"That's a heavy breakfast, hon," Sabs said with another chuckle.
"It's more like, uh, lunch for us right now," Beth replied with a shrug. "I'm gonna hangout in the room all day and chill. Whatever you're up to today, I'll be around."
"I need to train more. Do you know what the status of the kobolds is? We haven't been down in a few days."
"They're still slowly increasing in level. Most of them on the ...
2023-11-07 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post"We came here with a major from base-" the sergeant began before the soldier interrupted.
"Ma'am!-" he exclaimed, clearly ready to continue before the sergeant interrupted his interruption.
"Jones, why don't you go secure the perimeter of the parking lot?" she said acerbically, again making it clear in her tone it wasn't a question.
"The parking lot, ma'am? There's nothing there…" he answered before...
2023-11-06 18:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ravager fell as Beth ruminated, carefully controlling the battle, even when it emitted its frost blast attacks. Blood wound up gaining a level of Ice Resistance after the fight, but they gained nothing else of note. It seemed the dungeon was consistent in that as well, for they were getting nothing as they progressed other than experience and the coins that a kill rewarded. Since everything was now firmly in the forties in level, they were getting double digit copper...
2023-11-02 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey headed down to the kobold mines the next day, taking the lefthand branch again to look for beasts to kill. They found that most of the kobolds had respawned and spent the rest of the day raising the lower-leveled girls overall levels. They managed to get them up to level twenty-two before they stopped for the day and headed back to the CRA Hall.
The next three days repeated the pattern, as the girls handled the dungeons by the development and Beth spe...
2023-11-01 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe two woke the next morning without any need for an alarm, going through their daily tasks before gearing up and heading out. They made their way to the lounge, meeting up with Beth's sisters as they got ready to head back and check the ant and wolf dungeons. Beth stopped by the center table and let John and Navere know that they would be back later for training, the two acknowledging the comment with nods.
The group moved out through the lobby, finding ...
2023-10-31 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Wouldn't I do better in the Ruby Hall?" Soph asked as soon as Jaq seemed finished with his explanation.
"There is nothing that restricts you, at lower ranks, from joining another Hall," Jaq replied a bit acerbically. "There are restrictions to changing your 'Home Hall,' as it were, at higher ranks, but that will not apply to you for a long time.
"Despite what others from the various Halls will tell you when you speak with them, an...
2023-10-30 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostBeth led the way inside, showing the rest of the group the suite, with Blood showing them where the potion she had sniffed out had been located. Beth then showed how she had found a few copper coins on a shelf to the group, with there being a fresh copper sitting in the same place. Beth found it quite interesting, thinking about how long it had been since she'd cleaned this place out and that it had apparently generated a single copper in close to two weeks. She flicked the coin to Kim as she...
2023-10-26 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"You gonna stay in here the rest of the day?" Beth asked.
"Yeah, we wasted a little too much of the day helping the neighborhood for me to go bother John for training. I'll just hangout for now," Sabs replied. "And just to double-check, but the hammer and broken gauntlets do mean you're going to the forging room?"
"Yeah, sorry, I'm heading down to put some work on these. Depending on if Elana and James are there, I might wind up he...
2023-10-25 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Perfect," Beth huffed, pushing the door open and hopping out of the truck. Jaq had parked with the passenger side facing the community center, and Beth found herself in front of a growing group of the neighborhood's 'adults.'
"The hell is this, soldier?" Zack immediately barked, staring at the truck with some mixture of annoyance, anger, and awe.
"It's a truck," Beth replied adroitly.
"Beth!" said he...
2023-10-24 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"We will work on this first, as it's easier," the smith started, gesturing to the dents in the solid armor vambrace section. "We will bring these dents back out to flush and check the integrity of the metal. I'll show you the first part."
"How can we hammer the dents out without getting our hammers in the inside of the gauntlet?" Beth asked, frowning as she looked at the damage.
"We can't, so we won't," Elana replied with a shake o...
2023-10-23 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe two stayed like that for somewhat more than a minute, Beth reluctant to get up from the pleasant embrace. Eventually, she hoisted Sabs up and set her on her feet before hopping up herself, squatting down to grab the chest and lift it. She went through the motions to return it to her shoulder, shrugging to settle it before starting for the CRA Hall.
"Can you run with that?" Sabs asked, raising a skeptical eyebrow.
"Not very well...
2023-10-19 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThey moved further down, eventually coming to the hexagonal room. It was fully dark, and Beth took the opportunity to show Sabs the mana lamps on the pillars, walking her through the process of pushing a tiny thread of mana in to light them. The small girl had to reach just above her head to touch the lamps, but she still managed with only slightly more effort. They took a minute to move around the space lighting all the lamps before reconvening near the entrance tunnel.
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2023-10-18 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"It provides thorough coverage of your head and neck without hampering your visibility or movement in any way. Besides the primary enchantment, it has both fitting enchantments, as you just experienced, as well as a durability enchantment," he explained as Beth twisted her neck and looked up and down.
"How strong?" she asked as she continued to move her head around.
"Nothing under level one hundred will do more than lightly scratch...
2023-10-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBeth woke a little fitfully quite a few hours later, releasing Sabs' waist to reach up and rub at her eyes and face. She might still be getting used to all the changes from the day before, and she sighed as she thought of everything that had happened.
"Beth?" Sabs mumbled sleepily.
Beth didn’t answer, instead pulling her left arm back a little so Sabs' head was cupped in her hand before rolling onto all fours on top of the smalle...
2023-10-16 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"Ya oughta test each new power ya get thoroughly, but we can go over that later," Baelvyr threw in.
"Right," Beth replied before re-focusing. "What else? Uh, I can see into the infrared. It's not quite like an infrared camera or app, it looks a little different, but I can 'see' heat now. Beyond that, I can see the information of items, which I'm actually fucking psyched about, and I can also see the tiers of the skills I have, as Jaq mentioned."
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2023-10-12 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post"Got the data," said Baelvyr a moment later as he emerged from the charnel path he had carved deep into the woods.
"I'm amazed you could get anything out of that smear of meat paste," Jaq replied with a slight frown, taking a small token from Baelvyr's massive hand and inserting it into a slot in the arm of his gear.
"Unlike the two of ya, I can do more than one thing at once. It's called multitaskin', and I both slammed my shoulde...
2023-10-11 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostShe immediately ducked a slash with a quick bob, charging Monstrous Blow from the start of the motion. She stepped forward into his next slash, bringing her blade around from the right with a fast twist as she took his slash on her shoulder from his righthand blade. Just as her blade was about to bite into the armor of his left side, his lefthand blade moved with a preternatural speed and precision, slamming down into the center of her sword and blocking her attack compl...
2023-10-10 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlood chuffed in response and moved forward to study the two items sitting before them. The objects seemed almost tailor made for the two, or at least, it seemed there was a pretty clear bias in the rewards. On the left pillar was a harness with some cloth stretched between some of the sections. Alongside this arrangement was a pile of metal pieces, which Beth quickly realized were metal plates that could be attached to the harness as armor. While she didn't have an item identifying skill, th...
2023-10-09 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe deflection had pushed her back slightly, but she was relieved that she was able to counter the raw physical strength of the boss without being overwhelmed. They engaged in a flurry of exchanged blows, once again showing the truth in Baelvyr's admonishment that strength can become speed. The boss really didn't have much DEX comparative to its overall level, but its massive STR let it swing incredibly fast, even considering the great size and weight of its weapon.
2023-10-05 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Her prediction proved accurate, as they hit forty-one after the fourth room, Beth estimating that they were maybe a third of the way through the dungeon. The room had taken some time, as the singular overseer had been level forty-three, and all the tougher for it. Beth was dumping a decent chunk of Blood's free points in STR, doing the same for her two free points for a few levels. She wanted to really boost their damage, keeping in mind that her two offensive skills and Blood's singular offe...
2023-10-04 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey strode back down to the room, finding the large kobold still waiting for them. It was clear right from the outset that this beast was both faster and much stronger than anything they had faced so far. Beth engaged it immediately after the frost blast, noting that instead of a wooden rod or pole, this beast clutched a massive hunk of lumber in both its frigid, grimy hands. Beth stepped in with her right leg and swung her blade hard, deflecting a fast and powerful smash from the beast's cl...
2023-10-03 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Alright," Beth said as she stretched after checking their statuses, "I think we're good now. Sorry about the long sleep, girl, I think using the gate so much put me under strain. I still feel a little…stretched thin."
Blood rumbled a little in response, headbutting Beth lightly before the armored girl grabbed the wolf by the neck and gave her some deep scratches, enjoying a little quiet moment together. A little calm before the storm, as they were about to di...
2023-10-02 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThey ran for quite a while before encountering anything, already getting close to their destination by that point. They bumped into a huge deer, a buck with a massive rack that put its head down and charged them as soon as it saw them approach. Blood leapt towards it and twisted to the side at the last moment, far too fast for the level fifteen to keep up with, even if it hadn't had all its strength focused on linear acceleration. The huge wolf easily got around the antlers and inside the bea...
2023-09-28 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe two were quiet then for a minute, working on finishing everything they had prepped for breakfast. Blood had been paying attention to the conversation herself, if her right ear twitching towards the two when they were speaking was any indication. The three were done in another couple minutes, even Sabs eating at a rapid pace and packing the food away despite her small size. The two possessed of opposable thumbs cleaned everything up before taking turns in the bathroom, Beth unbothered if S...
2023-09-27 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBeth woke up rather early the next morning, feeling the lovely warmth of her girlfriend pressed close. The good did come with a little bad, at least, it would be bad in Sabs book, though Beth didn't care. She was feeling the stream of drool that had flowed across the top of her left breast and onto her left arm, caring far more that Sabs found it comfortable nuzzling the top of Beth's chest than that she was a little slobbery.
Beth's left arm was a little ...
2023-09-26 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post"What's up?" Beth asked as she set the underwear and elixir on the end of the vanity.
"Sorry, just a little, like, nervous, I guess," Sabs said as she finished washing her hands and wiping before exclaiming, "Beth!"
She had turned to find Beth shirtless and bent over, in the process of pulling off her pants. Beth finished with that before straightening and dropping her pants on top of her shirt on the floor. She turned to Sab...
2023-09-25 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Apart from you trying to be clever, I'll take that advice," she replied with another sigh.
"So, uh, what exactly is happening?" James asked.
"I'm being pulled from my vastly more important work to babysit the children. Again," Jaq bit off.
"I'm doing what you did earlier; selling things I find to this miserable bastard. But first, he has to identify the stuff, and some of it I keep," Be...
2023-09-21 17:01:51 +0000 UTC View Post"A silver?" he asked, voice squeaking just a bit on the end of the word silver. "Isn't that a lot?"
"Nah, I mean, you can clear a simple dungeon like the ones near our family's house once a day and get a silver, and my room is a lot nicer than the cheaper ones, which are still pretty good."
"Hm, still seems pricey," he replied, scratching the side of his head. "Where are we going now?"
"Gonna take the...
2023-09-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostShe poked through the first two offices, finding very little other than a few coins, before looking around the third and largest office. She found a small pamphlet on the first of the two shelves on the left side of the office, but found it was all gobbledygook. She poked around the seating area and found nothing before moving on to the desk and checking the drawers. It was on the fourth drawer she was reminded why she always brought a rogue class in video games, as opening the drawer sprayed...
2023-09-19 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHigher level enemies seemed more aware and alert in several ways, as most if not all beasts below level twenty would basically ignore every indicator of enemies or battle unless it was close enough to be within their limited sphere of perception. Enemies over level twenty had started to be more aware of sounds and visual cues, as demonstrated by the fumbling rush of the entire room towards the two girls. Beth clicked her sword out of its clasps, the motion becoming smoother and more natural a...
2023-09-18 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post