Chapter 28: Pieces and Players
“Really?” Electra asked.
“No, really.” I gave a shrug. “It was actually a hell of a time filling out paperwork the one time I flew to El Salvador. No one ever told me the abbreviation for the United States was EEUU,” I said, sounding out the vowels.
“But what does that even stand for? Like, Estados doesn’t have two E’s.”
“Look who’s flexing her high school Spanish.”
Electra laughed. “Took...
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2022-09-01 19:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 27: Falcon and Falconer
“You utter imbecile!”
Seneschal Hawkwright glared at the captain of the guard, his steel grey eyes narrowed into slits.
“Are you always so utterly incompetent, or did you make an especially determined attempt this time? Did you, perhaps, invite the enemy directly into the heart of the camp, to do whatever they wished? No?”
Across from him, Guard Captain Maria hunched her shoulders under the withering barrage. She...
2022-08-31 02:05:40 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Going to be a bit busy tomorrow, so instead of forgetting again, here's this week's chapter a day early!
Chapter 26: Spawn Camping
The sound of snarls filled the air. Dozens of figures carried wood and water, fodder and food to an encampment much larger than any of the ones we’d found skulking around in my part of the jungle.
Spotting them had been child’s play. The camp was like a wound when seen from above, a gash in the greenery that e...
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Chapter 9: All the World’s a Stage
“How are our stores of bolts?”
Archer and I had somehow wormed our way into the planning commission by that very same afternoon.
Legate Juniper,...
2022-08-21 16:50:02 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 25: Dig Yourself a Hole
I did not end up throwing Electra out of the window.
Call me a puritan, but I tried not to throw away the people I actively needed in my schemes, because it set a bad precedent. Well, no, the bad precedent was already there, I just wanted to move past the generational villainess trauma that mandated I mistreat my underlings for no good reason.
“Where’d you even find this forking drill?” Electra muttered.
I bopped h...
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Chapter 8: …And Full of Terrors
The first attack came in the dead of night.
Somehow, I woke clearheaded, despite drinking more than I should have with Foundling and Archer before going to sleep.
At the sound of ...
2022-08-11 00:52:14 +0000 UTC View PostDevil’s Foundry Chapter 24: Say My Name
“We should talk,” I said again.
Despite that, I had some trouble coming up with the right words to express the odd, stretching and tightening feeling forming in my stomach.
It wasn’t like I’d never been hit on before. Oh sure, after that whole debacle with Aegis Corp that catapulted me into my villain career, I’d had to block all of my socials. Prior, I’d gotten the same irregular stream of truly...
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2022-07-27 16:43:06 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the first episode of God Save the Queen is finished, I've decided I want at least a one month break before starting 'episode two' of that story. God Save the Queen will appear on next month's poll, but for now vote one what story will take its place this month!
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Chapter 10: The Queen’s Speech
Obi-Wan came to in fits and starts.
He found himself blinking away tears from his eyes at the gentle light spilling in through wide, freeing windows. The sound of soft music lingered at the edge of his hearing. It took him a moment to realize he was safe in Theed, not still trapped in the darkness of the Lucrehulk command ship.
“Obi-Wan.” A hand came to rest on...
2022-07-25 21:39:25 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: This one's a doozy.
Chapter 9: Prodigal Daughter, Prodigal Son
I woke the next day feeling groggy, but far less exhausted.
Morning light spilled through my windows; I thought I would have slept longer. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, stumbling over to my bathroom. A familiar sink waited for me, toothbrush sitting in a cup as an odd anachronism of the Naberrie family home in Theed.
I splashed water on my face, combing finger...
2022-07-21 21:40:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 8: Paths Less Traveled
I stood over the still form of Obi-Wan Kenobi.
He still lived, though he’d woken only briefly in the day since he’d been recovered from the Trade Federation command ship.
At the moment, he lay in a bacta bath, submerged from the waist down in liquid as delicate droid instruments attached to his medical bed ensured that there were no complications in the new prosthetic legs that had been installed just below his knee.
...
2022-07-14 06:13:12 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 23: Call Me Maybe
We moved to a different inn after the Tarnished crashed our party.
The boys got two rooms for our little group, and Electra and I took the one with a window we could jump out of. Hopefully things wouldn’t come to that, but as they said, it wasn’t paranoia if they really were out to get you.
Electra poked one of the ratty, straw-filled mattresses as we entered the room. “Don’t supposed you have an water bed in that utility be...
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Chapter 7: Three Fates
The tank fire splashed against the shield veil. The Gungan war fambaas were well trained to ignore such distractions.
Boss Nass watched from the walls of Theed as the Droid Army deployed, ranks of tan battle droids standing in stark contrast...
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2022-06-30 03:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 6: The Battle of Naboo
With a flash, we reverted back to real space on the far side of one of the gas giants in Naboo’s outer system. I took a deep breath, looking over the grey-green clouds of Mel-or I as the rest of the Death Watch fleet blinked into existence around us.
“All fleet elements arriving in formation, sir.”
“Excellent.” The holo of the Deathwatch commander flickered into existence next to me. “Let’s see what t...
2022-06-30 02:52:47 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 5: The Pen and the Sword
The moon had breathable atmosphere, albeit barely. We would be wearing simple respirators, far more Naboo chic than the clunky ones the Jedi carried.
“I’d appreciate if you came with us, Master Jinn,” I said to Qui-Gon as my security team assembled in the loading bay.
“Are you sure that is wise?” He cupped his chin with weathered fingers. “Mandalorians have a long and difficult history with the Jedi Order.”
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Chapter 4: The (Hyperspace) Road Less Traveled
“Your majesty, are you seriously considering their offer?”
Panaka was a good captain of security. For better or worse, that did not make him a good politician.
I tilted my head. “H...
2022-06-09 17:40:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 22: Just Business
After the boys and Eloncio worked their way through another round of truly atrocious beer, we finally got down to brass tacks.
“What can you tell me about the city?” I asked.
Eloncio shrugged. “‘Bout the same as always, just worse.”
I nodded. One didn’t co-opt a bunch of disgraced former adventurers if things were going great at home. “Can you elaborate on that?”
“Lots more patrols.” He cracked a lazy...
2022-06-08 04:29:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 18: Work Life Balance
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Academy City had a form for when your appearance was changed because of an esper ability.
Actually, it had three forms: one for when your appearance was changed as a result of your own ability, one for someone else’s ability, and the last one for when your appearance was changed as result of technology derived from esper abilities. I was filing away the whole Indian Poker Card nonsense under that third catego...
2022-06-04 02:02:38 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 21: The Hearse Right Here
In the mirror, I watched a wagon covered in a dusty white tarp wind itself down the cracked clay road. My viewpoint would overfly the wagon before looping back around. The commanding view was only cut by the thick canopy of green flanking the raised berm of the roadway.
“Now I finally know what it feels like to be the United States of America,” I said.
Electra pulled her head back into the cart. “You already made a dro...
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2022-05-29 22:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the first book of The Devil's Foundry is published, I've decided to take some time to make some positive changes to my patreon and discord in order to improve our community.
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2022-05-28 15:50:17 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the first book of The Devil's Foundry is published, I've decided to take some time to make some positive changes to my patreon and discord in order to improve our community.
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2022-05-28 15:48:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4: Hi! My Name Is!
By the time we got Darkness her shield, Aqua had completely forgotten the blonde was an Eris worshiper. It was honestly a little incredible how quickly her little mind could utterly abandon a topic. What was more incredible was how she’d landed a job in heaven.
Like Mom used to say, it really did take all kinds.
Aqua was not my current problem though; that would be the blonde crusader on my other arm.
“Darkness, you can l...
2022-05-28 01:02:21 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 20: Eyes Turned Skyward
We’d stopped a ways away from Silverwall in the predawn hours, so I could set one last plan into motion. Fortunately, my skill to summon demons was multitudinous in its application. While I could always pull out a hammer in the form of a horde of lesser demons, I’d found the best uses tended to be in the form of a scalpel.
The cart sat by the side of the road, while Electra and I were a dozen or so paces deeper into the jungle. ...
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