Ch. 146 - A Lifeless Husk
Tenebroum feasted for three nights running before it finally decided that the city was now a lifeless husk. That first night, it gorged itself on the great masses of the living, leaving only the souls of the palace for the Voice of Reason to harves...
2024-05-06 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 112 - Out of the Frying Pan
Simon had seen a number of different levels on the other side of this portal, but the graveyard concerned him more than the golem or the ghosts. “Well, they’re both ghosts,” he said to himself, clarifying.
“Who are,” the...
2024-05-06 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostTossing in a bonus chapter this week to bring Brewing Bad to 11 ahead of the public. Enjoy!
The following week was a blur. People came and went, things got done, and most importantly, money was spent. A lot of money was spent.
<... 2024-04-29 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post“Is it really over then?” Oroza asked, looking at the images the moon played upon her waters. “Is the age of man over? How long will the darkness rule this time?”
Lunaris shook her head. “The Kingdom of Hallen might encompass your wh...
2024-04-29 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 110 - Truly Vile
The sewer stank, as it always did, but this time, Simon didn’t even wait until he was close enough to catch the attention of the carrion crawler. Instead, he used only a very small light spell to guide his feet on the familiar path, and as soon as he ...
2024-04-29 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostThat night, after Gerwin helped Lucas get dressed in his newly obtained finery. At Adin’s suggestion Lucas had gone with the black suit and the ruffled carvat. Lucas didn’t care for the lace cuffs around his wrists, or the way the pants flared arou...
2024-04-22 14:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostTenebroum retreated to the nearest dungeon, four miles away from the city walls, but restless, it moved twice more before daylight made further travel on the surface impossible. It left the dark Paragon to handle the withdrawal of its forces, th...
2024-04-22 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostI mean, I was never getting out of here without fighting a dragon, Simon thought to himself as he looked up at the ceiling of his little cabin. After all the other weird levels, that was pretty much impossible, was it Helades? 2024-04-22 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Lucas had not expected much from dancing lessons. He’d never been much at parties, but it turned out that his limited repertoire of bumping and grinding combined with a few novelty moves like floss dancing and the sprinkler were less than ...
2024-04-15 14:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the sun set on Rahkin that day, Tenebroum vowed it would be the last time that anyone there would live to see it. Even as it reviewed the situation on both sides with its dark Paragon and discussed the intelligence that the rats had of...
2024-04-15 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostFair warning, this is an impactful scene. I recommend waiting to read it until you can give it your full attention.
Ch. 106 - Answers
“Helades!” Simon yelled, staggering toward the light. “Helades, this is level 30, and I’m here! You owe me some answers!” 2024-04-15 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello dear readers, I just wanted to take a minute to give everyone an update on a couple things that are going on.
First, my personal life is getting back to normal, and my wife is doing much better thanks to the medication she's on, so no worries there. Thank you to all your kind...
2024-04-14 09:19:16 +0000 UTC View PostPrincess Trianna gazed out over her city that morning and despaired. They had survived another night, but it was hard to believe they would survive another as she looked outbuildings and surveyed the damage.
Like everyone else, she...
2024-04-08 13:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostSimon waited for his moment; he parried and feinted, and each time, he pulled back as he looked for an opening. It wasn’t long before one of the men he faced off against was foolish enough to charge him.
Simon was still a little too roun...
2024-04-08 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You will never strike me down,” the Templar grunted, even though, truthfully, he wasn’t sure how many more of those he could take.
That blow would kill any normal man, and it had been nearly enough to do him in as well. He ...
2024-04-01 13:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, who wants to be the first to try it?” he asked, gesturing around. There were no volunteers.
“How about you?” he asked the man that had tried to gut him for his water skin only a few minutes ago in an attempt to win ...
2024-04-01 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post“I want to see them,” Benjamin said finally, after glaring daggers at the man that had once been his friend, “Proof of life. That’s the first step in these sorts of things, isn’t it?”
“Sure,” he said, standing up and tossing a f...
2024-04-01 13:56:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs Tenebroum watched the latest skirmish preparing to unfold outside the walls of the capital, it had trouble focusing on the details. It wasn’t because it was upset that the Templar, with the light in his eyes, had made it unharmed into the city or even that they ha...
2024-03-25 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostCh. 100 - Lingering
Simon hung around for a week. It wasn’t hard. He knew the town better than most, and between the refugees and the news that someone had killed the Baron, it only took a change of clothes to evade the law that really only seemed to be halfhearted...
2024-03-25 13:57:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn that moment, Lucas expected a lot of terrible things to come charging out of the bushes. The size seemed to rule out another pack of goblins, but that didn’t mean they didn’t have a hob for a chieftain.
Lucas could probably take one o...
2024-03-18 14:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostGhroshian was not aware of the Templar when he first entered Rahkin, but when the Lich informed them the following night, they were not surprised. They had felt the menace from the moment the man had walked through the gate and scurried to find new,...
2024-03-18 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostBefore they could get back to doing anything productive, Benjamin had to rest. All of them did. Somehow, they’d managed to come through that tide of green blood without a single casualty, but as a result, everyone was exhausted.
So he kept...
2024-03-18 13:58:01 +0000 UTC View PostSimon recognized the signs quicker than most would have, even with everything that was going on. Even before he found the bodies, he knew what had done this. The crude arrows with their red fletching and the hoof prints that were everywhere ma...
2024-03-18 13:57:00 +0000 UTC View PostLast winter, all that Jordan had worried about was that he and his slowly increasing band of refugees might run out of food. That was a horror that had never quite come to pass, though it had been a near thing in those first few days of spring....
2024-03-11 14:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Ah… we didn’t know where to find you, you see,” the paper bird said, hemming and hawing like speech was something new to it. “So we’ve been trying oh so hard to get your attention.”
“Who is it you think you’ve found?” ...
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