I had half a dozen terrified civilians sheltering inside my dome when Adam and Duncan dropped down onto us. The mage mark did not, apparently, give a shit if the floor was missing. Groaning, they picked themselves up and looked around in dazen confusion.
“What the hell is— agh!” Adam ...
2024-12-02 03:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostTeefs extracted. Gums healing! I'm feeling good.
“And just where do you plan on finding a cooperative deity?” Esra asked, with enough sincerity that I could tell she wasn't sure if Grace was joking or not.
“I'm a warlock of Ollinfer… so, her?”...
2024-11-29 01:10:54 +0000 UTC View PostOne week later, we stood bored on a river barge as the current carried us along. The plains were still out there to either side of us, but around the river — sometimes for a dozen or more miles — was a thriving wetland. With the plains being so unrelentingly flat out here, the river sometimes...
2024-11-25 00:58:20 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, the sky turned on us and a light drizzle swept the plains as we trekked along beside the river. Those of us from the Order were mostly fine — our armour was waterproof — but the Avonsiders only had standard raincoats, so their pants and shoes got soaked.
We passed the time...
2024-11-22 05:23:02 +0000 UTC View PostTeefs removed! I continued my streak of giving everyone around me compliments after coming out of sedation. Told the dentist's nurse that her glasses looked really good on her and the receptionist that she has very good posture, and I told my girlfriend that she's really pretty repeatedly.
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2024-11-21 13:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the long gap between posts. Dental stuff is moving along okay. Doing what writing I can, but my mind is not cooperating and creativity is hard rn. Thanks everyone again for your help with everything.
On the day we were getting ready to continue our ...
2024-11-18 03:20:52 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the lack of chapters! Life has become very busy since I talked about my dental issues. I've got an xray appointment in a couple of hours, actually. I'll get some more Ryn chapters out as soon as possible! Hopefully I can build up a nice big set of chapters so I can get back into a 3 day...
2024-11-14 01:22:31 +0000 UTC View PostOr at least, that's what it feels like. In addition to the world-altering news that I'm sure we've all heard and don't want to talk about, I have just come back from the dentist. I really didn't want to have to do this ever again, and honestly I have my doubts that it's even ethical to ask for he...
2024-11-07 03:24:16 +0000 UTC View PostWith Grace, Adam, Duncan, Dr. Ross, and the other two, I pulled us back onto the Ring. Barely a minute had passed since Catherine burst into the balcony, after having alerted everyone about whatever emergency was happening. To think that an event was happening on a scale to be seen by both Avonsi...
2024-11-06 02:41:47 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the Perspective of Rynadria
The broad leafed tree punched up into the sky, each branch trailing green growth magic as it did so. Around me, the Jagdar and his men gasped and took several apprehensive steps away from it.
Growing a tree as heavy as this one took a ...
2024-11-06 02:39:14 +0000 UTC View Post“That's what this was all about?” Elena asked, practically hissing with frustration.
Paisley and I exchanged a glance, then nodded as one.
Our exasperated friend sighed and sank to sit on the edge of her bed. “Okay. Shit. I think… so this is one part romantic dra...
2024-11-04 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWatching Paisley set up to cast the ritual was fascinating. She had the wooden forge set down on an open patch of floor in the workshop, and she'd drawn a pentagram under it. Now, she was placing little piles of ritual ingredients at seemingly random intervals around the circle of the pentagram. ...
2024-10-30 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostPaisley found me still sitting on the balcony, almost an hour later.
Looking down with a bemused smile, she said, “Hey, you missed lunch. So did Noah and Ethan, actually. Where is everyone?”
“They had an argument,” I sighed, still unable to grasp what had just happened. No, th...
2024-10-25 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe not-library was an absolute mess, and it was through no fault of our own. The books were random and almost universally useless — many going so far as to be authorless treatises on exceptionally mundane things. One, for example, was fifty thousand words describing the lifetime of an elvish f...
2024-10-20 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe library was exactly as I remembered it. The space was still small, there was still a shitty desk in one corner, and the books on the rickety shelves were categorised using a random number generator.
“There isn't even any space to put the scrolls,” Paisley muttered, moving o...
2024-10-15 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWe reappeared inside the bustling taproom of the Galloping Willow, finding it much the same as it usually was. That is, filled with several dozen players, most of whom were just chilling and talking. A few were of the more rambunctious variety, with tankards of ale in hand and voices full of laug...
2024-10-10 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe fought more rackids as we followed this new wisp further into the underground ruins. They were scarily crafty opponents, but we weren’t to be fucked with either, and we beat them every time. As for loot, they gave us a few rackid items, from a healer’s staff, to a few pieces of armour, but...
2024-10-05 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was impossible to tell what the room had once been used for. Time had ravaged everything that might've existed in here, save for a small rusty iron table. There was, however, an arched doorway.
Tentatively, we approached and peered outward. The light of our lantern stones revealed a chao...
2024-09-30 00:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostGoing to try ramping back up to normal release cadence again. Lieforged will be every 5 days until I have a big buffer of chapters, then it'll go back to 3. Thanks again for your patience everyone. (Also I know I promised to write Esmie, but holy moly i couldn't even begin to get into...
2024-09-25 10:48:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, guess I should give an update on how I'm doing. I'm doing okay. Still extremely fragile, and the meds that are keeping me calm will eventually stop working. I'm going to try and write a bit more, though. Thanks for your patience.
2024-09-24 07:40:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hiya! Kinda crazy to see this pop up, huh? Well, I needed the cute mood boost, because fuck am I in the trenches rn... So yeah, I wrote this to make myself a little happier. I hope everyone enjoys the little trip back to this story. Also since this story is so old it's not even on my ...
2024-09-20 15:47:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Not going to lie. Things are still rough. I'm doing my best, though. Hope everyone enjoys the chapter. Thanks for reading, and thanks for being patient.
Oh and CW for like, body horror and repeated death and a casual bit of self-unaliving.
The pipe burs...
2024-09-14 04:55:51 +0000 UTC View PostHiya everyone. Just going to be taking a small break from writing and posting for a bit. Mental health has taken a bit of a nosedive recently and I'm not going to be able to keep up the cadence I've set for myself. I'll get back to it in a week, maybe two.
Thanks everyone.
QV
2024-09-03 08:46:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe tunnel was mostly packed dirt and rock, with ageing wooden supports that appeared to be barely a few months from failing utterly. The tunnel only continued a few metres around the corner, where it suddenly ended in a metal-framed wooden door. Just like everything else so far, the workmanship ...
2024-09-01 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSomehow, I kept us from taking fall damage, but only just.
We landed on a pile of old, rotting wood— well, Paisley did. I landed on her. Except for my arms, they were still around and under her.
Feeling her whole body like that, warm and soft beneath ...
2024-08-29 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostBreathing heavily, I sheathed my sword and looked over at Paisley. Wiping away sweat from her brow, she grinned widely.
“That was… intense,” I said, watching as she began to pick her way through the battlefield.
Hopping a long-dead soldier, she said, “Yeah. Haven't brute-force...
2024-08-26 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the late chapter, I've been getting consumed by kerbal space program recently and I forgot to schedule the chapters Q.Q
Leaving the dungeon, I squinted against the sudden glare of the noonday sun. Was it always so damn bright? While sh...
2024-08-23 04:36:48 +0000 UTC View PostI got cocky. There was no other way to spin it. I'd been carving my way through every non-boss mob with very little in the way of resistance, and my hubris had bitten me squarely in the ass. I’d also learned a few things, so I could probably get through that encounter this time.
I respawn...
2024-08-19 01:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe dungeon entrance was an old, abandoned fort, but it did not match the stereotype that such a simple description would normally invoke. The fort straddled a pass between two large, rocky crags, both of which would've been considered mountains if it weren't for the titanic mountains that served...
2024-08-16 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOops, I posted this instead of scheduling it Q.Q
I logged out of Rell the day after I finished my part with the plumbing. I was tired, and the very act of logging out was something I hadn't been able to do for a long while. So yeah, I logged out and spent the...
2024-08-10 06:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post