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Vacation Poll - pick your 'interim' story
🕑 Added 2024-12-22 21:41:18 +0000 UTCHi folks. I'm intending to take my first vacation in two years, so:
There will be 1 week with no chapters from The First Great Game, from Dec 30 to Jan 3.
However! I have other stories that get randomly written, and I am going to be posting 5 chapters to fill that week based on this poll.
Option 1: Isle of the Lost Wizards. This story only has about 10 chapters written. It's something like 'progression' harem. Very brief synopsis below:
Marcus lives in a world where his magic is as much curse as gift. His father gives him a new name, protects him from a life of imprisonment, and teaches him how to partially control it.
Years later, he sails with 'pirate hunters' as a powerful weapon, but in a heated battle, finds himself somewhere that isn't supposed to exist...a place that might teach him everything he knew about magic is wrong, and become a true paradise. He just needs to survive it...
Option 2: Descending Dragon. Somewhere between classic and progression fantasy. Not harem. It's about 80% finished. Synopsis below:
Sam Hardin is dying. The Doc said it was his lungs, but five years ago they told him he’d have a few years, maybe a few months, and he's still alive.
Maybe it’s because his father needs him to keep their inn from ruin. Maybe it's his small, frontier town that'd fail without him. Either way, he wakes up coughing at dawn and works until sunset, a dutiful ghost, a walking corpse, just too damn stubborn to die.
Then Sam's only friends go down to the abandoned mine at the edge of town. They don't ask him to come, they don't even tell him, probably because they know what he’d say. His friends go down, but they don't come out.
The ‘Delve’, as the mine’s known, is famous. People travel for miles hoping to find some buried treasure or ancient artifact, thinking to come out rich beyond their dreams. The town of Tristwood sells them hope and supplies with false smiles and encouragement.
Thing is: the mine is a deathtrap. Not one ‘rube’ in Sam’s eighteen years has come out alive. And no one in the town of Tristwood is brave or stupid enough to help find his friends. No one, that is, except Sam.
But the Delve isn’t truly a ‘mine’, nor is it abandoned. It's a crucible of the soul, and there are secrets there far older than Tristwood. Evil lurks in the shadows and cracks of a forgotten world, waiting, plotting, corrupting those too weak to resist…
With the help of a talking mace, and an ancient creature of legend, Sam must descend into a forgotten hell. He must rise and become something not seen in this world for a thousand years, something there are no words left in the tongues of men even to describe.
All he has to risk is his soul...
Comments
Hugh Peeble
Tbh either one sounds good.
Hugh Peeble
Worked for those Raymond Feist and Piers Anthony guys…
Pierce Grey
It is not...though the thought makes total sense. I'm reminded of a comment from a writer whose name now escapes me - but he suggested some writers write about one 'theme' their entire lives...
Antanas Tamasauskas
Descending Dragon, is it part of the God King's Legacy? Just guessing because you either get strong or go mad (or both)
