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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 180: A warm place

Fresh comes back from the drink shelf, setting a bottle of hot coughee down next to Veli for him to warm himself up against and to dry off a little, before they open. Basil and Shamrock are standing on the other end of the counter, decorating a slime-toy together with assorted flowers and berries. Jubilee is scribbling something in the ledger.

“Careful, it’s super hot,” she says to the shivering fairy who, with his good hand, rubs his hair dry with a scrap of fabric thr...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 30: Devotion

Everything goes white.

Tick. Tick. Tick.

Night has long since fallen. The constant sound of ticking strikes out around the man, sitting alone hunched over his dust-coated desk, working under dying lantern light. The many voices of the clocks filling the room, as if he were surrounded by the heartbeats of his children.

Oriol turns the screwdriver, trying to tighten this last screw just the right amount. If he makes it too tight, the mechanism ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 179: Breakfast

Fresh stands out on the balcony of their home, peering through the small telescope that they have sitting out here, as she looks around at the night-sky. She had just come back from the city hall half an hour ago. Shamrock and Jubilee had already gone to bed and Basil is downstairs, taking a hot bath to fight off the last of her sickness.

It is cool outside and she stares through the lens of the telescope, trying to figure out what it is that she is supposed to be seeing. The...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 29: Voracity

As he opens his eyes, laying on top of the damp grass, Canta notices that he can’t feel his legs. He listens to the wet squelching sound coming from down below at his waist. His mind, still drunk, already assumes that it knows what’s going on as he lifts his head to tell Alleluia to settle down and let him sleep off the drink before she starts mimicking the rabbits that the two of them had seen while they were in the forest. The first thought that comes to him after that, is that they’r...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 178: Stargazer

It is dark outside as Fresh walks through the city, which is still held alight by the few large, shining crystals that float over it, washing it over with a calm pastel light which seems  more than unusual for this dark hour. Glass jangles in her bag; items that she needs for her scheme to work.

Now that summer is coming to an end, night comes faster and faster and the days feel shorter. Not that she ever really notices, since she spends most of her days locking herself ...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 28: Relish

The noise of shrilling crickets fills the air, the sounds of their many cries intermingling with the loud percussive and flute music that is being played and with the many excited voices outside, down in the garden. They have already begun with the festivities.

The garden erupts with sounds of unusually loud cheers, muffled by the stone walls of their room, as apparently someone has accomplished something worthy of such praise. Canta assumes that the drinking has started alre...

Dungeon Item Shop - 177: Rude

Fresh and Shamrock sit across from each other, each on either side of the table. The two of them stare with narrowed, challenging stares, as their contest continues. Fresh had assumed that she would be a match for the man, given that she always eats a generous amount of snacks during the day. But the discomfort and nausea welling in her stomach is starting to make her realize that she may have been mistaken about that.

Still, she holds her gaze steady, not wanting to let him ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 176: Magical Floating Fairy House

Fresh stands behind the counter, next to Jubilee and bags some items up for a customer.

“Thank you, have a nice day!” she says to the man, who takes his bag and leaves without replying.

“You don’t have to say that to every single person, goo-brain,” says Jubilee. Fresh stares at her friend for a moment.

“But then how will they know that I want them to have a nice day?”

Jubilee places their hands on their hips. �...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 175: Happenstance

 It is the afternoon of the next day. After she finished making her telescopes last night, Fresh had made a bunch of simple tools to attract more of the local craftsmen inside. Business is picking up again too, especially with the new rings that are, in her eyes, attracting an insane amount of attention. She supposes that the effect probably is really strong, like Basil had warned her about.

But despite all of that, Fresh is outside of the city, walking through the fores...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 27: Proclivity

~*+- PROFILE -+*~   HP: ----- "Canta" SOUL: 24/24↑   LEVEL: 4 ↑

EXP: 0/50

CLASS: [Sin-Eater]

STATUS

HUNGER: You are pretty full

THIRST: You are a little thirsty

SUB-CLASS: N...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 174: Plucking

It is late at night. Basil is still fast asleep, apparently having fallen into a fever after all, much to Fresh’s worry. Jubilee has gone to bed as well.

“Tools…” mutters Fresh to herself, as she tinkers with some iron bars upstairs behind the counter. It is past their closing time. Fresh stands there, thinking about what kinds of tools she should make, so that they can attract a less adventurous clientèle. Probably just the common things, like back in the north? Ham...

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Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 173: Another day

Fresh stands with crossed arms outside of the door, watching as the load of glass weapons is loaded up onto a cart. She doesn’t see many of them up here on the mountain, carts, let alone any of the anqas who apparently aren’t fond of heights, which she thinks is funny for birds. But then again, they don’t seem like the kinds of birds that can fly. No, rather this is a hand-drawn cart that a couple of men had simply pulled behind themselves.

A cloaked man stands next to ...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 26: Solicitude

City life isn’t so bad, really thinks Canta, as he stares at the upside down building. Sure, there are a lot of people here, far more than he is used to and he’s a bit of a celebrity too, that’s kind of fun on the first day but then it does get annoying immediately after that. On the other hand, there’s so much food though. Ah…

He ate so much last night. Real food. It was the best. Meat. Stews. Bread. BREAD. Real, hot, fresh bread. It was heaven.

He...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 172: Hmm

“You can do it!” says Fresh. All of the tiredness is washed away from her pale face, as she clenches her fists in excitement. Basil sits behind her, sideways on a chair and is leaned back against the wall. The priestess holds a cold bottle of tea against her damp forehead. She apparently doesn’t share Fresh’s current morning energy at this spectacle.

Veli the fairy, is on the counter, doing push-ups with one arm, as his other is still in the sling. She isn’t sure ho...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 171: Two together

It is early in the morning, a few hours before daybreak. Fresh and Basil, both tired and a little delirious, are ecstatic about their results and cling to each other in a sweaty hug as they spin around in a circle, in an odd half-dance, half-wild-jubilation, down in the basement. This might perhaps be an unusual thing for the priestess to do, but she has little power to resist the adapting of her tired and already weakened personality to Fresh’s in this exciting moment of triumph. Especiall...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 25: Ambition

Canta sits leaned back against the back of the chair, his fingers tapping against the table, as he impatiently waits for whatever big-shot they were sitting here waiting on. Honestly, he couldn’t care less about meeting some bishop or some cardinal or whoever it was.

His stomach growls, causing three pairs of eyes to look his way. Alleluia, Valenti and Salvador all sit at the table together with him in a small room that Canta assumes is the meeting place, which, given that ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 170: Compatibility

A cold wind blows past her head, billowing the strands of her freshly washed hair out to the sides. As it moves, the cold fingers of the breeze touching her scalp, Fresh realizes how long her hair has grown since the start of her ‘new life’. All of the long, golden strands are already reaching down past her shoulders at this point.

She stands out on the balcony, staring up at the sky, together with Basil. The other two have gone to bed, after helping them carry the harves...

Dungeon Item Shop - Poll 10

The harvest-moon is soon to rise, offering a unique crafting opportunity, given its strong healing properties! What should Fresh focus on making? =)

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 169: The help

“Do I really have to do this?” asks Veli, looking around nervously.

“Do you want to keep your job?” asks Jubilee, threatening him once again. Veli gulps and nods quietly. “I thought so.”

Jubilee lifts their hand, pointing with their thumb to the small ‘doll-house’ that Fresh had made, which sits on top of the counter. It isn’t very magical yet and it doesn’t float and it’s not even fully furnished, still being very much ‘in progress’...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 168: Home Cooking

People hurriedly run inside of the tunnel as the surging rain picks up pace outside, pushing through the underground with a loud, sharp whistle, as it shears along the rock-face. Fresh peers out of the window, watching as people run by, laughing to each other as they shake out their wet clothes. Apparently, a storm has come over the mountain.

It is late in the evening. The day had been long, but in Fresh’s eyes, successful.

The others had taken care of the ...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 24: Admiration

Canta isn’t really sure what is that he had expected as the carriage draws into the gates of the city, as Alleluia’s bewildered face stares out together with his. Water. A rushing waterfall crashes down against the ground below, falling from the highest point of the white-stone walls and they’re heading right towards it.

“The fuck is that?” asks Canta.

“You might want to close the window,” advises Valenti.

“Huh…?” asks Can...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 167: Secret hopes

“Hey,” says Fresh to the fairy, waving him over with a finger as she finishes her project, with Basil looking over her shoulder, to see if she did it right. She’s never made anything like this before, let alone something so small and so delicate.

The store is already busy and running. Jubilee and Shamrock take care of it, while the two of them handle this off to the side.

The fairy flies over, landing on the counter, a dirty rag in his hand. Fresh leans...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 166: Grit

Jubilee holds out their hand, letting the fairy drop the gruesome trophy down into their open palm. While Jubilee takes a closer look at the eye, making sure that it’s actually fresh and not just store-bought, Basil runs over and heals the fairy. While not a great idea in regards to keeping her priestess class a secret, Fresh asks her to do it nonetheless, whispering into her ear that it isn’t like the fairy knows about such things.

(Basil) uses: [Minor Healing Wave] 2021-08-05 18:57:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Sin-Eater - Chapter 23: Salacity

The journey is mostly peaceful for that first stretch. The carriage rolls on. The troop of lightly armored soldiers and priests marching in front of and behind it, the sounds of their boots accompanying the crunching of the dirt beneath the heavy wheels of the carriage. It seems to be more of a less strictly run outfit, as most of the priests and soldiers, long since used to long marches, spend most of the journey making idle small talk. Though Canta does wish that they were perhaps a little ...

Dungeon Item Shop - Chapter 165: A little slime

Fresh is on the floor, crawling on her knees with a damp rag in her hand as she dusts the lowest shelves. Basil is just behind her, dusting and wiping off the middle shelves and Shamrock is in the back, wiping down the highest ones. The three of them are working their way through the aisles of the store, working in tandem like the segments of a snake, as they move along as a whole.

There isn’t a whole lot of dust, but there is a lot of dirt and there are tiny bits of stone ...

Sin-Eater - Chapter 22: Eagerness

Canta pays no mind to the embarrassed looks of the priests that he walks past, as the two of them leave the house. He supposes that they might have been a little loud. But that’s not his problem, as far as he sees it.

“Look!” says Alleluia excitedly, pointing up to the sky as they leave out of the door. Canta follows her finger, staring up at the birds flying through the air, silhouetted by the bright, late-morning sun which hangs high up above them. Its warm rays dryin...