KnightofTempest

Chapter 14

Shi Hou immediately moved, essence burning as he hopped away from a blazing fist from one of the elemental automatons using hopping firecracker evasion to get clear. The second Elemental Automaton moved forward to seize the ground that he'd just vacated, before belching out a torrent of flame at Shi Hou that forced him to dodge by the simple expedient of falling flat on his back. The way the flames washed over the orichalcum inner wall of the obelisk spire scorching even that brilliant golden...

Chapter 87

"Your vassal has something of mine. I want it back." Demanded Bronze Yohn Royce.

I sighed. He had cornered me after coming back from the Privies at the Closing Feast of the Hand's Tourney, still in his bronzed armor. That was likely to make some sort of a point via intimidation. Between the armor and the sheer size of Bronze Yohn, I couldn't say that the man couldn't loom like the best of them. Well, at least now he could. The Mountain wouldn't be looming over anyone ever again. He'd ne...

Chapter 27

Madripoor was, if nothing else, a place you could get lost in easily enough. The Lower Town, in the shadow of the glitz and glamour of the High Rise Arcologies of the Upper Town, was practically always dark, thanks to those same shadows. The streets and alleyways were lit primarily via the neon lights advertising this or that bar, restaurant, nightclub, or massage parlor. Practically everything down in the Lower Town was owned by some crime syndicate or another, each of which paid fealty to t...

Chapter 16

Bikki sat in the empty warehouse that he had commandeered for the planning of his and his forces' Attack on Gimi Port and Hayansaeg Fortress. Sitting around the table along with him were his Lieutenants and Captains. He had, after all, been promoted to Major with the Tamna Island Warriors becoming the First Provisional Company of the Liason Forces of the Waegu Island Protectorate. The Second Company, was, somewhat surprisingly, filled with some of the forces that had been captured at Bukda Ne...

Chapter 68

It was the night of Tuesday of the First Week of March when I got a call from Buffy. Willow had, apparently, constructed a ritual with Giles' help to track down any more of those Boxes of Dark Magic that the New Whirlwind was looking out for. Apparently, she'd gotten a hit that one of them was currently sitting in the back room of the Sunnydale Post Office. Buffy and Oz were headed that way now, while Giles, Willow, and Wesley tried tracking down the rest of the boxes. There was apparently so...

On Relative Power Tiers and Jackie

As stated in the prior thread, the Ranks for Cultivation go Apprentice-Initiate-Disciple-Adept-Master-Grandmaster-Boddhisatva-Demigod-Little God-God.

Also as stated in the prior thread, the Ranks for Magic are similar: Apprentice-Initiate-Disciple-Adept-Master-Archmage-Hierophant-Theurge-Apotheosis.

These names are not exactly as indicative of inherent levels of power as they might first appear, however. For example, most actual Demigods are only at Grandmaster-Level Cultivation,...

Chapter 5

Classroom Two-E was the primary Charms Classroom, where, after an uneventful breakfast, I had my second class of First Year with the Ravenclaws. It appeared that all Classes for First Year were going to be double classes, which was odd considering there weren't that many first-years. Regardless, I found myself accompanied on the way there by Millie, Daphne, Tracey, Terry Boot, and, surprisingly, Hermione Granger.

As Hermione began talking about the friend she'd made in Ravenclaw, Mariet...

Chapter 7

The first level of Olympus looked like some kinda giant market. There were all sortsa wrecked stalls and scattered merchandise from shops that'd been demolished in the rebellion. Multiple large buildings looked to be some kinda bank or auction hall whose doors'd been sealed shut the second that trouble'd started up. Jackie figured that a Market made sense for a normal town, but he couldn't for the life of him figure out why Gods would need to buy shit. Least until he came across the first cor...

Chapter 65

The look of a Hidden Village during Wartime was a lot different than I expected. For one thing, every Konoha Shinobi was issued a Wartime Identification Card that we had to keep on us at all times, even while inside Konoha. For another, various goods started being rationed, which had led to a major black market cropping up as the Merchant's Association couldn't sell as much of various wartime goods to the public at large and needed a way to recoup lost profits. True, they were able to sell th...

Chapter 37

As we charged out of the Alpine Forest toward the Combine Base, we almost immediately began coming under fire from Combine Battlemechs and the Base Defenses. A Short-Ranged Missile streaked past my Highlander from an SRM Launcher Emplacement backing the Garrison, missing me by a hair's breadth to slam into the front armor of one of Second Guards' Rampages that was guarding my right rear flank.

The Rampage's armor boiled away from the warhead and even though the pilot managed to duck in...

Chapter 13

The whirling storm of blades that swirled around the obelisk-like form of the Tomb of Singing Blades would be too much for most people. Heroic Mortals would be slain outright within seconds, while most Godbloods would last barely moments longer. Even the majority of the Dragonblooded Princes of the Earth that Shi Hou knew of would find themselves worn down eventually by the storm of edges, subjected to a literal death of a thousand cuts and unable to withstand any other defenses within the to...

Chapter 45

The Presentation of the Wedding Gifts proceeded smoothly and at a somewhat rapid pace. Many of the dignitaries were anxious to return home, as there were always things in need of oversight for any ruler. Kingdoms and Empires did not run smoothly by themselves, after all, and many of the various potentates would only trust delegation so much after seeing how overreliance on ambitious governors and generals had led to the destruction of Alexandros Megas' Empire in the Diadochi Wars.

That ...

Chapter 4

The next day, I woke up, showered, dressed, and headed down to the Great Hall to catch a bit of breakfast before classes. Most of my yearmates had already come down and eaten, with only some of the slower kids still remaining to eat. Millicent Bullstrode and Theodore Nott apparently shared my habit of sleeping longer, as both were just starting breakfast at the same time as I was. Theodore was a stringy boy, tall and thin with light brown hair that was just a touch longer than average for a b...

Chapter 6

Instead of dodging the cloud of toxic, caustic, fumes, Jackie barreled straight on through, trusting in his Iron Armor, Chi Enhancement, and the Head of Copper, Limbs of Iron Transformation to see him through all right. He burst outta the cloud of fumes with a few burns but that ain't nothing that a healing pill can't cure. Meanwhile, the Dragon was expecting him to dodge, not run through, which meant that it was outta position to defend when Jackie came through the cloud cutting with both Bu...

Chapter 26

As I set out the next day to continue on, I figured I would start with the Coastal Cavern and work my way further south from there. A use of Apparition, aided greatly by the Blasting Rod of a Wand I'd received from the treasure vault yesterday brought me just fifty meters or so off-target, a better result than I normally got with Apparition by a factor of six. Was this the difference between casting wanted magic with a wand and casting wandless? If so, I could see exactly why Wizards used the...

Chapter 67

Much of February had me and Amy both up to our necks in crafting. Owlbear Musk could be used in potions that would be capable of breaking enchantments that dazed, stunned, or dominated the mind, owlbear bone and leather were of great use in crafting weapons and armor, and owlbear feathers were useful components in various rituals. Those were just the Owlbear components, we also had Ankheg Shells which could be made into extremely lightweight, extremely durable armor. Aurumvorax eyes which cou...

Chapter 15

The duel began with Deniigi launching a spear-sized icicle at Bikki like a harpoon. Bikki slid under the shaft of ice, popping up in time to parry a second icicle thrown at him with a draw cut of his Emushi Blade. A stomp and arm movement from Deniigi had Bikki forced to leap into the air to avoid a rising wave of water that coalesced out of the moisture in the air and threatened to freeze Bikki's legs to the ground.

Fliping around in mid-air, Bikki launched a blazing arc at Deniigi wit...

Chapter 3

As we followed the Prefects, I noticed that we didn't have to put up with much in the way of moving staircases to go from the Great Hall to the Slytherin Dorms. That was nice because I had a feeling that I was going to be cutting mealtimes close at several points throughout the year. Instead of moving staircases and multiple flights of stairs, we got a single, descending, regular staircase down into the dungeons.

Speaking of the Prefects, they were friendly enough. Far from the typical ...

Interlude: Other Fights in the Oto Base II

Lee had started the fight with the first three gates already open, immediately going on the attack the second his opponent made himself visible to him. Lee hit the pale-skinned, impassive, Oto Shinobi with the Omote Renge (Primary Lotus) at the first opportunity. Unfortunately, though the attack had cratered the stone floor and thrown up a pillar of rock dust, it seemed to have no effect beyond the superficial.

The reason why became clear as the dust cleared and the Oto Shinobi pointed ...

Chapter 36

The Aerospace Battle over Oberon Six began with a clash of fighters. Vulcan Heavy fighters faced off against Combine Shilone Mediums Fighters, Oberon Sabre Light Fighters, and a smattering of Rapier Heavy Fighters as the respective Dropship fleets closed with each other. The Vulcans let off shots from their Gauss Rifles that destroyed several enemy fighters from extreme range, but the more disciplined Combine pilots were already going evasive the moment they detected target locks, avoiding de...

La Strada dei Re Volume Two by Federico Zabini

As Orlando the First took the throne of Magical Italy, he came to power at the head of a strong, reasonably unified, and wealthy Kingdom. That was something that almost no other Magical State in the Italian Peninsula could claim. By fifteen-fifty-eight, the Roman Inquisition had forced the Wizards and Witches of the Papal States into a much harsher version of the Compromise of Lipari. The so-called Cospirazione del Silenzio, or Conspiracy of Silence, had been undertaken as a survival mechanis...

Chapter 2

As we clambered off the Hogwarts Express and onto the series of boats that Hagrid directed us towards with his booming voice, I took in my classmates for the first time. I wasn't the only second-generation immigrant in my class. I spotted three others, two were the Patil Twins, Padma and Parvati. I knew that their parents were related, albeit distantly, to the Magical Nizam of Hyderabad because my mother had, prior to everything that had gone down and resulted in her death, ensured I knew of ...

Chapter 86

By the time I managed to rouse myself from my bed and swallow one of the few hangover cures I knew worked, the first bracket had already finished. The hangover cure was a Recipe that had been brought back from Yi-Ti which when prepared properly had a tiny bit of magic in it. The pills contained various herbal ingredients infused with just enough magic to qualify as real alchemy. It was, sadly, the only formula I knew how to make, but thankfully it worked and just in time too.

It seemed ...

Chapter 1

King's Cross Station was, unlike what some would say, not a place where Wizards could just roll in off the street in badly outdated muggle clothing and attempt to freely mix with the muggles. Such things would threaten to completely overwork the Obliviator Office to the point of breakdown if that was how it worked. Instead, there was a separate Wizarding Entrance that led into a number of branching corridors that utilized a series of space and perception-altering enchantments to shuffle wizar...

La Strada dei Re Volume One by Federico Zabini

La Strada dei Re, or the Road of Kings has been a long journey. Much longer for us with the power of Magic in our blood than for our Muggle Counterparts, for we began the struggle to unify much earlier than they did. It began, as many of these things do, with the Inquisition. In the days before the Inquisition came down, it was not uncommon in the many lands of Italia for a relative of the Kings, Dukes, or Princes with the spark of Magic in their veins to act as the King's Prefect for Magical...

Prologue

I had woken up two days ago in a new, distinctly darker-skinned body than I was used to. I vaguely recalled an online questionnaire, I had filled out that was surprisingly advanced for something that had apparently been done by an amateur web designer in his spare time using modern technology. That should have been my hint that I should have just walked away. Unfortunately, I never was any good at leaving well enough alone.

Oh sure, I knew what choices I had picked, but waking up in the...

CYOA Choices

Merlin Mode

Origin: Alternate Universe, July 31st, Pureblood, Bloodline, Legacy of Conflict, Orphan, Male, Wealthy

Wand: Masterwork Wand, Second Wood (Silver Lime and Walnut), Other Wand Core (Chimera Scale and Augerey Tail Feather), Average Length, Supple

House: Slytherin

School Life: Clubs

Innate Abilities: Seer, Natural Leglimens

Perks: Witty, Cunning, Perceptive, Schemes, Best Match, Brilliant, Esoteric Lore

Drawbacks: Loyal, Reckless, Thrill...

New Story Poll Results

So it seems like the overwhelming majority of you guys would enjoy a Harry Potter CYOA Story.

I will be working on that soon, so stay tuned for that.

It will be starting off in Year One, and I will likely be doing a reincarnation as a canon character as part of it.

I'm thinking Blaise Zabini, that way I can put in a bunch of worldbuilding on things like Magical Italy and Magical Greece since there are familial and business ties there.

Plus, Blaise has almost no real c...

Interlude: Other Fights in the Oto Base I

Shikamaru had landed in an odd-looking, underground, room that seemed festooned with spiderwebs. He managed to roll with the landing to avoid breaking his legs and came up in a crouch, looking around warily. The Room seemed to have various statues in the four corners of it, bearing the visage of angry gods. Each statue seemed connected to the others by what looked like some sort of giant spider webbing forming catwalks. With a frown, Shikamaru peered into the shadows of the room, drawing on t...

Chapter 35

The Oberon System was home to eight planets. Four Rocky Worlds two Ice Balls, and three Gas Giants. Only one of these was habitable outside of something like a Colony Dome, however. The Sixth Planet of the system, Oberon Six, was the Capital World of the Oberon Confederation. A world shrouded in perpetual cloud cover, rain was everpresent on Oberon Six, though it was normally a sporadic drizzle. This meant that a lot of the world was covered in swampland, with only the Dao Sing Highlands near...