The Council had gathered and the debate had begun, and what a web of intrigue Morrigan saw from above. Threads connecting everyone in the grand hall -- those who were allies, those who accepted bribes, those who feigned friendship even as they reached for a dagger to stab another in the back… f...
2025-11-12 17:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostRagnar lunged with his sword, going low while raising his shield high. I batted the blade away with my own shield, countering by swatting at his leg with my blade, but he’d learned his lessons well and withdrew the leg and tried to catch me as I overextended. Good instincts, but a poor idea giv...
2025-11-12 17:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostJill smiled as she heard the squeals of children's laughter echo through the halls of the palace, looking up from another letter in a pile thick enough to serve as armor just in time to see Magnus and the others burst into her office and rush to shut the door behind them.
“Raaah...
2025-11-12 17:20:32 +0000 UTC View PostAnother winter came and went, bringing spring once more and marking the first year of a united Scandinavia.
The months following my conquest were no less challenging than the conquest itself. The iron needed to be struck while it was hot, so I took advantage of the months leading up t...
2025-11-12 17:20:28 +0000 UTC View Post“Damn bloody slavin’ pirate merchant cunts. Can't do a damn thing right in Essos. Can't make a decent cup of wine, can't worship the right gods, and they can't even fight a war properly,” Robert groused, looking up at the hill that they were meant to take on the Bloodstone island of the Ste...
2025-11-10 16:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostTo my immense surprise, my arch-nemesis didn't immediately trust me enough to give me full unrestricted and unmonitored access to a laboratory. Which was both irritating and slightly reassuring that all this wasn't wasn't a case of the blind leading the blind. Or, rather, morons leading morons.&n...
2025-11-10 16:01:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe view of Casterly Rock hadn't changed, and the lack of it almost felt like a betrayal in Jaime Lannister's mind, as he looked on from above at the training yard that was filled with knights teaching their squires. It was full day and night since the Royal Wedding, where the Westerlands had bee...
2025-11-10 16:01:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Sweet digs,” I remarked from my Resilient Sphere as the cover was cast off from the wagon that I had been loaded inside of.
Heisenberg had given up trying to break into it, and instead loaded me up into the secret tunnel that had been built under the castle that the werewolves ha...
2025-11-10 16:01:32 +0000 UTC View PostThe arena was thumping with music so loud that I'm sure some of the people in it would be leaving deaf, if not at least with a case of tinnitus. Jinx was jumping around, dancing freely and without care, even when she was splashed over every jumbo screen. I leaned on the railing overhead, out of s...
2025-11-07 15:58:53 +0000 UTC View PostSlowly, Tifa opened her eyes and was greeted with the sideways view of a small field of flowers. Her mind was clouded by sleep, but she knew that this wasn't her bed back at the 7th Heaven. It took a moment for things to come into focus, but when they did, she saw the dilapidated walls and a coll...
2025-11-07 15:58:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Ohhh~! Is it finally time to set off the fireworks?” Jinx asked, her eyes dancing with delight as she twirled around in her bright blue and pink dress on top of the railing that overlooked her slice of the slums. She had done pretty good for herself, I could admit, feeling some pride as I le...
2025-11-07 15:58:34 +0000 UTC View PostTifa ducked behind cover just in time, hearing bullets whistle pass where she had been a split second earlier. The concrete barricade shuddered under the continuous impact of gunfire, sending up plumes of dust and rubble that fell on her. A hand went to a Materia in her belt, a Barrier. It wasn't...
2025-11-07 15:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostRagnar lunged with his sword, going low while raising his shield high. I batted the blade away with my own shield, countering by swatting at his leg with my blade, but he’d learned his lessons well and withdrew the leg and tried to catch me as I overextended. Good instincts, but a poor idea giv...
2025-11-05 15:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostJill smiled as she heard the squeals of children's laughter echo through the halls of the palace, looking up from another letter in a pile thick enough to serve as armor just in time to see Magnus and the others burst into her office and rush to shut the door behind them.
“Raaah...
2025-11-05 15:32:11 +0000 UTC View PostAnother winter came and went, bringing spring once more and marking the first year of a united Scandinavia.
The months following my conquest were no less challenging than the conquest itself. The iron needed to be struck while it was hot, so I took advantage of the months leading up t...
2025-11-05 15:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post“God forgive me, I should have killed him when I had the chance,” the famed Charlemagne uttered, pinching the bridge of his nose as he sat at the head of a long table that Pepin wasn't welcome to sit at. Instead, he watched on from the shadows as his… family… gathered. “If not ...
2025-11-05 15:31:58 +0000 UTC View Post‘I should have known,’ V thought just before the hot goth girl straddling his lap's face split open, revealing a set of fangs that lowered from the roof of her mouth and were attached to vials and tubes. Honestly, what was he thinking? No way a girl like her picks up a guy like him i...
2025-11-04 15:59:34 +0000 UTC View PostTo my immense surprise, my arch nemesis didn't immediately trust me without reservation to give me full unrestricted and unmonitored access to a laboratory. Which was both irritating and slightly reassuring that it wasn't a case of the blind leading the blind. Or, rather, morons leading morons.&n...
2025-11-03 15:48:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe view of Casterly Rock hadn't changed, and the lack of it almost felt like a betrayal in Jaime Lannister's mind, as he looked on from above at the training yard that was filled with knights teaching their squires. It was full day and night since the Royal Wedding, where the Westerlands had bee...
2025-11-03 15:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post“Sweet digs,” I remarked from my Resilient Sphere as the cover was cast off from the wagon that I had been loaded inside of. Heisenberg had given up trying to break into it, and instead loaded me up into the secret tunnel that had been built under the castle that the werewolves had erupted fr...
2025-11-03 15:48:11 +0000 UTC View Post“He's colder now,” Lyanna observed quietly to Ned, her eyes on their brother as they once more set off for home, now with Catelyn Stark and her retinue in tow. “But he doesn't seem as sad as he was before.”
“That's something, at least,” Ned voiced, riding alongside Lyanna,...
2025-11-03 15:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostSlowly, Tifa opened her eyes and was greeted with the sideways view of a small field of flowers. Her mind was clouded by sleep, but she knew that this wasn't her bed back at the 7th Heaven. It took a moment for things to come into focus, but when they did, she saw the dilapidated walls and a coll...
2025-10-31 15:01:39 +0000 UTC View Post“Ohhh~! Is it finally time to set off the fireworks?” Jinx asked, her eyes dancing with delight as she twirled around in her bright blue and pink dress on top of the railing that overlooked her slice of the slums. She had done pretty good for herself, I could admit, feeling some pride as I le...
2025-10-31 15:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostTifa ducked behind cover just in time, hearing bullets whistle pass where she had been a split second earlier. The concrete barricade shuddered under the continuous impact of gunfire, sending up plumes of dust and rubble that fell on her. A hand went to a Materia in her belt, a Barrier. It wasn't...
2025-10-31 15:01:21 +0000 UTC View PostIf the Lifestream was heaven, then Chaos would be hell. That was probably the best analogy I could find once I started digging into Hojo’s discarded science project, Vincent Valentine.
He had been something of a proto-SOLDIER. Physically enhanced with ‘tainted’ Mako -- which beg...
2025-10-31 15:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostJill smiled as she heard the squeals of children's laughter echo through the halls of the palace, looking up from another letter in a pile thick enough to serve as armor just in time to see Magnus and the others burst into her office and rush to shut the door behind them.
“Raaah...
2025-10-29 15:06:48 +0000 UTC View PostAnother winter came and went, bringing spring once more and marking the first year of a united Scandinavia.
The months following my conquest were no less challenging than the conquest itself. The iron needed to be struck while it was hot, so I took advantage of the months leading up t...
2025-10-29 15:06:41 +0000 UTC View Post“God forgive me, I should have killed him when I had the chance,” the famed Charlemagne uttered, pinching the bridge of his nose as he sat at the head of a long table that Pepin wasn't welcome to sit at. Instead, he watched on from the shadows as his… family… gathered. “If not ...
2025-10-29 15:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostI would have liked to say that the final major battle of my conquest was a grand affair. That it was the great last stand of all those who would resist me as my armies marched on to connect my borders at Saxony. But to claim as such would be a lie, and not even a good one. In the aftermath of our...
2025-10-29 15:06:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe view of Casterly Rock hadn't changed, and the lack of it almost felt like a betrayal in Jaime Lannister's mind, as he looked on from above at the training yard that was filled with knights teaching their squires. It was full day and night since the Royal Wedding, where the Westerlands had bee...
2025-10-27 15:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post