“The Sandmen are here!” whispered a thirty-something cobbler, who’d heard it from his younger, wealthier cousin in air traffic control. “He might be a major git, but he never lies.” Except on his...
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“The Sandmen are here!” whispered a thirty-something cobbler, who’d heard it from his younger, wealthier cousin in air traffic control. “He might be a major git, but he never lies.” Except on his...
At three bells past dawn, the Asphodelos made its final approach over the Black City.
She breathed deep into the glass, capturing on that film of mist the ephemera of mediocrity in motion....
January Breaks
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[ Dramatis personae ]
Never be fooled by the light at the end of a tunnel, Lillian thought wryly when she emerged from the rift of her own making. On the other side had waited an ambush on all her senses: the blinding...
At the turn of dawn, her knuckles pecked at the door: four knocks to a syncopated beat, then a steady four more. Lillian waited then, thick gloved hands buried deep in her pockets, beet-cheeked and...
A pecking noise had woken Lillian hours ahead of schedule. Only halfway out of the dark, she noted wearily. Outside, a dozen lantern posts softened the cold night’s gloom; they were as flowers of...
I'd like to keep the House of Sora open. Thanks!
By the time the carafe ran dry and all biscuits had been munched, they’d only gone through a fifth of her ‘convenient highlights’. Lillian had gone and fetched a few cool pints of porter from her...
On either side of the setted streets, the brownstone buildings fanned out like the bellows of an accordion. The whole avenue would have seemed a single house caught between two mirrors, if not for...
Congratulations to Mutant_Lorenor for making it into the Top 10! He is ranked 7th!
Apologies to Bloodrose, who dropped out of the Top 10. Still, he is ranked 11th!
That's what copy-pasta tastes like sometimes. Goes great with conga rats!
Congratulations to Enigmatic Immortal for making it into the Top 100! He is ranked 82nd!
Apologies to Kryos, who dropped out of the Top 100. Still, he is ranked 101st!
Plumes of smoke and steam drifted from the city’s myriad chimneys, soaking in the gold of dusk as they brushed across the dying skies. The soot-stained bricks and mansard rooftops of neighboring...
Heya, welcome to Althanas!
You posted your profile in the right place, but the format isn't exactly what's preferable, since it's more of a history of the character than anything. Also, the...
Happy birthday old boy!
The beating of her skull, that ominous thumping in her mind came like the peal of distant bells. Hiding the shortness of her breaths, Lillian cursed the rain’s chill, the air’s dampness; with all the...
Glad to see you back, Inky! I also very much hope you're sticking around and not just passing by!
Relief came over her when the silver mutt perked its ears, forgetting all about the girl’s transgression when, with a few whiffs of its snout, it picked up in the muggy air the scent of something...
Even after witnessing a mass reanimation of corpses, the sight of this dead rising from his grave gave her chills far worse than the penance rain now pouring from the heavens. ‘Joshua,’ she...
The dagger’s deflection had been met with a frown, but Lillian barreled past the small hindrance that was the gunman’s hidden chainmail. Through the rip in his jacket, she saw the links burst...
The young man had thanked her, and Lillian suddenly felt a strange surge of self-consciousness. Though her senior, the mage who’d escaped from the very brink of death was not much older than she...
Cool runnels of rain slid along her sword, playing games of light and shadow over the pale crystal with every clash of thunder and lightning. Lillian was slinking across the arena on the tip of her...
For for the vibrations: adamantine can still be broken by Icemold, an abnormal substance with abnormal effects. This being said, I very much doubt something much more powerful, such as a supernova...
More or less, so thanks.
As for the points you brought up: the crumbling into a little ball, I think, refers to Lillian's meteor hammer? However, this was done in direct response to Numbers'...
So, what are Dirks and Phagan standing on? A 15-foot tall tower of adamantine in the middle of the Mazrith chamber? Meaning Aeq and Trez were not separated by a wall of adamantine, but a transparent...