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Blood & Fur 106: Feathered Serpent

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The Feathered Serpent was blinding to look at. 

His mere presence would have surely burned my eyes were I not half a god, for his polished white scales each glowed with the radiance of suns and stars. Great quetzal feathers adorned his body in a display of blue, green, red, and all the shimmering colors known to the living. ...

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Dungeon Wreckers 69: Belly of the Beast

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Matthew left Ulysses’ home without looking back. Ulysses didn’t try to stop his old friend, and he didn’t take anything with him; not his bag, not John’s gun, nothing but the clothes on his back. 

He didn’t need anything else where he was going. 

Matthew stood outside under the midday sun, gazing at the s...

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Board & Conquest 49: After Us, The Flood

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Goreville reached the top of the hill and planted his sword into the mana locus. 

A statue of his god, many times his own size, immediately arose from the earth in all of its primeval splendor. A pulse of energy blanketed the group of outriders with their lord’s blessing. 

“It is done, Lord Wepwawet!” Goreville declared w...

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Board & Conquest 48: Titan Onslaught

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General Peridot was a soldier at heart. Although he led his men into battle, he never forgot that he answered to his liege and country. He had often voiced his opinion and argued with his leadership, but never outright disobeyed. 

It felt wrong that he was even considering it today. 

“I beg you to reconsider, Your Majes...

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Dungeon Wreckers 68: Ulysses

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His friends were alive and awake. 

Matthew’s sense of relief when Florence invited him, Amélia, and the other visitors into the hospital room was palpable. The Doc had just finished operating on John to rewire his Blue-scrambled brain and align his neurons back in a way that didn’t cause him to pass out from the pain, while confirming K...

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Board & Conquest 47: Death to Politics

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The rest of the gathering proved very productive and Wepwawet learned quite a few things by the end of it, some of which he wished he hadn’t. 

The gods drank their fill of divine alcohol until some struggled to teleport back to their domain—Susanoo ended up stuck in a wall at one point, which forced Set to bring it down to get him out—...

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Blood & Fur 105: Stillborn Past

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The Underworld shone a little brighter when I arrived. 

The morning star’s glow had grown a little stronger, though by such a small amount I could hardly notice it. I wondered if that was a message from the Feathered Serpent that the road ahead of me was the right one, but that I still had a long way to go.

Whatever the c...

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Dungeon Wreckers Chapter 67: Azathoth

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The Doc had been freed to treat John and Kari, but he ended up spending most of the morning examining Matthew himself. 

The tests unfolded like the first ones the Association put Matthew through in the early days. Florence had lent them her office, and the Doc asked his student to practice with his Key while he used his own to...

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Board & Conquest 46: Cram School

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It felt good to return home. 

Months passed in the blink of an eye to immortal gods, but his time spent on Elphion had seemed so much longer to Wepwawet. The sight of his father’s pyramid had never seemed so comforting before, especially since his avatar had grown stable enough to leave the classroom and return to the Egyptian Pantheon’s d...

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Board & Conquest 45: Death Pool

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With only forty-eight hours separating Elphion from its first Titan Incursion, Miss Athena summoned her entire class to an emergency meeting. 

Wepwawet hadn’t seen all of his fellow students gathered this way since they re-established contact with the Nexus. Their avatars had regained some color and stability since that time, probably becau...

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Board & Conquest 44: Doomsday Clock

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It had taken so many months, but they’d finally managed to rebuild their school group chat!

“Arty!” Ganesha immediately rushed to embrace Artemis the moment their spirit projections joined together in the heavens above. “Group hug!”

“Group hug!” Artemis replied before pulling Wepwawet in, her arms tightening arou...

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Blood & Fur Chapter 104: Fit for an Emperor

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A/N; this chapter includes a rather lengthy sex scene, so I put brackets if you want to skip it. Otherwise, as warned earlier, I'll be on break next week for TPR-game related meetings, so next chapter will be published on April 19th. 

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When you made an actor the king, t...

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Board & Conquest 43: Kraken's Witnesses

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Never!” The word echoed through Narc’s temple with such power that the walls trembled. “I said never!”

“Be reasonable!” Victoire argued with Insupportable. The dragon’s burns—which had proved severe enough to require Alpine’s healing salves to treat—hadn’t made him any more amenable to discussion. ...

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Board & Conquest 42: Family Feud

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Goddamn dragons!

Wepwawet knew he should have put Insupportable on ice when he had the chance! He had barely left that lizard unattended for a few hours to focus on building up Narc’s defenses, and all it earned him was a diplomatic incident!

At least capturing that Princess Topaz finally forced Pele’s hand. Their overlapping Influences ...

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Board & Conquest 41: Interlude: Magma Princess

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Jasper had knelt a warrior, and now rose as a Champion. 

“Take pride, Jasper,” Lady Pele of the Eternal Flame declared once her divine light faded away. “Now blessed with my flame of victory and the blessing of the Longstrider, never again shall you know defeat!”

“Jasper!” His troops and fellow warrior...

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Blood & Fur Chapter 103: Brighter than Gold

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True to her word, Killa secured us entrance into the Sapa capital. The generals manning Fort Saskay preferred to stand down rather than risk the death of their Emperor, since unlike me, Manco would only rise from the grave as a monster hungry for the blood of the living. 

I feared we would have to keep my roaming palace outside ...

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Board & Conquest 40: Crafting Days

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Victoire liked what she saw. 

She overlooked Promesse’s training ground from her window, where Lord Raymond drilled new recruits in the arts of small unit tactics. Rows after rows of werelings stabbed mannequins with spears while others ran across a yard with a crushing weight of supplies on their back. Learning how to endure a...

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The Final Commerce Emperor book is out on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited!

Hello everyone,

It's with a pleasure that I'm announcing the launch of the last entry of my Commerce Emperor trilogy on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! As always, I would appreciate any reviews, shares or shouts!

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Board & Conquest 39: Dungeon Horizon

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And so, Wepwawet added a giant fort to his list of settlements. 

Jarlack and Cynisca shrewdly negotiated their sellsword company’s services and access to the local mana locus as a package deal. Their services didn’t come cheap—besides the toll on the soon-to-be-expanded passage, they asked for a large share of any loot fr...

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Board & Conquest 38: Trade & Expenses

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Ganesha had quite the unusual Miracle collection.

Wepwawet had been wondering how his fellow classmates would build their decks. Whereas he had been completing multiple quests and thus gained a balanced variety of Miracles, he noticed a very different trend in Ganesha’s deck. 

“You have a lot of Arti...

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Blood & Fur Chapter 102: The Smiling Dead

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Widowhood suited Lady Zyanya well.

Twice had I indirectly killed her husband, both brothers. The first, Tlazohtzin, was an innocent whom I set to take the fall for the disastrous New Fire Ceremony and the chaos that followed; the second, Tlaxcala, was an inept opportunist whom I exploited for political gain and then cuckolded in pu...

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Board & Conquest 37: Elephant Luck

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The so-called ‘Fort Jarlack’ was a fortress in name only. 

Goreville knew he should have tempered his expectations after seeing the impregnable Citadel Sapphire and Promesse, but the current area could be at best called a fortified camp and little else; if scaled up for much larger beings then werelings. A giant-sized fence of sharpened tr...

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Board & Conquest 36: Biology Class

A/N: this is the second chapter posted today (explanations in chapter 35) so if you've missed the former, just click on previous chapter. 

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And so Wepwawet sent a delegation east to follow Cynisca and her group back to their superiors, and hopefully reach them soon. 

The clock was ticking. Gener...

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Board & Conquest 35: Slimony

A/N: okay, so I accidentally released an early chapter on RR due to auto-update shenanigans so... I'm releasing another B&C chapter early to keep you patrons far in advance. Double update time!

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Raiding the vault proved to be very profitable. 

Wepwawet and Victoire elected to examine the entire...

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Board & Conquest 34: Of Gods & Princesses

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The Holy Vault had always been one of the Glarmes’ best kept secrets.

Located in the central keep’s basement, the chamber was older than the rest of the castle. The knights had built it since the days when they first found the Sacred Source and raised Promesse stone by stone to protect these two areas. The secret of what it conta...

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Blood & Fur Chapter 101: In Death's Arms

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A/N: this chapter includes a NSFW scene... but part of it is extremely plot relevant, so put brackets before the very important part. 

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Nenetl turned out to have inherited more than her kindness from Father, as he was the one who handily won their game.

I acquainted myself well at the game and ended u...

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Board & Conquest 33: Clean-Up

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A/N: as promised last week, a third Board & Conquest chapter will now be posted on all Saturdays from now on, starting with this week-end. See you again then.

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Obviously, the first thing Wepwawet did was to brag to his parents and teacher about his victory. 

“Father, I did it!” Wepwawet announced the momen...

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Blood & Fur Volume 3 is Available on Amazon!

Hello everyone!

As announced a while back, the third volume of my Blood & Fur series (covering the second stretch of the Xibalba arc) has now launched on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! As always, I would appreciate any reviews or shouts!

 

Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0DPM...

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Board & Conquest 32: Warming Up

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A/N: I have created a document including Wepy's deck and army according to the current chapter here (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uoU2ht6obxBV25NvU-TAFaf4gZ1HB2takvLKR-zfPDc/edit?usp=sharing )&n...

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Update: CE 3 up for preorder, April break, schedule change...

Hello everyone,

Just a general update to keep you informed of some developments on my end, from new book launches to a break in April.

  • Commerce Emperor 3 for pre-order

First of all, I'm happy to announce that my publisher has finally given me a launch date for the third and final volume of Commerce Emperor on ...

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