Flameruner

Memoirs 384 - Meeting or none

The change came with surprisingly little fanfare.

There were no more arrays unfurling overhead, no fresh storm of light to announce the shift.

All Scarlett felt was a distilled, singula...

Memoirs 383 - Geas

Yamina activated the arrays at the heart of the chamber, and the floor itself sighed open like an eye. Glyph-lines woke one after another, chasing new paths across the marble in patient, concentric...

Memoirs 382 - To the Tower

“Slate,” Scarlett said, eyes fixed on the pale, expressionless girl standing inside the metallic cradle before them. “Come.”

She gestured for Slate to climb out of the structure.

Memoirs 381 - Tribute of Dominion

[Main questline Updated: What comes next]
{The Chamber of Sovereignty has been reached. The Tribute of Dominion awaits. The turning of Fate teeters. What will be done with this ...

Memoirs 380 - Completions

Scarlett and Arnaud dealt with the remaining Cabal groups without major incident. Though she’d needed a few mana potions—especially after the clash with Leon and the others—she hadn’t come ...

Memoirs 379 - Heroic face-offs

Regina stared at the sea of fire before them, its flickering light carving Baroness Hartford’s silhouette into something almost divine—an effigy wrought from flame. The heat in the chamber pres...

Memoirs 378 - Villainess

Scarlett stood enveloped in a vast, colourless void — endless stretches of white and grey as far as her eyes could reach.

An indescribable pressure bore down on her, threatening to subsume ...

Memoirs 377 - Wards and Provisions

Arnaud Astrey breathed in the brilliance of the fading golden radiance swirling around him as a resonant chime echoed through the chamber.

Everything went still.

The projections, ghosts...

Next chapter up soon (ish)

Next chapter will be up in somewhere around 12h, give or take a few hours. (Some unforeseen circumstances means I currently don't have access to the latest chapter, and for some reason I have yet t...

Memoirs 376 - Her name was Amy

Scarlett walked. Just walked.

She didn’t look back. There was no need. She could still sense the presence trailing her through the quiet, borderless nothing. Soon, though, her surroundings ...

Memoirs 375 - The Beginnings

Scarlett saw visions.

Or was that what they were?

She wasn’t sure. It was hard to tell. They came in fleeting flashes, yet each seemed to stretch on far longer than made sense.

...

Memoirs 374 - Barred

Scarlett was gone.

Fynn didn’t know where she’d vanished to. He didn’t know where Rosa had disappeared to earlier, either. Both were simply gone, leaving no trace.

Memoirs 373 - Fatekiller

Scarlett watched the woman closely. “Kill Fate?” she repeated.

Yamina nodded once.

Scarlett stayed silent. The sea of gold around them almost seemed to thrum, as if to mirror the en...

Memoirs 372 - Opposites attract

Scarlett turned.

A woman stood there, deep purple hair framing her face, gold-rimmed glasses perched on her nose.

Yamina. But not the vacant girl from before. This was the real...

Memoirs 371 - Waiting beyond the fray

The echoes of battle dimmed into a tense hush, broken only by Rosa’s slightly uneven breathing. Scarlett stood silent, watching her.

Then she stepped forward and set a firm hand on Rosa’s...

Memoirs 370 - Within the threads

What exactly qualified as a major lapse in judgement?

Raimond couldn’t say for certain. Oh, he had plenty of ideas—brilliant, if he did say so himself—but most people would no doubt veh...

Memoirs 369 - Hidden strings

Nobody moved. All eyes were fixed on the girl standing before them.

Yamina Ward stood utterly still. Eerily lifeless, in a way that felt almost staged — like a prop left behind on an abando...

Memoirs 368 - Reflections of pasts and futures

The reflections materialised all around them, their mere presence enough to set Scarlett’s party on edge. The memory of their last clash with the Cabal’s group was still fresh. That time, the s...

Memoirs 367 - Spurning

The atmosphere carried a blend of suspense and expectancy as Scarlett and the others pressed deeper into the dark passages of whatever level of Beld Thylelion they now occupied.

Even though s...

Memoirs 366 - Legends

There once was a mage lauded as a genius among geniuses.

Born during a time of turmoil—when a fledgling empire clawed its existence through constant war and shifting allegiances, and the pa...

Memoirs 365 - Early arrivals

Scarlett wasn’t sure what to expect from this new, unexplored section of Beld Thylelion. She didn’t know what to make of the seemingly divine presence saturating its walls, nor of the ‘charge...

Poll - Follow-up

As per the poll results, there won't be a chapter today and on the coming Thursday. There will instead be a couple extra chapters in the weeks following that.

Poll - Chapter schedule for coming week

A big work project + presentation popped up that will require much of my attention for the coming week (until next Thursday). This will be the last time this happens for the foreseeable future, but...

Memoirs 364 - Special people

“We need to be cautious here,” Princess Regina said from Leon’s right, gesturing towards the alabaster-white structure in the chamber’s centre. “That’s another hostile construct. Sir Le...

Memoirs 363 - Intervals

Leon’s boots scraped against uneven stone, the sound echoing through the ceilingless corridor like breath rasping in a hollow throat. Above them stretched only darkness, while the path ahead twis...

Memoirs 362 - What awaits

“Scarlett!” Kat’s voice rang out, quickly echoed by the others as they entered the chamber behind her. Their eyes darted between her and the burning scroll hovering in the air.

“I am ...

Memoirs 361 - Itris

The air was different. Heavier. Hotter. It carried the scent of scorched stone and something sharper beneath.

Around them, the lift shaft was silent and cold. But ahead, a single archway stoo...

Memoirs 360 - Bypassing (not so) mainframes

Scarlett remained on the ruined platform where they’d fought the Cabal troupe, lingering until Rosa stirred. Thankfully, Allyssa’s estimate had been accurate, and within minutes, the bard shift...

Update on schedule stuff

Generally, things have calmed down a lot more and I'll be returning to a more consistent schedule. Tonight's chapter will be up tomorrow, but after that, there likely won't be too many additional d...

Memoirs 359 - Scary ol' knights

They stepped through the archway together.

The corridor gave way to something less like a chamber and more like a half-collapsed vault, its interior split into sharp, angular channels. There ...