Argrave had grown familiar with making use of whatever he had on hand to get through all his problems—oftentimes, all he had on hand was himself and his companions. At Mateth, versus the Veidimen, or versus the Lily Lurkers, or the battle at Set...
2022-11-10 06:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave had always been an only child. Well, not ‘Argrave,’ but rather Vincenzo. From the beginning, he hadn’t been quite sure how to treat Elenore. He hadn’t dealt with either sisters or brothers before. On the other hand, he had at least...
2022-11-09 06:58:51 +0000 UTC View PostElenore stepped forward, and more of the gargantuan golden snake that was Vasquer entered her range of perception. Though the jewelry Argrave gifted to her had enhanced her life tremendously, she once again felt envy for those that could still see...
2022-11-08 06:56:31 +0000 UTC View Post“It’s a wonder you three fit at all,” Durran noted as they rolled down the road in a tightly packed and humble carriage.
Moonlight made its way through the thin decrepit cloth that covered the top of the carriage, illuminating a group ...
2022-11-07 06:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post“Things were as you claimed,” Elenore told Argrave, her hands entwined as they laid across the table before her. In the past few days, she had integrated the bronze jewelry into her movements, and now already had a practiced grace even with th...
2022-11-04 06:56:36 +0000 UTC View Post“Let’s put the glaive down, yeah?” Ruleo held his hand out slowly. “I’m not following you. I don’t know why you’re taking swings at me.”
“Uh huh, yeah,” Durran nodded. “You pull that innocent act with the old ladies, no...
2022-11-03 06:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave took a long drink of the mildly warmed tea, having let it cool for some time. Elenore watched him—well, perhaps ‘watched’ was the wrong word, Argrave supposed. Anneliese was present, too. She held the teapot she had been rather obvio...
2022-11-02 06:58:17 +0000 UTC View Post“You controlled me,” Durran said, his brows furrowed and eyes staring at the ground. They sat in the saferoom, the other two busy with their own tasks. A ward concealed their conversation.
Argrave scratched the back of his neck. “Well,...
2022-11-01 06:53:52 +0000 UTC View PostElenore heard approaching footsteps. She had a clock on the table before her. The set of jewelry that Argrave had given her augmented the sensation she felt from the first ring—with each new piece, it was like a bubble of absolute perception exp...
2022-10-31 06:57:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt was early morning. Durran stood near a large bush covered in black flowers. Though he noticed the blooms, his interest seemed to be focused on how they grew and how they were planted above anything else. He toyed with the leaves, almost testing...
2022-10-28 06:57:47 +0000 UTC View Post“We can get into the specifics of what I intend to prove, of course,” Argrave told Elenore. “On top of that, I have some information that leads me to believe there might be a traitor in your group. But I’d like both of us to be on-form for...
2022-10-27 06:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostElenore saw nothing at all, as she ever did.
Yet she could hear them. Multiple strangers, emerging from one of the secret passages she had installed to facilitate her agent’s activities. It felt like her sanctuary had been violated—not t...
2022-10-26 06:57:49 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave once again felt the familiar sensation of being trapped within something that was in motion. It had been a long while since he last had the experience—the movement of the living fortress was so smooth, it could be likened to travelling o...
2022-10-25 06:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave lowered down the wooden-framed glass display case containing the bronze set of jewelry he’d came to get. It settled delicately on the uneven stone of the heart chamber, the pieces within staying fixed atop a velvet pillows. Everyone else...
2022-10-24 06:58:56 +0000 UTC View PostA giant gray-green humanoid sat in a strange octagonal stone booth in the middle of a large room with eight paths branching out. It seemed to be wearing a bag made of skin over its head, but where the bag met its neck, eight arms shot out, all ide...
2022-10-23 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“We have to make this look real,” Argrave told Anneliese. This was many days earlier, back when they were still at the Tower of the Gray Owl. “Part of being deceitful, as these Magisters are, is expecting the same from just about everybody. ...
2022-10-21 06:57:58 +0000 UTC View PostAll of them convened back at where the paths branched earlier where Galamon was waiting. Once the three of them gave their magic signatures, a spiral staircase had opened up, leading deeper into the lower levels. There, the name of ‘living fortr...
2022-10-20 06:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostThough Argrave came here in part to retrieve a treasure—or rather, a set of treasures—it was not something he’d consider his primary purpose. He might have skipped it altogether, but an enticing opportunity was the only thing that might get ...
2022-10-19 06:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostRiding the strange construct conjured by Magister Vera was a wholly different experience than, say, riding aback a wyvern. There, one had a visual cue—something to step upon and hold onto as it soared across the sky, even if it was a flimsy sadd...
2022-10-18 06:56:24 +0000 UTC View PostAnneliese and Argrave raised up their new golden badges and clinked them together. It let out a pleasant metallic sound. Durran and Galamon watched on from another part of the room, both relatively idle.
“High Wizard Anneliese. Sounds nice...
2022-10-17 06:57:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn an area far away from the Tower of the Gray Owl, enough knights gathered to form a forest of horseflesh and steel-armored knights. Countless banners hung in the sky, swaying against the light winds of winter. Though the heraldry on each was var...
2022-10-15 06:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostA lean man of above-average height wearing gray robes walked through the door. He was bald, though with sharp handsome features that seemed to have an indelible grin. Ordinarily, ‘walked through the door’ might mean he walked by the open door,...
2022-10-14 06:58:03 +0000 UTC View Post“You’re awfully casual about this whole thing,” said Elias as Argrave enjoyed a pleasant breakfast.
Argrave ate a great heap of eggs. He hadn’t liked them much before, but he found them quite delicious now, perhaps because he’d bee...
2022-10-13 06:57:54 +0000 UTC View PostOf late, Argrave had been perfecting the art of looking unapproachable. It was a valuable skill to have, being both noticeably taller than everyone and becoming quite the trending figure for his recent deeds. Both attracted people to him like noth...
2022-10-12 06:56:42 +0000 UTC View PostCasto returned after a longer time than Argrave was expecting. He was worried that his companions would grow worried about his long absence, but did not fear he himself was in genuine danger. The S-rank mage and Master of the Tower of the Gray Owl...
2022-10-11 06:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post“What have you done?” was the question that greeted Argrave when he stepped out of the mystical elevator to the top floor of the Tower of the Gray Owl.
It had been a long, long way up to the top of the Tower, his feet fixed to a slab of ...
2022-10-10 06:57:33 +0000 UTC View Post“What do we do about this?” Elias began. He sat at a table consisting of Nikoletta, Mina, and Stain. Their guards were absent, and they were in a relatively clean room within the Tower with little in the way of decoration or even windows—a p...
2022-10-08 06:54:25 +0000 UTC View Post“What do you think?” Argrave questioned Anneliese. The two of them sat on rather comfortable chairs just before a table. Despite the safety of the tower, neither removed their enchanted armor—the Tower was safe, but it was still better to be...
2022-10-07 06:58:35 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave stepped through the door, mindful to duck beneath the doorframes now that he’d returned to the Tower of the Gray Owl after all these months. Within, numerous recognizable people waited for him alongside a large retinue of knights. Mina a...
2022-10-06 06:57:03 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave fled from Kin’s End as fast as the horses would carry them. The scouting they did was less detailed than usual in their haste—it would be more important to make it to the Tower of the Gray Owl than it would be to dodge potential ambush...
2022-10-05 06:58:19 +0000 UTC View Post