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Chapter Two-Hundred Eighteen
_______________**Lechula**_______________In the recovery ward of the kobold enclave, rests the female pale dwarf, and she’s not especially happy about it. That last combined attack still sticks in her mind, right alongside Master Harbinger’s admonishment. Her hands worry her beard, braiding and ...
Peek: The Mayor of Pinevale
Ah, this has always been one of my favorite places to camp, probably because we can never stay for long. No matter how much we reassure the beastkin, a orcish nomad camp in view of one of their towns is something to make them nervous. If the winter was harsher, they might have reason to be concerned...
Chapter Two-Hundred Seventeen
Harlenss is true to his word, and shows up bright and early at the ratkin enclave. A pretty big portion of the enclave shows up, too, all eager to learn a bit of clotherie from an expert in the field. He looks a little intimidated by the numbers for a moment, but that’s the only hint of weakness h...
Peek: Fruitcake
Hello, it's me, Khenal. I wanted to share with all of you a little of what I've been up to this Christmas Eve: making fruitcake. If you don't like fruitcake, I'd like to change your mind. If you've never had it, I suggest trying it. Just don't go out and buy one. Those who di...
Chapter Two-Hundred Sixteen
___________**Aelara**___________The elven woman can’t help but reflect on the last year or so of her life as she and her friends travel the winding tunnels, passages, crevasses, caves, caverns, and more. Born and raised in a city as she was, she’d usually find the minutiae of nature difficult to...
Chapter Two-Hundred Fifteen
While I’ve been splitting my time between watching Jello and watching the baby scythemaws, others are still busy. For one, the few nests in the spiderkin enclave are starting to hatch, too, giving me a nice windfall of mana. I mostly push it into the ally pool for now. I want to grow that emergenc...
Peek: The Crown Inspector
In the elven capital city, there are many who directly serve the crown. Those that do are often recognized as the pinnacle of their particular class, whether it's the Crown Chef or the Crown Sculler, it's a title with honor. Of course, sometimes the honor paid is mere lipservice, and sometim...
Chapter Two-Hundred Fourteen
_______________**The Harbinger**_______________Existence has been… unpleasant as of late for the Harbinger. The surface was supposed to be soft and ripe for the taking, and it seemed that was going to be the case, until that lich finally made its play. The Harbinger would have happily taken the si...
Chapter Two-Hundred Thirteen
Violet and I spend quite a bit of time just watching the babies hatch, and I keep moving most of the mana into the alliance pool. I mentally label it Violet’s college fund, and hope I’ll be able to designate it as officially hers later. For now, I should focus on the baby scythemaws.The basic so...
Peek: Keep on Truckin'
In a two-pump gas station in the middle of nowhere, Nebraska, a semi-truck pulls up. The white cab is a bit dirty, but well cared for, with the Peterbuilt logo looking freshly polished. In all the time the driver have been behind the wheel, nobody has pointed out the apparent typo. The driver wonder...
Chapter Two-Hundred Twelve
I watch my scions share some knowledge with the Stag, and it’s an interesting experience. I can feel Rocky latching onto wavelengths and the fact that infrared is thermal. It’s pretty cool watching the Stag gain the fire affinity, and funny to feel the Southwood’s reaction to it.I think he was...
Chapter Two-Hundred Eleven
_______________Fluffles_______________The serpentine scion knows he shouldn’t find the Stag’s concerns so humorous, but he does. While he can understand where the Southwood’s scion is coming from, it’s not like they’re going to hurt him. He will probably be sore for a while, and likely fat...
Peek: Haberdasher Harlenss
Cold mornings like this always makes Harlenss reconsider living in Fourdock. Not many snakekin live here, and the weather is a big reason. He stokes the fire and sets the heating stones from his bed near the hearth, the morning ritual helping draw him from the torpor of the cold night. The flames he...
Chapter Two-Hundred Ten
It feels a bit weird when the Southwood accepts the alliance. I can feel the new bond, and feel the old ones shuffling around a bit, and I can feel a bit more information flowing around now, too. I’m a bit surprised to see that Violet and Hullbreak are in it now, too, but looking closer, it seems ...
Chapter Two-Hundred Nine
__________________**Southwood**__________________Forge Alliance? Y/N?The Southwood considers the prompt, and as he does so, he finds more and more worth considering about it. While it seemed to appear as all prompts do, something about it speaks of the weight of ages behind it, like an ancient pine....
Peek: Up
Ah, the rolling plains. The sky always seems so much bigger here, deep in the Wanderlands. It reminds me of a dungeon I once delved. Let's get these tents up and the cookfire going, then I'll tell you the tale.Now, let me see... I suppose the dungeon liked the look of the skies. It's far...
No Update Thursday
Just in case anyone is reading exclusively here and didn't get the note at the top of the reddit and royal road post: Only one chapter this week, as I'll be hanging out with family for Thanksgiving. Thank you all for reading. The support from all of you has been more than I could have ever h...
Chapter Two-Hundred Eight
It’s a little disorientating to be able to watch the large group near the Southwood’s borders from the outside and from inside. Teemo, Slash, Leo, and Fluffles have more-or-less the same view. Honey is currently up in the air, getting a good vantage, while Nova’s current view is mostly rock. T...
Peek: Winter Wonderland
Poe looks out over the yard from his perch near the chimney, more appreciative than ever for the warmth wafting up from it. Last evening, it started snowing, and it only stopped a couple hours after dawn. Taskmaster as he often is, even he couldn't bring himself to send out the usual expeditions...
Chapter Two-Hundred Seven
_________**Rocky**_________Rocky has been feeling… restless since the battle with the Harbinger. He had thought he could keep his skill subtle, practicing his affinities and supporting Leo and Honey. Almost all the subterfuge went out the window when the Harbinger killed his fellow scions. Even kn...
Chapter Two-Hundred Six
I doodle a few different designs for the labyrinth entrance while the group works their way back out. I could make it look like an obsidian tube, but I think it’d look a bit bland just like that. Some lava pools could spruce it up, and would even give some light, but I don’t think they’d be os...
Peek: Book Two, Chapter One
Up in the clouds and a little sideways is where the Angel of Prodigals likes to think of as her office. The nature of infinite reality makes that a little moot, as she can get from anywhere to anywhere, but she’s always enjoyed the idea of Heaven being literally in the clouds. It also makes her jo...
Chapter Two-Hundred Five
While the kids and their new friends make their way down, I take a chance to look over the entrance to the labyrinth. I should probably do up the entrance a bit. As it is, it’s just like any other tunnel. It might look a bit twistier than usual, but that’s really it.I should design a fancy entry...
Chapter Two-Hundred Four
At sunrise, I see Rhonda and Freddie enter my main gate, followed by those three that I watched in the labyrinth the other day. The three don’t seem very deterred, and the kids look pretty eager to test themselves against my tougher stuff. Even a Jakob’s Ladder snake has to attack to potentially...
Peek: The Dwarven Door of Doom
Ah, we can see the sun rise over the dwarven mountains, so it seems only fitting I regale you with the tale of an interesting dwarven dungeon, and its door of doom.That's not just me being dramatic, either. Let me explain. Near the base of the mountains, where they transition to the nice verdant...
Chapter Two-Hundred Three
__________**Freddie**__________In the Adventurer’s Guild hall, a young orc and his goblin friend relax near the roaring fire. They’ve been friends for basically their entire lives, and that friendship has only grown stronger in the last year. They were two of the first to delve Thedeim, where Rh...
Dungeon Life Two-Hundred Two
Aranya sits atop the wall, waving and watching as her friends vanish into the shortcut, and she sticks around to send off all the denizens that are going, too. It’s not difficult to see she has complex feelings about everyone going, and she probably has complicated feelings about the dwellers want...
Peek: Berdol's Notes on Violet
Inspection notes by junior inspector Berdol, overseen by both Inspector Tarl and Voice Teemo, of Thedeim.The most direct route to Violet is via a short delve into Thedeim, Violet's mentor. By entering into the tunnels section of Thedeim, delvers can exit into unclaimed tunnels and eventually fin...
Chapter Two-Hundred One
The sense of purpose I feel from Nova is encouraging. Not for the first time, I wonder if maybe calling her Nova wasn’t my best idea, but it’s too late for that now. I’m just happy she seems to have found, if not her true calling, something to strive for. Fighting wouldn’t be the worst thing...
Chapter Two-Hundred
____________**Nova**____________Nova listlessly glides through the rock near the border to the volcanic area, trying more to gather her thoughts than to hunt the fire elementals that try to sneak into Thedeim. She feels a little guilty about that, about letting the other wyrms handle the brunt of th...
