KnightofTempest

Scenes From Elsewhere (Carthage III)

For the past year, a Civil War had been in the offing in Carthage. Gisgo had never formally relinquished his title of Malik to the Assembly of Shophets when they demanded he do so. Instead, he took his Army into Numidia to aid the Massylii in defe...

Chapter 21

The Dodds Mansion was like some sorta time capsule, a Gilded Age Remnant that stuck out like a sore thumb in the modern skyline. Shit'd been built at the turn of the century by Wealthy Investor Edward Dodds, the Old Man of the Sandman from back in...

Interlude: Ra

Ra was, slowly, making his way around his Empire on his Great Progress. Already he had been feasted with gusto by his son, Heru'ur, and with somewhat less gusto by his brother, Apophis. Most recently, he had been feasted by the ravishing and myste...

Chapter 90

Watching the fights of the New Faces Team was an educational experience. The Brawler, Nanakase, seemed to mostly be just that, a brawler. Some of his moves had a fluidity to them that made me think he had some level of rudimentary training, but di...

Eastern Mediterranean as of the Peace of Attica 279 BC

Purple: Epirus

Light Purple: Epirote Clients

Gray-Blue: Aitolian League

Blood Red: Sparta

Wine Red: Spartan Clients

Orange: Macedon

Blue: Thrace

Rose: Dardania

Dark Green: Empire of Bolgios 2025-01-14 10:20:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 50

Athens was surrounded. As winter crept upon us and December dawned, my Army had dug into positions around Athens and settled in for a siege. Our Trebuchets hammered the walls as days turned to nights, my siege engineers working in shifts in order ...

Chapter 100

I unfortunately only had a single night to spend with Brienne before having to march out of the Capital with Stannis' Army for the Battle with Tywin's Army. Even more unfortunately, the Red Keep was so crowded with Lords that any attempt at anythi...

Chapter 16

The Jarl's Castle was a great monolith of tiered stone on a hill overlooking the main street of Jannathstaad. Five levels of towers and walls rose up along the hillsides, leading to a great keep at the crest of the hill. There was only one way int...

Selima of Murann level Eight

Class: Cleric (Glyphscribe of Deneir) 8

Race: Human (Amnian)

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

STR-15

DEX-16

CON-18

INT-16

WIS-18

CHA-14

HP: 76

Fortitude: 12

Reflex: 8

...

Lady Shavariel Level Eight

Class: Fighter 8

Race: Elf (Sea Elf)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-13

DEX-18

CON-18

INT-16

WIS-16

CHA-16

HP: 92

Fortitude: 11

Reflex: 9

Will: 8

AC: 33

...

Janessa Goodharbor Level Eight

Class: Sorcerer 8

Race: Halfling (Lightfoot)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-14

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-18

HP: 48

Fortitude: 8

Reflex: 9

Will: 11 (+13 vs Fea...

Robar the Red Level Eight

Class: Bard 4/ Swashbuckler Rogue 4

Race: Human (Northman)

Alignment: Neutral Good

STR-20 (18)

DEX-22 (18)

CON-20 (18)

INT-16

WIS-20 (18)

CHA-18

HP: 83

Fortitude: 10 (+14 vs Bardic...

Chapter 9

Lizzie's Bar was all the way in Kabuki. V wasn't around for me to bum a ride off of for this trip either, as she'd been contacted by Tio Padre about a Job. Something about a Fixer out in Santo Domingo who needed to be Zeroed with extreme prejudice...

Interlude: Memento Mori

Captain Arnošt Svatoš of the Alpha Company of Delta Battalion, First Guards Regiment, had been sent in ahead of the rest of First Guards that were already unloading in the city of Nova Salona. Nova Salona was effectively functioning as the ...

Chapter 15

The Âu Cơ Fortress was, at least nominally, impregnable. Bastions of Trinium-Reinforced Stone atop a large mountain, with tunnels honeycombed throughout the mountain and redoubts on a number of nearby peaks that could support each other or the m...

Chapter 89

The next two matches were informative, not just for me, but for anyone paying attention. Kusanagi Kyo clearly had some form of Divine Empowerment, as the flames his Chi sparked forth registered as slightly holy in nature with a faint tinge of the ...

Chapter 32

The first thing I did after getting on the Hogwarts Express was to find Hermione and exchange late Christmas Presents. Once again, I gave her a Tebo-Bone Disillusionment Ring and got a book in return. This one was called Skeletons and Mustard Gas ...

Images for Chapter Fifteen

Here are the images for Chapter Fifteen. We have a few major players making their first on-screen appearance, so hopefully the AI Generator got Elminster, Sarevok, and the Blackstaff right. As for Gorion and Mei, I've always felt that Liam Neeson ...

Chapter 99

As I entered the Throne Room of the Red Keep for the first Court of King Stannis' Reign in King's Landing, I couldn't help but notice the mood was a lot brighter than I thought it would be. Part of that was largely the result of what was going on ...

Chapter 15

As I dreamed, I found myself transported to what seemed to be a giant casino with magnificently plush silk carpets dyed richly in blue and silver. All around me were games of chance going on, as tables of expensive Darkwood bore velvet coverings m...

Chapter 45

As soon as we returned to the Mansion, I was off to grab a shower and a change of clothing. Atlantis didn't have showers, per se. Instead, they used a sort of sonic machine that vibrated the grime off you using sonic pulses to create currents in t...

Chapter 56

As I reconvened with my Council using the HPG, I had to thank Precentor Armanovitch for all the work she'd done for me as part of our small, but growing, conspiracy against the leading factions of ComStar. Not only had she run interference for me ...

Images for Chapters Thirty and Thirty-One

Unfortunately, Packing for my Camping Trip is taking up a lot of my time tonight and I have to sleep soon. That means you guys get this instead of a second update. Hopefully, you aren't too put out by that, but I did say this trip had been planned...

Chapter 31

The Gift Exchange was a larger affair at the Ball than it would have been elsewhere. There were, apparently, two separate gift exchanges. With the Adults exchanging second while the kids went first. This seemed to be meant for the adults to c...

Announcement: Small Pause This Weekend

I will be camping this weekend, meaning I will have limited, if any, internet Access. I will have a chapter out tonight, maybe two, but then there will be no chapters until Sunday Evening when I return from camping.

Apologies for the inconve...

Chapter 20

The second that cackle rang out, Jackie knew that he was in for some shit. The lights winking out as the fuses blew from the sheer mystic power of an unbound and vengeful spirit was the sorta shit Jackie'd expected. The forcible vacating of the Ho...

Chapter 88

As the fight recommenced, Kim launched himself into the air about twenty feet up flipping around and flaring his Chi to come down at me with a diving kick that somehow had him rocketing down at me. I was forced to dodge, diving away from the kick ...

Interlude: Battle of King's Landing (Non-Ricasso) II

Stannis Baratheon growled as he cut down a Gold Cloak who was trying to cut him down with a halberd, parrying the descending chop with his blade and literally kicking the man off the walls of the Capital to smash his skull on the flagstones below....

Chapter 14

Lieu Hanh was dead. I hadn't trusted the reports I'd been given at first, thinking them a trick. Most Goa'uld would try faking their own death if they could use it to escape, perhaps hijacking the body of some Technician or Jaffa in the Process. H...

Chapter 14

The Very First thing that happened as Thorfinn the Tall led the Crew of the Hammerdown against our party was that Janessa looked over to the right with a sharp motion of her head. She called out a warning mere moments before a smell ...