Seonan City was on fire. At least, parts of it were and that was something that Commodore Shun of the Waegu Pirates had never believed capable of happening. His predecessors, Scorching Goro and Olikpok of the Black Ice had built up the Waegu Archipelago as a minor regional powerhouse and a stronghold of Piracy, capable of fielding armies and fleets of their own. True, the armies and fleets woul...
2024-09-15 08:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostZhu Baije was in a bit of a bind. Not a deadly one, he was making headway, but a time-consuming one. Fighting a Hydra wasn't something he'd ever planned on doing, after all, and most of the multi-headed monsters he was familiar with were long dead. Xiangliu, for example, had been slain by Zhurong back in the days of Yu the Great, the first emperor of China, and had never produced a whole specie...
2024-09-14 08:45:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe inside of the Dry Siaka was a low-ceilinged place, the wooden floorboards dotted here and there with low-lying divans and silk cushions surrounding similarly low-lying tables upon which had been placed a variety of Hookahs and Opium Pipes. Nearby, a low bar served opium, hashish, ale, and wine from containers that were kept under guard by a pair of scarred, thugs in leather armor equipped w...
2024-09-13 09:02:42 +0000 UTC View PostI clashed with the Rogue Wushi, Kwai Han at high velocity, both of us launching ourselves at each other even as Kibagami and Yotsuki Shingo moved away to the side, slashing, parrying, and riposting with their Katana as they did so. My own choice of weapon at the moment was the Sea Country-style Tinbe-Rochin, as Kwai Han's Earth Country-style Dao flashed out for my head, I brought my Kappa Shell...
2024-09-12 07:53:49 +0000 UTC View PostMister Big opened the fight, dipping down with his right-hand Escrima stick, swiping underhand at the floor with a rising blow, and pulsing Chi into his weapon. From the tip of his Escrima stick, a blue, crackling, energy wave raced along the floor toward me. It forced me to jump over it as the energy wave instead destroyed a table and chair set behind me with enough voltage to kill an elephant...
2024-09-12 02:25:34 +0000 UTC View PostLord Yu was ecstatic that I captured Orunmila and frankly, a bit perplexed that I had managed to rout his forces so completely and so swiftly. Almost as soon as Orunmila had been taken to a holding cell to await the negotiations with Olokun, Lord Yu was grilling me about what I did and how I did it. I held nothing back from him, I honestly had no reason to do so, as Yu was not only more reasona...
2024-09-11 07:32:07 +0000 UTC View PostBrienne was nervous, it was completely unlike her, to be sure, but then, the last time she'd fought in a major life-or-death situation she hadn't had so much to lose. Not only was she married to a man who loved her for who she was, not only was she part of the current wealthiest and most powerful House in Westeros, but she was a mother too. Quentyn was still only barely a year old and already b...
2024-09-11 01:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostAt ten in the morning on the Sunday of the first week of October, I found myself ushered out onto the school's Quidditch Pitch along with all the boys of my year for the Mandatory School Flying Lesson. The Girls had already had theirs yesterday, and Hermione hadn't stopped complaining about how much broom travel had made her queasy during our Cross-House Study Group Session. She'd even gotten i...
2024-09-10 19:15:56 +0000 UTC View PostMelissa Steiner was dressed in a white gown with gold accents, tailored to look like part-ball gown and part-military uniform. It was also tailored to show off the great beauty she was reputed to have. Honestly, she was a little young for my tastes. I was twenty-six, I didn't need to be canoodling with a sixteen-year-old and I especially didn't need to be canoodling with the sixteen-year-old He...
2024-09-09 09:37:17 +0000 UTC View PostI spent most of the next thirty-six hours in my Tower's library looking into whether or not it was possible to build a Star Wars-style Blaster with local, Earth Six-One-Six, Components as part of my contribution of otheruniversal tech for Symkaria. Unfortunately, the damned things were entirely too reliant on Tibanna Gas, which while it wasn't an issue for me, given I could just nip on over to ...
2024-09-09 00:05:46 +0000 UTC View PostI have decided to establish a power ranking for the various supernatural martial artists, psychics, magic users, and so on in this fic. This applies in generalities, and there is always the potential for outliers to crop up over the course of the story based on various power-ups, transformations, item-based enhancements, and so on. In general, however, these are the rankings. I will list a few ...
2024-09-07 19:23:29 +0000 UTC View PostShi Hou and Evening Rabbit stayed in Tulgadan only for forty-eight hours, as they attempted to get more information about the situation in Tashkek at the same time as they purchased more provisions. The first day was more fruitful than the second, as they found a couple of people to talk to who had dealings with either the Sons of Sextes Jyllis or the Sewer Rats. The information they found on t...
2024-09-07 09:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fight started with Nemesis spouting a buncha flames from her mouth at Jackie. A trio of white-hot balls of fire slew toward Jackie forcing him to dodge away with the Wave Step and Quicksilver Stepping Method boosting his speed. Unfortunately, the fire seemed to be some kinda homing fire, as the fireballs started to follow Jackie around the room. He just barely was able to stay ahead of the ...
2024-09-07 03:54:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe Captain-Governor's Mansion of Gimi Port was well fortified. It had its own wall, with a fortified keep, and everything. The gates were twin, solid, doors of lacquered wood, just fire-resistant enough thanks to the lacquer to avoid being burned up by the average Firebender attempting to gain entry onto the grounds. As Bikki approached, he spotted men on the walls, some of the remnants of the...
2024-09-07 01:38:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe ships given to me by Lord Yu as our left wing were a quartet of Ha'taks, the Xiaotian Quan, Tian Gou, Zouyu, and Fenghuang, along with the Al'kesh Gunships Guandao, Nandao, Podao, Liuyedao, Zhanmadao, Dadao, Miaodao, and Niuwedao. We were facing off against Orunmila and his two Ha'taks and five Al'kesh Gunships, led by his flagship, the Ha'tak Op...
2024-09-05 18:02:25 +0000 UTC View PostThe entrance that we entered the Otogakure Fortress-Lab through was hidden under a massive Hinoki Cypress that stood over forty meters tall with a trunk over two meters in diameter. The Hinoki stood on a hill in the middle of a clearing, with its massive canopy ensuring that the clearing needed no other trees to blot out the sunlight. Unfortunately, the tree itself wasn't doing so well, as a ca...
2024-09-05 03:55:44 +0000 UTC View PostBrownhollow was all things considered, not the hardest fortified town to besiege. Of course, that didn't make it the easiest either, but it was still a lot easier than something like Casterly Rock or the Eyrie would have been. In both of those cases, I would need to resort to tactics different from bombardment followed by assault, as they were built into mountains. I'd had a few tentative ideas...
2024-09-04 04:00:22 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few weeks, my routine continued as it generally did. Magnus Gamp ran me through a series of lectures on various potion ingredients and Dark Creatures to finish off my First-Year education in Defense and start the Ingredient Lecture portion of Second-Year Potions, while also teaching me a few second-year practical lessons for Charms, Potions, and Defense, namely, Tarantellagra, Imm...
2024-09-03 05:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostThe Interior of the Golden Dragon was fairly interesting to look at. Black paint on the walls contrasted against the yellow wood floors while red lighting around the place threw interesting shadows against everything. The kicker was the parasols, wood, and paper umbrellas hung upside-down from the ceiling in a unique effect that I thought was neat. Of course, that was just the main dining area....
2024-09-02 23:50:03 +0000 UTC View PostI had chosen this trip to be the moment to unveil my Naval Capabilities to my Lyran Allies. I would arrive on board the Mako-class Corvette Hasta which I felt would show the Duke of Apollo a few things, not the least of which was that I was more than capable of holding up my end of any agreements made. After all, despite the fact that a Naval Corvette is the least powerful WarShip ther...
2024-09-02 17:56:26 +0000 UTC View PostAs Shi Hou and Evening Rabbit entered the territory of Tulgadan, the wetlands began tapering off at an even more rapid rate, the ground firming up and leveling off before turning into a regular plain of tall, yellow, steppe grass interspersed with sporadic foliage. To the Southeast, the Tashkek loomed at the edge of the Cursed Lands. Beyond that point was a cracked and blasted desert of wild ma...
2024-09-02 00:31:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Introduction: This is for a future sidequel that takes place in the 300s of the same world as Hoplon. It will largely be self-contained to China and the surrounding areas, save for bits about the Gokturks which will play into the Direct Sequel to Hoplon.
The premise is that several SI's were inserted into the Three Kingdoms Period of China and made it so that the fragment...
2024-09-01 05:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOreos was a decent-sized town. Two centuries ago, Athens had sent two thousand colonists to establish a large port on the Island of Euboea which had more than quintupled in size ever since. Oreos had ridden the ever-shifting waves of war adeptly, first revolting against Sparta just before the Spartan defeat at Leuctra had signaled the end of Spartan Dominance in Greece, then allying with Philli...
2024-09-01 00:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostTony, Cap, Myself, and Reed Richards sat around a table in Avengers Mansion. The information we'd been given by General Aram had been brought up via holographic projection on the screen. It had been a full twenty-four hours since we'd returned from Serbia and now it was time to figure out what to do with the information we'd gotten.
Unfortunately, Doctor Strange had bowed out of the discu...
2024-08-30 11:11:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe first sign of trouble came not from us, but from one of the other platoons in Lance Company, a Platoon led by a member of the Kurama Clan named Kurama Heihachiro. Platoon Heihachiro must have stumbled into a trap seal array in the perimeter of the enemy base because there was a massive explosion followed by the crack of displaced air and the surging noise of electricity. Saisu held up a han...
2024-08-30 01:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs its a holiday weekend here in the US, things will be slower going this weekend. Unfortunately, that's just how things are.
Apologies for the inconvenience. I'll try to get things out when I can.
2024-08-29 21:48:13 +0000 UTC View PostLonginus was a world that had once belonged to a Minor Goa'uld back in the early days of Ra's Reign before Olokun had come to power in his realm. It had been ruled originally by the Goa'uld Dis Pater. Dis Pater had been a member of the same brood as Egeria, and along with Orcus, Janus, Honos, Jugatinus, Bellona, Lupa, and Volturnus formed a loose Pantheon of Goa'uld pretending to be various God...
2024-08-28 09:50:59 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn't sure what to expect from the Address that Chin Gentsai had given me. Maybe a studio with an apartment above it, something like that. Whatever it was, it certainly hadn't been an Arcade Center. Ground Zero Arcades was a chain operated out of Detroit that franchised Arcades out across the Midwest and Southern United States. This one had a theme similar to a Supernatural Chinese Temple fo...
2024-08-27 19:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostSetting up the Blockade of King's Landing was probably the easiest part of the opening phase of the War. With over a thousand ships, it damned well ought to have been. It helped that what few ships the Lannisters had that could challenge the Blockade were on the wrong side of the Continent to do so. By the time my task force sailed for Cracklaw Point, we'd already turned back a number of ships ...
2024-08-27 13:22:08 +0000 UTC View PostI entered the Old Art Room with a stack of instructional pamphlets I'd had made special from Tomes and Scrolls and delivered via Owl Order. It cost a pretty penny, and I'd had to shell out extra for one of the Second Years, Miles Bletchley, to pick them up from the School Owlery for me, as he'd been heading there anyway to pick up his monthly Seeker Weekly Subscription and I had issues as regar...
2024-08-26 16:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post