Michael Clark

Tunel Rat Chapter 154

Short, but I like where it ends...

Milo rolled twice and then got his feet under him, crouching behind a barrel. He heard the small click as the crossbow was cocked and knew the di...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 153

The Cheese Caravan was in full swing, and Limburger Hollow was celebrating. The local musicians had joined with those in the caravan to put on an enthusiastic show. The Caravan was supplying cheesy...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 222

This is a short chapter. It finishes off the writathon, and has a lot of tables with skills following the text. I'm not putting the tables in here, as they just don't work in Patreon.

I hav...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 152

The wagon of Merchant Greensleeves’s was first in line as it entered the outer edge of the caves surrounding Limburger Hollow. He called a halt to the caravan and ordered a one-hour break for res...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 151

Redfawn beat on the glass of pickle jar she had been captured in, but she wasn't strong enough to break enchanted pickle glass. Through the green tinted glass, she saw her other fairy friends being...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 150

A short one. Hard to think of spider jokes :)

The avenging army of the Iron Spider trudged onward to victory. Their crafty general had chosen to move through the lower tunnels. Their general...

TunnelRat Chapter 149

This was one hell of a raid! Just getting to the main fight was a test!

Brannigan had called a recent break to let the healers administer first aid and mend some wounds, and then some additio...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 148

Milo watched Petey walk away. He seemed like a nice guy, and the twins got along with him. Well, except for when they framed him for stealing jelly beans. Having wanted to hit the twins in the head...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 147

The Puffyfur Tea party was in full swing.

There had been some disappointment that Professor Tallsqueak would not be attending, and bit of confused emotions about Larry attending. These had be...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 145

I'm wondering whether this chapter should follow "Too Much Bleu" directly, or if the Dwarven Holiday in Chapter 146 should come first. Thoughts?

Milo was unsure of what was going on, and on ...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 146

I'm happy with the theme of this chapter, but it may need some expansion. Comments and advice welcome as usual.


A party of explorers marched through the caverns far below Shadowport. Con...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 221

"So, it's just you and I again, Mr. Ozzy. Time to take a look and see what sort of ship we have here."

The ship was 40 feet long and 15 feet wide with a single mast. Her poop deck was rais...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 220

Three people were ignoring the mayhem that was happening inside Baron Pinchpenny's keep. The first was the Baron himself. His hearing was not good, and even if he had noticed the screams of panicke...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 219

The road to Northguard was in a sad state of disrepair, and the man riding the horse chose to stay off of it and take the side of the road instead. Less chance of his horse stepping in a hole and g...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 218

How the hell do you get into trouble so fast, Woodrat? You were barely half a minute ahead of me!"

The cold green eyes turned towards Ozzy. He saw small flashes of lightning in the whirling...

Butcher of Gadobra Chapter 217

Captain Woodrat and his mate set out across the Sargasso, doing their best to keep to a straight course, but becoming sidetracked time and again by the lure of a derelict ship nearby. To explore th...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 216

"Good job, Captain! You found breakfast."

As he saw Woodrat lifted into the air by the tentacle, Ozzy threw concentrated on the chain wrapped around his arm and through it. It wrapped seve...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 144

Larry awoke early. Larry always got up early. His tummy was too growly in the morning to sleep, and he always pondered the important question: What's for breakfast?

He looked over at his Je...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 143

P'tashPak'r, the Exalted General of the 10th Host. P'tashPak'r, the cripple. P'tashPak'r, the abomination and exile.

No more. She was going back, to return to glory and kill her most hated ...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 142

Milo had appropriated a spare corner in Cichol's Arcane Library. He needed the privacy and the advice of the old mage to work on a special project. The table he was working on had a polished stone ...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 141

The next few days flew by for Milo.

Basic Claw Drills. Sparring. Breakfast with Larry followed by stories of Larry in Flowerland. Engineering class. Lunch with Larry and dancing afterwards....

Butcher of Gadobhra 212

A day earlier Rufus and Miriam had delivered the first of the upgraded war-machines that would be installed in the towers of the new keep. For now, they would go on the walls of the old keep. Georg...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 213

Brain Burning. Posted stuff out of order. Wrote 10k yesterday and trying for 10k more today. Writathon pushes me to get more done and makes me wish I could just write every day, but makes me a litt...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 215

I've been debating where to slide in the chapter on Jack and decided it will be 214. Then we get back to our duo and their quest for a bigger boat.

Woodrat made the decision to hea...

Butcher of Gadobhra Chapter 212

Of the secondary characters, Georges has slowly beome one of my favorites along with Rufus, McTeeth, and Zephyr. I see him as a very solid worker, who knows what he likes to do, and is happiest doi...

Butcher of Gadobhra, Chapter 211

Georges was standing on the highest point of Rowan keep, which happened to be a pole that extended 200 feet into the air.

He'd needed a good view of the area from a tall point to make the be...

Butcher of Gadobhra, Jack Fyrebeard.

The heat began rolling over Ozzy in waves. Woodrat quit struggling and went quiet after a bit of time, and Ozzy was feeling feverish. His heat was going up at a constant rate, with a spike as each ...

Bringing in a Jack

If you want to know what Jack Fyrebeard looks like, imagine your well dressed dandy of a pirate who is lean and quick. Jack Sparrow fits this stereotype, but he wasn't the inspiration for Fyrebeard...

Update and Moving forward (Non-Story)

Writathon is a beast that I need to slay. I really wanted to do it, but felt bad giving extra love to one story and not the other. So I made the mistake of just deciding to write faster.

No...

Tunnel Rat Chapter 140 Rough Draft

Tweedle and Ringtail were waiting for him at the start of dinner. They had on sturdy outfits of dull brown, backpacks, a bandolier of knives, rope and grapples, bedrolls, and a bag of jelly beans. ...