“My father wants to see me,” Sidjin said.
Below, performers were dancing to the sound of a drum arrangement in mesmerizing patterns. The rhythm was fast and intense. It made Viv’s teeth shake with every percussion. They hurt a little, ...
2022-12-11 15:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostOk quick update. First of all, sorry about the lower productivity these past two months and a half. I find myself in a situation where I have to be the main caretaker for my tiny child and it takes a lot of effort for me so it's been taking over w...
2022-12-08 00:41:56 +0000 UTC View PostSweden, November 1938.
Snow crunches under Loth’s mechanized armor. Each of his feet stomps the earth with as much might as an elephant. I can barely hear myself think in the cold winter night.
“You could just stay, you know?” 2022-12-08 00:37:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It was the eve of the two days of intensive duels and Viv admired the result of months of training. From the brief campaign against the Halurians to duels and physical practice at the Academy, she’d been tireless. All for the hope that it would ...
2022-12-04 01:39:42 +0000 UTC View PostAnother claw raked the shield. It sounded like nails on glass. Another. Constance held a wince at the unsettling sound and the pressure on her mind. She just had to hold a little longer.
“Constance,” Wang said by her side.
“Shut ...
2022-12-01 09:45:04 +0000 UTC View PostViv cast three small nets, rupturing the attacking spells. Three booms rang across the small arena, pushing dust aside. A cast of eldritch wall to the side followed as she ran left. just as insurance if she needed to move. An astra spell was quick...
2022-11-27 23:07:21 +0000 UTC View PostThere were corpses in the streets. Not many, not yet. Just enough for that familiar stench of the battlefield before carrion got to work. It turned the streets of Shanghai into familiar grounds for Constance. Just another warzone filled with corps...
2022-11-23 22:19:17 +0000 UTC View PostViv walked through the hallowed corridors of house Trez, of Helock. It was her first time visiting a manor of the Helockian nobility after a disastrous social season where no one had invited her. Ereska, her roommate, had briefed her,...
2022-11-19 14:23:35 +0000 UTC View PostNA: I should have written this before.
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Constance approached the man with more nervousness than when she had last faced a werewolf. She’s been burnt before. A part of her whispered that no one wanted her and that she was unl...
2022-11-15 16:19:27 +0000 UTC View PostAfter weeks of travel, I would have hoped to stay in a nice hotel upon my arrival. Unfortunately, Shanghai is hostile territory, and the city lives through difficult times. A message on my desk informs me that martial law has been declared through...
2022-11-15 16:17:50 +0000 UTC View PostOk so I have dates. First, I'm going to get my eyes lazered in... one hour. So expect shorter chapter this week. Journey chapter is almost done but Bob chapter might be more impacted. Second, I'm heading back to China and getting quarantined on th...
2022-11-08 16:57:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was all wrong.
Tuk’s old man had told him: “Son, the war is like a tide”. He had said so while mending their nets on the coast of lake Kital, by the shore, where beasts made truce with man for the duration of a drink. His weathered ...
2022-11-05 14:56:08 +0000 UTC View PostMarquette, April 1927
“What do you want?” I ask the redhead sitting in front of my desk.
Melusine has free access to me as one of my oldest and most annoying allies. My door is always open to her, though our rivalry preclu...
2022-11-02 01:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post“The fort’s occupied alright. By those thrice-cursed Halurians!”
“Language.”
Cernit’s eldest son faltered under his father’s gaze, his bluster gone in an instant. The mood in the tent grew awkward. Viv shifted and leaned ...
2022-10-29 06:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostI am King.
Bertrand took a knee, then stood back again. The heat assailed him, pushing against his instincts to flee the burning hell around him. The flaming wreck of a Renault tank smoldered to his right while human soldiers shot and died a...
2022-10-26 23:46:29 +0000 UTC View Post“I fucking hate escort missions,” the young sergeant said.
It was tight inside of the command tent. Tight and a little rank, and hot despite the cold air blowing from the south. It was dark as well. The company didn’t have oil to waste...
2022-10-22 21:48:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe base extends below us for miles, an haphazard assembly of tents that lacks the usual discipline. Not even the fact it was designed for me suffices now. That damn armor has a mind of her own.
“We have our work cut out for us, gentlemen,...
2022-10-19 23:21:46 +0000 UTC View PostSadly for Viv, instant looting didn’t happen since the army pretty much fell where they were, asleep in minutes. She was feeling comparatively fresh since they had gone to great lengths to protect her, so she led Solfis on a hunt for stragglers....
2022-10-14 21:23:57 +0000 UTC View PostRows of smelters lay cold and quiet. The giant machines forging the guns of tomorrow no longer beat with heavy hammers, pounding steel into the perfect shape. The Dvergur engineers who manage the enchantments that make IGL the best supplier on the...
2022-10-11 20:47:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt was fortunate that Nous would give her a hand because there was a lot to unpack, and she wouldn’t have had the time to do so at the breakneck speed the knights were going at. Her slow perception helped her think.
She quickly wondered if...
2022-10-01 14:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostI will be flying back to home country with my young child and it will be a hellish, 20+ hours long journey so I will be taking a break to recover and spend some time with my family. Haven't seen them since the beginning of the pandemic. Anyw...
2022-09-27 14:46:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I think I needed it as well.
2022-09-27 14:43:00 +0000 UTC View PostMarch 1907, the night of the lich camp raid.
The thief was good at his job. He had retired once already, and would have stayed retired if he had not been found. Few managed such a feat in his line of work. Fewer managed it without visiting p...
2022-09-27 14:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostIt was morning. Swirling dust covered the formation, setting pennants aflutter and leaving them a spotty gray. The sound of battle never died down. There were always revenants in the deadlands, Viv remembered. It was the grave of an entire civiliz...
2022-09-23 16:51:33 +0000 UTC View PostDespite her best effort, Constance didn’t find anything too horrible about Ariane. The strangest element of it all was that she allowed Constance free reign over the domain. She felt like a child being allowed to play spy in a normal house, exce...
2022-09-20 12:47:47 +0000 UTC View PostAN: might still have quite a few typos.
Viv’s mortality notwithstanding, there were a few tasks that required her attention. The first was the raid in the Deadlands to liberate their first major city after Kazar. The second was the impend...
Humans are stupid.
I wish I could blame most of the nonsensical behaviors to either fate or an addled, fringe elements. Unfortunately, the case remains that even those who should know better do worse. It is with disappointment but no great s...
2022-09-13 12:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostViv’s father used to say that criminals were not stupid. It was just that the police rarely ever got the smart ones. Viv intended to be smart.
Breaking the law around Helock was pretty much a death sentence if caught. There would be no sla...
2022-09-09 16:28:14 +0000 UTC View Post“I need to impress. I will be the first vampire they ever meet. I cannot use my usual polite and harmless persona or they will hunt with flawed ideas,” I remark aloud.
Lafayette, whose input I value, stares at me. The short and sturdy ma...
2022-09-07 15:58:47 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a trail up leading to a ridge facing the entrance to the lone mountain. Viv knew they would have to climb that then walk down to the merl’s hidden city. They immediately set out, Sidjin strangely giddy.
The trek led ...
2022-09-02 15:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post