Hi, everyone!
I wanted to drop a note to keep you all in the loop with my plans and to make sure it's clear what's available on the Patreon.
1. Falling with Folded Wings:
2022-05-02 14:07:54 +0000 UTC
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It ended up taking Morgan, Issa, and the band of refugees from Blake’s keep four days to get to the forest outside of Tarn’s Crossing. When they’d finally gotten everyone down the escarpment ...
2022-04-30 14:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Patrons, here's Sunday's Victor installment a little early. Let me know what you think, please!
-Plum
After sorting through the wounded delvers and seeing to their inj...
2022-04-29 20:14:36 +0000 UTC
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Olivia waved her hand in front of her face while looking into the mirror. She didn’t quite know how to feel about what was happening to her. To his credit, Professor ap’Gravin hadn’t sk...
2022-04-29 14:25:24 +0000 UTC
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Hi all, just absorbing some feedback and trying to make Victor seem a little less "passive" about his situation.
2. Status
“After we eat, we get y...
2022-04-28 15:27:11 +0000 UTC
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Olivia sat on the stone bench, hands folded in her lap, and did her best not to feel like a mouse under the predatory gaze of Professor Oylla-dak. Something in her didn’t shrink away, though, and...
2022-04-28 14:19:17 +0000 UTC
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After Morgan released all of the former prisoners of Gunther and Blake, he and Issa explored up the spiral stairs, looking for where Blake had stashed her dimensional bags and gear. If he were hone...
2022-04-27 14:27:14 +0000 UTC
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“Should I assign my five points from level ten before looking at my class choices?” Olivia asked Alyss. They were sitting in Alyss’s office, which would have made a fully tenured Harvard prof...
2022-04-26 14:52:54 +0000 UTC
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Morgan was starting to think the sedative wasn’t going to work. Perhaps the dosage for such a large pot had been insufficient. Perhaps alchemical concoctions couldn’t be mixed with other substa...
2022-04-25 14:27:07 +0000 UTC
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Really sorry I was slow posting this! I just wrote it this morning and got busy (moving house and painter showed up.)
Thanks all!
Three of Lam’s Furies had died figh...
2022-04-24 17:41:53 +0000 UTC
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Victor followed the old, blue Ardeni man to the back of Lam’s barracks, where he’d promised to hook him up with a belt. It was cool that he was allowed to have a club, considering he was basica...
2022-04-23 19:52:35 +0000 UTC
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Keiry spun around with a gasp, and Morgan held his hand out palm-down, his sword tucked against his body by his shortened left arm. “Please stay quiet; like I said, I’m here to help.”
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2022-04-23 15:53:16 +0000 UTC
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Olivia was disturbed to see that more upper-class students and professors had shown up for her demonstration than had for the awards assembly. She was standing on stage next to Alyss, wearing her g...
2022-04-22 14:17:23 +0000 UTC
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“Why did Alyss write that you shouldn’t be near anything flammable? Are you going to burst into flames?” Rald asked as they looked around the commons for a good spot for Olivia to absorb the ...
2022-04-21 14:56:53 +0000 UTC
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“You shouldn’t let them get to you like that, Olivia,” Veena said, taking a seat at the foot of Olivia’s bed. They were all still hovering around her, some sitting on her bed, some on Veena...
2022-04-20 14:13:41 +0000 UTC
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The awards assembly took place in a large auditorium that Olivia hadn’t yet visited. It reminded her a lot of one of the larger lecture halls at university, except for the aesthetics: polished wo...
2022-04-19 14:30:50 +0000 UTC
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Happy Monday, all! Thanks a lot, to those of you that took the time to go over to RR and support my new story! I really appreciate it!
As he hurried across the twenty or s...
2022-04-18 14:02:05 +0000 UTC
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Victor still hadn’t taken a look inward to his Core by the time the wagon trundled to a stop at the bottom of the long, hard-packed gravel road. He was afraid of what he’d find; right now, he h...
2022-04-18 02:17:07 +0000 UTC
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The journey through the grasslands of the Chebli Sea went smoothly for Morgan and Issa. They didn’t run into the Ardeni herders, nor did they encounter any wildlife of any size. They saw lots of ...
2022-04-16 15:17:05 +0000 UTC
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Dear Patrons -
I'm pushing Victor's story live on RR this weekend. If you have time and enjoyed reading the story here, I'd really appreciate it if you could go over there and give a fo...
2022-04-15 16:07:45 +0000 UTC
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“Well, that’s a little disturbing,” Arthur said after Morgan explained that he could sense Bronwyn but that she was extremely distant and not in any clear direction that he could tell.
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2022-04-15 14:09:35 +0000 UTC
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Morgan sat behind the desk in the tower’s study and frowned at the little alchemy book. Gaerwolt’s Secret Recipes was half recipe book and half love letter. Each recipe was prefaced wi...
2022-04-14 14:35:47 +0000 UTC
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When the wagons creaked to a halt that evening and the wooden door at the back rattled with the efforts of someone to remove a heavy lock, Victor sat up, painfully, to get a good look outside. His ...
2022-04-13 15:36:46 +0000 UTC
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Victor felt like the lord that the guard had gone to fetch would arrive any moment, so he lay there tensely, his mind providing detailed fantasies about what kind of hell was waiting for him. He la...
2022-04-13 15:34:58 +0000 UTC
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“You know, I really didn’t think much about escaping until they put this fucking collar on my neck,” Victor said, trying to squeeze a finger between his skin and the thick metal band; he had ...
2022-04-13 15:33:23 +0000 UTC
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Victor sank back into the cushions of the coach, the scents of perfume, sweat, and old smoke wafting up around him. As he swallowed the fruit, which hadn’t tasted like a plum, more like an orange...
2022-04-13 15:29:24 +0000 UTC
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The liveried servant led Victor down another pathway through the gardens to yet another lawn, where a fighting pit had been dug and lined with fresh wood; the smell of sawdust and paint still hung ...
2022-04-13 15:28:20 +0000 UTC
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These are the last 5 chapters in "Part 1: Pit Fighter" - I'm going to start pushing them to RR this weekend, so here's an advance look for you, my dear Patrons!
2022-04-13 15:27:33 +0000 UTC
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On Monday morning, Olivia sat next to Veena, as usual, in their Enchanting lab, and while they waited for Professor Brince to come in, she asked, “Isn’t it odd that there are seven days in your...
2022-04-13 15:00:15 +0000 UTC
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The next few days ran together in Olivia’s mind. She followed a simple routine of exercising, cultivating, eating, studying, eating, visiting with a cohort member, eating, cultivating, studying, ...
2022-04-12 14:19:19 +0000 UTC
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