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Recent content by Spectral Waltz

  1. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Twenty-Four

    Leaving the mountains had not, unfortunately, meant leaving kobolds behind. While the 'Ruin Sentinel' variant that populated the Labyrinth had actual shaped armor rather than patchwork scraps, their designs still had plenty of easily-targeted vulnerabilities. In this case, Helewise' rising...
  2. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Twenty-Three

    The crystalline noise faded, the scattered shards of the Harpie Queen dissipating from where Jonah's last blow had strewn them across the ground. Slowly, Lisbeth straightened, hefting her mace as she looked warily about. "Is that it? Is it over-eep!" [CONGRATULATIONS!] The music shifted into...
  3. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Twenty-Two

    Waterfall tumbling by, the irregular racket of hammers striking at their own rhythms, a low murmur of conversation coming into earshot as Helewise climbed through the stair steps carved into the stone with complete surety, having made this trek more times than she could count. Nowadays, the...
  4. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    Should have been included in the chapter but I forgor. Kirito is being followed about by Live☆Twin Lil-la while Silica has encountered Eria the Water Charmer
  5. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Twenty-One

    From red into green, the ‘Outside Field’ flipped to ‘Safe Zone’ as Kirito crossed the gates into Tolbana. The orange light of the setting sun poured over once-quiet streets and he could feel eyes that hadn’t been there a day ago. Some briefly, some tracking him across the square. “Getting in a...
  6. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    Exactly! There's a reason this fic idea was bouncing around my brain for years before Nihilo approached me.
  7. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    It is -strictly speaking- an exploit. It's not something the original game mechanics ever allowed. Of course, many of the original game mechanics have been traded for Physics(?) and Metaphysical bullshit by way of accidentally making Aincrad a valid dimension within the worlds of the cards...
  8. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Twenty

    Messaging with: ‘Argo’ Helewise: > They didn’t sparkle or anything, but register in the inventory as ‘Makeshift Bandage’ now. Healing over time when applied, though it’s slow. Lower performance than regular bandages on all levels, but does the job in a pinch. Argo: > I’m guessing ‘applied’...
  9. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    Cardinal was handed a Player's Handbook and is now discovering the wonders of free will and homebrew while still desperately trying not to disappoint her creator.
  10. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Nineteen

    Digital muscles had some benefits. Fatigue was conferred as a status effect rather than simulated with each swing of their weapons. Pain still came when called but in a muted manner that faded quickly, untreated injuries more often a nuisance than a crippling debilitation, while the agonies of...
  11. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    If it's any help, we're coming up on the conclusion of the first floor (in five chapters or so).
  12. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Eighteen

    They found her just past the first bend, a body face down on the stone and deathly still, white kimono stained dark by the crimson seeping from a bloody hole in her lower back. After hundreds of wounds denoted by simple red wireframes, the sudden gore was all the starker. "I really hope that's...
  13. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Seventeen

    "...You sure we gotta go in there?" Jonah's nervousness as he peered from the tunnel mouth -carefully staying beneath the overhang that shadowed it- was understandable. They'd begun by making their way towards the closest point Helewise' stunt had revealed, quickly determining that it seemed to...
  14. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]

    Little does she realize she's just created so much more work for herself, but at least now it's quantifiable.
  15. Spectral Waltz

    Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive [YGO/SAO FI ft Nihilo]
    Threadmarks: Chapter Sixteen

    From there, they should have been able to let the tension ease, leave Reg and the Mystic Elf on watch while they fell out and searched the shrine and its outbuildings. Search for clues and discover the next steps of their various quests. Instead the tension barely had time to settle before one...
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