South-East from Stoneheart
Aggie stepped from the Portal and looked over the causeway’s tightly fitted stones, taking in the Dwarven runes that showed the distance to Stone...
2021-10-18 10:23:11 +0000 UTC View PostEbusuku’s PoV - The Maze
A claw scraping is all the warning I get, and I twist away. The furry form is still airborne when another comes in low. Stepping into its lunge, my...
2021-10-16 09:56:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Ilya! Please let go of my ear.” I hiccup the words out around bubbling giggles as she drags me along beside her.
I’m not sure how many times I’ve asked, but as we leave the mar...
2021-10-13 12:50:26 +0000 UTC View PostHell's Songbird 5 - I've done the first pass on editing today.
Chapter 125 - Started today
Chained 7 - In progress
2021-10-13 07:45:05 +0000 UTC View PostEbusuku’s PoV - The Maze
The dead Orge is several long corridors away before my eyesight stops making progress adjusting to this place. The grey roughness of the floor is u...
2021-10-12 06:09:06 +0000 UTC View PostEbusuku’s PoV - The Maze
Blades dig and slither under my skin, crawling up my legs without a wound visible. Only when the pain reaches, my knees do I remember it. The cold ...
2021-10-09 08:48:47 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain stopped inside the camp’s boundary, and without turning regarded the Portal in True Sight. The blood-splattered ground marked it, and she could perceive how to interact with it. She was...
2021-10-05 12:45:25 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 122 - I finished writing today, so will do the first pass editing tomorrow.
Chained - 7 and Hell's Songbird - 5 - I progressed more today as well, but neither is close to being ...
2021-10-04 09:18:18 +0000 UTC View Post“Lady Amdirlain.”
The gruff voice disrupted her reading of the Code, which had turned out to be pragmatic rules that could have been titled ‘Don’t be an arse to your neighbour’. She...
2021-10-03 21:56:39 +0000 UTC View PostN’Oye glanced between O’Nai and Amdirlain after the Servant’s departure. “He looks like a green bird now.”
O’Nai frowned, and his form changed, growing back to his original height...
2021-10-01 22:13:58 +0000 UTC View PostWork has been pretty busy this week so haven't finished writing and editing the chapters I've got in progress at present. Hope to have new chapter(s) up over the weekend and early next week.
2021-10-01 06:37:55 +0000 UTC View PostAnother shiver hits me harder, but Ilya is still standing there open-mouthed in shock at my choice.
“Ilya, can we get moving?”
“What’s your rush, looking for something to kill y...
2021-09-26 07:17:10 +0000 UTC View PostAnother limitation of Clairvoyance showed itself as K’Lan led her through the Giant’s holding. While the Perception Skill worked, she couldn’t improve her eyesight, and True Sight likewise di...
2021-09-26 05:49:04 +0000 UTC View PostKi Movement had levelled during their journey, and though Teleport was always an option, she didn’t want to risk its use being taken as an insult. A toppled Elder tree supported at an angle by th...
2021-09-22 11:00:56 +0000 UTC View PostSince she’d stopped broadcasting the predator vibe, the jungle had come alive with sounds. The air’s humidity had made her sticky with condensation before Amdirlain landed and crouched to exami...
2021-09-20 12:51:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Lieutenant Ilya, this is your new assistant, Third Lieutenant Isaac. As Co-ordinator Makaro is generously providing you a subordinate, she expects you’ll more than double your kills over the n...
2021-09-18 19:01:36 +0000 UTC View PostSírdhem quickly returned with an Empowered Dusk Emerald, and her gaze went distant for a moment before she considered Amdirlain seriously.
“Would you tell me how you did this?” Sírdhem ...
2021-09-15 12:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostShe was barely outside the city’s wards when Planar Shift removed her from Àluga.
[Planar Shift (Self) [B](9->10)]
Even as she pushed the notification aside, she took in the dark ...
2021-09-13 00:34:17 +0000 UTC View PostA few hops using Planar Shift let her reach Àluga with ease, and beneath a beautiful blue sky, she teleported to a location found long ago and her work began. The air rippled as lightning rained a...
2021-09-11 20:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostOnce everyone acknowledged their readiness, a chant from Martialis twists the air, words disappearing from my awareness as their Celestial tones rasp against my hearing. As the echo of the last wor...
2021-09-07 12:28:22 +0000 UTC View PostA spell from Dunlan had caused the metal pellets to erupt from the crates. As they spiralled, Dunlan plucked random pieces from the air. It was a theatrical way to conduct a random contents check. ...
2021-09-06 23:47:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was nearly an hour later that Trinax gave up his fruitless attempts to talk his sister out of the deal they’d struck. Once she’d given her handshake, Jaixar hadn’t for even a moment appear...
2021-09-06 00:55:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Why the trinkets?” Gaius asked the words weighted with resignation as he re-entered the courtyard.
Only once I’d finished the latest rune did I glance up from cutting runes into a brok...
2021-09-04 04:12:38 +0000 UTC View PostFlavius storms out of his chamber and the guards leave close on his heels, making me wonder how they feel about being downwind of his sweat. Analysis on the other man gives me nothing at all, not e...
2021-09-04 04:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostPleasure, so much pleasure! My mind is a white blizzard of sensation so intense it defies simple description.
It was pulsing, singing, roaring and screaming through me, radiating from bruised...
2021-09-04 03:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe work crews don’t even swear as I race over the wall’s fallen remains. Beyond the breaches, regiments are setting barricades fashioned from spears and the bones of fallen Demons. A wicked he...
2021-09-04 03:56:25 +0000 UTC View PostAn enormous boulder nearly the size of a hill giant smashed apart only a few metres away, and a spray of shrapnel blasted across the siege engine’s crew. Two members close to the strike died in a...
2021-09-04 03:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostHell.
Wouldn’t have expected it to include Olympic grade queuing, like a work commute in peak-hour when half the trains are out.
Step by trudging step the line slowly shortens till fi...
2021-09-04 03:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post“She persists in saying she shouldn’t be here.”
The growling voice outside my cell is familiar, and I can’t help but giggle at its frustration. The music inside my mind skips about wi...
2021-09-04 03:52:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe passage to the Dwarven community was unchanged, and atop the wall the siege weaponry, with crews in place. Wrapped up in concealing spells, Amdirlain hoped their wards wouldn’t object. As she...
2021-09-04 03:50:11 +0000 UTC View Post