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2025-03-07 20:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fourth Bell was due to toll any moment now.
The Marheim Gate was settling down. The Night Market was finally past its prime, with half the vendors closing down their stalls, ready to be g...
2025-03-04 14:49:10 +0000 UTC View PostHarald went alone to the Platinum Rose Auction House that evening. He wanted time ponder Kársek’s words. They reminded him of his conversation with Pastoric, not so long ago. The warning the For...
2025-02-25 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHarald walked carefully over the corpses. The ground was muddy with blood, and his boots squelched each time he placed his next step carefully around an outflung limb, neck, or severed body part. T...
2025-02-19 17:23:48 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait!” cried Harald. “No! We hold the ridge!”
Everyone froze. Vic and Sam had already turned to begin racing back down into the jungle.
Screeches and trills sounded from the di...
2025-02-11 16:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post“You stole this from an angel,” said Sam, tone flat, as she stared at the Eclipse Edge laid out upon the dining table before her.
Everyone was gathered around. The countess, Nessa, Vic, a...
2025-02-04 17:07:16 +0000 UTC View PostHarald’s breath caught in his throat.
It was her.
The same woman he’d espied on the 4th. Her sleeves were rucked up just below her elbows, and a great bronze belt wrapped around her...
2025-01-28 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostA week.
Seven days.
That’s all that remained before he failed Thracos’ challenge to provide a terror bird Servitor.
Heading home from Sam’s place, Harald mulled his prospect...
2025-01-21 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostHarald stared at the ground. The grass was frosted, each blade defined and furred in white. His breath’s fog filled the air as he forced himself to exhale. Eadwolf’s words were eliciting little...
2025-01-15 03:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostHarald, Sam, and Kársek hit the 16th Level that afternoon.
The green miasma that cloaked the endless castles and walls was becoming all too familiar. Harald summoned Wirmas, who bowed low, a...
2025-01-07 15:13:00 +0000 UTC View PostEadwolf the Gray presented himself at dawn with a challenge brought by an extremely flustered Bosworth: to hunt him down on the Sonora grounds, where he would lie in wait for the crew.
“To ...
2024-12-31 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey detoured by the Platinum Rose. It was only a quick carriage ride away, and a hired cab deposited them before the broad steps only half a bell later.
There was no grand event in the offin...
2024-12-24 14:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThey made their way to Deepforge. It was a small, often overlooked part of Flutic, its buildings solidly built in the unmistakable style of the dwarves. Every building was built like a fortress, wi...
2024-12-17 14:45:04 +0000 UTC View PostHarald crept along, keeping low, moving from shadowed nook to darkened declivity as he circled around to the target hill.
Shadowpaw padded along soundlessly beside him. The Goldchops floated ...
2024-12-10 18:51:06 +0000 UTC View PostHarald dropped into a crouch as he materialized on the 18th.
A new level.
A whole new set of rules.
Around him stood his reavers, massive and bulky, two concentric circles around ...
2024-12-03 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostTime passed.
Hobgoblins bent knee and became reavers.
In his exaltation Wirmas found a salve for his fury and hatred.
Again and again his voice echoed forth across the green waste...
2024-11-26 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHarald emerged onto the Copper platform to be met by a crowd of guards and officials. At first he thought they were there to arrest him. Had he done something wrong? Had they figured out his tactic...
2024-11-19 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe three orcs actually glanced at each other.
Harald spread his arms, that visceral joy arising within him. There was no moral complexity here. No debating what he should do.
Here in t...
2024-11-12 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHarald awoke at dawn the morning after his raid. His strike? He lay in his bed, trying to decide what to call it. His assassinations?
And why was he awake so soon? The light outside his windo...
2024-11-05 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostI've already begun reshaping and editing the remaining chapters, and while everything you all have read will remain roughly the same, I'm going to inserting new material and editing more heavil...
2024-10-30 15:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, here's Part 2 of the general updates I've made to Harald's tale.
Again, the general outline remains much the same, but with a greater emphasis added throughout both ...
2024-10-30 15:34:47 +0000 UTC View PostAs promised, today I'm going to share the major updates that I've made to the story up till Chapter 90.
The big beats and plot elements all remain roughly the same, with only a f...
2024-10-30 15:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe sound of knocking dragged Lord Gorkin from the depths of his dreamless sleep. The stupendous amounts of highly refined yearn smoke he’d inhaled the night before yet clung to his mind. He lay ...
2024-10-29 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis crew clearly wasn’t anticipating being hit by a powerful foe with assassin-focused Abilities. They’d no doubt signed on to tonight’s shift expecting to sit around for yet another evening...
2024-10-22 12:47:36 +0000 UTC View PostDarkness was falling across the streets and courtyards and buildings of Flutic. A gentle dusk, softening the sounds of traffic, trade, and desperation.
Lantern lighters were walking down the ...
2024-10-15 14:18:50 +0000 UTC View Post“So I have concerns about Bosworth,” said Harald in what he hoped was a calm and nonchalant tone.
The countess sat across a small round table from him in the back garden, a tea set laid b...
2024-10-08 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostHarald stared at the ebon crystal. Just like the Shadow Mastiff’s, it was eight-faced, a black diamond that spun slowly in place, trapped within the confines of the rosewood box.
“She got...
2024-10-04 19:50:10 +0000 UTC View PostHarald felt his heart lurch.
Thracos.
“We do, yes.” He fought for composure. “I meant to find you sooner. But I was… indisposed.”
“So Countess Sonora has informed me e...
2024-10-04 19:49:12 +0000 UTC View Post
No computer/Internet yet, but I'm working things via phone. Hence my ability to post this sketch for a possible new cover based on everyone's feedback. What do you guys think?
(Things ...
2024-10-02 21:07:36 +0000 UTC View Post