Curselock is going on a break for the time being. Thanks for all of the support and time you all have invested in me, it really means a lot.
I have recently signed a ghost writing agreement for an undisclosed litrpg trilogy, and, unfortunately, that will take up most of my time.
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2024-03-22 03:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostSoaring through the wide, open sky, Zeke found his target after nearly two days of nonstop flying. If there was one good thing about being a summoned creature, having your summoner as an energy source was it. As long as Leland was healthy, so was Zeke. Finalizing his descent, he allowed the air t...
2024-03-14 18:10:47 +0000 UTC View PostAfter his nap and long after the sun had set, Leland stepped out of the igloo-cave and spread his wings. He had explained to his friends what he was going to do, and after telling them he was doing it alone, one particular friend felt the need to ignore his desire for privacy.
“I...
2024-03-12 18:29:20 +0000 UTC View PostLeland pursed his lips and looked off to the side, hoping the gesture would make Captain Curtain stop staring at him. It was the age-old notion of “if I can’t see him, he can’t see me.”
This, of course, didn’t work.
“What happened to Seer?”
Shifting his ga...
2024-03-11 06:18:09 +0000 UTC View PostJude’s heart triumphantly thumped, a heat unlike any other warming his frozen skin. With Floe’s blessing frosting his armor, the blood of his enemies had become additional weapons. Spikes of frozen red jutted from his bone and metal armor, each as sharp as his axe and far more pointy.
W...
2024-03-08 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“So it’s like fire-slime?”
Elin blinked a few times. “I guess…”
“That’s kind of cool, actually.”
She looked at Leland. “You made a pillar of purple fire that reached the clouds—”
“It went further than the clouds,” Gelo added helpfully, frost for...
2024-03-07 06:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post“So what was that?” Glenny asked, stepping up beside his friend and eyeing the added thickness of his grimoire.
“That, my friend,” Leland began, “was ether – what Walker talked about.”
“Purplefiresoulsuckingheart?” Jude asked, combining all descriptors of Ci...
2024-03-05 19:55:32 +0000 UTC View PostLeland’s head flicked over. “What?” he screeched, a hole clamping within his stomach.
Lodestar didn’t answer.
With a growl, Leland’s hands rocketed toward the parasite, grabbing the cold white metal halo. Uncaring of the searing pain across his palms, he shoved Lodestar into...
2024-03-03 07:43:02 +0000 UTC View Post“I think I missed something,” Elin announced, cutting the silence.
The group – Team Fluffy Bear – and Elin were sitting before the red, crackling hole in reality, feeling the breeze of another world against their skin. Here, in their world, the temperature was nice. Despite the sand...
2024-03-01 07:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe sounds around Leland drained away until only he and his breathing remained.
In – air filled his lungs, drawing his chest out like a balloon. He held it, cycling mana and lifeforce around his body like he had done so many times. In fact, mana cycling had been one of t...
2024-02-29 03:28:18 +0000 UTC View PostCaptain Curtain was a very unremarkable looking man. With hair that pulled back across his skull and not a single scar across his face, the man walked and talked like a stressed out father more than a Captain of the army. When he spoke he made little gestures with his arms, and when he studied so...
2024-02-27 07:29:49 +0000 UTC View Post“And?”
“And nothing, I haven’t done it yet.”
Isobel incredulously stared at Leland, the boy who possessed two key parts of understanding Archons and traversing past memories. Back in the Valley, an Archon had said something to him, something in a language no one understood, ...
2024-02-25 05:19:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Elin.”
The woman jumped at Isobel’s voice, freezing like a statue made of ice, her hand stretched out with two gold coins slipped between her fingers. A beat passed, and she quickly curled her hand back, palming the coins as if they were never truly there. Mouthing “run,...
2024-02-23 06:15:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe group – including Isobel – sat around a table at an outside tavern situated within the bastion. While Jude quietly plucked at his guitar’s strings, everyone ate salty snacks and drank overpriced mead.
“One thing is for certain,” muttered Isobel, “drinking in the sun...
2024-02-21 02:52:19 +0000 UTC View PostLeland and Isobel exited the Captain’s quarters. Both looked at each other, shrugged, then left the administration building.
“I expected… more,” Leland muttered. “Captain Tar tested us. But he just let us in?”
“It’s the Witches and monsters. For whatever reaso...
2024-02-20 19:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostIsobel slipped out of the shadows, stepping across the Captain's quarters like a cat stalking along the edge of a riverbank. But instead of hunting for fish, Isobel was hunting for paper. Reports, to be specific. The kind the Captain liked to try and keep hidden from her. The kind she sp...
2024-02-19 06:46:50 +0000 UTC View PostMason woke to a blue sky with drifting clouds. He groaned a bit, stretching his legs in that special way that made his spine shiver and his brain melt. He smiled, smacking his lips. He loved the sun on his face, the wind in his hair, the soft bed he laid on. Releasing breath after breath, he cont...
2024-02-17 22:35:38 +0000 UTC View PostWith a grand total of eleven days traveled from Sand Castle, the boys and Gelo made it to the start of the second Tear. Instead of the Tear perfectly splitting a forest as if a Lord had placed it between trees, this Tear divided a mountain range. To the east, the peak of a mountain sat i...
2024-02-16 07:04:42 +0000 UTC View PostFor Leland and Jude, traveling had become much more fun. For Glenny and Gelo, not so much.
Having a friend to fly with, Leland felt reminiscent of his time traveling home with Isobel. Back then, the pair flew mainly to dodge wanted posters and anyone looking to bring in their bount...
2024-02-15 06:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostLeland found himself sitting on the wagon with Jude and Gelo. He blinked a few times, reacclimating to the brightness of the sun.
“Where’s Glenny?” he asked.
Jude opened his mouth to answer, but a voice beat him to it.
“Here,” Glenny said, appearing beside them.
...
2024-02-12 19:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe rhythmic bumps of a wagon on a dirt road went completely ignored as Leland focused internally. With his eyes draped in the telltale signs of magic – a side effect of powerful spells or cantrips – memories were forged and replayed. Walker had stated that looking at one’s core-Heart prope...
2024-02-11 07:51:08 +0000 UTC View PostWalker came to while everyone was eating dinner. The boys and Gelo were sitting outside Sand Castle, Captain Tar not allowing them to enter. Though, she did force Bulldog to drop off an extra cot for the sleeping immortal. Bulldog did not stick around to meet him, however, instantly dashing back ...
2024-02-09 19:42:22 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you mean?” the man asked.
Leland scratched the back of his head. “My Lord deals with curses.”
“I see. You are a… noble?”
“Not quite.”
“Ah. Then you are a steward?”
“No…? I think there may be some miscommunication here. The patron of...
2024-02-08 07:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe air around the Tear was filamented with sparks of red. Like an isolated thunderstorm, the Tear made way for rolling layers of preserved depth. Look at it one way, and your sight continued across the horizon. Look at it in another, and the world stretched for eternity.
The boys and Gelo ...
2024-02-05 22:25:58 +0000 UTC View Post“Report, Vagrant Warden,” Captain Tar demanded upon her arrival.
Everyone was standing within the battlefield, the severed leg of the parasite lying beside them like an ottoman in a sitting room. Knight Giant was waving at his summoned creation, the amalgamated flesh creation dissolving...
2024-02-03 19:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostFueled by the Lord of Chameleon’s contract, Leland’s sight enhanced. The rising sun muted in color, the dark sand deepened to near pitch black. In the distance, the trees and life brought on a white tinge, but he hardly cared about any of that. Instead, he trusted in the contract to show him ...
2024-02-02 04:40:23 +0000 UTC View PostAsleep, Leland moved through his dreams like a gnat through jelly. With a singular goal in mind, he pushed and pulled, shimmied and twisted, any and everything to make the pieces fit. To him, they appeared like droplets around the brim of a mug. Small, almost insignificant, pieces of a w...
2024-02-01 05:48:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Captain strolled down the stairs, Zeke on her shoulder. At her presence, the grunt triplets and Brigadier Dis hopped to attention. They stood stiff, like stone walls, until the Captain signaled to cut it out. Everyone relaxed, going back to whatever it was they were doing.
It was then J...
2024-01-30 21:50:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Sand Castle” was just as small on the inside as the outside. Leland was hoping for some space magic shenanigans, maybe a spell that made the inside of something bigger than the outside. But there was no such luck. If such a spell existed, he supposed it would be under a highly speci...
2024-01-29 06:10:26 +0000 UTC View PostApparently the group was not “in” the Tear because after an hour, nothing at all had happened. That wasn’t to say things didn’t happen. Monsters were prevalent, the increased mana making them frenzied and the flat landscape making them easy to kill. What good was a monst...
2024-01-27 23:03:03 +0000 UTC View Post