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3.11 In Which the Dark Lord Gets the Bad News

Things moved much quicker after that.  Once Sneppit started giving orders, goblins scurried off in every direction and we found ourselves swept along with the tide.  Just minutes after th...

3.10 In Which the Dark Lord Keeps the Peace

This must’ve started as soon as I walked away from them; by this point they weren’t even arguing, just screaming insults.  I got the gist as we strode back to the top of the stairs, modera...

3.9 In Which the Dark Lord Shakes on It

My experiences in Cat Alley and points since made me feel incredibly sleazy for it, but my more recent epiphany about Enjoin’s potential made it the first thing I noticed: Miss Sneppit was hot. 2022-05-06 01:30:46 +0000 UTC View Post

3.8 In Which the Dark Lord Gets Taken for a Ride

All the awkward silence of walking away from an emotionally draining experience with unfriendly strangers, plus the tension and fear of a loud city in the grip of multiple simultaneous riots, mostl...

3.7 In Which the Dark Lord Cleans Up

A proper isekai’d Dark Lord would probably be some kind of military history otaku, someone who could take a bunch of bandits and use his armchair knowledge of medieval warfare to turn th...

3.6 In Which the Dark Lord Makes the Call

Unfortunately for this particular gang of Goblin King adherents, their leader had backed up so far into the crowd that he was pressed on three sides.  Consequently, when the flames of Immolati...

3.5 In Which the Dark Lord Helps

According to Gizmit, North Watch was a lot closer to the center of goblin society on Dount than to Gwyllthean, but we still had a bit of a walk ahead of us.  Fortunately her shorter legs didn�...

defective author alert

I am having a major bad brain day and entirely failing to write.  Sorry...this is just something that happens sometimes when you try to do creative work while mentally ill.  These things ...

3.4 In Which the Dark Lord Finds His Sparkle

My people worked fast, but even so the effort of locking down the offices gave me sufficient time to compose myself.

Kasser and Harold brought in their full crew and rigged up the door with a...

Short delay

Being sick this weekend has wrecked my rhythm; I didn't get enough of my usual prep work done and I'm still lagging in productivity.  I'm afraid the chapter isn't gonna be done by tonight. &nb...

3.3 In Which the Dark Lord Has an Idea. An Awful Idea. The Dark Lord Has a Wonderful, Awful Idea

I was honestly disappointed.  A throwing knife landed in my upper arm and an arrow in the opposite shoulder—an arrow from a goblin-sized shortbow, which barely packed more power than one of ...

3.2 In Which the Dark Lord Descends

“That little vignette was basically the problem with human/goblin relations in miniature,” Biribo lectured minutes later when I convened my lieutenants in the conference room.  “Cultural...

3.1 In Which the Dark Lord Steps in It

“What the hell is all this?”

“It was left outside the fortress first thing this morning,” Minifrit explained, as always striking that off-center pose that accentuated her hips and pau...

Bonus 8 In Which Aster Has to Instigate the Talk

Aster strode through the dim corridor in the after-dinner quiet, allowing herself a soft breath of relief at the faint sounds of guitar music.  Lord Seiji’s door was no more soundproof than ...

Update:

Cross-posting this here from my discord because I've only belatedly remembered some of you aren't there and I don't want the message to miss anybody:

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Morning update because I believ...

Bonus 7: In Which the Chancellor Schemes

He liked to hold private meetings pacing along this upper colonnade in the Viridian Palace for more than just its breathtaking view over Fflyrdylle and the rolling hills of Dlemath beyond.  Fe...

Bonus 6: In Which the Ranger Springs a Trap

It was all falling apart.

Nazralind stood in the center of what had days ago been a tiny hamlet—not a proper village, but a cluster of houses where four families lived and worked the surrou...

Break notice

Cross-posting from my author comment on the RR chapter that just went up, because I know some of you don't read the story on that site and I want everybody to be informed:

And that's Book 2!&...

Coda: In Which the Call is Heard

The miracle stone was visible for limns in every direction, its incredible height rising as it did from nearly the center of the Bronze Reaches.  The savanna had only occasional outcroppings o...

2.45 In Which the Dark Lord Wears the Pants in the Relationship

“Now then,” I said, exercising my full stage presence to make my tone even more condescending than the question inherently was, “what did we learn?”

The lesser nobleman—lesser appar...

2.44 In Which the Dark Lord Loses Patience

“So, here’s the situation, based on what I’ve learned.”

Ten days later we were back around the conference table in North Watch.  With the same number of people as my original cou...

2.43 In Which the Dark Lord Catches a Break

We could afford neither to waste time nor charge in blind, that was the dilemma.

Step one was to send out the gwynnek riders, loaded down with as many healing slimes as we had containers for,...

2.42 In Which the Dark Lord Gives Peace a Chance

I was right: dragging a body by the ankle over rough terrain was just about the most needlessly difficult thing a person could do.

We’d only just emerged onto the main road before a gwynnek...

2.41 In Which the Dark Lord Puts His Foot Down

With my uncannily glowing familiar leading the way, I slid down the ladder to the landing below and threw myself down the stairs, which was not just a turn of phrase; I descended in a long jumps th...

2.40 In Which the Dark Lord Destroys

I did not have sex with Minifrit that night, because as usual she was annoyingly right about everything.  The work was…exhausting.  This might be the weirdest therapy I’d ever heard o...

2.39 In Which the Dark Lord Gets Some Help

It ended up being for the best that I had that aside in the pantry.  Part of the reason for coming back to base right now was to make my reassuring presence known to the troops, especially the...

2.38 In Which the Dark Lord Leaves an Offering

The mess hall was filling up as everyone settled in for the evening meal that was soon to be served, and Sakin took advantage of the hubbub to slip away.  It made me…wonder.  Shirking d...

2.37 In Which the Dark Lord Catches Up on the Gossip

The only tricky part was getting out of the city; we ditched most of my adoring crowd by heading straight into the poison khora grove.  Really useful, that, now that I knew it was there.  ...

2.36 In Which the Dark Lord Carries a Big Stick

The plan didn’t call for a mass use of my forces, but after the last time I’d tried a major operation in the Gutters and gotten dumped in the river full of quarrels for my trouble, I was playin...

2.35 In Which the Dark Lord Speaks Softly

The long as the short of it was that I had nothing immediately to worry about.  Olumnach had several dangerous-sounding Blessed, but was unlikely to leverage them at me; he liked to keep them ...