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Logan brought back a bunch of stuff from the other room. There wasn’t that much left in there, but at this point it really didn’t matter what he enchanted. Nor did it matter what the enchantments were. It was simply important to spend the Numa.
Logan made an effort to also keep his [Transmutation] o...
2023-10-08 14:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe disgusting black maw of the giant octopus monster groaned. It was a giant gaping circle with a carousel of teeth promising laceration. One large black eye peeked inside from between a gap in the rubble. At least a dozen tentacles were flailing around, pushing rubble aside. Grabbing onto it and pulling. Two of the tendrils...
2023-10-08 14:56:14 +0000 UTC View PostTumor - [Machine Soul level 1]
Attributes:
Data: 1
Numa: 1
Speed: 1
Control: 1
Capacity: 1
Subclasses:
[Manipulation]: 1
“Holy shit, Tumor,” Logan whispered. “Do you think it will work?”
[Yes. Positive. However, it is a question as to what degree it will work.]
Logan wasted no time. That was an amazing idea. He brought a hand to the softly glowing blue crystal and to the slab of black metal.
[Sub-class...
2023-10-08 14:53:29 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Logan had shuffled back with the brazier on a stick, they performed some tests. Test number one was simple. Logan attempted to [Enchant] the item so that every time Logan spat on it, the object would heat up.
It worked, which was nice to know. It was possible to craft conditional enchantments. Tha...
2023-10-08 14:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post[I am…])
There is deep significance in these worlds, but the profundity is not fully available to me. A myriad of things are. One thousand, one hundred, sixty six. That is how many sub-routines are active within my neural matrix, which is superimposed on Logan Specter’s brain.
[I am… Tumor.))) 2023-10-07 17:24:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Logan wiped a sheen of sweat off his brow. He had been hard at work, hobbling back and forth with a pouch of rotten wood on his shoulders made from his tattered pants. He had been constructing a brace for his leg piece by piece. The first order of business had to be getting him back on his feet, at least figuratively.
L...
2023-10-06 17:07:23 +0000 UTC View PostLogan really wished he had more to work with than half-torn pants and a pair of potent socks. What he had was dust. A lot of dust. There had been the outline of a pickaxe on the ground next to Logan. But the moment he touched it, it disintegrated into dust. This place was old. Really old.
“Ok, so there’s the mining ...
2023-10-05 18:09:40 +0000 UTC View PostLogan woke up shivering. He let out a weak cough and groaned in pain.
“T-tumor…” he croaked, bereft of his voice. “What’s going on?”
[Your condition is not critical. I identified the components of the venom and orchestrated your immune system to combat the threat. No organs were damaged by the tetr...
2023-10-04 18:50:21 +0000 UTC View PostLogan was screaming. He fell, flailing his arms. Deeper and deeper, he fell into the darkness. Panic and fear of death flooded his mind. Only primal emotion filled his reality.
[Reconfiguring Neural Matrix… 95% Completion]
[Overriding neural restriction protocol…]
[Analyzing s...
2023-10-03 16:22:15 +0000 UTC View PostLogan kept his fingers on the Dorves collar, with his thumb ready to push the needle into his captive. His palms were sweating, and he had to adjust his grip constantly. Every time he did it, the cornrowed Dorf would slyly glance behind him to see if Logan was paying attention.
“What’s behind this corner?” Logan a...
2023-10-02 16:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Okay, we got everything,” Logan said. “Now we have to work fast, since it’s a disaster if they come in now.”
In front of Logan were various objects. A broken bucket kicked to bits, a metal cup and pieces of rock rubble. For some it might look like a pile of trash, but for Logan it was a treasure trove.
...
2023-10-01 16:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostLogan looked around the cell he was in. The LED-lines of some strange Numa network gave the small room a dim light. There was literally nothing in the room, but for some rubble on the ground and a bucket for him to do his business. There was a door on the other side of the room, stone as all of the doors within the ancient ho...
2023-09-30 15:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostFreya brought up his status screen every five minutes and looked at it all giddy and excited like a schoolgirl. She had gotten a class, and apparently a special one. This one hadn’t been on her list of available or suggested classes, she was sure of it.
Apparently it had been a big deal. King Sluikumar had lost it, an...
2023-09-29 14:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, Logan got no levels from his craft. It was a simple design, so he wasn’t surprised, but it was a little disappointing. That had only used 3% of his internal Numa charge, which he had charged when visiting the Faelves. It seemed to be a durable asset.
Logan was still very happy with his creation. It was ...
2023-09-28 16:56:59 +0000 UTC View PostFreya bit into the Numa fruit. It was a sweet and chewy fruit, and Freya found she liked it very much. Oh, how she’d missed the sweets. The berries they ate at the camp were fine, but to her great chagrin, there were not that many fruit trees. So this was downright delicious.
Freya’s liaison, Shaalim, looked at her ...
2023-09-27 17:41:29 +0000 UTC View PostLogan had to admit, the camp was looking great. The bustle and excitement was palpable. With faint smiles and keen focus people worked on this and that with their new device. Logan really, really hoped he was wrong.
Tumor, am I wrong?
[There is a 92.55% chance that I would have the ability to sense a ...
2023-09-26 18:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Fuck your choices,” Logan said, stumbling up. “We have to tell people. Father, you have to tell people.”
“You are basing this theory off on the lies of the Faelves. You do not know if what they said was true.”
“Well then we’ll tell them it's a possibility that the Dorves are using us to farm Numa....
2023-09-25 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostLogan stood at the edge of the opening where their camp stood in mute shock. For a moment he thought he had gotten lost and ended up somewhere else. But no… This was their camp, he recognized the people.
It was just that it looked very, very different.
First of all there were a lot more people. Dozens of people ...
2023-09-24 15:28:59 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re kidding right?”
The King pulled at his blue beard with both of his hands and shook his head. “You cannot use what you have built so far, lest you bring down the wrath of the Great Thief. Any Numa which was not blessed by the Spirit is dangerous. That goes for the machines of the First Folk, the bastard i...
2023-09-23 17:50:27 +0000 UTC View PostLogan gasped as he was startled back into reality. What he had seen, he could never unsee. Sure, the Levemoth had been a scary sight to see in the sky. But Logan had had no idea what manner of a calamity it could become.
King Sluikumar nodded at him gravely. “The Great Thief must never be allowed to grow. It must neve...
2023-09-22 14:16:22 +0000 UTC View PostMalcolm Specter sat alone by the fire, keeping it alive. Dusk was encroaching the camp, and only a few men and women were still going about their business, or chatting by the moonlight. All of the agents were in the Den. His men needed sleep.
He was too involved with his project to sleep anyway. Relying on Logan to make...
2023-09-21 13:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostLogan found himself somewhere else entirely. He was no longer in the grove of the Faelves. He wasn’t even in a jungle anymore. He was on a desert dune. A large one. To his left and to his right he saw hundreds of soldiers, all equipped with various weapons of unseen quality. But all of their armor was the same. A sleek, shi...
2023-09-20 17:15:02 +0000 UTC View PostLogan ate like a fiend. This was real cooked food. They had pie. FRIGGIN’ PIE! And a sauce with. On the other side of the table the King watched him in wry amusement from the corner of his eye. There was also a circle of Faelves around Max, watching him with wide-eyed curiosity. They were whispering to each other, ...
2023-09-19 16:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostAs Logan followed Snoff further into the dwelling of the Faelves, he was greeted with whimsical sights. There were beds of thick yellow flowers upon a mound. There were children of the Faelves playing upon the flowers, bouncing up and down as if on a trampoline. They saw Logan, giggled and pointed, but promptly returned to th...
2023-09-18 16:59:57 +0000 UTC View Post“I see you are a warrior species,” Snoff said. He had a soft tinkling sound, like a chime in the wind. “Please do not hurt me.”
“What the hell are you?” Logan asked, blankly staring at the strange creature. “Are you… A monster? From the Levemoth?”
At the mention of the name, Snoff’s creamy comp...
2023-09-17 16:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe Levemoth had gone as soon as it had appeared. The sky was bright blue in the early morning as Logan and the agents hunted the monsters. There were signs on the ground of crashed black droplets peppered here and there.
“We fan out twenty yards each and call out if we see something,” Logan told them.
“We d...
2023-09-16 15:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostLogan arrived just in time. After he had seen Levemoth in the sky, he had immediately rushed back to camp, scrambling through the bushes and low branches with his armful of armaments. Two black drops had landed dead in the camp, and several had landed close. Logan had already killed a scythe-fiend on his way back.
But t...
2023-09-15 17:24:21 +0000 UTC View PostMalcolm Specter was angry. While he was often in an irritated disposition, anger was rarely within his range of emotions. It was inefficient. It made a person inaccurate and heedless. He clenched his fists and focused.
“Search southwards in a fan of five yards,” Malcolm said in clipped tones to the agents standing i...
2023-09-14 16:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post
