“Go!” I enthused as I was picked up.
“Now, now Percival, stop giving Mrs. Lutte so much trouble,” my mother chided, as she carried me.
I let my little legs wiggle, careful not to hit mother as I worked the...
2023-11-05 16:06:44 +0000 UTC View PostLena
I swore under my breath as I tried to patch up some of the injured elves. My group was strong, but they acted as if they were immortal, diving in with no real plan, no idea what they were going to do. Worst were t...
2023-11-04 04:10:19 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, several weeks in and I had come to a number of conclusions. The first was that this was definitely not where I was from, the styles of clothes were different, vastly different, and the house I was in was frankly massive. It wa...
2023-11-03 22:36:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Greetings again youngling,” Atal said as he looked over the items I'd set out.
He and his entourage had just arrived to the place I'd been directed, and I couldn't help but notice the several bound and struggling beasts pulle...
2023-11-03 00:29:08 +0000 UTC View PostThe lathe spun, and carefully, bit by bit I removed the material. It was a delicate thing, time consuming, but meditative as I worked the small piece of steel into the exact shape it needed to be. I had notes of course, and measurement...
2023-11-01 22:13:05 +0000 UTC View PostAmara
The day we met up with the second group of refugees we walked down the road for hours. There should be more people, so many more people, than we'd seen. I wasn't sure the others realized it quite yet, kept as the...
2023-11-01 00:08:54 +0000 UTC View PostAtal had promised great rewards if I could make him a weapon, but that didn't mean that I was going to hand over my best work immediately. I'd seen the man rip a woman apart with just his fists and not so much as blink about it, so I had to ...
2023-10-31 00:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostI was ready to curse, having just barely evaded discovery. The girl had caught me off guard, completely off guard, but I knew she was out there somewhere. Really with my luck I should have just guessed that I would be meeting her soone...
2023-10-28 20:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostI stood where one of the assistants had directed me, waiting for what might be my last day in this world. I didn't know what Atal wanted of me, but I did know that his sense of justice was much like that of the ancient world. Punishmen...
2023-10-26 23:44:21 +0000 UTC View PostRodrick Penumbra
“Stop fucking getting in front of Amara! If you die, I can't heal you!” screamed the angry priestess from the back, she really was a breath of sunshine that one.
I kept channeling, kept ...
2023-10-26 01:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostAs my spell went off I thought about how odd it was that I hadn't had anyone attempt to rob me earlier. Coming from my previous world I understood how I was now quite well off, and how many people would have wanted some of that wealth, but i...
2023-10-23 22:39:07 +0000 UTC View PostAll good things must come to an end, and some of you have noted that Melody is heading that way. It is sad, but true, that soon enough Alana's story will be told, and I will move on to other things. Elevation is one of these, but I lik...
2023-10-21 13:04:35 +0000 UTC View PostCrown Prince Omos
The sun dawned on a new day, which would have been magnificently fresh if not for the small rock hut full of refugees I found myself crawling out of. I was tired, physically, mentally, and magically, and qu...
2023-10-21 12:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostAs I wandered through one of the districts near the market I griped about the lack of a mail system, or of a written language. At some point someone might have made a written system, but if they had, I'd yet to find it. It would make t...
2023-10-19 16:09:05 +0000 UTC View PostCrown Prince Omos
The world was filled with dark blues and greens as I was thrown, tossed around the room like a ragdoll. Some last ditch ward, some protection had managed to redirect the most of the momentum of the blast of water that...
2023-10-17 09:58:29 +0000 UTC View PostIt was easy to stand back and admire my work, the satisfaction of a job... well I wasn't yet sure how well it had been done. Things seemed to be going well, but really the whole reason I was here was to check on this.
In the...
2023-10-16 11:07:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe ground flowed under me at speed as I ran towards the dinner building, throwing my protections and stealth back up. If I got spotted so be it, I needed to get to where my students were, and I needed to be there now. I briefly consid...
2023-10-14 16:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostUnsurprisingly a couple of days after my conversation with Ian I got full approval to build the first section of sewers for the city. I knew he'd gone and told his grandfather what I'd said, maybe even giving a demonstration. That was ...
2023-10-12 00:30:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe storms continued, through the night and well into the morning. By the time everyone began breakfast it was clear that the demonstrations for the day, which had been planned for one of the outdoor areas, would have to be moved inside. &nb...
2023-10-11 00:34:15 +0000 UTC View PostChien stood by as I worked, now in the normal shop. I poured more and more of my mana into the fire as the copper began to melt, knowing that the little crucible formed of magical force could take it.
“The men selling this...
2023-10-09 00:27:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe restaurant was wonderful, and it was clear that the elves were really trying their hardest to show off. Everything from the tablecloths to the floor was perfectly in place, and the smells coming from the kitchen, a mix of sweet and meaty...
2023-10-06 07:13:18 +0000 UTC View PostAfter leaving Shorin to his business I returned to mine, heading home. I'd never moved from that first place I'd bought, though I had gone about purchasing some of the houses around as my money flow came back, and making a few... improvement...
2023-10-03 21:12:01 +0000 UTC View Post“Why don't you take a seat?” my new companion asked, pointing towards one of several around a larger table.
We were in some kind of meeting room, and one look alone told me that this was one of the unused parts of the palace, ...
2023-10-03 03:47:08 +0000 UTC View Post“I understand you have questions,” I said to the elder Shorin. “I hope that I can assuage them for you.”
“As do I, though the biggest of which is, why?” he replied, looking up from the small cup of what passed fo...
2023-09-30 03:05:28 +0000 UTC View PostI walked off to the side of my charges, watching at the oohs and aahs. The morning had begun with museums, then continued with much of the same. The elves took my foreign students through several different ones, all devoted to various ...
2023-09-29 02:07:19 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Short time-skip as this is chapter 1 of book 2
Slowly I returned to consciousness, letting the scents of the city drift into my nose. It had been roughly twenty years since I came to this world, and whi...
2023-09-26 20:02:10 +0000 UTC View PostThe first few days of the field trip were fairly boring. Mostly the students were shown around the school grounds here and went on some basic lessons. There were a few things here and there, things I would need to address later, but no...
2023-09-25 23:27:16 +0000 UTC View PostAs I made my way home I began to contemplate how my life had gone so far. This new life was something I could never have expected, and the world of magic it had brought me was, while sometimes tiring, still... full of potential. There ...
2023-09-23 02:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the children and their 'official' chaperones had made it through the gate I slipped in, moving behind them quietly. Well, pretty much everything I did was quietly, since there were spells in place canceling the noise of my feet and clo...
2023-09-22 00:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostOver several hours of trying to negotiate I learned that this elder's name was Ina, and the village was of course Inatol, Ina's home. We weren't really getting anywhere, but that seemed to bother her little. One thing I began to seriou...
2023-09-20 04:11:57 +0000 UTC View Post