“You remember the squirrels?”
“From yesterday, and the day before? My memory is not so feeble as that, Lord Seiji.”
“Well, it’s been a big day since then, lots of reve...
2023-03-17 02:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks. I hate that these seem to happen every other month these days, but painful experience has taught me that leaning into this is the best way to put it to a decisive end rather than l...
2023-03-15 03:12:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Lord Seiji.” The paladin turned to face my directly. “I thought we had an understanding.”
“Yeah, the understanding was for one mission: go into the forest, inv...
2023-03-10 01:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostBiribo led me around the side of the house, where we immediately found—naturally—more zombies. I skidded to a halt as the next horde turned their slack jaws and glowing green eyes on me, ...
2023-03-07 01:42:17 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t know you.”
I shifted to squint at Rhydion, who was staring at Ozyraph. That was his first comment?
I was excruciatingly aware that I was not firing on all ...
2023-03-02 20:43:48 +0000 UTC View PostRussel Todd asks:
"If it isn't spoilers or anything like that, have Virya & Sanora ever done self-inserts as champions? Reason I ask is that if they are looking to ke...
2023-02-22 14:37:42 +0000 UTC View PostDhinell began to hyperventilate. For once I wasn’t enjoying her discomfort; I had my hands full managing my own brain. While Rhydion stepped over to the priestess, placing one hand on...
2023-02-21 02:20:14 +0000 UTC View PostRhydion was across the room and through the door before any of us could react. By the time we thought to so much as follow, his voice was echoing from the hall beyond.
“Wait! Pl...
2023-02-20 01:57:22 +0000 UTC View PostThe hall Rhydion picked was on the ground floor—or I guess the second floor, with the actual ground being below us. Good, that put the party two stories separate from the Yomiko shrine I di...
2023-02-16 17:09:29 +0000 UTC View PostI'm very sorry for missing the AMAs last month. It was a really bad time in terms of brain problems and I fell behind on a bunch of stuff. Trying to catch up now. By way of apolog...
2023-02-13 23:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostWe discovered a new property to the gunk in the windows now that our backs were to them: rather than filtering the light amber as it seemed they should, those cobweb-honeycomb structures inside see...
2023-02-10 01:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s interesting how scenery alone can tell a story.
Approaching the vampire’s manor, getting a progressively better view of the house itself and its surroundings, was like unrolling a sc...
2023-02-08 02:15:40 +0000 UTC View PostWe all stared at the slime.
I made an unnecessary hand gesture and directed it to slither out from the pieces of the corpse, causing everyone else to retreat a few steps. I couldn’t b...
2023-01-27 03:51:59 +0000 UTC View Post“And what is a vampire, exactly?”
We were back on the ground and on the move at dawn, Rhydion and I being in agreement—albeit for separate reasons—that it was best to respect...
2023-01-26 02:07:33 +0000 UTC View Post“I will not step on the leader’s tail,” Vylkher said suddenly when we were halfway across a rope bridge over a terrifying gap I was fully occupied not thinking about, “but you should know t...
2023-01-19 23:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostWell, she sure called it.
“You have been offered hospitality for the night, and our word is good,” the squirrel chieftain stated minutes later when we were brought before him. After...
2023-01-17 00:25:55 +0000 UTC View PostVylkher and the squad really knew how to apply pressure without overtly doing it; I loved watching professionals at work. In fairness, most of it was taking advantage of the golden situation ...
2023-01-13 01:41:38 +0000 UTC View PostIncredibly frustrating development. I was making good progress finally, but I ended up having to backtrack because what I managed to write pushed the story into a corner that cut off importan...
2023-01-12 05:41:14 +0000 UTC View PostAs planned, our eventual campsite was well within what Harker informed us was squirrelfolk territory. He also claimed the squirrels probably had scouts watching us by now, but so far they had...
2023-01-09 02:13:07 +0000 UTC View PostThere’s just something about knowing things other people don’t.
Not like the fact that I’m secretly an uber-powerful Dark Lord walking discreetly among the populace; that kind ...
2023-01-05 15:56:45 +0000 UTC View PostJoe ? asks:
"So do Ephemeran elves have super hearing or not? Sometimes it seems like they do, sometimes it seems like they don't."
OVDT elves are a different ...
2022-12-26 11:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
The Avenist chapter I just posted will be my last one of the year as I've decided to go on my monthly writing break following this. It's an odd time, I know, but it does encompass Christm...
It was all so gratifying, and never ceased to be no matter how many times he had experienced it. The roar of the crowd as the handful of Blessed adventurers scampered around the enraged khoro...
2022-12-24 01:12:56 +0000 UTC View PostOne question per person per month, please! Five questions from this tier will be answered!
2022-12-21 19:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostSecurity at Caer Aelthwyn was tighter than on the city walls or the Kingsguard’s headquarters itself, but Norovena still walked right in. These were, after all, his men on duty. His <...
2022-12-21 03:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Uh, ‘scuze me? I got a question.”
“Yes, Nekko?”
The goblin winced, averting his eyes for a moment, and Velaven took note of the need to train him on poise. A shad...
2022-12-16 03:27:08 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I found my voice, it was quiet, controlled, with a low-key menacing quality which I’d perfected over the last few months and which I strongly suspected did not impress him much.
“Bla...
2022-12-12 22:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s not overreact,” Aster urged. “It was a snowball. If that’s the worst thing anybody wants to do to you, you’ve made an unusually positive impression.”
“Birib...
2022-12-09 03:55:30 +0000 UTC View Post“There’s an idea, where I am from,” I began, positioning myself with my back to the fence and subtly adjusting my stance and body language to take on a lecturing demeanor. “The belief...
2022-12-05 21:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt only occurred to me just now, as I was sitting here at midnight hyped up on caffeine amid the ruins of my destroyed sleep schedule and still recovering from covid, that I never did take my usual...
2022-12-01 08:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post