Lounges filled the room with soft satins and fluffy cushions atop them, stained with bright dyes. Lexi and Earon seated themselves, and despite not asking for it, Moon-fairy brought chilled tea and...
2023-10-24 00:40:34 +0000 UTC View PostArriving back at the squatter house, Earon found Lexi sound asleep and quietly crept back into his own bedroll and turned in for the night.
Light pierced through cracks in the wall, waking Ea...
2023-10-23 01:05:27 +0000 UTC View PostEaron waited until it was dark. He could hear the rhythmic breathing of Lexi, confirming that she was asleep. Quietly, he tied drawstrings and lowered his cowl, and then crept for the entrance.
... 2023-10-22 20:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostMoonlight pierced through missing tiles of the once-abandoned townhouse, now home to the less fortunate of Saner. The walls were bare as ever, and within them, little more than makeshift bedrolls a...
2023-10-21 22:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostFew nobles saw Iliana as any different from those serving them, and as such, it hadn't been hard to creep away from the crowds. And within moments, she found herself creeping through the servant co...
2023-10-21 21:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post“She’s beautiful,” a dirty-faced guard sneered as he peered across the wagon.
Iliana awkwardly sat in her finely fashioned dress. A corset had been fashioned into the shiny black dress ...
2023-10-21 20:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostOver the next few days, Earon managed to gain another point in rune crafting and a couple in featherweight as he spent long nights studying and rewriting the rune.
Whilst zap had its uses, he...
2023-10-20 20:54:29 +0000 UTC View Post“Orductus ebsidium; no, no, that’s not right.”
“Come on, Lexi. It's not working.” Urged an impatient young man, nervously light on his feet and looking side-to-side. “If it didn...
2023-10-20 20:17:46 +0000 UTC View PostDozens of siege engines lay across the battlefield, with motes of billowing smoke drifting up from the partially rubbled city in the background.
There had been delays in building the engines,...
2023-10-20 19:57:45 +0000 UTC View PostOver the following week, Earon had redrawn the Zap rune many times. Sometimes his changes weakened it, other times he strengthened it. But most importantly, the practice had been immensely useful, ...
2023-10-19 21:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe small man hobbled around the brightly lit store in his fine satins as he collected fabric samples. Iliana stood on a podium in the middle of the store watching him. It took every inch of her se...
2023-10-18 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Amazing,” Earon mumbled with wide eyes as Trudels led him through the massive library, its shelves of books taller than the streets of Caedstad.
“There’s a thousand tips and tricks f...
2023-10-18 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You know what I am?”
The fuzzy-faced Trudels tilted. “Do I?”
Earon sighed and slumped his shoulders.
“Oh,” Trudels nodded, puffing his brows and tapping his nose.
... 2023-10-17 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostOlat and Morhan had been a great investment. With their help, Fane had been able to haul several more loads of valuables into the city. Better yet, the dumb oafs hadn’t pried.
Fane left on ...
2023-10-12 23:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days went by before Earon could stomach the idea of trying to eat one of the fiendish bats he had killed.
But nothing else was on offer. He had found himself in a cavern filled with the l...
2023-10-11 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostOnly a faint, flickering light crept into her cell as Iliana awoke to cold metal around her wrists.
Where was she?
Rising from the simple, cloth-draped board, she looked ...
2023-10-10 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEntire sections of the rocky ceiling had collapsed around him, and even now, debris still rained down occasionally.
Patting himself down, Earon sighed with relief. Everything seemed in order....
2023-10-09 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Shit,” Fane groaned. Everything hurt.
Blinking, blurry shapes formed jagged edges, and the torn earth around him started to make sense.
“Great.”
Grabbing the edg...
2023-10-08 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostHis black furs stained red, Kalgarag turned from the battle and cut a man in two who accidentally blocked his way. His dark eyes glared up at the hulking cyclops one last time as he sneered and dis...
2023-10-08 01:30:08 +0000 UTC View PostEven without the glow of red from his mana sense ability, Earon couldn’t have missed it, not with the tunnel of black clouds pinpointed to the top of the Scar.
Luckily, the flank they had b...
2023-10-08 01:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe sun hung low, teetering on the horizon as an army of adventurers marched toward the Scarlet Stone - a craggy, red rock towering several meters from the ground; beneath it, was the scar, an open...
2023-10-08 00:40:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe unnatural way in which the dark clouds swirled above was a disconcerting sight, seemingly driven to a single point by an unseen force. It also didn’t help that they were walking in that exact...
2023-10-08 00:35:01 +0000 UTC View PostEveryone took time to recover after that battle, but it was Earon who chugged through most of their potion supply - not that anyone was too bothered by it. Without him, they likely would've either ...
2023-10-08 00:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostMarching through the sweltering heat across the dry, red land quickly grew tiring.
Groaning, Earon patted his tongue against his mouth. He was meant to be conserving water, but with every ste...
2023-10-08 00:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs the hour of the hunt approached, hundreds became thousands as they gathered at the foot of the gate, filling the cobbled square with a crowd that stood shoulder-to-shoulder.
Only a narrow ...
2023-10-08 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostEaron was never going to have enough time to train everything he needed to, but there were certain areas he needed to gain more experience in than others.
The most obvious of these was his la...
2023-10-07 23:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostPerhaps it might have been better to start in a more controlled setting, but the band, being as broke as they were, could hardly afford that. And without delay, sent Earon off to complete easy cont...
2023-10-07 23:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostEaron made sure to take in the sights and smells of the Rye as he rode through it, unsure when he might be back.
He had been scared but determined when he made his way back through the Spruce...
2023-10-07 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWithin hours of his march across the Yarges, Earon’s feet already ached, but he forced himself on. Thankfully, he had managed to trade the rusty chain shirt for a waterskin, otherwise, he probabl...
2023-10-07 22:20:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Do you want us to take chase?” Mumbled a trembling young man as he applied a green paste to a shallow wound.
“Take chase to what?” Sneered Master Rudis as he lounged in the soothing ...
2023-10-07 22:10:01 +0000 UTC View Post