"This would be easier if I had a shrink ray and a time turner," Myst complained as he pulled yet another pair of magic sight goggles out of the coffin, looked at them with his upgrade ability and boosted them back up to where he'd boosted the original goggles.
Dawn shook her head. "That sounds like a good way to get laz...
2022-10-15 03:01:54 +0000 UTC View PostMyst glanced up from his cider as he felt someone with an abundance of hatred, he quickly scanned the crowded inn and paused when he saw a black haired man in his thirties walking across the room with a dagger in his hand and a focused look on his face. "Weird." His confusion changed to understanding when a couple in the midd...
2022-10-11 07:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm starting to wonder if the quality…" Myst trailed off as he glanced away from the rather unimpressive left shoe that silenced your left foot and looked at the coffin-like box in his inventory and realized that he'd found something that was a game changer.
Hermione stuffed the cultist she'd been mentally interrogat...
2022-10-08 04:54:41 +0000 UTC View PostAginor glanced at the young woman's face and dismissed her as being a true threat when he didn't see the 'ageless' look the binder inflicted. He glanced at the strange items scattered on tables then focused on the child that was floating in the air. "Parley? I'm afraid this isn't a discussion, the Great Lord wants you dead."<...
2022-10-04 04:22:38 +0000 UTC View PostDawn smiled as she floated up to the balcony her minimap had labeled Elaida's balcony and realized the woman was cutting her roses. 'You're making this easy…' her thoughts derailed as she felt someone use magic in the palace and saw a man fly off the princess's balcony as if thrown by a catapult. 'That's new.'
Elaida ...
2022-10-01 06:23:50 +0000 UTC View Post"Where's Constantine when you need him?" Myst muttered as he spent the mana to upgrade the hastily completed protection circle he'd scrawled on the waygate landing, turning it into something that might help against the Black Wind. "In DC, probably fucking Zatanna or selling his soul to a demon."
Myst opened his gacha me...
2022-09-27 02:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post'How's the recruiting going?' Myst asked Dawn via telepathy as he watched a group of whitecloaks leave the tavern, more than a little drunk.
'Better than I was expecting," Dawn replied as she closed her eyes and enjoyed the heat from the hotspring. 'We managed to talk Mat's mother into helping supervise the girls and we...
2022-09-24 05:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Spit it out, you look like you're sucking lemons," Dawn told the dark haired woman that was glaring at her while she worked on making bandages.
Nynaeve pulled her attention off the girl's green skirt that didn't even come down to her knees and was thin enough that she could see her legs. "Do you always travel in your n...
2022-09-20 07:11:59 +0000 UTC View Post"Myst Targaryen, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms," Selena announced as Myst walked into the small council.
Oberyn Martell couldn't help the amused grin as his nephew walked over to the chair that would have reminded everyone that he was a child and casually spun it around then jumped up on the seat and leaned against the bac...
2022-09-17 05:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm going to kill that bitch!" Merlin shouted as he stalked out of the hallway connected to his room, gesturing wildly and glaring at everything.
The dragon turned elf rubbed the bridge of her nose as she turned to look at the irate magic user as all of the wild animals that had been singing and dancing dashed away and...
2022-09-13 02:26:12 +0000 UTC View Post"Sword?" Harry asked thoughtfully.
"That sounds better than sneaking through the land of the dead or dealing with a crazy archmage," River replied, not particularly confident in their ability to defeat the mage.
Harry walked over and picked up the wooden sword on the pedestal, causing the door with a sword to open...
2022-09-10 05:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostAn: easiest method to find previous chapter(s) is to run a search for Demons and Botched Rituals... it's mildly horrifying how long it's been since I updated this...
"Snape?" Harry sputtered, feeling a bit green at the idea of anyone willingly getting near his profesor. "Are you insane?"
"Just being thorough...
2022-09-06 08:29:51 +0000 UTC View PostGeoffrey Pellick walked out of the kitchen and froze when he noticed that his desk with his entire computer rig and more importantly Richter's device was gone, only faint marks on the concrete showing that anything had been there. "Fuck!" he screamed, trying to figure out how someone had stolen the desk in the twenty seconds ...
2022-09-03 03:52:21 +0000 UTC View Post'What do you do for fun when you're not at the club?' Myst asked as he watched Riley spin around the pole.
'When I'm not studying for my classes, building or repairing computers, I mostly crush people in WoW, catch up on fanfics or work on my robot of doom,' S. Riley replied cheerfully as she watched Riley dance.
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2022-08-30 04:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostS. Amy shivered as she stared at the unconscious preteen she'd duct taped to the table on the off chance that she woke up before they’d finished double checking everything. "Just because I couldn't find anything doesn't mean she isn't dangerous," she warned, “she could have a plague hidden in some sealed module in her bod...
2022-08-27 05:51:44 +0000 UTC View Post"This would be easier if the boss had let us bribe the inspector," Lisa complained as she watched the dockerworker run some tests on the electrical system that Uber had installed.
"Most of them don't stay bought," Henry replied as he finished testing the tinker enhanced batteries to make sure they weren't dangerous or a...
2022-08-23 03:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostDespite the legitimate if unnecessary concerns about Night and Fog, it took less than thirty seconds to deal with them from the time Taylor and S. Rose flew out of the RV to the point where they were unconscious on the ground. "I'll keep my eyes on Night, open a portal."
"Working on it," S. Rose replied as she worked on...
2022-08-20 07:29:12 +0000 UTC View PostMyst glanced away from the mirror that was showing the three capes sitting on a couch. "Any idea which apartment they're in?" he asked S. Lisa.
S. Lisa looked up from the apartment blueprints. "Not really, the blinds are closed and the coordinates aren't that precise as they don't give elevation which means it could be ...
2022-08-15 20:51:14 +0000 UTC View PostMyst focused on the full-length mirror that he'd leaned up against the wall and pushed energy into it, changing it from a simple mirror with a brass frame into a magical mirror that would show people and provide their location. "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, show me… Bad Canary."
"Seriously?" Rose asked with amusement ...
2022-08-13 09:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostAn: This is the ended version of the chapter, including a connecting scene with Taylor and Myst that brides the gap a bit between the bar scene.
S. Rose froze when she saw a beer can in front of a hole in the wall bar. "I guess they have litter."
"Bound to happen eventually…" Leet trailed off as Taylor walked o...
2022-08-13 09:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostS. Rose froze when she saw a beer can in front of a hole in the wall bar. "I guess they have litter."
"Bound to happen eventually…" Leet trailed off as Taylor walked over to pick it up and realized it was bolted to the ground and about three times larger than it should be.
"This isn't litter, it's a public art d...
2022-08-09 06:27:12 +0000 UTC View Post"Rise and shine," Leet said cheerfully as he knocked on the RV's door for the third time.
"I'm awake," Myst complained as he opened the door and looked at the pair of villains that were wearing normal street clothes. "I'm surprised that you're awake considering it's not even ten."
"Coffee?" Uber offered as he step...
2022-08-06 07:56:15 +0000 UTC View Post‘Do you have eyes on Trainwreck?’ Myst asked as he watched the snow fall on the derelict warehouse the merchants had used for their Christmas Eve rave, the early morning light giving it an almost innocent feel.
'He's currently in the trainyard,' S. Coil replied over the mental connection, having already checked to m...
2022-08-02 08:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostRebecca Costa-Brown wasn't sure what to think about the cape sitting on one of the officer's desks, mostly because things weren't lining up. She'd only caught wind of his healing spree because she'd set up alerts to notify her of any new healers and because the same report had flagged him as possibly having some tech that cou...
2022-07-30 03:45:57 +0000 UTC View PostS. Vicky smiled as the last scene finished and the credits started rolling. "Stitch is pretty awesome for an alien engine of destruction."
"Yeah, he's adorable," Myst agreed as he pulled his phone out to check the time.
"I was expecting a bit more bloodshed," S. Amy admitted, thinking about some of the other movie...
2022-07-26 04:28:45 +0000 UTC View PostC. Squealer frowned as S. Rose pulled into the snow covered parking lot for the recycling center and slid a touch before the tires managed to get enough traction. "Remind me to upgrade the RV with an antigravity device."
"I'll put it on the list," Myst replied absently as he used his remote to set up the spatial field h...
2022-07-23 02:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostT.S. Noelle walked out of the RV's bathroom after pulling on socks, a sweatshirt and sweats that did a pretty good job of making sure someone wouldn't accidentally touch her skin. "Do you have an actual plan?"
"Not really," Taylor admitted. "I'm still trying to figure out how I'm supposed to tell my family that I'm a ca...
2022-07-18 23:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post'Stay together!' Kid Win mentally ordered his hoverboard, hoping it wouldn't fall apart before he managed to disengage from the insane blender of death. He fired off a couple of blasts at the insane lunatic that was chasing him, trying to distract him or get him to disengage. 'Fuck! I need better weapons, fucking regs!' he me...
2022-07-16 06:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostThomas Calvert pulled his attention away from the news reporter that was talking about the amount of drugs the police seized on several raids when someone knocked on his door and a collection of male voices started mangling a Christmas carol. He glanced at the clock in the timeline that he was preparing to head to his base. '...
2022-07-12 01:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostMyst tumbled off the bench he'd fallen asleep on and hit the ground when his cellphone's alarm startled him awake a couple of minutes after midnight. "That was annoying, I need to grab Vicky's shield."
'That's what you get for falling asleep on the bench rather than crawling in bed with me,' S. Rose teased him.
My...
2022-07-09 07:36:23 +0000 UTC View Post
