Sylvia looked…good, honestly. It was honestly hard for me to take my eyes off of her after our extended absence from each other. After hearing how she had apparently taken up a position as a smal...
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I nearly forgot to finish this one. I've been so absorbed in the Oblivion remaster that I lost track of time. Funny story about that, though. See, I was pretty startled the first time I l...
2025-04-25 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was odd. I think I was actually glad to see Isolde. The young woman looked hale and hearty after the losses and trauma we both had suffered in Elderwyck, dressed in simple-looking workman’s cl...
2025-04-23 17:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostShift on the right food, step forward, and….
Completely bungle the strike he had been aiming at the large, armored knight in front of him. His blow was instead parried off to the s...
2025-04-21 17:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post“So,” I said to Grey, once we were back on the streets of Blutstein. “Thoughts?”
In response, Grey raised one hand and cast a Spell I had seen from him multiple times in the past. A r...
2025-04-18 17:00:23 +0000 UTC View PostWenzel led us deeper into the middle layer of Blutstein than I’d yet ventured. Which…wasn’t saying much, considering I just got here yesterday.
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“It can’t be that easy,” I said to Grey as we exited the administration building of the Academy. After waking up early enough that the Green Period was barely ending, Grey had gathered Azarus...
2025-04-14 17:00:36 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dinner, Grey offered the use of his house for everyone to stay the night while we got settled into Blutstein. I don’t think any one of us were intending to permanently stay with the man, as...
2025-04-11 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post“To our reunion!” Grey said loudly, standing at the head of the stately, circular table in his personal dining room. He raised a glass of the really expensive-looking alcohol he had br...
2025-04-09 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah, bollocks,” I heard Kargath mutter under his voice, barely audible over the sounds of crumbling brick and the eruption of battle. He sighed. “I just know they’re gonna make me fix that....
2025-04-07 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostIn the first place, calling this a mere ‘campus’ was a bit of an understatement. In reality, the grounds that belonged to the Academy of Mystic Arts seemed more like a town. An enclosed city wi...
2025-04-04 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Nobody really believes Kyron was interred in the Zenith Crystal, you know,” Renauld said to me as our entire group threaded our way through the outer layer of Blutstein. “It’s com...
2025-04-02 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt began as nothing more than a dot on the horizon. Something that stretched up over the curve of the world to introduce itself in a gradual reveal that took hours.
Three points in the distan...
2025-03-31 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostIt was…probably the booze that contributed to my foul mood, frankly.
But that didn’t change the fact that I was getting damn tired of all the slaving that seemed to both happen i...
2025-03-28 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral hours later, we had not only returned to Tŵr Gronn but to my ship as well. I’d invited everyone who had ventured with us to Taran’s home back to the galley of the Astray to ca...
2025-03-26 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostAfter his somewhat ominous words, Taran had Fade and I sit and kneel respectively on the remarkably flat stone facing each other, next to the ‘Silent Eye’. Almost conspiratorially, he ...
2025-03-24 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t often that I got to exert myself in this manner, as I raced across the wide-open, rolling green hills that surrounded Tŵr Gronn. Every one of us, from Azarus to Sena with a wildly laug...
2025-03-21 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostAmusingly enough, because Aveline had exactly zero context for how odd this situation was, she had an entirely different reaction to the sight of Fade.
“Puppy!” She exclaimed, her face li...
2025-03-19 17:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostOur little group of five didn’t bother lingering in town for much longer. The only thing we did before venturing towards the back gate that I knew led to the standing stones of Tŵr Gronn was to ...
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Azarus told me that he wrangled a promise from Captain Bronzle to secretly inform his superiors that the Astray was off limits as it traveled down the coast. After all, it general...
2025-03-14 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I hadn’t exactly expected us to be able to slip through Velancian territorial waters without an issue…
I hadn’t expected a Dwarven patrol ship to come upon us nearly as soon as th...
2025-03-12 17:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAn endless blue horizon stretched out before me, beautiful and breathtaking. Perfect, fluffy white clouds akin to enormous balls of cotton lazily drifted overhead while the light of Vereden’s sta...
2025-03-10 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe highest point in the entire capital city of Hinaga, jewel of the Kawamaran Isles, was atop the peak of the Imperial Palace itself. It soared into the sky at perhaps one hundred and fifty feet, ...
2025-03-07 18:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI have to admit…
This was blowing my mind a little.
“I…” I started and then stopped, staring blankly up into the kindly face of who I thought had been ‘Elder Jinshin...
2025-03-05 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next several hours, I had to wait in that lavish waiting room as, one by one, everyone I’d come to the palace with was drawn away by Masayuki to be questioned by the Emperor. Not only tha...
2025-03-03 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostI joined the rest of my party that was going to be venturing into the heart of the Imperial party up on the deck after exiting the forecastle. All of us, myself included, were dressed in our full c...
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The big three double zero. What a long, strange ride it's been.
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A mingled sense of vertigo and paranoia overtook me then a...
2025-02-26 18:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostDespite my…personal little drama, General Hisakane was eager to get everyone heading back to Hinaga underway. Only two ships were planned to sail to the capital, while the rest of the fleet would...
2025-02-24 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
I was very close to making the previous chapter the last one in this book. The revelation at the end of it felt suitably dramatic to have as an end point. This chapter was even i...
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