The kitri’s droning echoed through the massive vaulted halls, bouncing off the polished stone that seemed to compose every bit of the palace.
“Do not itch yourself in an unseemly place, do not spit, if you must cough, cover your mouth with your shirtsleeve.”
“Those seem specif...
2021-11-08 22:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m sorry, I gotta be back at home to receive word if my uncle has accepted the deal.” Vresh said, frowning unhappily.
“Rain check?” Jeb said with a shrug. He couldn’t do much more than shrug with the tailor literally holding a needle to his genitals and the valet hustling back...
2021-11-03 22:53:47 +0000 UTC View Post“What in the nine hells are you doing here!?” Vresh demanded, shaking him lightly by his collar. As far as Jeb was aware, this was the half-time break of the dinner, where everyone got a chance to stretch their legs, and Vresh had taken the opportunity to drag him aside and get the whole stor...
2021-10-29 21:48:20 +0000 UTC View PostThis question is mostly for people who've read both stories, but anyone can weigh in.
If you've read both WotR and Apocalypse: Generic system, you would know that they've got a bit of a different approach to how magic and leveling works.
Wake of the Ravager: The magic and levels wer...
***Emperor Pikaku, Uniter of the Continent, Ruler of Mestikos, Level 328***
“Water stress among the brovis continues to ease as the reservoirs do their job, and we expect to see a return on investment within a few short years. The Inulak people continue to insist that the harbor a thousan...
2021-10-27 01:14:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Hello?” Smartass said into the dark of the abandoned building written on the crumpled note she held in her hand. “Anybody here?”
There wasn’t much in the room aside from some old crates that smelled of mildew, and a faint flickering light from the docks, that made all the shadows...
2021-10-20 21:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostThey glided to a halt at the landing pad. Jeb had been expecting a marble runway, but it was more of a marble helipad. Everything in Mestikos was white and shiny. It actually hurt the eyes a little.
Jeb glanced at the twitching men and women holding spears between him them like they were tr...
2021-10-17 22:08:04 +0000 UTC View Post***Chris Campbell***
“Cold as a witches tit,” Chris complained, rubbing his hands together. Far enough south, and the enormous trees gradually shrank as the sunlight simply wasn’t enough to sustain them. His tools for starting the fire were frosted over, waiting for him to ...
2021-10-15 22:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostTom’ head snapped toward the sound.
A Vith warrior gushed blood from a slashed neck, his expression confused.
Gunn’s voice bellowed. “Kinzena!”
A moment later, Tom felt someone tackle him across his ribs, and he was driven to the ground by old man Gunn.
A whistling...
2021-10-13 22:52:07 +0000 UTC View PostHeads up! I am most likely going to be moving to New Mexico at the end of the year. Dec/Jan.
How does this affect you:
The amount of time that I am able to spend writing may suffer as we box up stuff and get ready to go. Be prepared for days missed when I have to drive around...
2021-10-12 22:00:34 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m bored.” Smartass said for the one hundred and thirty-second time.
“Flying through the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds is boring you?” Jeb asked, glancing over at his fairy companion, who was lying face-down on the invisible plane of force that kept their cabin pressure ...
2021-10-12 21:28:33 +0000 UTC View Post*** Vendrith Kinzena***
Vendrith Kinzena had hated paperwork in his youth, but at his age…well, he still hated it, but he also saw the value in properly managed logistics.
So it was that Vendrith found himself staring at the letter detailing the disappearance of the hundred and eigh...
2021-10-11 21:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostSasha Honnekun gasped for air as she dragged herself out of the water flopping onto the beach like a clubbed fish.
Once her supply of air was secured, Sasha simply couldn’t find it in herself to drag her body further up the beach. She was too tired. The waves lapped against her senseless ...
2021-10-08 21:23:41 +0000 UTC View PostTom woke up to the sound of screaming, and the smell of smoke.
Nema was out of bed faster than him, leaping across the room in a single bound to peek out the hut and see what the emergency was.
Tom, his brain half-addled from sleep, had come to conflate getting woken up in the middle ...
2021-10-06 18:12:02 +0000 UTC View PostJebediah Trapper was sitting in the office of one of the most powerful beings on the planet. The desk looked heavy, and the shelves were stuffed with arcane memorabilia, but Jeb was fairly sure they were a clever mislead to trick the observer into thinking the owner of the velvet-floored room had...
2021-10-05 20:40:36 +0000 UTC View Post***Serena Lovelace, Unambitious Lab Technician***
“Why are they doing this to us!?” Serena cried, huddled behind a desk, shivering violently. The supply of pure oxygen she clutched to her face was the only reason she hadn’t passed out with the rest of the technicians when they started...
2021-10-05 00:44:14 +0000 UTC View PostTom fell back on his ass, staring at the cracked stone patched with clay substitute. He’d spent the last week on the move picking up any rock he could find, mixing it with wet mud and trying to build a brick furnace in the back of the truck.
When it exploded from the heat, Tom realized ex...
2021-09-30 23:52:23 +0000 UTC View Post“What the hell?” Tom muttered, craning his neck to peer out the window. Tom might have thought it was one of his newfangled ‘actual’ dreams, if he hadn’t just been dreaming about the night before.
Just in case, he pinched himself a bit, finding the sensation crisp and realistic. 2021-09-28 22:05:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so I've got about three pages of notes on Generic System 4. Enough for me to start hacking away at it. (3 pages is actually a lot for me)
The plan is to seesaw back and forth between the two stories for as long as my poor little writer-brain can handle it. Expect short chapters of So...
***Vol***
“Why are you asking me this?” Vol asked, leaning back in his seat.
“Because Tom can’t win,” Nema said, her eyes bloodshot from crying. “He decided to use his ‘gun’ instead of the sword, against my suggestion. I tested it on myself. It’s loud as brekor, but ...
2021-09-25 23:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post“The chief, the shaman and the elders have agreed that everyone’s interests would be better served if you were elsewhere, so you’ll be banished three days from now. You may wish to take some time to prepare.” The Vith warrior said, leaning easily on a stone spear as he spoke to Tom. A hal...
2021-09-24 20:27:52 +0000 UTC View PostNathan Glover considered himself an optimist. He tended to look on the positive side of things for the most part.
Other people saw a dangerous-as-hell assignment babysitting a literal monster capable of ripping his head off, given free reign by bureaucrats who didn’t care how many people ...
2021-09-22 22:31:19 +0000 UTC View PostTom sat bolt upright as a woman burst through the flimsy curtain separating them from the cold of night. She carried a child in her arms, unnaturally pale and listless. The child was male, about eight years old, and there was a horrific gash on his head. The scalp was peeling open to reveal the f...
2021-09-20 21:39:36 +0000 UTC View PostTom was learning the language the way most people do: Listening to fairy tales. His hands were occupied with printing Mr. Fluffybottom’s magical phone number onto the spell circle while he was listening to the closest thing to an audiobook the desert people had.
“A long, longti...
2021-09-18 23:09:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Mr. President”
Carl snorted in surprise, his eyes gummy from falling asleep… he glanced at the time. Dear God, two hours ago?
Then Carl’s brain kicked on and he was no longer an old man without enough sleep. Now he was Carl Simmons, Leader of the Free World.
...
2021-09-16 23:53:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Mr. Graves,” Luz’s rich voice spoke through the magical hologram, greeting him with a welcoming smile. “Your planar address has shifted drastically.”
“Tell me about it.” Tom said, rolling his eyes.
“If you insist.” She said, before taking a deep breath.
“Not...
2021-09-15 23:13:07 +0000 UTC View Post***DREAM***
Tom watched from his hiding place under a sand-covered rug as the smelly guy – Vol, that’s his name – waltzed into Tom’s house. A moment later faint smashing noises could be heard.
Tom was tempted to go in there and throw down right then and there, but a f...
2021-09-14 22:46:32 +0000 UTC View Post***Nema***
Nema hummed, sucking on gor root as she planned out Tom’s new shoes. They were going to be stunningly big when they were finished. Her father had more than enough leather in storage, but the tricky part was getting the soles right. Tom’s feet were so big it was actually a lit...
2021-09-13 22:17:13 +0000 UTC View PostTom raised the root vegetable up to his mouth and began to chew, trying not to let any expression cross his face. Nema was watching him while sucking on some kind of licorice root.
The slight woman had brought him breakfast, and was watching him eat with an intensity reserved for hunters an...
2021-09-09 21:42:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Tom, I’m with child.” The black widow said to him, rubbing its belly with its many legs. The stomach was squirming and partially see-through. Tom looked closer and saw what was inside her stomach was not a baby, but chains.
Too late, the spider’s legs had already clamped down aroun...
2021-09-08 20:19:21 +0000 UTC View Post