Dantes was smoking a cigar made of blended tobacco and weed as he watched men throw their lives away for his profit on the drake fights when Jayk found him.
“The Elven Kings are waiting.”
Dantes knew that. He knew that Jayk knew he knew that.
“Alright,” He blew out a fin...
2024-09-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey, I did an interview with Maddix for the CritRpg podcast. Had a lot of fun and managed to be coherent once or twice.
2024-09-01 13:04:50 +0000 UTC View PostDantes leaned on the railing of the private upper floor booth of his club, Viridian Vixen, and listened to the singing coming from below. It was a slow, sultry number, Alessa’s vocals were smooth, and he found his heart rising and falling along with the notes she hit. He sipped slowly from his ...
2024-08-31 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostDantes walked around the workers, watching as the ground was cleared and they started to mark where the new building would go. With all of the fires, explosions, and deaths in midtown and the docks, he’d been able to buy up the site of the now destroyed Vivacious Vixen, as well as several of th...
2024-08-29 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDantes walked through the threshold. There were a few dead men in his path as he walked into the building. He could hear what few men Mondego had left struggling against the guard outside as he moved deeper into the manor, but inside was quiet.
They made their way toward the basement where ...
2024-08-27 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes walked through the main streets of midtown toward Mondego’s manor. He was lit by street lights casting their rays through a thick fog. The streets were busy as they always were at night in midtown. Some of those going about their shadowy business noticed Dantes, and cleared a path....
2024-08-24 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDantes waited in an abandoned house less than ten blocks from Mondego’s Manor. His coat sat on a rusty nail protruding from the wall where it dripped water onto the ground. It was cold, but Dantes didn’t notice. He didn’t even shiver. His eyes were closed as he moved vermin of all kinds int...
2024-08-22 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDantes could feel the boat beginning to slowly sink as he looked around the cabin. He wouldn’t be strong enough to swim through the holes through which the water was pouring as a rat or a roach, at least not until the cabin was completely filled. That forced him to wait. He sloshed through the ...
2024-08-20 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt was almost time. He could feel it in his bones, and his branches. All of his moves had paid off, all of his plans had been carried out, and his contingencies were mapped. He’d stripped Mondego piece by piece, and now with him at his lowest, he’d finally end him. Admittedly, it wasn’t as ...
2024-08-17 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMondego sat across from a roaring fire in the parlor of his mansion. It was midday, and the heat of the sun combined with that of the fire was sweltering, but he didn’t feel it.
“Another glass!” he said, causing his sweat drenched servants to jump.
One of them quickly move...
2024-08-15 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe room was well lit by torches burning with heatless white flame placed to maximize the spread of their light around the room. The carpet was rich and patterned with a moving mural that showed wars, trade, and myths all throughout it. The walls were covered in a black and gold diamond shaped pa...
2024-08-13 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDantes arrived back in his garden with a pocket full of gold jingling satisfyingly in his pocket. He moved to a small patch of clover in the back corner, and waved his hands so the clover would clear, revealing a patch of dirt. He morphed his left hand into a shovel and dug up the dirt, revealing...
2024-08-10 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes flew across the docks and shifted into himself midair to land on his feet. He brushed some dust off of his dark green jacket, and stretched a bit. Flying so much was leaving his arms much more sore than he’d been expecting. Jacopo landed as a bat on his shoulder a few moments later befor...
2024-08-08 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe next several days were spent shoring up all of the work Dantes had been doing to manipulate things within Mondego’s operations as well as outside of them. He stayed in touch with Jayson, Jayk, and Zak, monitored the sub bosses, and made sure that the gangs they’d antagonized were starting...
2024-08-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDantes left uptown feeling relatively good about his meeting overall. It made the problem of taking care of Mondego that much smaller, but he knew it wouldn’t be quite enough. If they’d fully sided with him, he’d have all the edge he needed, but that’s not what he’d managed to get from ...
2024-08-03 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNormally Uptown would be the dumbest possible place to hold a meet. You had to bribe guards to even get into it if you didn’t look like you belonged. Even once passed those guards you’d need to not draw the attention of other guards or of the nobles who might take offense to see...
2024-08-01 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDantes pondered the way the sun shined through the tree branches while he waited for a response to his letter. His mind felt sluggish, likely due to how much he’d packed into his day. It may have been smarter to rest for a while before moving forward on so many different plans at once, but it w...
2024-07-30 12:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostDantes and Jacopo climbed off the backs of their pigeon mounts and skittered onto the soft moss bedding that covered Dantes’s garden. They morphed into their usual forms and Dantes walked over to where he kept his food. He took a loaf of bread and broke off two generous hunks, giving one to eac...
2024-07-27 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey stood there in silence for a moment, sizing one another up. Dantes was covered in blood, and Godfrey was immaculate in a dark waistcoat with gold buttons that matched his face.
Godfrey moved for something in his coat, and Dantes drew his pistol and fired at him just as he threw a handf...
2024-07-25 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes mumbled along with the rest of the temple in prayer while he shifted his full focus to looking through Jacopo’s eyes. At this point there was no mental handshake between them, he blinked through his own eyes, and opened Jacopo’s. Jacopo was sitting at the end of a long hall looking aro...
2024-07-23 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDantes walked in with the rest of the crowd as they all shuffled in, blending into it naturally. There were a few temple guards at the door, but they were busier greeting people than they were looking out for any actual threats. The majority of people moved straight ahead into the main hall where...
2024-07-20 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDantes stood over a bowl of heated water, shaving with a sharpened dagger as he shifted through the perspective of rats, roaches, pigeons, and bats across the city. Everything seemed to be much as it had been over the last few days, until he started searching Uptown for Danglars. He was usually o...
2024-07-18 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDantes choked down whey infused milk as he walked along the border of midtown and the docks. It tasted vile, even after mixing in all of the things Orebus had suggested to improve the taste, but he needed it. He’d started climbing again, now adding running across rooftops and shifting forms in ...
2024-07-16 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThey walked back toward the gate into Rendhold at a leisurely pace, the Kobold guards they left behind still none the wiser to the fact that they were carrying away their employer. Wane didn’t even seem encumbered by the weight of the bound and gagged gnome in his pack.
“It was go...
2024-07-13 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes and Wane began walking through Buried Claw territory toward the back corner of it where, just like every other kobold enclave, there would be tiny shops set up by outsiders. It was possible that Pillion was doing his dealings underground, or through intermediaries, but unlikely. The Consor...
2024-07-11 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDantes was finishing a letter when Wane entered his garden. He didn’t look up, but instead finished it, and began to fold it, placing it alongside the other letters he’d prepared. He had some for Danglars from his mother, a few for Pacha, one to simply be dropped into Mondego’s front lawn w...
2024-07-09 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJayk, Jayson, and Zak all sat together around a small table in the corner of the Drowned Rat. The bartender Biertan was lazily playing a Melancholy tune on a small lute while rain fell on the roof and trickled down to collect on the floor. It was about a centimeter high at this point, ...
2024-07-06 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes approached the young boy who stood guard outside of one of Mondego’s new warehouses. He was a mutt, with some clear dwarven and orcish ancestry given the near full beard and tusks despite his youthful features. When he saw him, he lifted a hand to his mouth as if to yell, but Dantes held...
2024-07-04 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDantes walked down a wide street, possibly the widest he’d ever been down in his life. The buildings to either side of him seemed to rise up and touch the sky and the water running into the gutter seemed so broad and deep that he could mistake it for a river. There were shadows walking around h...
2024-07-02 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThere were screams of disappointment from the crowd, but they were drowned out quickly by cheers as several of the watchers moved to collect their winnings, and others began to enter the pit to drag the injured contestants out. Dantes slipped through all of them, and leapt into the pit to approac...
2024-06-29 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post