Arthur got a brand new stew pot bubbling for the dragon’s lunch. He had gone back to the rather wary quartermaster and found a large pot that, unlike the steel cattle trough, looked like it had once been meant to feed a lot of people. When he requested it, the quartermaster reluctantly signed it over without even asking for a price. Arthur sus...
2024-10-29 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNote: This chapter is nearly 4k! Whew!
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Cressida and Horatio arrived in the early evening, having received the map Arthur sent to show them the rooms, just as the Purple Commons finished the stew.
The little dragons were almost pathetically grateful for the meal. Though none of them were overly skinny, it was obv...
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2024-10-22 18:56:49 +0000 UTC View PostBrixaby flew him down toward the rooms he had picked out on the twentieth level. The journey downward was quite the view. Arthur could see the entire mountain chain, with the flatter valleys beyond dotted with prosperous fields and farmland. There were some fields with an odd red glimmer out in the horizon. It made for a stunning sight.
Ho...
2024-10-18 03:26:38 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a rough portal journey. Arthur still felt Brixaby solidly under him, but it felt like they were tumbling over and over, flipped around sideways, upside down, side to side. Then, abruptly, light exploded all around them and they arrived.
Arthur gasped, sucking in a lungful of thin air. Under him, Brixaby made a gurgling sound that mi...
2024-10-17 04:32:06 +0000 UTC View PostArthur watched Brixaby take off into the sky. Part of him felt like calling him back to remind him one more time that they shouldn't be making a spectacle of themselves. That was one thing Brixaby excelled at: making everyone pay attention to him.
But he was a grown dragon and had done well by staying quiet and intimidating back with the P...
2024-10-08 18:03:33 +0000 UTC View PostAs Brixaby flew, he cast an eye up to the sky. The four portal dragons were still holding open their side of the portals. Through it, dragons came and went. Many dropped off supplies harvested from doomed human dwellings at one section of the crater. That area was filling up fast.
Brixaby was impressed. The normal instinct was to go for sh...
2024-09-25 02:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostBrixaby
Of course, leaving New Houston was not nearly the simple process the humans made it out to be. Brixaby still needed to disguise each one of his retinue members using the Knockback card. Transferring one “Rare” pair into Blood Moon hive was risky enough. Five would be a nightmare.
Even with hi...
2024-09-24 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBrixaby curled his neck around to stare at Arthur. There was shock in his gaze, but also a challenge.
When Griff and Squish were far enough so they couldn’t hear him, he spoke. “These are supposedly the best Purples in the hive?”
Arthur shook his head. “I think you missed the point, buddy.”
Griff’s words disturbed h...
2024-09-18 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostArthur would never have been able to let go if he did not have complete faith in his dragon. He released his hold on the windowsill and fell through complete blackness. It lasted less than a second.
He hit stomach first on something hard and scrabbled for a moment before his fingers found familiar dragon ridges. Brixaby had positioned hims...
2024-09-17 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOf course the net didn’t only fall on Alice. Prim, as ever, sat on her shoulder.
Prim squawked and flailed, but was unable to move the net. However, the spacing was wide enough for her to squeeze through.
Alice yelled, “Fly, get away!”
She felt her dragon’s mental objection, but Alice’s command was firm an...
2024-09-15 14:45:32 +0000 UTC View PostAscending three levels using stairs differed greatly from climbing the thing.
Yes, he had 24 levels in Rock Climbing — and every inch up, he felt like he was gaining valuable experience. But he had underestimated how hard this was going to be.
For one thing, he had already climbed today, and those muscles were fatigued. For another...
2024-09-14 04:24:39 +0000 UTC View PostWith a firm hold on his Stealth and Acting skills, Arthur carefully walked along the narrow corridors. He had been exceptionally lucky that the drunk rider he had helped had either been too intoxicated or too unworldly to notice he was a Legendary card wielder.
Arthur was still getting the hang of identifying people’s ranks by their card...
2024-09-13 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The closer Arthur got, the clearer he could see past the sharp rises that obscured the hive complex. The entire hive complex, the cone and the city, was encompassed within a vast, scooped out crater, nestled straight within the mountain range.
This must have been a heck of an eruption. Whatever type of scourgling ...
2024-09-12 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
That night, Arthur and Soledad sat on a large, flat rock that overlooked the outer reaches of Blood Moon Hive.
It was well-named. Positioned on the wheel of Hives that circled the middle of the kingdom, Blood Moon was about a third of the way clockwise. It was also one of the most evil-looking hives that Arthur had ever seen.<...
2024-09-11 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“I am uncertain I approve of letting them live,” Brixaby grumped — loud enough for the men below to hear — as he took to the sky with Arthur astride his neck. “They attacked you. We should leave only one behind, cardless, as a warning of what happens when anyone touches my rider.”
“It wasn’t their fault,” Art...
2024-09-10 04:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter all was done, hands shaken, and cards exchanged, Arthur and Cressida were led back through the garden. The sense he received from someone so close to him in Stealth faded when they left the building. It had been a bodyguard, then. But it was extremely useful to know he was now aware of such things.
Arthur intended to focus on his Ste...
2024-08-29 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
After she returned to her store, she immediately set about making plans.
Fixie would have to stay behind, of course. She would be miserable without projects to do. The next decision was a bit harder, but it felt right. She instructed Iggy to prepare Spark to watch the store while she was gone. The little sub-aspect didn’t ha...
2024-08-28 01:22:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe promise of cards for sale could easily be a trap. Once they were out of sight, Cressida left the shop and sent a discreet shadow message to Brixaby and Joy, telling them roughly what they were up to and to wait at their prearranged location. If they did not send another message three hours from now, their dragons would come looking for them....
2024-08-28 01:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostThat took Arthur aback. This couldn't be a coincidence, could it?
Brixaby's Legendary card insisted the next in his set was in Blood Moon Hive, and then Brixaby's portal card took him to a place Blood Moon Hive riders should not be. They were currently in the central ring of the kingdom while their hive was toward the Eastern edge.
A...
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“Here are the reports you requested, sir,” said Zalenon, the head wing leader of Whitaker’s perso...
2024-08-17 22:00:49 +0000 UTC View PostBefore Alice set out, she stopped by the saloon to ask if they had any raw vegetables ready to buy. He suspected they would, since they had finely chopped them and included them in the meat pies she had purchased earlier.
Sure enough, Matilda’s eyes gleamed. “We do, but what do you need something like that for? You do eat a lot for suc...
2024-08-17 19:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostArthur walked into a city not surrounded by walls, but merely guarded by bored men who were stationed at points along the roads. They were easily avoided, but he and Cressida didn't bother. Aside from wearing clothing in slightly strange color combinations, as they had come from another kingdom, the two of them weren't noticeable if they didn't ...
2024-08-17 18:59:31 +0000 UTC View PostHi guys,
It’s been a bit, and I’m sorry about that. What was meant to be a quick break to regroup sort of… grew. I got hit with a lot of HEAVY stuff in life in a short period of time and I’ll be honest… I just haven’t been able to pull myself back together.
It sucks to have to admit that, but I gotta face facts that I’m...
2024-08-17 18:47:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure about this, Brixaby?” Cressida asked a few days later. “I’ve never heard of anyone directing a portal spell who wasn’t the caster.”
“Of course I’m certain,” Brixaby puffed up as if he had been insulted. “It is my card.”
They were all gathered out behind the barn. Only Arthur, Cressida and their dra...
2024-06-12 05:21:56 +0000 UTC View PostAlice’s only warning was Prim’s sudden cry of alarm – it sounded similar to a diving hawk.
The next thing she knew, the vegetation seemed to shift and melt around her. And instead of standing on a close-in forest path with dark vegetation close around her, she suddenly stood in front of two dragons who should have been...
2024-06-12 05:20:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Alice was on pins and needles until Iggy announced that he saw Prim and Numi returning. There had been no outcry from the mining camp. That was no great surprise, because it was now the small hours of the night where even the most steadfast guard would feel sleepy. Alice surely would be too, if she weren't a ball of anxiety.
... 2024-06-12 05:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostPrim
"You do realize, there likely exists a world where you never told Alice about her former friend," Numi said as the two dragons flew over the fence of the mining camp, invisible thanks to Prim's illusions. "And in that world, the two of us are sleeping right now, like any proper dragon should do at night. And Alice would n...
2024-06-05 05:59:58 +0000 UTC View Post
That night, Alice decided to leave Fixie behind at the store. Frankly, she would be useless on their expedition.
Prim was a shoo-in to go with her, and so was Iggy as her protector. Though Alice waffled back and forth on whether to take Numi or not, in the end decided it would be best if she came along too. Numi would be able ...
2024-06-05 05:57:08 +0000 UTC View Post