The Grind (Book 2) Ch.32
— Speaker Shan —
“Perfect. Just perfect~…” A grin grew across his fa...
2025-08-26 00:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Grind (Book 2) Ch.31
[AN: Just some Heather/Hermione/Luna refresher pics to start us off. They have aged, after all (~20-21 now).]
2025-08-21 23:56:48 +0000 UTC
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Gotham's Dead End Bar Ch.83
— Sean —
“Oh, poor girl…” Didi sighed upon hearing of Marika’s initial shenanigans with Destined Death. It was a sympathetic sigh, but far from an approving one. “That’s a terrible trap to fall into, especially in one’s first days of godhood.”
“A...
2025-08-17 23:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.82
— Hades —
“Oaf!”
“Pruddish scholar!”
“You without a thought in your head but waves and shaking earth!”
“And you with too many meaningless thoughts, so you might never see the truth!”
“Relinquish your titles and take only the nam...
2025-08-14 00:45:37 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain
AMBERLEY II: INITIAL UPLIFT
“I’ve been named a heretic by oppressive and stagnant powers that be. And for what? Wishing to innovate, to advance, to better humanity? I am faithful to the God-Emperor, to the Omnissiah, to Humanity itself. I wish only to spread ...
2025-08-09 00:03:59 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.7
CIAPHAS IV: DAWNSGRACE
“Here, a new beginning dawns. Here, and nowhere else, we lay a brilliant, glimmering foundation. Here, something unmatched in greatness will rise. We stand against the passing of time, against ashes to ashes, and against dust to dust. Cal...
2025-08-05 23:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.6
LYONEL I: THE GRIEF-STRICKEN KING
“Even in the most trying of times, the gears of governance must continue to turn. Bureaucracy and recordkeeping and logistics and infrastructure, and yes, even corruption — all are necessary to the lives and societie...
2025-08-02 00:50:49 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.5
RHAENYRA I: THE REALM’S DELIGHT, THE REALM’S DESPAIR
“Old or Drowned, Seven-in-One or Fourteen Flames, the gods will always have surprises in store for us. ’Tis the way of life, of grief, and of triumph. ’Tis how we act and react that defines us as faithful.
...
2025-07-29 23:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.81
— Sean —
“Ophis, I need you to roll two checks for me,” I said. “The first… We’ll call it Initiative, though you’re not going to be in combat. It’s the Initiative for your sleepwalking, more accurately. Just 1d10 to see how you walk, with no set Difficulty...
2025-07-25 16:22:56 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.80
— Sean —
“The night is dark and the day is bright. Both are full of terrors. You may be some of them. Eventually… One day, you might be powerful, unbound, enough to wield the spark of creation on your tongue and fingertips, unchecked by all but reality itse...
2025-07-20 23:11:32 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.4
AMBERLEY I: ROYALTY'S FIRST CONTACT
“I fear not the warrior or persecutor or tyrant. They are simple men at their cores, relying on the pure strength of violence to shore up their inherent and insidious weaknesses. No, more than them, I fear the ones who rise s...
2025-07-14 23:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.3
CIAPHAS III: VIOLENCE IN DEBUT
“It’s a shame that hurting and thinking don’t often go hand in hand. Many situations call for a unique and exceptional blend of knowing your enemy and knowing the strength of your arm. When that fails, pure violence is a poor ...
2025-07-10 23:51:07 +0000 UTC View PostSer Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.2
CIAPHAS II: BEAUTIFUL DECEPTION
“Some wise and not-so-wise men call me a hero. I can’t help but laugh at that sometimes. I’m far from what they think of me. In my most private thoughts, it’s not ‘hero’ I call myself, but Fortune’s Fool.” 2025-07-06 23:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Ser Ciaphas of House Cain Ch.1
CIAPHAS I: ... STILL ALIVE!
Editorial Note:
Those who know of the Cain Archive will likely also know of me, Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Amberley Vail, to some degree. At least, in reference to the Archive. I have long been associated with this amusing an...
2025-07-02 16:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate Going Forward
[TLDR: The occasional Dead End chapter will continue, but I’m going to be turning the rest of my focus from The Grind to a new story: ‘Ser Ciaphas of House Cain: A Westerosi Vacation’ (or something like that, it’s a working title).]
So… I’ve been saying I...
2025-06-27 15:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.79
— Sean —
“-There I was, on a, Enthusiastic Nighttime Walk™, coming one way, with the Crimson Fucker going the other. ‘Course, if I knew that back then, I would’ve turned around on a dime and turned in for the night…”
It was good to be back where we bel...
2025-06-27 15:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grind (Book 2) Ch.30
— Varys —
King’s Landing was not a city that tended towards ever sleeping. Some might call it the center of the realm. Varys disagreed. The center of the Seven Kingdoms wasn’t any one place; it was the people — differing and disparate, lordly and small — who kep...
2025-06-22 16:18:49 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grind (Book 2) Ch.29
— The Stranger —
Turning, turning tides fell upon an old town by a sunset sea. IT watched. IT lingered, always out of sight. IT guided and guarded, damned and destroyed. IT was the end that came for all.
The people of that old town by that sunset sea ...
2025-06-19 22:51:37 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grind (Book 2) Ch.28
— Willas Tyrell —
After a… stressful, to say the least… arrival in Oldtown, their host was finally setting foot on Battle Isle, the Hightower looming high above. They came with Wizards and Witches, a Prince and the younger generation of House Tyrell, an Arc...
2025-06-14 23:58:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grind (Book 2) Ch.27
— Atlas —
We walked through a picturesque scene cast in green. Some several hundred thousand people were living under the Hightower’s immediate dominion, and now, under House Hightower’s color of war in a rather literal sense. The green war flame touched everything,...
2025-06-10 23:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe Grind (Book 2) Ch.26
— Atlas —
Highgarden was a grand show, a genuine exhibition of feudal politics.
The capital of the Reach. The ‘Heart of Chivalry’ (though not Knighthood, for the Vale still held that claim close to heart). The axis on which 12 million people revolved ...
2025-06-06 23:15:54 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.78
All across Vale, the first snow of the year fell. Chill in the air, white on the streets, it should’ve been the perfect time to stay inside. But Vale was a city of millions, one of only five major civilization centers on Remnant. It was an axis on which the world revolved. As such, it was livel...
2025-06-01 21:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.77
— Sean —
“-Never, never, NEVER do it again, Jaune. Please, just talk to us,” Juniper wrapped up her lecture with an earnest plea. “Next time, we’ll figure something out. Together. As a family. I couldn’t bear to lose you, not like that. You d...
2025-05-27 23:26:17 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.76
From: OzoftheClocktower @ Beacon.edu
Subject: Dead Ex-Wife
To: StudentBody @ Beacon.edu
My ex-wife is dead. I’m throwing a party. Classes are dismissed for the day. If you wish to join me in righteous celebration, there will b...
2025-05-23 21:20:07 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.75
— Sean —
“-But really, it’s a matter of preference. And personally, I prefer not dying to stupid, entirely avoidable complications, such as clients who think they know better than the Hunters they specifically hired to protect them. Our times come ...
2025-05-19 23:25:59 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.74
— Sean —
“For years, you’ve trained to become warriors. And today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest,” Ozpin said.
Beacon’s incoming class was lined up at the top of a cliff overlooking said forest. Nearly a hundred young adults, all p...
2025-05-15 16:22:46 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.73
— Jaune Arc —
He still felt sick. Air travel didn’t agree with him at all, Jaune found. No, it just ended in upchucking, embarrassment, and terrible first impressions. Hopefully, that wouldn’t be a recurring problem… Huntsmen didn’t fly all that often, right…?...
2025-05-11 22:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.72
— Sean —
“Sean…?” Barbara asked warily, incredulously. “What exactly are we getting ourselves into here?”
Jason was similarly bewildered, “How the hell do you have a sister and an extended family here? We just arrived?!”
“Mr. Barkeep moves qu...
2025-05-07 23:34:45 +0000 UTC View PostGotham's Dead End Bar Ch.71
— Sean —
“Hmm…” I hummed to myself, seemingly out of the blue, as Didi and I closed up for the night. “The Bat kids have been in a real mood lately.”
A few days after Raven’s ‘ritual’, things had mostly returned to normal. She’d come back for mor...
2025-05-03 01:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostBatFam in RWBY vacay arc
This is mostly just to get a feel for what people want to see most from the coming arc.
2025-04-28 23:47:31 +0000 UTC View Post