What they were currently exploring, in contrast, seemed to be not just living quarters, but an entire living area. She was assuming she might run into a whole city at some point, if the trend of the areas becoming larger and more complicated continued the deeper she went. She wasn't sure if there could be another dungeon so close, especially con...
2023-09-14 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostShe was done playing around at this point, and pumped mana into her arms and torso following the patterns of the skill to activate Monstrous Blow, bringing her sword around as the kobold recovered from the improvised flame slash and lunged at her. The center of her new, longer, heavier sword smashed into the side of the beast's ...
2023-09-13 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"I know I said dungeon yesterday," she started, the huge wolf simply looking at her, "but we really shouldn't leave what could be a huge area unexplored at our back."
Blood shrugged in response as she made a chuffing sound, seeming to indicate that she was ambivalent about the whole thing. Beth took that for as goo...
2023-09-12 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHer first task now was to find Elana. If she couldn't locate her smithing instructor, she knew she could find Tazeen in the lobby, so she made her way up to the lounge the enforcers claimed as theirs first. Entering from the side door opposite where the girls usually piled in, Beth saw that she was still early enough that the girls had yet to ar...
2023-09-11 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post*The Big One-Oh-Oh*
"Holy shit," Beth breathed as Jaq re-sheathed the blade with a snap and set it back on the counter. "Uh, I have one problem though," she continued, snapping herself out of the reverie his words had induced.
"You can't equip it properly," he replied, already figuring out where she wa...
2023-09-07 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe commotion interrupted the other commotion at the front desk, the crowd turning to see what was happening. The thin man had seemingly found his courage once battle was joined, though his follow-up to his friend's attack consisting of incoherently yelling and flailing at her was less than impressive. Beth's response was to twist back towards h...
2023-09-06 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Let's not mess with this just yet," she said to Blood before turning and leading the way back to the main room.
When they had returned to the main room, she led the way to the fifth doorway, journeying down the tunnel therein. After about two minutes of walking, they came upon a huge room, the ceiling lost in the ...
2023-09-05 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostShe didn't find anything else of value before Blood came to get her, leading her to a shelf with the last item in the room sitting atop it. It was a little box made of a dark blue material with a little silver symbol on the top. Picking it up and inspecting it carefully, Beth decided to open it as well after finding nothing amiss. When she poppe...
2023-09-04 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWith a big sigh, she attempted to clean the blade off using the least dirty parts of the beast's crude clothes and a cloth she pulled from her belt pouch. It took some doing for the blade to start to look clean again, and Blood had approached the corpse and sniffed it once before sneezing and turning away in disgust.
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With a groaning shriek of long unoiled hinges, the doors slowly began to move. They were certainly not hung in a way as to make them easy to move as some large doors were, the hinges being set in a way to help with the weight when pushing them. She was pushing against the entire weight of the steel while fighting the hinges and, considering the ...
2023-08-30 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWith a sigh, she stepped back out and around Blood, once again leading them back to the side tunnel and towards the next room. This one was a little larger than the standard uniform size, and also a little more annoying with two kobolds sitting on the remains of bedframes in the corners.
She took care of the beasts...
2023-08-29 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe splits here turned out to be much shorter tunnels, each leading to a stone room with slightly more in them than the previous ones. The first room had a small table in it upon which the little lamp for the room was placed, making it cast a bit of a shadow on the ground once Beth had lit it. She examined the place afterwards, noting a small st...
2023-08-28 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Well, thanks, I think," she said, still frowning. "But I had another question, if you're done breaking my brain with all that stuff."
"Yeah, yeah, go ahead," he said, thumping a hand against his massive gut before taking another drink.
"Blood and I encountered a couple things yesterday, bu...
2023-08-24 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBeth woke up with a great start, sitting straight up in the bed next to Blood. She didn't know how she knew, but she knew that she had both been the silver flame in the dream and that it hadn't just been a dream. It had, in fact, somehow been a kind of memory, a memory of a fight that had happened centuries in the past, a thousand or more years ...
2023-08-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"I think Blood's fine using my stuff, might just have to get a couple extra things for her," Beth answered with a slight handwave.
Jaq grunted in response as he turned and walked through the center door, Beth narrowing her eyes at his choice. She was almost positive the doors were basically meaningless to him, and ...
2023-08-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBeth steeled herself and took a breath before stepping into the outbuilding again. Thankfully for her, it was both small and rather barren, taking only a few moments to rummage through. She found nothing of interest, only a few very crude stone tools and a few animal hides and less…savory…bits strewn about.
She...
2023-08-21 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe object had certainly been what had caught Blood's attention, the nearly three-story high edifice of black and silver metal emitting both a certain presence and smell into the surroundings. The best Beth could describe it as would be old vegetable oil; a greasy, oily, vegetal smell that wasn't quite rancid, but certainly wasn't pleasant to th...
2023-08-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSabs didn't say anything to Beth as she entered the kitchen, walking up to the taller girl and reaching up to wrap her arms around Beth's neck. She buried her face in the top of Beth's now somewhat ample chest and breathed deeply, enjoying the slightly sweet, somewhat musky scent of Beth's body. Beth, in turn, wrapped her arms around Sabs and ki...
2023-08-16 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"The difficulty isn't exactly the point…" Zack replied, rubbing his right temple as he squinted his eyes shut with a long-suffering sigh.
"I'm sure you guys can figure it out," Beth answered, waving to Blood while Zack was fighting off his mounting frustration. The huge wolf loped over to her just as Zack o...
2023-08-15 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBeth raised an eyebrow at them, not sure how the group thought a low level with what amounted to a long knife going after a higher-level boar was a great plan, but she remained unconcerned. Even Soph could likely punch the weaker boars to death at this point, let alone her ability to let one of her patented "babies" loose in under a second and f...
2023-08-14 17:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostShe made her way down to her room in the basement, finding Blood waiting outside. She let the both of them in, saying to the wolf, "Don’t know where you've been going, but we've gotta make a trip home tomorrow. Also, gotta hit the dungeons up." Blood gave a clear nod while flicking her ears in response, letting Beth know she understood. <...
2023-08-10 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBeth nodded at Elana before she resumed her work, putting one of the bars of round stock back in the fire to heat. She spent the rest of the day working in the forging room, noting at the end that she was starting to amass a small pile of nails in the back corner of the workbench, though calling a few of them 'nails' might be a little generous. ...
2023-08-09 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBeth woke at a decent time the next morning, likely right around dawn, though she couldn't tell from inside the suite due to the lack of windows. She rolled out of bed and headed into the bathroom to take care of her morning business and freshen up. Afterwards she prepared some food in the kitchenette while also getting something for both her an...
2023-08-08 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they were all fed and watered and the kitchen was relatively clean again, they geared up and headed for the ant nest. The path was one they were quite familiar with by this point, and they cut right for the dungeon, entirely ignoring any ants or other beasts that didn't directly attack them. They made good time and were up and into the dung...
2023-08-07 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Elana," she said at one point, drawing the dwarf's attention away from a screen she had been looking at while Beth worked her latest piece. "How high a skill level do you think I would need to work mana steel? I want to upgrade my current equipment away from copper, and sooner would be better."
"Hmm." Elana ...
2023-08-03 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostShe withdrew the stock from the fire a final time when it was nearly white-hot and moved it above the anvil, picking up the nail header with her left hand. While the stock was still glowing, she put the end into the nail header and twisted the bar, separating the small section that was left between the nail and the bar. She then put the stock do...
2023-08-02 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Alright, aprons first," Elana said then, moving to a rack to the side with heavy aprons hung on it. "Until you can withstand the sparks and metal bits with your stats alone, an apron is always a good idea. Plus, if you have decent clothes on, it's better to wear one to preserve them. Though, you shouldn't really be forging in nice clothes."&nbs...
2023-08-01 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBlood had apparently decided to find her own accommodations for the night, likely in Soph's room, as she was not sitting outside Beth's door when the two walked up. Beth opened the door and let the two of them in, closing it behind them before turning to Sabs.
"You need to shower?" she asked.
&nbs...
2023-07-31 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBeth was endlessly fascinated with the book, as it really felt to her similar to what a skill book would be like from a game. In a number of different RPGs, the characters could learn skills or abilities by reading certain books, and she thought that this was almost the same thing. She read the entire book cover-to-cover in a single rather long ...
2023-07-27 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Let's go," Beth said, taking the lead.
"Go where? Shouldn't we go to the lounge?" Kim asked, a little unsure.
"I don't want to spend the whole day coated in ant goo and wolf blood. You're welcome to just go right to the lounge yourself," Beth replied over her shoulder as she walked o...
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