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[Warpworld] Ch 13 – Broken Klaw

« Chapter 12 | Index | Chapter 14 »

            The warband was hurrying towards the foot of the mountain, some trotting with the pace of hunters, others ahorse and looking for a...

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[Warpworld] Ch 12 – Extermination Agenda

« Chapter 11 | Index | Chapter 13 »

            “They’re calling to all the searcher teams that something has been found,” I judged. “If they get destroyed, the other war...

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[Warpworld] Ch 11 – Pressure on the Pyramid

« Chapter 10 | Index | Chapter 12 »

            “This is a belly slide for you.” The twelve heads all blinked at me. “You slide all the way to the bottom, then you run up t...

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[Warpworld] Ch 10 – Buffing up the Sanctum Sanctorum

« Chapter 9 | Index | Chapter 11 »

            There was a rider flying over the mountain, mounted on a Warped Manticore.

        &nb...

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[Warpworld] Ch 9 – The Food fights Back

« Chapter 8 | Index | Chapter 10 »

            The alarm came when they lifted up a tent that didn’t look all that different from the others, but the man inside was clad in head...

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[Warpworld] Ch 8 – Feeding Time

« Chapter 7 | Index | Chapter 9 »

            The Ices were looking at the mess eagerly. He hissed a question back at them, and #1 indicated that the mortals down there were decent...

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[Warpworld] Ch 7 – The Hills have Teeth

« Chapter 6 | Index | Chapter 8 »

            “All twelve of you! Listen up!”

            All of the Ice Hydra...

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[Warpworld] Ch 6 – Cold and Stone and All Alone

« Chapter 5 | Index | Chapter 7 »

            I’d never intended to have or need Protection from Chaos among my personal defenses, even if it was an option. My enem...

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[Warpworld] Ch 5 – Some Final Words to the Freed

« Chapter 4 | Index | Chapter 6 »

            This could perpetuate misunderstandings again. What did it cost for me to talk to them and at least set some of their fears at ease? View Post

[Warpworld] Ch 4 – A Vortex to a Fireplume

« Chapter 3 | Index | Chapter 5 »

            The speaker hadn’t introduced himself. I turned my eyes on him and remained silent as I waved my hands, and another hundred and four...

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[Warpworld] Ch 3 – The Stone is the Way

« Chapter 2 | Index | Chapter 4 »

            I looked down at the Stones for a long moment, then up at the Formation that was guiding in. Then I slowly looked into the distance, a...

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[Warpworld] Ch 2 – A Feel for Magic

« Chapter 1 | Index | Chapter 3 »

            Faith almost sent the magic into conniption fits of responsiveness, as if begging me to Align it and wield it in harmony with a Greate...

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[Warpworld] Ch 1 – Warping Home Again

| Index | Chapter 2 »

            I was moving through extra-multiversal space, a medium you might liken to Chaos if you were a fan of classic mythology, and might liken to protoplasmic arcane soup if you were a Mythos advocate. Both had applicable points, as this was a place wher...

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[Be Gone] Ch 55 – Epilogues

« Chapter 54 | Index |

Epilogue I...

            The bar of Life Gold spun as the spell lit off, and began to consume itself as the Runes on it pulsed and were eaten away, transforming into golden sparkles that aligned themselves in a widening double-helix pattern fa...

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[Be Gone] Ch 54 – Lancing a Tumorous Thing

« Chapter 53 | Index | Chapter 55 »

            The dumbest or slowest beasts didn’t flee, and perhaps some overconfident demons that could feel the purity of the Taint here tho...

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[Be Gone] Ch 53 – The Vortex Before Us

« Chapter 52 | Index | Chapter 54 »

            Our forward progress continued. The slaughter ahead slowly wore down as the demons ran away as fast as they could, and the numbers in ...

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[Be Gone] Ch 52 – The Oni Lords

« Chapter 51 | Index | Chapter 53 »

            The ghostly harvesters of souls screamed as they entered the Interdiction Field around the Pyramid. They were forcibly pulled into ...

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[Be Gone] Ch 51 – Desperate Demonic Defense

« Chapter 50 | Index | Chapter 52 »

            There were a bunch of demons here.

            There were more assau...

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[Be Gone] Ch 50 – The Central Morass

« Chapter 49 | Index | Chapter 51 »

            The Demon Tree was a boss monster with a lot of Health Qi, maybe millions of it. That was okay. I was patient, and I was hitting it...

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[Be Gone] Ch 49 – The Tempest of Serenity

« Chapter 48 | Index | Chapter 50 »

            “The rage is there, isn’t it?” I asked kindly, understanding that the experience had put him directly in touch with the savag...

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[Be Gone] Ch 48 – Observations of an Orc Master

« Chapter 47 | Index | Chapter 49 »

            “I confess to being exposed to tales of great battles and fighting and mighty spells, not merely rolling across a landscape and B...

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[Be Gone] Ch 47 – Inexorable Advance

« Chapter 46 | Index | Chapter 48 »

            Virtually everyone on the Pyramid shouted out as we began to climb the first steep slope of the Hungry Hills.

  ...

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[Be Gone] Ch 46 – The First Pyramid is Up!

« Chapter 45 | Index | Chapter 47 »

            The demons’ grand army of attackers never made it to the Pyramid I was making. They even had some forces try coming out of the sea n...

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[Be Gone] Ch 45 – The Pyramid Progresses!

« Chapter 44 | Index | Chapter 46 »

More time passes...

            The great square was still hovering in midair, just beyond the lip of the Pit, the sparkles o...

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[Be Gone] Ch 44 – Breaking the System, Five Rings at Twelve

« Chapter 43 | Index | Chapter 45 »

            Once Korbald’s people measured the skill contributions to the result, figured out the huge upswings were from crits, and just wha...

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[Be Gone] Ch 43 – Bloodline at Ten

« Chapter 42 | Index | Chapter 44 »

More days pass...

            The Goblin Badlands were now ravaged by vivus. What goblins had survived had fled inland, doubtles...

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[Be Gone] Ch 42 – Routine Mass Slaughter

« Chapter 41 | Index | Chapter 43 »

            The Shadowlands didn’t seem to realize the situation they were in, but that was fine. We took advantage of it.

  ...

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[Be Gone] Ch 41 – A Burning Pit

« Chapter 40 | Index | Chapter 42 »

            The Iron Bear, Xiong Ochotai, turned to look down at the Burning Pit of King Gravity, as he had been informed it was to be called. It ...

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[Be Gone] Ch 40 – Marked for Greatness

« Chapter 39 | Index | Chapter 41 »

            -I imagine they know you have a form of uncanny awareness of your people, although they are probably still unaware of just how ext...

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[Be Gone] Ch 39 – King Gravity’s Compost Pit

« Chapter 38 | Index | Chapter 40 »

            Spells and Wards put in place popped and cracked, Seals ruptured and Spirits chained for unknown ages screamed and were set free... on...

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