William was just about to scoop another mouthful of porridge and berries into his mouth when someone scooted into the seat next to him.
“Marline.” He inclined his head before returning to...
2024-04-26 20:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostYelena watched the doorway through which the young Ashfield scion had just left for a few moments more as she pondered over the meeting they’d just had.
Precocious indeed, she...
2024-04-20 11:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Where did he get a core?”
There was no preamble as the Blackstone matriarch appeared within the crystalline confines of the communication orb Tala was stood in front of.
Truth be t...
2024-04-14 12:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam struggled not to wince as the door to his alchemical storage room slowly cracked partially open.
“Goddesses’ mercy,” Marline hissed from behind him. “How is it worse the secon...
2024-04-06 13:15:06 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam smiled broadly as he watched his team whooping and hollering with delight as they made their way back to the dorms.
Though there was no missing the slight… gingerness of their movem...
2024-03-29 14:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I remember someone asking for the old chapter nineteen to be reposted, so here it is.
Now little more than a non-canon omake of 'what could have been'.
Among the ...
“Are you insane!?”
All movement in the hallway paused at the sudden outburst, before rapidly recommencing as the cadets present saw from whom said outburst had originated.
“Ah Tal...
2024-03-25 08:49:42 +0000 UTC View Post
House move went well. My back hurts. My fingers are sore. My mother's plants have been re-homed rather than thrown into a burning pit of fire like they deserved!
*Cough*
Just...
Griffith watched with muted awe as dozens of sailors and fishmongers clambered over the slowly rotting corpse of what had once been a mighty animal.
Mighty enough to have once been thought of...
2024-03-15 14:19:02 +0000 UTC View PostEvan scowled at the visage that greeted him as he emerged from the toilet stall he’d just occupied.
There, reflected in the mirror over the sinks, was the passive expression of William Ashf...
2024-03-09 14:07:52 +0000 UTC View Post“You know, it’s not going to disappear.”
It amused him a little how Marline failed to react to his words as she maintained a death grip on the mithril core in her hands.
For his p...
2024-03-06 16:05:29 +0000 UTC View Post“It doesn’t look like much.”
It was all William could do not to sag as Verity so casually undercut his grand reveal.
Admittedly, the orc wasn’t wrong. His latest invention didn...
2024-03-01 11:49:59 +0000 UTC View PostSup all,
I'll just come out and say that I made a mistake last chapter - one that's been bothering me since yesterday.
Which is a shame because I like it as a chapter.
The issu...
Among the staff of the academy it was generally acknowledged that, for all that they were impressive displays of wealth, engineering and foresight on the part of the Crown, the Floats and Skeleton ...
2024-02-24 09:49:08 +0000 UTC View PostTruth be told, Angelina hadn’t even been aware that the Academy had alchemy labs. Certainly, she’d never had cause to visit them in the two year she’d spent here.
Though, as she looked ...
2024-02-18 10:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostWilliam would be the first to admit that this was a terrible idea.
“We- we shouldn’t,” the very seductive dark elf under him moaned as his lips trailed along her neckline, fingers movin...
2024-02-09 11:43:23 +0000 UTC View Post“So, nothing happened?”
“As I’ve said. Repeatedly. We shared a room. That’s it,” William mumbled as he pulled up his welding goggles.
Seam looks good, he thought as...
2024-02-02 11:22:08 +0000 UTC View PostAs far as taverns went, the Salty Kraken could best be described as firmly average. Neither particularly rough, nor particularly classy, the small business nonetheless had a quiet reputation for re...
2024-01-26 11:28:15 +0000 UTC View Post“He rejected me!?” Tala definitely didn’t screech.
That would be beneath her.
There was definitely a certain amount of… frustration present in her voice as she stared down her t...
2024-01-18 10:36:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone asked for a map and I do happen to have one. (Generated well in advance while I was planning out the story.)
So here it is. The map.
Of the world.
A world I have yet to...
“He’s developing a reputation for being particularly vigorous.”
It didn’t need to be said who ‘he’ was. Tala’s reluctant fiancé had been a hot topic of conversation within the ...
2024-01-11 20:56:44 +0000 UTC View Post“We slaughtered them!” Bonnlyn cheered as she took a swig of her flask.
The dwarf looked a sweaty half-dressed mess as she reclined into her seat, the top half of her gambeson unbuttoned ...
2024-01-04 08:27:24 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s staring at you.”
At Bonnlyn’s words, William glanced across the training fields to see that the green-clad half-elf from yesterday had arrived with her team. And sure enough, s...
2023-12-29 10:56:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe bolt-bow was, by any and all metrics that mattered, little more than an oversized nailgun. Oh, it had certainly been beefed up – the ‘nails’ it fired had more in common with crossbow bolt...
2023-12-21 11:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
"Early designs of the Drake can rightly be said to be the template from which all other designs were born.
Though the original variant's air-frame was made of lacquered wood, it wasn't l...
“I think I’m going to die,” Bonnlyn whined as she sank onto a chair with all the grace of a jellyfish beaching itself.
“Don’t be so dramatic,” Olzenya grunted half-heartedly as sh...
2023-12-14 07:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Why’s everyone staring at me?” Verity asked warily as she paused in the act of tearing into her food, with an enthusiasm usually relegated to wild animals, to glance around the cafeteria. 2023-12-08 02:12:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It had struck her at breakfast, and it struck her now, for all that the entire populace of the Academy wore uniforms, they weren’t actually all that uniform.
For example, the classroom Bonn...
2023-12-03 05:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostAwkward.
If he were forced to pick a word to describe the current atmosphere, awkward would have been it. With tense being a close second.
The team’s common room had already divided i...
2023-11-28 05:48:41 +0000 UTC View Post