“So. Many. Fucking. Stairs,” I muttered, sweat starting to build up on my brow, my Air Treks slung over my shoulder because I’d rather chew my feet off at the ankle than walk up what felt like a stairway up to hell with a million steps in th...
2022-10-22 14:54:44 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a change in the alienage after the fire. Soris likened it to it being the final straw -- First, the purge on the alienage, then the lockdown, and now, after we had built a new orphanage, the Arls' own son came and burned the building dow...
2022-10-20 14:54:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fade was a dangerous place. It was as alien to the denizens of Thedas as Thedas was to the inhabitants of the Fade. Spirits and Demons alike. Unlike the people of the world, demons longed to enter the mortal realm because, despite the presence...
2022-10-20 14:54:50 +0000 UTC View PostMurder got a lot easier with practice. Both in the sense of the actual act of murder and the toll it took on your mental state. While the difference between one murder and a hundred was about a hundred murders, after the first five or six, the gui...
2022-10-20 14:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Cheese?” The rat before me squeaked, looking up at the morsel of cheese in the palm of my hand. “I love cheese!” The rat declared, the sentiment echoed out in a series of squeaks from all the other rats that I had managed to lure out at t...
2022-10-20 14:54:41 +0000 UTC View Post“I don’t think there’s a business more profitable than war,” I muttered to myself as the boats were being loaded up with cargo near Hedeby. It was a city that was even larger than Alabu. I thought that we would… stop by the city, but Jar...
2022-10-19 15:18:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe bell was a surprisingly pleasant sound, I thought as I led the few hundred warriors up the main road, sprinting as fast as we could. The dirt was well packed from so many people walking on it, so it almost acted as stone underfoot. The houses ...
2022-10-19 15:18:29 +0000 UTC View PostWe lost three hundred men in total, counting those that were too injured to keep fighting. It was a great victory by any stretch of the imagination, but we only had a thousand men so we felt the loss of those three hundred very keenly. Still, it w...
2022-10-19 15:18:24 +0000 UTC View PostThe Franks roared at me as I neared, their spears braced, their shields up, and their formation ready to rebuff us. With the army charging down the hill, the screams from thousands of men filling the air until it seemed to shake with the force of ...
2022-10-19 15:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post"It's the Man! Cheese it!" I shouted, throwing myself over a table, sending a half-eaten cheese pizza and a very flat root beer over the edge as I scrambled out of the booth. The rather rundown pizza parlor thumped with powerful music, filling the...
2022-10-15 14:56:52 +0000 UTC View Post"I want him found. Now," Nick Fury stated, his tone harsh and matter of fact as he stood at the bridge of the Helicarrier. Stark's hologram projectors had been repurposed, letting him stand on the bridge and examine a dozen different information f...
2022-10-15 14:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostGiven that I was going to be seen on the news, and I had some extra time between the murders of past me, I had gotten a change of clothes. Not particularly because I wanted to look nice for the cameras -- I honestly don't think I could have cared ...
2022-10-15 14:56:02 +0000 UTC View Post“So. Many. Fucking. Stairs,” I muttered, sweat starting to build up on my brow, my Air Treks slung over my shoulder because I’d rather chew my feet off at the ankle than walk up what felt like a stairway up to hell with a million steps in th...
2022-10-15 14:55:57 +0000 UTC View PostI had wondered what was up with that picture, I thought as I sprinted through the halls that were filled with panicking students and teachers struggling to keep a handle on the chaos. They were completely torn on what to do and which drill was app...
2022-10-15 14:55:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fade was a dangerous place. It was as alien to the denizens of Thedas as Thedas was to the inhabitants of the Fade. Spirits and Demons alike. Unlike the people of the world, demons longed to enter the mortal realm because, despite the presence...
2022-10-14 14:38:36 +0000 UTC View PostMurder got a lot easier with practice. Both in the sense of the actual act of murder and the toll it took on your mental state. While the difference between one murder and a hundred was about a hundred murders, after the first five or six, the gui...
2022-10-14 14:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post“Cheese?” The rat before me squeaked, looking up at the morsel of cheese in the palm of my hand. “I love cheese!” The rat declared, the sentiment echoed out in a series of squeaks from all the other rats that I had managed to lure out at t...
2022-10-14 14:38:28 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me a long time to reach Denerim. The journey itself would take a month in the snow, but I spent another month out in the wilds. The decision was an easy one. A challenge to myself to winter out in the elements to see if I would survive. An...
2022-10-14 14:38:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe bell was a surprisingly pleasant sound, I thought as I led the few hundred warriors up the main road, sprinting as fast as we could. The dirt was well packed from so many people walking on it, so it almost acted as stone underfoot. The houses ...
2022-10-12 15:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostWe lost three hundred men in total, counting those that were too injured to keep fighting. It was a great victory by any stretch of the imagination, but we only had a thousand men so we felt the loss of those three hundred very keenly. Still, it w...
2022-10-12 15:05:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Franks roared at me as I neared, their spears braced, their shields up, and their formation ready to rebuff us. With the army charging down the hill, the screams from thousands of men filling the air until it seemed to shake with the force of ...
2022-10-12 15:05:04 +0000 UTC View PostFor my entire life, I had only ever known the farm. That small village of Ivarstead that had less than thirty people, my immediate family. I had no grandparents to speak of. They had performed Ättestupa in their old age since they were unable to ...
2022-10-12 15:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post"The information has already been released to a point that we can no longer hope to contain it," Batman informed me as I stumbled out of my bedroom, bleary-eyed and mentally exhausted. It was a long night, comforting Mom and talking. Mom wanted hi...
2022-10-11 14:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post"He's acting weird. He's plotting something," Elery griped, her hands clenching into fists as she lightly banged them on the admittedly sturdy dinner table. She guessed that it had to be when dealing with a Kryptonian. Even still, Elery noticed th...
2022-10-10 14:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm really getting tired of hearing that," I returned to Poison Ivy, my eyes narrowed into slits. Saibamen. They surrounded us on all sides, twisted grins on their faces while their claws flexed and clenched as if they were imagining tearing us l...
2022-10-10 14:42:10 +0000 UTC View Post“I will give you this, Pamela Isley -- you’re brave,” I muttered with a snarl etched into my face. Every muscle was taut as I stared at the hologram projector that gave me the alert. The planet was on the very edge of my empire, nearly on th...
2022-10-10 14:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Brainwashing seems like a jump,” Raven remarked as we stood in my throne room, surrounded on all sides by holograms that fed me information about my empire. As well as a number of projects that I had -- such as the Warworlds and the shield wa...
2022-10-10 14:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostMurder got a lot easier with practice. Both in the sense of the actual act of murder and the toll it took on your mental state. While the difference between one murder and a hundred was about a hundred murders, after the first five or six, the gui...
2022-10-08 14:48:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Cheese?” The rat before me squeaked, looking up at the morsel of cheese in the palm of my hand. “I love cheese!” The rat declared, the sentiment echoed out in a series of squeaks from all the other rats that I had managed to lure out at t...
2022-10-08 14:47:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt took me a long time to reach Denerim. The journey itself would take a month in the snow, but I spent another month out in the wilds. The decision was an easy one. A challenge to myself to winter out in the elements to see if I would survive. An...
2022-10-08 14:47:56 +0000 UTC View Post