‘No no, can’t have it like that. It winches upwards, like a reverse drawbridge or the gunport on an old sailing ship,’ Tom’s sleeping mind thought to itself as the human drifted through the...
2025-06-23 18:03:25 +0000 UTC View Post
As it turned out, digging a half ton dragon out of a snowdrift was really fucking hard work. Especially when you didn’t even have a goddamn shovel. He was sweating quite badly by the time Nik fin...
2025-06-09 19:03:14 +0000 UTC View Post
“Five copper on the captain,” Tom said, leaning on the table in front of him in anticipation of some quality entertainment. He had even brought a bowl of some sort of nut they had in the pantry...
2025-05-26 17:56:25 +0000 UTC View Post
It had taken several more days before the storm had finally started to subside, Tom taking Nik up on his offer to help bring in some more fuel for the fires despite the howling winds so they could ...
2025-05-12 18:48:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Well Tom had certainly had an interesting chat with their latest two arrivals. They truly were the adventurous sort. The Indiana Jones duo of this world. One upside to all the crazy stories they ha...
2025-04-28 18:59:08 +0000 UTC View Post
“Boy, I hope I’m right. They sounded alright though,” Tom muttered to himself as Rachuck retreated to the grand hall. All doors leading to the greeting hall had been barred just as planned. I...
2025-04-14 16:51:00 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Maybe I was a bit quick to dismiss Rachuck’s concerns about cabin fever.’ All told they had been stuck within the walls for weeks before the storm had rolled in, forcing the others into hibe...
2025-03-31 18:44:46 +0000 UTC View Post
“So, on a scale of one to ten, how bad?” Tom asked as he stood panting, sword held low.
“Would you like me to be nice or harsh?” Rachuck questioned. The captain actually seemed less e...
2025-03-17 20:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
All winter they had been freezing to the bone. Alaya had barely scraped through it. It took till summer until she shook her sickness. It wasn’t as if they could ever afford to have a healer to ca...
2025-03-10 19:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post“As you have all probably heard by now, there is a storm coming. As you can most likely hear, it has already started. Raulf is convinced it is going to be a bad one, a long one. You know how it g...
2025-03-10 19:17:35 +0000 UTC View Post
The heat of the roaring fire, air thick with steam and smoke. Tom felt comfortable for the first time in some quite a while. His limbs still remembered the bite of the wind and how stiff and slow t...
2025-02-17 19:27:27 +0000 UTC View Post
All good things must come to an end. And while it had been fairly fun to do their best impressions at sledding, it was time to head for home. Jarix was no longer making it up the hill at qui...
2025-02-03 20:58:41 +0000 UTC View Post
“What do you mean you wanna open the door, are you crazy? It’s cold out there!” Zarko protested, clearly not pleased with the dragon’s latest scheme.
Sapphire didn’t know wha...
2025-01-20 19:22:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Things had been progressing well, pipes getting done, engine parts machined, everything being kept nice and warm inside for the time being. The freezer helped pad out the otherwise rather dull pres...
2025-01-06 19:10:04 +0000 UTC View Post‘Right here is to hoping that the machine gun wasn’t an omen… at least we have the door shut this time,’ Sapphire thought to herself as they once more stood assembled in the greeting...
2024-12-09 19:33:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Sapphire had gone for firewood for the kitchen when she had noticed Paulin standing alone in front of Yldril seemingly mid-lecture. Unable to resist, she had ventured a bit closer, arms full of woo...
2024-11-25 20:07:25 +0000 UTC View Post
“So whenever it gets too hot-”
“The pump shall activate, driving water around the barrel and a knife’s edge of the powder is dispensed into the loop,” Edita replied, the artificer l...
2024-11-11 19:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
IMPORTANT
We are having a competition. And you can all take part if you so desire. We are doing a writing prompt once more for HoH.
The prizes are three custom rock carvings done by Le...
Following the departure of Baron, Grevi, and Tiguan, things had stayed busy at the keep. Sapphire had been no exception, working on salting and smoking the last supplies for Deriva. When the...
2024-10-14 17:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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On a windswept day long, long ago. Before, the skies would know the gilded heraldry of the royal guard, the A...
2024-09-30 20:05:18 +0000 UTC View Post
“Oooh, so you help Tom with all the things he is working on?” Tiguan questioned, attentively looking down at Edita as Holdey and Kiran were busy competing for who could get the furthest ...
2024-09-30 20:04:51 +0000 UTC View Post
They managed to assemble a bit of a welcoming committee in time. A fair few of the people who had only just made it back inside to warm up came out once more, most not looking very happy a...
2024-09-16 20:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Tiguan… meet Yldril,” Tom said in a slightly strained tone, gesturing at the keep's newest addition. He had to raise his voice o...
2024-09-02 19:01:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Tom pondered the problem of how to insulate the freezer for a bit as Sapphire headed off. He thought he might just have a solution: sawdust. They definitely had plenty of it with all the c...
2024-08-19 18:54:34 +0000 UTC View Post
There was a strange cold feeling at the table as Tom looked around, all the people felt tense in the well-lit wide hall. He glanced at the many trophies lining the hall, his gaze landing o...
2024-08-05 17:30:23 +0000 UTC View Post
To say Tom had been displeased following the failure of the hoist would be an understatement. Everyone had winced alongside him at the wet thunk of the magnificent wolf impacting the ...
2024-07-22 16:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
“That cheating little… hmpf,” Sapphire grumbled to herself as Yldril came back carrying not only the nets Jarix and Glira had been using to hunt with, but no less than four large red deer. No...
2024-07-08 17:38:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Saph had to admit this was the least prepared she had ever been for a final hunt. Normally she would have scouted out herds, deer paths, or colonies well in advance, had a plan worked out of what t...
2024-06-24 19:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The morning following the festivities had been a slow one. Edita had overslept for the first time ever, and everyone had sorta just let her snooze or were themselves paying for th...
2024-06-10 19:21:46 +0000 UTC View Post
As the sugar rush slowly consumed the artificer, her chatting turned to rambling and then into full on babbling as she slowly descended into the realms of incomprehensibility. She was talk...
2024-05-27 18:22:47 +0000 UTC View Post