From what Grey told me, we only had days before the main host of the Uprising would reach Silvercrest. We needed to get our individual projects finished by the time they reached us, or they would just get harder. For Grey, Azarus and me, we might be able to draft and forge my new arm usi...
2024-01-22 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSo, I've been thinking lately about what more I could do for you guys. I'm considering starting a short story collection set in Vereden. These short stories would be from different PoV's from Nate, and would run for the length of a month before finishing and moving onto another one. I'm thinking ...
2024-01-20 22:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostSylvia and Honoka were already in the dining tent when Grey and I arrived. Rather than eating though, they were bent over pouring over some pages of parchment of their own. They looked up at our entrance, with Honoka rolling the parchment up and setting it to the side. I wasn’t able to see much...
2024-01-19 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGrey was true to his word, leading Azarus and I to his tent so we could get to work. On the way, I happened to see Renauld hanging out with a group of Sculpted soldiers, regaling them with a story of some kind around a morning campfire. It must have been a good one, as the soldiers were laughing....
2024-01-17 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post“Excuse me?” Grey blinked rapidly, setting down his breakfast spoon. “Would you…care to repeat that, Nathan?”
It was morning the day after the failed ritual to regrow my arm, and my closest companions had gathered to break their fasts. I was pretty happy about that for two reasons...
2024-01-15 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostHonoka lifted a hand into the sky. In her open palm, a small bird made of fire manifested, looking around curiously. Honoka leaned in to whisper at it for a moment, before launching the Avian construct into the sky. The flaming bird chirped at her once, before zooming away.
Towards the Upri...
2024-01-12 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOur wagon train pulled up to the small encampment outside the gates of Silvercrest. There were two Sculpted members on guard duty, one made of stone and the other made of iron, both male in shape. They had been watching us for a while as we crossed the desert plain towards them, but straightened ...
2024-01-10 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been three days now since our wagon train had left Sancthaven, and according to Grey, we were making good time. Our destination was a good-sized mining town in the mountainous equatorial region of the continent named Silvercrest. From what the Agent had told us, there were elements of the ...
2024-01-08 18:00:29 +0000 UTC View PostIn case you haven't noticed yet, I've launched a Discord for my work that I'm calling PreCursive's Pavillion. I don't have much experience with Discord in general, but I think I've set up the Patreon integration correctly.
If you connect your Patreon and Discord accounts, you should be auto...
2024-01-05 23:54:53 +0000 UTC View PostAfter exiting the cellar where I had gotten a history lesson from an old Elf, Grey and I walked in silence for a while. Fade had raced on ahead in the direction of the town, leaving us behind. I guess he wanted to get back to the fire and whatever scraps everyone had left and could beg for.
I felt a bolt of adrenaline run down my spine.
Precursors were meant to kill the Gods?
But…
“But most of them are dead,” I said tentatively. “My understanding is that nearly all of them died in the fighting in the War in Heaven.”
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AN: Small retcon here. Observe doesn’t display a level for Mystic Beasts like Fade. I realized that doesn’t make sense, considering they don’t have a Status nor are they monsters to be categorized by the System.
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2024-01-01 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAfter informing us about how the combined forces of the Uprising were currently on the move, the Agent had left us. He was apparently going to be both leaving immediately himself in order to link up with the main host, as well as send messages to various outposts about the success of our mission....
2023-12-29 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostGrey’s prediction turned out to be correct. It only took the Thorny Reef two more days of travel before the eastern coast of the main continent came into view. As much as I had enjoyed my time at sea, I was looking forward to a long stretch of time on land, away from any Neptaurians or...
2023-12-27 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Merry Christmas, guys.
There's something pleasing about a new book staring on a major holiday like this.
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I blinked, staring down at the small cros...
2023-12-25 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
To tell the truth, the ending for this book kinda snuck up on me. I wasn't expecting it to be the conclusion of the Caer Drarrow arc. But it's kind of appropriate, I feel.
This is the transition point where Vereden is done being set up. With the hostages holding back the Uprising ...
2023-12-22 18:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
A slightly shorter chapter, but…
Well, you’ll see why. It was just a really good point to end this one on.
Plus the next one is kinda long, lmao.
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2023-12-20 18:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostAN:
Particularly proud of this one. I'd been waiting a long time to present this PoV, and I'm sure some people have been as well. I was just waiting for an appropriate moment.
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2023-12-18 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostI didn’t have time to see what I had stolen from the dead man. I could do that later, when I wasn’t in the middle of a giant battle.
I let out the breath I was holding, thumbing the activation switch on my spear. The body of the man I had killed slumped to the floor with my weapon’s r...
2023-12-15 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostI went flying, knocked off my feet from the force of the blast. Dazed, I felt myself impact the stone of the floor several feet away from the doorway. As if from a great distance, I could hear the cacophony of battle all around me.
I blinked one eye slowly, and then the other. I felt someth...
2023-12-13 18:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Deal with the rabble,” Warden Leonard said, eyes fixed on Grey. He lifted his free hand and gestured forward with it to his forces arrayed behind and on the barricade. “I’ll deal with the Headmaster.”
“Oh, will you now,” Grey said dangerously, lifting Stellarum. He began to a...
2023-12-11 18:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo.
This was the Warden that Grey had been so wary of.
He was a tall man, dressed in form-fitting white and black robes with a pitch-black cloak draped over his shoulders. In his right hand he held an intricately carved staff made of a smoky crystal of some kind, with three splines po...
2023-12-08 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostOur combined forces succeeded in pushing forward, enough that we were out of the hallway that led to the crumbling tower. That didn’t mean that the guards kept coming, even as we fought a grinding battle through the halls of the prison. I didn’t forget Grey’s estimate that there could be up...
2023-12-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostBefore I could even react, Woodrick tackled me out of the way of whatever had been waiting in the room. As the two of us sailed through the air, I twisted just enough to see what was happening.
I just barely managed to catch a glimpse of what was happening.
I think it was a Neptaurian...
2023-12-04 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostAN: Oof, these last few have been rough. Remember, I'm writing this for YOU. If you don't like some plot elements, let me know and I'll reconsider them. Feel free to leave a comment, or even message me, if you're dissatisfied with current chapters.
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2023-12-01 18:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostI elbowed my way through the crowd of inmates that had gathered in front of the gate to the central tower. I reached the front just in time to watch as Sylvia knelt in front of the heavy padlock on it and take out her lockpicking kit.
Odd.
Venix was the first to notice my approach and...
2023-11-29 18:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen I saw that the guard I’d hung had…passed, I lowered him to the floor by letting out a little bit more vine. Once he was resting soundlessly on the floor, I dismissed the vine in my hands, letting the entire skill diffuse into formless, invisible Aether.
I let out a shuddering breat...
2023-11-27 18:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThey couldn’t have gone far.
The plan was for the group to be traveling as stealthily as they possibly could through the prison. Along the way, they would be gradually gathering what inmates they needed to free. In fact, there had been discussion on the way here that we should be freeing ...
2023-11-24 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post“That…” I said slowly. “Sounds like a problem.”
Grey crossed his arms. “A mild one, I admit.”
“Are ye sayin...’” Bella said in a dangerous tone, clenching a hand on the pommel of her cutlass. “That I risked me crew comin’ to this damn island, and we can’t eve...
2023-11-22 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostFor a moment, I allowed myself to sag against my upright spear in relief. I can’t exactly say that I was expecting to be fighting giant spiders today. I don’t think I’d acquitted myself too badly, though. Hell, this was the first time I’d ever fought more than one monster at a time as wel...
2023-11-20 18:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post