Even with Serpica dead, the fight didn’t end immediately. The druids still had to kill a dozen of the horribly flesh-beasts that she’d created, ending whatever cruel suffering had bound them to...
2024-11-09 13:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Looks to me more like a dead rotting leviathan with a madwoman standing in front of it,” responded Dantes as he took inventory of everything around them to prepare the best wand and strategy f...
2024-11-07 13:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe druids all sat in a circle in the audience chamber with their eyes closed. The other druids and their companions wove their senses together and tethered themselves to Dantes, entangling with hi...
2024-11-05 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDantes sat and ate with one hand while he rocked a sleeping Jacque in the other. He speared a piece of fish and carefully brought it to his mouth. It was just them in the booth. There were plenty o...
2024-11-02 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody, just thought you'd like a sneak peek at the cover for book one of Downtown Druid!
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2024-10-31 15:33:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes stood in the antechamber of Argenta’s manor, looking down at the shivering dwarf that had been laid there. It was a massive, well lit space, filled with marble and black stone. He’d spen...
2024-10-31 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes sat on a couch next to Diamond, inhaling deeply from one of the smoke filled tubes that extended from the device in the center of the table that he’d been told was a gnomish invention call...
2024-10-29 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDantes found himself standing in a wide open field filled with high, green grass. The sun was at its highest point in the sky, but a cool breeze kept him from feeling too warm. A single tree...
2024-10-26 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes and Jacopo flew to the old tree that they always used to tree-walk themselves to the Viridian Expanse. He coughed a bit as they landed and shifted, but he managed to force it down.The ...
2024-10-24 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJacopo was hanging upside down from Dantes’s tree throne as a bat when he found him. Hanging from his mouth was a fat moth that was still wriggling a bit. He leapt from the throne, launched himse...
2024-10-22 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes awoke for the tenth night in a row holding his hand to his throat, sweat covering his sheets. Sevryn didn’t even wake up this time, she’d grown used to his difficulty sleeping, and he’...
2024-10-19 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes landed on the rooftop of the Vixen shortly after. He and Jacopo had flown hard to get there as quickly as possible, but didn’t stop to catch their breath. Dantes left his audience chamber ...
2024-10-17 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes walked the streets of Uptown carefully, which actually meant boldly strutting like a peacock. He wanted it to appear as if he belonged to avoid the suspicion of the increased guard presence ...
2024-10-15 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes sat in his tree-throne staring through the glass ceiling to look at the clear night sky. The stars were clear and bright, as was the moon. Without the Academy to light the streetlights, the ...
2024-10-12 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostGodfrey stood there for a moment with his calm smile. He was holding a thin rapier in one hand as he looked at Dantes, Gren, and Jacopo. His eyes lingered the longest on Jacopo, but when he spoke i...
2024-10-10 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDantes spent the next two weeks consolidating his power. He took personal visits to his gardens to tend them. He went to each of the shopkeepers that paid up to him and paid them personal visits wi...
2024-10-08 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostJacopo refused to listen to Dantes. He lunged at the nearest of the disobedient rats and tore into him with tooth and claw. The others attempted to tear him off of him, but Jacopo didn’t relent u...
2024-10-05 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDantes arrived back at his club at the deepest part of the night. There were still a few people gambling, trying their best to avoid going home to explain their losses to their husbands and wives. ...
2024-10-03 12:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDantes and Murk arrived at the Conclave in the center of the Veridian Expanse together. It was already late evening by the time they arrived, and everyone else was already sitting around a fire and...
2024-10-01 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn’t difficult to see what had happened. A group in the woods that looked so rough, he didn’t have any personal experience, but he could tell that they were of a kind with him. Bandits, ra...
2024-09-28 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDantes sipped water rather than wine as he sat in his living throne monitoring what was happening across the city since the Academy had been sealed. The chaos had largely ended, and now that the ne...
2024-09-26 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDantes gritted his teeth as his fingers curled and tightened involuntarily from the growing pain. He stumbled off the bar stool and fell backwards into a table. Looking at his hands he could see no...
2024-09-24 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes landed back at the club by early afternoon. Jacopo chose to keep flying for a while, diving toward a man walking by with a bit of bread and ripping a chunk off of it before he continued to f...
2024-09-21 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes looked at the crystal sitting in Argenta’s palm, pulsing with energy as it recorded everything he did. It was a clever initiation. The guard could be bribed, manipulated, or avoided relati...
2024-09-19 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostDantes awoke the same time he always did. Sevryn was sleeping peacefully next to him, her jewelry glinting in the morning sunlight that poured in through the window. She’d kept it on all night. H...
2024-09-17 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDantes arrived back at his club as business was hitting its peak for the evening. He cut past the crowd waiting to enter, and the bouncer gave him a respectful nod as he walked inside. He made his ...
2024-09-14 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostDantes landed as a pigeon deep in Gatemen territory at the southwest gate and walked along the cobblestone and concrete paths caked in mud from the day's travelers, and their mounts, entering the c...
2024-09-12 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostVampa, who stood more than a foot taller than Dantes, nodded silently at his question. He was wearing an undershirt and trousers held up by suspenders , his thick black boots were well worn, and ha...
2024-09-10 12:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDantes was floating above the table at which sat the man in dark blue and the woman in green. They had ceased their sewing of the tapestry and had since then began to play a number of different gam...
2024-09-07 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Jayk took care of the cleanup, Dantes walked behind the meeting chamber and into his private chambers. The halls were simple, with a thick crimson rug in the center, and art along the walls t...
2024-09-05 12:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post