Fresh lurches forward, her hand clutching the front of her chest, as the heavy burning sensation courses through her throat. The thick, tarry liquid oozing down to her gut feels like it’s setting her insides on fire. It takes everything she has ...
2021-03-11 11:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostPLACHBRGHHHTTTTHHHH-
That’s the sound I make as I slide across the dirt, as my face slams into the soft sands and my legs lift up behind me into the air, as I careen towards a sliding halt, my head and neck buried beneath the ho...
2021-03-11 09:24:35 +0000 UTC View PostFresh stands in the large market square of the entryway plaza, feeling the sun land on her back together with the occasional glance of a curious passerby. She fidgets, somewhat nervously, wishing that she had at least a scarf or something to cover...
2021-03-10 11:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post“SCRIIIIIIIE-“ screams a voice out in the confusion, as we slam into the sand dunes and roll downward, wrestling and biting each other. I’m not built to fight in this body, being a ‘pseudo healer’ of sorts. My form is made up out of a ph...
2021-03-10 08:44:18 +0000 UTC View PostPen shifts, her mind slowly returns to wakefulness as she feels a deep ache throbbing in her body, which has finally begun to heal, even if only a little. Her eyes open slowly, staring at the many buzzing lights that are shining out just before he...
2021-03-09 17:59:21 +0000 UTC View PostDaylight shines with rich intensity, as Fresh steps out of the dungeon with her singed mushroom cap in hand, feeling much better than when she had entered inside of it the night before. It takes a second for her eyes to adjust, but then as they do...
2021-03-09 13:16:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe wastes stretch on for a great distance, heat comes down from the ceiling of the dungeon above, radiating downward as if emitted from glowing metal coils. There is no distinct source of light, yet everything is oddly bright in the sweltering, o...
2021-03-09 08:11:26 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon formatting options are garbage. You literally can't set text colors. So none of these 'screens' look like they are meant to. Just assume they are colorful while I go cry haha
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2021-03-08 17:35:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe growl of her stomach is the first sensation that Fresh feels, as wakefulness returns to her stiff body, which has drifted in and out of sleep all night long. It appears to be daytime now. She can’t see any of the people on the other side, bu...
2021-03-08 17:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Where am I?”
Everything is black. A menu appears.
“Oh… I died?” she says, confused and disappointed, be...
2021-03-08 17:13:13 +0000 UTC View PostTango walks down towards the tunnel that they had entered from, his heavy steps ringing out against the stones as he looks at the place around them. What happened here while he was gone? While he was gone…? He repeats the question in his mind. 2021-03-08 13:27:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The many winding streets of the city all blur together into a vivid collage of colors, sounds and smells. Wooden booths and bright decorative banners dot the many ways which are filled with high-spirited people moving about in all directions. The ...
2021-03-08 08:02:37 +0000 UTC View PostIt’s not here.
How many times have I looked now? Six? Seven? I rise to my feet, the coins that were once in one large pile are scattered around the breadth of the entire room. There is the occasional trinket and bauble here and there, but ...
2021-03-08 07:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostHallow. Sanctified are the blessed who spill blood, consecrated is this holy ground void of doubt, hallow are these cries that are so far away but reach me, oh so susurrant. Do you hear them too? The whispers? The voices? They all cry out quiet sh...
2021-03-07 07:57:03 +0000 UTC View PostHer pace slows as her chest aches and burns from this next short dash, hurting as she reaches the stone construction of the giant gate. Placing a hand on it, she leans forward, more than winded already. Apparently still not recovered from having t...
2021-03-06 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Put me back, PUT ME BACK! I fight against the surge of the thrashing tide that carries me up higher, as I vanish from my body, as I become no more. ...
2021-03-06 08:11:58 +0000 UTC View Post*BAKAAAAAAW*
Her eyes shoot open at the sudden sound, as her body jostles awake. Everything is bright, too bright, and her hand flies up to shield her surprised gaze as she yelps. Feeling the sensation of a free-fall for ...
2021-03-05 19:13:53 +0000 UTC View PostThe metal of my boots lashes out like the striking of the swords on a chaotic battlefield, as I run in a frenzy, I can hear it. I can feel it, it’s coming. It’s already here! I round the corner, just barely missing the row of wires next to me ...
2021-03-05 11:45:16 +0000 UTC View Post“I hate myself.”
The girl lays in her bed, huddled tightly together into a ball, her hands fidgeting with a single coin that had been laying there. The drab curtains, drawn tightly shut over the windows, obscure the bright mor...
2021-03-04 18:57:06 +0000 UTC View PostPen isn’t sure what exactly the noise is that she makes, even as she becomes aware of it leaving her mouth. It’s like a sigh, but higher pitched, as she stares at the little empty sachet. Her body feels warm. Her insides feel so warm. The wate...
2021-03-04 12:45:53 +0000 UTC View PostAll the wires run around the room here, convalescing into a central node, all of them coming together into one humming mass in the center that sinks away beneath the stone floors. Sitting all around the circle are bodies. They look like skeletons,...
2021-03-04 07:22:54 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W1P7AvV17w
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2021-03-03 08:20:19 +0000 UTC View PostPen hears something whir above her from the bauble in-between her sobs. They begin to move, as Tango walks a few steps towards the side. Neither of them say anything. The heat of the space encapsulates her no-longer numb body, bringing an unwelcom...
2021-03-02 19:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post“We should check out the inside of the shack, maybe they left something behind,” says Tango. Pen gazes at the screen, looking into the windows of the building, at the tiny door. She realizes something.
“You can’t fit throu...
2021-03-02 14:31:37 +0000 UTC View PostJust ahead, near the end of the branch where the thick wood meets the wall, I see an opening. It seems obvious. Too obvious to be the secret stairs, it was literally a straight-forward path from one end of the floor to the next. Are these really ...
2021-03-02 08:17:22 +0000 UTC View PostSomething thunks against my chest and I look down to the elf who clears her throat with an ‘ahem’. I take a deep breath, metaphorically speaking, and calm myself down. I like fighting, okay? Soon I stop shaking and she turns to the side and po...
2021-03-01 07:49:19 +0000 UTC View PostFirst Patreon advance chapter for this story! If you haven't read this story yet, you can find the first >11< chapters on RoyalRoad / Scribblehub, which I would recommend, because the 'Early release' ones here are very outdated and don't hav...
2021-02-28 19:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostClank, clank, clank. That’s the only sound I hear. The clanking of my metal boots as I walk up the stone staircase that, unusually, seems to be winding in an upward spiral, as if we were ascending a great tower. Clank, clank, clank. I listen to ...
2021-02-28 09:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostI think she’s mad, honestly. My dislocated head sits on the ground laying sidewards, as I watch the tiny elf beat my poor body senseless. Ah. Did she see the carrying thing? Her head snaps towards me, her eyes wide with rabid fury.
2021-02-27 07:14:29 +0000 UTC
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Leather boots slap out in the darkness, striking against the stones; the noise diverging from that of the thousand little legs that are followed by a thousand more, as the thing that skitters laughs in the ink. I feel my arms grow light, as the bu...
2021-02-26 08:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post