Recent content by Jakub

Gotcha. I'll look it up when it's posted.

The beast's overwhelming musculature screamed, eager to release its overwhelming power. In one fel swoop, it carved out a literal trench across the floor, scooping out cubic meters worth of rock and soil, a move that inadvertently produced a thick dust cloud, lowering the room's overall...

Is this one still open?

It lunged with such quickness as to render its form a barely recognizable blur. With one muscular arm raised, the creature brought down its wrath, descending from the high heavens. The balled-up fist struck true and dangerously close to a handful of coins tossed by Heike, splintering the stone...

"Something along the lines of that," he uttered, words barely audible, muffled and strangled by the sleeve of Jakub's coat. The male reached out, grasping Heike's sword by its hilt. He half tugged, half squeezed it, feeling the magical currency electrifying his hand. Sparks of green flew around...

He gripped her shoulder tightly, holding onto Heike with an arm outstretched, finger-pointing at the creature. There, on its forearms, ran something akin to capillaries but too close to the surface to be called such. They pulsed and glowed in a faint, reddish hue, rippling across the surface of...

"We must tread lightly." Jakub took a step back, and so did his familiar follow, sticking close to both Heike and him. The raven-haired detective observed with his keen eyes, trying to peer past the veil of darkness to no avail. Then, all of a sudden, something shifted in the dark, and he made...

"The likelihood of that is high, but be wary. I have a feeling that we are dealing with more than vampires, or at least not the ordinary ones." Jakub moved with the assassin's grace and admirable degree of stealth. He had, in his time on Earth, seen but a handful of such elaborate underground...

"Hm? Their job?" Jakub's head dipped, eyebrow raised as far as it could be without departing from his forehead. "They are bounty hunters, a job tedious and dangerous, that no less requires an individual to place their life on the line for the sake of profit. If they cannot bear the consequences...

"Possibly," added Jakub, eyes averting towards the parchment, "or they could be just ahead, waiting to ambush us. But I digress." With a hand on his hip, the tall male gestured at his familiar with a mere thought. As if possessed, the jellyfish darted about the tunnel, individually zapping the...

The monster neither snarled nor growled at them, merely chattering its overexposed teeth, lips pulled back in a mocking smile. "Do not refer to my familiar with despicable names," came a voice from beyond the shroud of the unknown. A tall, broad-shouldered male with stygian hair and piercingly...

He slid down the staircase, followed by his floating familiar. It was dark, damp, but ultimately shorter than Jakub would've otherwise expected. A relatively uneventful trip down under. "I think this is the first level," he added, peaking back at Heike from the stairwell's bottom. He made sure...

"Goodness gracious, this is getting out of hand," with his shoulders slumping, Jakub removed his expensive coat. He sneered upon the sight of stains littering its surface. A coat that might as well cost a fortune, nigh impervious to fire, cold, acid, and tough enough to stop an arrow laid ruined...

One of the armed men drew closer to the carriage. He clutched the crossbow tightly, pointing it in the mage's general direction. The stranger appeared visibly tense, hands fidgety and palms sweating, for he too feared the presence of magic just as much as his comrades. Something about the way...

I meant more-so in general when they are expanding onto someone else's territory (if they are) and whether they would or wouldn't resort to pillaging in that case. Not only pillaging as their main source of income.