Along their route, the group only stopped to sleep in the mornings using Uriel’s mobile ice fortress. From the capital city they had first gone west, hitting the fort city of Linnake across the massive gorge by the sixth dawn. From there they made their way south and began a large curve that would eventually lead them to the Razorteeth Mountains to the east of Tulimeir where their last delivery st...
2023-12-07 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The priest of the Mender, Jacob, had been a nice gentleman and helped her relax as he made their first meeting mostly about introductions and goals for even having the sessions. She had felt much better about the whole arrangement when he explained his own goals for helping her process everything she had gone through so that it wouldn’t impact her life in a negative way but that they would go at h...
2023-12-06 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“Thanks for coming here, Phoenix,” Paul said as he shut the door to his study behind her. He gave an apologetic smile, “I know it makes you feel a bit uncomfortable. I can only assume it’s because you view it as the house of a noble family instead of my home. But this room offers a bit more privacy than your dorm.”
“We need extra security for this talk?” Phoenix asked with a rais...
2023-12-05 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul Wayland was led to one of the upper floors of the Temple of the Undertaker by a young acolyte until they reached the office of the local High Priestess. She was also one of the few Emerald Casters in the city, though still only about half way through, but her abilities were not focused around combat but rather cleansing the land of death energy and preparing those that have passed to be put to ...
2023-12-04 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It had been awkward for her to reunite with her party members as she apologized profusely for her stupidity and single-mindedness, leaving them to panic as to her whereabouts. A small part of her had made her believe that they wouldn’t really care if she was gone. And she was both surprised and ashamed to find out just how wrong she had been when they all hugged her fiercely and promptly scolded h...
2023-12-01 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Paul had been a worried mess since he discovered that Phoenix had gone missing. After Dazien had come to his home in search of her, he proceeded to rudely expand his aura around the city but she was nowhere to be found within it, including the home of his prime suspects that he had been working towards finding a suitable reason to imprison without throwing the entire aristocracy into chaos. Despite ...
2023-11-30 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix looked out over the half-frozen lake where she had battled acid spitting puffin monsters, poorly named Icespitters, with her party just the day before yesterday. Had it really only been two days? Not even that. The sun was only just beginning to rise behind her, causing the snow to sparkle. She looked down at the charred stone in her glowing palm. It had been a failure… just like her.
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Dazien knocked on the door to Phoenix’s dorm room. This was the second time she had been abnormally late to meeting them and it was usually not a good sign. This was further confirmed when no answer came and he had Uriel scent for her again, not smelling anything fresh from their Supporter.
He contemplated breaking in but thought it might be pointless if she wasn't there, not to mention get ...
2023-11-28 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix carefully focused on the small stone sitting on the table in front of her. After her party had checked in, they had all decided to try and get some sleep and take the following day off instead of their previous plan of training and shopping, at Saiya’s suggestion. And nobody wanted to argue with the Healer.
After quickly being awoken by another flashback nightmare, however, Phoenix d...
2023-11-27 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix was only able to keep track of time by the cooldowns between portals. At Crystal 6, her portal could now allow around 120 Mundane people through it and she was bolstered by the knowledge of 120 more lives saved each time it flickered out of energy. Her glowing skin, from Tala being merged and absorbing the faint starlight shining high above them, acted as an additional beacon for the civilia...
2023-11-24 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hey, show me those item descriptions before we leave. I wanna add them to my notes,” Rayna asked her as she stretched while looking out over the lake in the early dawn light.
“Sure. Are you certain I should keep them? I know you’ve been cold too. Maybe we can trade them in for multiple smaller items that just help us with the chill?” Phoenix replied, lifting a foot to show off a whi...
2023-11-23 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
‘Do not worry so,’ the voice of Orebela said within Paul’s mind as he stood in front of the Teras Estate, ‘This one is 86% certain the Lord Teras will not remember the time Wayland attempted to court his sister.’
‘Court is a strong word for what I suggested back then,’ the older Adventurer thought back to his Familiar, not consoled at all for the immine...
2023-11-22 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix flew into the air and almost panicked for a moment as the ground rushed away from her. Once she got to the height she wanted, she cut off the power and focused back on the behemoth’s red light as she began to free fall. She initiated [Pull] and soared towards it, maneuvering her body around and bent to land daggers-first followed by feet.
As she collided, she both fe...
2023-11-21 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The group of Adventurers met the next day for the hardest choice of their budding careers: an official party name.
"It should be something bold yet humble, elegant yet simple, something that people can remember and be representative of who we are as a party," Dazien explained to the group.
"How about 'Eat my Fist'?" Rayna suggested with a punch to her palm for emphasis.
"I think th...
2023-11-20 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The next three days of patrols were a hectic mess as the monster spawns seemed to increase and Phoenix found herself and the others needing to support adventuring parties on the ground with the wall cannons more often. When they weren’t on the wall, they were training at the AOA facility once more, though Bliss couldn’t assist much anymore as her party became busy with missions of their own duri...
2023-11-17 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix turned to look at her party leader when he snagged her arm as she turned south to head from her dorm to the gate leading to the international district of Tulimeir. The day was overcast but it hadn’t started snowing yet, though, the threat loomed in the cold air.
“Hey, now’s a perfect time to do a quickie,” Dazien said, gesturing to the west instead.
“What?” she asked ...
2023-11-16 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone 👋
We made it through the “new” first book of the Wayward series! Part 1 of 3 for the Tulimeir Arc is now completely released. Fun fact: the original version of this portion was 75,625 words while this rewritten version ended up 114,892 words long! My tablet starts crashing once I get around the 100k word mark 😅 which was a large motivator for separating the books out more.
I wanted to give a quick thank you to everyone for your support and also do a charac...
2023-11-15 22:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix followed after Paul, having finished securing the necessary materials for her familiar ritual. Her excitement for the new companion had helped banish the memories that had been plaguing her sleep and found it easier to put it behind her as she looked forward to what was ahead instead.
Being back in a skirt with her hair freed from its braid was also helping her mood. She wasn’t plann...
2023-11-15 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Once his Protégé seemed to have calmed down and he relocated them from the kitchen to the sitting room, making some tea that should help relax the young woman rather than more coffee, Paul tried to change to a lighter topic they hadn’t had a chance to discuss yet, “I heard there was some excitement at the wall while I was gone,”
She nodded and when she didn’t continue he prompted, ...
2023-11-14 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“This isn’t like her,” Dazien muttered, glancing at his pocket watch, “She’s never this late to training.”
Uriel shrugged, as he continued through his sword forms, “Maybe Lord Wayland finally returned.”
“Then she would have brought him with her to beat us into the mat,” he pointed out. Then unconjured his sword as he said, “I’m going to go search for her. Maybe so...
2023-11-13 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix was waiting for the final people of her scheduled portal assignments when an unexpected pair walked up to her and she tensed, internally groaning when she realized they were who she was waiting on.
It was the pretty cinderen girl with ash grey hair in a messy bun that had been pushing Dazien to join their party instead. Murinah, she thought her name was. As well as another cinderen that...
2023-11-10 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hey, Cam,” Murina said in her sing-song sweetness, “You don’t have a portal anchor near the Razorteeth Mountains yet, right?”
Her younger brother shook his head, looking up from the book he was currently reading in his room, “No, why? Do you have a mission out there?”
She nodded and closed the door as she entered, “There’s a mission I want but Ramir said he could only ...
2023-11-09 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It was their third night of patrolling the wall and Phoenix groaned into the mental voice chat, apologizing for what felt like the hundredth time, “I’m sorry, you guys. I’m going to yell at Paul as soon as he gets back.”
When they had received their assignment for the start of the blood moon, they were given the dreaded wall patrol for three nights, followed by a night off, which would...
2023-11-08 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“You know, I thought an Adventuring Guild in a magical world would be more like a bulletin board system where people just grab whatever job they wanted to try and then get paid when they return with the monster’s head or something,” Phoenix began describing as she and her two newest companions sat in a small conference room similar to the one she and Uriel had first filled out forms in after t...
2023-11-07 22:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix made her way through the temple district, vaguely recalling the way Priest Lester had led her before to find the Temple of the Warrior and only occasionally double checking the map in her book. Her party had agreed to go there to train instead while Paul was away and Phoenix found herself curious about how it might differ from the AOA room they had gone to.
As the only slightly lost Wa...
2023-11-06 22:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix plopped into the plush booth as Dazien groaned, rubbing his ribs, as he also took a seat in the cafe they had originally visited before their fight with the wights. Uriel sat next to him looking equally exhausted and the Wayfarer sat opposite the two, looking at the menu once more to see what food options there were.
“Your mentor is a mad man,” the amethyst warrior complained, “H...
2023-11-06 21:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dazien remained silent in the small kitchen area as he idly made spiced tea for his partner who was currently sitting near the small hearth of the single room apartment they shared. The only furnishings they bothered getting included the armchair and loveseat near the fireplace, with a small table between the two seats, and the single two-person bed pushed in the far corner against the tinted one-wa...
2023-11-06 21:35:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Dazien realized his mistake too late as the wight passed through him and, when he turned, Phoenix was already falling to the ground. He lunged over her, causing his [Stand Your Ground] ability to cancel but the stacks of [Tenacity] he had built up with it was boosting his Strength attribute quite a bit. He sensed Phoenix’s aura power surround him ...
2023-11-06 21:34:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Phoenix followed a step behind the two men who had stood up abruptly and asked, “What’s happening?”
“Monster spawn inside the walls,” Dazien answered promptly, the joviality from a moment ago now gone, “Near to us too if we’re hearing the alarms. We need to go out and help.”
She and Uriel nodded to him in understanding and followed as he led the way out of the cafe and to...
2023-11-06 21:33:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Mister Oerwynt,
I am writing to request your presence at the Estate of the Noble Wayland House in Tulimeir of Tulim in regards to a matter of utmost importance regarding the divine item within your possession. During my travels performing my duty as an Adventurer, I discovered a prime candidate for consideration. It would behoove you to make haste with t... 2023-11-06 21:32:01 +0000 UTC View Post