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The hunt for Casval went on well into the night, at which point they lost track of him.
Simon should have kept Meredith by his side and sent Leonard instead to warn Dassein. However good a soldier he might have been, Leonard lacked the enhanced Perception stat that might have allowed them to track the flying traitor into the night.&nbs...
2025-10-05 11:20:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everyone,
Now that the second volume of Board & Conquest has concluded, I thought it was time for an update. I had hoped to post one earlier but then work on the Perfect Run game picked up fast.
In any case, I have a few news to report.
Board & Conquest Volume Break
The first and most important news is that I have completed Volume 2 of Board & Conquest this morning on Patreon, so I will soon start to compile it into...
2025-10-04 10:43:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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Miss Athena delivered the updated class scores right before the vote.
Since the Second and Third Incursions happened right next to each other, the students only received a single ranking covering the period after Whiro’s attack on Elphion to Hastur’s defeat.
Wepwawet recalled how nervous he had been when he recei...
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True to his word, Dassein provided Simon with all the equipment he needed, including reports on the bounties, fast horses, soldiers’ rations, and even an enchanted flaming sword. Simon didn’t particularly need the latter, considering he already had his energy-sucking morning star, but he accepted the gift anyway.
He had re...
2025-09-30 20:24:06 +0000 UTC View Post
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The promised moment all of Wepwawet’s Champions had been waiting for was finally here.
The Ranks-Up.
Between the Champions that perished in Whiro’s Incursion but still retained experience on revival, those who participated in Hastur’s battle, and those whose side-activities—mostly hunting Tiamat’s brood—involv...
2025-09-30 09:41:17 +0000 UTC View Post
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Dassein, second son of Overlord Balzam Magnos, was a lion of a man.
It had been over a year since Simon last saw his half-brother, but he hadn’t changed a bit; he was still the same six and a half foot tall titan of pure muscles that towered over most men. His mane of red hair fell upon the sides of his square face and scarred jaw, being tied in a braid...
2025-09-28 23:42:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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A cataclysmic explosion shook Carcosa to its very foundations.
Hastur stared at the board in shock as pieces of his blasted apart Commander fell upon the canal in a rain of torn tentacles, grey flesh, and yellow blood. Wepwawet allowed himself a sigh of relief upon seeing a more or less unharmed Slimon bouncing off the shore, sh...
2025-09-27 09:03:46 +0000 UTC View Post
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Eole was a most pleasant companion during the flight to Telluria; or rather she pretended to be one.
“You cannot believe how happy I am to find someone who can speak my tongue, Your Highness,” she said with a wide smile, her hand holding her steaming teacup. “I thought myself trapped in a foreign land filled with barbarians.”
“Knowing the Kish lang...
2025-09-25 20:26:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sun Wukong completed the card exchange without much enthusiasm. “I’ll pick Apocalypse: The Great Spiral since it’s the most dangerous one. You can take my Naga Meditation Pond Animism, for all the good it’ll do you.”
“Your Champions are not immune to mental effects,” Hastur noted when Sun Wukong stole his card. “Yo...
2025-09-25 08:42:14 +0000 UTC View Post
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“Louis wants to see you.”
The sentence echoed in Simon’s mind as Lauriane guided him to her brother’s personal quarters. He had never done this in any of his previous reigns. What had caused this change?
Days had passed since he set the imperial factions on Casval’s tracks. The hunt had taken place in ...
2025-09-23 22:35:50 +0000 UTC View Post
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Every flyer on the board was violently pulled down to earth.
Sagesse, Soumis, and even Epona’s sentient winged chariot were immediately sent plummeting towards the ground by the increased gravity; that alone would be troublesome, but Wepwawet immediately saw the true cruelty of Hastur’s plan when he realized Soumis and Victo...
2025-09-23 07:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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Simon should have known that Anna’s ‘study session’ was just an excuse to drink with friends.
She lulled him into a false sense of security by only inviting him and Casval to her and Tiella’s bedroom, which turned out to be more of a colossal suite with separate bedchambers, a waiting hall, and an expensive salon adorn...
2025-09-22 08:03:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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A/N: I've decided to rename the chapters after a general loop's theme/events for indexation purpose. I'll let you speculate what each title refers to ;) probably gonna try to move chapters to Monday/Wednesday or Friday for consistency.
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Mr. Adrissant was late.
Simon found that quite unusual. He had been attending the Tribal Studies course for...
2025-09-21 09:15:52 +0000 UTC View Post
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This Incursion was a battle against time, in more ways than one.
“Magnos’ Rank increases with each Apocalypse counter on the board,” Wepwawet warned his allies. “Since you can place up to thirteen of them, he can likely reach the maximum Champion rank of 12 if given enough time.”
“Gee, I wonder why he took out your Divine Avatar...
2025-09-20 07:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post
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Simon bashed the zombie’s skull in with his morning star and sent it flying back.
The creature ended its deadly course into a pool of murky green water at the center of the room, down into depths it would not rise again from. Another barnacle-encrusted shambling corpse tried to ambush Simon from behind, but its nauseating stench and grisly growling gave i...
2025-09-18 09:02:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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A horrid monster burst out of the street.
Filou mistook it for a yellow ghost at first, but ghosts didn’t have wriggling tentacles for a beard. Squirmous appendages thicker than a kraken's and longer than ropes burst out from its pallid mask and from beneath its tattered robes in a swarm that broke through stone. The only humanoid part of the creature was its torso and tw...
2025-09-18 07:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post
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The doomsday clock struck one.
“Once played, Apocalypse: The Ends Come For You cannot be removed from the field in any way,” Hastur said. “It reduces the cost of Apocalypse Miracles by one per apocalypse counter in play, and shall crown us with victory once we accumulate thirteen.”
Wepwawet grit his teeth and glanced at Sun Wukong, who rema...
2025-09-16 07:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A/N: last chapter of this one for some time since gotta work on B&C and TPR scripting, but enjoy ;)
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“By the Abyss!”
“Come on, Simon, don’t be like that,” Anna chided him while Tiella scratched her cheek in embarrassment. The three of them had gathered to decide their courses. “What’s done is done.”
“Antonine I...
2025-09-15 14:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Balzam Magnos couldn’t organize an archive to save his life.
Simon didn’t know what he was expecting from his father’s secret private collection, but sheer chaos wasn’t it. Books on genealogy sat sandwiched between notes on cosmic astronomy and half-baked plans to invade the western continent. Browsing through it all gave him the mother of ...
2025-09-14 18:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostHeya everyone,
Just a very short poll to see whether you would prefer that I focus on The Paypocalypse or The Hundred Reigns in the short-term.
Mind you, I'm still going to write both stories (and pleased with the reception they're getting), it's just that with Board & Conquest on one side and work on the game picking up (we're currently starting the Vertical Slice's development so the pace is picking up) I kinda need to prioritize one over the othe...
2025-09-13 16:43:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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At long last, Simon was free to leave.
Days had passed without anyone noticing his Overlord Class or paying attention to him. Louis and Euphemia had forbidden anyone at court to speak of either Father’s death or of his supposed testament, though Simon knew it was only a matter of time until the truth came out. Messengers and soldiers had bee...
2025-09-13 16:41:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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Long shadows now ruled Carcosa.
Thick, unnatural darkness shrouded the city’s streets. Hastur’s Commanders vanished from sight, with only the various gods’ Altars keeping up blips of light in a twilight sea.
“Apocalypse: The Dark Sun curses the board by shrouding it in thick darkness, reducing visibility ...
2025-09-13 09:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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Victoire looked at her team with apprehension.
Filou, Viviane, Slimon, Soumis, Mistouffe, and the others each wore circlets of modified blackstone. Gaspar had contributed to their design from his experience with Archon, which should hopefully strengthen their protective enchantments.
“Those circlets should disrupt mental effects, to a...
2025-09-11 09:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Tears and roars echoed through Miss Athena’s classroom.
“Bakana! BAKANA!” Watatsumi stomped the ground so hard as to make the whole building tremble in his wrath and disbelief. He still hadn’t totally digested his defeat. “Sonna banaka!
“Why?” Axomamma buried her face in her palms, even as Epona and Ishtar tried t...
2025-09-09 09:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post
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True to Lauriane’s warning, the High Council of Endymion summoned him to the war room on the second floor of Castle Frightwall to check on his progress.
‘Come find me in Telluria… if you wish to secure your inheritance, that is.’ Those words annoyed Simon more each time they echoed in his head. He might as well have asked me to find a needle in a hayst...
2025-09-07 19:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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It had been nearly two days since the battle of Saguenay, and somehow the atmosphere was even tenser than before.
Victoire only had to take a look at the sky to know why. She had evacuated with most of her fellow Champions and soldiers to Orestown after obtaining guarantees that Valentine would leave the Lady and her servants unbothe...
2025-09-06 09:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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The empire’s High Council gathered on the morrow to debate Simon’s proposal. He wasn’t invited to the deliberations, but when Lauriane came to bring him to Frightwall Castle’s dungeon, he knew they had tentatively accepted his offer.
There were two ways for a man to gain experience and level up. The first was to act according to the ar...
2025-09-05 11:30:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The atmosphere in the classroom was downright oppressive.
Wepwawet saw grim scowls and expressions of disbelief on his classmates’ faces everywhere he looked. Artemis and Anansi looked exhausted, and though Sun Wukong appeared in better shape, his body was tenser than a bowstring. Axomamma was by far the most devastated, since her territo...
2025-09-04 09:24:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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The Imperial Family hadn’t yet begun to tear itself apart by the time Simon and Lauriane reached the Emperor’s chambers. He wasn’t sure whether he should count himself lucky for it, or not.
“Is there no other way?” Simon wondered out loud, though he already knew the answer.
“I’m afraid so,” Lauriane confirmed. “Anyone with an information-gat...
2025-09-02 18:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post