Lifre’s grin widened as she descended into the gaping chasm, plunging her body into the source of the pink mist. She could feel her sword already starting to erode, and so dismissed it to prevent herself from losing her divine artifact. “Just you and me, huh?!” She asked with a manic laugh, not even trying to stop her descent. Her …

Aznod stood at the gate of the sixty-first floor of Fyor, a thick material covering his body similar to a hazmat suit. As he had helped find the material needed to allow them to survive on the sixty-first floor, Aznod had been invited to join an expedition after it had been determined that the initial area around the portal was …

Tsubaki spent the first half of the following day simply finding the materials that she would need to enact her plan. What she was looking for could be found in most hardware or sporting good stores, but she was confident that nobody among the survivors would be interested in these niche goods, as they would generally be counterproductive to the …

For the first few hours of the day, Tsubaki ran around, scouting the area and the nearby survivors. Unfortunately, there was no way to specifically identify the differences between a normal survivor and a Stalker, so she had to treat all of them as if they were Stalkers. She watched parties walking through the cities from distant rooftops, using a …

While Tsubaki was working on her latest trial, Dana was hard at work on her own project. Given the events of the most recent invasion, there was a serious need to increase both her own power and that of the world around her. For her own power, that was easy, and she already had her familiars working on that. The …

Once Tsubaki was able to move, she rolled herself off of the now-ruined mattress that she had landed in, and worked on disentangling herself from the net. Although she had been confident in her escape plan, this was still her first time properly executing it. Once she had untangled the net and freed herself, she held her bad arm steady …

“Cici, can you give me a status report on C-2?” I asked, sitting in the lounge area of Olympus. It had been a week now since the game had been released. Aside from Balu briefly visiting to spend some time with Bihena, there hadn’t been anything noteworthy. So, I decided to check to see how everyone was adapting to the …

Because of her arrangement with her sister, Maya worked another shift that night, taking over for the time when Michelle would have normally worked. As she had expected, there was another missing person’s poster up on the wall near their house after she had returned home earlier in the day. At this point, Maya was certain that the beast that …

Maya walked around Ashtanu after having gotten off work when her father came to the store. There was a bright smile on her face, enjoying the new, simple life of living with a genuine family. However… in the back of her mind, Maya knew that there was something else that she had to be doing. Cici might not have put …

When Darkflame Technologies announced the release of a new Keeper-sponsored game, the reception was… admittedly rather mixed. There had never been a game sponsored by the Keeper that wasn’t a massive, online game meant to be played by the entire universe together. Some even braved the void to try to get a sneak peak at the new world, only to …