Whatever that mysterious spellcaster was, they continued to attempt to act against Casimir as he scouted out the kobold warren.
When military and adventuring intersects, the adventurer generally has to adjust their work as appropriate. Not just in the sense that a military unit requires mor...
2022-06-06 15:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostWhile I've learned my lesson vis a vis restricting the voting options, I'm still sticking to my guns vis a vis this month. So Psychoprotective won, and here it is.
Link to chapter 1: 2022-06-01 12:17:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Purz pulled through on the official quest, fortunately. So Casimir had a half dozen maps of the intended tunnel system, the ones the kobolds didn’t dig themselves, and a mission to map out the new tunnels while the government assembles a group of knights and puts them through a crash course on ...
2022-05-30 18:09:59 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, the coded documents weren’t as useful as Casimir had hoped. They explained John’s (which as it turns out was the thug’s name) task, and what kinds of information he was supposed to report to his boss… But the information was so thorough that none of them had any idea whi...
2022-05-23 11:48:00 +0000 UTC View PostMy entire household took turns catching some kind of stomach flu this week, so no new chapter today.
As before, the public chapter will release as normal, and next week the preview chapter will be posted without the public getting any.
Also, it appears that screwing with the po...
Kobolds, as monsters went, were usually pretty weak. They were similar to goblins, froggols, orcs, drakkin, and others in that they aped having societies, but any attempt to treat them as people eventually led to tragedy as they reminded everyone that they were just as malicious as any other mons...
2022-05-09 14:37:16 +0000 UTC View PostThis may be a controversial move, but given how close it was last time, I feel that I won't be severely disappointing everyone by doing this: I'm removing Courtly Chronicles from this month's poll. It'll be back next month, but I think it'll be better for me, long-term, if I had a bit more variet...
2022-05-06 19:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for it being a little shorter, and a little late, but the this is the third time in the last five months that someone hit my car, and dealing with that's been taking time away from writing. I'm fine.
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One of the first lessons you learn in magic is...
2022-05-02 16:51:52 +0000 UTC View Post[Tanya Degurechaff von Goethe aka Tenya Deguchiya aka Archduchess von Goethe, circa 1925, age 11]
"What was that!?" Were the first words spoken to Tanya after they had successfully evacuated Arenne. Generals Rudersdorf, Zettour, and Volken sat in front of Tanya, in a formation reminiscent o...
2022-05-01 19:48:16 +0000 UTC View PostStealth, as a high ranked adventurer, was always a very tricky thing. Casimir prided himself at being very good at sensing magic, to the point where even notoriously stealthy monsters were able to be detected before they could go on the attack. This allowed Casimir to stay further away than most ...
2022-04-25 13:22:06 +0000 UTC View PostI've come down with some severe tooth pain over the last few days, and unfortunately it's made it impossible to properly focus on writing. It's only half done. The public chapter will
still be posted for this week, but next week the patreon chapter will get posted and no public one will be.&...
“You live here?” Peter said as they walked through the neighborhood. “This is the rich part of town, Elite jobs must pay a bundle!”
“They do.” Casimir confirmed. “But I didn’t buy property here, buying houses isn’t really something worthwhile for adventurers, so I live wit...
2022-04-11 13:41:07 +0000 UTC View PostI added a new snippet to the snippet thread, link below, and continuing that is now on the poll. If you think I should continue it, feel free to vote.
https://for...
There was one rather large difference between this battle with his students than the one previous, and it was something immediately apparent as the students looked at him.
Previously, he just wore what he called his ‘city gear’, which was some light armor made of padding and leather, mo...
2022-04-04 13:40:56 +0000 UTC View Post[Tanya Degurechaff von Goethe aka Tenya Deguchiya aka Archduchess von Goethe, circa 1925, age 11]
The war was going well… if you listened to the papers. Dacia was swiftly dealt with by Major Weiss’s battalion and the 16th and 19th armies, more or less in accordance to the broad outline ...
2022-04-01 13:39:36 +0000 UTC View Post“That’s a tough situation, Casimir.” Master said as she searched among the bookshelves that pretended to be a staircase. “I mean, those sounded like high quality suicide enchantements, if it burned so thoroughly, but that’s not narrowing the possibilities that much.” Not in Anima, at ...
2022-03-28 13:50:03 +0000 UTC View PostEverything had started to settle into a routine as the months passed. Teach classes, run the adventuring club through combat drills, kick their asses on the day before the weekend, run them through a job during the weekend. Occasionally, spend hours failing to say anything to Luci’s shrine.
... 2022-03-21 14:10:52 +0000 UTC View PostWhoops! Forgot to bring this up for this month.
In order to make the poll a bit more competitive, I've added a few options that reflected what I expected the donor suggestions to be like, in vague categories.
2022-03-07 14:04:28 +0000 UTC View PostJust a note, this week is my birthday so I'm taking the next update off.
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“Come on, ducklings.” Casimir said as he walked into the guild. “We need to get you registered.” Their readiness was questionable, but Thorne was getting really annoying ...
2022-03-07 13:54:18 +0000 UTC View Post[Tanya Degurechaff von Goethe aka Tenya Deguchiya aka Archduchess von Goethe, circa 1924, age 10]
One of the more embarrassing parts of being in one’s sixties while being removed from all previous social connections is the constant habit of equating people in the present with people in th...
2022-03-01 14:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post[Faron Wavecleaver]
Faron gave his force sword a few extra practice swings, getting his blood pumping while they waited for Professor Toomes to return from his monster-finding hunt. They had approached closer to the trees, peering into them in the hopes they could find out sooner.
At ...
2022-02-28 12:50:13 +0000 UTC View PostThe Adventurer’s guild building in the city of Academia was on the small side, but that was true for most of Anima. There just wasn’t much adventure on the island nation, so most members quickly found themselves leaving for one of the continents in short order.
That said, there were sti...
2022-02-21 14:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostSome adventurers tended to mock Casimir when he insisted on referring to beneficial curse magic as such instead of saying less accurate but more informative things like blessings, wards, or buffs. One of the reasons he did so was to remind himself of the core legends of his discipline: curses did...
2022-02-14 14:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostAs it turned out, several of the new members of the adventurer’s club were students in his solo class. Four of the nine, to be precise: There was Peter, the infuriatingly earnest kid, as well as Illivere, the stoic girl with the very important father. In addition to them, the wannabe Knight, Fa...
2022-02-07 14:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, it's telling me some of y'all still need discord access... and I'm not entirely sure why it didn't do so automatically. If you still need access and don't have it, send me a message and I'll get it worked out manually.
In other news, 6k words for this was too ambitious, it was ...
2022-02-01 22:49:58 +0000 UTC View PostFor reference, the first chapter:
https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-heroic-chronicles-of-a-young-man-yo...
2022-02-01 22:40:53 +0000 UTC View PostStomp. Swing. Stop. Pump. Punch. Pull. Casimir went through these rote actions step by step, paying the bare minimum of attention as he reached out with his soul and gripped the vibrations of mana each motion generated, pulling it within his soul as force-aspected mana and binding it tightly with...
2022-01-31 02:31:27 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, I'm calling the previous poll officially. I've already started the winning snippet.
All such snippets, this one and in the future, will be posted at the start of the following month if ready, and it will be made public on the 8th. If it is not ready by the 1st (because of a par...
2022-01-13 03:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Welcome, class." Casimir said as he walked into one of the many classrooms of the Academy of High Magic. He felt pretty lucky, getting to use one of the original thousand classrooms for his first solo teaching job. The still-living wood grown into the shape of furniture made him remember the won...
2022-01-13 02:48:17 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, given the ratio of people who should have discord invites that have actually joined the discord, it's looking like I should have the poll here rather than do it on discord.
Incidentally, if you don't have a tier, I don't know how to fix it on my end so you need to fix it on your end...