They really do get along fast, Irwin thought.
It had been three days since he'd returned home, and as per usual, he was in the smithy and not alone. He watched as Trimdir talked animatedly with Hou'dor, making wide gestures with his arms.
The two had hit it off as soon as they started talking two days ago, the older Ganvil seeming unbothered by Trimdir's...
2024-06-08 19:43:52 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin woke to the sounds of laughter and shouting, and as he sat up, he looked around the room. His room. Given to him by his brother, it was the same one he'd stayed in before he left. Clean and as empty, he knew his mother must have kept it like that for him.
Swinging his legs out of bed, he gazed out of the window as images of traveling through the storm-filled Portal G...
2024-06-07 18:25:09 +0000 UTC View PostBail scrubbed away at the worn sail, sometimes looking at the storm that was raging just beyond the deceptively flimsy barrier. The winds caused the ship to be shoved around mercilessly, but he barely noticed. Just like he was able to ignore the constant howling of the wind and the wind and sometimes rain battering his face and back. This wasn't the first time he'd been out here, and it wouldn'...
2024-06-02 17:52:01 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin rode the soundwaves through the muted storm, every few moments dropping out as the soundwaves clashed together. Each time, he took one of the many present soundwaves to continue forward. In under ten seconds, he slammed into the red barrier that surrounded The Ruby's Revenge.
It's blocking me! Irwin thought as he took to the soundwaves and tried penetrating the ship....
2024-06-01 19:42:26 +0000 UTC View PostGreldo looked at Ulaan, who was wringing his hands and staring at the table.
"You know it's the best for you and your people," he said, leaning against the wall and trying to project an outward calm.
Ulaan let out a long sigh. "I know, but it's going to get a lot of people killed."
"There's little else I can think of," Greldo said. "If we do it right...
2024-05-31 16:39:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake's reality burst when The Change reshaped his existence, morphing him into a kobold-like being with unfamiliar instincts and powers. Adrift in the perilous depths of an alien sea, his companions gone, he is left to fend for himself. Haunted by harrowing visions linked to a distant dragon, his singular focus becomes mere survival. Scavenging and hiding to stay alive, Jake's nightmares escalate...
2024-05-29 13:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Twenty minutes. That's all the time they had before a calamity would arrive that would rip them from their universe and deliver them to another monstrous and foreign one! Jake, Mason, and the entire coffee shop listened in horrified silence to the declaration of the end of the world as they knew it. A few minutes of a broadcast, a speech by the leaders of the nations, and a prerecorded message â€...
2024-05-29 13:31:35 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin hummed as he lay in bed, content to remain there for a while as he enjoyed the calm. A week had passed since their encounter with the Oculithar, and Earila was at the helm, with Greldo and a few others keeping an eye out. He'd spent most of that time unwinding, eating double portions of anything Boohm made, and talking with the smiths they had rescued.
I wonder if Sesnans...
2024-05-26 20:02:32 +0000 UTC View PostVaridia shivered as her mind kept wandering back to the moment the raider had reached her house. She tried to push the memory away, but it wouldn't let her, and she saw how the carded sword slashed through her dau-
A wave of soulforce rammed into her mind, the music sad, deep, and melancholic. It forced all thoughts from her as she bolted upright in the bed, sta...
2024-05-25 20:31:01 +0000 UTC View Post“You did the right thing,” Greldo said, in between devouring enough food that even Irwin was wondering where exactly he was leaving.
“So you’ve told me,” he said, leaning back with a weary sigh. “It still feels… wrong.”
Greldo wiped his mouth, then looked up, raising an eyebrow.
“If you’d come across these nasty fools in the midst of at...
2024-05-24 19:39:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Orion and Grit finished all the food, Elena was watching them with wide open mouths.
"What?" Orion asked, wiping his lips on his no longer very white bandages.
"I've seen just bonded fighting aura trainers eat before, but you are on another level," Elena said, leaning forward. "Is that normal where you are from? Does everyone eat that much? How much did you eat be...
2024-05-20 13:02:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, like I said in the comment, it's finally up!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4JMJDY7
Now, I used to put my previous books on Kindle Unlimited, but due to how many new readers are still findi...
2024-05-20 08:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe Concerto slowly struggled its way through the raging storm and into the corridor that was partially destroyed.
As soon as the whipping winds stopped yanking the ship left and right, Irwin let out a sigh of relief.
"Great job," he grunted, getting a round of weary thanks from the Ganvils.
"Captain, we should rest here fo...
2024-05-19 19:49:46 +0000 UTC View Post“That much is broken…” Vrishia said, her previous calm gone.
Greldo didn’t reply but waited as she let the reality that they were at a minimum cut of from the central words sink in. The other people in the inn were looking at him quietly, and he wondered if they all believed him or not.
After a few moments, Vrishia put her elbows o...
2024-05-18 20:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin's growl was drowned out by the howling winds and crackling lighting as he struggled with the helm. With a powerful pull, he turned the helm further to the left, straining against the winds. The Concerto leaned against the wind, a bubble of pale energy around it battered by torrents of rain and the occasional burst of lightning. Massive waves of chaotic soulforce r...
2024-05-17 18:38:03 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin woke to a soft ambient song, and it took him a moment to figure out what he was hearing.
Right, my new heartcard!
He sat upright, swinging his legs from the couch and looking around. Ambraz stood on the table before him, yawning widely.
"Fina... ly... woke up?" the Ganvil asked, yawing and fluttering his wings before flying to Irw...
2024-05-12 19:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin tapped the page on his book, staring at his proposed next heartcard.
"This is going to remove the ability to zoom in to see distant soulforce resonances," he said.
"Probably, though I'm not sure," Ambraz said. "This card will be focused on only soulforce and sound, wrapped around your soulstrum guitar and its way more speciazlized then yo...
2024-05-11 19:50:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Everything worked out perfectly," Ambraz said, landing back on Irwin's shoulder.
"So… you are going to make my heartcard now?" Hind asked.
Irwin looked at her for a moment before answering. She was sitting in his cabin, leaning forward from her spot on the couch, her eyes wide and filled with excitement. Two days had passed since he had helped her slot the cards, an...
2024-05-10 13:59:11 +0000 UTC View PostThe city was a lot busier as evening approached, and Orion saw dozens of people walking around. A few where chatting softly, but most were quiet, and a gloomy atmosphere hung over Old Ferrum Town.
"Ri…" whispered from his shoulder.
"Yeah, I guess that Zoroark showing up is a pretty big deal," Orion agreed.
He was glad to reach the Librar...
2024-05-06 08:05:05 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin let out a weary sigh as he lowered his hammer. The table beside was covered in loose papers with music sheets. With his Tablatures of Soul and Song card having a limit of twelve songs that it could store, a few of which he had filled with things from Granvox, he'd copied the attempts on paper so they could see what was causing the issues.
If I don't have t...
2024-05-05 19:18:47 +0000 UTC View PostIrwin hummed happily along with his own soulstrum guitar, his hammer striking in a slow cadence before speeding up again. The Gneisian ore was way smaller than it had been when he'd started and gleamed with an internal light. Ethereal Strings felt like it would overflow at any moment, and he continued hammering the ore.
It had been four days since he'd reforged ...
2024-05-04 12:16:55 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys,
I'm currently on holiday and yesterday I got something in my eye which is now stuck below my upper eyelid. Its hard to write/read because any movement hurts, especially looking forward. Been trying to clean it with water, but nothing works.
The stupid thing is that it's easter here, and everybody is free, including most doctors. Hospitals only help in very specific cases...
Hind woke slowly, and for the first time in over a year, there was barely any pain- just a dull, distant thrumming. There was none of the old sharpness that felt like daggers being thrust into her head and soul before being rotated constantly.
I… What happened?
The bed below her seemed to tilt ever so slightly, then swayed somewhat.<...
2024-04-29 14:55:31 +0000 UTC View Post“Are you sure that’s ours?” Irwin asked.
He and the others were staring in awe at the ship. Easily double the length of The Sonata, its smooth hull was dark with a slight metallic gleam to the gray wood. With a single main mast, angled back with a massive sail, Irwin wondered if Zender and Earila could even keep it clean with the two of them. The sma...
2024-04-27 19:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post"It's almost light. Do you think they are going to stay reforging without sleep?" Greldo asked, looking at the Ganvil sitting on the table.
Coal had alerted him to the other's arrival, and he'd been having a soft conversation ever since.
"Probably," Des said. "Am was pretty upset."
"He didn't seem like someone to get upset easily," Greldo s...
2024-04-26 19:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post"Just like that?" Skylar asked, staring at Irwin in confusion.
Irwin sighed. He'd had worried Skylar might have taken this badly, but seeing the hurt look, he wished things had been indifferent. He'd come to see the stormy man as his friend, enjoying the other's boundless enthusiasm.
Looking around the cozy Tappestery, he wished he had more time for a proper good...
2024-04-21 17:33:37 +0000 UTC View PostNarios calmly walked next to the towering smith, taking the occasional glance. For a young man, he had a rather intimidating aura around him, and right now, he seemed deep in thought. He'd barely said a word as he returned from the Dean's office.
When they walked out of the academy and toward the merchant district, he decided it might be prudent to ask. If Irwin&nbs...
2024-04-20 19:27:40 +0000 UTC View Post"Music sheets!" Irwin shouted as he sat upright in bed, eyes wide.
"Wu- what??" Ambraz grunted from his perch, yawning. "What are you shouting for!?"
Irwin slung his legs out of bed, sprinting into the main room. Grabbing his booklet, he flipped to the page with the cards he'd decided he wanted for his final three slots. The first two, the teleportation and a mental cl...
2024-04-19 18:27:27 +0000 UTC View PostOrion rubbed his chin. "Well, there used to be books on who can learn what moves. I know that Breloom can learn things like Focus Blast, Hyperbeam, and Gigadrain, though I think you need a Technical Machine for those."
Krastin was looking at him with wide-open eyes, then licked his lips.
"I didn't know that," he said. "I saw a Hyperbeam one time. One of the more dangerous Gyar...
2024-04-15 09:34:31 +0000 UTC View PostNarios blew through his saxhorn, enjoying the beautiful sound that rang from it as he stood on the tiny podium by himself. It was his favorite spot to play nowadays—even better than his own room, which was adjacent to the classroom, making it all the more perfect.
He was about to focus on the piece's best part when he heard someone heavy running through the nearby halls. That by ...
2024-04-14 18:02:42 +0000 UTC View Post