-12 02:26:05 +0000 UTC View PostOnly one tonight, but I finally found the last piece of this arc I was looking for. I'm very satisfied.
Also, I didn't post yesterday because my date, which was supposed to be Thursday, was moved to Tuesday. So expect 3 tomorrow.
“You made a gym?”
Donny looked up, the voice that grabbed his attention clearly amused. Randidly Ghosthound st...
2018-01-11 05:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostNothing today, Monday.
Tuesday: 3
Wednesday: 2
Thursday: 1
Friday (I should be visiting my parents, so I think I'll actually be productive on Friday): 3
Saturday: 1
Sunday: 3
2018-01-09 05:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post