Malcolm Tent

Shout at the Devil chapter 81

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 536

To my utter and complete shock, we did NOT get immediately attacked  when the lights went out. The screaming had me setting my stance for a  fight, but apparently nobles were just weirdly jumpy. Reaching out a  hand, I clasped Callie's fingers in mine. "So...can you see in this?" I  asked calmly, completely unable to spot literally anything in this  oppressive darkness. "Because I'm planning to use an...alternative means  of sight, and I don't want to blind you."...

Greed God chapter 341

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 535

The rest of the week flew by. Three days of training should have been  terrible, but I was so desensitized to the pain from the second day  that it almost seemed easy in comparison. I also stockpiled more wishes,  granting six a day for Camden, bringing my total of usable extra wishes  to four. When Saturday rolled around we all gathered at the tent where  Bethy dressed us in new clothes (we didn't want to keep wearing the same  fancy outfits) and went over the d...

Shout at the Devil chapter 80

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Wish upon the Stars 534

The rest of the day crawled by. Like, at glacial speeds, over glass.  We had more exercises, a few drills they wanted us to practice, but  mostly they were just killing time while all the other cadets went  through the course. By the time the day ended I wanted to sleep so badly  I almost burst into tears, but I had a training session with Camden and  Celine, so I had to stay awake.

I burned another heal  burst to repair the damage of the day and a second t...

Greed God chapter 340

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 533

I was so tired after the next day's workout that I wanted to scream.  Jessie's energy had been burned off pretty quickly. It was pushing our  contract to even use it, since it might theoretically give us an unfair  advantage by healing us while we worked. Only the fact that exhaustion  soaked most of it before we even started made it just within bounds. Of  course, by the time we finished exercising, it was completely gone, and  we were all left even more tired t...

Shout at the Devil chapter 79

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Greed God chapter 339

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Wish upon the Stars book two audio!

An announcement by the way, the audio for book two of WUTS is now out! Neil Hellegers narrated for us and did an amazing job, so anyone who wants to check it out you can find it here: Wish Upon the Stars book 2 audiobook 

Wish upon the Stars chapter 532

We worked on the contract for the territory well into the night. This  time the whole group sat in, chiming in with suggestions or addenda. I  was damned grateful for Jessie's ability, because we were definitely  going to need energy boosts when we got to training. I doubted any of us  were going to sleep at all. The charge should carry us through the  early portions of the day, though later on it was going to be hell.

"So,  all told we're talking a hundred...

Shout at the Devil chapter 78

This chapter was one of my favorites I've written so far I think. I hope I did the Cleaver justice, and the big reveal was a long time coming. I think I hit the right notes and hope you all enjoyed it!





















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Wish upon the Stars chapter 531

After getting dressed, we made our way up to the manor, mostly  mentally exhausted from the ordeal of being dress up dolls for Bethy.  When we reached the house (which looked much more imposing at night) the  door opened without any prompting, revealing Alister Morgan, in all his  seneschal-y glory. "Ah, Master Solomon and Lady Nightstrike, welcome  back. Might I take your coats?"

He  stepped back, ushering us in, and said nothing to anyone else. It took a ...

Greed God chapter 338

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 530

Hamill's comment about us not having even started yet was sadly not  an exaggeration. If anything, it was probably an understatement. Pain  from running was quickly replaced by pain from squats, push-ups,  pull-ups, crunches, burpees, and a dozen other exercises designed to hit  every single muscle we had.

I expected my body to give  out, but Hamill seemed to have an almost mystical ability to see when we  were about to give up and give us the exact least a...

Shout at the Devil chapter 77

So, this is one of those things where the lore for Skulduggery and my story synergized weirdly perfectly. All the True Name stuff in here is actually canon to the series, and it sets up some of my future plots flawlessly. It was really cool to see things come together like that.





















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Wish upon the Stars chapter 529

In my life, I'd been through plenty of unique and often unpleasant  experiences. I'd had ribs broken, been stabbed in the gut, been beaten,  and a host of other torments. All of these things had sort of crowded my  memory, and made it difficult to remember EARLIER pain and hardship,  which paled in comparison. Yet, despite the scale of it being  dramatically different, there was one pre-ascendant hell that I still  remembered with absolute clarity. Alarms.

...

Greed God chapter 337

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 528

The next day we did another information swap with Anna (Callie had  more questions), but the day after we'd already gotten what we needed,  so it was back to the normal point swap. I got forty two Fantasy from  Chelsea, swapping for forty two Might to fill out her physical stats a  bit before training. With everyone having done their own thing for a few  days, it was officially time to sign up with Camden.

When  we arrived back at the manor, it looked a lot...

Shout at the Devil chapter 76

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Greed God chapter 336

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 527

Baronies. On Stratholme, the undisputed ruler was the Earl. Vanden  Nevius was a peak C-ranker that was stuck at the threshold of B-rank  after pissing of the Emperor somehow. Even Anna wasn't sure how,  apparently asking was considered a taboo, and pissing off the strongest  man in the world was a pretty obvious no go. Beneath Nevius the twelve  Viscounts stood supreme, D-rankers of varying strengths, each of them  having carved out a decent chunk of the planet....

Shout at the Devil chapter 75

Mind the tags, this one is pretty NSFW





















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Wish upon the Stars chapter 526

"So...that's basically all of it." I finished, filling in the others in on our talk with Camden. "I didn't want to commit to anything without  consulting anyone. Being the leader is one thing, but signing you all up  for military service working on commission for gear without asking  seemed like a dick move." Benny snickered a bit at that.

Jessie,  who was the person whose opinion I was here for, nodded. "I appreciate  you checking, but yeah, I'm down for that. ...

Greed God chapter 335

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 525

"Are you sure this is the place?" I asked Callie as we stood outside a  rather large house. "Because I'll be honest, it's not what I was  expecting." We'd left the others back at the inn for a while and decided  to take some time to ourselves to walk around. Inevitably our constant  need to be doing something pushed us to check out Tolbert's manor, where  we'd be signing up for our stint as mercenaries.

The  house WAS huge and imposing, as one would expect ...

Shout at the Devil chapter 74

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Wish upon the Stars chapter 524

The inside of Saltzberg was...weird. There was a word that people in  DS would use in roleplay servers when someone said or did something that  didn't fit the meta. Anachronistic. Saltzberg was like that. The  construction was mostly kind of old timey. Not straw and mud or  anything, but gabled roofs and cobblestones, but only mostly. One second  I would see an old style house, the next a more modern building.

Rather  than cars, people were using...not wago...

Greed God chapter 334

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