Amdirlain's PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Amdirlain's guts churned as if a showdown with Balnérith lay ahead. Multiple artificers were within Sarah's forge room and, though the filter excluded her song, the items she was rapidly enchanting for her audience rang with her strength.
As Amdirlain paused at the turn of the road, she re...
2024-04-22 12:23:21 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Sarith’s presence at Kadaklan’s manor and their morning preparation drew Amdirlain’s attention. Having hoped to catch them both, she teleported to his front yard.
A gardener sweeping the path showed Amdirlain inside and called ahead, bringing Kadaklan and Sarith to the front lobby. ...
2024-04-22 12:20:41 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
It was nearing time for her pre-breakfast session with the students when Mars chuckled. “Anna finally got to the point.”
“Oh, I don’t know what point that might be,” said Amdirlain innocently.
“Was it your idea or Livia’s?”
“It wasn’t mine. I think it was H...
2024-04-20 02:50:48 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane
With Gilorn sitting in the darkness of the empty Demi-Plane, the specks of light within her frame looked even more like stars.
“Let us work on this one together,” proposed Gilorn. “While it’s unlikely I’ll gain any levels, at least I can help you gain more time to progress your skills.”
“I’d appreciate it,...
2024-04-17 05:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Foundry
The glowing crystal saturated with Amdirlain’s Ki illuminated their arrival beneath the central pavilion.
“Such a tiny place,” commented Gilorn. “I would have thought you’d have expanded it by now.”
“This place’s purpose doesn’t need it to be massive,” explained Amdirlain, and she sat down on a bench closest to G...
2024-04-12 22:18:18 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Eastern Edge of Mediterranean Sea - Vehtë
The transition from conduit to Material Plane came with a strange constriction. Amdirlain found herself in a summoning circle too small for her full size, and her True Form had scaled to match it. The impact of her magic rating and smoothing out the melodies while she’d created the staff sho...
2024-04-09 22:41:44 +0000 UTC View PostAs I've mentioned in Discord, I'm rewriting Abyssal Road Trip for self-publishing.
The working title for the series will be Song of the Phoenix, and tentatively, book one will be Ashes or Reborn from Ashes. (Let me know which you think is better or if you feel neither of them appeals.)
Book one is being edited, and I plan to spend three weeks at the end of May writing book two (whil...
2024-04-08 10:08:22 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain's PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
When Roher headed off, he left Amdirlain a memory crystal with more of his children's antics. Amdirlain set it on a table and projected illusions of random incidents from within.
Sarah sat across the table from her and watched Amdirlain smile and laugh at the youngsters playing with forest ...
2024-04-07 01:10:16 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane
The empty Demi-Plane lit up as Phoenix’s Rapture ignited. With the Power actively supporting her efforts, Amdirlain quickly extended the Demi-Plane to a radius of three thousand kilometres. As she went to create the bedrock, Amdirlain forced herself to stop.
“What’s up?” Sarah asked.
“Should I get Roher, Isa, and Gail h...
2024-04-03 22:27:55 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
No sooner had Amdirlain materialised to float above the barren landscape than a presence flared around her and sealed the Demi-Plane’s boundary. A sulphurous gaze manifested in mid-air about half a kilometre ahead of her, each eye some hundred metres across, but surrounding them was only the ...
2024-04-01 01:03:19 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Amdirlain reappeared at the end of the road that divided the fields, and a nearby girl screamed in surprise. She was only waist height on Amdirlain, wearing the servants' and villagers' grey cotton garments. She had long black hair secured in braided twin tails hanging above her ears to drape d...
2024-03-29 02:43:38 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Amdirlain crossed the fifty metres to the closest sparring area without looking back at the audience taking their seats. However, Master Payam waited until all his students, along with Master Lu and Sarah, had selected seats before he followed Amdirlain through the blue barrier. His pause had g...
2024-03-26 11:36:47 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Demi-Plane
With only the barest plan in mind, Amdirlain sought to get her conscious mind out of the way and followed her instincts. She sang the principal theme of the new Demi-Plane aloud while silently supporting over a hundred thousand additional songs. As the intro washed out further, she grinned at Kadaklan and danced to its beat. Though the...
2024-03-22 20:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Sarah repeatedly hopped between planes throughout Amdirlain’s training session with Klipyl. The music of her planar shifts signalled various planes, but each trip saw her return with tonnes of new equipment for the forge and workshop spaces. With each load of gear, Amdirlain carefully noted t...
2024-03-20 00:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
The first notes sent the harp and mapping cube to storage in Foundry before Amdirlain scoured a patch of ground further down the mountain to bedrock. With it cleared, she lifted into the air, and Sarah followed suit to hover beside her. She moved the complete building, including the front wall ...
2024-03-15 17:51:09 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
The comfortable golden sunlight of the Outlands gleamed off the polished lacquered redwood and soaked into the grey stone of the building. Her six visitors had seated themselves on the circle of benches as if to enjoy the sunshine, though she knew its heat touched none of them.
Kadaklan...
2024-03-12 21:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Barren Demi-Plane
The sheer unbroken darkness was a smothering weight as they hovered high above the bedrock of the Demi-Plane.
“Dark in here, isn’t it?” breathed Sarah.
“Ha ha,” snorted Amdirlain. “We’re not in a book and you’re not death, thank you.”
“I enjoyed Terry Pratchett’s sense of humour,” replied Sara...
2024-03-08 21:42:35 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Bahamut and Livia discussed the options for instructors in various magical arts, housing, and teaching facilities. When Bahamut had given her some advice about logistical issues, Amdirlain had offered to help, but Livia shook her head.
“The monastery needs to overcome some challenges it...
2024-03-06 04:14:24 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
The seedlings in the surrounding rice paddies grew nearly a half metre as they waited, showing the same surge of growth Amdirlain had observed in the fields outside of Xaos. Amdirlain pushed Resonance forward through the wilderness to the limits she could handle and then further still. The info...
2024-03-02 06:25:46 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
When Amdirlain returned to the training hall, Sarah sat at the table drawing out plans for a building. Though she was drawing it freehand, every line was mechanically precise.
“Is that the first time memories have had you distracted?” enquired Sarah as she put the pen aside.
Amd...
2024-02-27 21:18:29 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Livia gave concise instructions to a senior student to supervise and led the three of them through to the back garden. A servant shifted supporting bamboo poles and stretched out a collapsible awning across the back porch to put a circle of chairs in the shade. Amdirlain let Sarah pick a seat f...
2024-02-25 09:42:31 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
After ten minutes of writing Sarah’s requirements, Erhi put aside her brush and recited the list back. In the end, she received a simple, emotionless nod from Sarah.
“I shall go speak to Master Sukh this evening about these matters,” declared Erhi, ...
2024-02-22 09:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
As Amdirlain wrapped up her retelling of Lezekus’ tale, the light through the window distracted her. Though it only touched Sarah’s willowy Human form physically, Resonance’s detection flickered between purely physical to the planar energies' interaction with Sarah’s concealed Dragon fo...
2024-02-19 00:00:47 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
At the end of the lesson, Cyrus stored the objects he’d used as obstacles away and departed without further discussion. Though tempted to inquire about this view of Klipyl’s enquiry about the opportunities for the villagers, Amdirlain left it alone. Cyrus had stuck to having her cycle while...
2024-02-13 22:13:06 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
As the fresh memory swamped Amdirlain’s awareness, the golden sunlight that gleamed off the ivory inlays of the room blazed blindingly in her vision.
The predawn enfolded the same mountainside from the previous memory, yet now countless stars dotted the sky. The near darkness seemed fit...
2024-02-12 02:29:37 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Focused on settling her emotions, Amdirlain sat with her eyes closed and took in the sensation of the Outlands’ warm golden sunlight against her skin. A mindfulness exercise had her cataloguing everything within Resonance-Lord’s reach down to the smallest piece of grey stone and each redwoo...
2024-02-09 03:47:08 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Beneath Sarith’s public mind, her mental walls reminded Amdirlain of the chaos streams, black and impenetrable. As Amdirlain had extended a mental touch towards her, a white light formed a seam in the wall closest to her and allowed Amdirlain inside. The foyer of Sarith’s mind palace was as...
2024-02-07 11:06:20 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Chaos streams between planes.
After the last light from creating the Plane seed vanished, Amdirlain closed her eyes and floated. Nearly an hour later, with her overstressed body healed, Amdirlain turned off Phoenix’s Rapture and remained in utter darkness. Once the experience would have been a sensory deprivation tank, a silent dark location with her...
2024-02-03 22:02:35 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Once Lezekus had conveyed the details of their adventures—exploring lands and minds between fighting back demonic plots—the four ventured off to arrange accommodations and left Amdirlain to her thoughts. They’d been careful not to mention Orcus by name; nevertheless, the Outlands felt alm...
2024-01-31 08:30:55 +0000 UTC View PostAmdirlain’s PoV - Outlands - Outpost of the Monastery of the Western Reaches
Though the courtyard awning provided plenty of shade, the golden sunlight in the Outlands still gleamed off the ivory inlays and honey-gold woodwork within Amdirlain’s room. When Amdirlain settled back into a kneeling position, Klipyl returned to laying on the floor with her head on her thigh...
2024-01-28 12:15:46 +0000 UTC View Post