2.4k words. It's exam week round here and I'll be a little preoccupied for a little while. Hopefully afterwards I can get some more regular updates going. Thanks to everyone for your unending patience with me-me.
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“You’re coming...
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“By the Gods’,” Roderick sighed, flicking his final dice away. “What am I supposed to do with just one dice? How can I bounce back? This game’s unfair.”
“Perhaps you shoul...
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“You do realise if the captain sees you with a weapon, we’re both doomed, right?”
“Will be doomed-dead without my knives,” she countered. “A Skaven without a knife is like a… like a… Skaven without a ...
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“Exactly!”
“Be wary, miss Seeker,” Wilfred warned, raising a crooked finger. “Von Kessel’s tolerance has its limit, and there are those on this ship who hold nothing but disdain for your kind. Until we make la...
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“Greetings, captain,” Roderick replied, and although he’d not had to address a superior in years, his arm snapped up in a prim salute all the same. Old habits die hard, he supposed. “I hope my delay did not cause t...
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“Salutationings,” Skyseeker began, waving a paw. “I… am Skyseeker of Clan Mors, Master Assassin, chosen of Lord Gnawdwell, and disguise extraordinaire!”
She gripped the lip of her hood, peeling the fabric b...
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Forming a crescent shape was a stone foundation, thick jetties and wharfs jutting from the cobbles at various spots along its curved length, spearing out into a panoramic view of an azure ocean. Bobbing in the water were s...
2024-05-10 06:53:41 +0000 UTC View Post2k words. Sorry for the delay guys a combination of busyworking, procrastination, and confusion on how to write this next bit caused some confusion.
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The guards dragged him around the corner and out of sight, Roderick shooting Skys...
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“Oh, we aren’t helping you, manling,” the female interjected. “We are simply letting you march to your death even quicker than you would otherwise. Falsely claiming to be a companion to a friend of th...
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“We could… share the bed, lass.”
Skyseeker opened her mouth in a mix of surprise and horror. “Scandalous!” she exclaimed. “Man-thing can’t SLEEP with Skaven! W-What would Horned Rat say?...
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He delved his fingers into her coat, starting at her neck. Her fur was so fine, the strands indiscernible from another at a touch, almost making it feel like soft velvet. Her tension seemed to have melted away along with h...
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“Take it slow on the beer, lass,” Roderick said, placing a tankard in front of her, pouring her drink until the foam reached the rim. “It’s not a competition.”
“Why can’t it be?” she asked, knocking...
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“The… Crippled Gryphon?” he muttered, chuckling to himself. “Now that’s ironic, isn’t it lass?”
As they moved up to the tavern door, he pulled Skyseeker aside, the pair stepping into a nearby alleyway...
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Roderick tilted his head in a nod, silently brushing past the procession of guards, the men narrowing their eyes at him. These Tileans were all the same…
He crossed beneath the raised portcullises, sconces mounted...
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“Ah, almost forgot about that,” Roderick said, glancing down at her. “The gates will be guarded, and if word has reached Portomaggoire about the Skaven invasion, which it likely has, they’ll be inspecting anyone w...
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“Skyseeker! It’s me, lass!”
She blinked, a dark shape poised above her drawing into focus, her weapon trembling inches from its face, the voice’s odd accent sparking recognition. Her heart beating like a drum...
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“How tiny-small you are,” her parentrat mused, and she was certain this was her parentrat, as what other conclusion could she come to? “No need-need to fret, pup, you will grow big-large one day.”
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Rough, cold rock. That was the first sensation she comprehended, how the crumpled stone dug into the soft, underdeveloped flesh on her paws, her fingers wiggling in odd directions as she tried to comprehend the...
2024-04-07 01:56:48 +0000 UTC View Post2k words. Bit more expository this time round. Might be changed when all is said and done. Hopefully I can get back into 2k words every few days soon. Thank you all for your patience.
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“Until you told me about your mission, I assu...
2024-04-04 03:55:07 +0000 UTC View PostHere's what I've been cooking up these past few
2024-04-01 02:13:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone I am sorry about the big old delay these past couple days. Having some real life inconveniencies rn, but that's not all I've been up to! As Skyseeker would say: I am hatching up an evil little scheme. Keep an eye out for it in the com...
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What followed was four days of hiking through deep woods, the scenery changing little apart from a few winding rivers and steep gullies. The weather remained clear, a serene breeze cooling ...
2024-03-21 05:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post2k words
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“Look! See thing!”
Roderick squinted, but saw just the same stretches of forest. He asked her to describe what she saw, the Skaven shielding her goggled eyes with a paw. “It looks like… thing!”
He did...
2024-03-18 05:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post2k words
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“Fresh out,” he said, his companion sagging her shoulders at the news. They wouldn’t exactly die of thirst, but sprinting for so far in such a short amount of time had taken the wind out of them, his mouth as dry as ...
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“What is it?” she asked curtly, her neck bending at an odd angle as she followed his gaze. “Is that…”
The shadow came and went in the time it took to blink. Through the haze, behind and above them, wa...
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“But… need to gaze at stars to see moon!”
“You know what I mean,” he muttered, though he wasn’t quite certain she actually did. Still, he couldn’t pass down her volunteering to take first watch, closing his eyes...
2024-03-08 06:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
2k words. My apologies once again for the delay, I was feeling a little bummed out and distracted, which isn't a good combo i'll tell you that twice.
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“Thanks for the vote of confidence,” he grumbled, lifting his visor and rubbi...
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“Man-thing! Look!”
Roderick had just finished off the dazed Skaven, plunging his stolen sword into his chest, following her pointed finger as he freed it. The second group of Skaven was halfway down the hill, aro...
2024-03-02 03:27:52 +0000 UTC View Post
2k words. Sorry for the delay been a little busy/distracted lately.
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“Scouting party, likely from that vermintide we saw earlier,” he muttered, backing down out of sight.
“Man-thing don’t say?” Skyseeker asked sarcas...
2024-02-28 01:36:46 +0000 UTC View Post2k words
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He tossed the stick into the fire. “Eight hundred people called that village home, and by the time we’d taken control… barely two hundred lived through the night. I should have known the honourless traitors would hav...
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