Siobhan
Month 2, Day 26, Friday 9:00 p.m.
Wearing all the accoutrements and the blue-black iridescent hair of the Raven Queen, Siobhan rode in a nondescript carriage through the night streets of Gilbratha, accompanied by Oliver and a couple of the Verdant Stag’s most trusted enforce...
2022-09-01 23:11:39 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 21, Sunday 5:00 p.m.
It took some time for the trio to return to the University, as Nat had been afraid to return home, and Ana took some time getting her settled.
To Sebastien’s surprise, they found Alec sitting on a bench not far from the transport tub...
2022-08-25 22:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 20, Saturday 8:25 p.m.
Sebastien’s muscles were shaking with exertion and adrenaline by the time she and Damien reached the ground again. They raced across the manicured property and scrambled over the stone wall that bordered the manor, their forms magically ...
2022-08-11 23:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys!
A Binding of Blood is out there and available to purchase and listen right now!
The back end QA review and bookstore upload process completed more quickly than I've ever heard of or experienced, and took me by surprise. I expected it to be a couple ...
2022-08-10 17:58:43 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 20, Saturday 8:00 p.m.
One week after her day of spellcasting with Liza, Sebastien huddled outside in the biting cold of the evening, shivering her ass off for Operation Defenestration. She was less “euphorically excited” and more “stomach-churningly anxio...
2022-07-28 22:44:18 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 2, Day 13, Saturday 8:00 a.m.
‘I wonder if I could have gotten Liza to pay for some of the supplies for this spell,’ Siobhan thought, looking down at the box in her arms, which held both the sempervivum apricus and the mandrake plant she had bought from a me...
2022-07-21 22:50:53 +0000 UTC View Post
A Binding of Blood's initial audio has been completed, coming in at over 23 hours of story.
Anyone at the Grandmaster of Divination ($25) tier or higher can get advance access to the initial audio, right now, before it goes live anywhere else.
And in case you missed ...
2022-07-18 15:55:50 +0000 UTC View PostGera
Month 2, Day 12, Friday 8:00 p.m.
Gera stood in the doorway to her son’s bedroom as Millennium sat cross-legged in front of a large hourglass filled with euphonic sand, his hands on his knees and his eyes closed. She kept her breathing light and her body still, so as not to und...
2022-07-14 23:22:49 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 2, Day 12, Friday 6:30 p.m.
Siobhan felt surprisingly secure as she walked through the darkened streets of the Mires. Her new dowsing artifact was active, trying to find her through a piece of thread she’d pulled off her scarf. Her divination-diverting ward was blockin...
2022-07-07 22:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 11, Thursday 10:30 a.m.
“I want to learn more about Myrddin,” Sebastien told Professor Ilma, standing next to the lectern as the rest of the students filtered out after the end of class. “I checked the library, but they have so many books about him, I don...
2022-06-30 23:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostDamien
Month 2, Day 8, Monday 10:30 a.m.
Damien returned from a wonderful weekend visit to Westbay Manor—wonderful mostly because his father had been away, leaving just Titus and the servants—barely in time to make it to his Monday morning class. Damien brought back with him three...
2022-06-23 23:06:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
The first draft of A Binding of Blood's audiobook is going to be finished soon, (and that unedited version is going up exclusively for patrons to get early access to) and will require me to listen through it for any errors or necessary tweaks before publication.
Genera...
2022-06-23 21:53:13 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 7, Sunday 12:00 p.m.
When Sebastien returned from the kitchen with a second cup of coffee—properly filtered—she joined him on the couch. “So what is this other thing we need to discuss?”
Oliver took a deep gulp from the steaming mug, letting out an...
2022-06-16 22:11:25 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 7, Sunday 8:00 a.m.
Finding a reference book for basic negotiation tactics in the library was easy. The more Sebastien read of it, however, the more she realized how right Ana was. She shouldn’t have accepted fifty percent interest on the loan Katerin gave her...
2022-06-09 22:41:19 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 6, Saturday 4:15 p.m.
After a late lunch, Sebastien sent Brinn and Waverly off to the supervised casting rooms without her, while she stopped by the dorms to pick up some books that needed to be returned to the library. She also took the time to check on the Abe...
2022-06-02 23:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostOliver
Month 2, Day 6, Saturday 4:15 p.m.
The team of enforcers doing their best to stand at attention in front of Oliver consisted of fifty percent new hires, all as green as the antlers that now graced their jackets like a badge. He sighed, spinning on his heels. “Mr. G...
2022-05-26 21:26:33 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 6, Saturday 12:00 p.m.
‘I believe other people are real,’ Siobhan thought as she walked back to the dorms. ‘I know they have real emotions, desires, and their own stories about how they got to the place they are. But I have very little confide...
2022-05-20 00:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 6, Saturday 10:00 a.m.
Sebastien didn’t flinch from the needle-like stabs of the artifact disks in her back as they began to suck up her blood. ‘I wonder if I will bruise, if they keep activating again and again under these tests.’
She stood...
2022-05-05 22:41:40 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 3, Wednesday 2:00 p.m.
The excitement over the simulation chamber lasted through the lunch period, which Sebastien rushed through so that she could attempt to focus on a homework assignment. However, as she settled into her usual spot near the front of the Pract...
2022-04-29 00:29:21 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 2, Day 3, Wednesday 10:40 a.m.
That Wednesday, Sebastien arrived to the Natural Science classroom a few minutes early, hoping to squeeze in some of her History reading before class started. She had a new schedule to optimize her productivity. It wasn’t so much differ...
2022-04-21 23:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 1, Day 31, Sunday 12:00 p.m.
As the first step in implementing solutions to her problems, Sebastien returned to the unused second floor classroom that she’d used to practice her divination. Even if she couldn’t trail Tanya personally, they still had a way to track ...
2022-04-14 23:35:59 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 1, Day 31, Sunday 9:00 a.m.
Sebastien took her first dose of the beamshell stimulant tincture immediately after her first meal of the day on Sunday. She had eaten every bit of her food even though she wasn’t hungry and had actually started gagging little toward the e...
2022-04-07 23:55:06 +0000 UTC View PostOliver
Month 1, Day 30, Saturday 5:30 p.m.
Oliver froze, deliberately keeping himself from visibly reacting to Percival’s revelation. “You have a photograph of the Raven Queen,” he repeated.
Percival nodded, clutching at his left wrist as he stepped closer. “I got it tha...
2022-03-24 23:12:29 +0000 UTC View PostSiobhan
Month 1, Day 30, Saturday 4:30 p.m.
People were packed into the ground floor of the Verdant Stag like pickled cucumbers stuffed into a jar, shoulder to shoulder.
Once Siobhan got further into the room, some space cleared up and she was able to get away from the stifling ...
2022-03-11 17:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Alchemy is one of the few crafts of magic that really blends the ancient ways with the modern. While it has some drawbacks, it also has fantastic utility and allows weaker thaumaturges to compete on the basis of power, as long as they are well-prepared.
The full pdf is attached and can be d...
2022-03-03 21:52:04 +0000 UTC View PostOliver
Month 1, Day 30, Saturday 3:30 p.m.
Oliver leaned against the inside of the door of discreet carriage he had appropriated from Lord Morrow. Through the carriage’s curtained window, which allowed him to see out but did not allow others to see in, Oliver noted an unusually larg...
2022-02-25 00:09:49 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had some questions and confusion about the monetary system in PGTS, and what certain prices really mean, so this digs into that a little. Please keep in mind that certain categories of goods, such as food, clothing, and imported goods follow a 1900's era equivalent pricing scheme, a...
2022-02-18 00:35:33 +0000 UTC View Post
While it may seem simple and useless, Siobhan utilizes the gust spell to great effect a few times during the course of her adventures.
The full grimoire is attached as a PDF.
Author Note: As we're starting to build up a little library of pages from Siobhan's grimoire, I've set up a li...
2022-02-11 01:11:35 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 1, Day 29, Friday 10:30 a.m.
Sebastien recognized one of the girls gossiping about Newton from Practical Casting. Some time ago the young woman had tried to flirt with her, hinting that Sebastien should buy her a gift from the offerings in the Great Hall with her contr...
2022-02-04 00:32:18 +0000 UTC View PostSebastien
Month 1, Day 28, Thursday 1:45 p.m.
After a quick lunch, Sebastien left to see the overall mid-term results that had just been openly posted on the library notifications board. She was accompanied by Damien, Ana, and the other Crown Family group members, who she didn’t exa...
2022-01-22 01:21:42 +0000 UTC View Post