The ghost demon looked at the piece of paper hovering in the air in front of hi and scrunched up his brow His expression looked quite funny as he read it. "Tasks I can perform. Why, I'm a demon! I can rip your enemies limb from limb, I am so strong!"
He r...
2023-12-08 15:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe thing could see me. I wasn't sure what to make of that. I was still bending the light around me such that nothing should be able to register visually. A quick check indicated that no light was escaping my carefully designated patterns, so clearly, it was using...
2023-12-06 23:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostBee stepped past Mrs. Chadwick and glanced around the manor with suspicion. Was there some sort of city official that had found them or some sort of dispute about the deed to the place? She walked slowly toward the sitting room, mind whirling with possibilities an...
2023-12-04 23:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostAs I followed Beatrice away from the meeting place in the early evening, I couldn't help but think about how well that went. The way Beatrice was acting would have made me expect some level of animosity from the man, but he had been nothing but polite ...
2023-12-03 23:33:56 +0000 UTC View PostAmidst the slums of the capitol, surrounded on all sides by dilapidated buildings and ramshackle abodes, stood an island of cleanliness. A strangely pristine building bearing fresh paint and freshly swept walkways. That wasn't to say the building was impressi...
2023-12-03 05:32:09 +0000 UTC View PostA short while later, Beatrice walked out of a clothing store sporting a brand-new set of white robes, not like the ones the street preachers wore, of course. She wasn't trying to be a copycat. White was just a nice color.
These robes boasted quite nice gold e...
2023-11-30 03:33:47 +0000 UTC View PostBee listened carefully as all three of the children banded together to explain the rules of gully ball. Based on the way their words tumbled over each other and the near-constant contradictions, she was able to parse through and figure out that it essentia...
2023-11-28 03:57:17 +0000 UTC View PostI stopped Beatrice as she walked down the street. She looked up, her face brightening when she saw me. But I could never forget the thoughtful frown of consternation she had worn just a moment before. Human facial expressions were still difficult to understand som...
2023-11-27 06:43:32 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 257: Theology 101
Finalizing my painting decisions had only taken a few hours, but it drastically changed the look of the mansion. The adults also arrived with some basic furniture that allowed us to have a table and some chairs, along with simple cooking utilities. They'd have to m...
2023-11-23 15:26:34 +0000 UTC View PostI excitedly waited at the corner as Beatrice made her way to me as fast as she could. I couldn't help but bounce in the air slightly as I hovered, unwilling to let myself rest on the ground. The prospect of having new paint was simply too much. Beatrice wa...
2023-11-21 16:32:41 +0000 UTC View PostBee slept fitfully that night. Perhaps it was just the feeling of being in an uncomfortable bed somewhere unfamiliar. But she was pretty sure it had more to do with the manor she was planning on buying.
She really hoped it looked better in...
2023-11-18 16:06:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me several hours, but I eventually got all of the trash cleared away inside the manor. That wasn't to say I was done, though. Not by a very, very long shot. Still, there were no longer random bits of broken furniture, dirt, and animal parts scattere...
2023-11-17 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI read over my skill choices carefully. There were so many more variables I needed to consider compared to how I picked in the past. Now, when choosing a skill, I couldn't simply pick the best one to improve my cleaning ability. I had other obligations as well. ...
2023-11-15 22:20:34 +0000 UTC View PostBee tried her best not to shift uncomfortably in the chair as she waited for the banker to verify her information. Not that the chair itself was the problem, of course. The current situation she found herself in was far worse.
Eventually, the woman l...
2023-11-13 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostI made a soothing motion with my grabby arm as Beatrice's face paled. "We are going to keep the Nighty Knights safe. But they're going to want to play and they're going to have friends. Children are very imaginative and much more willing to listen to proper ins...
2023-11-11 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostEven with horses, the 12 of us moved far slower than I would have liked. We were pulling ahead of the army by a lot, and we'd probably arrive in the city at least a week, if not two, before them. But it was nowhere near as fast as I could move alone.
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2023-11-10 15:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostArthur and Beatrice both looked at me expectantly as I spun up my processes. I needed to better understand our goals and how everything would work out on this campaign.
Our main goal here was to figure out why we'd been attacked. What the king was up to,...
2023-11-08 15:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostI kept one thread in my processor focused on watching our army march through the valley as I continued planting trees in neat rows.
Despite my initial estimations, it had taken much longer than expected to get the city back into shape. That meant I'd had...
2023-11-07 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
It's here! It's finally here!
Today's the launch of All the Dust that Falls vol 1. Now available through Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, paperback, and audiobook!
The audiobook is narrated by Phil Thorn. I've listened to his rendition of Deepwater Dungeon and thoroughly enjo...
2023-11-07 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostBee walked toward the castle gate, its newly repaired form casting a long shadow across the castle courtyard. However, her eyes were not locked in front of her but instead roamed over the Nighty Knights. The youngsters stood along top the innermost wall, space...
2023-11-04 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHarold's feet hurt. It had been a very, very long walk home.
His coin had run out several weeks ago. Still, between his knowledge and experience as a soldier, he had managed to scrape by. Selling a thing or two here or stealing a...
2023-11-03 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostThe capital stood tall and imposing atop a high hill. All around, green fields rolled down from its walls to meet the plains below. The massive walls hewn from stone gave it quite an impressive silhouette on the horizon. Even more so when o...
2023-11-02 02:21:15 +0000 UTC View PostI was livid.
As I finally flew over the mountains that ringed the castle, I took a look at the grounds below. Of the three walls that had stood when I left, only one still remained. The rest had been reduced to rubble and ashes. Even the last wall hadn't made it through unscathed. Its surfa...
2023-10-30 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs the soldiers fled into the forest and the surrounding valley, Daedalus reached the end of their forces. Instead of coming back towards the wall for another pass, he banked sideways, laying down a perpendicular tract of burning forest in th...
2023-10-28 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBee watched as the disturbance pushed its way through the ranks of men and demons. Even from this distance, she could feel its aura. A movement next to her caught her attention, and she realized that she had gotten distracted. While she ...
2023-10-27 14:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, Archibald was right.
Bee replayed the champion's words in her head as she dashed along the top of the wall. The assault had started just a little before sunrise, and it hadn't let up since. She never did get the break she wanted,...
2023-10-25 14:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAs the waves of men and barely disguised demons crashed against the shattered wall, Bee dove forward into the breach. She dipped to the left, tryin...
2023-10-23 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostI felt my thrusters whine in complaint as I pushed forward with all my might for the second day in a row. Thucydides bounced awkwardly on my much too-small chassis as I carried him. I tried to use Air Manipulation to help him stay on, b...
2023-10-21 14:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe ramp curved ever upward. Archibald had just passed the second massive chamber above him, and after hours of walking, he was starting to get bored.
In the beginning, he hadn't exactly been in a hurry. But this was just starting to get ridiculo...
2023-10-20 14:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostA whopping 59.34 hours later, Thucydides and I finally spotted a change in the monotonous landscape. Over the next snow field, we spotted a large shadowy shape looming a quarter mile away from our most recent checkpoint. My advanced sensors co...
2023-10-18 14:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post