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Kernstalion 28: Short term goals

When I woke in my bathroom adorned room, alone, I stared up at the ceiling for a long time.

Sandra, or Eliandra, whatever she wanted me to name her now, had brought me here after listening to...

Kernstalion 27: Corlon alphabet magic

After my shock at finding an English book abated a bit, I quickly understood that the book probably wasn't really in English. More likely was, that a spell on it made the words turn legible to anyb...

Kernstalion: 26: Lost and...

As I felt the soft mattress against my flesh, I almost wept for joy, and it almost made me forget the fact I was not in Sandr- no Eliandra's room. It would take some time to get used to calling her...

Kernstalion 25: Sandra or Eliandra?

I looked at the two female knights and smiled, hoping this would go as smooth as the first gate. They didn't respond, but one thick brown eyebrow rose in obvious question.

"I am Est. I am her...

Kernstalion 24: Dursic

The cold wind blew through the cracks in my armor and across my bare arms. Standing in front of the wall with the tear, I looked at the sky. It was still afternoon, but I had no idea if I had been ...

Kernstalion 23: Choices and consequences

I could, in essence, shape what a god or goddess would become?

My hyperactive mind began picturing increasingly odd things, and I quickly pushed the images away before they turned into realit...

Kernstalion 22: Nameless

The thing about being on your own isn't that you have nobody to talk to or whine if you stub your toe. The thing is that if something threatens to go wrong, you have only yourself to trust to fix i...

Kernstalion 21: Never split the party

"Alright, that's enough for tonight. Go and carve some more ugly monsters, and rest. Tomorrow will be another long day," Haltir said.

I was so tired I couldn't even groan. Instead, I nodded a...

Kernstalion 20: The Harrowing Hills

"I wonder what happened to those elves," I said as we trudged forward through the thick mud.

"Who knows. They hate fighting, always have. They must have used some bloody Fey magic to flee," H...

Kernstalion 19: Fleeing

When I woke up, my body hurt all over, and I heard the muted sounds of combat. Blinking, I groaned as needles seemed to jab every part of my flesh.

"Stay still. You need to rest!" Four's voic...

Kernstalion 18: Pink blood

"Get ready!" Haltir screamed. He jolted forward, running to the center of the wagon circle. Thirty enormous warriors joined him, men and women, that dwarfed even the basketball players I knew. Besi...

Kernstalion 17: Sometimes shit just happens

"So, this happens every month?" I asked Four as we ran alongside the wagon. Every time I touched the ground, I felt a jolt.

"Sometimes twice," she said.

"Stop talking. You will waste yo...

Kernstalion 16: Beyond Sart

A kick against my leg woke me, and I wished I could go back to sleep. My body still ached; the double session Haltir forced onto me had taken its toll.

But it wouldn't happen again! Rolling u...

Kernstalion 15: Haltir

Cold and shivering, I moved through the darkening alley. It had taken ages before the heat had left my body, and now I felt cold and even more tired than before. The dense grey cloud cover blotting...

Kernstalion 14: Deities

Staring up at the red tint in the sky, I sighed in relief. Those stupid Goblins had continued attacking throughout the night. From what I could tell, they hadn't made it far into Sart, or at least ...

Kernstalion 13: The reason for a wall

Three days later, the grin had long since faded from my face. Sweat poured down my head as I crouched down with my back towards the tree. A long gash on my arm bled profusely, and bruises covered m...

Kernstalion 12: Woodcrafting one o one

I made it back to Sart without further incidents. Running through the streets, I was happy when I saw Agga's smelly shop.

Moving inside, I saw Agga still working at the woodcarving table, her...

Kernstalion 11: Daggers of doom

As I moved away from Sart, I wondered again if I shouldn't have brought the ax. There wasn't any place for anything to hide on the road to the mining outpost, but did that guarantee anything? Not r...

Kernstalion 10: An empty belly

The trip back to Sart was slow and painful. To make sure Agga wouldn't be too upset about everything if she found out, I passed the tree and got the branch. Between hauling that, the ax, and the Wi...

Kernstalion 9: Waking up to a nightmare

I was walking. I didn't know how or why, but I could feel my body move. After a few moments, my vision came back. I saw a dark, unlit alleyway in front of me. Garbage bags on the ground, and some r...

Kernstalion 8: Wirgs

I kicked the night wight corpse twice for jumping out and scaring the shit out of me. The head rolled away, thudding against a nearby tree. The blood seeping from it tainted the mud.

This was...

Kernstalion 7: Sart

I quickly found that Sart wasn't that big. It consisted of one wide road, leading from the square in front of the east gate all the way to the harbor. Smaller alleys and streets led away from it, a...

Kernstalion 6: A proposition

Hours later, I lay on the hard ground before the fire in Agga's house. It was getting dark, and it had taken three trips to bring all the wood back. It lay in a neat pile in the corner, adding a fr...

Kernstalion 5: Stop hagging me

The second trip to the tree was a lot faster, and my stamina even increased by a point before we arrived.

Staring at the bloody spot on the ground and the drag marks that led into the woods, ...

Kernstalion 4: First encounters of the painfull kind

As soon as Agga's figure disappeared between the trees, I slumped down. "Stupid game… bite me!" I decided to take a look at my gains before heading off into the woods.

All three bars were f...

Kernstalion 3: Meeting Agga

A few steps from the end of the street, it was like I tore through a veil.

A cacophony of sounds washed over me; the wind that howled through the street carried shouting, laughing,...

Kernstalion 2: Pick a profession

Going through the portal isn't as fun as it sounds. It feels like you are burned to a crisp, whooshed along a highway of wind, and then get doused in water before you shoot out the other end.

Kernstalion 1: Select a race

Have you ever read one of those books where people play an awesome VR game, and then they are locked inside without a logout ability? Their bodies in the real world, still and inert while they scra...

Some information and a picture

So just one post this weekend, and no chapter. This week I'll post the Kernstalion chapters that are on RoyalRoad here, so it's nice and chronological. Then, starting next weekend, I will post my b...

The end of Nothing but bones - book two

I've just added the last three chapters of Nothing but bones, book two, and I'm really curious to see what you thought. 

Beyond this, I've begun on book three-which will mark a transitio...