Seated across from each other near the front table, Battle Leader Averett was once again arguing with Lady Verina. This time, it was over how much fiscal reserve should be reserved for the Wacko’s upcoming deployment versus what percentage of income should be reinvested into House Walker’s lo...
2025-06-03 03:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post“Every gain or positive in your life will come at a cost. One which will be paid by either you or someone else. It is an indisputable fact of life. What one takes, another loses. What time you spend on one pursuit was the time you didn’t spend on another. Master one sk...
2025-05-22 02:44:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
It's been a bit since I've done one of these, and I've been putting this one off for too long. Now, don't freak out too bad, because I'm not dropping Nero or anything. However, I have been falling further and further behind on the chapters as I'm sure many of you have noticed. 2025-05-21 22:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Fidgeting with the robes she was being forced by circumstance to wear over her well used armor, Natalie Keening lamented the fact that her ever growing position in House Walker required such alterations to her loadout. Although, she did understand the reason why. After all, in order to project a ...
2025-05-16 22:30:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Wait, say that again,” City Lord Cosgrave demanded, her tone laced with an undercurrent of venom.
Shuffling her feet awkwardly, the third heir of House Thornton, Lady Dacey Thornton, replied, “Well, they said that they agreed with us. According to the three leaders of the faiths that...
2025-05-14 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe conversation between Archmage Jennings and Nero carried on for quite some time. They chatted away long enough for Ms. Davis, Nero’s subconsciously fate-reading super-maid, to make multiple deliveries of fresh coffee, bring in two servings of snack trays, and personally provide a bottle of s...
2025-05-09 22:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostUnwilling to wait for the blood to fully dissolve itself into the ether, Noxie Crusher wiped down his axe head with the rag he always kept looped through his belt. His current mood was about as foul as the beast’s corpse he’d just slaughtered. They’d been on the march for days, and the cont...
2025-05-05 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhile he could have confronted her, addressing his suspicions logically and maturely, Nero instead opted to sit in silence and enjoy his coffee. Although some might disagree, he preferred to see his choice as evidence of him having learned restraint. Too often, he’d voiced his internal conspira...
2025-04-28 22:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostFor Vera, participating in a conversation with this many people through a singular ping wasn’t something all that new or unfamiliar to her. As the head of Precision Shipping, she’d often found herself in meetings through the use of the Thought Hub rather than being there in person. And realis...
2025-04-21 22:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostQuincy sat confidently, radiating authority like a true leader in front of his comrades, doing his best to exude a sense of strength and competence. While they weren’t exactly panicking yet, it was clear that events over the past few hours were beginning to overwhelm them. Not that he could bla...
2025-04-16 22:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Nero stood slackjawed, his entire mind was busy working in unison to understand what Angelton was telling him.
“... So, between the guard and the army, they should likely be able to keep things from getting too out of hand. But, you should keep in mind, their goal will be to maintai...
2025-04-08 05:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post“No, No, No! You… I mean WE can’t form a religion for him. Did you not even READ the material you got from the archives?!?” Nicholas practically shouted across the table.
Vera, to his immediate right, was reclining comfortably in her chair at the head of the table, thoroughly enjoyi...
2025-04-03 03:45:40 +0000 UTC View PostStanding at the table, Cathleen pointed to the memory being shown. “At this point, I’d estimate around 30% of our forces were out of the battle. Between the shield mages being overstressed, and our healers running out of center, the reappearance of Lord Walker and the arrival of the dwarves w...
2025-04-01 01:12:14 +0000 UTC View PostAlthough still physically present in the room, Jennings’ mind was so busy it was as if he weren’t actually there. Nero’s words were currently rattling around in his head like hooligans, destroying any semblance of order.
‘Have I spent my entire life looking at the world all wron...
2025-03-24 22:58:19 +0000 UTC View PostNot having access to the Thought Hub, all she could do was steam in her somewhat violent thoughts. Over and over again she replayed recent events on a loop in her mind. And having been waiting for over an hour, she found herself reaching the end of her patience.
‘Either that hells be ...
2025-03-19 21:32:08 +0000 UTC View PostOn the 34th floor of the Tower of Magic in Hennings, the capital of Oglivarch, Calvin Sanderson rushed through the halls as quickly as he could… while trying and failing to maintain the requisite level of decorum for a mage that is. Although there weren’t exactly rules against running through...
2025-03-12 22:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostLately City Lord Cosgrave had been wondering whether or not the initial headache Lord Walker had caused her months ago had ever truly gone away. While not trying to be too melodramatic, she felt as though she’d been suffering from a daily migrane since he’d arrived.
Acknowledging the th...
2025-03-10 22:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostNatalie Keening was beginning to realize that she wasn’t as in control of the situation as she thought she was.
After the ambush by the kobalds, when the fighting began to die down, she’d taken the opportunity to reconnect with the Thought Hub. With her status merited a relay connection...
2025-03-07 23:37:15 +0000 UTC View PostLooking back on how the conversation with Nero and the others had gone, Jennings couldn’t help but chastise himself over how little effort he’d put in to his side of the conversation. With the comparatively small amount of attention he’d been providing his sub-mind, the part of his mentalit...
2025-03-05 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostArchmage Jennings slowly wove his hands through the air, using them as an attenuating focus point for his mental evaluation of the surrounding ether. Letting himself float like a kite in the middle of the dark cavern, the majority of his attention was entirely focused on what he was doing.
...
2025-03-03 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostWith the end of the battle nearing, and the fighting tapering off, Mike had come over to see what had caught everyone’s attention. Not wanting to interrupt, he’d taken a seat among the crowd, keeping his head down. For nearly an hour he’d listened, enraptured by what he was hear...
2025-02-28 23:30:10 +0000 UTC View PostMerrick stepped back, carefully maintaining his footing. His left shoulder was burning from holding up his shield, and his panting was making his side hurt. But luckily, he could tell that the battle was finally almost over.
Over his link to the Battle Hub, he heard, “All right Wackos...
2025-02-26 23:30:03 +0000 UTC View PostMerrick muttered a curse under his breath while stumbling backward. After regaining his balance, he glanced down at the kobald corpse currently ruining his footing before reaffirming his stance and hiding behind his shield. To his left and right, he could see the other Wackos had simi...
2025-02-24 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostOut of options and desperate, the kobalds had given up on direct confrontations and instead had begun hiding behind piles of rocks and poorly constructed spell-stone barriers. Unfortunately for them, all that did was delay the inevitable. With there being only a few hundred enemies still alive, C...
2025-02-21 23:30:04 +0000 UTC View PostEven though the room he’d chosen for the meeting wasn’t all that impressive, it would serve his purpose well enough.
With his fingers steepled in front of his chin, Former Evaluator Quincy leaned back in his chair in thought. Lacking anything urgent to do, he waited patiently for the re...
2025-02-19 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn the bowels of the keep, the command center hummed along like a well-tuned machine. The walls were filled with monitoring stations, each being manned with dedication and skill. Everyone present went about their tasks in a coordinated dance, filling the ether with a sense of calm determination t...
2025-02-17 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Harrison! Take teams 11 and…” she paused for a moment before continuing, “9 and reinforce Billings. We need to keep that group cut off and contained. And tell him to stop chasing down the runners. Let the scouts handle them,” Cathleen ordered before shooing Harrison off like an intern....
2025-02-14 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostMerrick reached out to carve his spell form, carefully manipulating the resulting spell construct to join with the shield being maintained over the tunnel’s opening. He could feel the mental presence of the surrounding mages incorporating him into their combined identity. Well used to the sensa...
2025-02-12 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn Knight Angelton’s decades of experience, ambushes of this scale were rare. Between scouts with observation pillars and their corresponding perception abilities, along with mages capable of scrying their route forward, organized military forces intending to spring traps of this magnitude were...
2025-02-10 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeated among the leading members of the Adventure Society in Hennings, Mage-adept Hana Sovros was somewhat distracted by the new and improved secret council hall in which they were currently meeting. The tall recessed ceiling along with the specially ordered ornate stone table in the center of th...
2025-02-07 23:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post