Foresight sounds really powerful, and it is.
Unfortunately, the version Rissa and Phoebe has has some serious downsides. They’ve learned how to work around some of them, but “what you See will happen whether you like it or not” is often remarkably unhelpful.
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Russ and Phoebe cont...
2021-12-30 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI saw someone say something about an 'unstable magic geek' ... well, unfortunately, this particular unstable magic geek has gotten his hands on a piece of heavy demolition equipment (magically speaking). Used the right way, it's a useful tool.
Unfortunately, Liam doesn't know what the right way is, and in many ...
2021-12-29 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe probably won’t see much from Liam’s perspective. Still, this is his story, so here’s how he saw it…
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Liam stared at the strange obese vantablack-covered man sitting on his ritual room floor. How did someone like that get invited to a Tutorial before someone like him?
Liam...
2021-12-28 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSerenity things some strange things are cute. You can't even see the voidling. It just looks like a patch of darkness. Maybe nothing?
Well, normal people can't. Serenity can see it just fine.
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“Thomas, are you sure you’re ok?” Rissa put a hand on Serenity’s other shoulder an...
2021-12-27 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSerenity is way too inclined to eat random stuff. It’s going to catch up with him one of these days.
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Once again, the taste reminded Serenity of curiosity. For a moment, he almost understood it, before it dissolved into energy and joined his healing pool. It wasn’t jus...
2021-12-26 00:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostI once lived in a gated apartment complex. “Gated community” has connotations that … let’s just say they aren’t all made of huge stand-alone houses. The one I lived in was … well, I’ve seen worse apartment complexes, but it also wasn’t anything special.
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Unlike the first g...
2021-12-26 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwo steps forward, one step back…
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Serenity turned back to the spell he wanted to update. Was there any way to improve it?
No, any spell he built based around this structure would have many of the same downsides. He could limit them by optimizing the spell differently, but he could...
2021-12-25 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFair warning - magic technicalities in this chapter. I haven’t gotten much into the details in the past, but I decided to go a level deeper on this particular spell. I won’t do that often, but it fit in naturally and I realized I haven’t really given that much of a feel for how Serenity’s spellcasting really works. 2021-12-24 00:23:33 +0000 UTC View Post
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After Lancaster hurried off to whatever was happening elsewhere in the city, Rissa and Serenity went hunting for her parents. They were both in the guest room, watching television. The news was on, talking in exclamation points about the upcoming local elections.
Phoebe switched it off a...
2021-12-23 00:07:43 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity knelt next to the wall where the package with the partial artifact once was. There was a smear of magical residue on the wall. It was a purple so deep that it was almost black, and it tasted like … curiosity?
How can curiosity have a flavor?
Serenity built the spellform...
2021-12-22 00:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Name: Rissa
Species: Hybrid: Auspex / Dragon (Time)
Core: Mystic
Evolution Path: Sibyl
Neither of them knew what an Auspex was, but they decided it might as well be human. Despite the complete lack of ...
2021-12-21 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“So what’s the secret?” Phoebe’s reaction made Serenity intensely curious.
“It’s supposed to open a Guardian to the Guardian’s magic by first opening the Guardian’s Node, then connecting all Guardians together by letting you travel to the Guardian Sea. That way, Guardians...
2021-12-19 23:50:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe news report is just as accurate as initial news reports often are - it’s what someone thought he saw.
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Breaking news from the Nation’s Capitol! A Washington DC police patrol car was attacked by four kangaroo aliens! A search is on to find where they came from and...
2021-12-19 00:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Raz decided to accompany them to the edge of the dungeon; he wanted to know how big it was. He’d stay with Aki and the others would return the next day with supplies.
The walk out of the dungeon had them all on guard, but they didn’t see anything dangerous.They heard some frogs calli...
2021-12-19 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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[Establishing Dungeon boundaries]
[Boundary instability]
[Repairing Dungeon core to hold Dungeon stable]
Aki?
Aki didn’t reply, but Raz could still feel her in the back of his mind, grumpy but pleased. It wa...
2021-12-18 00:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostAnd now for a viewpoint we really don't see often.
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[Do you wish to claim this Nexus?]
The words were all Aki could see. She’d never expected to see another nexus in her life; she’d expected to die, and in many ways she wouldn’t regret i...
2021-12-17 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSorry abut the duplicate ... the funny thing is, it had the right notes but the wrong chapter! Here's the correct one.
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It's been a while since we've checked in on how Raz really feels, and this is very important to Raz and Aki.
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Raz felt helpless as he watched the spellc...
2021-12-16 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the late post ... long day at work then a power failure followed by computer update when I restarted followed by power failure (fortunately right after the computer finished its update, while I was trying to get logged in....).
Fortunately, this isn't normal; apparently the power company is working a...
2021-12-15 00:29:23 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was late enough - near dark - when they arrived that the crowd of people for the spontaneous demonstration was mostly gone, but Serenity could see some abandoned signs. He couldn’t read them, but Rissa told him that KILL THE WORMS, END THE LIES, and CLOSE ALL DUNGEONS were the most common.
... 2021-12-14 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe scared people here aren’t the group that left the dungeon; it’s everyone else. Quite reasonably, really.
The interview was preempted ... some of it's online. Here's an idea of the stuff that's happening right now.
Oh, and no, they aren’t actually dragons. No one believes that. They’re assumed to be a f...
2021-12-13 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostMost of the worms in Made were expelled in the dungeon and killed by the wasps ... not that anyone knows that yet...
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“No, I don’t have the Life Affinity.” Lancaster seemed grouchy as he looked at Serenity. “Some healing ability would be handy, but I don’t know where to begin. Do you ...
2021-12-12 00:33:16 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity finally had the time to stop and think, and he realized that he didn’t actually know how New York City fell in the original timeline. All he could remember was that there was a huge explosion somewhere downtown; he hadn’t been nearby and he hadn’t paid attention. There was nothi...
2021-12-12 00:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostI don't mind earthworms, particularly.
These are ... not earthworms. Also, it wasn't that far into Rissa .... it just seemed like it. Serenity is pretty freaked out right now.
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Serenity felt a deep anger rising as he watched the worms writhe their way out of Made and he thoug...
2021-12-11 00:03:10 +0000 UTC View PostSome body horror near the end. I've tried to not be too graphic.
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Serenity threw his axe at the extra-large wasp’s other wing and charged one of the two person-sized wasps attacking Russ. Lancaster was in armor and Russ wasn’t; hopefully it was the right choice.
As he charg...
2021-12-10 00:02:09 +0000 UTC View PostDid you know that yellowjackets can have colonies of thousands?
No, the big wasp isn’t a Queen or anything like that. Dungeons don’t have to follow actual biology - and a Queen isn’t a fighting type anyway.
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“Is that wasp gold?” Nat had spent the past five minutes filming the ...
2021-12-09 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNo superheros were harmed in the making of this chapter.
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They blew through the next two rooms. Serenity grew more worried with each room they completed, because none of them had any of the smaller swarm-type enemies Nat and Lancaster mentioned. The third room had one larger enemy, while the...
2021-12-08 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The discussion of roles and responsibilities seemed to have calmed the fire in Made’s eyes and Russ released her while Serenity was setting up the three spells he was going to attempt to infuse. They’d interfere with each other significantly, but he doubted he’d have to balance them for lo...
2021-12-07 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNo one knows if “Made” is a reference to the Mafia - “Made” Fulton won’t say. No one assumes that she is actually in the Mafia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made_man
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“You aren’t going to g...
2021-12-06 00:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the later-than-normal unlock. Got off work late followed by a power failure, a Windows update, another power failure ... good thing this isn't normal. Just one of those days I guess!
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So, I asked if there was a worse combination than clueless and annoying. The answer is ... yes....
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“Rissa? Here’s the printer. Can I get maps of all of New York City? Starting close to the Central Park Giant Wasp Dungeon, I’m not sure which way the ley line goes, but there has to be one there.” Serenity set the box down and started opening it.
Claws were surprisingly helpful in...
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