Planned on something entirely different for this one but things kinda got away from me halfway through. I choose to consider this a good thing.
Do give me some of your feedback if you feel like it. A lack of noise good inspiration does not make, and your interaction helps me find the will to keep going! (even if I may seem curt in my replies)
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(General POV)
"Don't bl...
2025-11-15 01:21:16 +0000 UTC View PostBreathe in. Breathe out.
The crisp morning air helped my racing thoughts settle ever so slowly, the excitement and trepidation for what was to come eventually falling behind a focused calm.
I was prepared for this. I was ready. I would win.
My eyes snapped open as my anonymous payment was processed, and the doors of the rent-a-garage shut closed, my third escape route properly...
2025-11-14 01:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostA cup of your worst tea for the gremlin (Who is apparently also a lizard hater. I have never been this betrayed in my life. Smh.)
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Having sent the Flaming Fist contingent to join the others at the temple ruins, the party of four decided to seek out the nearby Zhentarim outpost, which just so happened to be hidden in a cave system just under the inn they had just saved....
2025-11-11 18:52:41 +0000 UTC View PostAnd we are back in business boys and femboys!
As always we are aided by a dread abomination that shall not be named, and offer sacrifices to save our souls.
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Isamu 'Jugo' Okada
"Hiyah!" A high pitched voice rang out through the dojo as Isamu took a light step back, evading the blow effortlessly and deflecting the training sword away with mini...
2025-11-10 21:34:20 +0000 UTC View PostA beat of silence went by as the man bid his welcome, and then under unspoken agreement all four adventurers reached for their weapons, Lae'zel being the swiftest among them as she lunged for their 'host' with not a blink of hesitation and a war cry on her lips.
Her efforts only served to slightly miff her opponent for she had ruined his presentation, and in his irritation he simply slapp...
2025-10-31 23:41:23 +0000 UTC View PostFixed the mistake in last chap where I had him spend the whole day with his mom, as the meeting with the team was supposed to happen on the same day.
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The surroundings of the Afterlife were much, much calmer during daytime it seemed, leaving the small alcove leading up to the main entrance looking almost abandoned save for a couple of randoms skulking in the corners here and ...
2025-10-30 23:59:45 +0000 UTC View PostAaaand big D returns once more!
Previous chap hath been edited.
I heavily recommend going through at least the final bits of last chapter again because the start of this one will not make sense otherwise.
That aside, big ole' cheers for our local pyromaniac for giving this a quick once over.
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(General POV)
The ruined Underdark village ...
2025-10-28 21:13:48 +0000 UTC View PostYou are hereby obligated to perform a demonic sacrifice of one cup of your worst tea to our assistant gremlin for its contributions to these scribbles.
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Rebecca
She felt her nose twitch as she was woken up by the divine smell of fresh burrito.
Her eyes opened groggily, leaving her momentarily confused at the sight of an unfamiliar ceiling b...
2025-10-27 22:12:58 +0000 UTC View PostBlessings upon our purveyor of deviancy, even if its attempts at goonery had to be deflected once again.
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The Aspiring Solo
[You sure I can't interest you in a new ride Jaquito?] The far too amused voice of the Fixer rang out in his mind [You know El Capitan always has the only best offers!]
Jackie Welles let out an audibl...
2025-10-23 21:25:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe dread gremlin of the texts strikes again! Big daps and all that.
Dread author note. Please read.
Unfortunately there will be no chapter for Sorcerer's Tale this week as I need to take a bit of time away from it to come up with a proper plan of action and not just keep it as Reyvin simply going through the motions.
Hopefully this will also serve to jolt my ...
2025-10-20 21:27:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe offer our meagre thanks to the devious eldrich abomination that shall not be named.
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My hand flicked the aged pages of one of my many magical grimoires, my eyes lazily scanning the diagrams of one of the local "buff" series of spells that I had been putting together for the last hour or so.
I've long since made the casting of dragonflesh a subconscious reflex, cast wit...
2025-10-17 22:27:30 +0000 UTC View PostObligatory thanks go to our local purveyor of devious behavior, Aliya Genesis.
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Michael 'Magos' Sobronov
"Sealing seems to be in order." I noted in what I believed to be a professional tone "The Subdermals should still work as advertised, though some of the cracked spots will have slightly reduced resistance."
"How reduced are we talking here?...
2025-10-16 20:47:34 +0000 UTC View PostMany thanks to the local purveyor of pyromancy and deviant behavior for its waffling.
Read le author note please.
The consensus on my crashout last chapter seems pretty clear and I find that I agree with it for the most part, so expect that I will finish Baldur's Gate in the following months before moving on to something else while leaving Sorcerer's Tale to chill f...
2025-10-14 19:25:15 +0000 UTC View PostBig ole dap to the dread local gremlin fiend, for its aid is glorious!
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Michael 'Magos' Sobronov
With every word I shared I felt a small weight dropping from my chest.
The genuinely compassionate, if dulled by drugs, reactions of Rebecca only helped me in making peace with myself, despite not even knowing that I needed it in the first plac...
2025-10-13 20:19:29 +0000 UTC View PostMany thanks for our local pyromancer for its moste terrible assistance in this endeavor, and its dread encouragement for what is to come.
Kindly do me the favor of reading the following:
Welcome back one and all to my dreadful author notes of great consequence.
Been a few months, huh?
I tried to pull back with the amount of well, complaining quite frankl...
2025-10-10 20:30:57 +0000 UTC View PostHeave thine felicitations upon the most helpful of eldrich gremlins for its aide.
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I wish to say the cyborg's sudden hostility- no, not quite hostility but suspicion, was to be completely expected but I still found myself irritated at the posturing.
So instead of answering the heavily chromed out unit of a man I merely directed him with a long look before t...
2025-10-09 20:40:59 +0000 UTC View PostMany felicitations upon our local purveyor of gremlin behavior for its assistance.
Light edits were cast upon the previous chapter to make it a touch better.
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(Reyvin's POV)
Having inevitably won my debate against the dread bird-
'The fuck you did.'
And ignored his whining. Or else.
'...'
'That's what I thought.' I s...
2025-10-07 19:56:27 +0000 UTC View PostCustomary praises be upon the dread gremlin, its assistance is most based.
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The Edgerunners
Sasha Yakovleva cried out in pain as she felt her ICON nearly splatter at the merest touch of the mech's BlackICE.
The pain was so great and sudden she lost her footing despite not moving at all, and the corpo troopers immediately smelled blood in th...
2025-10-06 19:40:16 +0000 UTC View PostBig ole' thanks to the local gremlin, as always.
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The druid naturally had more to say about the layout of the defenses and goblin forces but I only half listened to him while the rest strategized. Might as well have them give some actual effort for once.
What is the point of having servants around if you had to do all of the work anyway?
Except of course, things ...
2025-10-03 17:54:25 +0000 UTC View PostPraise be to my gremlinoid assistant, for it is most encouraging to my written hallucinations!
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Michael 'Magos' Sobronov
"Mike!" I had barely stepped into El Coyote Cojo before Jackie was running over to me and doing his best to grab me in a bear hug "There you are you big murder machine!"
"Jackie." I patted his back, just a touch ...
2025-10-02 19:24:44 +0000 UTC View PostGive praise to my assistant gremlin, Aliya Genesis, for its dread murmurings are of much use.
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(General POV)
Shadowheart kept looking back at the ogre guarding the gates to the inner temple as they passed him by, her eyes flickering back and forth with nearly every other step she took, but the dumb beast didn't even acknowledge them aside from a bored grunt.
She fe...
2025-09-30 18:44:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe literary voyeur has infiltrated the Forge Temple. Omnissiah preserve our souls.
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Michael 'Magos' Sobronov
Ten days had passed since my meeting with the Tyger boss concluded and I almost lost my dear life to one very irritated mother.
Of course I understood her worry more than she'd have probably ever wanted me to and while she did accep...
2025-09-29 19:15:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe house is contractually obligated to offer praise to the gremlin who shall not be named lest we suffer a fate worse than death.
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What was at first meant to be a night of rest and relaxation inevitably turned into an impromptu feast due to all the excitement with the devil bitch, and I doubted the Mindwormed Multitude would have stayed peaceful even without that.
We fou...
2025-09-26 18:38:47 +0000 UTC View PostPraise the gremlin for its wafflings are most useful to me!
Michael 'Magos' Sobronov
Clothes replaced with something not smelling of steaming guts, entire megabuilding network infiltrated as a precaution, and a worried mother temporarily placated behind me, I once more found myself in the elevator to the megabuilding's fiftieth floor, the slightly scratched...
2025-09-25 16:01:58 +0000 UTC View PostGotta love it when my narcoleptic ass goes for a short nap at 1 after noon and then wakes up when the sun is already down.
Probably trying to subconsciously escape the dread gremlin's judgement now that I think about it. It is too fascinated by the devils' assets to accept its due fate.
Thankfully, the thot has no power over the honest hardworking Mer.
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2025-09-23 20:35:22 +0000 UTC View PostYes, yes I forgor to add the callout again Aliya, laugh it up :P
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The instant I reactivated my Agent I got a call from Regina.
[Regina Jones: Finally!] She looked thoroughly stressed out [You done with the dojo?]
My eyes narrowed at her unusually emotional state.
[Just got back to my van. Why, what is going on?]
Her eye flashed with relief.
[Go...
2025-09-22 18:09:09 +0000 UTC View PostPraise be to the moste vilely voracious voyeur of texts for its dread aide! It shall forever be remembered in the halls of glory.
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The first of the supposed paladins were cut down before they even knew what was going on, the majority of my followers leaping for their throats with an enthusiasm no doubt transferred through the good ole' tadpole.
I'd almost consider it u...
2025-09-19 18:37:32 +0000 UTC View PostPraise be to the local practitioner of the forbidden arts, AliyaGenesis. Its aid is most useful to mine rattled mind.
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"Keep your feet further apart." Mom barked at me impatiently "Anyone with even a bit of skill can make you fall over like this."
I felt a flash of annoyance but did as she asked "It feels off." I said for the umpteenth time, most definitely not whining "...
2025-09-18 19:21:13 +0000 UTC View PostGive forth your great praise to our local purveyor of mischief and deviousness, for its terrible words helped this grand work along once more!
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My cheerful whistling tune ceased as I ascended up the now thoroughly dead hag's domain, my inventory freshly filled to the brim with interesting but otherwise unimpressive loot, save for a considerable amount of highly useful fae bits....
2025-09-16 18:59:18 +0000 UTC View PostBig ole' cheers for our local pyromaniac Aliya for helping my brainblocked ass out.
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Michael 'Magos' Sobronov
"You home, bro?" Rebecca called out as the doors to her apartment shunted open.
The blaring music inside dimmed just barely and the distinct sound of a wheeled chair being shoved while still under the full weight of a person caught...
2025-09-15 19:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post