"So, it seems your luck has finally run out. It appears that your attempts to embarrass my House have run afoul of other parties. By the looks of things, the Lannisters and the Tyrells have seen fit to come to the aid of my family over your lot of upjumped bastards, exiles, and foreigners." Sneer...
2024-05-28 15:03:47 +0000 UTC View PostIn the recent past, Pergamon had been a minor provincial Poleis, a subject of first the Lydian Kingdom and then the Persian Achaemenid Empire, eclipsed by other Greek Cities in Asia Minor. Miletos was more respected, Ephesos more wealthy, and Smyrna stronger on land and sea. When King Kroiso...
2024-05-27 04:39:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt happened in the dead of night, while most of the senior officers were asleep. Roughly three weeks out of Port Keunman in the Contested frontier with the Earth Kingdom State of Kim, the Dragonhawk had begun her wide northward turn toward the Waegu Gap between the Northern Water Tribe P...
2024-05-25 02:52:50 +0000 UTC View PostThe rest of December and the first three weeks of January passed in a bout of yet more training. Xander, Sheila, Amy, and I, aided by the Neuroplasticity Enhancing Circlets, Fatigue Cures, Alchemical Bruise Healing Salves, and Memory Enhancing Potions, managed to get in the equivalent of a year a...
2024-05-24 22:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post"So, to sum up, you're from a completely separate timeline, though you do have some useful knowledge about the Second Wizarding War due to cross-time records of some form. You possess several capabilities that are outside context problems for Wizards in our timeline, which is the reason for your ...
2024-05-23 10:10:06 +0000 UTC View PostBlackstone was a world of three-hundred-fifty-thousand people. A hilly world, not quite mountainous outside of one area where the Darnin Hills and the Tyrnan Highlands met just to the northeast of the Planetary Capital of Onyx City. Much of the world's wealth came from various minerals mined from...
2024-05-22 23:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me twelve hours to find what I needed. The historical records surrounding the time of the Obsidian Empress were fragmentary, written in an ancient dialect so old that it may as well have been mutually intelligible with sealing script. Fortunately, I was versed enough in archaic writing an...
2024-05-21 10:14:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe Space Battle over Star's End lasted for just one single hour. Without being able to rely on their SDS System, and with the Ducal Guards Flotilla emerging from a pirate point inside the defense envelope, already the Belt Pirates had lost their main defense and hadn't been given time to scrambl...
2024-05-19 10:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip to Pergamon was quiet. Nobody wanted to mess with a ship being escorted by Dromons and Quadriremes, after all. We weren't at war with anyone at the moment and our escort was too beefy for Pirates to try. It just wasn't worth the losses they'd take and that's even assuming they could win,...
2024-05-19 00:57:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Feast at the end of the first day of the Hand's Tourney was packed with all sorts of nobles. Not just Contestants, but also members of the Royal Court and Non-Competing members of various Contestants' retinues. Aside frome the people I'd seen so far, I also noticed Lord Varys, Grand Maester P...
2024-05-17 00:47:48 +0000 UTC View PostJackie'd spent the first day of his training getting beat on by Sun Wukong. Tests ranging from dodging the fire blasts sent at him to trying to last more than four seconds in a spar, to all sortsa weird stuff that was probably meant to figure out how tough Jackie was. The whole thing was fucking ...
2024-05-16 11:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostI immediately dodged away as eight more Killing Curses were snarled my way, using my physical capabilities to leap clear of any spellfire and up onto the top of Flourish and Blotts. Immediately an Amber Spear coalesced in my hand and I tossed it out at one of the Death Eaters who conjured a shiel...
2024-05-15 10:18:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe City of Nexus lived and died off trade. Salt and Horses from Marukan, Spices and Jade from Lookshy, Artifacts and Ivory from Sijian, Grain, Wool, Leather, and Tallow from Puyo, Wine, Copper, Tin, and Iron from Varsi, Fish from the communities along the rivers, Wood and Stone from the East, an...
2024-05-15 06:28:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Abbot's Dining Hall was indeed a place of great wealth and luxury. Exquisite silk tapestries that showed scenes of the Spirit World in richly dyed threads were hung all around the walls. Lacquered wood furniture of imported teakwood and upholstered with high-quality silk cushions sat around a...
2024-05-14 10:07:52 +0000 UTC View PostAfter thirty-six straight hours of sleep, followed by a shower and an interesting and tasty breakfast. Bartholomew had prepared me a breakfast of a Gartro Egg Omelet with Jerba Cheese, Gornt Sausage, and Protato Hash, all washed down with a Raktajino. It was mixing universes to a level some might...
2024-05-12 10:23:45 +0000 UTC View PostAs Lady Meifang told the story 'bout what went down the last time Darkseid showed up, Jackie listened in. The whole deal was enhanced with some kinda illusion magic what made pictures of the whole thing dance on the wall like some sorta shadow puppet show. Jackie watched as a buncha Gods pitched ...
2024-05-12 05:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Jennifer Zamoyski and Lieutenant Commander Elisa Bohm had spent the past six months ingratiating themselves and their crew to Morgan Fletcher and her subordinate Pirate Lords. Their Avenger-class Assault Dropship, the Steinberg Mount was rechristened the Valkyr 2024-05-12 00:33:12 +0000 UTC View Post
My outfit for the day wasn't super-festive, I wasn't a Christian to actually celebrate Christmas, but it was nice. After all, when you had tangible proof that Pagan Gods existed and not tangible proof that Jesus existed, it was hard to take Christianity on faith like that. No, instead of wearing ...
2024-05-10 09:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostInside the cave, a small shrine lay near to a doorway cut into the stone. A look inside the doorway revealed steps carved into the living rock of the mountain, leading down into the depths of the world. I paused for a moment, frowning and decided that making an offering at the shrine before headi...
2024-05-08 12:23:26 +0000 UTC View PostTime with my family was always fun, though the fact that we'd apparently adopted a cat on the urging of my youngest, Eurydice, was an adjustment. The ginger cat, Timoleon, was Eurydice's constant companion. Like all ginger cats, Timoleon seemed to only have a single brain cell which he shared wit...
2024-05-08 00:52:25 +0000 UTC View PostImmediately as the trumpets sounded, I was engaged by Lord Alyn Harte, who wasted no time in charging me along with his brother, Ser Elwood Harte. Unfortunately Ser Oswell Cressey and Lord Olyvar Mallery were occupied by Ser Loras Tyrell and Lord Randyll Tarly and unable to distract the Hartes. F...
2024-05-07 21:58:12 +0000 UTC View PostShi Hou burst onto the deck to find the crew engaged in repelling boarders. Burly sailors with cutlasses and improvised weapons clashed with snarling, crocadilian, Beastmen. The beastmen wielded an eclectic array of weapons, from large-bladed chopping swords to daggers, to one with a large, bone,...
2024-05-07 19:48:50 +0000 UTC View PostWe were winning, it looked like Bastion was finally starting to run out of Sentinels. The amount of Omega Sentinels coming out as reinforcements had slowed to a trickle and even the pace of Prime Sentinel reinforcements was slowing down. As I aimed another Ferromantic Anti-Tech Spell at one of th...
2024-05-06 15:46:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Northern Air Temple Archives was a long, low, squat, long, hall that was completely out of synch architecturally with the rest of the tall, rounded, spindly, buildings that made up the Northern Air Temple. The reason for that was practicality. It was easier to preserve perishable goods in thi...
2024-05-06 12:23:58 +0000 UTC View PostApokalips was advancing on multiple fronts. The New Gods of that dark and misrable realm had set forth to conquer the heavens in the name of Darkseid, the head of their Pantheon of Monstrous Deities. Already many had fallen, the survivors forced to flee into the Dreaming, as not even Darkseid was...
2024-05-06 00:40:51 +0000 UTC View PostWith Spike still at large, albeit on crutches, and Drusilla now back to full physical health, even if she was still quite mad, I redoubled the pace of my training along with that of Amy, Sheila, and Xander. We couldn't afford to slack off now that one half of the Whirlwind was in play. What this ...
2024-05-05 22:42:41 +0000 UTC View PostMajor Kong Li of the Capellan Maskirovka was nervous. An operation like this had never been tried before. Not in the heart of the Enemy's power like this. Fortunately, his team were professionals, veterans of dozens of undercover operations. Even if they were internally nervous, externally none o...
2024-05-04 16:57:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe Main Hall of the Fire Temple was decked out in Gold plating and red-laquered wood. Giant, bronze statues of Susanoo, Ameterasu, Inoshishi-no-Kami, Hachiman, and Kagutsuchi gazed down at me as Chiriku led me into the main hall and past the altars with their various offerings. We passed by a ta...
2024-05-04 07:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostAdvanced Chapters of my various stories are coming up soon, starting with an Advanced Chapter for Autumn Road.
I'll be adding new advanced chapters as I go, so keep an eye out for that!
2024-05-04 05:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post