Expecting Aunty P to rush out of the castle and into the battle, Leland was surprised when she veered off into a room rather than exiting through the main gate. He supposed it made sense, she was, ...
2023-11-30 20:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Brigade one halt! Brigade two fire!” a nameless soldier yelled.
“Brigade one halt! Brigade two fire!” the Palemarrow army repeated.
The wave o...
2023-11-28 19:22:08 +0000 UTC View PostFires spread from the battlefield, igniting buildings and burning infrastructure. Guards, Inquisitors, adventurers, and even a few mundane shopworkers, laborers, and even retired elders worked in t...
2023-11-27 05:40:21 +0000 UTC View PostIn a twist of fate, the Witch who toyed with fate, died thinking herself invincible. At least, that was how Ashford understood the situation. It was nearly time, and Charlotte had missed the last t...
2023-11-25 03:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostYoungest Princess Sybil Palemarrow, now to-be-crowned queen, sat curled up, a gray eggshell cocoon around her. Through the membrane and calcified outer layers, she looked asleep and uninjured, but ...
2023-11-21 20:58:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Good work!” Spencer said on the other side of the portal. “And to answer your question, no, I do not believe there are any bombs in the city.”
Sitting on Leland’s shoulder, the big...
2023-11-20 07:02:03 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s just… standing there… menacingly.”
Isobel sighed, turned to Jude, and said, “She’s watching her surroundings without moving her head.”
Jude scratched his head. ...
2023-11-17 21:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe shadows around families and households deepened and darkened. The surrounding fog silently hid many secrets, most of which were hideous terrors hellbent on the destruction of the city. Out here...
2023-11-15 19:08:59 +0000 UTC View PostThere was no time to think, only go.
Pages flipped, palms slammed. Wings sprouted, dark feathers plumed. Four more came, pure white. The rush of the air barreled down on Leland as he...
2023-11-13 21:16:13 +0000 UTC View PostAcross the city of Ivory Reach, in strategic locations, bells tolled. They boomed with the force of emergency magic, the signal to all to huddle down and prepare to be attacked. What little populat...
2023-11-12 22:45:12 +0000 UTC View PostApprehensive silence flooded the inn at Glenny’s words. None had spoken about it, but everyone had noticed the lack of real battle. Ivory Reach was supposed to be under attack, and yet, besides a...
2023-11-12 04:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop,” Leland commanded, his eyes faintly glowing with magic. “There.” He pointed to the wall.
Isobel blasted it with a bolt from her parasitic weapon.
They continued, the smel...
2023-11-10 05:56:46 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Rushwin teed off against Leland, a fog began to roll through the warehouse district of Ivory Reach.
Starting slowly and pouring from the sewer system, the fog slowly ballooned until it ...
2023-11-07 19:31:54 +0000 UTC View Post“So, tell me, why should I not kill you where you stand?”
Rushwin’s face was a mask, his emotions hidden under layers of experience. For most of his life, he had been an Inquis...
2023-11-06 19:33:41 +0000 UTC View PostAn hour later, a portal opened upstairs in the communal room. Stepping out and stretching his back, Roy stepped through, wobbling slightly. He took a deep breath in, like he was trying to pick up a...
2023-11-05 06:02:20 +0000 UTC View PostName: Glenny Red
Legacy: Chameleon Archetype:
Apprentice of the Chameleon Lord
Overall Rank: 3
Chameleon's Tongue:
Type: Ability
Rank: 21
Adopt the Chameleon's...
Lucia quietly sat listening to the boys talk about their freshly upgraded abilities and spells. She had been left to chaperone while the other adults called in favors and hopefully readied themselv...
2023-11-03 18:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostCarmon Red hadn’t been to the dark streets of Ivory Reach since Annie died. He’d sworn off the place, opting to completely ignore that side of the city. The Umbra was a cancer, a cancer his wif...
2023-11-01 21:35:35 +0000 UTC View PostIn the minutes before Leland reappeared at the campsite, he had enough time to toy with the soul cloak. Shifting through the Void, green mist swelled in his hands. In its activated form, t...
2023-11-01 05:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostBudding from the man’s back, emerald arms clawed themselves from his woven fabric shirt. Like a butterfly spreading its wings for the first time, the arms split, unfolding into wispy swirls befor...
2023-10-30 04:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostLeland was the last of the boys to wake up. Jude, Glenny, and all the others were sitting around a ring of smoldering embers, eating from a pot of breakfast sausage and beans. Isobel was the only o...
2023-10-28 03:10:06 +0000 UTC View Post“I was just thinking I need a gardener,” the Curse Lord said, crouching down and yanking a dead thistle from the gray dirt.
Leland cocked an eyebrow. “Do they have divine gardeners?”<...
2023-10-25 21:30:49 +0000 UTC View PostAfter another two and a half weeks in the Mirage Fields fighting nearly nonstop, Leland, Glenny, and Jude each hit their goals. Jude was the first, achieving rank twenty with each of his Legacy abi...
2023-10-24 05:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostSlick white metal crested out of Leland’s hand, forcing him to drop Lodestar. It vibrated, jolted, and thrashed like prey trapped within a bear’s mouth. Spikes of power shot from the scythe bla...
2023-10-23 06:00:52 +0000 UTC View Post“So what did we learn?” Diana asked Jude and Glenny upon their return.
Jude glanced at his three clones. “It’s not about the end result, but the friends we made along the way.”
<... 2023-10-21 04:33:55 +0000 UTC View PostThere were four Judes.
First, the original and his mirage. Then the Guardian Spirit Beast, Neff’s, incarnation… which had a mirage of its own. All four Judes stood around admiring each ot...
2023-10-19 02:10:25 +0000 UTC View Post“So what did we all learn today?” Diana asked, her voice strained.
It was Jude Two that answered first, as Jude one had his mouth full of roast. “Rocks can talk!”
Diana and Roy ...
2023-10-18 02:37:01 +0000 UTC View PostSitting on an overly stuffed throw pillow in a sandy temple, Jude, and his mirage, both played the guitar. Their fingers danced upon the strings, their callused fingers plucking or strumming in tim...
2023-10-16 21:41:48 +0000 UTC View PostGlenny… was… dying…
Not really, of course, but he sure felt like it. Two weeks they had been in this cursed desert and for two weeks he had been coached nonstop by his dad… and ...
2023-10-16 03:49:10 +0000 UTC View PostDrifting in from a haze, Leland stepped into the shabby shack with a grin on his face. It was time to eat cake, chocolate, his favorite. His friends were there, his parents too. He grinned at each ...
2023-10-14 02:24:39 +0000 UTC View Post