B4 C19: A Secret
When I finally woke up, I was sore.
Given my recent less-than-optimal sleeping conditions, that wasn’t too abnormal. Quickly, however, it became clear that this was no mere muscle sti...
2024-07-04 12:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Whimsical Deity posts
B4 C18: Clocking Out
This should not prove overly difficult, yes? As Tess flew off into the distance, Verin took stock of their situation. While she would not deny feeling more at ease with Tess around, her ab...
2024-07-01 12:02:40 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C17: Break
Throughout the entire palace, not once had I let the others help with the fighting. While there’d been some cursory attempts on their parts to help out, I’d shut them down quickly, not willing ...
2024-06-27 12:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C16: Palace-y
I couldn’t, in full honesty, say that sinking through the sand ranked on my top ten worst experience list, though that wasn’t for lack of trying. I could only be thankful for the small number o...
2024-06-24 12:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C15: Sand
Given that all of my experiences in the desert thus far had been fairly brief, there was something that I hadn’t fully appreciated up till now.
The desert was hot.
A simple fact on th...
2024-06-20 12:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C14: Desert Preparation
Our grand excursion into the desert was agreed upon and set in stone, but rather than jump into it immediately, we decided to prepare a bit. And in this case, by “we,” I was strictly referring ...
2024-06-17 12:00:26 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C13: Like Crab
Sand. I’d never been a particular fan of the stuff, and that was when I’d visited pleasant, summertime beaches. When it came to monster-infested deserts, my dislike of the gritty substance was ...
2024-06-13 12:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C12: Keeping Busy
It was hard to say when the exact moment I woke up was, if only because my waking state wasn’t all that far off from being asleep. Much as I’d feared, the utter cessation of stimulus was enough...
2024-06-10 12:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C11: Forced Rest
The day after my outing, Verin cornered me to float the idea of group monster fighting. With how easily I’d dealt with all the gryphons, she imagined if the other two accompanied me, it would be ...
2024-06-06 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C10: Storage
Up until now, the only time I’d seen new class skills was when I’d grabbed the skills leading up to them. To that end, I’d expected maybe one new option for my recent purchase of Status R...
2024-06-03 11:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C9: Healthy Coping Mechanisms
Having expected some level of pyrotechnics already, I wasn’t disappointed when cracks and fissures formed along the massive block, all of them emitting the same eerie purple glow I’d come to as...
2024-05-30 11:44:51 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C8: Home
Building a house, in the end, was not an overly difficult task. Or, at least it wasn’t depending on the type of house. Had I needed to adhere to local building codes and wire in electrical lines ...
2024-05-27 12:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C7: An Impromptu Excursion
As time slipped by, the following days came and went. It would have been nice to say that I suddenly gained a great burst of energy, cheerfully chatting up the others. In truth, even the thought of...
2024-05-23 12:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C6: Ascendant
Ascendant
You have surpassed the limits of a standard, non-enhanced member of your race in every dimension. Your body and mind have been baptized in and ...
2024-05-20 11:59:47 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C5: Empty
Sensation crashed into me all at once, the unfamiliarity of it sending pulses of terror through my body. A glimpse of an unfamiliar man with unnatural reddish skin. Who was he? I squirmed away from...
2024-05-16 11:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C4: Stuck
The room, or perhaps more aptly, holding cell, that Sett found himself in was nothing if not boring. Large, sure, but outside its ridiculous size and the spell circles etched into the granite floor...
2024-05-13 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C3: Regicide
AN: By all rights, this should be today's basic tier chapter, but it seems to already be marked as available, so I unlocked chapter 4 instead. Did I unlock this on Thursday, or has this bee...
2024-05-09 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C2: Friends of Little Xan
The underground tunnel was everything one could ask for when it came to spooky old wizards. In fact, even to call it a tunnel did it a disservice. Sleek unblemished granite covered floor, wall, and...
2024-05-06 11:46:15 +0000 UTC View PostWe're Back!
Hi hello, all. We're back!
Can't say how lovely it is to be off of my hiatus, and a big thank you to everyone who's reading along after all this time.
Happy to say that tomorrow will be...
2024-05-01 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostB4 C1: Perhaps an Eight
In a strange and unforgiving land where few had ever tread before, the landscape shifted with every step. One moment, hard rock shot into the sky in the form of a cold and unforgiving mountain; the...
2024-05-01 12:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostNot dead! Return timeline and general updates.
Hi all! Incredibly happy to say I'm still here and still writing, and apologies for going AWOL for two and a half months. Life has kept me a bit busier and more stressed in the past few months than...
2024-03-17 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostBook 3 Completion + Hiatus Announcement
Hi hello, all! Book 3 is now complete! Woohoo!
I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading it even half as much as I’ve enjoyed writing it and getting to share it. When I set out to start the...
2023-10-27 01:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostPrelude to Book 4: Time to Paint the Sky
AN: And that's it! Book 3 is now done!
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“Hey. Heyyyyy.”
A bothersome and incessant voice did its best to cut through the fog of slee...
2023-10-27 01:08:26 +0000 UTC View PostB3 C67: Rocks for When You're Back (Epilogue)
AN: One more chapter after this until B3 is done!
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“A rather dreadful turn of events, is it not?” Barb sat close to the fire, heating up a lenti...
2023-10-23 12:35:33 +0000 UTC View PostB3 C66: Standard Teleportation
How in the name of all that’s holy did this become such a spectacle?
Archmage Xander’Calis went through the exacting motions of preparing the ritual he’d be using to visit his ...
2023-10-19 10:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostB3 C65: End of a War
Three days passed in Emer’Thalis as Tess continued to lie in bed.
The war, as fiercely as it had raged, was no more. With the threat of death very literally looming above everyone in the fo...
2023-10-16 23:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostStill alive, still working!
Hi hello, all.
Just a quick post about delays in writing. Doing my best to get these last ~3-4ish chapters of book three out with minimal delays, but work-work just picked up dramatically, so...
2023-10-10 16:26:47 +0000 UTC View PostB3 C64: A Bother
Hovering high in the air above Emer’Thalis, Archmage Xander’Callis had to admit that he was having a particularly frustrating day.
At first it had been the normal things. His research was...
2023-10-07 02:30:58 +0000 UTC View PostB3 C63: A Chilling Battle
Realizing that they were brandishing their weapons at their kingdom’s one and only princess, the king’s honor guard and the many soldiers surrounding him all started to lower their weapons, onl...
2023-10-02 13:35:51 +0000 UTC View PostB3 C62: A Touching Reunion
Nadja was feeling great. Great!
Each stretch of earth vanished beneath her feet as quickly as it arrived, her legs moving faster than they ever had before. Was this how people with higher sta...
2023-09-28 14:04:45 +0000 UTC View Post