A bustling town center unfolded before them. Tantalizing scents rose from market stalls, where vendors grilled strange meats and deep-fried unidentifiable vegetables in batter. Over in the corner, ...
2024-02-29 02:17:25 +0000 UTC View PostA knock at her hotel room door. Fira jolted. She jumped up from where she was watching television and approached the door warily, one hand outstretched, fire cupped in her rear hand. Lowering her h...
2024-02-29 02:16:34 +0000 UTC View PostLevi bounced along, humming to himself as he walked. A backpack thumped against his back, bulky with clothes but light for the same. He walked through Central Square, not a care in the world.
Oz glided through the camp, using his light body technique to land soundlessly between long steps. Careless undead wandered by, eyes blank, mouths gaping, carrying masses of raw materials in their ...
2024-02-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a time, Heather came back with a few tenants and members of Erica’s army, and with their help, Zeke and Domi made short work of the cooking. The two of them carried the bit pot out into the...
2024-02-28 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOz caught his breath. Holy shit!
Instead of trees, a forest of tents spread before him, spreading from an enormous central tent like spokes on a wheel out to a wide circle that fille...
2024-02-27 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Stop.”
Oz jolted. He looked up at Aisling.
She stepped away from him, removing his hand from her arm. “Stop. I have my own methods. Don’t hurt yourself, pushing yourself too fa...
2024-02-26 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostOz tumbled into the mirror. For a moment, the world whirled around him as the directions inverted, and then he hovered there on the other side of the mirror, looking back at himself. Silvery materi...
2024-02-25 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAs he peered into the mirror, Oz caught sight of his eyes. Dark blue, tired eyes gazed back at him, the left one ever so slightly darker. He squinted. A paper-thin ring of bright neon blue glimmere...
2024-02-24 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn a matter of moments, Oz reached the side of the lake. He paused and turned back, taking in the distance between him and the closed door to the library. Damn. That’s a long ways, and I cros...
2024-02-23 15:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post“Roan is dead, Baltair is dead. Baltair’s body is host to some powerful other soul, that isn’t even the main necromancer. We have an army of undead dullahan and water fey to deal with, and th...
2024-02-22 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWinding through the region, the path ground on. Slowly, the sky darkened, and the air thickened. Strange wisps of dark energy danced on the air, bouncing amid swirling mist. A mist unlike the wall ...
2024-02-21 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe road wound on. A few other towns loomed along their way, but Oz led the way around them, rather than through, wary of encountering another situation like the dullahan town. No one wandered the ...
2024-02-21 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Leaving so soon?”
Oz whirled.
The man from earlier, the one who’d invited them into the town, stood behind them. His head tilted, and he smiled.
Darkness flashed across the...
2024-02-19 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostTap. Tap. Tap.
Slow, deliberate footsteps approached the tree from the shadowed road, tapping against the cobbles. Passing into the thin light, a dark figure approached the tree. Sav...
2024-02-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLoup landed lightly beside them, bare feet making as much noise as the paws of her two lupine companions. She carried a yellow bundle in her arms. The bundle shifted, and an arm fell out. A set of ...
2024-02-17 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: whoopsie, put this under the wrong category! Should be good now.
Roan’s head popped off its body. With his fey vision off, Oz couldn’t see the threads, so it simply appeared to fly o...
2024-02-16 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostAisling stopped. She turned back, confused. “What about Roan?”
Oz flinched. He lifted his hands. “Please, just stand completely still. Don’t move. Don’t—don’t breathe too hard. ...
2024-02-15 15:00:18 +0000 UTC View PostLight poured from the pages of the fey book, backlighting the text. Oz squinted, a little uncomfortable. Does this thing have a dark mode? No? Unfortunate.
The text twisted away, wri...
2024-02-14 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWithout the fog hiding the horizon, the barn wasn’t that far from town. The fence around the barn butted up against the town’s stone wall, and Oz only had to follow it along its edge for a minu...
2024-02-13 15:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone! I'm proud to announce Apocalypse Me, my LitRPG, is getting an Amazon release as a real published book tomorrow! That's right, tomorrow!
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2024-02-13 13:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostOz checked in over the night, but when he realized Fflyn was sleeping, he left quickly without disturbing him. After sleeping himself, he checked in again, and seeing more fog, he returned to readi...
2024-02-12 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOz leaped into the hayloft. He landed lightly, barely stirring the hay where he landed. A low pile of fresh hay sat in the corner, but otherwise, the hayloft stood completely empty.
Fflyn sto...
2024-02-11 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs Oz closed in on the girls, he glanced behind him. The fog closed in on them, the front of it pressing through the trees like cotton stuffing. A chill crept through the air ahead of the fog, thre...
2024-02-10 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOz looked over his shoulder. A solid wall of fog closed in on them, still far off, but growing closer. He paused, frowning.
“What is it?” Aisling asked.
“I… don’t know. The fo...
2024-02-09 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe man stepped forward, pushing a pair of round glasses up on his nose. The priest appeared, gazing down on them. To his left, a burly man loomed, face empty, eyes white. To his right, a slender y...
2024-02-08 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostLevi slid into Maury’s base. “How’s it hanging?”
“I got a request,” Maury grumbled.
“I thought you don’t do this anymore?” he asked, kicking off his shoes.
She s...
2024-02-08 00:29:11 +0000 UTC View PostWith a roar, the last white-armored monster charged Stoneheart. Calmly, Stoneheart raised his hands and narrowed his eyes, putting his thumbs at a ninety-degree angle to his index fingers, thumbs o...
2024-02-08 00:28:12 +0000 UTC View PostI know what you’re thinking.
I hate unnecessary death, and I just walked away? Some hero, huh?
Well, look. My death is unnecessary, too, sometimes. I mean, even if I ran down the hill...
2024-02-08 00:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostOnce again, the boy’s voice echoed through the stadium, louder and clearer than the music. “Everyone, please. Get out. Now! We’re in danger. You n—”
The speakers cut off with a thum...
2024-02-08 00:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post