Late into the night, the space outside of the Adventure Society's central admin complex was still crowded with people. To Jason's delight, some enterprising local vendors had wheeled carts into the...
2021-06-15 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostJason stepped out of the assessment officer’s office to find a stern-looking man and woman waiting for him. They each had a rigidly controlled silver-rank aura.
“So,” he said. “Are yo...
2021-06-14 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostRimaros was a city of well-trained and powerful essence users, meaning many strong auras and powerful senses. With the number of essence users present in the city, and more pouring in for the monst...
2021-06-11 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostUnlike most of the temples in Rimaros, the city’s main temple of Knowledge was not to be found in the temple district on the island of Livaros. Instead, it could be found on the second-largest of...
2021-06-10 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostDawn’s cottage bubble flying vessel floated over the deck of the skyship. Dawn emerged from the cottage, walked down the short garden path to the bubble surrounding it and stepped through, like p...
2021-06-09 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the deck of the cloud yacht, Jason and Farrah were standing with drinks in hand looking at the islands floating in the sky as they drew closer to the city of Rimaros. One of the three main nat...
2021-06-08 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTwo skyships moved side by side through the air. One was a traditional vessel crafted from wood with floatation crystals set into the hull. The other was a monstrosity of rough iron and heavy bolts...
2021-06-07 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis is related to an award, so I really tried to give this post a title of cringe-inducing self-aggrandisement but apparently - unlike Jason - there is a level of shamelessness beyond which I won'...
2021-06-06 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the complete volume 2, including the interval chapters, in smaller bundles for those whose devices don't like the larger PDF bundles. These will remain available in full until a few weeks b...
2021-06-06 02:09:50 +0000 UTC View PostHere are the large bundles for volume 2, plus the full volume 2 PDF, including the interval chapters. These will remain available in full until a few weeks before the release of book four on Kindle...
2021-06-06 02:09:37 +0000 UTC View PostFarrah paused from her explanation of what Jason could expect from their destination once the cloud ship cleared the storm. In only a few moments they went from blasting horizontal rain and mountai...
2021-06-04 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Clive,” Humphrey said. “Is that a kind of skyship you’re familiar with?”
“No,” Clive said.
The group watched the two approaching skyships using the vision-magnifying spel...
2021-06-03 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostGary and Jory and Jason’s team were on the open deck of a skyship, heading into the range where they could portal to Vitesse.
“Is everyone feeling that?” Humphrey asked.
"I am," N...
2021-06-02 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA bird fluttered out of Humphrey’s jacket, then transformed into a puppy as it landed on the table and started pawing at the projector. Humphrey scooped him up and petted him gently.
“It...
2021-06-01 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe title says it all, really, which leaves me somewhat at a loss about what to put here. I hope the extra interval chapters over the weekend got everyone primed for the return of the regular sched...
2021-05-31 23:05:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn an abandoned outback town, there was something unusual on the dry grass of the football oval. Large stones were set into arches, forming a series of concentric circles. Next to the bar, the only...
2021-05-31 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostClive drove the flying, open-top carriage through the skies of Vitesse, docking halfway up one of the garden towers covered in flowers and greenery. He disembarked onto a balcony, along with Humphr...
2021-05-30 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Well?” Lady Prani Ajus demanded as she stormed into the large research room in the astral magic research department. Lorelei Grantham was there, along with a half dozen researchers poring over...
2021-05-29 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBelinda followed the signal of her magical device into a dusty desert gulch, a few dozen kilometres south of Rakesh. She roamed around, looking for the source of the signal. She and Clive had only ...
2021-05-28 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTo all appearances, Marta Fries was an unremarkable resident of the city of Kurdansk. Like many of Kurdansk’s celestines, she had dark skin and silver hair. Her small row house was no different t...
2021-05-21 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostI have a confession: I'm unsure about the exclamation point in the title of this post. I'm personally excited, yes, but the overuse of this punctuation, especially in promotional material gives me ...
2021-05-18 14:38:21 +0000 UTC View PostAt the Adventure Society dock in the city of Greenstone, Emir Bahadir’s cloud palace had been replaced with a cloud ship that would dwarf an ocean liner. Humphrey, Sophie and Neil boarded via a c...
2021-05-14 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostIn the city of Greenstone, Gary Xandier and Rufus Remore walked quietly along an empty street, the night lit up by magical lamposts. Gary was a huge lion man, yet looked sunken and small, with none...
2021-05-07 23:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 454 concludes volume 2. For silver-rank and above patrons, volume 3 will begin on June 1st in my local time in Australia, with the usual Two/three/four week delays for bronze/iron/free read...
2021-04-29 23:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Dr Asano, I would like to thank you again for letting us set up the interim government here. Best estimates are over a year before Paris will be restored to the point of initiating repopulation....
2021-04-29 23:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you have any idea how hard it was to get the materials for a category four suppression device?” Gerling asked, jerking the spear again. “I’m impressed that it takes something this stron...
2021-04-28 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJason had made a tradition of triggering the territory transfigurations alone on his balcony, but he changed his pattern because he was unsure of what would come next. Shade's VTOL plane form was h...
2021-04-27 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of announcements, but just a quick explanation before we start: The online chapters are divided into volumes, while the Amazon releases are divided into books. The volumes are much longer,...
2021-04-26 23:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe sky was bleak, grey and sunless, reflecting the architecture of the city. The territory was another city, but the very opposite of fantastical. Uniform concrete buildings were set out in plain,...
2021-04-26 23:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Well,” Jason said. “This is awkward.”
Every person gathered in the mezzanine lounge of the pagoda had either tried to or succeeded in killing or kidnapping at least one other person ...
2021-04-23 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post