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It occurred to me that it had been some time since I posted a Stat Block for Edge...
If you care to look at BECMI Chapter 136, I have now posted her Stat block at that point in time there (it will also be posted on Royal Road if you are reading public chapters and comments there.)This was mostly because she already had access to Valence IX spells through Ur-Priest and was already an effective Ten for hit points for stuff. In short, she already had all the stuff, the numbers are just going up.Be that as it may, she's still made progress, and the combined power of three Castin...
Both of today's chapters are up!
Almost forgot it was Friday and you got two...
So, a Reader on Royal Road posted a scathing review and several Ratings on BECMI...
because he didn't like the fact that I didn't have Edge Fall from Grace for wiping out the Khirifi.Then he started mock-quoting me to justify his actions because of it, which is the height of hypocrisy, basically accusing me of being a supporter of genocide (i.e. a Nazi) and a power tripper getting off on mass slaughter.He's very upset that I didn't play Edge like a comic book superhero, save all the children, take them home and raise them right, etc.--------I knew the whole idea...
I'm still an idiot, and the chapters are very late today...
But they are up.Fluffy should be back tomorrow and remember at a reasonable time...!
Hlaeth Chapter 60 – The Judgment of Fire
« Chapter 59| Index| Chapter 61»The one proper thing the two undead archmages had done was absolutely deny true Diabolic presence here. I could sense the energies of Hell, but not of devils. They had absolutely spurned the denizens of the powers that had corrupted them so, stealing the energies of Hell and employing them without being beholden to its masters. Whether the ifrit or shaitan genies would respect their transformations was another matter, but the fact I felt none in the area was rat...
Hlaeth Chapter 59 – Masters of Earth and Fire
« Chapter 58| Index| Chapter 60»With a groan like iron fingernails across slate, the main doors of the Scholia ahead of me opened up at an unseen command.“Enter,” two voices, one grinding like stone, the other burning like a bonfire, spoke together.I looked around, at the prostrate Elementals, and swept out Mortus Dius.The Wall of Fire was fully Sanctified with the Holy Metas and Vivus, although not Banefire. It filled the circle for forty feet around me, forcing the tieflings to scramble ...
Hlaeth Chapter 58 – Off to Orgenton
« Chapter 57| Index| Chapter 59»The world had changed a great deal, but Tribulation’s imagery was as much based on planetary coordinates as greatly altered landmarks that had changed much during the past millennium. I could match up areas without too much effort, so picking the Scholarium out of the million square miles of Yellow territory occupied by so many Apertures wasn’t too difficult once I knew where to look.Unsurprisingly, the area was still generally mountainous, although the peak...
Hlaeth Chapter 57 – Harvesting the Wisdom of Angels
« Chapter 56| Index| Chapter 58»I pulled out a scattering of trinkets, jewelry, and bodywear that had survived the death of the undead and not been Tainted by necromancy or wound about with Curses that I’d have to unravel at my leisure. The necklace worn by the lich expressly had three sets of six gemstones in it, six each Star Rubies, Star Sapphires, and marvelously cut Sun Diamonds.I parsed the magic on them carefully, and they did indeed have Enhancement magic, with a unique, simple, and ...
Hlaeth Chapter 56 – Not Letting an Angel go Free
« Chapter 55| Index| Chapter 57»Plenty of command in that voice, enough to command armies, overcome a millennium of pain and to convey willpower beyond the truly mortal.Not enough to Command me. “I will say when it is enough. Prepare yourself!”It was startled enough to look up as I blew Valences, Shards broke and four Orbs formed, and the fires of Heaven burned around them like stars in the palm of my hand. Shocked at my effrontery, the Angel nevertheless spread its remaining arm wide, and...
Donations are well over the limit, although not all have processed.
I'll have the Hlaeth chapters up shortly, and do the daily Patreon chapters afterward. Seven chapters today for you folks!
BECMI Chapter 144 – Cold Relief
« Chapter 143 | Index| Chapter 145 »It was a cold and pale late winter day, just another day in the cold northern winter.Men and Beast-folk screamed war cries and death rattles. Bows twanged. Steel skirled and clanged and clashed. Blood of crimson and yellow-green washed the white snows with dark stains. Blows crashed upon stone and wood.There was no chance of overheating from combat, so it was a fine day to fight, the starving Beast-folk coming streaming down from the mountain to attack the t...
BECMI Chapter 143 – Cavernous Elimination
« Chapter 142 | Index| Chapter 144 »It was a base 25 boosted Greater Shards, each dealing about 33 damage, added together in Ray form and the Kickers and Boosts stacked on top of the whole for another 100 per Ray or so.Yep, it was about a base 5500 damage, and the Pierce All Defenses delivered it all to target. Then it was doubled via Disruption, and then it was increased by 50% because of the thing’s Vulnerability. Sacred Kryptonite, here we come!Pairs of blindingly bright Primal/Divine Rad...
BECMI Chapter 142 – Annealed by the Annelid
« Chapter 141 | Index| Chapter 143 »“It’s some Immortal creature of Entropy, which probably isn’t supposed to be here, at all.” I let my eyes drop down, comparing the results of multiple Communes to what I was seeing here. “It comes from deep beneath the ground. It might even have been the thing that has eaten the stone away to form so many of these caverns.” I reached out to touch the dark granite around us. “The trackers know there is something not right about the stones of man...
BECMI Chapter 141 – Something for Later
« Chapter 140 | Index| Chapter 142 »The device was probably also the primary source of betathaumic radiation in this cavern, if I was reading things right. I didn’t know if someone had arranged for that, altering the bomb to provide it, or it was a simple reaction to higher radiation bands with magic.In either event, it was not natural, was markedly hostile to natural life forms, and it didn’t have any place in the natural world.A Disintegrate spell could completely unmake up to a ten-foot...
BECMI Chapter 140 – Yellow goes White
« Chapter 139 | Index| Chapter 141 »I looked at the mass of the thing, swollen on the fertilizer and bones of hundreds of generations of morlocks, fat and unhappy that it couldn’t seem to spread itself outside of this circle. I hadn’t seen any other cases of the stuff in the jungle, nor was I Detecting them now. I was guessing that the trees, in addition to being immune to psionics, could also sense it, and if a zombie tried to amble away carrying Yellow Musk, it got dumped on and fed the ...
BECMI Chapter 139 – What is Locked Within
« Chapter 138 | Index| Chapter 140 »We had come out inside the defensive walls of a fortified compound, higher up, and one of the big warbots was actually directly below us. Armored plates gleamed duly, the mechanical head replete with visual, heat, and radar-guided motion-detecting sensor arrays, none of which were going to register us with Vampire’s Veil, unless these were living Constructs with a soul… which they were not.Lifeless, programmed things, although I would not risk the comple...
BECMI Chapter 138 – Killer Legacies
« Chapter 137 | Index| Chapter 139 »“A boring machine, like the new steam-operated ones some are using in their mines, only far greater and more powerful, like an iron golem compared to a marionnette.” I glanced at the stream flowing quickly down and out of the mouth of the thing, and the lichens, fungi, and other cave life that crowded right up to the edge of it, but did not go in. “Duum, what do you smell?”My Familiar was naturally quite at home here, and liked to fly around invisibl...
BECMI Chapter 137 – Vikings get Viked
« Chapter 136 | Index| Chapter 138 »“That’s far enough, Skrotti,” Pious Godfrey, Paladin and Champion of the Realm of Darkmoor, stated firmly, his brown eyes sharp and unyielding. The Jarl weighed the measure of the man in front of him, and decided very quickly that it was not a fight he was going to win.“I’m here, Antius. What do you want?” the Jarl asked bluntly.“I’m here to dictate terms to you. We are not going to dicker on the terms. You’re going to agree to them, or I...
BECMI Chapter 136 – Breaking the Northern Fist
« Chapter 135 | Index| Chapter 137 »The clans of the Northmen were proud, boastful, and arrogant, but also shrewd, cunning, and opportunistic. The lands they lived in were not very suitable for farming, you couldn’t raise a large population on just hunting and fishing, so a-raiding they went for all those little pleasures of life that they couldn’t make or acquire on their own in honest trade… at least, not without stripping their lands of anything tradable and having nothing left for la...
BECMI Chapter 135 – There is no Glory in This
« Chapter 134 | Index| Chapter 136 »1,644 beast-folk killed at target Cavern C3 and tributary tunnels. 1445 returned to the land, 199 returning to their Immortal to be recycled and reborn seeking vengeance.King Antius sighed as he looked through the rest of the report. It had reports of mineral deposits in the local area that might be of interest, what spoils they’d managed to gain from the slain (mostly plunder from the surface over decades), enumerated all of the various monsters they’d ...
BECMI Chapter 134 – The Cost of a Curse
« Chapter 133 | Index| Chapter 135 »The many Wishes she had used that had turned Princess Brittabelle from a relatively normal combatant into a physical paragon of the elvish people had certainly helped her confidence in pursuing the Warrior’s Road, giving her a strength and power in combat, as well as the endurance to keep going, that she’d never possessed before. The relentless training in bow and bladework had made her lethally dangerous, and now these beastfolk, beastials, were seeing ...
BECMI Chapter 133 – A Map to Massacre By
« Chapter 132 | Index| Chapter 134 »“The demands made upon those who will fight this battle will be horrific. The rewards for doing so will largely be incidental, treasures given the hordes by their Immortal Patrons or wrested from the hands of monsters here and there by them. Certainly, the money will scarcely be worth the time of heroes as elite as yourselves, so banish the thought of doing this if you think to get rich.“Food and supplies will not be a problem. The first the Inn here its...
BECMI Chapter 132 – Where We are Going and What We are Doing
« Chapter 131 | Index| Chapter 133 »Conversations faded as I moved for the dais in front of everyone. Nobody else was daring to wear red and black like I was, so I stood out easily enough, and if I was pale enough to give milk fits of envy, it was what it was.Also, Cirruluxul leisurely moved over and positioned herself behind me. Dragons are wonderful for making people pay attention.So, there was already absolute attention on me when I stopped and turned to the very intent and expectant gazes ...
BECMI Chapter 131 – A Letter of Blood and Souls
« Chapter 130 | Index| Chapter 132 »The grim letter with its calligraphy of jet and blood, the pages some form of paper so white they would make fresh fallen snow envious, began easily enough.---My Lord Regent of the Halls under the Mountains of the North,I congratulate you and your people on your deliverance and your freedom. Their ransoming of you to the Beast-folk has done a great deal to restore shaken belief in dwarven treaties in the North, and the period of peace that has come with the ...
BECMI Chapter 130 – A Call to Battle
« Chapter 129 | Index| Chapter 131 »1393 dead beast-men, 62 urs.The dwarves, to their credit, were productive and wanted their Regent of the Halls free. The 82,050 coins to free him and his guards were gathered, assembled, and deposited on the dais upon which the Regent and his guards waited, still manacled, petrified, yet completely aware of time passing and the efforts being taken to free them… and the numbers of dead going up and down.It was very noteworthy that they went up much more oft...
BECMI Chapter 129 – Destiny of the Barhund
“You seem to have some plan in mind for my ship and people,” Captain Emeril stated as we stepped....« Chapter 128 | Index| Chapter 130 »“You seem to have some plan in mind for my ship and people,” Captain Emeril stated as we stepped along the corridors, taking an escalator down towards the lower levels, where dozens of the green-tinted humanish crew were hurrying around. Uniforms were in evidence, but supplemented in very non-regulation manners, with shirts, skirts, belts, packs, and o...
BECMI Chapter 128 – Waking from a Bad Dream
« Chapter 127 | Index| Chapter 129 »Princess Brittabelle’s /reply was soft. -That is horrible to contemplate. The Doom of Darkmoor, the Crimson Cataclysm… their cost in lives was horrendous!- Especially since it included elves, in addition to humans and dwarves!-And not a single Immortal perished as a result of them, although many might have turned to other worlds and realms when their servants here died. This, in turn, allows them to blame mortals for their own destruction, instead of lay...
BECMI Chapter 127 – Discussions of Consequences
« Chapter 126 | Index| Chapter 128 »It was a pretty quiet night, all things considered. Only a couple dragons tried making a run at the ship, no doubt irked by Cirru standing atop it like a conquering queen, but a few lasers or charged bolts to the face and they hastily thought better of testing the security perimeter.I brought one of the white dragon carcasses back out and butchered it as a way to pass the time, Duum and Cirru very interested to see what I made of the meat. It was very sensit...
BECMI Chapter 126 – Hearts at Ease
« Chapter 125 | Index| Chapter 127 »I watched the cyborgs turn as one and march right on past me out of the bridge, heading to a nearby charging station where they would wait for proper orders to serve. I reflected I could probably give those orders to them, but it would have to wait for now.It was time for Captain Emeril to get his treatment.Greater Restoration and Heart’s Ease were a massively powerful combined treatment for what was ailing him. The former would eliminate all psychoses, me...
BECMI Chapter 125 – Inside the Barhund
« Chapter 124 | Index| Chapter 126 »“What was that… thing you just said, Lady Edge?” the man on the other end of the com system asked with a quaver in his voice. “The things it made me see, understand…” he got out with great effort.“Simply a Word of Creation, touching on one of the absolute fundamental Virtues of Existence, Corporal Derrimond. Those who know that particular one are often called Truthspeakers.”“It’s making me believe everything you say is true…” he whisp...
