34-13 Master of Hounds (III)
+Ah. The illustrious “Seer” for hire. We meet at last.+
+Fuck off, Middler. Not looking for runs right now.+
+Middler? I am hardly such a thing. Indeed, I thin...
2025-03-04 17:41:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Brent Stinebaker posts
34-12 Master of Hounds (II)
Master of Hounds is a peculiar heaven, one that is built around the concept of perception. Perception, typically employed by seers to maintain a logistical or informational advantage for their ...
2025-03-04 08:24:23 +0000 UTC View Post34-11 Master of Hounds (I)
+Little was known about Frederick Three-Eye before 92 P.F. His early life is without account—no details, no mem-data, no acquaintances. He emerged from nowhere, first spotted in New Vultun as...
2025-03-03 18:20:27 +0000 UTC View PostII-72 Hawk Among Snakes (I)
Take care if you are invited to a gala or a major event in the Claimed Hells. Whatever circle you are drawn to, other major players will be present as well. Even though all the circles are at w...
2025-03-02 18:21:56 +0000 UTC View PostII-71The Consul
There are twelve Consul Hierarchs that make up the leadership of the Inheritors. Twelve individuals who have held their positions for approximately five hundred years. The oldest among them is ...
2025-03-01 15:35:14 +0000 UTC View PostTTF BOOK 1 ON KU + SCHEDULE ADJUSTMENT/EXPECTATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Hello, everyone
As mentioned a few weeks ago, the official book one of TTF (Now titled Infernal Ascension) is on KU: https://mybook....
2025-02-28 17:47:17 +0000 UTC View Post34-10 Chosen of the Burning Dream (II)
Attention to all No-Dragon citizens. This is Dowager Brilliant Orchard speaking—Head of the Exo-Substance Council and acting First Sister of all the active political bureaus and the Branch of...
2025-02-27 18:40:08 +0000 UTC View Post34-9 Chosen of the Burning Dream (I)
On a fundamental level, the creation of a node is not a complicated process. What you need is memory. Memory informs a mind of what it can be, of what it should be. It is information preloaded ...
2025-02-26 09:41:02 +0000 UTC View Post34-8 Still Bleeds the Wound
Of all the guilds that have tried to create a human-analogous mind, the only ones that have ever truly come close to succeeding were Ori-Thaum and The Sang. We're discounting Voidwatch right no...
2025-02-25 17:08:32 +0000 UTC View Post34-7 Come Together
In retrospect, what disturbed us the most was the silence and sudden calmness that preceded everything to come. For a single moment, for a heartbeat in time, the Guilds stopped their squabbling...
2025-02-24 17:46:22 +0000 UTC View PostII-70 A Den of Bastards and Vipers
In the Claimed Hells, everyone has an angle. Everyone has something they’re going for, some goal they want to seek. More than anything, this is a city of dreams—damned, cursed, bleak, blood...
2025-02-23 17:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostSlight delays
Expect some more delays for current TTF chapters in editing until later tomorrow. I'm suffering from some pretty stupid but time-consuming real estate issues. I'll try to make up for the missing ch...
2025-02-22 18:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostAnnouncement STUBBING FOR CHAPTERS 1-51 for TTF; BOOK 1 in preorder on February 25th
The story is much-improved thanks to Dath's editing, and I can't thank you all enough for reading. Expect imp...
2025-02-20 18:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostII-69 Expertise
Listen, if you need infiltration, sabotage, assassination, theft, or all-around subterfuge, there’s only one guy I can really recommend. He went by a bunch of different monikers and names dur...
2025-02-20 18:43:11 +0000 UTC View Post34-6 Forever (II)
Regret is poison. Regret is poison in life, in action, and in thought. Do not regret. Kill regret. Get rid of regret. The longer you dwell on what could have been or what might have been, the l...
2025-02-20 15:10:55 +0000 UTC View Post34-5 Forever (I)
I’ve spent decades trying to assemble an informational profile based on all the data we could gather on the savior, Jaus Avandaer. Decades of investigation, of simulations, of piecing togethe...
2025-02-19 15:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post34-4 Amensitech
[Constructing matter from forgotten memories—or destroying matter and using it as forgotten memories—or even just making more people forget, to build something that most can never s...
2025-02-18 18:40:06 +0000 UTC View Post34-3 The Spires of Wasn’t
But if all that is counts as a pattern, then what about all that isn’t? Is that not a greater, more encompassing anti-pattern? Or perhaps, with the flame you conjure from the lowliest canon, ...
2025-02-17 11:37:54 +0000 UTC View PostTTF Book 1 Official Release and Title Update
Though Tribulation Falls's official amazon release will be coming up. Chapters 4-51 will be stubbing soon. Read while you still can and if it's worth anything, the preorder is live too.
Speci...
2025-02-16 18:08:18 +0000 UTC View PostII-68 The Approach
When you’re infiltrating a place, you shouldn’t be the one worried about whether you’ll be detected or if the enemy has more surprises for you. That’s something you’re going to have t...
2025-02-16 18:04:12 +0000 UTC View PostII-67 Bad Instruction (II)
Sometimes, beating your friend’s ass is the only way to know that they are, indeed, your friend. Don’t ask me why this is the way things work—it’s just how it is.
-John Bisho...
2025-02-15 19:56:06 +0000 UTC View PostII-66Bad Instruction (I)
A word of advice to all lords, tyrants, and emperors who wish to be. If you are going to force your will on one of your subjects, or perhaps a wayward companion, make sure that they have someth...
2025-02-14 18:39:19 +0000 UTC View Post34-2The Great Deception (II)
I have always dreamed of creating a Heaven of Mind. Mind, or perhaps a Domain analogous to it. Alas, with the construction of the Nether—a wonder in its own right—the world has been granted...
2025-02-13 18:02:46 +0000 UTC View Post34-1The Great Deception (I)
To be a successful middler, the key is understanding two things: your network and what people want. Good Middlers leverage their relationships, have a complex web of contacts, favors, and servi...
2025-02-12 17:27:04 +0000 UTC View Post33-22 Uneasy Alliances
{This is EGI Contingency Bleak. We believe that the Hidden Flame has made contact with something within the Ori Delegates. Currently, the patterns of domain information are spiking unnaturally...
2025-02-11 11:53:38 +0000 UTC View Post33-21 Reunion (III)
{The ancient philosopher Clausewitz once said that war is politics by other means. This might be the inverse, I'm afraid, for New Vultun—and in Idheim in general—for war and death is the ec...
2025-02-10 07:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostII-65 Team Building (IV)
When you’re fighting as a team, it’s important to designate one person as a leader. One.
Now, unless you’re a hive mind like a hive chin—or one of those inter-archive wor...
2025-02-09 17:46:19 +0000 UTC View PostII-64 Team Building (III)
To enlighten the ignorant is akin to lifting a feather, but to grant wisdom to the stubborn demands the teacher bear a mountain.
-Ancient Evernest Proverb
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Team Buil...
2025-02-08 17:36:50 +0000 UTC View PostII-63 Team Building (II)
Ignium. What can be said about the Dragon God. The Creator, the Destroyer. Well, let’s start with the fact that direct attacks against them or their Scions will be rendered ineffective. Fire?...
2025-02-07 19:08:51 +0000 UTC View PostII-62 Team Building
There is one thing, above all other things, that determines if you’re going to thrive or die in the fathoms. It’s not even how high your essence level is, or how rare your class is. It’s ...
2025-02-06 18:49:59 +0000 UTC View Post