(note, I have final chapter numbers so this will become Chapter 59, but I'm going to keep up with the existing structure i have here)
Even with Fenris expecting the attack, he didn’t expect it this quickly. The passage was full of debris and everyone expected it to take several minutes at least to carve through it. Then the debris exploded and the undead were rushing tow...
2024-08-11 13:36:01 +0000 UTC View Post“That explains what he was doing,” I said, surveying the reformed undead army. Both sides had been patching themselves up, it was just that the undead did such a better job of it.
“What are those,” asked Shart as a massive twenty foot tall undead stomped towards the collapsed passage.
“Amalgams,” said Badgelor. “When Charles couldn...
2024-08-04 23:19:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Get the wounded to the hospitals! Send anyone too injured to fight back to Windfall,” ordered Fenris. What the commander hadn’t said was that too injured to fight pretty much meant unable to fight. The level of injury he’d allow right now was something he’d never consider normally.
Of course, it's not like he could get an honest response from the ...
2024-07-28 22:33:27 +0000 UTC View Post“I thought you said you couldn’t Counterspell those,” said Tri-blade, as the explosion faded.
“It isn’t a spell. The spell is dragging a light out of the ceiling,” replied Grebthar. He was going to have to drag down another one. Even if Jim somehow blocked one, there was no way for him to block two. It was doubly impossible.
He reached up and bega...
2024-07-21 22:32:30 +0000 UTC View PostThere were so many, Julia blasted wave after wave of undead as they rushed the top of the fortress. The waves were full of regular undead as well as the champions that were proving so difficult. Each wave pushed them further and further back until they were very nearly sitting on the portal.
“The southern wall has fallen.”
Julia realized that the section ...
2024-07-14 22:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m surprised to see you still standing,” said the Dark Overlord. His mocking tone scratched at my self-control.
I rotated my arm around. The bones realigned, and I fused them with a quick Treatment. “I’m just getting started.”
Of course, the last hit sent me bouncing off the ground and that hammer hurt. I couldn’t just shrug...
2024-07-07 23:01:13 +0000 UTC View PostOne moment Julia was moving to the next defensive point, the next she was on her ass. The wall shook, and even more chunks of it began to sheer off.
“What happened,” asked Julia and SueLeeta pointed. There was a crater in the middle of the Dark Overlord’s army where the weapons clashed again. Powerful, artifact tier, weapons were not to be trifle...
2024-06-30 13:59:46 +0000 UTC View PostFlying was kind of like Falling, just with more control. I had enough perks and skill anymore that while I couldn’t really fly, I could fall with style. I landed several hundred logs outside of the wall in a crater where someone had lobbed a thingamabob.
A weapons grade thingamabob.
I tried to figure out if it was Hansa or Rose that made this one. Mar...
2024-06-23 22:30:41 +0000 UTC View Post“Is that a Dragon,” muttered the princess. SueLeeta didn’t need to check, she already spotted the thing heading here and sent her message over to Fenris. Jim was right, the Dark Overlord did have a wildcard.
In theory, a dragon was terrifying. In reality, they were soul crushingly terrifying. They were mountains that moved, horrid creatures that at one point ...
2024-06-16 22:39:42 +0000 UTC View Post“I’d say it is about time,” said Badgelor, returning briefly from his scouting mission. The companion link was not on a channel that was easily monitored, so the war badger remained unseen.
“How are they holding up,” I asked.
“Seen better, but also seen much worse,” said Badgelor. “If your intention with Julia’s weapon was to infuriate Charl...
2024-06-09 22:56:11 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s four hits,” said Fenris as the gate rang again. The Western Gate was composed of alchemically reinforced Ironwood with a smattering of Mana and Science based enhancements. That made the wood harder than iron, and it was over two feet thick.
The fact that the back of it was cracking from the repeated impacts of the hammer was troubling. At...
2024-06-02 22:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe fireball roared overhead, covering the distance between Grebthar and the wall in an eyeblink. It was like some sort of horrific spell dual between gods and men, and the fireball slammed into the combined barrier of the entire Falconian Royal House in an explosion that vaporized the snow off the nearby mountain tops.
The only reason that there wasn’t an avala...
2024-05-26 22:39:08 +0000 UTC View Post
“You have to be fecking kidding me,” grumbled the Dark Overlord as he glared down at the contraption.
“What was that,” asked TriBlade as Grebthar poked at the remains of the flying device. The detection spell he perfected centuries ago leading to one terrible conclusion.
“The false Mayor has a Precursor tricked into ...
2024-05-19 22:29:01 +0000 UTC View PostFenris tried to remain calm, but with so many adventurers milling about he felt out of place. Especially with all of them looking at him. He was the Commander of the Armies of Windfall, a character right out of their legends, and he did not enjoy that one bit.
There were dozens of adventures up here at the moment, ranging from the mundane clerics setting up a field...
2024-05-12 16:05:31 +0000 UTC View PostNew Link:
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2024-05-05 22:59:15 +0000 UTC View PostAs they left the room I considered my options. I was going to have to fight the Dark Overlord, but despite all of my gear and equipment I’d made nothing I had was going to put a dent in Charles. I still had a great number of magical components from Jersey, but nothing I’d found so far was magically sturdy enough to manage the kind of energy I’d need to kill the bastard....
2024-05-05 22:45:05 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the room filled up, we walked in. The break room was directly attached to the conference room, making that easier. Making the wait was just a strategy, showing the collected people whose time was more valuable. Fenris and I both looked perfectly composed, and prepared.
The Duke looked positively furious with how the building was run, so I gave a point t...
2024-04-28 22:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe officer’s building was a Tier 3 structure that was almost as large as the barracks at this point. Buildings on Ordinal had slots for rooms that aided in their general function. Some of those slots were more valuable than others and the two buildings represented opposing philosophies.
The Barracks was built into several large slots, where the barracks ro...
2024-04-21 20:46:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt was time to make war plans. That meant I had to go visit Fenris.
I opened up my Traveling options. I could open Portals to most locations I’d claimed and could grant permission to others, if I chose to do so. As no one other than Charles had any real Teleportation spells, I spent a lot more time denying permission than granting it. ...
2024-04-14 22:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe army of War Badgers was on the march, with Badgelor proudly leading. The rest were in parade formation, as they surveyed their territory. Apparently, their territory was all my territory.
“And he’s fine with the fact that the adults perished?” asked HarDragon, always interested in hearing about the particularities of War Badgers.
“Yes, their mission was...
2024-04-07 22:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Badgelor was doing pushups. Badger pushups. Or something like that. Actually, I had no idea what the feck Badgelor was doing. Whatever it was, it was clearly wrong. The female War Badger said so.
Quite vociferously.
“Diamonds are for lovers, and I’m a lover. Now, make me those diamonds,” screamed t...
2024-04-01 04:58:38 +0000 UTC View Post(Update, Divine Share was supposed to be a dungeon core fragment, my notes were not as complete as I'd like and the editor usually catches this stuff)
“I didn’t know you were so good at crafting,” said Julia meekly as she tried to place her rod into her storage. It didn’t fit. You couldn’t put items that powerful into dimensional storage. She careful...
“Well, I don’t know what you were expecting,” said Spivy as we walked through the shattered remains of the tower. “Did you expect some sort of showdown between you and the System Lord?”
“No,” I said grumpily. “I mean sort of, but not really.”
“She’s a thousand year old tyrant,” replied Spivy.
“Was,” said Shade.
“She was a ...
2024-03-22 16:10:09 +0000 UTC View PostInterlude: The Invasion of Dominus
The bells rang and the King did pause, looking up from the map where his few remaining able agents and he prepared to storm the System Lord’s tower. Her machinations needed to be stopped, and even if it killed him this night, he would stop them.
But the bells…
“Quay, what is happening,” said Rogen. &n...
2024-03-22 16:09:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Everyone, this is Max and saved my life,” said Quatax as he held up his mug. I grinned, he was making a good point. The elf looked around unsteadily and then pointed at Shade, or at least made the effort. “And that’s Shade, he is a good boy.”
“Aww, thank you,” said Shade, smiling from his place on the floor. He was sitting with us a...
2024-03-22 16:07:56 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes you realize that your lead up to the end is better than the actual ending you had planned, and despite efforts to jazz up the actual ending you keep looking back to a pervious point in the story and thinking to yourself... it should have ended there.
So in the dialysis book, my original outline was that the bridge fight was a nice lead up to moving and fighting in the system lor...
2024-03-22 16:06:10 +0000 UTC View Post“I was a smoking hot twenty year old,” said Jarra as she examined herself in the mirror, “And you wanted nothing to do with me.”
“I wouldn’t say that,” I said, yawning.
“But now that I look like I’m in my late 40’s, and have been a hard-working peasant my whole life,” stated Jarra who looked like she’d been rode hard and put away wet, “You can’...
2024-03-17 22:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostI actually wondered what an all divine party looked like in combat. The Windfallians tended to be more warrior focused classes, and while we had our buffs they weren’t what I’d describe as overwhelming. I got to sit for a good thirty seconds while both Paladin’s activated Auras, the Zealots cast a variety of buffing spells and the cleric prepared a number of floatin...
2024-03-10 23:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post“The King of Windfall,” chuckled Charles as the handful of remaining adventurers in Fillydelphia found him. Not that he was hiding, but they were kind of bothering him. So far, through Necromancy and a unique lack of empathy for his fellow human beings, Charles expanded his army to over five hundred. “Are you sure about that?”
“The Mayor was spotted ...
2024-03-04 21:29:52 +0000 UTC View PostI thought I had grown accustomed to being teleported. After all, when Shade did a teleport, it was seamless. You were just in the new spot a moment later and you better be ready to do what you needed to do. That was not the case for Sylanada, she had a speed based teleport power.
Which meant you felt like you were being dragged the distance between teleport ...
2024-03-01 21:56:22 +0000 UTC View Post