“Time’s wasting let's do this outside. I don't want to ruin any more of my new floor tiles,” I said, glancing side-eyed at a blissfully ignorant Dalton before standing and creating another portal so it exited outside of the castle while restoring the portal to the town.
With my triple portal, you could walk between one and...
2024-02-25 23:42:16 +0000 UTC View Post“No support,” mouthed Lady Sylanada as she looked onto the mass of goblins covering the entire bridge. “Elves can handle a few goblins?” She shook her head, there were warrens of goblins coming towards her measly defenders. She had asked for mobile forces in case of issues with the bridge, in fact she had a...
2024-02-23 19:30:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 33 - Throne Room
The Falconians in the audience chamber looked at each other uncomfortably. With no place to sit, they were all forced to stand like underlings until I dismissed them. I was flexing my powers as Mayor and they couldn’t do much about that, but my power wasn’t absolute. While I needed their help,...
2024-02-18 11:14:25 +0000 UTC View PostDedaren, the Splendiferous, strode up the tall stairs to the auction house brushing past those li-tel around him. While most of their desire to get out of his way came from his BDE, at least some was from his massive shoulders. His massive, uncovered shoulders because one of the king’s agents...
2024-02-16 22:32:28 +0000 UTC View Post“The Mayor of Windfall,” chuckled the Dark Overlord. “He isn’t here, but who might you be?”
“HarCharles,” gasped the youth, who was currently suspended over the railing of the topmost floor of the Castle of Lions. Current topmost floor. Charles never liked the observatory anyway.
The Dark Overlord chuckled an...
2024-02-11 23:47:50 +0000 UTC View Post“Quatax and Forenth don’t count, they were both unconscious when Shade pulled them away,” I said unhappily as we reached the buggy.
“But I only moved back a little,” moaned Zorg, horribly over encumbered Zorg.
Hurkle grunted.
“At least the ranger can take it like an elf,” I said, grumpily as we finall...
2024-02-10 22:41:26 +0000 UTC View PostLight, pain light, streamed in from a crack in the window shade. I inhaled sharply, and regretted it. My ribs were bruised, so was everything else. I slowly got to my feet, spotting the girls sleeping together in a pile.
Not a sexy pile, just an unconscious pair of elves in a pile. They were not sexy, I...
2024-02-06 19:45:13 +0000 UTC View PostI walked back over to the town square without a care in the world, and I didn’t pay one bit of attention to my hangers on. All two hundred of them. Arranged behind me like some sort of off kilter cosplayers, was the majority of the Falconian Royal family, and they wanted to talk.
Of course, just acknowledging them ...
2024-02-05 04:14:46 +0000 UTC View PostWe got to Talimor’s just before the contests started. Talimor’s grand reopening was due to the previous restaurant being destroyed recently for an unknown reason. Apparently it had spontaneously exploded. No one would tell me why, but I wasn’t expecting a gas leak.
Talimor, the owner for the past 600 ye...
2024-02-02 20:39:48 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t know, I think this is about as good as it gets with him,” said Vicky. She was talking fast, fast enough that my speech skill shard was having issues. If I hadn’t been picking up the elven language in bits and pieces I might have missed some of that.
Aria wasn’t helping.
“If we are going t...
2024-01-30 15:35:23 +0000 UTC View PostWithin 10 seconds of my return Mar and Blots had raced through the open door to my office to stare at me. I waved.
“I never thought I’d say this, but I missed you,” said Mar.
Sadly, I kind of missed him too. Our relationship was an odd one, but it was one of the few constants I had on Ordinal. Blots looked lik...
2024-01-28 23:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostSo we are back home and Sarah is asleep. Hopefully she continues to improve so everything can go back to normal, or as normal adjacent as we manage any more.
2024-01-23 21:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostI wasn’t sure what bothered me more. The fact that there was a portal to super hell just a few miles from Windfall that could have disgorged unholy abominations that could destroy the world at any time, or the fact that it never had.
“I lived in terror of this place,” I said, remember the palpable energy of terror that flo...
2024-01-21 22:31:44 +0000 UTC View PostNow that I had a better understanding of how the elven city worked, finding things got a lot easier. They didn’t use streets, those were dangerous, they had garden plazas that were used for navigation. Finding those plazas was tricky for an outsider, though most elves understood the general placement of everything base...
2024-01-20 02:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostI woke up early, for an adventurer. That was to say, I woke up at the crack of nine and hopped out of my less impressive bed. The forest air flowed into the room from the broad, open door leading to the balcony.
Common adventurers shared a communal sleeping hall on the second floor of the residential wing. Mo...
2024-01-16 02:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe last mile was spent running through a destroyed wasteland. All of the trees were down, and the skies were… well, a shadow filled nightmare.
Badgelor was surrounded by two dead behir, ghastly wounds covering both. One of the massive creatures twitched as I approached, but a blast of plasma to the creature’s un...
2024-01-15 00:21:08 +0000 UTC View PostKing Rogen walked through the illustrious halls of the great citadel taking a long moment to examine the spire of magic that hovered majestically over his city. For any other kingdom, the spire of magic would have been the centerpiece of their magical defenses, or perhaps a center of learning.
Rogen ordered it abandoned ...
2024-01-13 03:56:10 +0000 UTC View PostShade popped up after a few minutes. His essence had been massively disrupted by the bugbear, but when it recovered he was his usual chipper self.
“I still think you should carry me,” said Shade as he sniffed the dead doat. The creature’s body glowed blue for a moment and then Shade was off to the next one wh...
2024-01-09 03:50:35 +0000 UTC View Post“The general will return,” said Honroar as the remaining war badgers all relaxed as much as they dared.
There were only nine left. If Badgelor had been alone he would have collapsed, it was only the fact that they looked up to him that was keeping him even marginally sane.
How would Jim manage this?
<... 2024-01-08 00:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Alright coach, you got any other good ideas,” I said and Spivy glanced at me.
“Coach,” she asked.
“Well, you are the one who is telling me how to do this without actually doing it yourself,” I said.
Spivy shrugged, “I suppose the word fits.”
“As long as I get to bite them on the butt, I am ...
2024-01-05 21:03:14 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure this is going to work?”
“We already removed his core, so if we don’t try this little freak is dead anyway.”
All that ever happened to him was pain. As a goblin that was to be expected, but he wasn’t a goblin anymore. Those adventures weren’t content to kill him, they wanted him to ...
2024-01-03 04:30:34 +0000 UTC View PostI hit the ground running and kept right on moving. Something big was chasing after the war badgers, and I was pretty sure I knew what it was.
“I’m not seeing a behir,” said Shart as he worked the console. “If one was nearby, it is not here now.”
“I think it went west,” I offered as we reached the ...
2024-01-01 11:26:35 +0000 UTC View PostHappy new years. I hope everyone is enjoying their celebrations. I sure am, which is why I did not post the chapter this week. I will post it first thing tomorrow.
2024-01-01 00:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe shade flinched examining the two holes in her chest. She learned new things about War Badgers, they would not leave anyone behind, but you could grab one if you were really dedicated to the bit. She’d managed to steal one of the young war badger cubs, they were small and easy to carry.
Also, they were protected by se...
2023-12-24 23:17:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe traffic in the city was terrible, that seemed to be a constant that never changed no matter what district we went to. Gloria did not care, she drove like a linebacker with his scholarship on the line the entire time. I counted no fewer than twelve impacts with another buggy as we tore out of town.
Or as I would...
2023-12-18 19:07:38 +0000 UTC View PostShe could have just left. That would have been too simple though, and she didn’t like leaving things alone.
And of course, the foe.
After the first behir, she had to find more. Well, she had gone towards the exit mainly to see where it was and what to do with it. There was a cave, it was mentioned in th...
2023-12-17 22:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter we took our quests I bid every well and walked out of the guild onto the massive manicured gardens. It was early in the morning and the sun was high overhead. Okay it was the crack of noon, but still I was awake and fed. It didn’t matter if I got up late, I was on vacation.
“We are going to kill som...
2023-12-15 19:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostI groaned as light splashed over my face. Exhaling, I felt something touching my face but when I reached up to brush it off I realized it was hair. Then someone pinched me.
“No,” said a woman, “It is way too early.”
I was indoors, laying on something rather uncomfortable with someone who was very comf...
2023-12-13 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostLady Domagal, the System Lord’s eyes narrowed to two tiny prick, tiny glowing pricks, where she sat on her throne in the great Tree, the ancestral home of the Elven System Lord. From here she could look down on Dominus and the fortress of the king in full knowledge of her absolute control of the elves, a place where nothing ...
2023-12-11 19:24:07 +0000 UTC View Post“This was a good day,” thought the shadow when she spotted the army sulking along. It wasn’t often that you saw an army moving down here, let alone a living one. A living army couldn't exist here for very long so they must be leaving. They were moving in a tight column towards somewhere, and she needed to find out where that was...
2023-12-10 23:31:33 +0000 UTC View Post