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My teacher was not pleased. “Well,” he demanded harshly. “What exactly do you have to say for yourself? Do you know how much it cost to make that sphere? And you just melted it to slag. Not to mention the midterms weren’t OVER, so now they’re being delayed.”
I winced. “Does that mean I didn’t...
The test was very intimidating. The buildup, the scan, the general demeanor of the proctors, all of it was essentially designed to put us in a certain mindset, to keep us off balance. It all worked, too, and I for one had been pretty keyed up going into the assessment.
Unfortunately for them, I...
I woke up the next morning excited to greet the day. A quick scroll production session and then I was in my armor and ready to take on anything that came my way. I strode down the street, stopping at Sorwen’s door with a quick knock. My friend emerged a few seconds later, looking nervous but...
You can't enforce AI tags because you can't reliably determine what IS AI. AI detectors are bullshit, so it IS a witch hunt, because any accusation boils down to 'I think this real hard'. Wanting to penalize people for things you can't prove is the LITERAL definition of a witch hunt lol.
Tomorrow was the midterm exams. It had been quite a journey getting here, admittedly. I hadn’t even had time to take a class from the Dean yet, so invested in my progress with my timepieces and creating Kronos. Now that I had crafted my first Archdemon, however, I was pretty sure I could middle...
The next month (thirty two days actually, but the estimates for the midterm had been just that, estimates) went by both slowly and quickly. Slowly because I spent it constantly grinding mechanisms for the two timepieces, and quickly because I could feel the midterms approaching and felt like I...
I was back. It felt good to be me again. Ever since I had created my Domain, I had felt sort of adrift where it concerned my powers. The demons did all the work, and I just kind of…went along. My favorite part of being an Ascendant had always been innovation. Accepting that my Domain had reached...
After finishing the timepiece for Owen, I spent the day with my wife, enjoying my time as Dantalion studied the design to try to figure out where we went wrong. Eventually though, I started getting antsy, and I decided that in order to best grasp the nuances of what had been done, a test was in...
Another two weeks passed without much incident. Train, class, train, sleep (with some time for stockpiling scrolls in between). With the demons out doing jobs, I managed to pull in some credits, but it wasn’t nearly enough. I was focused mostly on the midterms for income, and I only had a month...
Today was my first day of class. Again. Introduction to Divination Principles with Professor Allegra Saunders was the secondary recommendation from Elonwy. I was still kind of on the fence about the first one, but I trusted my friend not to steer me wrong, so I packed up and headed for my first...
Sparring with my wife was always a lot of fun. We’d been together for years now, and we knew each other in a way I didn’t think would be possible without our bond. My combat instincts, my thought processes, my moods, she knew everything about me and vice versa. Which meant that despite being a...
I was being very careful. Slow. Steady. My hands were rock solid, my concentration honed to a razor’s edge, everything was riding on this moment…and then my finger slipped and the gear I was tightening popped off and hit me in the face. “Godsdamnit!” I snarled, all but flipping the table I was...
Principles of Time with Professor A.D Hawkins was, to put not too fine a point on it, located in a shithole. It was strange, because I hadn’t known Moment City HAD shitholes, everything looked so nice and well maintained, but Hawkins managed it. His lawn was overgrown, his house had boards...
The next day (after stockpiling my scrolls), I headed to talk to Elonwy about classes. I had been doing tasks (well, the demons had) during my training, but the efficiency had been low. I was up to about seven thousand credits total, which I figured would be enough for most classes I would need...
It took another three weeks (and two days) to complete the template. Considering the very different nature of the power source and the work I’d put in to get it done, I wasn’t too unhappy with that timeline, even if it was beyond the rather optimistic projections I’d made when we came up with...