Rain drenched Erich, beating down in waves as it obscured the landscape. He was on a road somewhere outside of Madla, two hours to the east of the hamlet, however far that was. In that ...
2025-10-15 14:25:13 +0000 UTC
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“That wasn’t all of them?” Erich asked, frowning while he absently rubbed a soiled towel over his hands. “How many more are we talking about?”
Derl shrugged helplessly. ...
2025-10-09 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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They spotted Madla’s wooden walls about the time that the sky began to grow dark. The rain began to fall a bit harder as they pushed onward toward the torches that lined the top of the wood...
2025-10-07 18:00:04 +0000 UTC
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“That’s the rainy season for you,” Allthier remarked happily, loosely holding onto a rope that was connected to Benny the ox’s neck. “Don’t be surprised if we don’t see the sun ...
2025-10-02 18:00:59 +0000 UTC
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Erich stepped out of the darkness into driving rain. He reached up, shielding his eyes from the rain as he looked up into the murky gray sky. There wasn’t anything to see but uniform ...
2025-09-30 22:10:17 +0000 UTC
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Hello Everyone! I am kicking off the return to Swords of The West with some of the initial cover art for book one (tentatively - 2025-09-30 18:37:03 +0000 UTC
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Somnus is done. That's... a lot. It also doesn't mean that I'm taking a pause. My next project, Swords of the West, is a progression fantasy focusing, unsurprisingly from the title, on a guy t...
2025-09-24 03:32:17 +0000 UTC
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Kat reversed gravity, launching herself into the air with a thought. Ten to fifteen gozzlam heads tracked her squawking hatred at Kat’s rising form. Before Kat could get more than ten...
2025-09-23 13:49:08 +0000 UTC
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Kat stood silently on the twenty fourth floor. In front of her was a gleaming ziggurat made out of what looked to be a single carved block of obsidian. Etched into its side were drawing...
2025-09-18 13:06:01 +0000 UTC
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Kat opened her eyes to see Belle slumped in the chair next to her, the arm of her body armor and infiltration suit burned off and revealing scarred flesh beneath. The older woman shifted as K...
2025-09-16 20:47:17 +0000 UTC
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Improved Laser snapped to life sending a pencil thin beam of energy directly into the floor guardian’s eye. The laser seemed to flicker, pulsing at speeds that would be invisible to anyone ...
2025-09-11 15:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Quickly, Kat checked the time on her smartpanel. A little bit after five o’clock.
“I’m sorry Lieutenant Turner,” she said, turning to look the nervous looking soldier in the eye...
2025-09-09 23:41:01 +0000 UTC
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Kat bit back a groan of frustration as she jogged through the hallways of the complex toward a concealed security station. She would’ve preferred to move faster, but Belle was struggling to...
2025-09-04 15:01:18 +0000 UTC
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Gunfire echoed down a half dozen hallways, giving Kat an approximate map of where the Millennium forces were. She took a left and broke off into a fast jog, slowing down after a couple hundre...
2025-09-02 12:25:32 +0000 UTC
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“I’m jammed.” Belle’s voice was clipped as the woman stood up suddenly, her assistant scurrying backward to get out of the way. “It seems like all communications outside of th...
2025-08-28 14:04:01 +0000 UTC
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“H-how many more d-dungeons do you need?” Jasper was simple and to the point. The second he sat down with Davis towering behind him, the other shareholder dove into the crux of the ...
2025-08-26 12:41:39 +0000 UTC
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“Bored.” Whippoorwill remarked, throwing a tennis ball up in the air and catching it again. “Beyond bored.” “Sorry Whip,” Kat replied. “W
“Bored.” Wh...
2025-08-21 14:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Kat took a deep breath, doing her best to steady her nerves. The unfamiliar weight of metal and circuitry on her left arm didn’t do much to
Kat took a deep breath, doing her best to s...
2025-08-19 12:49:26 +0000 UTC
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The dragon took a deep breath, chest swelling as its scales scraped against the rocky floor before letting the air back out again. It was b
The dragon took a deep breath, chest swelling...
2025-08-14 13:00:11 +0000 UTC
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It was most certainly not ‘fun.’ A week of hiking and tracking the orcs, all while constantly fending off attacks from the wolves and bears of the forest was far from enjoyable. Mor...
2025-08-12 13:20:19 +0000 UTC
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Kat could hear the orcs chasing after her. Their heavy breathing and angry yells followed her as she wove in and out of the trees. Despite all her stat points in agility, Kat didn’t d...
2025-08-08 14:05:02 +0000 UTC
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“Town princess?” Dorrik asked as they ran alongside the panicking townsfolk toward where the bell was still ringing. “I thought that princesses were a higher noble rank, not somet...
2025-08-06 21:19:38 +0000 UTC
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The dragon’s wings flapped once and it was in the air. A blink of the eye later, the downdraft from its ascent hit the three of them, blowing Kat’s hair everywhere and threatening to push...
2025-07-31 19:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Bright but diffuse light shown down from a featureless sky. From the second Kat had opened her eyes, she’d been sitting atop a square pillar with nothing around her. Each side of her ...
2025-07-29 18:58:21 +0000 UTC
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The image of Dringbek flickered slightly as some sort of interference from the laboratory interrupted the transmission for a second. He inclined his head slightly.
“Shareholder Debs, ...
2025-07-24 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The snake opened its mouth, letting out a sibilant, hissing bellow of anger before lunging toward the three of them.
Kat yanked herself to the side while using her empowered domain to push do...
2025-07-22 18:00:07 +0000 UTC
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“Are you ready to finish up with this level?” Dorrik asked, his eyes flickering back and forth at the various aliens that seemed to be milling listlessly around the adventurer’s hall.
2025-07-17 15:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Michelle ran two steps forward, cocking her arm and throwing the tennis ball wrapped in her grip as far as she could. Hans exploded from where he was sitting, galloping after it in an avalanc...
2025-07-15 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Kat’s index finger tapped against her knee, an almost inaudible metronome more fit for speed metal or hyperpop than a march or waltz. Her cup of coffee sat in front of her, steaming but unt...
2025-07-10 14:05:02 +0000 UTC
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The scrape and clank of metal on stone announced the intruders minutes before they actually appeared. When Kat had earned her improved hearing, she’d thought over a lot of the perk’s impl...
2025-07-08 19:00:04 +0000 UTC
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