The Nexus

[Floating Library] "I'll admit pretty readily that sitting in one spot for weeks or months sounds like an excellent way to go insane... although the only reason that one of my old parties didn't make me do it is because statues don't wear clothes, and I refused to get naked for it." Eddie...

[At Home on the Range] "Y'know, that's the clearest explanation of the Nexus anybody's given me since I got here?" Eddie said, sounding torn between gratitude to Sian and irritation at all the other people that he'd tried to pry info out of. "And we have Hell's Angels back home, alth...

[Incognito Golem] "I'm not sure how I'd blow holes in the ceiling, unless I made a sonic boom in here, I guess..." Eddie said, looking a bit bemused. He shucked off his hoodie and slipped out of the snug cream trousers he wore, revealing the dull grey of the fine-woven chainmail tank-top ...

[Floating Library] "I've done the whole 'be an object thing', although it was kind of involuntary. My pater's mage tower blew up, so the world went bright and loud, and the next thing I knew it was six hundred years later and I was naked in some museum. That was a fun wakeup call, let me tell ...

[At Home on the Range] "Dag Wenick Filias Edmond Lapis , second baron Hamilton, but please call me Eddie." Eddie said. The introduction felt both formal and a bit rote, like it was something that was expected but not necessarily something that the little golem put a lot of stock into. &qu...

[The Shamrock] " An intriguing dichotomy. " the alien's mental voice commented, as X-1 continued to ignore Boada's attempts to remove it. " You acknowledge that my technology is dangerous, even appearing to admit to a certain amount of fear of it. Yet you dismiss me as if I were one ...

[At Home on the Range] The little golem approached Sian, waiting until she finished shooting, or at least paused, before interrupting. "Excuse me? Are you Sian?" he asked, clearly a bit unsure of himself. Inside the guild, he was wearing his usual baggy red hoody and snug trousers, with t...

[Floating Library] "Hopefully your failed copies are somewhat less combustible." Eddie commented with the sound of a faint smile in his voice. He stepped into the main area and played his eye-beams across the curtains, curious. Ji-Su might note that the beams occasionally pulse slightly b...

[Incognito Golem] "Any library I have access to is a good library. And you may find it expanding a bit if you don't mind- I sometimes take books as payment on jobs..." Eddie said with a quick grin. "Would you mind leading the way to the dojo? I've got some ideas I want to try out wit...

[Floating Library] Eddie returned the bow and passed through the open door. As they entered the darkened chamber, he reached inside his hood with his left hand. He fiddled with something on the side of his head, and the dim lights of his eyes abruptly brightened to the point that they were acting a...

[Floating Library] "Heh. Read enough books, and you'll at least get a sense for how other people think... which is a decent first step towards learning how to think yourself, although some people stop there, which doesn't work quite as well." Eddie said. "I've at least tried to learn...

[Incognito Golem] Eddie would probably have been salivating if he were capable of it. "I suppose it's not surprising given that I'm in a new world entirely, but I haven't read more than three-quarters of these titles, at least . I'm going to enjoy staying here, I think." He made a fist an...

[Floating Island] "Oh, the weeded books go in the pile. That's a good system, I have to admit. And it sounds as though Dragon Megeshi is in better control of her instincts than I was worried she might be- a lot of dragons seem to feel compelled to sit on their hoards even when that's kind of d...

[Floating Island] "I mean, it's possible, but I didn't feel any jolt of magic like I usually do when hitting something like that, so that narrows the possibility of any dimensional nonsense down even further. So possible I'll grant you, but it doesn't seem likely." Eddie replied. "As...

[Incognito Golem] Eddie slipped off the lightweight, rubber-soled trainers he usually wore, glancing around briefly before shrugging and stuffing them into his backpack. He flipped off his hood, fully revealing his childlike features and stone skin, and glanced around, before a thought seemed to hi...

[Floating Library] "Eh, more likely that he was some extraplanar being as well- nothing says that dragons have to match across all realities, after all. I doubt that there was some kind of imperceptible dimensional interface just floating there between here and the city, given that I got here ...

[Floating Library] "I'm... not sure what I did that's so impressive." Eddie said, sounding a bit baffled. "Most of what we did with the dragons was talking, although I smacked a few of them once or twice. And it sounds like dragons are a lot more common back home than they are here, ...

[Floating Library] "Yes, the whole respect thing gets complicated with dragons. They demand respect because they are stronger; when I point out that I'm stronger than they are (physically, at least), and therefore they should be respecting me , they get a little huffy and declare that's not it...

[Floating Library] Eddie waved off the 'fearless' comment. "Eh, less fearless and more aware of my own capabilities. I've dealt with dragons in the past, both hostile and non. Although frankly the hostile ones were more fun, for the most part. Talking to most dragons gets tedious in a hurry.&q...

[Floating Library] "You're a mimic?" Eddie asked, clearly a bit surprised. "You're certainly a bit more erudite than any members of that... genus, I guess?.. that I've encountered before." His features remained invisible under his hood, but there was a clear hint of a smirk in h...

[Under the Sea] Eddie made a bit of a face at Frigate. "I'm having a hard time shaking the feeling that optimism and zombies aren't a great combination." Then he chuckled faintly. "And no, we're not lost- land is still that way..." he pointed... "and we should arrive at our...

[Floating Library] "Wasn't actually planning on taking any books anywhere- like I said, I have today earmarked for reading, and had planned on doing it right here. Frankly, I wouldn't want to try taking a book out of here- too much risk of it getting damaged in transit." Eddie said. "...

[Under the Sea] "Wonder what they're doing this far out at sea?" Eddie muttered, giving the last boulder a bit of a kick. "We should make our way back to shore quick-like; if there're zombies this far out, then either we've got a swarm building, or somebody trying something nefarious...

[Floating Library] "I don't mind waiting." Eddie said. "I pretty much earmarked today for reading, so if I have to wait for one thing, I can read something else in the interim. And scholarly and dry is fine; if I can wade through poorly-translated German psychobabble that everything ...

[Incognito Golem] "Fun? Eh, maybe. He was pretty intense. But it was never boring around him, I'll give him that." Eddie said. "And it was less about the fame and more about the lack of lynching." He gave the mansion a once-over. The little golem would be the first to admit that...

[Floating Library] The proclamation that this secret library had no books on 'the Nexus' earned the enchanted book a blank stare from Eddie. "When I first arrived here," he said slowly, "I was told that this... spatio-temporal region, this world, this dimension, whatever you want to ...

[Under the Sea] "I don't know." Eddie frowned, grabbing another large boulder. "It'd have to be pretty nasty, infection-wise, to really get a grip- way more than any natural disease. Like, multiple orders of magnitude more." The boulder came slamming down, taking out another few...

[Under the Sea] Eddie hoisted another boulder and smashed the remaining fishermen under it. Then he fished the map out and glanced over it, making a note of where they were. He could 'feel' the shape of the boulders when he lifted them, and had made note that the first one seemed to be worked stone...

[Floating Library] Eddie didn't even blink when the book unfolded. Being the nigh-invulnerable and strong enough to casually juggle tanks allowed one to take a remarkably relaxed view regarding personal safety. If she(?) didn't make any aggressive moves, he wasn't going to either. The flirtatious b...

[NomeCo] Eddie gave the big goon he was holding over his head a vigorous shake. "Really? This is when you decide to start calling people names?" The little golem glanced at Rowan. "Can you do that... sleep pastry... thing again for this guy? If we can knock them all out without needi...