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“Ah.” Felix wasn’t quite prepared for that one. “Well, home is…was Fort Lauderdale. That’s in Florida. Which is in the United States—I’m not sure how much context I should give.”
Vess waved a hand. “Was it nice? Florida?”
“It was too h...
2023-04-26 12:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Harn brought his hammer down. Sparks flew like a brilliant waterfall of purple-blue motes before they vanished, eaten up by the relentless cold. Outside the forge he’d commandeered, night had fallen. The winds were brutal but Harn welcomed them—tonig...
As is required by my contract, I'll be removing almost all of the chapters for Abyss (chapters 425-531 ish). But! Since it's my birthday tomorrow, April 22nd, I'm going to leave them up for the weekend. Any new folks can check them out this weekend, and I'll remove them all Monday.
Have a great weekend, folks!
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Felix shut the door. “Explain.”
The Chanters stood in the center of the room, eyes roaming over the jars and sacks, the fire, and Pit, who sat unperturbed on the woven rug. Laur, in particular, stared pointedly at the Skull of the Forsaken.
Tzfell fol...
2023-04-21 15:43:10 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Evie landed in a roll, springing up to her feet as her spiked chain retracted into her hand. Behind, the last of the Brumalbats fell in gruesome pieces, their icy wings and dark ichor splattering the cliffs below. A Yttin harpoon speared the center of the nearest corpses and snapped back, snagging the majority of its guts. They splatted messily beside...
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Harsh screeches scratched at Loquis’ ears, and it was all he could do to shout orders over the din. The Brumalbats swarmed the blue sky, their ice-wreathed wings glittering like diamonds in the sunlight. They were huge, easily the size of a man, with twice...
FYI, next Wednesday I'll be pulling chapters of book 7 off Patreon (and RR/etc) in preparation for it's release on May 3rd! It will be releasing on Amazon/Audible simultaneously, and both are available for preorder now.
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2023-04-14 14:42:40 +0000 UTC
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The interior of the fortress was far homier than Felix anticipated. He expected martial defenses and an abundance of ice; what he found was similar to almost any town he'd encountered up to this point. It had shops, taverns, a smithy...
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A small, hiltless blade appeared in Felix’s hand. It was crooked, pitted, and dull along the long edge, but he marveled at the ability regardless. Shaping things out of raw Mana was still a trip. With a flick of his wrist, he threw it down into a post of wood he’d sha...
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When Felix came back to the ship, he found a crowd of onlookers. Arclights with spells dancing on their fingers, Blades and Bones with weapons drawn, and numerous Yttin and Henaari bearing spears and tridents—ready and willing to mete out death, but finding only Fe...
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Felix massaged the back of his neck as he leaned away from the System screen, sitting now on the deck of his ship. His Aspects were aching, strained in ways that made his core space feel more than a little shaky. It wasn’t so much that his physical form was...
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“Well…that’s new,” Evie said.
Before them was the same floating conglomeration of wood, stone, and crystal as he’d created before, just as large and strange as the first time. Living wood shaped into the form of a huge, four-winged whale cover...
2023-04-03 23:36:00 +0000 UTC View PostNext chapter we'll be getting into the action a bit more. Enjoy!
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The company marched through the Fogland forests, making short work of the distance with their Tempered Bodies. Zara was happy to note that all of those going with Felix were at least Journ...
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Thanks in part to an impromptu festival, everyone made it out of Elderthrone with little effort. Vess was more than a little surprised at that—the guards they had posted at the walls weren’t ones to slack off, after all. Yet every one of them had been...
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Seeing the Nagafolk off didn’t take long and Felix was thankful for that. He had entirely too much to do and too little time to do it in. Lists of supplies, people to wrangle, and Pit had gone off somewhere without telling him. The last wasn’t a big deal—Pit wa...
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Atar hunched forward, peering closely at the sigil he was inscribing on a length of stone. His hand ached, cramping up despite his Adept Tier Body—the amount of inscription he had done in the last week was enough to make a lesser mage’s hand fall off completely. ...
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“...and do not break her heart.”
“Stupid perfect recall,” Felix muttered, jogging up a staircase three steps at a time. As if he wasn’t nervous about his dinner date already, now he had Darius’ intimidating face seared into his memories. “And...
2023-03-22 17:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“First Form!” Darius commanded. “Owl!”
Felix rushed forward, hooked blade leading the way. The movements of First Form, also known as Owl Form, were inspired by the quiet and observant nature of that bird. They emphasized slow, deliberate strikes and pr...
2023-03-20 13:50:45 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
Slightly shorter one today, but it kinda has to be. More on Monday!
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The night was cold, but for once the flurries had ceased. The mountain air was pristine, lent an incredible clarity that still roared across the foothills, sharp as glass. Within a wide pi...
Some answers and a few new questions in this one.
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“I’m sorry, what?” Felix wished something more refined had immediately popped out of his mouth, but Vess’ etiquette training only went so far. “I’ve never even been to Ne...
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Evie stood atop the waterfall, looking back over what had once been a riverbank before Felix had gotten his hands on it. Now a castle soared upward in the early morning light, all of it built of that dark stone of his. There was a crenelated wall, at least thirty strides...
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The Chanters didn’t say much after Felix showed up. The stooped old lady had only bowed a little before she swooped off, clattering across the heaving deck on a knob...
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2023-03-08 19:15:20 +0000 UTC
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“Oh, that makes more sense,” Felix said, sometime later. The gray sand beneath his feet was just as pale and gritty as he remembered, as were the green vinegar waves that crashed nearby. “They’re in a Manaship.”
A fair distance out, barely a speck on the ...
2023-03-06 18:09:39 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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Vess watched Felix zip into the sky, and despite the lightning that enveloped him, she could still make out his form quite clearly.
“Working on your Perception, Lady Dayne?” Darius asked.
Vess coughed and turned away from the sky. “What ...
2023-03-03 18:41:02 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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There was a pervasive quiet in the woods, broken only by the percussive crunch of snow beneath their boots. Felix and Vess walked, not speaking, between frost-coated ridges and winding, old-growth trees wide as houses. The nervousness he felt had vanished, dwindled benea...
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In a quiet, snow-coated glade, a portal split the air.
Birds scattered and small creatures skipped across footprints that had barely filled in, while the rent sucked up the air around it like a gasping man. It widened, loosing a fluting note that soon trembled ...
2023-02-27 21:13:40 +0000 UTC View PostEnjoy!
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“Don’t tug at those,” Harn snapped. His hammer never faltered, ringing against some red-hot piece of steel. “You’ll open up your wounds again.”
Evie dropped her hand from the cloth bundled around her left shoulder. Stupid Adept Percepti...
2023-02-24 18:08:17 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 555! That's a fun number.
After some consideration, I've editing some bits into chapters 527, 533, and 534 to better reintroduce/establish Pit's condition/issues. Give those a re-read if you like!
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Jesus, what am I doing? Felix fell back on his ...
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Felix ripped through the cloud layer atop a bolt of lightning, and found chaos.
The storm that had quietened raged anew, and gale force winds ripped at him while snow and hail tried to blind him. He cast his senses out, Perception and Affinity both, and found t...
2023-02-20 16:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post