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Skyclad - Chapter 4: End of an Age

Rella silently padded onto the balcony with the [Oracle]’s dessert on a plain wooden tray. She placed the fresh pastries on a low table next to the older woman’s partially eaten supper, then stood quietly to the side of the wicker chair in which her mistress rested. There had once been a time when Rella would have wondered why a blind woman liked to spend her evenings on a balcony overlooking the inland sea, but nowadays she took it in stride. The [Oracle] had other ways of seeing t...

Skyclad - Chapter 3: Fruits of Thy Labors

Morgan Mackenzie was starving to death. Merely an hour earlier she had been safe and sound in her apartment taking a bath. At the moment she found herself on an alien world, apparently one with magic based on a fantasy game. She had fallen through some kind of hole in reality, bathtub and all. Landing on a nest of some sort of terrifyingly huge giant birds had both granted her some levels, points, and titles while at the same time nearly killing her before she had any chance to get her ...

Skyclad - Chapter 2: Survival, with a side of screaming

Morgan Mackenzie was falling through the sky in an old fashioned metal bathtub, wearing nothing but soapy bathwater and an expression of total shock and panic. The fact that she was screaming in a state of pure and abject terror should come as no surprise to anyone who might have been present to witness her sudden appearance in mid-air in a strange and alien world. As a matter of fact, her arrival was indeed noticed by several local denizens of her new environs. The first creatures to b...

Skyclad - Chapter 1: The Drop

Morgan Mackenzie was having a very bad day. By the end of her waitressing shift, her relief had yet to show up. None of the other waitresses had been willing to answer their phones, so Morgan was stuck picking up a double shift. As nice as it was collecting tips on a Friday night, she had already had plans, which she had had to cancel.

As if they don’t do this shit on purpose every week, she thought to herself with a bitter smile as she closed out her register and turne...