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Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3, Wind (Noble) 1
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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Sam closed his eyes and exhaled, cutting off excess stimuli that were cluttering his senses. He reached out with his mind, touching the mystery of air, and information rushed into him like a stiff gust of wind....
2022-03-18 18:06:03 +0000 UTC View PostKat’s SUV slowed down, road crunching underneath its tires as it approached the security checkpoint. The armored car that formed the point of their motorcade was already stopped and being scanned by an array of complex machinery while a nearby guardpost kept a machine gun pointed at it.
She knew from experience that the scanners were a combination of the best equipment Earth had to offer as well as some of the more esoteric devices that GroCorp had managed to salvage from the do...
2022-03-08 16:50:11 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3, Wind (Noble) 1
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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Sam followed Rose out of the Bursar’s office, a confused look on his face and three scraps of paper in his clawed hands. He looked down at the neat swirls of the writing on the notes before tucking them into ...
2022-03-04 18:49:29 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3, Wind (Noble) 1
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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“Come in Sam, Come in Rose,” Pothas’ cheerful voice sounded through the heavy oak door. Rose shrugged before placing a hand against the stained wood and pushing. Samazzar had no way of knowing if th...
2022-03-02 19:10:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Security screenings are going well” Belle Donnst’s voice droned on. Behind the woman, a smartglass display showed pictures of various security centers located around Chiwaukee. Next to each building, columns of text scrolled endlessly as they detailed specific facts and observations about the locations.
“The lokkel haven’t provided us with many technology transfers,” Belle continued, “but the chemical cocktail they’ve provided us with has proven incred...
2022-03-01 17:41:15 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3, Wind (Noble) 1
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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Samazzar pushed through the streets of Vereton, a gentle drizzle dampening the sounds of the undaunted and bustling crowds even as it brought a shine to his scales...
2022-02-21 02:01:23 +0000 UTC View PostSam trudged through the knee deep snow, circulating heat through his body. Even with the magic, the howling wind of the mountain pass was miserable. On either side of him, ice choked cliff faces glinted in the daylight.
He had been hiking on his own for a full day after Crone Tazzaera began her recovery. Only the mysteries of heat and oxygen were keeping him upright as he slogged through yet another beautiful but unremarkable valley.
Pausing, he pulled out a piec...
2022-02-12 22:26:45 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3, Wind (Noble) 1
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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“If you’re going to stab a kobold in the back, make sure you watch him take his last breath,” Samazzar replied, fire burning in his eyes as he glared at Lellassa. “I can assure you, that’s not the sor...
2022-02-12 21:16:32 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3, Wind (Noble) 1
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 4, Current/Flow 4
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A handful of rocks clattered down the side of the mountain as a kobold scrambled into one of the hundreds of cracks and crevices. Samazzar watched the small creature scamper away, shaking his head.
“I t...
2022-02-11 04:56:53 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Oxygen 4, Embers 4, Pressure 3, Current/Flow 3
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“I suppose this makes you something a little more than a classmate then?” Rose asked, brushing some of her steel grey hair out of her face as she pushed one half of a lightweight barrier into the prairie soil. The thin met...
2022-02-09 18:17:24 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Good Air 4, Embers 4, Pressure 3, Current/Flow 3
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It took a second for Samazzar to slap his jaw shut. He closed his eyes, turning out the hovering man and focused on the flames around him.
The human was right. Already, a good portion of the prairie was burning b...
2022-02-07 18:30:21 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Good Air 4, Embers 4, Pressure 3, Current/Flow 3
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Samazzar trudged through the meadow, Dussok at his side. Overhead a black dot soared on the hot air raising up from the grass below. Sam wasn’t sure whether it was an ordinary bird or something more worrying li...
2022-02-05 23:32:34 +0000 UTC View Post- - - - -
Race: Saurian
Bloodline Powers: Strength, Rending, Emberbreath
Greater Mysteries: Fire (Noble) 3
Lesser Mysteries: Heat 4, Good Air 4, Embers 4, Pressure 3, Current/Flow 3
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“I don’t see why you’re so upset,” Sam said, shaking his head at Dussok’s impassive back. “Everything worked out. We’ve upgraded our bloodlines, we aren’t slaves, and I have the ingredients we need to c...
2022-02-02 18:46:33 +0000 UTC View PostBaron Hurden’s body opened its eyes. It sloshed slightly in the brass bathtub, pulling itself up from the red liquid that it had been soaking in until its chest was free.
“Disappointing,” The third prince muttered, struggling to use the Baron’s vocal cords in a manner that wouldn’t do them irreparable harm.
It reached a hand out to a small table, red dripping freely onto the luxurious carpet surrounding the bathtub, and picked up a small bell. It rang it twic...
2022-01-31 06:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostEryk’s eyes bugged out in surprise. Trevor was to his left, spear at ready while Drekt stood to his right, cleaver in a two fisted grip.
“Strike!” Drekt’s shout broke the half second of surprise.
Micah staggered backwards, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth as he mouthed the words to regeneration. All of his combat spells were gone along with his wounds. The only reminders from his recent battle were mental fatigue and his low man...
2022-01-31 05:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostMicah crested the staircase, spear over his left shoulder. A massive pair of stone double doors stood before him, partially ajar. He reached out with this left hand, pressing it against the cold surface of the door before pushing.
It swung open easily, counterbalances letting it swing smoothly in the channel worn into the room’s marble floor. Micah stepped through into a large, well lit room. Along either wall were thick glass cases filled with enchanted object...
2022-01-31 03:07:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe third floor of the tower consisted of a series of testing rooms and laboratories. An hour of searching only turned up the dregs of abandoned experiments, broken crockery, and general detritus. Micah didn’t even manage to find any useful reagents. Everything perishable had faded long ago, and any minerals or salts that had been in the lab were too mixed and cross contaminated to be safely used.
The fourth floor was also a waste of time. All Micah managed to ...
2022-01-31 00:05:33 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the battle to secure the gate, actually entering the tower was anticlimactic. The fence posts still spat death,filling Micah’s nose with the smell of burnt ozone as he approached, but the gate itself simply swung open as he extended his hand to push it aside.
Micah walked through the fence onto a narrow cobblestone path. On either side of him was a gravel moat, the rounded and polished pea-sized stones carefully raked into neat repetitive patterns. He couldn’t make...
2022-01-29 22:38:34 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days. From start to finish, Micah was trapped in the dark, fumbling from cave to cave for two days and two nights.
He had no idea how far his group traveled. He lost count of the number of times they ended up backtracking. At some point it just became a pattern. Wander for an hour in the dark, take a turn that looked correct from the map scribbled in the Ancient Folio only to realize fifteen minutes later that he had been mistaken when the tunnel narrowed to ...
2022-01-28 03:51:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Dodge!” Micah yelled, his Arcana sense screaming danger as the four-armed giant hewn from blue stone lifted its top two hands above its head. Its eyes, gems set into the smooth stone of its skull-like face flashed yellow and green fire seemed to pour from open space, filling the monster’s cupped palms.
One of Leeka’s new enchanted arrows sprouted from its wrist, a tiny, glittering spike of metal, barely significant against the rocky creature’s bulk. The archer sta...
2022-01-25 23:52:28 +0000 UTC View PostMicah sighed with relief as their group stepped out of the grass and into the afternoon light. He reached up, wiping sweat from his face before bringing his hand to his neck to touch the enchanted scrimshaw that hung there. Everyone in their group other than Garrat wore a matching medallion, the result of two days worth of study and work on Micah’s part.
The enchantments likely would have taken weeks without the help of the book that they had ‘happened’ to earn as a re...
2022-01-25 19:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostMicah wiped the blood from the point of his spear, surveying the room full of dead grass monitors. Eris was in the corner, nursing an injured arm as regeneration slowly repaired the bruising. Meanwhile, Esther and Trevor walked around the room, thrusting their spears into the monitor’s corpses. In the previous chamber, they had been surprised when a ‘dead’ lizard had lunged at Garrat, almost devouring the small, jittery man.
He walked over to Eris, crouc...
2022-01-24 00:46:30 +0000 UTC View PostMicah sat cross-legged before the old man, Drekt to his right and Leeka to his left. Somewhere in the corner of the dark hut, Garrat bounced back and forth excitedly, barely able to hold himself back from the thousand and one questions with which he had plagued Micah and the rest of the party on their trip into Swiftwater.
The flap of woven dry grass that passed for a door moved to the side, letting in a column of daylight. The old man in front of Micah was also cross-legged...
2022-01-24 00:45:50 +0000 UTC View PostUnending grass swayed back and forth. Micah couldn’t see more than an arm’s length in front of him, his vision terminating in chutes of vegetation as thick as his thumb that rose high above his head into the night sky. He reached out with his left hand, pushing grass out of his way as he slid his shoulder into the gap and barged into the wall of plant-matter.
A solitary gust of wind blew through the plains, sending the grass flowing in uneven waves as the world rustled a...
2022-01-21 14:52:20 +0000 UTC View PostMicah trudged through the forest next to Leeka while Jakaw sat perched on her shoulder, chattering at the two of them amiably. The noon light filtered through the foliage as they made their way back to the teleportation beacon. They’d spent the last night just outside of the dungeon, darkness having fallen while they had fought their way through the daemons to confront the pontiff.
Leeka pulled a nut from one of the leather pouches she kept around her waist. Jakaw sc...
2022-01-18 19:09:34 +0000 UTC View PostMicah dodged backward, avoiding a line of rainbow light a half second before a Luoca’s tail slashed through the air, shattering rocks of the dungeon floor. He darted in, spear leading the way and claiming one of the monster’s human eyes.
It screamed insensibly, razor sharp wings cutting through the air a half inch above Micah’s head as he ducked just enough. The wind of the attack’s passage ruffled his hair as he finished casting explosive thicket, ...
2022-01-17 18:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post“How are we looking out there?” Micah called out, glancing from the trembling woman that had been the Bishop toward the entrance to the cave. “The ritual is done, do you need any help?”
A second later, Drekt’s voice responded. “There is nothing of note outside. A suspicious flock of birds circled our campsite three times during the spellcasting, but they are gone now. We have not been able to determine whether they were natural or affiliated wit...
2022-01-17 18:23:25 +0000 UTC View Post“But I’m boooooored,” Esther’s voice echoed into the cave. “Micah’s been in there for days poking that sleeping lady, and only Ravi and Leeka are allowed to go hunting.”
“Be quiet,” Eris hissed back. “If Drekt hears you complaining, he’ll just make us spar again. Maybe if we can find Trevor he’ll have something for us to do. He can usually find a way to keep himself amused no matter where we are.”
“I want to talk to Micah though!” &n...
2022-01-11 18:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostMicah appeared in a forest clearing, the chill of Elsewhere still clinging to his armor after teleporting. Leeka stumbled past him, falling to her hands and knees as she struggled with the disorientation from her trip through the hostile plane.
Mountains rose above the trees, dark brown slopes that all but disappeared into the clouds. Micah took a step forward, his shoes clicking on the plate of granite that they’d arrived on. Already, the circle of runes etched into...
2022-01-10 16:39:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey Micah,” Trevor’s voice called out from one of the hooded and bound figures. “I know you’re probably super busy right now, but if you could get around to untying us, that would be great. I’m pretty sure Telivern peed on the ground next to me and it’s starting to soak into my jacket.”
The stag snorted unhappily. Somehow, the forgotten had cut a pair of holes in a burlap sack big enough to fit the bag over the deer’s head.
Micah glanced back a...
2021-12-31 21:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post