Sidon was a fine city, as far as Egyptian cities went. It helped that it was more Kinahhu than it was Kemeti, as it were, having only been conquered a generation ago, but to Mattizawa of the Mitanni it was still an Egyptian city. It wasn’t home, in Wasuhanni, nor was it even the rather tolerable lands of the Hatti. 2025-08-11 15:42:56 +0000 UTC View Post
“Alright, folks. Fai Dan said that the areas we’ll be fighting in will be pretty tight. A full squad will do more harm than good. Which means it’s fire team time, which means we’re splitting up.” Cassandra announced, thirty minutes had successfully made landfall and thirty seconds after she had finished her conversation with the leader...
2025-08-10 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostCamilla hated it when her brother left her behind and went out adventuring. It wasn’t something he did much, anymore, not after they had settled down in Riverwood, but she still hated it. She hated knowing that he was in danger, but she hated being left behind ‘in safety’ even more. She was strong, and she knew how to fight! Constantine ha...
2025-08-03 16:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe crisp mountain air, the sweet smell of a mist-laden forest and a fresh-water river, and the natural cacophony of more living creatures than any area near my old home were all a magnificent display of the beauty that could be found in a world that didn’t really have much in the way of industry. Oh, there were a few things across Ta...
2025-07-30 15:06:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello, Clarke. It’s good to see you again.”
The words echoed through the room for several long heartbeats as the two females stared at eachother. Well, Clarke was staring, with a hanging jaw and wide eyes at that, while the older woman that had been waiting for her was grinning at her thunderstruck expression.
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2025-07-30 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostRiverwood.
Built beside a river strong enough for industry but weak enough not to be dangerous, teeming with fish but bereft of water-going predators. Built amongst a forest large enough and rich enough to provide everything that they might need and a bit more to sell, but not so large or so thick that they had to worry about bears or wolf...
2025-07-22 03:01:43 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter Seven
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Shai watched from on high as Hasamelli, Yuri, and their companions made their way out of the palace, in the company of one of her most proficient generals and his highly competent sister. It was almost funny, really, how teasing Bakara had side-tracked...
2025-07-21 03:30:22 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter Six
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Paramesse, -though he much preferred Ramses, thank you very much!- rubbed at his temples in an effort to banish his growing head-ache. There were times where being a ranking officer of the Kemeti military simply wasn’t worth it, and ...
2025-07-21 03:29:44 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter Five
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Ankhesenamun glided through the palace corridors like she was floating on a cloud, her steps light and her heart even lighter, her sandals whispering across the polished limestone floors. The cool evening air whispered throu...
2025-07-21 03:28:55 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter Four
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Akhenadin, former bearer of the Millennium Eye, Maker of the Millennium Items, and (amongst many other things) uncle to the current Pharaoh of Kemet, was seething as he left his niece’s private wing of the palace. His rebellious, disob...
2025-07-21 03:27:58 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter Three
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The first five days of courtship had been brutal, at least for the other suitors. I, personally, had found it very amusing as she eliminated more than half of their number over the course of those five days for various rea...
2025-07-21 03:27:20 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter Two
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It was not unusual, in fact it was very common, for Ankhesenamun and her closest companions (and lovers, though they didn’t advertise that fact, not that there was anyone in the palace that didn’t know that the Pharaoh and her ...
2025-07-21 03:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Chapter One
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Ankhesenamun felt the muscles of her jaw flex in irritation as yet another would-be suitor -this one a fourth prince from some satrapy of Babylon. A fourth prince, of a satrapy, for the Queen of Kemet!- wrapped up his long-winded, self-aggran...
2025-07-21 03:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostShall We Play A Game?
Prologue
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Ankhesenamun Nebkheperure Kanakhttutmesut, daughter of Akhnamkanon, Pharaoh of the New Kingdom, Ruler of Tâwîî and, by the Grace of her Divine Father, Ra, Queen of the Remtju ni Kemet, snarled in outrage as she hurled yet another ...
2025-07-21 03:24:02 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, getting Vette safely and -relatively- comfortably lying down in the ritual room barring the path to Khem Val was more complicated than I had expected it to be.
No, that wasn’t quite accurate.
Better to say that getting her comfortably lying down without putting her at risk of an unpleasant electrical surpri...
2025-07-20 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View PostCassandra looked around the Normandy’s briefing room with a faint air of windswept exhaustion, which seemed to be more or less how those filling the rooms seats seemed to feel. Save Wrex, of course, who looked more bored than anything else, but if she was going to be honest the old toad looked like that at least eighty-five per...
2025-07-10 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostClarke had thought that she knew what a Coalition celebration looked like, after the they had killed that mutant gorilla, and before that she’d thought she knew what a Coalition celebration looked like in the evenings after the Conclave’s daily events were over. As it turned out, all of that combined paled in comparison to the atmos...
2025-06-30 17:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThis was it. My final trial had begun. The trial that would solidify my place as Zash’s apprentice, though at this point it was essentially a formality. The rest of my pool was dead, missing, or were Kory, and Zash hadn’t been subtle in our conversation that she favoured me taking the post. Which was exactly as expected and as it should be, ...
2025-06-20 17:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostWrex, Battlemaster of Clan Urdnot, was not a particularly common sight on the Citadel, and with damn good reason. He wasn’t a big fan of all the noise, the bright lights, the perfect cleanliness, the facade of enlightenment and civilization. It was disgusting, a putrid, filthy, wretched lie wrapped in a beautiful illusion to ke...
2025-06-10 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the last day of the Conclave, and excitement was at a fever pitch in and out of the palace alike. The feast a few days past, featuring as a center-piece the yong pauna that had been hunted down and slain personally by their Heda and her guests, had been a welcome surprise, and the revelry had continued well into the next morning ...
2025-05-30 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostFortunately for me, my injuries were sufficient to earn me a brief stay in a bacta tank. Whether that was standard protocol for an acolyte in my position, advanced in the Trials and having successfully completed the trial that had so badly injured me, or it was due to some string-pulling by those above, I didn’t know. Nor, honestly, did it mak...
2025-05-20 17:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe initial Council meeting was, perhaps unsurprisingly, a bit disappointing. They had confirmed, after it was over and the audience had dispersed, that her candidacy was still valid and that her evaluation was still underway, but without further information on the attack and why it had happened, the three most powerful people in the gala...
2025-05-09 11:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostNone of them had been terribly surprised when Klark had, upon getting out of bed the next day, insisted that they collect a larger detachment of soldiers and hunt the yong pauna down. Though she only admitted to wanting to do so to prevent it from hurting anyone else to stumble across it -something she did truly mean, of course, there w...
2025-04-30 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostThose of you from my Discord got some small forewarning about this, so here it is: this poll is to determine what you, my loyal readers -paying and otherwise- would most want to see out of a sequel for Crown of Slaves. We're still a ways off from Crown being finished, of course, but I would like to start storyboarding/outlining sooner rather tha...
2025-04-20 16:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostHope should not, in fact, have sprung eternal. Although, in pursuit of fairness, I did have to admit that this wasn’t quite what I expected to have happen, because while the slaves were not, in fact too busy to ignore me, they unfortunately weren’t alone either.
“Sorry about this, girl. We like you, we really do. But Ha...
2025-04-20 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIntrospection, deep introspection, had never been something that had given Cassandra a great deal of trouble, at any stage in her life. ‘To serious and quiet by half’ had been a common refrain by adults in her life, which had been balanced out quite nicely with their exasperation and plaintive questioning of God why their ‘serious a...
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Crown of Slaves
Chapter Three
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Nearly a month had passed since I had been made a member of Asmu-Nikal’s personal staff, and I had discovered quite a few things that had not been readily apparent out on the grounds. 2025-03-17 18:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Crown of Slaves
Chapter One
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I didn’t expect to die the way I did. Granted, I don’t exactly remember how I died, but I doubt that it was how I had expected to die. In fact, my first feeling when I awoke into my new existence was an overwhelming sensation of shee...
2025-03-17 18:22:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis wasn’t at all how I expected things to go when it came to rescuing someone from the Sith Academy, and it wasn’t what I had expected whe
This wasn’t at all how I expected things to go when it came to rescuing someone from the Sith Academy, and it wasn’t what I had expected when it came to making my way to the Tomb of Tulak Hord...
2025-03-17 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe stench of ozone, roasted flesh, and scorched chitin clung thickly to me, filled the air around me, and I resisted the urge to gag only t
The stench of ozone, roasted flesh, and scorched chitin clung thickly to me, filled the air around me, and I resisted the urge to gag only through more experience than was remotely preferable with exa...
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