DakotaKrout

Invent ~ 28!

The fortunate thing about having an excess of mana, or perhaps an unfortunate side effect depending on how Joe thought of it, was that he could continuously work for extreme lengths of time when he was providing a simple trickle of mana such as converting garbage to aspects. With his bonuses, everything under Common aspects took only a single point of mana per second to convert. Frankly, he wou...

Invent ~ 27!

“Wait, this shouldn’t be happening…?” Coming fully to his senses, Joe managed to flip around in midair as he shook off the final lingering effects of whatever it was Havoc had dosed him with. “I don't even have defensive rituals ready! Havoc, you son of a-!”

Then he landed in the middle of a house-sized pile of rotten vegetables, and slammed his mouth closed just to e...

Invent ~ 26!

Even though Havoc protested, the first thing Joe did when they got back to the settlement was take a nap. Something about combat, perhaps getting his foot chopped off, had really put him in a bad place mentally and he needed to sleep it off.

When he woke up, he felt wildly refreshed and ready to take on the entire Elven Theocracy. Before then, he had dozens of notifications to go...

Invent ~ 25!

Curling into a ball in a vain attempt to impact his attacker’s aim, Joe slammed into the wall and fell to the grounds as a dizzying array of projectiles were launched at him.

Fire, ice, pressurized air, arrows, bolts, bullets, throwing knives… whatever someone had, they used it against him. If Joe were a fan of psychology, he would have cursed them all with the knowledge that they wer...

Invent ~ 24!

The Dwarves began cheering, and Joe dropped to the ground panting as the attackers fled into the single remaining volcanic shaft that led back to Elven territory. Only moments later, dozens of tiny reputation gain notices appeared in his vision, and he allowed a slightly cocky grin to appear on his face. “Oooh, looks like they chose to try to escape down the super-deadly, over-trapped path. T...

Invent ~ 23!

As his Ritual Orb returned to its standard icicle shape, notifications began trickling into Joe's combat log. At first, it was indeed a trickle, but it rapidly became a flood of notices telling him the same thing: reputation had been gained with the Dwarven Oligarchy.

He was too far away to hear anything directly happening with combat, but a rumble—followed by the vast majority...

Invent ~ 22!

Joe fiddled with his table, joined a group of Dwarves that were gambling to try and boost his luck stat, and made a few more rituals for town defense. Each ritual that he made was ever so slightly closer to the town proper, meaning they were starting to become very difficult to hide.

The glowing manifestations of power simply hung in the air, waiting for anyone foolish enough to ...

Invent ~ 21!

It seemed to take almost no time at all for Joe to complete the next four Rituals of Minor Earthquake, as well as the associated receiving ritual portion of the Ritual of Remote Activation. Major Cleave, apparently now holding him in a higher regard, also helped Joe by taking a few moments and smashing large piles of rubble out of the tunnel walls.

They stacked the rubble around the free-...

Invent ~ 20!

One of the things that Joe had learned during his time in the military was that engineers were only ever a gentle push away from shifting into full-blown sappers. Anything that promised even the potential to step away from creation to beautiful, cascading destruction was a career path that all but the most satisfied were ready to step onto. Happily, there just so happened to be a large...

Invent ~ 19!

“Major Cleave, I’ve decided to assign my Intelligence to this Orb and hope for the best!” Joe declared as he began lightly coating the entire exterior of the Orb with the purest of white aspects. “Don’t try to stop me, this is something I need to do!”

“No, no…” Cleave called out as Joe *scritched* away at his Ritual Orb, drawing out a fair likeness of himself an...

Invent ~ 18!

Quest complete: Novice Rituarchitect II. You have created all ten of the buildings that you scanned in the first part of your quest! You sure can follow instructions well! Reward: 5,000 class experience. Record breaker reward: you have completed this quest faster than any other Rituarchitect in history! All ten buildings have been upgraded to Uncommon rank and Tier.

Joe and the D...

Invent ~ 17!

Fire poured out of Joe’s fingers as he traced lines in the air, using both hands to rapidly draw out the ritual diagram with light gray aspects. When that was completed, blazing white aspects replaced the gray, and he flipped to using a Common-ranked Inscriber in each hand.

Sweat rolled down his face, wiped away in the same instant by his Neutrality Aura, as the second circle rapidly ap...

Invent ~ 16!

Raising the smithy was far easier than raising the warehouse, since he was able to bribe a few Dwarves with no rent on the smithy for the next two weeks if they helped him out. After the forges were created and at proper heat, Joe easily put together a Beginner gyroscope out of aspects using an Aspect Ingot Hammer.

There was something about not needing other materials that made him laugh ...

Chapters updated!

Hi all! I've been doing a dev edit run through Invent, and updated all the chapters already out based on your feedback! That added in over 4k words in those chapters alone, so feel free to run through them again!

Invent ~ 15!

Joe was originally going to attempt to raise the warehouse by himself, but when he looked at the overall schematics of the ritual, and the blueprints of the building, he grew concerned that the mana cost would be as large as the structure itself. “Stan, I don't suppose you have a big ol’ mana pool, do you?”

“I'm here to administrate, not to subject myself to the rigors of magecraf...

Invent ~ 14!

Joe looked on wistfully as Havoc was struck by lightning and had acid spraying away from him in a nova. The Dwarf vanished, and the people maintaining the area swore heartily as they looked over the damage the Dwarf had done to their spell diagrams and teleportation hall on the way out.

“I swear, if he was anyone except the Lord of Slaughter, I wouldn't go through the trouble o...