"Azoth? Are you there? It's… it's time for the funeral," I heard Soris say. I heard him but I gave no indication of it. I sat on a bed that wasn't mine. I didn't really know where I was. Just that I wasn't in my home. I managed to get myself dressed in my finest clothing, though. Mother had bee...
2022-09-18 15:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis is something of an experiment. The reaction to From the Ashes got me thinking that some stories may have more potential than I initially gave them credit for. That, and when it comes to the next new story poll, throwing several potential new stories at you at once may not be the best...
2022-09-16 15:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostPeople feared mercenaries for good reason, especially bands of them. Guts grew up in them. He knew exactly what mercenaries were when it came right down to it. Some managed to lie to themselves better than others, wrapping what they were under scarves of silks and pleasant lies, but the heart of ...
2022-09-15 14:55:52 +0000 UTC View PostFor my entire life, I had only ever known the farm. That small village of Ivarstead that had less than thirty people, my immediate family. I had no grandparents to speak of. They had performed Ättestupa in their old age since they were unable to die in battle and to lessen the burden on their fa...
2022-09-14 14:56:56 +0000 UTC View PostWe lost about eighty men. Which seemed like so few in comparison to the battle there had been. There were another hundred that had been wounded, some of which were expected to die of their wounds. But, the battle was being celebrated as a great victory. The garrison at Sigiburg had surrendered wh...
2022-09-14 14:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Hnngh…” I groaned, hearing the faint sound of screaming not too far off in the distance. As if someone was being muffled by a bite. My upper body felt incredibly sore, as if I had pulled every single muscle in my arms, shoulders, and back. I was used to the feeling of pushing myself a litt...
2022-09-14 14:56:48 +0000 UTC View PostI had hoped that since I was traveling with Jarl Horrik’s hird, though I wasn’t a member myself, that I would have a slight clue of what was going on. But, I was absolutely clueless as the campaign began. Near a hundred ships sailed out of Alabu to the calls of good luck from about a thousand...
2022-09-14 14:56:44 +0000 UTC View PostEvery member of the Song family in China was exterminated as far as anyone could tell, and the extermination had been far more expansive than I had ever imagined. Anyone that carried a drop of Song blood was killed -- that included offshoots from the main branch of the family. The branch families...
2022-09-13 13:36:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Brainwashing seems like a jump,” Raven remarked as we stood in my throne room, surrounded on all sides by holograms that fed me information about my empire. As well as a number of projects that I had -- such as the Warworlds and the shield wall around my empire, to name a few. The one that I...
2022-09-12 14:55:25 +0000 UTC View PostEarth was still adapting, but it had done a lot of it over the past three months. To the point that it was honestly shocking.
Letting Lex Luthor remain in charge had been a gamble -- a dangerous one. I had no doubt in my mind that he was taking a mile with every inch that I gave him, buildi...
2022-09-12 14:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostI stood in a great white expanse, a vast nothingness all around that almost hurt to look at. The only things of note were some amenities so far off in the distance that they were hardly specs in my vision, but there was a cafeteria, a private bath, and a door that would lead out of this space tha...
2022-09-12 14:55:15 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a little jarring to hear. Everything was the opposite of what I thought it was. Given that the current Saiyan race was what we were, I figured that the Guardians had defeated us rather soundly. From what I got from Froot and the Guardians, that had been the case, but I just didn’t have...
2022-09-12 14:55:11 +0000 UTC View Post"Have you never used a staff before?" Merrill asked me as I held a wooden staff in my hands that was elaborately engraved while the tip of the staff was curled roots around a focus that was inlaid with lyrium according to the Keeper and First duo. It was surprisingly heavy as I shook my head.
... 2022-09-10 15:09:12 +0000 UTC View PostI had found the Dalish, but I wasn’t entirely sure if that was a good thing.
Before I was allowed anywhere near their camp, my hands were bound and Theron grilled me with questions while Tamlen carried my empty pack. He completely dismissed it because it was empty, and I counted that as a...
2022-09-10 15:09:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Azoth? Are you there? It's… it's time for the funeral," I heard Soris say. I heard him but I gave no indication of it. I sat on a bed that wasn't mine. I didn't really know where I was. Just that I wasn't in my home. I managed to get myself dressed in my finest clothing, though. Mother had bee...
2022-09-10 15:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostI had a new favorite spell, I decided, a heavy box in my hands that just about toppled me with how far I had to lean back to carry it. My arms felt numb with how far thoroughly had been worked, my black hair plastered to my forehead as sweat dripped down my face, soaking my tunic. My legs tremble...
2022-09-10 15:08:57 +0000 UTC View PostFirst off, let me apologize for missing Legends Never Die yesterday and failing to update Gone Native. To be honest, it just completely slipped my mind because of everything that's been going on. To that end, I have some goodish news and some more bad news, and some worse news.
Goodis...
2022-09-08 14:41:16 +0000 UTC View PostVery sorry to spring this on all of you, especially late, but Gone Native will be delayed until tomorrow. Possibly the day after, I'm not quite sure at the moment. The reason is two things slamming together -- I have a work thing, but that's not really the issue.
What made it an issue...
2022-09-05 16:19:51 +0000 UTC View PostI had found the Dalish, but I wasn’t entirely sure if that was a good thing.
Before I was allowed anywhere near their camp, my hands were bound and Theron grilled me with questions while Tamlen carried my empty pack. He completely dismissed it because it was empty, and I counted that as a...
2022-09-03 14:53:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Azoth? Are you there? It's… it's time for the funeral," I heard Soris say. I heard him but I gave no indication of it. I sat on a bed that wasn't mine. I didn't really know where I was. Just that I wasn't in my home. I managed to get myself dressed in my finest clothing, though. Mother had bee...
2022-09-03 14:53:16 +0000 UTC View PostI had a new favorite spell, I decided, a heavy box in my hands that just about toppled me with how far I had to lean back to carry it. My arms felt numb with how far thoroughly had been worked, my black hair plastered to my forehead as sweat dripped down my face, soaking my tunic. My legs tremble...
2022-09-03 14:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostMagic danced in the palm of my hands, swirling around my fingers, aching, begging to be used. A hum of power surged through my veins that sang at the prospect, my mind shifting like sand as I shaped spell after spell, but didn’t commit to one. In the days after waking up, long enough that I cou...
2022-09-03 14:53:05 +0000 UTC View PostWe lost about eighty men. Which seemed like so few in comparison to the battle there had been. There were another hundred that had been wounded, some of which were expected to die of their wounds. But, the battle was being celebrated as a great victory. The garrison at Sigiburg had surrendered wh...
2022-08-31 15:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post“Hnngh…” I groaned, hearing the faint sound of screaming not too far off in the distance. As if someone was being muffled by a bite. My upper body felt incredibly sore, as if I had pulled every single muscle in my arms, shoulders, and back. I was used to the feeling of pushing myself a litt...
2022-08-31 15:11:05 +0000 UTC View PostI had hoped that since I was traveling with Jarl Horrik’s hird, though I wasn’t a member myself, that I would have a slight clue of what was going on. But, I was absolutely clueless as the campaign began. Near a hundred ships sailed out of Alabu to the calls of good luck from about a thousand...
2022-08-31 15:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostDespite my hopes, I found Alabu in full swing as we entered the city. Not as much as it had been when I first visited, but it still felt like there were twice as many people in the city as it was meant to house. People eyed me with some interest, given that I towered over them thanks to the wagon...
2022-08-31 15:10:51 +0000 UTC View PostI was flung out of the building, blasting through doors, a glass pane, then out onto the street and was eventually stopped by a pillar inside the building across the street from where I started. Concrete and metal might as well have been wet tissue paper for all of the resistance it put up. A gla...
2022-08-30 15:03:15 +0000 UTC View PostEarth was still adapting, but it had done a lot of it over the past three months. To the point that it was honestly shocking.
Letting Lex Luthor remain in charge had been a gamble -- a dangerous one. I had no doubt in my mind that he was taking a mile with every inch that I gave him, buildi...
2022-08-29 14:57:18 +0000 UTC View PostI stood in a great white expanse, a vast nothingness all around that almost hurt to look at. The only things of note were some amenities so far off in the distance that they were hardly specs in my vision, but there was a cafeteria, a private bath, and a door that would lead out of this space tha...
2022-08-29 14:57:13 +0000 UTC View PostThat was a little jarring to hear. Everything was the opposite of what I thought it was. Given that the current Saiyan race was what we were, I figured that the Guardians had defeated us rather soundly. From what I got from Froot and the Guardians, that had been the case, but I just didn’t have...
2022-08-29 14:57:08 +0000 UTC View Post