When he was a little over one hundred, King Oliver Oglivarch had gotten it into his head that he might one day end up being king. Unfortunately, out of all of his father’s children, he was, at the time, considered one of the least likely successors to the throne. But, that hadn’t deterred him...
2025-02-05 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostCathleen turned her head to address Knight Angelton and the other team leaders that were nearby. “Ignore him. Lord Walker will do what he wants, and there is nothing that we can do about it.”
Knight Angelton replied somewhat unhappily, “But, he shouldn’t be here. You saw what happen...
2025-02-03 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostConsidering that they currently weren’t able to receive any updates through the command channels, Merrick didn’t find it surprising that he wasn’t the only one interested in listening in on what the people in command were talking about. What did surprise him was the fact that so many people...
2025-01-31 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostCathleen remained calm as she listened to the team leader who’d been managing the scouting teams give his report. What she was hearing was both helpful and confusing in equal measure. Unfortunately, beyond being able to provide advanced warning when they were going to be attacked, the scouts we...
2025-01-29 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostVera smiled to herself as Nicholas hurried out of the room. He’d cut their conversation short the moment he realized that he was running late for a meeting. It was always amusing for her to see how quickly he could disregard his worldly concerns when he had the opportunity to focus on science.<...
2025-01-27 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting room they were using was privacy-shielded to the best of their ability and empty of anyone other than the council members. City Lord Cosgrave had made sure of that.
“It’s been confirmed, House Walker successfully closed the portal before the dwarven Battleborns arrived,” s...
2025-01-24 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostNick smiled at the sight of his wife sitting at the head of the table ignoring her food. She was, as usual, thoroughly engrossed in whatever she was doing on her link. Eyes closed, expression calm, she was the picture of serenity. If he didn’t know better, he might think she was sleeping.
By the time Ms. Davis finally led Nero to the room where the staff had placed Jennings, Nero was utterly and quite thoroughly lost. His estate was just as large and confusing as he remembered it, and without using his link he had no idea where she was taking him.
Truthfully, he still found ...
2025-01-20 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“We’ve repurposed much of what the kobalds had been using for their defenses. Their temporary walls have been reinforced and the main entryway is now riddled with kill zones in case they breach the perimeter. Although even with how well dug in we are, there isn’t much we can do about spell ...
2025-01-17 23:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostGlancing across his office, he noted the look of amusement in the Grandmaster’s eyes as he watched him sit down. Commander Dahl sank into his chair, exhausted by the day he’d been having. Apparently, the man found it quite funny to force him to sit at the general’s desk while actually being...
2025-01-15 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOn the way out of the human city, Vorgor Stonebarrel kept silent as the rest of his brothers and sisters nattered away over their communications array like a bunch of children. He wanted answers just as much as they did, but who was he going to ask? Why were they expecting him to just ‘know’ ...
2025-01-13 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMany years ago, when he was a young man and fresh from the training field, he’d falter like anyone else when a battle was going poorly enough that he’d thought he might die. But, as a Knight of Dorchester, he’d seen more than his share of combat and had learned to push past those feelings a...
2025-01-10 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe armored dwarf’s speed so was fast that it took Nero’s brain a few seconds to register what had happened. From out of nowhere, the dwarf launched himself forward with a leap, brandishing his axe and infusing it with enough essence to overload Nero’s senses. He came down with an overhead ...
2025-01-08 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostCathleen slipped around the jagged tip of a kobald’s spear while using her own to finish off the one behind it with a thrust to its throat. Twisting her body and using the bleeding-out kobald’s body as a leverage point with her spear, she hook-kicked the kobald closest to her hard enoug...
2025-01-06 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter arriving back in private quarters, Archmage Jennings immediately began reworking his scrying spell to overcome the changes occurring in the ether around the anchor point. The interplanar connection was flooding the area with changing essence signatures and he didn’t feel like putting in t...
2025-01-03 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostArchmage Jennings stood off to the side of the city lord’s reception party outside the gate. He was close enough to indicate his support, but not so close as to be considered one of her retinue. While dwarves as a species usually ignored political nuances, he was sure they would understand what...
2025-01-01 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostCathleen Averrett had spent a lifetime training her senses. So, she knew full well how poorly the battle was going. While she may not be able to ‘see’ everything that was happening, she could sense where the kobalds were and how broken the formation had become.
Glancing to her right, sh...
2024-12-30 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostSeeing another mage from the group next to him disconnect from the shield spell, Merrick began to question whether or not he should as well. As more and more kobalds were throwing themselves into the rapidly growing melee style free-for-all, there were fewer and fewer ranged attacks coming down o...
2024-12-27 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostKnight Angleton felt it the moment the command channel disappeared. Former Sergeant Blackwood, his longtime friend and comrade, was no longer maintaining it.
Sliding his right foot back, he braced behind his shield and received the kobald’s cross cut from its off-hand blade. While normall...
2024-12-25 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSlipping the edge of her spear around a kobald shield, she swiped the edge of its blade across a kobald throat before guiding the dying body to the ground out of the way. The maneuver was performed so smoothly that she didn’t even need to alter her footing while she ran.
Cathleen continue...
2024-12-23 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostFormer Captain in the Dorchester Army Knight Harold Angleton, known as Knight Angleton to his subordinates, Harold to his friends, and Harry to his lord physically recoiled from the mental pain he felt when he bounced off the gate. He, along with many other Wackos with appropriate abilities, had ...
2024-12-20 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMike’s life had been through quite a few changes recently. If anyone had told him that he would be putting his life on the line for the sake of the city under the orders of a noble who’d he’d personally sworn his entire life to, he would probably have laughed his ass off… right before plo...
2024-12-18 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe meeting with the Council of Leadership and the rest of the nobles had gone even worse than he’d expected it to. And that was saying something considering how low his expectations had been to begin with.
Between the weaker nobles who were ready to flee Dorchester and wait for the...
2024-12-16 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostCommon knowledge held that a person’s path only ended when they allowed it to. That’s what was taught to every child in every city in all of Oglivarch. It was a cultural belief that was reinforced by parents, teachers, preachers, and wayfinders. Everyone believed that hard work and tenacity t...
2024-12-13 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostStepping back from the table, Subcommander Jates put his hands behind his back and stretched his lower back with a groan. Between the rush through the tunnels to combine his forces with those from F.O.B.3 and the hurried assault once they’d arrived, the stress was getting to him.
Over the...
2024-12-11 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostLately there never seemed to be enough time to address all the issues that were cropping up in her city. Between the rush to increase internal food production, housing issues with the immigrants from the emptying villages and towns, resource shortages, problems outside the wall resulting from the...
2024-12-09 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostNearly brushing the ceiling of the tunnel with her essence-enhanced leap, Cathleen came down in the middle of the kobald casters like the manifestation of the term ‘death from above’. A single swipe removed the heads of three shamans while she physically flattened another one under her feet. ...
2024-12-06 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostReluctantly, Knight Harold Angleton released his connection to the command channel monitoring the other assault forces. Even with his years of training, maintaining so many connections during combat was straining his center. He would have to limit himself only to the connections to the troops he ...
2024-12-04 23:30:02 +0000 UTC View PostEvery skill, ability, and talent has its place in the theatre of war. Eventually, everyone learns that life itself is nothing more than a tapestry of combat. To walk your path is to fight against the things that wish to halt you, and your only tools to survive are those that you’ve taken the ti...
2024-12-02 23:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostExperience was a wonderful teacher, and he had always been a good student. Being alive for as long as he has been, King Oliver Oglivarch had learned how to shape things to his liking. Although it took him a few centuries, he’d managed to arrange most things within his sphere of influence into a...
2024-11-29 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post