Recent content by Zemalac

The doctor hesitated at Deslock's weak reply. He began to move away, wavered, and turned back. No one else could hear what he said to the Explorer, but from his posture it appeared to be a lecture. Nexaddo looked for all the world like a professor in his lecture hall, explaining the universe to...

A couple images from the D&D game I started running a few months ago.

Deslock wasn't really paying attention when Cid approached him, and was taken off-guard when the elf spoke. "Who did you people piss off?" "You want that alphabetically or chronologically?" Deslock replied without thinking. He blinked, and shook his head. "Sorry. That was...I mean, I've...

"Aaaahhghhhghghghgh...pfft!" Deslock's awakening was violent, a return to consciousness while spitting salt water and ash. It was, he later decided, the third worst awakening of his life, surpassed only by that one night in Arypso that he never talked about and that one time when he had been...

___________________________________ These are our shores. These are our lands. ___________________________________ The sun went down without ceremony. The newly-arrived men on the beach barely noticed its setting, so busy were they. The light of day was replaced by the light of the...

"Steal a car?" Christian asked, a note of incredulity breaking through his genial facade. "Man, I don't know what they teach you in your Company spook-training, but a car isn't exactly something you can just walk off with. They're big. People notice 'em. People generally have a large chunk of...

"Sure," said Christian, "go ahead." He watched the robot/agent out of the corner of his eye as he looked around for his car. It had to be around here somewhere--he remembered parking by a withering tree stuck in the sidewalk, shouldn't be that hard to find.

Christian watched the agent fly off until he--it?--vanished into the darkness. He didn't move a muscle, not even so much as a twitch. And then, after the black-suited form had disappeared from sight, he stirred. "Asshole," he grunted. "I wasn't fucking talking to you." He really couldn't...

"Analysis of the combat?" said Christian. "You did fairly well there, actually. The paper was a neat trick--you probably would have taken anyone else in only a few seconds with that one. But then you assumed both that I had powers, and that you knew how they worked. That mistake was forgivable...

Nexaddo whistled at the height the group had reached, staring down at the ocean far below. Soon disregarding the view, the Doctor turned to scan the tree line, at the same time addressing the group. "So," he said, "where to now?" That was, really, the central question of the Expedition at...

"Inviolate?" Christian cracked a smile, freezing with that expression for a moment as the agents swung in to hit him again. They were fast, to be sure, but not quite fast enough. He could keep up with their movements, he thought, freezing himself in place an instant before they connected. Or he...

Hey, good to hear from you again. I'll definitely take your advice about the highlights and shadows--looking at this again, it sort of looks like the character is standing in front of a backdrop instead of actually being in the scene, if that makes sense. Some better highlighting and shadows...

The view from the clifftop could only be described as epic. From up here, the Cepolada looked like a toy, the sailors ant-like. Here, Prithis was king of the world. And then the Doctor ascended the final step and broke the moment. "Magnificent!" he said.

Christian couldn't help but be a little surprised that they actually had a warrant. He had some doubts as to how legitimate it would be, but at least having a paper to hand him bespoke a level of preparedness that he hadn't anticipated. And then came the flash of light. Goddamn. So they...

There was a short period of silence before Christian responded. "...Really," he said. He held out a hand, conveniently shifting his weight to bring his pistol within easy reach and to hide the outline of the hard drive under his coat a little. "I will of course comply with any request made by...