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Abyssal Road Trip - 578 - Settled
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiOnce she’d left the guildhall, the evening’s teaching and exercises with the family felt to Amdirlain like they’d finished in a blink. She pondered the situation as Vida and her children prepared for bed.Why did today disappear so fast? Is it that after recov...
Abyssal Road Trip - 577 - Breach
Amdirlain’s PoV - VehtëThe paper she’d taken with her had the details of a bronze job, so she’d left Gurn in Laški.He’s probably going to be caught up in the drama with Lord Plamen.Amdirlain looked over the report of a giant trapdoor spider outside another small hamlet, but aside from kill...
Abyssal Road Trip - 576 - Tell me
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiThe temple kitchen was a combined dining area large enough to seat twenty people. It served as a junction point between the temple proper, with its hall and altar, accommodation for novices and priests, and the back courtyard. Within its stones, Amdirlain could hea...
Abyssal Road Trip - 575 - In my place
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiAfter they trained the teenagers for an hour, Amdirlain called a halt. Together with Aggie, they exchanged bows with the youngsters and left through the training yard exit. Outside the guild, Amdirlain again slipped past the mental shields that protected Aggie’s ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 574 - Count me in
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiWith one look between the Guild Master and Aggie, Gurn excused himself and slipped out the front before Marcin could protest.“I can handle the report on the job,” Amdirlain offered, as Marcin grumbled under his breath.“Guild Master. Along with the hobgoblins,...
Abyssal Road Trip - 573 - Witness
Amdirlain’s PoV - VehtëGurn eyed the barrier blocking the tunnel into the cliff face as the Dragon begged for his life. “Are you really going to let it live?”“As long as he behaves.” The moment Amdirlain stepped back, his head came up, and a flicker of azure lightning crackled in his mout...
General Update
Hi,Sorry for the late post. I've been without power for a few days. Got it back for thirty minutes this morning, and it went out again until 1 pm (now 2:11 here). I've had enough time to apply the edits to the last chapter and post it, so hopefully I've caught everything cleanly.I've...
Abyssal Road Trip - 572 - Guidance
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiThough heavily muscled, Gurn moved in near silence beside her, his powers absorbing the sound of his chain shirt. Despite his green skin and slightly jutting tusks, the looming presence the Orc possessed and his Waylander Prestige Class reminded Amdirlain of Torm. ...
Abyssal Road Trip - 571 - Mess
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiWhile Amdirlain kept a mental ear on the family’s sleeping minds, she moved to the outer wall of the cursed temple complex and sat with her back against a fallen pillar. Though the ruined temples had once sheltered the worshippers of Slavic deities, the site refl...
Abyssal Road Trip - 570 - Fitting in
Amdirlain’s PoV - Vehtë - LaškiZivena was collecting her things when Marcin and Amdirlain arrived back at reception. The counters were now half-filled with staff verifying the work of the returning adventurers. They exchanged bags of herbs and monster parts for coins, updating their job status b...
Abyssal Road Trip - 569 - Unfamiliar places
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsAmdirlain had been watching Cla’nes’s transformation into an Astral Deva when she’d heard Sargel’s use of her name. Initially unsure who’d put so much force into her name, the connection that formed in her mind shocked her, with Sargel and Tingeth speaking benea...
Abyssal Road Trip - 568 - Aftermath
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsWith the commitment to her daughters in mind, Amdirlain reappeared in her Domain rather than in Hell as she’d implied to Lilith.I’ve got more planning and testing to do before I venture into Hell.Danu was at her Domain’s border, sitting in the fork of a tree with on...
Abyssal Road Trip - 567 - A line in the sand
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsAs the battle raged on, the miasma of violence, corruption, and assorted negative energies the dark gods projected rippled further through the Plane. Amdirlain caught the retreat of assorted nature spirits, who carried the news far and wide. After hours of fighting, the f...
Abyssal Road Trip - 566 - Hit me with your best shot
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsThe three portals itched at Amdirlain’s awareness; two were in underground tunnel complexes, which the demons were expanding. However, the third was aboveground, and the demons had masked it with illusory and avoidance enchantments. A spiralling tunnel delved into the g...
Abyssal Road Trip - 565 - Team
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsIn the days that followed, Amdirlain tracked the steady progress in teaching magic on Yorubi and Yúla. After the impact of unlocking Paragon affinities for both Bakari and Imani, she taught the others to meditate and attune through an Affinity crystal to unlock their con...
Abyssal Road Trip - 564 - Pull me in
(Avatar) Amdirlain’s PoV - YorubiAmdirlain’s contemplation of the Life Affinity stirred a rush of interlocking insights through the connection she held to Bakari and Imani. Filtered through her awareness, it didn’t crush the pair; her mind automatically sheltered them in a dream-like trance th...
Abyssal Road Trip - 563 - Building bridges
(Avatar) Amdirlain's PoV - YorubiWith her spells kept carefully controlled so Bakari could follow them, and to make it seem an effort, it took several hours to restore all the missing digits and limbs. In between tending to those, she discussed arcane theory with Bakari to gauge his understandin...
Abyssal Road Trip - 562 - Missing pieces
(Avatar) Amdirlain’s PoV - YorubiAmdirlain continued to draw attention as she walked through the town of a few thousand people. The stressed state of the wounded laid up in the town’s core prompted her to take shortcuts through side passages. Through these sometimes narrow paths, she skipped cat...
Abyssal Road Trip - 561 - Vanguard
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsAfter Kadaklan left, Amdirlain stayed by the wellspring, enjoying the waters, the music of the forest and the drifting souls. Among the older souls that pre-dated her involvement with Qil Tris, a scattering disappeared to be reborn, while the others continued to drift and...
Abyssal Road Trip - 560 - Pay the Piper
Amdirlain’s PoV - Deep Planes of the AbyssAmdirlain appeared on one side of a Portal that held a thick darkness at bay. An air of menace had settled over the place, yet her senses showed nothing among the surrounding forest of green luminescent mushrooms. As the killing fury crushed down, she step...
Abyssal Road Trip - 559 - Gear up
Amdirlain’s PoV - VehtëWhile the discussion between the avatars went on in the Outlands, Amdirlain took in more of the changes around Vehtë. The repopulation of the Anar and Lómë had continued, yet they weren’t the only elves with greater numbers. Though she’d expected the Andúnë to expa...
General news
Currently, I'm writing Book 3, and my brain wanted to get the pre-events for Klipyl sorted. I've released the first chapter for everyone, as well as the entire first short story, to the Treasury Tier.As I complete the others, I'll make more of her short story chapters available to all.(A...
Klipyl Short Story - Rejected - Chapter 4
Weeks later, Klipyl stood in a grove with a bunch of carefully attentive servants all poised to provide drinks or food to a bunch of empty seats. As required, they’d all arrived before the scheduled time and loaded a fridge full of food onto carts and distributed drinks between sparkly ice buckets...
Klipyl Short Story - Rejected - Chapter 3
A night of simulations preceded a trudge along the paths to her next duty assignment that started before dawn. Partway there, she felt a rush from the energy feeding through the bond, and stepped off the path between bushes so she could savour the moment unobserved. With the bracelet on her wrist bu...
Klipyl Short Story - Rejected - Chapter 2
Faisal stopped at the tower’s lip with the toes of his boots hanging over the edge. With no obstructions, the view of the woodlands and the buildings nestled among them stretched out into the distance. What she had taken for greenery growing in random spots showed a repeated placement of matching ...
Klipyl Short Story - Rejected - Chapter 1
The flames of the abyss spat her out above a red sea, and she felt this plane’s teeth grip her tight.With no land in sight and no idea where she was, there was no choice but to pick a direction and fly. Just as she turned towards the sullen orange orb overhead to use it as a reference, it burped o...
Abyssal Road Trip - 558 - Set the Stage
Amdirlain’s PoV - OutlandsAfter she briefly inspected the changes to her Domain first-hand, Lilith and the energy she emitted claimed priority. Amdirlain narrowed her attention to the forested glade where the ancient being sat a few thousand kilometres away. Not wanting to risk anything being mask...
Abyssal Road Trip - 557 - Dangerous Woman
Amdirlain’s PoV - Deep planesHer insight-fueled refinement had continued to cascade from the thought that had set it in motion. The primordials she’d left to ambush her foe were ripping each other apart in their clash. Their unrestrained destructiveness echoed past her concealed location, invoki...
Abyssal Road Trip - 556 - The Search
Amdirlain’s PoV - Deep PlanesHer pace across the desert sands continued to grow by the minute. Yet the first Primordial’s attention came before she was halfway to the entrance of the next Plane. Massive dust clouds rapidly grew on the desert’s horizon, a tornado that could engulf a world, fill...
Abyssal Road Trip - 555 - Fuel
Amdirlain’s PoVThe memory of the conversation with Lilith and Phaedra had lasted for months. With the weight of Lilith’s long years of life looming before her, Phaedra had adjusted the Garden of the Æsir’s internal timeframe. The last thing she wanted was to lose preparation time for her Pat...
