“Ow.” Suki sat up, rubbing her lightly bleeding head. Grant knew exactly how she felt. Looking around, her eyes widened in shock and surprise. Dead, unconscious, and heavily battered people littered the ground. “What happened 2022-02-24 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The deepening shadows were a great place for more than just Grant and Suki to blend in. Considering the proximity to the casino, far more people were milling around than in other areas of the District they had been through recently. They had to ru...
2022-02-23 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe structure turned out not to be a casino. Instead, Patty’s Perfect Palace, Poolroom, and Pavilion of Perfect-Picked Poker and Pinochle was a three-story building that took up a whole city block. They weren’t stopped from going insi...
2022-02-22 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post“The labyrinth?” Grant had heard the word before, but he didn’t know why a hedge maze would be a difficult proposition. “If we have to go through a bunch of bushes, I can just chop them down.”
“Shh!” Suki put her finger up to h...
2022-02-21 11:38:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe next two days passed uneventfully. That was… mostly uneventfully. Suki had taken it upon herself to train Grant in the ‘Way of the Noble’. To his way of thinking, all that really meant was learning all kinds of different ways to trick pe...
2022-02-18 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostGrant was awakened by the sound of something frying in a pan. It was probably the most effective way to wake him up from a dead sleep, next to a giant spider attacking him.
<Move!> An orange spider dropped down from the ceiling rafters...
2022-02-17 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe two eventually made their way deeper into the District, allowing Grant to spend some time rethinking the events that had led him to this point in his life. The gaudy desolation of the region only drove home the importance of continuing his que...
2022-02-16 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you doing, Suki?” The rhythmic cracking sounds of her gauntleted fists smashing the gyuki’s carapace to smithereens distracted Grant from the ridiculous system. “Why are you beating up the dead monsters?”
“Something thi...
2022-02-15 12:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe final version of Lady February was just sent to your Patreon email! All $5+ supporters received the ebook and all $15+ supporters received both the ebook and audiobook.
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2022-02-14 22:28:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Ushi-Oni ignored Grant’s approach, judging the gauntlet-wielding pink-haired prodigy as the greater threat. He was more than happy to teach them the error of their ways. Dropping his shoulder, Grant slammed into the nearest gyuki and planted...
2022-02-14 16:15:41 +0000 UTC View PostThey finished eating hastily, then started packing up without exchanging a word. Grant was even nice enough to give some broth to Fluffy Fingers, though he had to ignore the disapproval coming from both Suki and Sarge. The enemy Vassal was quiet, ...
2022-02-11 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a scramble to collect their gear and move off the street. The abundance of dilapidated and abandoned buildings gave them countless places to hide, and they settled on a two-story storefront with almost an inch of dust coating the floor.
... 2022-02-10 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Vassal facing them was tall and skinny, and it appeared he was wearing stilts under his pants, bringing him up to easily nine feet tall. How the two of them hadn’t noticed his bright green hair poking up over the crowd was a mystery. The cle...
2022-02-09 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe replay of the events with the rats ran through Grant’s mind. His choice to not use his lightning spell when Suki had come into the room was his biggest mistake. She had been uninjured at the time, and it would have ended with her less injure...
2022-02-08 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostGrant and Suki were at a loss regarding what to do with Phil’s body, so they simply moved to the room across the hall to get some rest. It had been a long day, and things looked like they would only get worse. This entire District was more than ...
2022-02-07 12:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Grant, he’s waking up! Get in here!” Suki called from the other room. Her tone told him that he’d better hurry. The man they had saved was awake and clearly bewildered at his situation. Before he had been knocked out, he was in the market...
2022-02-04 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“What should we do?” Grant began pacing up and down the hallway of the abandoned house they had found. The lack of a roof over most of the building, due to some long-ago fire, was probably the main reason why not even the extremely destitute o...
2022-02-03 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe crowd surrounding the starving man had reached well over a dozen people by the time Grant got close enough to try to break things up, but by then, it was too late. Someone kicked the man in the back of the leg, dropping him to one knee. Then, ...
2022-02-02 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe final book of Anything was just sent to your Patreon email! All $5+ supporters received the ebook and all $15+ supporters received both the ebook and audiobook.
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2022-02-02 00:07:47 +0000 UTC View PostGrant and Suki stumbled through the alley and into a kaleidoscope of colorful lights that dazzled and amazed them. What Grant had thought were inns turned out to be some kind of game store emblazoned with signs declaring that ‘patrons won’t be...
2022-02-01 18:20:31 +0000 UTC View PostThe title says it all :P
March is coming quick!
2022-01-31 16:07:24 +0000 UTC View PostA man bearing a sealed envelope with the violet-hued wax seal of House Sunday hurried down a dark hallway, his uniform a combination of garish colors and sparkling sequins. His balding head was beaded with sweat, and a look of fea...
2022-01-31 15:56:13 +0000 UTC View PostA fist erupted through the baked earth, sending flakes of muck and cooked pumpkin flying away to release a *hiss* as the pressure equalized between the two spaces. An angry voice shouted, “No, no, no! Ahhh! Oh, we aren’t burn...
2022-01-28 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post- Andre -
“You what?” Andre’s eyes welled up as Taylor went limp in his arms with a soft exhalation. “Taylor? Taylor!”
He let go of her, and she continued to float in place, connected to the Earthen Node via...
2022-01-26 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post- Taylor -
The Mage coughed up blood as Luke made his suggestion to throw away their futures in an insane, misguided, most-likely-won’t-even-work sort of way. If the blood had been from anger, she would have been impressed and asked the Mu...
2022-01-24 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post- Luke -
“You get in front and scatter them!” Andre shouted at Luke. The Murderhobo didn’t need to be told twice. He whooped for joy and whipped his hand at a Tooth that was slowly floating closer, sending out his bottle and drilling t...
2022-01-21 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post- Andre -
A perfect equilateral triangle—formed of scintillating liquid energy that shifted among a trio of colors—blazed in the air, fed by nearly indistinct veins of power that vanished into the earth around them. The Earthen Node slow...
2022-01-19 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Lamprey face with teeth made of metal that spin clockwise on the outside, counter-clockwise with the inner, twelve legs that propel the creature through the water as easily as on land, the Corrupted Swamperling Tooth seeks your flesh and bone,...
2022-01-17 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post