KnightofTempest

Chapter 13

Lariat opened our duel by firing his twin Millitech Perseus Very Heavy Pistols at me, all barrels blazing away as a quartet of Nova-Hot, Armor Piercing, Slugs vomited out from his preem iron. Immediately, my Sandy and Kerenzikov started working overtime alongside my Chemically-Enhanced Body as I tried to dodge the shots as best I could, not wanting to trust that my Armor could stand up to a con...

Chapter 23

The Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup was kinda hard to describe. Jackie was hit with a buncha different flavors at once. Savory, Spicy, Tangy, and Sweet all wrapped up in one, big-ass package. Jackie ain't usually one for super-spicy shit, he usually preferred savory to spice, but he hadta admit this ain't bad. As the abridged Yuen Family sat around the Manor's Kitchen Table, he slurped up the last c...

Chapter 37

Sunday the first of March saw me meeting up with Harry and Ron in the Hogwarts Library. Ron looked like he was only here at all this early on a Sunday grudgingly while Harry seemed to be a lot more enthused with the meeting. I had arrived first and cracked open the book that the Patil Twins had gotten me on Rasayana Alchemy. It was a fascinating read, the different perspective compared to the W...

Chapter 60

We had begun Operation: Gotterdamerung at the start of the second week of December. It would take us two weeks to get into the System and attack, which would put the beginning of the Battle for Von Strang's World happening around the Christmas Holidays. This was part of the plan, as it was hoped that the majority of the defenders would be too busy celebrating to do much in the way of stopping u...

Scenes From Elsewhere (Ptolemies III)

As previously stated, Two-eighty for the Ptolemies had been a year of civil war and intrigue. The course of the War had conspired to completely fracture the Ptolemaic Realm after two years of brutal back-and-forth battles. The First Brother's War had consisted of four combatants and had raged on for two years. It had left the armies of all involved depleted, and only one of the four different c...

Chapter 12

The Stop-N-Leave Storage Facility was on alert. There were a number of Gangoons present in the facility as security, plus the telltale sign of Solos that Sixth Street hired on as Huscle to protect their chemicals and drugs. I managed to figure this out thanks to the Stop-N-Leave Facility's subbasement backup terminal, once more sneaking into a supposedly secure entrance via the sewer tunnels. 2025-02-16 04:56:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 102

Moving into the Eastern Riverlands from Harrenhal with five thousand men, we made our first stop at Castle Darry. Here, Ser Raymun Darry held the castle and its attached town against a mix of raiders from the Eastern Riverlands from Houses like Wode, Cox, Hawick, and Mooton while his father, Lord Darry, did Homage to Stannis at Harrenhal. Ser Raymun was a tall, wiry, man with long, reddish-brow...

Images for Chapter Twenty

Here we have the images for Chapter Twenty. Some of the new faces we saw, plus the Searazor. With this, we should be all ready for the next chapter, which will largely be just a party with Robar and Company as the Guests of Honor, though there will be some other plot-related stuff in there as well involving the Halflings of Seahearth and a possible trip to Hearthharbor as Envoys on behalf of Ja...

Selima of Murann, Level Nine

Class: Cleric (Glyphscribe of Deneir) 9

Race: Human (Amnian)

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

STR-18 (16)

DEX-18 (16)

CON-20 (18)

INT-16

WIS-20 (18)

CHA-14

HP: 91

Fortitude: 13

Reflex: 10

Will: 13

AC: 30

BAB: +6/1

Equipment:

Sweeping Frost Mace of Corrosive Burst +3 (Equipped): +11/6 1...

Lady Shavariel Level Nine

Class: Fighter 9

Race: Elf (Sea Elf)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-16 (14)

DEX-20 (18)

CON-18

INT-16

WIS-16

CHA-16

HP: 106

Fortitude: 14

Reflex: 13

Will: 12

AC: 34

BAB: +9/4

Equipment:

The Sea Baron's Judgement +2 (Equipped): +16/11 1d8 +1d6 Sonic +2d6 Electricity, +7 Pie...

Janessa Goodharbor Level Nine

Class: Sorcerer 9

Race: Halfling (Lightfoot)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-14

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-18

HP: 55

Fortitude: 9

Reflex: 9

Will: 11 (+13 vs Fear)

AC: 25

SR: 21

BAB: +4

Equipment:

Holy Sling +1 (Equipped): +9 1d4 (+2d6 vs Evil) (+2d6 Cold with Icy Burs...

Robar the Red, Level Nine

Class: Bard 5/ Swashbuckler Rogue 4

Race: Human (Northman)

Alignment: Neutral Good

STR-22 (18)

DEX-22 (18)

CON-22 (18)

INT-16

WIS-20 (18)

CHA-18

HP: 97

Fortitude: 12 (+15 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Reflex: 17 (+20 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Will: 1...

Chapter 20

As I waded into combat, I plunged Aremeg's Fury into the back of a Waveguard who was battering away at one of the Jannathstaad Warriors. I slipped the blade through the gaps between the pauldron and backplate, plunging the hissing, steaming, weapon deep into the Man's Torso. He fell dead to the ground, even as Shavariel crippled another Waveguard to my right with a thrust of her Trident, and to...

Chapter 59

Over the next few months or so, various things had to happen in both New Ålborg and Rasalhague in order for me to feel comfortable launching Operation: Gotterdamerung. First off was the signing of our Trade Deal with the Outworlds Alliance which would bring in so many C-Bills that it would be almost as lucrative as our trade deals with the LCAF.

First off, we were contracted to build the...

Chapter 47

We'd just started another hand when the lights flickered on and off briefly. That didn't mean anything by itself, the Wallingford Hotel was a historic building, after all. The wiring in the place was a mishmash of modernized stuff from the turn of the century, all just barely up to code. That tended to happen when the Hotel stayed in operation for a century with only sporadic downtime for updat...

Interlude: The Defenestration of Pyke

GIt had finally happened. His treacherous Goodbrother had finally decided it was time to attempt to coup him. Goodbrother indeed, to Balon Greyjoy's mind, there was nothing good about Rodrik the Reader. Not now, when Pyke was under attack by forces of the Reader's so-called Reform Movement. To make matters worse, the Botleys of Lordsport had thrown in with the traitors and now Balon's forces we...

Interlude: The Tok'ra High Council

Deep under the surface of Vorash, a meeting was being held. Per'sus, Grand Councillor of the Tok'ra had called together the entire Tok'ra High Council due to the momentous nature of the events that had unfolded in the past weeks. He sat in the Council Chambers, located deep enough underground so as to avoid any Goa'uld Scans as well as be shielded at least partly from orbital bombardment. Both ...

Chapter 92

As my Chi Blast lanced forward, Andy forced himself to dodge, tucking himself into a forward roll before pushing himself off the ground and leaping over the incoming Chi Blast in an arc that carried him toward my position, feet-first. I crossed my arms in front of me to block the flying stomp, only for Andy to use my blocking arms as a springboard, backflipping back into the air and launching a...

Chapter 7

Scavenger's Drop was pretty cleverly hidden, at least as far as I was concerned. Built into the side of one of the numerous, deep, canyons that crisscrossed this part of Talkorr, there would be no way to find the place if you didn't already know where to look. Apparently, the constant presence of all the wrecks nearby in the Wrecker's Plain would also cause area scans to bounce around and give ...

Chapter 36

Over the course of the next month and a half, my training continued apace, Magnus Gamp training me in various things. My study of Wandlore continued, where I learned about various less common wand woods and cores. Things like Teak Wood, which bonded best to those who were physically strong and mentally stubborn and was an excellent wood for combat magic, or Lindwyrm Scale Wand Cores which provi...

Chapter 16

Si Fa Xaymni was a largely oceanic world. There was one large island and two long archipelagos of smaller islands scattered about an ocean, though it was the fruits of that ocean that fed the Al'kesh Shipyard that had been built in a crater of the small, asteroid-like, moon of the World. Seafloor Mining produced a decent amount of both Naquadah and Trinium, while offshore fish farms produced qu...

Interlude: The Wall and the Targs

They had come ashore north of Karhold, just across the border with the New Gift. Twelve dozen Hide-Covered Curraghs, each carrying twenty-five Wildling Warriors beached themselves on the shores of the New Gift, with Mance Rayder himself at their head. At the same time, three large bands of Wildling Raiders slipped past the wall in groups of a dozen or fewer using the abandoned castles at Sable ...

Scenes From Elsewhere (Rome) III

Over the course of Two-Seventy-Nine, Decimus Junius Brutus and his faction continued their work from Two-Eighty. The State of the Roman Republic demanded a firm hand on the tiller, even after the end of the War with Epirus, and so Brutus had run for, and achieved, the position of Consul for the year. It was highly irregular for a dictator to run for Consul after his term as Dictator was over, b...

Chapter 22

Jackie'd made his way back to Gotham in time to collapse into bed and sleep off the damned pain in the ass that had been his New York Adventure. His Uncle woke him up eight hours later by literally dumping Jackie outta bed. Seriously, he grabbed the mattress Jackie'd been laying on and hoisted it up into the air, dumping Jackie on his ass. Almost immediately, Jackie was on his feet, dukes up in...

Chapter 46

As the night wore on and the hands got dealt, a few things became apparent with how everyone played Poker. Wolverine was probably the best all-around player at the table, probably because the man had been playing for centuries. The Thing was a bulldozer, but an effective one. He didn't bluff himself, and only generally tended to play hands where he knew he had a shot to win, but because of that...

Images for Chapter Six

So here we have the images for Chapter Six. I tried to make Barter Town essentially what if Moss Eisley but built out of scrap. Hopefully, that came through. If not in these images, at least in the Chapter itself. Vodrin didn't come out as accurate as I wanted him to, but this was the closest I could get from like, three separate AI Art Generators.

At any rate, I'll have the next chapter ...

Images for Chapters Fifty-Seven and Fifty-Eight

Here we see some of the Principal Actors and Locations from the Past Two Chapters. Most of these will make future appearances, though some won't. I can't imagine Jozef wanting to wear that crown again if he doesn't have to. Gold is heavy as shit, after all, even without all the topazes and garnets.

At any rate, the next chapter should be up in a few days, it will be a time-skippy one, cov...

Chapter 58

After dodging several more attempts at seduction, most of which were easily dodged aside from, but one of which, Erica Cortez-Centrella, was persistent. A distant cousin of Magestrix Kyalla Centrella via descent from Kyalla's Great-Uncle Aron Centrella and Countess Elise Cortez of Addasar, Erica Cortez-Centrella was actually currently fifth-in-line for the title of Magestrix should Kyalla Centr...

Chapter 6

Talkorr was a ship graveyard. The Planet's Surface was covered in the wrecks of hundreds of ships from dozens of races. There was scarcely a square mile of the surface not covered in debris of some kind. It made the planet a favorite place for Scavengers, Pirates, and the assorted detritus of intergalactic society to set up shop, as materials for repairs of damaged ships and equipment were plen...

Chapter 19

With Erik handling Gnarl and Shavariel moving to take on Bjorn, while Janessa and Selima backed her up, that left two options for me. First, I could try to suss out where Mist got off to, not a great prospect given the Skill of the Assassin, or I could attempt to stop the Wavemistress' Attempts to back up her allies with spellwork. I chose the latter, at least until Mist revealed himself.