They were standing atop the hill where Vevic had her chair placed at its crest. A camp fire burned a few feet away and it threw their shadows, long and dark, across the hilltop. Before her, Brightfeather had just brought her news of a rumor spreading amongst her goblins.
This one is as ...
2023-10-20 04:43:18 +0000 UTC View PostVevic stood atop the hill and watched the village burn. The villagers had put up a meager fight. An armed band of men had met her army in the fields just west of the village. Her chieftains had met them there, leading a swarm of her little green skinned warriors into a make-shift infantry charge....
2023-10-20 04:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostAs the blaze of their village faded behind them, the men on the raft surrounded the last of the goblins, killed them, and threw their corpses overboard. Calista was too busy to help as she tended the wounded Thalias. The half-elf had taken an arrow to the chest and was bleeding from both ends. So...
2023-10-20 04:41:55 +0000 UTC View PostPart One: A Brief Detour Inside the Mind of a Goblin
Fatlip hadn’t had this much fun since … well, he couldn’t remember. So far tonight, he had killed a goat, set fire to a haystack, scared several children, and helped disembowel a farmer. All that and the night was still young.
She hacked at the goblin, but it raised its buckler just in time as her sword nicked the wooden shield and then bounced off. Kicking her smaller opponent in the belly, she brought her blade around again and this time she caught the little marauder in the neck. The goblin whimpered and died.
As he shut the door, Lefty felt the fatigue hit him like a sack of bricks. Dropping to the bed, he was unconscious the moment his head hit the pillow. In fact, he was out so cold that when the innkeeper later arrived to ask if he wanted any food, Lefty didn’t even stir.
Feathers also slep...
2023-10-20 02:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostSoon after Abby returned with the ale, they all got around to introducing themselves. Since Thalias had already asked, she started by explaining she was a Delver, the same class she had specialized in before. “They also gave me some sort of dark background where my father killed my mother and t...
2023-10-20 02:56:51 +0000 UTC View PostIt was dark as she limped into the village. The rain had followed her the entire way and a steady drizzle pelted her as the guards let her across the bridge. Hobbling past the first houses, she could see the town was quiet, but not empty. A man smoking a pipe nodded to her from his doorway as she...
2023-10-20 02:56:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t long until they found a road. It wasn’t much, a pair of dusty ruts that ran along the edge of the river, but it appeared to know more about where it was going than either Lefty or Feathers did, so they each picked a rut and followed.
One look at the water told Lefty the river ...
2023-10-20 02:55:20 +0000 UTC View PostVevic sipped her wine as she inspected the empty skull. Lord Sott, of course, had chosen to fight her. After an hour of flying around the fortress, torching soldiers and burning some of the more useless looking outbuildings, she shape-changed into human form and strolled into the grand hall to fi...
2023-10-20 02:54:14 +0000 UTC View PostA mile into the woods, the horse died. The animal simply stopped, lowered itself to the ground, and it lay on its side as it closed its eyes. Calista dragged Rorick off the saddle and sat him against a tree. A few breaths later, the horse was gone.
Rorick was not far behind. Pulling himself...
2023-10-20 02:53:10 +0000 UTC View PostPart One: Vevic
Vevic swooped down on the ramparts and let out another blast of flame on the hapless guards. Soldiers died where they stood or fell, burning to the ground below. Arrows bounced harmlessly off her scales. Below, soldiers and slaves screamed in fear. She hadn’t had this much...
2023-10-20 02:52:27 +0000 UTC View PostShe awoke lying on the wooden floor of a cart as it bounced and creaked over a muddy road. Above her stood trees like dark sentinels against a gray, cloud covered sky. She tried to wipe the sleep from her eyes and discovered she couldn’t. Wait, am I chained? Looking down, she discovere...
2023-10-20 02:51:22 +0000 UTC View PostShe rested under the watchful eyes of her new companions. When she woke, she was pleased to see all of her mana had regenerated. So, she spent most of the morning using her magic to heal her wounds.
Vevic had chosen Witch as her class as it had an interesting blend of both healing and offen...
2023-10-20 02:50:32 +0000 UTC View PostShe had decided to let them keep the name. Tribe of the Bloody Foot was fine so long as they knew who was in charge.
She had made them take her back to their lair. Marching through the valleys and hills, Vevic had used what little magic she had left and summoned a mist to conceal her. She s...
2023-10-20 02:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostStanding in the sunlight as it filtered through the leaves, Lefty looked down at Feathers and then at the empty space before him where the Attendant had just been. He still had more questions. Like, just how many people were watching him now and just how was he supposed to know when and where he ...
2023-10-20 02:45:48 +0000 UTC View PostHe blinked hard and suddenly he was standing in the glade again. The sun burned against the tree tops as the blonde woman in the stewardess uniform flipped through a magazine. Lefty stopped to rub his eyeballs and collect his thoughts. Then, as he opened his eyes again, the stewardess stood.
<... 2023-10-20 02:44:57 +0000 UTC View PostFloating, Lefty grasped desperately to the magical umbrella that was his staff. While the goblins’ arrows still harried him, they were becoming increasingly inaccurate. Behind him, he heard the bear howl in rage. Swinging his legs, he managed to turn around in time to see the bear crash into th...
2023-10-20 02:43:51 +0000 UTC View PostThe window before her blinked out and then returned with a list of different stat blocks. The Attendant inspected her nails as she spoke, “Congratulations. Now that you’ve selected a race and finalized your appearance, please select a basic class so that you can be given stats.”
Anoth...
2023-10-20 02:43:00 +0000 UTC View Post“As one of our newest V.I.P’s, you are entitled to an empowered re-roll with the singular caveat that you do recreate Calista Stricthaven as her exploits in the Earth version of Sable Unlimited tested very well across a number of our demographics, particularly your last misadventure ...
2023-10-20 02:42:09 +0000 UTC View PostCalista came to lying on her back while a slight breeze blew through the grass around her. The sun was bright overhead, its bright rays nearly blinding. Where am I? Shielding her eyes, she sat up to look out over the green stalks and found she was sitting atop a small rise in an open fie...
2023-10-20 02:40:30 +0000 UTC View PostFrom their right, a horse whinnied.
Lefty glanced at the duck, but the bird was already waddling toward the sound of the horse. Great, just great. As he followed his feathered friend through the branches, he began to feel like the unwilling participant of a guided tour through the ...
2023-10-20 02:39:34 +0000 UTC View PostHe found a hefty chunk of change on the ogre - three-hundred-eighty-two gold pieces to be precise - and a rusty dagger. He had left the dagger. The gold had immediately transferred itself into his inventory, where it stored for free.
He still had no idea where he was or where he was going, ...
2023-10-20 02:38:46 +0000 UTC View PostHe awoke laying in a bush.
Lying on his back, strands of sunlight beaming down through the leaves, his first though was, Things have not gone as planned. This, strangely, was followed closely by his second thought, What were these things and why did they not go as planned? 2023-10-20 02:37:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The earth heaved, sagged, heaved again, and finally collapsed into a hole filled with darkness. Fire, smoke, and lightning streamed out in cascades of magic as the dungeon’s defense system continued to malfunction. A shadowy form, a monster perhaps, tried to crawl out but was pulled back down, ...
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After escaping the Morphic Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Lefty and Calista find themselves Isakai'd onto the real world of Wraath, ...
2023-10-20 02:29:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe little dragon swished her tail as she looked down on the bugs lovingly laid out on the book before her. She had been listening to her invisible friend explain them for over an hour and was quite entranced. Her eyes brightened as she looked to a silver winged creature that had patterns on it l...
2023-09-12 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostDillard jogged down the hallway on silent feet. Through her many escape attempts, she had long learned how to move through the depths of Severin’s dungeon without making a sound. Many days and nights had been spent running through the halls and corridors dodging the arch-mage’s patrols. Many ...
2023-09-11 17:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You see,” the feminine voice continued, “the two of you are dead.”
“What do you mean, we’re dead?” Calista snapped. “We made it through this whole thing without dying. We’re not dead. We’re standing in a pool of water in some creepy room with a creepy burning doorway. S...
2023-09-08 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostA tremor shook the cavern. Oh great, the place is going to break apart. I suppose Blake just thought to himself, ‘If I can’t have it, no one can.’ She wondered briefly about the kobolds and the two trolls Smith and Smithey, but then she reminded herself that they weren’t her prob...
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