Actus > Quotes

“Do you bet? Only against fools!”
― Actus, Cleaver's Edge

“I wish I hadn’t been such an idiot when I was thirteen.” “You’re still an idiot,” Hilla said. “You’re just older and better able to conceal it.”
― Actus, Blackmist

“When you start agreeing with the extraplanar eldritch horror you summoned when you were a power-hungry thirteen-year-old, it might be a sign something’s wrong.”
― Actus, Blackmist

“Goddamn. That’s brutal. You stole his corpse?” “Repurposed,” Alex corrected. “And not his corpse. His soul.” “That’s definitely worse,” Orchid said. “Is it?” Alex tilted his head to the side. “Oh well.”
― Actus, Nightmare Realm Summoner 2

“What’s your goal here, Vermil? Your real goal.” “I already told it to you. I want to help my students. I just suppose that expanded to cover you and Lee as well.” “Why? What do you get out of it?” “Because I want to. That’s all the justification I ever need to do anything.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 2

“She definitely wants you, but probably to teach her and use as a status piece rather than because she actually cares. I’ve seen it unfold countless times when I was watching the Mortal Plane, but all the drama gets boring. I much prefer magic.”
― Actus, Greenblood

“But, like all things, the peace ended.”
― Actus, Rise of the Living Forge

“I knew I should have spent more time playing RPGs instead of studying for those damn useless classes.”
― Actus, Nightmare Realm Summoner

“Won’t know until I try, and refusing to get stronger because of a temporary setback is sunk cost fallacy. Let’s do this.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 2

“You know I would quite literally kill to study what in the Damned Plains is going on with your body and soul.” “That’s the creepiest way someone has told me they’re interested in me.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 2

“Being trapped doesn’t mean you aren’t in control of yourself. There’s always a choice.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 4

“much as noticed that he was late. Honestly, Lee is the absolute master of completely distracting people to the point where they don’t even realize they’re being distracted.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 5

“You are going to have to choose which of your ideals you will stick to if you want to avoid losing either your life or those of your allies. You cannot have both, and you’ll learn that the easy way or the hard way.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 5

“Lee’s grip tightened around the banana, shattering its hard shell with a loud crack and mushing its insides in the process.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 3

“There were a great number of things that could cause a young boy to lose his appetite. Rune drawing practice, bullying, contemplating the insignificance of one’s mere mortal existence, and girls.”
― Actus, Blackmist

“User analysis updated. Modifying database… Complete. New values assigned. Displaying user status… Race: Human Name: Angel Level: 25 [98%] Status: Healthy Information accuracy: 100% Strength: 10 Intelligence: 18 Nimbleness: 15 Toughness: 5 Comparative Rating: Minor Threat Weak point(s): Heart, Neck, Arteries… (100/100) Element(s): Steel: Magicore: None (37% Attunement) … … Installing new module: 5% complete.”
― Actus, Steamforged Sorcery

“We have not finished bargaining. Don’t be so hasty, Moxie. Think of my children.” “You don’t have any.” “I am working on it. You attempt to rip even the barest profits from my hands. How will I find a wife if you leave me bereft of any way to feed myself, much less someone else?” “You could try a hooker.” “Alas, they also cost money. Twenty-five hundred and 10 percent of the auction”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 3

“There’s nothing wrong with you,” Noah said. “Everyone gets dealt a hand in life, and we all need help from time to time. I’m just giving you the tools that you should have had from the start.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 7

“I can’t leave either of you alone for more than a minute.” “We do kind of need a supervisor, don’t we?” Noah asked. “Sometimes,” Lee said. “But that makes it harder to eat the squirrels.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 7

“Something about this place set him on edge. It was the same feeling that came with walking through an abandoned graveyard in the middle of the night or snooping through his father’s office in search of the keys to his car.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 8

“I don’t care if it’s a crazed mage, a rune, or a fucking god. I will not allow anything to take my people away from me.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 7

“I’m also pretty sure it’s going to inevitably end in something going boom.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 3

“I determined what caused demons to have their detrimental affixation with a single feeling or aspect of life, and I can repair it.” “So all the demons here…” “Not all fixed. Not yet—but they will be.” “And this makes them… docile?” “It makes them who they were meant to be. Are you docile?” Silvertide’s lips pulled up in a smile. “No. And there are few who are foolish enough to believe otherwise.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 7

“Revin, despite his absolutely insane personality, seemed like a pretty decent person.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 2

“Maybe Tim will give me permission to bludgeon him with a heavy object. That would make it fine.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 5

“He’d always known that things were likely to end in a fight between him and Azel, but he’d actually started relying on the demon.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 5

“Don’t slack off, kids.” “Have we ever slacked off?” Isabel asked. “It’s a figure of speech, and it makes me sound cool,”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 2

“Spider was ancient death. The inevitable end that came for all. He tasted like rubble and crumbling civilization. The demon was so old that the city itself felt like Treadon was a child in comparison. A creature that lived as long as he had could barely even still be called a demon.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor 5

“Is Arbitage even a school if the curriculum isn’t standardized? It feels more like a pure research institute that just happens to assign professors to students. Actually, that’s literally just a shitty college with too much research money. It’s the same damn thing.”
― Actus, Return of the Runebound Professor

“Humans are just so eager to share their secrets. I must admit that I’m starting to understand the desire. What’s the point of knowing things that others don’t if you can’t lord over their failings?”
― Actus, Greenblood