III-24 Scouting
It helps to understand the battlefield as a living thing when you are campaigning in a field. Scouts, Assassins, Thieves—these are your diag
It helps to understand the battlefield as a ...
2025-07-24 09:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Brent Stinebaker posts
37-5 Spiral
I bring my wife, Zein, to diplomatic occasions because she is my finest diplomatic tool. She and Naeko are my most effective instruments, for true diplomacy always carries a final, unspoken mes...
2025-07-23 19:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostII-130 Ass Labyrinth (I) (TTF)
What happens in the Halls of Highest Power? What happens beyond Preceptor's Descent? What do the Princes, Princesses, Kings, and Queens scheme about?
Ha! Nothing! Nothing particu...
2025-07-23 18:38:08 +0000 UTC View PostIII-23 Block
Let me tell you something, Sijik. I hate Roland Arrow. I hated him since the first time I laid eyes on him. I hated him when we were in the
Let me tell you something, Sijik. I hate Roland...
2025-07-23 18:06:09 +0000 UTC View PostIII-22 Surface (IV)
Team and armies have a breaking point, just like individual Pathbearers. That breaking point is variable. It depends on a hell of a lot of t
Team and armies have a breaking point, just li...
2025-07-23 13:29:58 +0000 UTC View PostIII-21 Surface (III)
Get up, Adam. Get up. You're not done. You're not done until you beat me. And look at me. You can do it. With your team. With the people by
Get up, Adam. Get up. You're not done. You're n...
2025-07-22 18:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostIII-20 Surface (II)
I like to think of most Pathbearers as puzzles to solve. It's an effective way of thinking about dealing with enemies that aren’t like you.
I like to think of most Pathbearers as puzzle...
2025-07-22 12:47:44 +0000 UTC View PostIII-19 Surface (I)
—Confidential— [Ambient Mana Recognized — Incoming Message from Inquisitor-Master Sijik] Oldsmith. If the situation at Gate Theborn is truly
—Confidential—
II-129 Shared Grudge (TTF)
There is a slight benefit to living in a low-trust society. The thing about living in a low-trust society is that the people there also hate each other, so you can always rely on them to betray...
2025-07-21 16:29:50 +0000 UTC View PostIII-18 Briefing
Deathstalker Perspicacity Pricelles 2 reporting in to Siege Force Main. Observation post SC102 at Old Santabarb reports no abnormal activity
Deathstalker Perspicacity Pricelles 2...
2025-07-21 09:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post37-4 End-Times Arms Race (IV) (Godclads)
The way I look at revenge is the same way I look at replacing a lost limb. You lost the arm. Yeah, that happened. It's never coming back. The same arm is not coming back. You're going to need t...
2025-07-21 03:23:31 +0000 UTC View PostIII-17 Open (Deathless)
Scouts are the eyes, nose, tongue, ears, mouth, skin—everything that relates to the senses for an army. No scouts means that you're fighting
Scouts are the eyes, nose, tongue, ears, mou...
2025-07-20 17:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostIII-16 Peace (Deathless)
You will not become a true Pathbearer if you're afraid of taking risks, if you're afraid of doing new things, if you're afraid of developing
You will not become a true Pathbearer if you'r...
2025-07-20 13:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostIII-15 Persuasion
Sometimes, you don’t need to actually kill or hurt someone to get what you want. Sometimes, a few threats, a bit of charm, and some bribery
Sometimes, you don’t need to actually kill ...
2025-07-19 20:10:48 +0000 UTC View Post37-3 End-Times Arms Race (III)
It's not enough. It will never be enough. Look at me, Naeko. Gaze into my eyes and heed my words, for you know them to be true. You know them to be true, despite the pain it brings you. It will...
2025-07-19 15:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostIII-14 Reforge (II)
Your equipment is going to break. Your weapons are going to break. Your armor is going to break. This is inevitable. If you are a martial Pa
Your equipment is going to break. Your weapons...
2025-07-19 11:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostIII-13Reforge (I)
Repeat that. Say that again. Say it. Keep your straight face and say it to me. Say “someone killed an entire court of our descendants and st
Repeat that.
Say that again. ...
2025-07-18 19:23:39 +0000 UTC View PostII-128 Dropping By
Sometimes, the solution to your problem will deliver itself to your door. Well, a solution wrapped in the form of a problem, most often.
Let me tell you a story.
O...
2025-07-18 15:14:53 +0000 UTC View PostIII-12 Feast (II)
The beautiful thing about all biology is mutation; the transformation is synthesization. Everything can be something else, all can be true,
The beautiful thing about all biology is mutati...
2025-07-17 19:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostIII-11 Feast (I)
It is beautiful how the smallest thing can bring down a giant. Consider how minute a virus is, how delightful, how delicate. A slight chang
It is beautiful how the smallest thing ca...
2025-07-17 12:31:40 +0000 UTC View PostIII-10 Cremation
Thanks to the gifts offered to them by the Lineage Cores and the malleable and ever-enduring nature of their bodies, the embraced of the First Blood are unfettered from consequence, free to use...
2025-07-16 18:41:25 +0000 UTC View PostII-127 Politics (II)
What can we say about Greatest, Prince of Pride? What can we say that doesn't end with "asshole," "bastard," "won't take no for an answer"? He can sew up his own ass—that is a skill. His assh...
2025-07-16 17:00:24 +0000 UTC View PostIII-9 Plaguefueled
So, here's the thing about killing Heroes. It's hard, they're very destructive, but it can be done. It can be done if you get about a hundred masters together on average. A hundred masters with...
2025-07-16 13:06:45 +0000 UTC View PostIII-8Hunt (III)
Becoming a vampire means immortality, but it is not your immortality alone. Rather, with every lineage core spread, from those who sired vampires before you, to the one that sired you, to the o...
2025-07-15 18:56:12 +0000 UTC View Post37-2 End-Times Arms Race (II)
And as for this next song, I call it, "There Is No End." Because there is no end. There is no end to the depravity, there is no end to the degeneracy, there is no end to the blood they will spi...
2025-07-15 16:34:12 +0000 UTC View PostIII-7 Hunt (II)
I'm starting to think that you need to be a pretty good Biomancer to achieve the best kind of cooking possible. I can't believe how effective Biomancy is at making my cooking better. I can tell...
2025-07-15 09:32:21 +0000 UTC View PostIII-6 Hunt (I)
Mixing different ingredients and methods of preparing them also modifies the effects you can gain from a specific dish. Let’s go back to the basilisk. Because the basilisk is a pretty cool cr...
2025-07-14 19:06:08 +0000 UTC View PostII-126 Politics (I)
Politics is the act of getting what you want through whatever means, including war, but whatever means without saying truly what you want. Politics is getting your enemy to betray themselves. P...
2025-07-14 17:16:16 +0000 UTC View PostIII-5 Change
Alright, this book of recipes is more than just about taste, ingredients, and the monsters you can kill to find them—or well, the plants and other stuff you can forage, but not as fun as mons...
2025-07-14 10:35:24 +0000 UTC View PostIII-4 Responders
Practically every Pathbearer knows that breaking something is easy, but building it back up, or even just making something new, is harder than hell. I appreciate this more than anyone else beca...
2025-07-13 16:16:46 +0000 UTC View Post