As we approach the holidays--and continue building a more comfortable lead time between posting and writing--we're announcing the next scheduled breaks for the holidays. ^_^
There will be posting breaks on these dates:
December 12-16, 2022
January 2-6, 2023
We'll post a remin...
2022-11-28 14:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt took Yuriko and the others about half an hour to pack up camp. The horses whinnied as they were saddled, stubbornly reaching for the scraggly tufts of grass they grazed at. Sheamus and the twins had fed them using bags that contained some mixture of oats and other grains, and even though water...
2022-11-28 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostFragmentary visions assaulted Yuriko’s mind. Snippets of lives, conversations, emotions…and then bursts of light, swirls of Chaos, and then…a strange gestalt.
Everything was in balance so that nothing moved. Each constituent part was evenly matched…but not in strength, in weakness. ...
2022-11-28 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostKadrac City was vastly different from the other cities Yuriko had been to. Rumiga City was tiered and built on a mountainside, Lucenti City in Bella plane, the capital of the snake-kin, was built atop a swamp, on the trunks of humongous trees. Realmheart was arguably a planar metropolis, with str...
2022-11-28 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostGetting the gunk out of her hair was simple. Yuriko simply sluiced it with water and all the vomit flowed away. Getting it out of her poncho and pants was another matter entirely, and with the river water still a muddy brown, and with what just happened, there was no way she was going near there ...
2022-11-28 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe initial moments after they left Haveena City were heady and thrilling. Yuriko felt as if they had escaped a squalid prison. It immediately helped that the stench of horse dung, urine, and sewage, had been swept away by the breeze. Unfortunately, they were too close to the city, and the road t...
2022-11-28 13:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt was late at night by the time Yuriko and the others left the Weyr household. Izna’s mother had broken down at the news that her son had been brought to the Traitor’s Gate, which was the name of the prison in the northern district of Salazha. It was the same name as the First Councilor simp...
2022-11-21 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGwendith wouldn't stop hugging Yuriko and clung like a leech while Yuriko headed towards the mattress. She collapsed on the bed, well, floor mattress now since the combined pallet beds proved unstable, and stretched, all while Gwen sniffled on her shoulder.
“Why were you so worried?” Yu...
2022-11-21 13:45:00 +0000 UTC View PostLegate Jiro Segawa leaned back against his command chair. The fleet had been stationary for the last hour while they waited for something to happen. The Solamnus Court wasn’t usually hostile, but this act of ripping them away from besieging a fortified Waypoint on the path to Rumiga was certain...
2022-11-21 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostIzna Weyr stared down his ale mug and avoided looking at Braden Foster’s friends. The taller woman, Yuriko, was particularly unsettling, in his opinion. For one thing, she could somehow perceive things even though she had that hood over her head, covering her eyes entirely. That was…creepy. 2022-11-21 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
At first, neither Yuriko nor Desire realised that something was happening. Mornings were always crowded, especially near the markets. There was a marketplace for each district and they were usually full at dawn, and so were the streets that lead them.
Yuriko thought it was the usual crowd, ...
2022-11-21 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe chapter releases for this week have been reposted in the correct order. Thanks for the alert!
- L&R
2022-11-15 02:50:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Welcome to Tackles and Bits!” a cheery voice said as soon as Yuriko entered the shop.
She still had her poncho’s hood over her head, leaving her face in the shadows. The young man behind the counter didn’t seem to mind that, and in fact, there were a few other customers who were co...
2022-11-15 02:49:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Really? Here?” Gwendith glared at Braden Foster, who shrugged.
Yuriko huffed. The song wasn’t actually that bad, but it was the combination of the singer’s clothing plus the hooting and rowdiness of the audience that surprised her. Most of the people in the common room were men, wi...
2022-11-15 02:47:49 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko’s malaise lasted well into the next day, but they continued to press on. Desire didn’t sense any of the nameless, but that was only to be expected. Yuriko thought they must travel through the main roads and since her group used the backroads, there was little chance of overlap.
S...
2022-11-15 02:46:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe One Who Watches and Waits had his attention divided several ways.
His Anima was powerful enough to occupy a dozen Corpi at a time, but each Corpus he occupied reduced his overall power. Most of the time, those bodies were built to stay unseen, undetected, and observant. Very few of his ...
2022-11-15 02:46:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt didn’t take long for the others to finish exploring the hamlet. It was abandoned, as they originally thought, but Yuriko was mistaken in thinking that there were no signs of struggle. There weren’t any signs in the house she checked, but there were in the square.
A dozen houses were ...
2022-11-15 02:43:31 +0000 UTC View PostBarnabei Rill had swollen from the constant rainfall. The river ford was barely passable with the middle being deep enough to go over someone’s head. The current was fast enough that the waters were muddy brown and frothy. Even at its narrowest point, the Rill was roughly forty paces wide.
<... 2022-11-07 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post“The Implacable Jade will bombard Cierra Village the day after tomorrow,” Veran Jake said casually as he walked alongside Yuriko, who blinked curiously down at the man.
“Why?” she asked.
“To help with your cover,” he answered. “His Highness anticipated that just crossing...
2022-11-07 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostLegate Iola Melanthos Brygos heaved a sigh of relief. Tribunus Kaspar delivered a load of Nyctferrum items, mostly odds and ends as well as a ceremonial dagger from the Kinnocks, and a statuette from the Esras. All told, that was just under a Jin of pure Nyctferrum. She had to smelt the impuritie...
2022-11-07 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko sat in a meditative trance on her bed. Desire’s words had been surprising, but thinking things through, she realised that it wasn’t that surprising after all. For one thing, Desire herself had been human before. She was Ashley Gin, plus a few bits and pieces of other people. As grotesq...
2022-11-07 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post“The Fortified Waypoints are stacked together,” Spellweaver Blodwen reported. “The Interdictor Sphere is within the stack. We’ll have to push through all of the intervening Fysalli to get to it before we can move on.”
Jiro jiggled his leg in irritation.
More delays. They’d...
2022-11-07 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post“I got careless,” Krystal said ruefully while she held a bloodied hand on her side.
Yuriko found her friend next to the encampment’s assembly field, next to the other wounded. And dead.
Yuriko’s perception aura examined Krystal’s injury. Aside from a stab to her right hip th...
2022-10-31 14:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostKoinos Litai, Azavi, and Galad quickly overtook Yuriko’s position, their four-pace high frames combined with focused Animus was more than enough to provide a speed boost that allowed them to cover the intervening longstride in half a minute. The hills blocking the Federation encampment were no ...
2022-10-31 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostYuriko rose an hour before dawn. The battle that would decide the fate of Faron’s Crossing would happen in a couple of hours, and she felt nothing but anticipation. Definitely no fear or anxiety, nope.
Her Anima undulated with the turning of her mind. Her reach had grown by a few more inc...
2022-10-31 13:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Finan. What a surprise,” Yuriko said flatly when the prince entered the Knight’s Council chamber along with his entourage.
The young man answered her with a small smile.
“Yuriko.” He looked at the rest of the Knights. “Knights of Faron’s Crossing, good afternoon”
<... 2022-10-31 13:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe siege of Faron’s Crossing dragged on for several more weeks. The rain didn’t let up at all, and if not for how the town had dredged the river Caradec, Yuriko was sure they would have flooded everything already.
The battlefield had gone from being a mud plain to a pond. Or a lake, mo...
2022-10-31 13:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Land gods!” Zagara swore as she leapt away.
Yuriko was still stunned, and the miraculous feeling continued to exist within her perception. If she struck like this, with the shards, Zagara would be forced here or there. Counter with a strike on either trajectory and no matter her moveme...
2022-10-24 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThey met in the open battlefield, a hundred paces from the wall, as stipulated by Yuriko. The woman, who called herself Zagara of the Manifold Blades, readily agreed. Zagara came alone, and even with Yuriko’s Chaos Sight, she didn’t see any attempts at subterfuge.
Zagara had her helm in...
2022-10-24 13:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post“After Founding 3000
5th Day of Water
Tribunus Agatha Seran Kaspar
Agminis Head Office
Rumiga City
Tribunus,
Allow me to restate the urgency of the need for Nyctferrum items. The Gemheart’s innerspace’s corruption has reached 10% of its surface area. The ...
2022-10-24 13:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post