I stood before the massive guild hall and couldn’t help but be impressed. I’d seen my share of stately buildings back on Earth, but this one had by far the best landscaping. ...
2023-12-08 22:56:12 +0000 UTC
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It cost 30 silvers and about ten years of my life to go those 20 minutes. Gloria dropped us off right at the sidewalk in front of the guild hall and it was all I could do to not ...
2023-12-06 22:34:51 +0000 UTC
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I had been lied to, or maybe I lied to myself. Clearly, my beliefs as to what Otherworld was capable of was wrong. I was expecting some sort of medieval village tucked away...
2023-12-04 14:40:13 +0000 UTC
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The shadow was bored, so very bored. It was almost used to the boredom now, but the time spent down here was just unappetizing. There was nothing to kill.
The foe was k...
2023-12-03 23:57:20 +0000 UTC
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I exhaled, my white breath vanishing through the open windows the moment I breathed. The icy chill blasted over me and for a moment I forgot where I was when the entire airship b...
2023-12-01 23:56:53 +0000 UTC
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“This vacation is going to be awesome,” I said.
“It will be better than that, we are going to eat all the food and paint the town gray,” said Shade.
“You paint th...
2023-11-29 20:42:44 +0000 UTC
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The ancient castle stood tall, built in the ancient style that predated even the legendary Dominion. It had withstood assaults, from within and without and through it all preserv...
2023-11-28 04:44:08 +0000 UTC
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The inside of the dungeon looked surprisingly like it did back on Ordinal. The entrance and exit both fed through the same area, but the exit was typically closed unless someone had defeated ...
2023-11-26 23:41:49 +0000 UTC
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Everyone stopped at the entrance to the lizard’s cave. Spivy was working her magic on Shade, who seemed to have a few minor cuts. I pulled out one of our precious healing...
2023-11-24 19:20:04 +0000 UTC
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(notes, the Flash Skill was redefined as a spell so I could explain how those work, long and short, spells work outside your essence bubble while skills rapidly fade. Flash is technically a ...
2023-11-20 18:55:05 +0000 UTC
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“Puma Check, quadrant two,” cried Shart, blasting the area with magical darts. A limb shattered and one of the drop pumas slammed to the ground where Badgelor pounced.
...
2023-11-19 22:56:37 +0000 UTC
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You could tell it was noon from the sunlight streaming in from the small holes in the roof. I'd been asleep for less than 4 hours, probably much less, but somehow that was enough...
2023-11-17 20:26:35 +0000 UTC
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A bleary eyed Eggard frowned at his incompetent assistant, “You said it was lightly guarded.”
“Yesterday it was,” Savina replied hotly. “I was just here and there...
2023-11-16 02:41:26 +0000 UTC
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Even with the essence reinforcing my mental fortitude, I was exhausted. Killing rats, which is what we were doing to the small ones, was tedious work when all you had was a spear...
2023-11-13 18:22:23 +0000 UTC
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“Wake up, dum dum,” said Shart. I jostled awake. Sleeping on a Shadow Whale was strangely comfortable if I had to be honest. The flesh of the creature was kind of s...
2023-11-12 22:56:48 +0000 UTC
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We went back in through the sewer in a particularly stealthy manner.
“You don’t need to carry me,” said Shade.
“I have boots, you have paws. I don’t want yo...
2023-11-10 22:40:26 +0000 UTC
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The street was in the middle of town and there were a number of decently sized buildings all around me. Most looked residential, and a few looked like they might have been apartm...
2023-11-08 19:36:00 +0000 UTC
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Spivy, for all of her many, many faults, was the adventuring coach I should have always listened to. She quickly and competently assessed the situation and started putting everyt...
2023-11-06 23:28:47 +0000 UTC
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“It’s yours by default, you are going to have to wear it,” said Julia uncomfortably.
Fenris looked at her, “I’m certain I misheard you.”
Julia sighed, looking dow...
2023-11-05 23:33:20 +0000 UTC
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The inn was two stories of solid timber with a country flair that I found entirely comforting. It looked so in place in this tiny rural town, that it just screamed come in here a...
2023-11-04 02:06:18 +0000 UTC
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Structurally, I'm dividing this book into parts like I did with Fifth Era. That's mainly to keep everything easy to reference, but it also allows me to put book ends on the parts sort of lik...
2023-11-01 18:23:16 +0000 UTC
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(This is a shorter chapter setting up part 2 of the book. Also Shadow got renamed to Shade because him having a shadow core and a shadow form was getting confusing, so Shade) (Plus I named h...
2023-10-31 02:18:29 +0000 UTC
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“Ready,” I yelled and Shart continued waving his hands around.
“Not yet, air currents are going to be a bitch,” he yelled.
“Hurry up, those shadow chickens brought ...
2023-10-29 23:00:44 +0000 UTC
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As we approached Darven the land started looking a lot more settled. The open forest gave way to well tended fields. Fields full of crops I did not recognize. For som...
2023-10-27 23:50:24 +0000 UTC
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So Sarah's condition was untreatable a few years ago, but modern science laughs in the face of things like kidney failure and she's got maybe 10 years to live. There is a treatment path for S...
2023-10-26 03:53:57 +0000 UTC
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We left the warrens and emerged into a forest that looked like it could be right out of anywhere in America. We ran downhill until I was about to collapse, and Shadow was panting...
2023-10-26 03:51:39 +0000 UTC
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"What are you? Public enemy number one?" I yelled as we started running through the caves. I had no idea where we were going but the tunnel I was sure led back to earth no longer...
2023-10-23 18:40:29 +0000 UTC
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He let the last one suffer, feeding it too much mana but not quite enough to cause it to explode. The bug wasn’t stupid, just conditioned. The bugs needed mana to survive. This ...
2023-10-22 22:26:59 +0000 UTC
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So it turned out talking dogs were way higher on my weirdness scale than goblins.
“Since when can you talk,” I yelled, scrambling back as best as I could with one lame leg.
2023-10-20 01:32:08 +0000 UTC
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(Author's note, so I have to drive Sarah to the dialysis clinic 3x a week and it gets real boring there. When I get bored, I write. I'm not in a good headspace at the moment, but I'm j...
2023-10-19 02:22:27 +0000 UTC
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