“Oh baby, do tell.” Muur said with a grin, bracing herself for some putrefied horse womb grade nonsense straight out of Parcelsus’ books.
“First, use a clean knife to carefully remove the wing’s membrane. It’s crucial that it isn’t damaged, we will need it later,” He instructed, Muur following suit with the closest thing to a scalpel availab...
2025-04-19 12:37:27 +0000 UTC View PostCocobusi coughed into his fist as he collected himself, “I would not worry about any ‘shoulds’ regarding his license. I have it on very good authority that it was ripped to shreds, whether or not it was force fed to him and washed down with one of his ‘ethers’ is open to debate and interpretation. All I know is that our Guildmaster was shockingly calm and collected following such a bl...
2025-04-12 13:23:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Here we are,” Behind the door had been the rest of the guild. Which the lalafel told her expanded both above and below the entrance’s floor, to encompass five different floors. Her guide hadn’t shown her any of them, instead taking her to the back of the current floor and down a corridor, “While some alchemists within the Guild possess personal labs - me being one of them - the major...
2025-04-05 15:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostPushing the large door open, the scent of chemical cleaners hit her all at once. Pushing past it, she entered the Guild’s atrium and found herself both surprised and not. Just like with the Goldsmith and Weaver Guilds, the Guild’s front desk was immediately to her right as she stepped inside. Once again, it was on a raised platform with low tables, couches and seats sprinkled about. A lower...
2025-03-28 14:33:44 +0000 UTC View PostPriests of The Twins are expected to serve as unbiased arbiters of mercantile practices. There are two manners by which our order accomplishes this: Either the study of tomes, records and books to ensure no laws are broken, and that the rightful price is paid to those who ought to receive it. Or, by becoming an expert of the concerned craft.
Most opt to simply limit thems...
After explaining her rather lax responsibilities to her, Cocoboha sent Muur away. As she walked back to her room, a look through one of the other papers told her that she’d have to vacate her current room, seeing as it was meant for pilgrims and visitors. There were directions to her new room, as well as a note informing her that she would be sharing it with another initiate. Who, exactly, wa...
2025-03-15 15:54:15 +0000 UTC View Post“Made time to join us, I see?” When Muur arrived at the Black Blades’ training grounds, she was quickly noticed by an Algar sitting on the sidelines and sipping from an earthenware water vessel.
“Been meditating and doing aetheric exercises for nine, almost ten hours now. Really needed a change of pace and I figured, hey.” The lizard wizard’s tail gestured languidly at ...
2025-03-08 20:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostSnapping open their eyes, Muur found themselves elsewhere. Gone was the lonely, isolated room in the catacombs. In its place was a grand corridor, it’s ceiling crumbling bearing the grand arches of a palace, fragments of its shattered walls were held aloft by pure nothingness as they lazily bobbed up and down, up and down– an errant whisper of wind causing one to tremble in place a...
2025-03-01 15:01:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 15:“Why am I even here too?” Fise sighed.
“Because,” Silent chirped, patting his head, “you didn’t manage to outrun me when I demanded payback for an entire night of mindless research that led to absolutely nothing~!”
“Right,” Groaning and rolling his eyes, he offered a book to Muur, “Here, this book contains a number of meditation and self-influencing me...
2025-02-22 18:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing the mysterious thaumaturge’s instructions, Muur didn't take long to arrive at the door to the Guildmasters’ office. As she walked closer, she began to hear voices from inside, their words muffled into intelligibility by the thick walls and heavy door.door.
So she did the reasonable thing and just knocked softly, mindful of the acoustic engineering the Ossuary had been...
2025-02-15 18:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post“Hey, wake up. Food’s getting served,” Muur woke up to the sound of knocking, and the voice of the brat that had ‘welcomed’ her to the temple on her first day in this world. What was her name again? “If you take too long, there won’t be any bacon left.”
That got her bolting out of bed and getting herself presentable faster than anything.
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2025-02-08 20:01:23 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 12:
“Halt!” A garlean soldier shouted, his heavily accented voice showing how little he cared for the common tongue.
“Ah, er– Yes, of course, m’lord.” The voice of her temporary companion answered as he put down the large barrel, “What, er. [Wot can I do fer ye?]”
“You can start by ceasing your butchering of the Garlean tongue,” The soldie...
2025-02-01 19:57:51 +0000 UTC View PostFollowing along took them into a downward slope. The insides of the workshop, or whatever this place was, clashed quite a bit with the outside. For the most part, the walls of the buildings that laid within Ul’dah were somewhat drab. Oh certainly, the architecture itself was quite pretty and there were an abundance of small stalls, banners and sunshades livening up the streets with all the co...
2025-01-25 16:52:40 +0000 UTC View Post“Vaguely? I have heard the term in passing a couple of times, but that’s it.” The lizard woman replied with a helpless shrug.
“Prepare to hear it more often than not then,” Kofle quipped, staring into her glass of probably-whiskey. Definitely had the right look and serving style, “The realm owes its survival to them.”
“Aye. Kofle has the right of it here. They...
2025-01-18 20:19:14 +0000 UTC View PostCocobezi was still clutching his sides and chuckling by the time they reached the city gate, “I-hihi–in spite of your companion’s silly scheme,” He giggled, wiping off a tear, “She is correct that you ought to register as an adventurer. To be a thaumaturge unlocks numerous doors, joining the Adventurers Guild will unlock even more.”
“And it means better variety of job...
2025-01-15 19:51:11 +0000 UTC View Post“BY THE TWELVE PUMPS THOSE LEGS APRENTICE!”
Things had been going great. Wonderful even. Twenty wasps had died without any sort of issue, or much resistance– barring one that slipped past Kofle’s notice and attempted to stab Muur with its stinger. Exactly as the lizard wizard had promised, it had been batted back to the frontlines. What she had omitted was tha...
2025-01-13 10:31:24 +0000 UTC View PostEvidently, Kofle did not get a say in this. Or she waived it by following the two mages as they left the city. At the gate, a few of the guards clearly noticed Muur and the miqo’te, and made to intercept them– right up until they noticed the diminutive mage chattering at their sides.
The moment they realized just who was accompanying them, the Brass Blades gave a picture...
2025-01-09 13:30:26 +0000 UTC View Post"Well, I must say. You've proven yourself quite the mess maker, young lady!" One of the guildmaster's brothers cheerily declared as he entered the room. After her little revelation, she'd been shuffled away into a small side room, "Rarely do I ever see my brother so deeply choleric these days!"
"Sorry about that, didn't realize we'd been talking across each other. Doesn't help Gankma did...
“Thank you for being honest,” The pack of Lalafell escorted Muur as they moved through the various corridors of the temple complex, “You see, this routine is one we have been working on for quite some time. A personal request from a highly influential noble, the idea to practice it during this meeting came to us during the morning. Your feedback will be invaluable in ensuring we li...
2025-01-06 20:38:11 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 4:
Moving to the side, she didn’t even hesitate before taking off her robe, “I would also entreat you to unpack any clothes in need of cleaning. I’ve asked her to bring your pack to your room, and the clothing you left behind to the temple’s cleaner– nightwear will be provided should you need it.”
“On it.” Neil squeaked, all too glad for the distract...
2025-01-06 20:35:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Well, I s’pose that’s where we part ways then.” The end of the ride had been a quiet one. Every passenger having either gawked at the slums, looked at them with profound sadness and regret, or carefully constructed neutrality.
The wagon had then stopped at the gate of Nald, one of the massive gatehouses built into the wall. Brendt had stayed on, apparently the en...
2025-01-06 20:32:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 2:
“–BRASS BLADE INSPECTION!” Three more men rode up, making five of them. The first two, the ones that had thundered up, parked themselves at the front. That handily cut off the wagon’s advance, while the other three did the same at the back blocking any escape.
Each of them wore the same set of clothing. Red, airy robes with a once-white, turned sandy yellow by the...
2025-01-06 20:30:36 +0000 UTC View PostAs he browsed the Internet, Neil ran into an ad.
A very familiar one, because he’d seen its kind again, and again, and again. It seemed like they were always the first through the door when Adblock slept on its filter updates.
Final Fantasy Fourteen, the critically acclaimed MMORPG! With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Rebo...
2025-01-06 18:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post