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Bibliomancer ~ 16!

~ Sixteen ~

For the next several hours they murdered their way through rabbit and fox territory while the sun slowly traced an arc through the sky. They finally paused when the blazing orb stood directly overhea...

Bibliomancer ~ 15!

~ Fifteen ~

The newly-formed party was heading through the eastern gates—enormous things, easily large enough to accommodate a swarm of T-rexes—when they found their way barred by a group of swaggering, armor-clad adventurer...

Bibliomancer ~14!

~ Fourteen ~

After leaving Nick’s Knacks in the dust, Sam and Finn found themselves shouldering their way into a dimly lit inn on the outskirts of the city, not far from the perimeter gate which let out onto...

Bibliomancer ~13!

~ Thirteen ~

Sam slept like the dead, woke up early, and worked through his morning shift in the kitchen like a zombie; his mind entirely fixated on what awesome things he would do when he got out of the Colle...

Bibliomancer ~12!

~ Twelve ~

Sam sprinted down the twisting hallways of the College, sweating like mad. The small nicks, cuts, and bruises covering his face and arms burned like hellfire. His stamina dropped while he pumped his...

Bibliomancer ~ 11!

~ Eleven ~

Clawing through raw sewage barehanded was not the worst thing Sam had to do. Not by a long shot. The next four days passed in a blur of too little sleep, too little food—all of it bad—too little fun, and too much of everything el...

Bibliomancer ~ 10!

 Another giant chapter!

~ Ten ~

Sam found himself wading knee-deep through a slow-moving river of sewage beneath the city of Ardania. As the kid of an upper crust family with massive real-estate holdings, their ...

Bibliomancer ~ 9!

Big. ol'. Chapter. Enjoy!

~ Nine ~

By the time Sam was finished with classes, registration, and all the other administrative red tape of his first day at the College, he felt as wrung out as a...

Bibliomancer ~ 8!

~ Eight ~

Sam dropped into a wooden chair, already feeling exhausted from the day even though he’d hadn’t really done anything. Dealing with all the administrative stuff had been both mentally tax...

Bibliomancer ~ 7!

~ Seven ~

Sam made his way down the grid-like streets of the city before finally winding up in the marketplace proper, which was everything he’d dreamed it would be.

The scent of grilling meat, musky p...

Bibliomancer ~ 6!

~ Six ~

An opalescent light engulfed Sam, suffusing his body with energy and power, and inside an eyeblink he’d spawned in the square of a massive, medieval city. The breath caught in his throat, eyes bulgin...

Bibliomancer ~ 5!

~ Five ~

Sam didn’t die as he expected. It was a strange feeling, being alive when you weren't supposed to be. Something that was very hard to describe, but he felt that most people would somehow un...

Bibliomancer ~ 4!

~ Four ~

Sam came to an eyeblink later, a scream tearing free from his throat before trailing off in confusion. The moment of pain was gone, and so was the giant boulder that had crushed him seconds before. Hi...

Bibliomancer ~ 3!

~ Three ~

His parents may have filled out most of the paperwork, but getting to the whole adventure thing was quite a bit more involved than Wendy had initially let on. The nurse—or maybe admi...

Bibliomancer ~ 2

~ Two ~

A sharp *knock-knock-knock* on the door pulled Sam from his hazy thoughts of far off places.

“Yeah, come on in,” he pushed himself upright so that he was sitting on the edge of the m...

Bibliomancer ~ 1

There was something waiting for him behind this door. He knew it, and he knew that he had to enter.

Still, Sam King lingered on the steps.

His hands were sweaty, the suitcase was oddly heavy as he stared at the double doors of dark wood and frosted glass. Behind him...

Raze ~ 27!

~ Twenty-seven ~

“Alrighty, Jess-a-mundo!” Joe's enthusiasm bounced harmlessly off the iron defenses of Jess’s single-track focus. “I have a few really important tasks for you. I need a couple Cores for testing purposes and one that is the most powerful t...

Raze ~ 26!

~ Twenty-six ~

An odd sight graced the forest that morning. Two Wolfman Scouts slowly and carefully picked their way through the forest, and a few feet behind them trailed a party of their racial enemy, humans. Now, no one was around to see this odd sight, and the Scouts ...

Raze ~ 25!

~ Twenty-five ~

“Awaken, Humans.” Joe’s eyes snapped open, and he was perfectly awake. Awake like when a foghorn went off near your ear, without the pain or flinching.

“What did you do to us?” Poppy snarled as he launched out of bed. “How did you get ...

Raze ~ 24!

~ Twenty-four ~

The Wolfman Warrior stopped them after an hour of stumbling through the dark. Frankly, Joe had no idea how they had managed not to be attacked by all the things that were going bump in the night. Or screeching into the night; that was more common.

“I bri...

Raze ~23!

~ Twenty-three ~

‘’Alright, shall we go over what we did wrong during the last trip?” Joe looked around, getting confusion in reply. It appeared that his attempt to emulate Tiona hadn't been as successful as he had hoped it would be. “Basically, I am looking for us to d...

Raze ~ 22!

~ Twenty-two ~

Joe stumbled out of the basement of the Grand Ritual Hall the next day, a taglock vanishing into his codpiece just as he opened a door to the town. He felt the need for coffee, but his sleep-deprivation had paid off. He had managed to create a clean spellform for...

Raze ~ 21!

Happy Treason Day, all of my glorious colonists! :P  

~ Twenty-one ~

Joe stepped out of the respawn room eight in-game hours later, appearing at the shrine he had most recently converted. “Ick, it’s a half day walk even to get back to the forest from here.”

Raze ~ 20!

Happy Monday!!!

~ Twenty ~

Contrary to their concerns, Forest Imps seemed to be a fairly rare enemy. They weren't sure if that was due to the sheer size of the forest they were in, or if there were only a few of them in the forest in total. Either way, after fightin...

Raze ~ 19!

~ Nineteen ~

Joe hummed happily as he walked down the path. One hundred and thirty new converts to his faction. That was how he was thinking of his deity affiliation: a faction. His small team had gone back to Ardania and slept at an inn, getting a good rest and a good if v...