Don’t destroy your most prized possessions by channelling magic through them.
by Dr. Jessica Phalange
This shouldn’t need to be said.
Fetishes serve ...
2021-08-01 06:15:56 +0000 UTC View Post“You look worried,” Saina noted, forehead furrowing in concern as I strode into her room, claimed a bed for the next 3 days, and dumped my stuff onto it.
“I’m fine,” I said with a g...
2021-07-31 12:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostMax looked thoroughly miserable when I got back to the room. He leapt up from his desk and was over his bed and in the main part of the room before I had the door closed. “Where’s Ed?”
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2021-07-24 12:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostOnce we were out of Max’s earshot, I said, “So you’re a GP?”
“Indeed. Now, have you been experiencing any fatigue or – ?”
“I already have a GP at home who’s asked me a...
2021-07-17 11:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Full moon starts in fifteen hours,” Saina remarked as we clambered our way down a rocky slope.
“Yep.” I took her elbow to steady myself down a particularly steep part, then helped he...
2021-07-10 11:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post“One question,” I said. “Why, under the seven points of power, did you think that not telling me this theory was in any way to my benefit?”
“Because it’s probably not true! You we...
2021-07-03 03:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fetish Paradox, An Exciting New Theory
By Sir Alistair Quiffly
The Familiarity Paradox is a well-known and established phenomenon, but only recently have r...
2021-07-01 02:59:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you busy?” Max asked one afternoon, strolling into our room.
I scowled at the letter I was trying to write. It ws straightup impossible to secretly tell Chelsea and Melissa what was ...
2021-06-26 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t dramatically leap to my feet and dash out of the classroom. There was no need. The prophecy had clearly stated that the danger would come under a full moon, so I checked my tablet to mak...
2021-06-19 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostHeading to runecrafting class so early was a bit unfortunate because it meant that when the Fiore ‘happened to bump into me’ in the corridors I didn’t have a convenient excuse to rush off. I ...
2021-06-12 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“How do you think they make all the water?” I asked Saina one morning as we hiked alongside a river on our way to meet Hammond and Peter.
She glanced at the river, then at me. “Uh… I ...
2021-06-05 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe Familiarity Paradox -- Misconception or Lie?
By Dr Jessica Phalange
Much has been made of the so-called ‘familiarity paradox’; the notion that the dang...
2021-06-01 09:07:29 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of days later, I awoke early after a restless night battling a stomach ache. I’d assumed it was food poisoning, until I found the blood between my thighs.
Oh.
I stared blankl...
2021-05-29 02:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI’d seen the top of the tower before, of course, but it still took my breath away. The floor was a solid stone disc that didn’t touch the walls; it was anchored to them by heavy iron rods, but ...
2021-05-22 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post“So,” Max asked, “how does this work, exactly?”
Max, Kylie, Saina, Alania, Lydia and I were gathered in the medical ward, gazing out of the large glass windows at the white blanket of...
2021-05-15 02:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Hammond and Peter are free to meet up in the cafeteria in a couple of hours to sort out pit comp stuff,” Saina reported, setting her tablet down and returning to crushing peppercorns.
...
2021-05-08 02:29:59 +0000 UTC View PostKayden,
How’s school? Learned to make a potion of fireball yet?
School here is a snore, obviously. Liss is starting a book club, eighty year ...
2021-05-01 10:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostOn The Efficacy Of Familiars – A Brief Overview.
By Sir Alistair Quiffly
When choosing strategies for mitigating the strain of power during spellcasting, the...
2021-04-30 15:44:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright,” Lydia said, reviewing her notes. She’d been taking them on paper, with a pen, which was a weird thing to see an adult do in Refujeyo. Alania always had a lot of paper lying around ...
2021-04-24 10:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLessons were the worst.
Not the material. I was mostly on top of that. I wasn’t a great student or anything, but I was mysteriously more motivated to learn about runes after all the rune no...
2021-04-17 10:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You’ve got to be fucking kidding me,” Talbot said, pacing the small classroom we’d gathered in. “Fionnrath? Really? And nobody noticed their spell was missing for fifteen years?”
Max listened to the recording of our meeting, and didn’t seem particularly surprised by any of it. He just gave us a tight, resigned smile, and said, “I’d kind of been hoping that this famili...
2021-04-03 09:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWe were intercepted by a few classmates on the way to our room, all wanting to make small talk about the holidays and segue into questions about the familiar thing, but not many. Max and I had pace...
2021-03-27 09:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostI had a new bodyguard the next day; a young woman wearing a voluminous pink skirt that, I couldn’t help notice, could easily conceal a gun. I considered giving her the slip again, just to be pett...
2021-03-20 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMelissa and Chelsea were waiting for me under the big tree in Melissa’s yard, the one I’d used to use to get from my second story room to hers, back when the house next door had been mine. (Who...
2021-03-13 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostStaying in a motel in my own hometown was strange. I supposed I’d still thought of my hometown as, well, home. It was where I’d always lived before Skolala Refujeyo, and it’s where my friends...
2021-03-06 07:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostI regained strength quickly, and probably could have left the ward after a few days. But both Kylie and I stayed, and Malas didn’t bring it up. He, I was pretty sure, liked having us where he cou...
2021-02-27 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I woke up, I could still feel the magic inside me, but either I’d gotten more used to it or it had quieted down. Probably both. I could feel it pooling in my joints, curling through my veins...
2021-02-20 12:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostMax and I got to work kicking rubbish out of Kylie’s flailing distance and making sure her robes couldn’t strangle her.
“She doesn’t have epilepsy or anything, does she?” Max asked....
2021-02-13 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSomething very, very strange was going on as we neared the heart of the labyrinth. I couldn’t put my finger on what, exactly, it was, but something was different.
It was Kylie who ...
2021-02-06 12:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post