Seven days passed after Argrave and his entourage entered into the Shadowlands, and a feeling of unease over all who knew this fact. But unease was something that could be overcome, and overcome it they did. The research team—now headed by Llewe...
2024-05-31 06:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post“How were you actually born?” Anneliese asked the horseman on his steed of shadows as they walked through the lifeless Shadowlands.
Other than some mutterings between the ancient heroes—some of whom had become fast friends, after putti...
2024-05-30 06:59:44 +0000 UTC View PostAs Argrave felt the stampede of the hounds of hunger come ever closer, it felt as though he was witnessed a stampede of wildebeests charging at him. Predators seldom worked in herds, but these cooperated to sate the hunger eating them from within....
2024-05-29 06:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Argrave gave his somewhat insistent request that the Hopeful should speak, the unceasing tide of darkness coming from all portions of the man’s body waned somewhat. In particular, the writhing shadows near his face started to lessen, revea...
2024-05-28 06:54:49 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave walked out of the makeshift interrogation room a great deal later, his gray eyes looking somewhat darker after what he’d learned. Others, who’d not participated in the interrogation so as not to make it overbearing and overcrowded, wal...
2024-05-27 06:50:58 +0000 UTC View PostReally been enjoying these. Looking forward to my weekends a lot more than I was. I do tend to procrastinate, and the way I've found to avoid that is making promises to people-- in this case, you fellas. Thanks for being my unwitting partners.
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They arrived at the city of Gent at the midday. Willem sat by the window of the enchanted carriage, watching the city come closer into view. It had solid twenty-foot-tall walls of beige stone. It reminded him of his visit to Spain, and more specif...
2024-05-25 07:02:56 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave walked out into a wide-open valley, alone in spirit but not in fact. Excluding the thousands of blood-infused wind eels soaring above him as a cloud of death, he had the charming company of the Shadowlanders, playing the role of the lurkin...
2024-05-24 07:00:25 +0000 UTC View PostAfter they earned some reprieve from the initial assault, they took two actions. Argrave and Anneliese set to work charting out more of this land. Argrave used blood-infused electric eels to deliberately carve out areas of the Shadowlands, and Ann...
2024-05-23 06:52:11 +0000 UTC View PostFrom the beginning, their group had agreed upon some strategies. One such strategy was a devastating opening salvo combining the grim virtues of necromancy and Argrave’s blood magic. As the dull steps of the Shadowlanders filled the air before t...
2024-05-22 07:01:22 +0000 UTC View PostEntering into the Shadowlands, even changed by Anneliese’s rewriting of its fundamentals, stripped Argrave of countless things that he’d come to take for granted; fundamental aspects of being that helped qualify the world around him. He was th...
2024-05-21 06:55:27 +0000 UTC View PostKnowing that all of them might not ever again return from the Shadowlands, Argrave gave one final compromise for those he’d brought back beyond the grave: a day to say their goodbyes to this world, in whatever manner they saw fit. He wasn’t tr...
2024-05-20 06:59:42 +0000 UTC View PostLennard stared down at the paper splayed out before him. On the very bottom of it was a signature. The part that read ‘Willem’ looked practiced and refined, while the ‘van Brugh’ looked like a messy scrawl, almost as if the man wasn’t us...
2024-05-19 06:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostI'm thinking I might change the first chapter up. Willem's background won't change, but I'm considering revealing it piecemeal throughout the story instead of front loading it at the beginning. Instead, I considered doing the first chapter wholly ...
2024-05-18 07:03:13 +0000 UTC View PostElenore looked at the debate raging all around between many different parties, and felt a rather peculiar feeling. She was certain that she was witnessing a historical event of far greater magnitude than even the organization of the parliament. Th...
2024-05-17 07:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave wasn’t necessarily opposed to giving those who’d been brought back by Garm’s machinations some generous concessions. The Fruit of Being had chosen Durran, and as a consequence, all of this had spiraled into this. He had been half-jok...
2024-05-16 06:56:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Before I could even consider lending you any help whatsoever, you must make certain concessions for my people,” said a dark-skinned southron elf. “Your kingdom must provide them special privileges, as well as state-subsidized immigration pr...
2024-05-15 06:59:30 +0000 UTC View PostAnneliese had gone to talk to Elenore, and after, she intended rejoin the research team—Argrave could feel her presence inside the parliamentary hall in his sister’s office. Raven hadn’t been lying in saying that they’d become a closed loo...
2024-05-14 06:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave had been skeptical if giving the Fruit of Being to Artur to use in a crafting project was truly the best use of the item. A masterpiece was infinitely less useful than a skilled master, by his estimation—someone that could continue to ma...
2024-05-13 07:00:41 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the first chapter. I probably should have posted this yesterday, but it wasn't complete then. It also doesn't run seamlessly into the next, I know, but starting a new story is kind of just like this for me-- rearranging, rethinking, et cet...
2024-05-12 06:58:00 +0000 UTC View PostTitle is a working title. Not final by any means, but I like it. This story is something light-hearted that I've always wanted to read, personally, but never found one that matched my taste-- a tale where the transmigrated protagonist forsakes all...
2024-05-11 07:00:20 +0000 UTC View PostArgrave and Anneliese wore strange robes of Artur’s design. They were made of metal formed into a wire—how it had been crafted was beyond Argrave, but apparently, it was made of electrum. Argrave had rather embarrassingly thought electrum was ...
2024-05-10 07:00:28 +0000 UTC View PostArtur had been examining the small diamond-sized portal into the Shadowlands in total silence for near an hour. He might’ve expected that behavior from Raven, or a cat, but not him. Argrave had attempted several calls to pull him out of the tran...
2024-05-09 06:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostLlewellen set aside the dwarven music box, exhaling in a mix of pain and amusement as magic continued to flood into him. He imagined, decades or even centuries from now, someone finding the last recording he’d made. If the dwarves ever came to r...
2024-05-08 06:55:38 +0000 UTC View Post“Don’t you think this is a little morbid?” asked Anneliese. “Bringing Llewellen back… feels perverse, in some manner.” She rubbed her hands together uneasily.
“I thought you might be eager to meet him,” Argrave answered, lean...
2024-05-07 06:56:05 +0000 UTC View PostI love writing. JAS is not the first book series I've written, but it is the first that's achieved any success. It came from being honest with myself-- that I like trashy transmigration fantasies, and I'd like to write one. I think that helped it ...
2024-05-06 15:24:03 +0000 UTC View PostGarm found that walking through the ancient city of Malgeridum was rather like walking through a recently renovated library. The previously blood-ridden canals of the Low Way of the Rose had been replaced with unending clean water, and the streets...
2024-05-06 07:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostThe wooden door rattled as it jammed, but with the second push it swung open. Cold sea winds disturbed the scantly decorated room as a monk in black robes walked in. Tall, tan, and built, his scalp had been shaved of all but a ring of hair on his ...
2024-05-05 07:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostGiven people's unanimity in preferring Devil's Debtor, I've decided to shelve the parody and work on it for fun, on the side. If some good jokes about the genre I write in come to me, I'll write a thing or two. But upon reflection, I think people ...
2024-05-04 06:52:48 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m surprised you’re visiting me.” Emperor Ji Meng poured tea for Argrave. “I thought I might see you only when it was absolutely necessary.”
In truth, Argrave himself was the most surprised he’d ended up here. Emperor Ji Meng...
2024-05-03 06:51:04 +0000 UTC View Post