EMPRESS
I'll admit to being a bit surprised when my new roommate turned out to be the very same crazy girl who'd challenged me within seconds of entering the outer sect. Not as surprised as s...
2022-06-12 00:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostEMPRESS
Tankano Ichika's introduction to the Starry Waters Sect was not an especially auspicious one. First off, the core disciple had marched up the stairs with no regard for poor young Hana...
2022-06-12 00:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostShadows
Success is the intersection of talent and persistence.
-Old Arkavian saying
Success has brothers and cousins aplenty, but failure is an orphan.
-Tactonius, fr...
Shadows
While I teamed up with Mailyn whenever we had pairs contests, that was only about half of them. The other half of the 'gambits' we did with the Society of Night involved outright thef...
2022-06-11 23:55:31 +0000 UTC View PostShadows
It was fortunate that our survival class had moved to the forested hills of Alhred Island, because otherwise I'd have been spending far too much time in the dark…
Twice a week...
2022-06-11 23:55:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi, everybody!
I'm sorry if I've been uncommunicative lately - I was staying with my parents for a few weeks, and their place in the middle of nowhere has very spotty internet. Now I've retur...
2022-06-11 23:50:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The following map is a tentative map of the environs of They Shall Call Me EMPRESS that I made using Wonderdraft. The early chapters take place in and around Emerald Vale, Rushing Rivers, and the s...
2022-06-08 02:15:08 +0000 UTC View PostShadows
Before I proceed any further, perhaps I should explain a bit about the Perdita Free Collegium's 'Societies'. While our school has an official core curriculum and numerous electives, b...
2022-06-08 02:10:49 +0000 UTC View PostEMPRESS
Chu Zileng had been deprived of her twin brother, Zilong, for three long, intolerable months. There were times that she wanted to curse the boy and his damnable talent, but getting pr...
2022-06-08 02:09:38 +0000 UTC View PostShadows
I am dark, but darker still
is she whose bed I share;
my lady of the midnight will
gift me her hidden prayer.
-Alscius Calvioli, from Twelve Liaisons
Aldo b...
2022-06-05 06:10:59 +0000 UTC View PostEmpress
The wagon rolled on and on.
I guess the empire is pretty big, maybe even as big as the United States… maybe even bigger, like Russia or something… because it took foreve...
2022-06-05 06:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostThey Shall Call Me EMPRESS
Ken died.
No, Ken was murdered. Cold-blood Ieyasu fucking murdered him, shattered him into a thousand frozen pieces. He'd died, but his battle with the bastar...
2022-06-03 05:29:07 +0000 UTC View PostTales From The Guild
"You haven't got your Class yet," Theresa Dyne stated.
"I have," Aly insisted. "I'm a ~Fighter~… you saw me do a Quick-Draw just last we...
2022-06-03 05:23:22 +0000 UTC View PostBelieve it or not, I've never been fond of combat. Competition? Definitely. And sparring, even very vigorous sparring? That can be great fun. But combat is, at its essence, the use of force against...
2022-06-03 05:19:20 +0000 UTC View Post"Is this is bad as I think it is?" I whispered.
"Worse," Monkey Yang whispered back.
To date, I'd never come across a cultivator who was much stronger than me, cultivation-wise. When I'...
2022-05-31 22:32:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was the damnedest thing that Ken had ever seen, and he'd seen quite a bit in his time.
Monkey's plan was simple enough - get the girls to lure the bastard in by dressing like prostitutes, ...
2022-05-31 22:31:36 +0000 UTC View PostBig Shilei wrinkled his nose in disgust. "This smells even worse than Lynn's 'truffle earth smoothie'."
"Hey, I put a lot of work into that! And your smoothies!" I huffed. With Grann...
2022-05-31 22:28:36 +0000 UTC View PostGranny P had given us a long list of ingredients…
I should clarify - she gave Ichika a long list of ingredients. My cultivation-enhanced memory was phenomenal and I was making real...
2022-05-31 22:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostI almost died in the Largotto for the second time, but I did not die. I should hope that much was obvious.
Here's a little-known fact about mantis-sharks: their barbed pedipalps are lined wit...
2022-05-31 22:17:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe met up with Rose and the students in our class at the little Collegium pier just south of the Step Wharf. It was a small pier, well-suited to rowboats and sandolos but barely able to manage the ...
2022-05-31 22:13:51 +0000 UTC View PostMy resistance to being nicknamed 'princess' just about guaranteed that it was my nickname for my first few weeks as a Sneak. Princess Vix, they would call me, and I'd try to ignore it. When our bun...
2022-05-31 22:10:45 +0000 UTC View PostNovices of the Mysterium Thaumica spend their days in rigorous recitation and their evenings in devoted study. It is said the average student spends twelve hours a day in courses or study six d...
2022-05-31 22:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Vix… we had a deal," Mr. Hianchi said. His dark mustache quivered above his upper lip, and with more than a hint of annoyance, he tapped on the accruing pile of material for me to translate. "Wh...
2022-05-31 22:04:46 +0000 UTC View Postelow is the first chapter to a story that I started but never released or finished beyond the first volume. I may continue it in the future, especially if there's popular demand for it. It's my fir...
2022-05-31 21:35:23 +0000 UTC View Post