Stormblade 3 C38: Guild Work (3)
38 - Guild Work (3)
Jessie sat in a comfy chair, curled into a ball, her phone on speaker in her lap. No one else was around in the Desert Wind’s library—or the rest of t...
2025-11-14 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Stormblade 3 C37: Guild Work (2)
37 - Guild Work (2)
“Construct portal?” Ellen asked as we poked around the brass-and-silk machines outside the 303 Wall’s west gate.
There were almost certainly m...
2025-11-13 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C36: Guild Work (1)
36 - Guild Work (1)
Ellen’s match was the next morning.
I watched the screen, along with hundreds of other people. My attention was all on Ellen as she navigated a th...
2025-11-12 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C35: Logan Fritch
35 - Logan Fritch
When the Fallen Delver’s Tournament started, all I could do was watch outside. The portal—and the arena built inside—were space-limited. Three GC delv...
2025-11-11 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C34: Politics is a Continuation of War by Other Means
34 - Politics is a Continuation of War by Other Means
While her brother, Ellen, and Jeff spent time studying their first-round opponents’ fighting styles, skills, and tende...
2025-11-10 14:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C33: Registration
33 - Registration
The Fallen Delvers Memorial threw blue light up into the evening air as Ellen, Jeff, and I opened Deimos’s doors. The clean-up and restoration of our new ...
2025-11-07 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C32: Home (2)
32 - Home (2)
Ellen wasn’t planning on spending much time in her own room.
But it was still her room. Not the one she’d grown up in at the Traynor...
2025-11-06 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C31: Home (1)
31 - Home (1)
Deimos cruised toward a fortress of concrete and steel on the west side of Phoenix, Ellen’s hands on the wheel. She swerved, and the car swerved with her, aro...
2025-11-05 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C30: Dividends (4)
30 - Dividends (4)
Kade: Hi, Sophia. Can I talk to Ellen?
Sophia: Doesn’t she have her phone?
Kade: Not tonight. Hand me over.
...
2025-11-04 14:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C29: Dividends (3)
Author's Note (Statistical Oopsie): Hello. There is a very reasonable chance that, in the "Aura" chapters, I accidentally depowered Kade's skills from C-Rank to D-Rank in his stat block. This w...
2025-11-03 14:00:15 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C28: Dividends (2)
28 - Dividends (2)
Jessie hated to admit it, but Kade had been right.
If she’d had it her way, she’d have dropped out of school the second she got her GC rep job. S...
2025-10-31 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C27: Dividends (1)
27 - Dividends (1)
Ophelia St. Vrain didn’t understand people. She never had. It had always been a weakness of hers. They were just so confusing. Saying one thing, doing an...
2025-10-30 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C26: Spellcraft
26 - Spellcraft
“Think she’ll be okay?” Ellen asked.
Deimos was idling outside the GC Headquarters building. We’d just dropped Sophia off there; she’d burned ...
2025-10-29 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C25: Aura (4)
25 - Aura (4)
Jeff was happy for Kade.
He wouldn’t lie to his best friend. Not about that.
But he was also frustrated. He’d had a long talk with his ...
2025-10-28 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C24: Aura (3)
24 - Aura (3)
Two days later, Ellen, Jeff, and the rest of our team stood outside of a red, B-Rank portal, waiting. We’d gotten there second, and that made us the backup te...
2025-10-27 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C23: Aura (2)
23 - Aura (2)
Compared to my C-Rank consolidation—the grinding, five-Laws-and-a-consolidation push that had started my core’s fracturing—this was going well.
Real...
2025-10-24 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C22: Aura (1)
22 - Aura (1)
“Why’d you just give up?” Jessie asked me from her blanket nest.
I stared at her. “What do you mean? That was Deborah Callahan. The real question ...
2025-10-23 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C21: Annuities (3)
21 - Annuities (3)
Jessie was a hundred yards from the portal when it broke.
Time-out breaks were uncommon, but the Governing Council still had a procedure for them. He...
2025-10-22 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C20: Annuities (2)
20 - Annuities (2)
Shit was fucked.
As leader of the Roadrunners, Deborah Callahan got reports on every upper-Rank portal that appeared in Phoenix, in addition...
2025-10-21 13:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C19: Annuities (1)
19 - Annuities (1)
Eighteen years ago, Eleanor Traynor had been a toddler, and the Traynor Corporation had been a newborn idea in Robert Traynor’s head.
He’d invest...
2025-10-20 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C18: Alias (2)
18 - Alias (2)
As Ellen and I sprinted out the front door, I searched for the portal. If we could find it, we could get inside and start clearing it—or at least securing it...
2025-10-17 13:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C17: Alias (1)
17 - Alias (1)
Power surged through Ellen as she started casting Shadow Shapes. Her mind cranked into overdrive. Details pushed into her thoughts, then were discarded.
...
2025-10-16 13:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C16: Family Matters
16 - Family Matters
Going public with what we knew about core breaks was one thing. I was all for that. It was probably the right thing to do; the information was buried in t...
2025-10-15 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C15: Investment (3)
15 - Investment (3)
“Yeah, it’s fine,” Ophelia said. She stared past us at the two suited delvers, eyes empty. Completely empty. The lie came out perfectly, emotionless...
2025-10-14 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C14: Investment (2)
14 - Investment (2)
There was a storm outside—a rare Phoenix rainstorm. The thunder was a low rumble through the Traynor building’s walls and the thick glass window, but ...
2025-10-13 13:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C13: Investment (1)
13 - Investment (1)
Ellen had garbed herself for battle.
Light blue dress—a touch more formal than expected at a ‘casual’ cocktail party like this, but not black-...
2025-10-10 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C12: Breaking the Storm
12 - Breaking the Storm
I was so back.
And Ellen was so strong. She hadn’t broken a sweat the whole time we’d been working out. Even as a mage, C-Rank weights and m...
2025-10-09 13:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C11: Guild (2)
11 - Guild (2)
I’d said Carter Richards was poison. That he’d rot Deborah Callahan from the inside.
But I’d been wrong. He was poison. A mess of a person...
2025-10-08 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C10: Guild (1)
10 - Guild (1)
The next morning—or as close to it as we could get—the five of us sat around my living room. Jeff had cleared off his couch, and he and Yasmin had occupied...
2025-10-07 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostStormblade 3 C9: Coat-Tails
9 - Coat-tails
I stood in front of a mirror in the fanciest bathroom I’d ever set foot in. The shower and tub were separate, and in separate rooms from the sink and toilet....
2025-10-06 13:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post