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Skyclad - Epilogue: Winds that Whisper

 

Morgan Mackenzie savored the sensations of the valley winds against her skin. The trip back to her valley had taken almost two weeks, and would have taken longer without the Titan to h...

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Skyclad - Chapter 41: Undending Duty

 

Rella felt the words reverberate in her chest. Speaking with the full voice of the Mantle was unnerving at the best of times, and while never actually painful, it still took her severa...

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Skyclad - Chapter 40: Coronas Judicas

 

Millie Thatcher sat on a horse for once, instead of riding on the back of Hett’s wagon. Nearly a month since the battle the soldiers now referred to as the Day of Thunder and Mud, an...

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Skyclad - Chapter 39: Dirt

 

Morgan Mackenzie clapped her hands with satisfaction, giggling and dancing in place. “That was awesome!” she said after Althenea shifted forms several more times in Terisa’s hand...

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Updoots:)

First off i want to thank all of you guys for your support of Skyclad. Even though things have been hectic at home yall have stuck by me, and that's awesome.

We're closing in on the end of th...

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Skyclad - Chapter 38: Impact Duality

 

Terisa Aras lay prone on the top of the western corner tower above the walls of Castra Pristis, propped up somewhat comfortably on the bed of a wagon that had been temporarily commande...

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Skyclad - Chapter 37: Reunions

 

Morgan Mackenzie found herself in a dream. She knew it was a dream. She stood at the entrance to Dina’s Diner, the same tiny shop where her parents had taken her to lunch every Sunda...

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Skyclad - Chapter 36: Thunder and Mud

 

Calvin Descroix looked through a spyglass at the refugee encampment. Practically a fort already, he thought, despite less than a quarter of a day to dig in. Angled tr...

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Skyclad - Chapter 35: Aspect of the Harbinger

 

Millie Thatcher sat on the back of a wagon, happily eating her breakfast of a thick slice of fried bacon and a biscuit. She washed them down with water from a skin before replacing the...

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Updoots and Future Plans!

First off thank you, everyone, for your support! I'm fully moved into my grandmother's old house! No more homelessness! The inheritance included the inconvenience of the remaining balance on the mo...

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Skyclad - Chapter 34: The Devil's Drum

 

Millie Thatcher sat on the back of a wagon, cradling the nub that was all that remained of her left arm. The rest of her felt as empty and numb as the now-lost limb. The General’s wi...

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Skyclad - Chapter 33: Under Ashen Skies

 

Morgan Mackenzie was burning. So too was everything around her. Faintly, as though from a distance, she could hear pained screams and high-pitched whimpers that barely cut through the ...

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just testing something, nothing to see here:)

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UPDOOTS!!!

Finally! I has the intarwebz at my own place. I have two chapters on deck for yall this week, and they'll be coming up in a day or two. just please be patient with me a short while longer, so i can...

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Third Interlulude: Filth!

Lulu knew that something was terribly wrong.
Someone had stepped forwards from the friendly gathering around the mealtime campfire, and sent out a pulse that had pushed all but the strongest int...

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Skyclad - Chapter 32: A Fireside Chat

 

Terisa Aras sat on a stool a short distance away from the firepit where her husband was cooking supper. This wouldn’t ordinarily be remarkable, but he was cooking supper for the thi...

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Second InterLulude: Hello!

 

It had been a long journey.

Her mistress had been running flat-out for two days and two nights, barely stopping to eat and rest, and the loyal scrubby had come along for the ride...

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Skyclad - Chapter 31: A Slight Miscalculation

 

Morgan Mackenzie was running again. This, in itself, was not a new occurrence. In fact, she had spent most of her waking hours since arriving on Anfealt running; she was either running...

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Skyclad - Chapter 30: Entrenchment

 

Terisa Aras stood atop the western gate of an ancient stone fort, watching the last few wagons of the Expedition’s caravan finish their journey across an equally-ancient bridge. The ...

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Skyclad - Chapter 29: Bounty of the Wilds

 

Morgan Mackenzie, flush with pride at her latest accomplishment, was eating honey. In addition to being delicious, the honey also carried medicinal properties, which ended up being a h...

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More Updoots

First off I want to thank all of you for your support. If this keeps up, I may very well manage to support myself by writing. If you had asked me a year ago where I would be today, I would have lau...

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Skyclad - Interlude: The Dreamer

 

Noah Rowland sat in a laboratory, making minute adjustments to a piece of equipment that, to him, bore striking resemblance to an advanced medical scanning machine from Earth. One had ...

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Skyclad - Chapter 28: Crimson Ruin

 

Lord-Commander Terrick stood on the uppermost balcony of Wardenholt, the Warden’s traditional headquarters, looking down over the city of Stormbreak. A nervous pall lay over the enti...

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Skyclad - Chapter 27: Shattered Fates

 

When Rella awoke, she was surrounded by darkness, and she was floating. More importantly, she was well and truly alone. For the first time since accepting the Mantle, she didn’t have...

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Updoots

My grandmother died today. She'd been on full time hospice care 24/7 as it had gotten to where I simply was not enough to do it alone, and she passed amid family and friends in her own house shortl...

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Skyclad - Chapter 26: Territorial Disputes

 

Morgan Mackenzie crouched atop the corpse of a [Rockmaw], carefully applying touches of superheated flame with her fingertips. The last tendrils of flesh and gristle had finally been s...

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Morgan's Status Sheet

By popular request, here is a very quickly thrown together version of Morgan's status info as of the end of chapter 25. it's a working document, changes frequently, and the background math gets won...

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Skyclad - Chapter 25: Wanderings

 

Morgan Mackenzie had lost track of just how long she had spent aimlessly wandering the forest. The flood of notifications, experience, and more than one level up would have been bad en...

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Skyclad - Chapter 24: Bitter Tears

 

Constable Zizzy stood before yet another crime scene, yet another display of pointless brutality serving no purpose higher than pain and suffering. Echoes of the raw agony suffered her...

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Skyclad - Chapter 23: Expedition

 

Terisa Aras stood on the observation deck of the northeast tower of Fort Expedition, sipping a steaming cup of kaffen and ignoring the murmurs of the small gathering behind her. Callin...

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