As Grey closed in on the Abyssmother, parrying a jab from one of the oversized spider’s forelegs, I wasn’t able to keep track of their fight anymore.
I was too busy with my own.
I l...
2023-11-17 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“We need to find him,” Grey said firmly, to a round of nods.
Well, obviously.
“So, we’re going with the theory that this is the work of another Prime, then?” I asked my mentor...
2023-11-15 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Okay, so! There are couple things I need to say. I made a few mistakes, so I need to make a handful of retcons. First off, I changed the way obtaining new skills and talents works. Used to be, ...
2023-11-13 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe eyes that were watching us from the ceiling didn’t blink once as they watched my companions scrabble onto shore. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see everyone capable of it shivering from...
2023-11-10 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take me long to get ready for the fight. I’d had my leather armor set aside in my bunk, ready for this moment for a while now, just ready to rush into it. I didn’t quite need to rus...
2023-11-08 18:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBella didn’t see the point in hiding that our plans had changed from the crew, which was reasonable. Everyone knew that we were heading straight to Caer Drarrow now.
Now that we were alerte...
2023-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs it was night, the decks were mostly clear. There was Grey and Bella up at the helm as usual, consulting a compass and map, likely plotting and adjusting the route to Caer Drarrow. Sylvia’s gle...
2023-11-03 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Chapter 100! Even though, technically, we passed the 100th chapter I posted awhile ago. What with the interludes and all. Still, the number is nice to see.
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2023-11-01 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been three days since we’d started sailing, at this point. And Grey had been right. Not long after our departure, and after Azarus had gotten done smacking me around, our group had been pu...
2023-10-30 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostCassandra let go of Grey’s shining fist, and shrugged. “Oh well, I guess you’ll just be exiled for five years then.”
The tension in the room deflated like a stuck tire.
I blinke...
2023-10-27 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAt dinner that night, I asked Grey why this house was so dusty, and why it wasn’t in stasis like his room at the tavern had been.
“There is a size rule to the usage of stasis run...
2023-10-25 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThankfully, the inside of the manor was just as tastefully decorated as the outside. I only had experience with manor decorations in the style of dwarven nobility, and this wasn’t anywhere near t...
2023-10-23 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIsabella, or rather ‘Bella the Blue’, turned the Chain Breaker over and over in her hand. “Well, I’ll be damned,” She said, staring at it in amazement. “A way to really free slaves. Tha...
2023-10-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs I stared at the stone Sculpted laying motionless in a cage, it felt like I was waking up from a dream.
From the moment I had departed the tavern to track the slavers, it had felt like I wa...
2023-10-18 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post‘Porous’ Pete wondered if this was what sweating was supposed to feel like.
He wasn’t fleshy like the rest of the people sitting around the table. No, he was Sculpted, and sculpted out ...
2023-10-16 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Alphonse, Ruben,” Grey nodded at the man and then the dwarf, before pausing for a moment. “Cassandra.”
“Ugh,” The dwarf, apparently ‘Ruben’, grunted in disgust. He reached fo...
2023-10-13 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI did as Grey asked and fetched the wagon, bringing it to a rest on top of the ‘lift’. Once I did so, Grey activated the message board one more time, and had a short conversation with Skinflint...
2023-10-11 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen we had finished burying the patrol, Grey got to work covering up our tracks. With a wave of his hand, fresh grass sprouted over the mass grave, concealing their final resting place forever. Wi...
2023-10-09 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe took the time to bury the members of the patrol. Not just because it was the right thing to do, no. But because we needed to conceal the evidence of our battle with them. If there was one patrol...
2023-10-06 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“As I see things, Sergeant,” Grey said deliberately, crossing his arms over his thin chest. “There are two ways this encounter can go. One, you can submit to memory alteration, live to see an...
2023-10-04 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe’d been traveling for several hours when we noticed the patrol. Unfortunately, they no doubt saw us at the same time that we did. We’d been traveling for several hours by that point, since we...
2023-10-02 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
So, uh, I was looking at what I'd posted recently and realized something. I think I kinda forgot about the existence of Interludes for like a solid month lmao. By this point in book 1 &am...
2023-09-29 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHours later, I was back in the tavern again. It was early morning at this point, and after mine and Azarus’s impromptu expedition, it had been very early morning. Our group had broken up after th...
2023-09-27 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostI stared at the screen in shock, instinctively understanding what this was. Somehow, I’d run into something that I had never expected to, here on Vereden.
A functional computer.
Sure,...
2023-09-25 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI broke the silence that Azarus and I were walking in. “Do you…have any idea what this place is?” I whispered to Azarus. Despite my low tone, my words still echoed through the desolate halls ...
2023-09-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
This one and the next are important. Also, they might be a little contentious from the implications for the setting.
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Our ...
2023-09-20 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
I made a change to Chapter 76 - Projects. I had been waiting and waiting for the perfect chance to even explain what an 'Order' is and it just wasn't coming. By now, it's been like six ch...
2023-09-18 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostMarshal Leopold's words clearly didn’t sit well with the audience, as I saw multiple people around the table make faces. In particular, the Sculpted in the room seemed most upset. One of them, th...
2023-09-15 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Grey’s impromptu speech to the troops, our caravan was quickly escorted into the town proper. The gates weren’t quite shut behind us, but the large guard contingent that was posted seemed...
2023-09-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHollow Hill was much the way it had been described to me. It was bigger than Addersfield, not that that was much of an accomplishment. It didn’t hold a candle to the monstrous size that Rhoscara ...
2023-09-11 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post