Scarlett sat in the Withersworth’s parlor room, sipping out of a cup of tea that had been provided for her. Leon sat beside her, and opposite them were Lady and Lord Withersworth. The older couple was observing them with some interest.
“I heard that you and your group returned looking quite ragged early in the morning, Baroness,” Lad...
2023-01-08 22:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter dealing with Abelard and his dolls in the conservatory, Scarlett and the others soon located the room that held the boss loot. It was a storage room of sorts, housing trunks and shelves that held different magical tools and equipment on them, similar to some of what they found in the laboratory. It had all been put into the [Bag of Juham] ...
2023-01-05 21:21:40 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett downed her last mana potion and let the empty flask fall to the floor.
[Mana: 1668/4698]
That was all she had left to work with.
She looked across the room to where the ghost of Abelard Withersworth was floating. His form had turned more and more transparent as she’d continued her at...
2023-01-01 22:51:51 +0000 UTC View PostAlong with the others, Scarlett made her way through the hidden paths of Abelard’s Doll mansion that had connected to the secret laboratory. They’d climbed dark stone stairways, squeezed past tight passageways running behind the mansion walls, and now, they eventually found themselves exiting out from behind a large painting frame into a lon...
2022-12-29 21:29:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Is everyone ready?” Scarlett asked, her gaze moving over the others beside her, stopping on Allyssa. The girl blinked, looking up from the book she had been reading, her eyes then darting between Scarlett and the entrance that had opened up in the wall.
“Oh, eh, kinda?” she said.
“Find anything interesting in there?” Ros...
2022-12-25 22:05:42 +0000 UTC View PostQuick notice to inform that there appears to be a bug on my patreon membership page when logged in that makes it so the incorrect price can be shown on the expert tier. The examples that have been brought to me have noted that the Expert-tier shows $90/month instead of $9/month. Be aware that it is still charging the correct amoun...
2022-12-23 22:11:47 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett and the others stood before an old wooden door. It was located at the end of a narrow stairway hidden away in the mansion’s central wing. In the game, the natural way of progressing to the next section of this dungeon was through the main lobby, but that was the annoying way to go about things.
She pulled out the key she’d tak...
2022-12-22 22:01:33 +0000 UTC View Post“Well done, both of you,” Scarlett told Fynn and Shin after what remained of their target scattered away with one last blast of her pyrokinesis. She walked up to the center of the spacious chamber they were in, kneeling down to pick up a rusty old key that was nestled inside a pile of slightly glowing iron chains.
[Chains of be...
2022-12-15 22:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostA wide bedchamber opened up before Allyssa. Paintings, mirrors, and other decorations hung off the walls, and near the center was an ornate bed with a marble dressing table next to it and a chest placed at its foot. There were no windows, yet an indentation in the ceiling held a panel that lit up the room in a soft, white light. The panel looked...
2022-12-11 22:06:35 +0000 UTC View PostLeon walked down a dimly lit hallway, with Allyssa and Rosa following close behind. Keeping a close watch on their surroundings, he eyed the different corridors and doors leading deeper into the mansion that they passed by. Occasionally, he glanced back at the other two to make sure everything was fine.
Both of his companions had turned a ...
2022-12-08 21:27:56 +0000 UTC View PostLeon found himself in what looked to be a large ballroom, with old yet burnished decorations running along the walls and silver chandeliers dangling from the ceiling. Chairs and long tables lined the edges of the room with an old piano in the corner, its fallboard and lid propped up as if waiting to be used.
There was almost no dust to be ...
2022-12-04 22:28:20 +0000 UTC View PostLeon glanced at Scarlett’s back as she and her retainers walked down the cold stone hallways of the Withersworth mansion’s underground cellars. The woman walked forward as if the master of this place, despite its real master being right beside Leon.
“You appear well-informed of the layout of my home, Baroness,” Lord Withersworth sa...
2022-12-01 22:55:03 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett and the others were still waiting in the drawing room when the butler returned, stopping by the room’s entrance.
“Baroness Hartford,” he said in a mild tone. “Milord still finds himself preoccupied with the duties of his office; however…it would appear milady has returned from her previous ventures and has expressed an i...
2022-11-27 21:42:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe city of Autumnwell was situated at the end of one of the distributaries that fed into the main body of the Three Streams River, northwest of Elystead and east of Windgrove. The settlement was nestled in a natural canyon, surrounded on both sides by low, verdant cliffs covered in fields and small forests. A large fort overlooked the city from...
2022-11-24 21:54:09 +0000 UTC View PostA long silence reigned over the carriage cabin as the vehicle set off from the mansion, venturing out into the wide and mostly open spaces of Freybrook’s northern district. Scarlett’s gaze was focused on the small forests that separated many of the estates in this district, mindlessly observing the passing trees. It was ridiculous how large ...
2022-11-20 22:12:01 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett moved through the mansion’s hallways in the direction of the guest parlor.
Of all people, she hadn’t been expecting Leon to suddenly show up like this. It’d been almost two months since they last met, so she thought he wouldn’t bother with her anymore now that talks of the annulment were in progress. That’s the impressio...
2022-11-17 21:17:22 +0000 UTC View Post[Quest completed: Conclude negotiations with the Hallowed Cabal]
{Skill points awarded: 5}
[Quest completed: Broker a truce with the Hallowed Cabal]
{Skill points awarded: 8}
Scarlett eyed the quest completion messages. The words floated in the air next to her as she walked through the darkened...
2022-11-13 21:39:41 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett walked through the dark forests outside Freybrook, along with Fynn. The moon lent little light that penetrated through the dense canopy above, but with her enchanted glasses on, she could see the opening among the trees ahead of them clearly.
“Are they still maintaining their distance?” she asked Fynn in a lowered voice.
Here's a really cool piece of concept art drawn by one of you patreons — Eiznel. Huge shoutout to them, both for flattering me with some art, but also for very accurately catching the likeness of Scarlett that I myself have imagined. Seriously, big thanks!
2022-11-06 21:09:47 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett idly took in some of the wall decorations—paintings of landscapes, people, buildings—as she climbed the stairs to the top floor of the mansion’s east wing. This floor felt more like an attic than the rest did, with no windows and a lower ceiling, but it was far from ‘lacking’, if you asked her. Especially if you compared it to...
2022-11-06 21:09:15 +0000 UTC View PostLater, after Gaven and the Countess’ visit, Scarlett was waiting in front of her desk in the office. A knock came from the door and Molly entered the room, performing a low curtsy.
“My Lady called?”
“Yes.” Scarlett put aside an old ledger she’d been going through that detailed the room and chambers in the mansion. She had...
2022-11-03 20:49:39 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett spent two more days in Freymeadow being instructed by Arlene about the difference between normal pyrokinesis and true pyrokinesis. Those days had been used refining what the woman had told her, trying to gauge the difference between the two ‘skills’. Unfortunately, beyond explaining that there was a difference, and showcasi...
2022-10-30 21:13:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Scarlett and Rosa returned to Freymeadow the next day, they were surprised to see Arlene standing from her chair and stepping down from the porch as they neared.
“Follow me,” the woman told Scarlett before turning around and walking away.
Scarlett shared a look with Rosa. “I will see what this is about. You remain here.”...
2022-10-27 21:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostShort notice that there won't be a chapter this sunday. Will be gone for a few days, so next chapter is on thursday next week.
2022-10-20 21:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post“Were you hiding your abilities yesterday?” Arlene’s voice sounded out from the side.
Scarlett smothered the two large spheres of fire she’d been focusing on, turning to look at the nearby porch. The woman was eyeing her closely.
“I was not. Since then, however, I have had a realization of sorts.”
[Name: 2022-10-20 21:52:41 +0000 UTC View Post
[Quest completed: Cleared The Decayed Catacombs]
{Skill points awarded: 3}
“Well done, everyone,” Scarlett said as they climbed up a set of mossy stone stairs, exiting into a dilapidated, ruined temple. What had once been its main gallery and the aisles running alongside it were barricaded by broken-off fragments of...
2022-10-16 22:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s one large statue~” Rosa sang as their group crested the last ridge, treading along the craggy path that trailed the hillside.
Before them stood a tall rock statue of some kind of knight—at least thirty meters in height—that held up a giant shield in front of it. The head had broken off and there were several large nicks a...
2022-10-13 21:58:55 +0000 UTC View PostScarlett watched the passing houses in silence as their carriage moved through the cobbled streets of central Freybrook. She wasn’t paying much attention to the buildings themselves—she’d long since started growing used to the novelty of this medieval-like world—but rather the scenery of it.
It had been two days since they returned...
2022-10-09 21:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostRosa stared up at the reddened sky. “A nightmare…?”
“Remaining here is still an option,” Scarlett said.
The woman turned to her. She shook her head. “No. I’m coming with.”
“…Very well.”
They walked forward towards the forest ahead of them. Scarlett created a pair of small flames to lend them some lig...
2022-10-06 20:45:37 +0000 UTC View Post“Would you stop treating it like a bundle of yarn made of glass?” the voice complained from the side.
Scarlett flinched. The tiny clump of fire magic she’d spent the last ten minutes trying to carefully untangle bundled up again. All those hundreds of mana strands she had only barely managed to separate into clusters were yet again b...
2022-10-02 20:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post