I wasn’t a total moron, of course. I didn’t trust this woman as far as I could throw her. Even if…that was probably farther than I would expect, if I engaged Sylvan Vigor at full strength.
Moving on.
The point being, I wasn’t going to walk into a meeting with a Herztalian/Calonawr noblewoman with unknown...
2024-05-17 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostBefore heading off to dinner with Renauld, we let him stop by a local bathhouse in order to freshen up. Hard days of battle and marching had left the Gnoll looking and smelling a bit…rank, to be honest. He was thankful for the chance, and after a quick wash, Sylvia and I led him to a local bistro that the two of us had taken a liking to. The o...
2024-05-15 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThings were changing in Elderwyck.
For both the city, and us.
The General in charge of the Loyalist forces in the city had wised up to the fact that his soldiers were being targeted. At this point in time, our intelligence told us that he wasn’t quite sure who was committing the attacks on his men, but honestly? It wouldn’t be lo...
2024-05-13 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI tried to put the odd encounter with Bleddyn’s cousin out of my mind during my shift at Jason’s. Thanks to the nature of Ringed Mind, it was pathetically easy for me to nearly auto-pilot the process of making low grade potions for the shop while my middle and core rings dwelled on it.
Rhiannon had called herself a ‘...
2024-05-10 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: This is…
Well, a very important character. For a lot of reasons.
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I didn’t know anyone named Rhiannon. And I had definitely never met this woman in my life, no matter what she said.
I would have remembered her.
If this woman wasn’t associated with t...
2024-05-08 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI stood at attention in front of Hook’s desk in the main Nocturne Divisions safehouse here in Elderwyck as much as decorum demanded I did.
Which was, considering the average Agent, not very much.
We were essentially in a small sub-basement underneath a local business that had been converted for our needs. Hook may have told me awhi...
2024-05-06 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWe each split up not long after, engaging our individual stealth Skills as we did so. This wasn’t a group mission, per se, despite our meeting up before starting.
We were all just acting in the same area for backup purposes. We each had our own objectives tonight.
Mine?
Well, I had something to retrieve.
Thorn C...
2024-05-03 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostWhat the hell was she doing here?
The last I had heard from Bella, she was sailing away from the docks at Sancthaven all those months ago. She had told me she was making for the blockade on the other side of the continent in order to link up with the Uprising fleet. There, she would be joining as what was essentially a privat...
2024-05-01 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostI took a slow breath in, holding my concentration. I’d been challenging myself recently to do this with only my newer golden hand instead of my flesh one. The process was a bit clumsier with the muted sense of both physical touch and Aetherial sense, but I could do it. It was just a bit harder, but the practice was good for me.
Focusing,...
2024-04-29 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWell, this was a fantastic start to our infiltration.
After the Tlatecian Orc guard had, somehow, immediately known that a group of people were entering the city from the back entrance, we’d all been arrested. Hook had been pretty exhausted from his injuries at the time, and had discreetly ordered us to comply with the guard’s...
2024-04-26 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Oh…,” Tlazo said, visibly enraptured. “I had absolutely no idea that such interesting events had been occurring on the surface.”
It hadn’t taken the apparently supremely skilled surgeon long to do all he could for Hook. Once he’d finished plucking out bone shards from the dwarf’s abdomen, setting his arm with...
2024-04-24 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“I assure you, you’re in no danger here,” The owner of the voice said nonchalantly before pausing. “Well, as long as you do nothing foolish, of course.” They amended.
That was pretty damn hard to believe, considering the source.
The path of undead had opened up into what looked like a…lab of some kind. In the odd green li...
2024-04-22 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI only had seconds to react, but thank God for Ringed Mind.
Split-second decisions were what it was good for.
I lunged for Sylvia as the ground began to fall beneath us, grabbing her in my left arm seconds before we fell into darkness. She was startled, but almost instinctually grabbed onto me as well. At the same ti...
2024-04-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe plains before the southern outer wall of Helstein teemed with an endless, roiling horde of monsters. They stretched out as far as the eye could see, even with a high Perception Virtue. Under the light of both Elys above and the massive bonfires that the Uprising forces had built on the wall, strange shadows played against said wall.
Im...
2024-04-17 17:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Whisper, with me,” Hook said lowly, maneuvering himself into the combat stance I’d seen from him so many times in training. “Hangman, Dusk. You take the rear. And remember…aim for the head.”
As Sylvia split off and joined the leader of the Nocturne Division, I turned around. Eyeing the confined tunnel we were in, I grimaced. W...
2024-04-15 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe light from Sylvia’s Skill was dim, but it still allowed me to see the hallway around us as we descended. Thankfully, Hook and Dusk hadn’t gone very far. I would have been pretty pissed off if they had gone on ahead and left the two of us behind. As we linked back up with them, none of us spoke a word.
Even though we hadn’t gone t...
2024-04-12 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait wait wait,” I said uneasily as I hurried after the forms of Dusk and Hook. After our meeting in the tavern, we'd left immediately without resting in order to get into the city as quick as possible. Dusk was leading us through the Stacks like it was the back of her, even though she hadn't been here for very long. “You were joking, rig...
2024-04-10 17:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostAs Hook, Sylvia, and I slowly slipped our way through the gathered crowds of refugees, I couldn’t help but notice the atmosphere out here.
It was, in a word, bad.
Which, no shit.
There was an air of combined desperation, resignation, and most importantly fear filling the air of the procession. All around me, I heard muffled s...
2024-04-08 17:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostThe direction that Hook had led us to the Duchy of Elderwyck hadn’t been on one of the main roads in Herztal. We had primarily been taking game trails, and when that didn’t work, going over land. He had deliberately kept us away from the more traveled paths, in order to minimize our profile.
That was looking to have been a good decisio...
2024-04-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNow that we had horses, Hook wanted to push them harder in order to reach Elderwyck quicker. The normally more even-tempered dwarf seemed to have a strange dislike for the equines, even if it was a genuine boon for us to have them.
I put a stop to that. There was no reason to push perfectly good horses to the brink of death, when most of t...
2024-04-03 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFade and I ended up sitting on that hill all night, simply staring off into the distance at Elys. By the time she began to sink below the horizon, I was pretty sure I knew what his answer was going to be.
As Elys sunk below the horizon and the first hint of the green period began to show, I couldn’t help but let out a sigh. A long, drawn...
2024-04-01 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: God, I’m setting up a lot with this one. Like, way more than I thought I was going to be.
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As the howling of both the monstrously huge Spirit Wolf and the gathered werewolves started to die down, I found myself tensing. I…hadn’t expected the Chief and his clansmen to sudd...
2024-03-29 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
You know, I was looking through the planned arcs for this book and realized that it's going to be the longest by far before I get to volume 5. The current word count for volume 4 could possibly double from this point before it's done.
Who knew that a generation defining civil war would be so important? It's not like it's been bui...
2024-03-27 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThank you for being interested in my work!
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SINS OF THE FOREFATHERS
Name: Nathaniel Eugene Hart
Titles: Unbound Liberator
Level: 81
Age: 24 Sol
Race: Human (Precursor)
Affinity: Terrestrial
Classes: Thornblade Acolyte (Uncommon)
Professions: Aeth...
2024-03-25 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostElder Einion and Gruffyd didn’t keep me for very long, in the small side room they had led me to. After all, there really wasn’t all that much that I could expand on. Not without getting into secrets that I’m not sure Grey would want me to let slip. I told them about our lessons and conspiring with Azarus, as well as his capture and subseq...
2024-03-22 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs agreed, I let Sylvia take the lead once more. She stepped forward and bowed slightly at the waist to the gathered council. “Greetings, venerable Elders of Clan Thunderheart. I bring word from the Council of the Uprising as well as my honored father, Grand Marshal Greycton of Hollow Hill. Known to you as Ghrian Dorcha.”
That name cau...
2024-03-20 17:00:21 +0000 UTC View PostSylvia and I remained where we were as the armored knights on horseback thundered up the hill in our direction. Fade just sat on his haunches in order to watch as well, keen eyes fixed on the approaching group. I wasn’t actually all that afraid of these, personally. I’d dealt with knights in the past, and that was before I’d acquired a Ski...
2024-03-18 17:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe gathered forces moved out, almost directly after Hook’s dramatic announcement. Which made sense, when you thought about it. We were still in the lands where the Loyalists had set off what Hook had abruptly started calling the ‘Break Stones’.
We needed to put distance between ourselves and the horde.
With orders to make thei...
2024-03-15 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSurprisingly, I didn’t have to venture far to find someone else. Maybe five minutes into my tree-top travel, I ran into another operative. This one I had never met before.
The two of us almost literally ran into each other.
I was grappling to another tree when another agent appeared in midair in front of me. My eyes widened in surp...
2024-03-13 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post