James looked at the spot where a second ago stood a group of knights and grumbled as he retracted all the shadows he had spread. He could feel the only people left were those that had been surveyin...
2023-01-15 23:09:41 +0000 UTC View PostThe warehouse shook as the explosion washed over its entrance, and the workers inside had to cover their ears and close their eyes to spare their poor senses from the effects of the detonation, all...
2023-01-09 15:31:34 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a week now since they had all been recruited by the newest face on the Black Block - not that he actually had a face, so far as they knew. They had all been looking for work, most of th...
2023-01-01 22:24:00 +0000 UTC View PostAtop a relatively impressive building in the slums, in a much better state than its neighbors, was the office of the man who'd call himself the number one expert in runes this side of the country. ...
2022-12-24 16:34:42 +0000 UTC View PostHere's the new cover! Made by gravemud on Tumblr. https://gravemud.tumblr.com/
2022-12-19 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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James took in a deep breath and readied himself in a fencer's pose, his extended right arm holding a dark blade, his left at his back, and his legs spread in such a way his feet formed an angle, an...
2022-12-18 17:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostDane shivered in their hospital bed.
They couldn't remember how long it had been since they first woke up in these very sheets with a cast over their right leg, but they were sure it was too ...
2022-12-11 18:17:05 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings! If you kept an eye on the info I release, you might recall there was a project to make an audiobook of Silhouette.
Goods news and bad news.
The bad news is, we won't be...
2022-12-11 14:15:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings! If you've kept checking the Royal Road releases you should know that I have been looking for an artist for a while now, and I'm very happy to say I finally found one who took the job to ...
2022-12-09 15:05:21 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough James had been very tempted to stick around for his new employees' first day of work, he reasoned it would be more detrimental than beneficial. The whole point of the operation was for pot...
2022-12-04 20:54:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a very long and very draining day spent interviewing more and more eccentric and or desperate slum dwellers looking for work in his newly acquired and modified warehouse, James barely held hi...
2022-11-27 17:17:16 +0000 UTC View PostThrough one of the many black one-way windows, James, glued to the ceiling, looked at the people gathered before the warehouse and readied himself. His infused had quickly finished installing the n...
2022-11-18 18:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostJames dug into the earth, once more excavating an underground passage between the sewers and one of his bases. Tentacles as hard as steel pierced the solid material before him before elongating and...
2022-11-08 18:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostJames was very tempted to rub his chin with a tentacle, but staying stoic was probably better for his reputation.
"And you say this warehouse has only recently come into your possessi...
2022-11-02 17:43:23 +0000 UTC View PostJames took a deep breath - or rather, mimicked the action since he had no lung or respiratory tract - and focused on the target in front of him.
He was back in the sewers lair, three days aft...
2022-10-29 17:05:34 +0000 UTC View PostZalcien was, in the grand scope of things, a forgettable place. A city large enough to be considered one of the core members of the Alliance of City-States, but far too small to be of any importanc...
2022-10-21 17:11:38 +0000 UTC View PostUp on top of a building in the slums of Zalcien stood an open office, home to one of the many members of the cabal of criminal mages known as Wicked Witchcraft, though who distinguished himself fro...
2022-10-14 19:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostSarah and the others were sitting on white couches - Elaimant had their own due to their size, Kopper and Glicer shared, and Sarah and Scareowl had agreed they were more comfortable with each havin...
2022-10-09 16:21:30 +0000 UTC View PostSarah was on the verge of banging her head on her desk.
In the official Hero Union trainee white full-body suit, the short, lithe ginger girl watched in despair as the Legion teaching them go...
2022-10-02 19:28:48 +0000 UTC View PostToday was a weird day for the people of the slums of Zalcien living near the Black Block. A troop of thugs and a few mages led by a trio of knights, chief of which was Pierce Evil, one of the most ...
2022-09-24 19:12:24 +0000 UTC View PostAs thirty men and women charged toward his shop, led by a pair of helmetless knights in iron armor and a very eye-catching one wearing golden jousting equipment while a couple of mages stood in the...
2022-09-19 21:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe slums of Zalcien had always been tumultuous, from their dark origins at the tentacles of an aberrant monstrosity that forever doomed its inhabitants and their descendants to a life of pariahs t...
2022-09-13 19:32:25 +0000 UTC View PostAs soon as he had stepped into the Black Bloc, James had been fully aware someone was following him. That was the plan, after all, and why he appeared as Silhouette in the first place rather than h...
2022-09-07 21:16:38 +0000 UTC View PostOn the second floor of a decrepit abandoned building on Zalcien's Black Block, Carn the thug opened the door to the room he and his friend Gaston were in, torturing Dane, a child that served as one...
2022-08-31 19:37:06 +0000 UTC View PostGaston was a simple man. He liked breaking stuff, especially bones, and he was more than fine following orders. It was why he was happy as could be in the life of the simple goon. People gave him m...
2022-08-24 19:27:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter some time to rest and a few episodes of Captain Cyan to cool down, the whole family was back to the training room, this time to try and get the most out of the ratlings' new tricks.
For...
2022-08-17 17:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostSomewhere in the slums of Zalcien, somewhere between the infamous center where the Horror lied and the border with the rest of the city proper, was a five-story tall building in relatively good con...
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