The first snow festival officially started four days after the boys arrived. Legacies of Weather, Snow, and Storms had gathered together, foretelling that it would snow any day now. But, after thre...
2023-03-22 20:43:43 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you here for the herb collecting competition?”
Leland and the others eyed the young woman and her hearty smile. The cold day seemed to warm up with her question, like a little furnac...
2023-03-21 21:29:46 +0000 UTC View PostThe Huntress sat alone, high in an overgrown tree. The tree sat among many others, hiding her vantage from the common eye. There she was a hunter overseeing her prey. Or, in this case, three ...
2023-03-21 01:01:55 +0000 UTC View PostLeland let out a deep, long, slow, sigh. He inwardly cursed, thankful that the battle was over before it really started. A rank two monster was one thing, but two rank two monsters t...
2023-03-20 02:11:31 +0000 UTC View PostThey moved as a single unit, pushing past the tall overgrown path, toward the safety of the edge of the ruins. There they stopped, with their backs to the wall, and prepared. Jude unleashed his bat...
2023-03-17 19:18:02 +0000 UTC View Post“It was interesting,” Leland recounted.
After his long stint in a different reality, he shifted his body uncomfortably while laying on the rough floor of the forest. With a groan, he sat ...
2023-03-16 18:10:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe response was quick and clean. Leland rushed across a dark plane, one of infinite expansive cold. He saw nothing but darkness, until he didn’t. The domain of the Lord of Healing came in like a...
2023-03-14 19:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post“I really wish the quest giver handed out more information about these bats!” Leland exclaimed to Glenny and Jude.
Glenny responded with a destitute nod. “What were his words? ‘The ba...
2023-03-13 21:28:23 +0000 UTC View PostOn route to Frostford, the group finally entered the territory of the Hearth Bat – the objective of one of the quests they picked up. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect. They arrived &n...
2023-03-11 20:59:23 +0000 UTC View PostJude and Glenny hummed together, their eyes scanning down a wooden board of crudely written script. They pointed to one occasionally, discussed the quest’s logistics, then moved on to another. Th...
2023-03-11 20:57:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe Huntress watched the boy for several long minutes as he searched his own mind. She knew asking Leland, a relative baby, to look internally was asking a lot. Many, many years of practice with on...
2023-03-10 18:51:53 +0000 UTC View PostNot even five minutes after falling asleep, a knock sounded from Leland’s door. His eyes shot open and for a moment he felt terror. The Sightless King was here, the cultists—
Reality came...
2023-03-10 18:49:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe smell of charred wheat filled the tavern moments after the Legacy of Baking opened the oven door. One by one he pulled fully darkened loaves of perfuming rye bread from the scorching heat, expe...
2023-03-10 06:10:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Thank you for sitting down with us, Royal Inquisitor. My name is Inquisitor Levi and this is Inquisitor Cassia, Legacy of the Wolf and Legacy of the Wand respectively.”
“Call me Isobel...
2023-03-08 05:07:34 +0000 UTC View PostLeaning against a wooden wall overlooking Shoutwell’s harbor, Leland took in the day. The sky had fallen back to muted overcast with streaks of golden sun filtering through the cracks. The waves ...
2023-03-08 05:04:51 +0000 UTC View PostLady Onryo sat with her legs crossed in a dimly lit room. She kept one hand slowly tapping on against the wood grain table, the other jostling a glass of deep red wine. She felt like she was wearin...
2023-03-08 05:03:40 +0000 UTC View PostThe Huntress stayed in the air, stepping on platforms of golden light. Blasts of red energy whooshed high into the sky, narrowly missing their target as she quickly moved across Shoutwell’s airsp...
2023-03-08 05:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostPower, lifeforce, and mana flowed through Leland’s lips before he whispered, “Maul.”
A breath later, lifeforce and mana swam around his heart, connecting his own to the woman i...
2023-03-08 05:02:06 +0000 UTC View PostStalking through Shoutwell’s defogged streets was something the boys thought they’d never do. Practically the entire time they had been in the city, it had been covered with thick white mist. S...
2023-03-08 05:01:16 +0000 UTC View PostLeland snapped his fingers nine more times before he finally stumbled back, his head spinning. He groaned with horrid nausea, his lifeforce dwindling with threatening speed.
“Kneel befo...
2023-03-08 05:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostInquisitor Isobel, otherwise known as the Huntress, watched her young apprentice double over vomiting. The sight, while disgusting, was incredibly informative. The parasitic cloak wrapped around Gl...
2023-03-08 04:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostSimon screeched as the woman toppled over him, shoving him to the ground and bashing his head into the marble floor. He hastily threw up his hands to guard, missing the first punch by mere seconds....
2023-03-08 04:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostReturning to the underbelly was a rather easy feat. No one other than the odd cultist and fresh recruit walked the streets. Most, if not everyone sane, stayed in their homes under the cover of a ca...
2023-03-08 04:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostLeland, Jude, and Boor stared at a crude mapping of the sewer system of Shoutwell. Tunnels crossed over each other and ran the length of streets, some stopped abruptly while others drifted out to s...
2023-03-07 20:22:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Conjuration, who’d have thought?”
Glenny spun at the words, bubbly red power reacting to his will and forming a pair of spikes. He shoved the impromptu weapon forward, finding it abrup...
2023-03-07 20:21:31 +0000 UTC View PostThere were no guards defending Shoutwell’s walls. No men to lower or raise the gate. No personnel waiting in line to enter. There was only the outer limits of isolated fog, only the feeling that ...
2023-03-07 20:20:45 +0000 UTC View PostWith all of his strength, Glenny stabbed down with both daggers. The blades dug slightly into the basilisk’s hide, locking in place. He leveraged himself over his target, pushing his entire weigh...
2023-03-07 20:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Well?” Jude’s voice rang as soon as Leland’s consciousness fell back into his mortal body.
He didn’t answer right away and instead removed his grimoire and flipped to the newest co...
2023-03-07 20:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostLeland found himself suddenly standing in a black void. Speckles of stars drifted past him at impossible speeds, each burning brighter than the last. At some point he had to close his eyes, the lig...
2023-03-07 20:18:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Poppy was not forthcoming with her information nor did she give up her source. So, she might have been throwing us for a loop.” Boor said.
Lady Onryo nodded. “She’s a smuggler. We wo...
2023-03-07 20:17:42 +0000 UTC View Post