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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...
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 ...
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...
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,...
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...
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 s...
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 Valenc...
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 ...
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 ...
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 t...
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 ...
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 ...
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,...
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 lich...
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...
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...
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 de...
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 ...
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 mon...
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 ...
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...
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, stil...
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...
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 peris...
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 t...
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 wa...
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 a...
