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Raz hadn’t expected to feel empty when they finally finished clearing Stallet Academy of enemies. He’d expected joy and satisfaction and he felt those. Really, he did!
Only they were overshadowed by the emptiness of never seeing his mother again.
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Part of the blurb for a Kickstarter for Magical Laser Guns, prior to its removal due to violating Kickstarter’s policies on projects concerning weapons.
You’ve all seen the new releases from the big gun manufacturers, right? Magical bullets of a ...
2023-06-02 00:19:08 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The crystals held Serenity’s attention. There was something about them, something familiar. Something important.
It wasn’t until Raz set a hand on Serenity’s arm to get his attention that Serenity was able to stop looking at them. Naturally, that was also ...
2023-05-31 23:04:40 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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That left only one building, the Arcanum. It was the largest building of the four and had the least sensible structure. Serenity didn’t remember it being as insanely laid out as the map indicated, but that could easily have been either his poor memory or the like...
2023-05-30 23:06:28 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Three doors led out of the office, just like the previous room. The door to the right was inaccessible, blocked by papers and books stacked on the floor. That was the direction of the empty room; Serenity thought they might well connect. That would explain why the cu...
2023-05-29 22:52:31 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The building was, if anything, even spookier the second time Serenity went in. This time, he didn’t have the company of a large group; sure, he didn’t know them all yet, but having more people was still reassuring. Raz’s presence helped, even though Serenity kn...
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Serenity had no trouble leading the way through the training building. He knew it well and it was essentially identical to his time as a student. It wasn’t exactly a complicated layout, once you knew it.
It wasn’t just the entrance that was oddly dark and...
2023-05-27 23:57:11 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Somehow, Serenity found himself in the lead after that. He wasn’t sure how it happened; he didn’t even really know where he was going. Even so, he found his feet leading him down a semi-familiar path to a side entrance. The farther he went down the path, the ...
2023-05-26 23:14:01 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Nothing was ever as simple as the initial plan made it sound. Even so, a group of ten people that included Grandma Tillon, Raz, and Serenity moved cautiously through the streets of Stallet Center four days later.
In some ways, Serenity regretted his impulsive ad...
2023-05-25 23:45:58 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Things moved quickly after that. Two days later, they were all in Willowrock. Esme Tillon had not just one but two of the Tokens; she’d sent people to investigate the sites they’d kicked invaders out of. Not only was there one hidden in the commander’s quarte...
2023-05-24 22:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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I have not found the vault or the Great Treasure within it. I have, however, discovered that there are multiple groups searching for something; I assume it is the vault they seek. One has been removed, but we found records of seven additional groups of searchers...
2023-05-23 23:01:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Serve someone other than Order’s Guild?” Serenity had no idea what Esma Tillon was talking about.
She waved a hand towards him. “The fancy sigil on your shirt; I can read symbols, I’m not an idiot and I’ve been around a while. Two worlds, if I’...
2023-05-22 21:46:37 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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It was finally time: Bethany and Lex had finished moving. The house in Arlington hadn’t sold yet, but there was no doubt that it would.
Thomas’s apartment was empty, but his parents hadn’t given it up; they’d taken over the monthly payments instea...
2023-05-21 23:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostMy sister came into town and I spent the day with her ... and it seems that I forgot to put the chapter out on time. Oops!
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Raz,
My first name is Esme. I didn’t realize you were with Serenity.
It’s good to hear you’re d...
2023-05-21 03:13:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity nodded. He wasn’t surprised; he certainly hadn’t thought of dungeons as more than places to fight and get treasure for a very long time. He’d known how to manage dungeons to maximize different types of rewards for the delvers, but he didn’t think h...
2023-05-19 22:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Why?” The young draykin seemed offended with the world, or at least with Zanzital.
Zanzital expected the other three to be outside the dungeon when he finished binding it. Instead, he found them waiting for him just inside the exit. Raz stood there indignant...
2023-05-18 23:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Zanzital fidgeted with the octagonal “key” that had to be a trick of the Destroyer. There was power to it, some old enchantment that hadn’t quite worn off, even though he couldn’t find any sign of the monster core that powered it or any way to insert his own ...
2023-05-17 23:04:18 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There were only two pieces of furniture that seemed likely to hide anything. One was a desk littered with papers and a number of drawers; it had a chair pulled up next to it. The other was a tall cabinet of some sort with a shelf in front; it reminded Serenity of ...
2023-05-16 23:02:33 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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When they finally caught up with the Viper, it was just in time to see him vanish off the island onto another. They hurried after him. The next island had two minions plus the Viper; they were just in time for Serenity to see a third minion split off from the Viper ...
2023-05-15 23:10:57 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Viper didn’t make any attempt to evade Serenity. That made him suspicious, but this was fairly obviously going to be one of those traps he found by stepping on it; figuring things out in a dungeon was all too often a matter of surviving doing things you shouldn...
2023-05-14 22:10:03 +0000 UTC View PostOn time! Whoo!
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As it turned out, Zanzital was correct that the Viper would make an excellent end boss, especially when combined with the teleportation ritual. Raz was correct that he was the next encounter anyway.
The room behind the next door didn’t l...
2023-05-13 23:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The room behind the metra door was a near replica of the ritual Serenity had disabled, the one that turned out to be some sort of odd summoning spell. It hadn’t really done much in reality, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t going to be a problem in a dungeon. 2023-05-13 04:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I was supposed to make up time today ...
...and then life happened. The good news is that I'm fine, but it was a bit of an exciting evening.
I think I can guarantee at this point that the next chapter will be late, but I think I can also say that it won't be THIS late. At least,...
2023-05-12 07:06:31 +0000 UTC View PostWednesdays are usually bad because I have to get up early and stay at work late.
This week is extra annoying because by those standards, I have three Wednesdays this week - and today and tomorrow are extra Wednesday, even later than usual (and more draining because I'm actually an int...
2023-05-11 04:23:47 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Legion refused to leave the room until the ritual was disabled. All of the communication was through Ita, since the body in the room with Serenity didn’t seem to be able to pay attention to the outside world, but Serenity didn’t doubt Legion’s conviction at ...
2023-05-09 23:08:30 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There really wasn’t a good way to carry Gabriel and still fight. The first time he picked the other man up, it was over his left shoulder, facing backwards. It took an arm around Gabriel’s legs to steady him, so it really wouldn’t work with the man facing fo...
2023-05-08 23:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The next two crossing corridors didn’t have any sign of Hollow Ones, but Gabriel set up thin Ice Walls after each of them anyway. With luck, any Hollow Ones that came down the hall would turn and head the other direction instead of trying to break through the wall...
2023-05-07 23:03:24 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Serenity looked down, confused. This was supposed to be just the first step in temporarily stopping the Hollow One. If he couldn’t cut them up fast enough, he had to do something else. Something else was supposed to be disabling the Hollow One for long enough fo...
2023-05-06 22:47:54 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“You’re late,” Althyr scolded Coyote. They’d been waiting for this for days while the people on the ground messed around with tricks and information gathering, yet Coyote was more than an hour late after the big showdown started? The viewing party was his...
2023-05-06 00:44:35 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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The Hollow One that had once been the Viper took one step forward, then another. It didn’t show the extreme speed of the Viper; instead, it moved slowly, almost ploddingly. If this was as fast as it could go and there were no other Hollow Ones between them and...
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