~[The Fellowbark Magical Academy]~
There is a heavy silence present in the classroom of the Fellowbark Magical Academy, present within the heart of the city. It is the premiere school for aspiring casters in this entire region, drawing in the best of the best from all backgrounds — at least those ranging from low born commoners to the upper merchant class. Nobles, as always, have their own way of doing things. Usually, nobles' children will be instructed in prestigious pr...
2023-05-31 14:20:39 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 13 of Black Knight has DOUBLED in length. New pieces have been added to the start and a whole new ending sequence has been added in the after. I decided that I wanted the Kaisersgrab arc to end at this chapter and not stretch on even longer. =)
Sorry about the delay in chapters, they were because of this rewrite. We'll be back on the ball soon!
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~ [The Cathedral] ~
Screams....
2023-05-29 15:28:16 +0000 UTC
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Screams.
The void consumes everything. It takes into itself the eyes of men, the bones of dogs, and the claws of rats. The true darkness that lies beyond the material world may consume everything from the last falling coin of a robbed merchant’s purse to the first breath exhaled by a freshly born infant. Yet there are things born of the immaterial world that are, in and of themselves, intangible.
The printing of words creates books, but the meaning extracted when reading those w...
2023-05-21 19:46:12 +0000 UTC
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~[A Dark Place]~
A ‘grim’, otherwise known as a ‘church grim’, is a spiritual protector of holy places. In the language of the other nation, it is called a ‘kirchenhund’. They are divine entities that take the shape of black dogs and wander around sacred grounds such as churches and graveyards in the dead of night to keep them safe from evil spirits.
However, the Holy-Church has co-opted the term to use for their own pur...
2023-05-14 20:17:55 +0000 UTC
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~ [The Cathedral] ~
The darkness of night has fallen all around them, the dimly burning candles that line the interior of the cathedral casting a soft glow up along the cold, stone walls. The brickwork was once of an illustrious white hue in generations past. However, time, smoke, and touch have faded the hewn stones to a more muted gray tone. Starfallen light shines in through the colorful, stained glass windows, projecting strange distortions of religious and historic i...
2023-05-13 20:49:56 +0000 UTC
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I've added a new section to the end of chapter 128 of Final Core.
For context, this is the chapter when Rorate and the Melusine dove into the core of the island to find the perfect rock.
Previously, the chapter ended when Leviathan revealed itself, as they began their approach to claim the rock.
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Rorate
The water drones around them, the imprisoned ocean roaring in her ears...
2023-05-13 08:02:24 +0000 UTC
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~ [Somewhere Dark] ~
It’s dark.
Junis, the elf, looks around herself. “H- hello?” she nervously calls, her voice echoing out into nothingness until it eventually fades away — swallowed, by the void. Confused, she turns her head. Her feet feel like they’re standing on something solid, but then, as soon as she thinks about it, the substrate beneath her seems to vanish. It’s like she’s in an odd dream. “Anyone?”
She feels her body become weightles...
2023-05-06 21:37:55 +0000 UTC
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“Oh!” says Acacia, lightly holding her fingers over her mouth. “How terribly clumsy of me!” she says in a high tone, watching the white fabric handkerchief drop down off of the edge of the railing of the high balcony. It lands down, several floors below on top of a snow-laden, leafless hedge that is growing near the wall of the grand house in a very difficult to reach position given the fully blooming growths all around it. The garden of the significant estate is, in essence, a forest...
2023-05-06 17:07:49 +0000 UTC
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This segment was added to the end of chapter 7 for the Royalroad release.
For context, this is in the teahouse that Sir Knight and Acacia were at, just after when the vildt nobleman had exited his office and come to talk to them.
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By the time it is all said and done, they leave several Obols lighter, with a team of soldiers carrying away several loads of exotic tea through the tea-house. The vildt offi...
2023-05-03 19:13:00 +0000 UTC
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Charlie slides into the concrete wall with his shoulder, losing his balance as he runs too quickly around the sharp corner. Sparing a glance behind himself with terrified eyes, he presses the metal door to the roof open, running outside and to the closest edge of the building, looking down for a way out.
But all there is to see is a black void below, a dizzyingly high pit lined with buzzing neon signs.
There’s nowhere left to run this time.
He looks back over his shoulder,...
2023-04-28 13:38:37 +0000 UTC
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New experimental cyberpunk / neonpunk story I'm working on on the side. This one is, obviously, not in the same world as all of the others haha
2023-04-28 13:37:09 +0000 UTC
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~ [Somewhere, sometime in the distant past] ~
Quiet laughter carries down the dark hallway — the voice of a girl trying to stifle her giggling in the dead of night.
“That is very snide, Herr Ritter,” she says, looking up at the suit of armor that is mounted to the wall behind it. She sits there with crossed legs down on the floor of the hallway, the soft moonlight of a night like any other carrying in through the large glass front windows that line the long ar...
2023-04-27 19:34:56 +0000 UTC
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Somewhere Outside of the City
The darkened forest is filled with a distant knocking. Things chitter in the barren trees that groan in the mild winds. The night-bird song that would normally accompany the journey down this road in the warmer seasons remains still distant, as most of the usual smaller creatures have yet to return to the world. Winter has yet to fully end. However, the insects of the region remain, burrowing deep in and out of the soil and dead wood in their s...
2023-04-24 20:41:55 +0000 UTC
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New segment added to chapter 6 of Black Knight (Patreon chapters should come today/tomorrow)
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Quest in Progress - 16:37:24 remains
Priestess, Looking for Party
Due to the poor decisions of my party members, I find myself without a party for just today. I am looking for a short-term party-membership for one day. I prefer to stay in the dungeon, but will also help fight wild monsters....
2023-04-23 05:46:44 +0000 UTC
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- Something cracks.
The sunset is orange.
Mirabelle sits on her branch, looking down into the park at the man who breaks sticks. He stands at the edge of the water, his stick in hand, like he so often has. Every so often, he’ll break off a piece of it — an end or a twig — and cast it out into the water, watching it sink away into nothingness. Then, after another minute, he’ll do it again. All the while, she never says anything, talks to anyone, or undertakes any other gran...
2023-04-17 15:50:27 +0000 UTC
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~[A Camp, Hidden Outside of the City]~
“The men find no sleep,” whispers the tall, thin man in his native language, standing there in front of the orb. His name is Fee. He’s tall and thin; his short, feathered blond hair is matted with grease, and his pale face is adorned with bags of purple, his eyes that seem to weigh down all the way to his jawbones. “Night terrors plague them, Your Grace,” he explains, lifting his voice somewhat.
Soft light from the cr...
2023-04-16 19:52:01 +0000 UTC
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This is the newly rewritten version of chapter 5. Quite a few things have changed since the first version.
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~ [Somewhere, sometime in the distant past] ~
A contract has been made.
Small, bare feet patter across the hard, stone floors of the palace. The sleek marble slates that the girl quietly runs over reflecting out soft moonlight in all directions as she sneaks through the palace,...
2023-04-16 13:58:46 +0000 UTC
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Sorry chapters 5+6 of Black Knight are kind of a total mess now with today's edit to the release of chapter 4. I need to rejiggle everything. I hope to have the finished versions up tomorrow for you! Here's a new scene from chapter 5 for tonight.
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~[A Den of Thieves]~
Hase sighs in relief, sitting on a pillow on the floor and leaning back against the wall, looking down at the empty bowl down between her crossed legs. T...
2023-04-15 21:54:16 +0000 UTC
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Added a new scene to the end of chapter 4 of Black Knight. Chapter 5 will be rewritten.
For context if you read chapter 4 a while ago, this scene follows the thief that Sir Knight helped escape the market square.
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~[A Den of Thieves]~
Today’s the day!
The hooded figure pulls the wet metal grate back over the hole as she climbs down the makeshift ladder, the groaning metal coming tog...
2023-04-15 19:07:45 +0000 UTC
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Munera
Spirit - ⚥ - Dungeon-Core
Munera wades through its many thoughts and ideas, refining them until it comes to one in particular that seems like it would be an ideal match for its desired future.
[NEW ABILITY]
CONSCRIPTED RESURRECTION
Returns a dead warrior to their feet, letting them live another day. However, rebirth comes at a cost. The resurrected must serve the will of the Dungeon-Core or risk ret...
2023-04-15 13:17:33 +0000 UTC
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[I was reborn as a dungeon-core and forgot what life was really about until I remembered that it was obviously about violence! (So I made a grand colosseum for the greatest champions of humanity to fight to the death in)]
Being taken from another world, the soul named Munera finds itself reborn as the beating heart of a wild dungeon – an entity known as a Dungeon-Core. With nothing to do but watch humans fight against one another and against itself, confused about its...
2023-04-15 13:13:33 +0000 UTC
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[I was reborn as a dungeon-core and forgot what life was really about until I remembered that it was obviously about violence! (So I made a grand colosseum for the greatest champions of humanity to fight to the death in)]
Being taken from another world, the soul named Munera finds itself reborn as the beating heart of a wild dungeon – an entity known as a Dungeon-Core. With nothing to do but watch humans fight agai...
2023-04-15 13:10:11 +0000 UTC
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New short scene added to the final chapter to close off some other characters and the crusade
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~ [Aurin, the Meek] ~
“All of us have committed grave sins in the past,” says Countess Avoria, looking out over the crowd of people dressed in light garments, their faces obscured by hoods and masks to hide their identities.
Now, after the events of the tower, the worship ...
2023-04-14 10:01:20 +0000 UTC
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Added some new scenes for the forgotten uthra, Mauve, who was first introduced in chapter... 57, I think?
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Chapter 97
Mauve sits on the wooden veranda of the little shack, water running down the brim of her straw hat as she leans back, watching the fields. Her feet are kicked up on the old overturned barrel, inside of which a cat has made its home. She lets it be because it’s cute and she l...
2023-04-12 10:09:15 +0000 UTC
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(I forgot one in my post a moment ago. Also from the final chapter)
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The ground shakes, rumbling with a heavy, slow procession of thunder.
The forest itself, too, moves, the many boughs of the trees losing their proud crowns of snow as the quake heads their way with increasing intensity. The droll, heavy shaking is interrupted by a sharp, loud voice – laughter and excited screams.
– A heavy, ornate stone golem...
2023-04-11 08:16:20 +0000 UTC
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As I go through the editing process, I will be adding more new scenes to Final Core. Here are two new ones that were added to the final chapter 143 to give some more closure =)
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“Now what?” asks Deutero, looking at Marjatta.
The fairy hovers there and turns her head to look at him. She looks back over the destruction, over the wasteland that is the southern region. The witch is dead. Isaiah is dead. The tower is destroyed. ...
2023-04-11 08:04:33 +0000 UTC
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Authors note: 2 New segments added to chapter 3
CHAPTER 3
Sir Knight
Location: The Dungeon, Floor one
The dungeon is an interesting place. Upon descending down the grand staircase on the upper plaza, one finds themselves in an ornate cave-like system that looks like the ruins of an ancient people’s civilization. It’s as if they had been in the process of carving a great temple out of a naturally occurring ...
2023-04-02 19:29:04 +0000 UTC
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“So what happened there?” asks Sir Knight, pointing at the letter that had been lying under the bed, collecting dust, a large finger pointing at a line that declares her catastrophic failure during an attempt to cast a healing spell during her tutelage at the magical academy before she was thrown out.
(Acacia) has FAILED to cast: [Minor Bolt]
The girl, holding her hands together like she’s been doing for the last ten minutes, purses her lips togethe...
2023-03-29 14:17:09 +0000 UTC
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Isn’t it just so quiet now?
Somewhere in the world, in a place where it is cold, a gentle wind presses through a clearing amidst a pool of droll gray and white — a forest, covered in snow and ice. Flakes of soft powder fall loosely from the sky, drifting down toward the world like tufts of volcanic ash that stem from a very distant eruption.
What might have been disastrous there in that faraway place — ruinous — is here entirely unnoticeable, barring the snowfall. The horr...
2023-03-28 21:29:48 +0000 UTC
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Acacia Odofredus Krone
Human, Female, Initiate
Level 05
Location: The City, Home
It’s gotten more expensive again.
“…Pardon me?” asks Acacia, not sure if she heard the alchemist right.
“Two-hundred for one,” replies the woman behind the counter, holding the vial between her fingers and shaking it gently, the thi...
2023-03-26 20:03:16 +0000 UTC
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