The team of reinforcements tore through the sky, racing toward the battle as the roar of flame reached them from up ahead. Thick smoke from burning grass billowed in a grey cloud. Something was moving through it.
A lot of somethings.
Alex’s potion-enhanced vision began picking out d...
2022-03-23 22:46:07 +0000 UTC View Post“A double dungeon, that’s some bloody rotten fortune!” Cedric said as the group rushed to the centre of camp.
Alex quickly glanced at him. “Double dungeon?”
“Aye, two o’ them right on top of each other! The bloody monsters from each dungeon start workin’ together in al...
2022-03-22 23:00:39 +0000 UTC View Post“I hate this,” Theresa muttered, angrily checking over her equipment. Her light armour suddenly felt stifling and the cloak she wore seemed to crush down on her shoulders like it was made of stone. Everything felt uncomfortable. Everything was terrible.
Even her great-grandfather’s sw...
2022-03-19 23:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post“That face…I think I know your face.” Cedric was walking toward Alex; his brow was creased and he seemed to be appraising the taller young man. “I’m thinkin’ that I’ve seen ya before.”
The crowd was parting, looking between the Chosen and Alex as the broad-shouldered Hero ap...
2022-03-18 22:20:49 +0000 UTC View Post“If they try to take you, I’ll gut all of them.” Theresa whispered, her grip tightening on both blades.
“Whoa, whoa, now,” Alex whispered back, glancing around the room.
Their group was off to one side and thankfully, no one else was in earshot.
“Let’s try not to g...
2022-03-18 00:05:22 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t tell me you’ve been drinking, Rand.” Gario glared at his companion.
“Shhhh!” Randal—the other guard—shushed him. “Just had a bit, mate, don’t say it so loud.” He glanced around the darkness, holding up his lantern and pressing his ear to the stone wall. On...
2022-03-16 22:59:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Th-the Heroes are coming to the encampment?!” Alex stammered; images of Saints and priests ran through his head accompanied by sounds of rattling chains.
“Indeed.” Baelin read the rest of the note. “It would seem that the church and king have arranged for them to greet us in prel...
2022-03-16 00:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostAlex returned to experimenting.
He cast the Summon Small Water Elemental spell carefully, slowing down where the spell array touched the elemental plane of water. The strange power always emerged there, right at that part of the magic circuit, eager to assemble the circuitr...
2022-03-12 23:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostThe water elemental shuddered like a dog shaking off rain. Of course, that didn’t make any sense since it was made of water, but Alex didn’t have time to worry about all that. He couldn’t believe what he’d just been able to do: from the time he’d started learning spells, he’d...
2022-03-12 00:22:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Is something wrong?” Selina asked, looking at her brother closely. “Your face looks funny.”
“N-no!” Alex cried, trying to keep his expression neutral even as he felt his cheeks turning red again. Thundar’s rope question had been conjuring all kinds of images in his mind for h...
2022-03-10 22:15:11 +0000 UTC View PostA wizard’s staff was one of the most iconic tools a wizard could carry.
And there was a good reason for that.
Versatile, powerful, expensive to craft, requiring a high degree of skill in alchemy and lots of mana to make, wizard’s staffs served as not only tools and weapons, but as...
2022-03-09 23:51:46 +0000 UTC View Post“Simply put,” Professor Hak explained. “Warp Flesh establishes a strong connection between your mana pool and either your own lifeforce, or someone else’s.” A strange light entered her eyes. “From there, a blood mage can use the connection to apply mana manipulation techniques to a li...
2022-03-09 00:35:09 +0000 UTC View PostAlex had never taken a class in the basement of the university’s castle before, but he wasn’t really too surprised that blood magic was being offered there, in one of the darkest, creepiest places on campus.
Deep underground in the bowels of the castle seemed just about right for the su...
2022-03-05 23:14:54 +0000 UTC View PostFwooosh!
Alex’s sleeping potion erupted in the beast-goblins’ burrow, catching the creatures off guard as they feasted on suspect chunks of meat.
Coughing and sputtering, the little monsters tried to scramble to their feet, but the gas filled their lungs with every intake...
2022-03-05 00:41:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Any scouts about?” Hart whispered to a nearby ranger.
The stocky woman was crouched behind a pine tree as she peered over the ridge at the encampment below.
“No, Champion, no scouts, but there’s sentries keeping watch.” She said in low tones, pointing to an oak rising on th...
2022-03-03 23:13:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe Champion, knights and rangers made good time traversing the countryside. Most were mounted, but Hart was on foot; with The Champion’s power filling his long limbs, he was able to tear through the distance like a charging bull. He kept pace with the mounted knights and rangers as they crosse...
2022-03-02 23:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post“We have been been over this, Cedric.” Merzhin smiled politely, though there was irritation in his eyes. “I might be small, but please don’t think of me as a child who forgets your words so quickly. I have been committing Uldar’s scriptures to memory since I was knee-high to my parish p...
2022-03-01 22:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post“Oi, don’t be steppin’ on the pixies now!” Cedric caught Merzhin by the shoulder. “Don’t want to be startin’ off negotiations by crushin’ a few babes, now do we?”
“What?” The Saint paused, looking down at where his foot was about to fall. Each grass blade glowed with a...
2022-02-26 18:35:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Have the Generasians arrived?” an aged voice asked in the darkness.
It crackled like old parchment yet boomed through the entire chamber.
The holy lights that illuminated the room seemed to flicker as it spoke, causing them to cast shadows over the statues toweri...
2022-02-25 23:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post“This place has been my home for a hundred years.” Gwyllain bit into some of the soaked rations that Alex had handed him; if the bog-water ruined the taste, he didn’t say. If anything, he looked positively thrilled.
He sat on the edge of the hag’s table—his legs kicking idly like ...
2022-02-24 21:39:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe creature ground her teeth so hard, that one of her fangs nearly broke.
It had gone so wrong, so quickly!
In past times, taking someone from travellers worked as good leverage to get what she wanted; her beautiful Crich-Tulaghs would take screaming humans to store away in her...
2022-02-23 21:23:48 +0000 UTC View PostMurky water enveloped Alex, pressing against his Orb-of-Air. His breaths came fast and shallow as a moss-covered tentacle tightened.
It constricted—squeezing—whipping him back and forth. He fought the pain that built in his gut and reached for whatever it was that had him, and pulled. 2022-02-22 23:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Brutus’ barking shattered the silence.
All three noses had been sniffing the air in different directions when he’d stopped and alerted Theresa, pointing his heads toward the water.
His barking persisted.
“What is it boy?” Theresa said. “What do you smell?” She sniffe...
2022-02-19 19:48:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe wind cut across the moors, chilling the air, bringing the stench of festering flesh to the expedition. As a group, they had gathered in a circle around a bloated, decaying man dressed in the tatters of homespun clothing and a gambeson. Some grimaced and looked away—fixing their eyes on anyt...
2022-02-18 23:36:39 +0000 UTC View PostThe expedition team whispered to each other as those closest to the knight leaned forward, examining the symbol of the grinning jester.
“That looks stupid,” Grimloch growled. “I’d hate to be the one with that stupid face branded on my body.”
Through the greatest force of wil...
2022-02-17 23:57:47 +0000 UTC View PostAncient pronouncements whispered from within The Ravener. The usurper had reappeared after so long.
What measures were needed?
Reaching across great distances, it inspected certain energies, processes and paths. Ones of key importance. It examined them with great care, searching for p...
2022-02-16 22:57:55 +0000 UTC View Post“Our first few days in Greymoor will be a deep dive into our territory.” Baelin floated in front of a wall-sized illusionary map of the region. “For three days, we will be setting up the main encampment and investigating the region. Each team of surveyors will have their own assigned area t...
2022-02-15 22:24:20 +0000 UTC View Post“And there they go,” Alex said as the ship disappeared into the horizon. “I hope they get back alright.”
“Let’s just say they will,” Theresa said. “And not invite trouble.”
“I’ve been praying to The Traveller that their trip’ll be easy,” Selina said....
2022-02-12 19:42:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Father, you forgot your pipe,” Theresa said, waving the pipe as she poked her head in from the balcony.”
“Hoo! I would’ve missed that!” her father said, taking the prized pipe, then tapping it in his palm. “All those fine herbs Alex gave me would’ve gone to a right waste if...
2022-02-11 22:39:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Good, very good, everyone!” Professor Mangal congratulated her students.
All throughout the chamber, students stood beside summoning circles, and within each crouched a slavering Bu’Bu; a demon like Baelin had summoned. The monkey-cat-goblin-like demons peered around while waiting fo...
2022-02-11 00:17:58 +0000 UTC View Post