Commission: Sparks
Characters: Gu Xiulan and Li Suyin
Not RR Friendly.Found on Discord.
2020-12-11 22:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Characters: Gu Xiulan and Li Suyin
Not RR Friendly.Found on Discord.
2020-12-11 22:14:08 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a little unsettling, Ling Qi found, to be looking at herself from multiple angles. To study and analyze her own appearance and aura with supernatural precision. To see the hairs that were out of place, the imperfections in the subtle applications of her cosmetics, and the unsteadiness and ...
2020-12-10 21:53:14 +0000 UTC View PostThat night wouldn’t be the last time she tarried longer at home, Ling Qi promised herself, but for the moment, it would have to do. She would have to change some of her plans and half-formed schedules, but she believed that she could accomplish her goals and spend more time at tasks as...
2020-12-07 21:08:06 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi was not able to cultivate as much as she would have liked that night, even though with her new rank, she had moved to a new residence with a better argent vent than before with the start of the fourth month. She knew it was her own fault for putting off preparations for this though.
For a long moment, silence reigned in the bedroom. Ling Qi could feel the turmoil in her mother’s thoughts. There was fear for Ling Qi, a helpless and directionless anger, and many other conflicting emotions. What emerged from that emotional morass, however, was resolve.
“Was there some...
2020-12-03 21:04:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, you’ve had quite an ordeal, haven’t you?” Xin asked rhetorically with a sigh, withdrawing her faintly glowing hand from Ling Qi’s forehead. “The entropic qi still left in your channels is assimilating nicely.”
Ling Qi wasn’t entirely sure what “entropic” meant, bu...
2020-11-30 23:05:08 +0000 UTC View PostHello there folks, I want to thank everyone who has supported me so far again. As of today I will be publishing the first section of Forge of Destiny in E-book format. In addition, in cooperation with Podium Audio, forge of destiny will be receiving the professional audiobook treatment. Links to ...
2020-11-28 22:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post“... ter! Big Sister!”
<C’mon, Qi, don’t do this to me. Wake up! Wake up! This isn’t your dreams,> Sixiang begged her.
Ling Qi shook her head violently, and the blizzard resolved itself again before her eyes. She felt so tired and cold. “... Hanyi? Sixiang…?”
... 2020-11-28 22:19:50 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi swiftly reached the end of the hall, flitting from shadow to shadow as she raced for the door that lay at its end. The handle turned easily under her hand, and the door flew open, leaving her face to face with a confused looking Hanyi.
“Ling Qi? What’s wrong?” the little spiri...
2020-11-27 00:30:27 +0000 UTC View PostZeqing’s home had never seemed so dark, Ling Qi thought nervously.
For once, no one had come to greet her when she arrived on the mountaintop. There was only the wind and the dancing snowflakes. Her mentor’s home huddled darkly on its foundations like an image from an old tale. Its shut...
2020-11-23 22:06:17 +0000 UTC View Post“We begin now the challenge between Disciple 812, Ling Qi, and Disciple 790, Liang He.” The presiding elder was a short, rotund man with a wide, friendly face, a faint golden sheen to his skin, and drowsy, half-lidded eyes. He spoke in a cheerful drawl.
“In accordance with Sect rules,...
2020-11-21 22:25:58 +0000 UTC View PostSeven days and seven nights.
That was the length of time that Ling Qi spent atop White Cloud Mountain in the Outer Sect, cultivating with Zeqing. She rested in the muse’s home, played with her daughter, and drank sweet chilled wine. She immersed herself in darkness and music. She might ha...
2020-11-19 22:07:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis one is late in coming but its been a bit of a rough month.
2020-11-16 19:07:53 +0000 UTC View PostIn Dream, Ling Qi was surrounded by kin. Through the currents of thought and great abyss of consciousness, she swam with countless millions of her kin, forming patterns of color and brightness of incomprehensible beauty and complexity. In and out of Dream did her kin swim, breaching briefly i...
2020-11-16 19:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs they fled the cavern at Suyin’s top speed, the roar of explosions and collapsing stone at their back, Ling Qi could not help but laugh. No, she really couldn’t let fear control her because this is what being alive felt like. As they reached the top of the dead beetle’s tunnel th...
2020-11-14 20:27:50 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi raised her flute to her lips, looking back at the eyeless visages of the rat things that were finally beginning to orient onto the two of them through the mist. There were more than a dozen of them, and the sand bulged with more burrowers. Ling Qi resumed her song, flowing effortlessly in...
2020-11-12 19:15:45 +0000 UTC View PostType Worldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found on Discord in Interlude Spoilers
2020-11-11 22:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi stood ready for another few moments after the creature’s last twitch subsided. Only after a swift kick to one of its remaining eyes failed to bring a reaction did she allow herself to turn around.
“Everything alright up there?” she called.
“Y-yes,” Li Suyin called ba...
2020-11-09 20:59:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor three mornings every week, Ling Qi would be devoting her time to learning scoutcraft and tactics under the tutelage of her Senior Brother and later, the core disciple in charge. She was somewhat chagrined to learn, upon asking, that Guan Zhi was actually one of Elder Zhou’s nieces. She real...
2020-11-07 21:19:38 +0000 UTC View PostType: Worldbuilding. RR Friendly
Found on Discord in the Interlude Spoilers channel
2020-11-06 01:12:13 +0000 UTC View Post“Each art is composed of a number of forms, patterns of qi which are woven into the cycling of your qi to empower spirit and flesh. Techniques then, are the active use of those patterns, projected through carefully attuned channels,” Elder Heng’s reedy but steady voice traveled well, perfec...
2020-11-05 18:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi eyed the elder as Yu Nuan took her seat, The heavy lute that Ling Qi had glimpsed before appeared in Yu Nuan’s hands. “My piece is titled ‘War of Beasts,’” she said evenly, her eyes drifting half-shut as she strummed the first deep, bass note.
There were no more words, nor...
2020-11-02 21:05:50 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi let out a slow breath as she ended her meditation in front of the argent vent. Seated cross-legged on the smooth stone floor, Ling Qi could feel, without looking outside, that several hours had passed and night had fallen. Stellar qi tingled at the edges of her senses, even through the wi...
2020-10-31 18:37:58 +0000 UTC View PostCharacters: Shen Hu
Not RR Friendly. Found on Discord in Interlude Spoilers
2020-10-29 22:37:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe weeks that followed blurred by. She began to take more difficult Sect jobs, pushing the limits of her sneaking abilities with harder and harder targets. She mastered the seventh step of the Sable Crescent Step under Zeqing’s eyes.
Despite the sluggishness of her qi, she continued to p...
2020-10-29 22:18:26 +0000 UTC View PostSeeking a break from her churning thoughts, Ling Qi turned her attention to the young looking elder below. The elder was a squat, dour looking man with thinning hair and a wide face. He exuded a pressure that seemed to drain the very color from his surroundings. He wore plain silver robes, a mini...
2020-10-26 19:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostShe scurried through the grass and brush, racing alongside a million of her brethren. Her sleek black fur gleamed under the ruddy moonlight.
In her thoughts, there was only fury. Fury at the Oathbreakers. Fury at the burrow destroyers. Fury at the diggers and the choppers and t...
2020-10-24 18:04:20 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi steadied herself and turned back to Vengeance-for-Burning-Grove, doing her best to project confidence as she strode back to him. “Sir Vengeance, if you do not mind, I will wait with you. It will benefit me to speak with the King, I think.”
The burning tree made a crackling groan...
2020-10-22 18:38:32 +0000 UTC View PostLing Qi’s thoughts raced. Neither of these people were real; that much was obvious. So what mattered more here was what she wanted from the dream. She couldn’t be sure, but the brooding moon overhead made this seem like some kind of test. What would the Bloody Moon be looking for?
It wa...
2020-10-19 20:04:42 +0000 UTC View Post