KnightofTempest

Chapter 95

Rook's Rest was a Castle located on a hill overlooking the Narrow Sea. To the west lay fields planted with wheat. To the South, along the Coast, lay the Rooktown, a medium-sized Market Town of no larger than thirty-thousand people. The Town, interestingly enough, was separate from the Castle, which stood a mile or so to the North of the Town. The reason for this lay in the Dance of Dragons. The...

Chapter 24

The first pair of days of November were mostly spent recovering and resting, I'd taken quite a beating fighting those trolls and the Tebo. However, when I returned from the Hospital Wing, I was almost immediately set upon by Magnus Gamp. Apparently, missing training because of injury had made him extremely eager to up my courseload in his classes. He'd even signed me out of Herbology, Transfigu...

Chapter 49

As I sat in my cabin aboard the Star Lord-class JumpShip Narva, I decided to crack open the dossiers that Minister Kowalski had given to me that detailed bios and descriptions of the members of the Regentskapsråd I would need to convince, bribe, or otherwise deal with to completely cinch the election. There were four dossiers, each with a bio, personality profile, and a blurb on their...

Images For Chapter 3

Here are the images for Chapter 3. I'm pretty sure I've gotten the hang of the AI Generator by now, though it's not exactly the greatest to use. It's better than any of the alternatives, like stealing images from smaller artists on DeviantArt, though.

Ignore the guy who is wearing the Armored Vest in the picture. That isn't what Big E looks like. Consider him part of the background. The A...

Chapter 3

I returned to my Apartment largely without issue thanks to the heavy presence of Valentinos on the street and headed for my stash to store away the weapons I'd looted from DJ's group of Sixth Street Gangoons. When I opened the door to my stash, however, I found that there was an odd-looking metal door set into the back wall of the stash room. I was fairly certain that hadn't been there previous...

Chapter 81

Almost Immediately, the Ex-Foot Clan Shinobi opened fire, mostly with Anova DP-Three Assault Rifles firing Trinium Alloy Bullets that they likely got from their Utrom Backers back before the Foot Clan was thrown into disarray and suffered from all these defections. I was able to snap a Wall of Force in place with a muttered incantation and mystic gesture to take the hits for me, however. The Tr...

Chapter 48

Elutherae was a decent-sized town in Attica on the border of Boeotia. By itself, it was nothing special. It had a decent-sized population, but no larger than any other border town, where trade from one place would naturally flow through to get to another. It produced wine, but so did dozens of other places in Greece. It produced marble, but the same thing applied there as applied to wine. By al...

Chapter 23

After being shown how to extract a memory using the Penseive and practicing it for a few tries, I finally managed to get the process down. It took me around forty-five minutes to figure out, but I eventually managed it and proved to Professor Sinistra's satisfaction that I had killed that troll, though I'd done so with a little help from Harry. The Plan, however, had been mine, as had been the ...

Images for Chapter 2

Here we have more AI Images for Chapter Two. For some reason, the AI Generator doesn't get the Cyberpunk Style of Implants Right unless they're like, a full borg or Chromed Limbs, or something else conspicuous, so you'll just have to imagine Danny, Juan, and Chela have Cyberdeck Implants for now.

I mean, I could go back to just grabbing stuff off DeviantArt, but that's scummy, even if the...

Chapter 2

As V Drove Jackie and I to the Parking Garage where our target was, she and Jackie busied themselves with chit-chat. Not me, though. Along the way, I'd called Juan Chavez up at Moto Cielo and let him know what was going down with tonight and to have credits ready for a Rayfield Arondight. The leather-jacketed, baby-faced, Chop-Shop Boss had promised me he would before hanging up.

Eventual...

Images for Chapter 23

Finally think I've figured out how to get the AI Generator to do stuff for this story. I know, I know, AI bad. Like I keep saying, though. I'm not an artist and this is better than swiping art from people on DeviantArt.

This is a bunch of images for Khamdo, specifically, Namri Tsenpo's court. It has a very Tibetan and Mongol Flavor to it, though it's also got hints of Japanese thanks to F...

Chapter 23

The Throne Room of the Palace of Khamdo was a riot of color. The lacquered wood and stone were painted with vibrant colors of red, green, and yellow, while the walls depicted frescoes of the Spirit World in green, yellow, blue, and other colors. Pillars painted with motifs of Dragons, Badger Moles, Elephant Koi, and Sky Bison held up the ceiling, itself painted in various designs invoking celes...

Images For Chapter One

These ones I actually got all right AI Art for out of the AI Art Generator. It's a lot better than pulling images off of Google and I feel a lot less scummy about these than I did for the previous batch because of that. Even if AI is still bad, it's not as bad.

Here we have three images, including this version of V. If you're wondering, Ortiz Automotives is a company from the Tabletop tha...

Chapter 1

It was as I made my way over to El Coyote Cojo, that I first really noticed another of my Perks. I'd been walking along and just passed Second Amendment, the Gun Shop run by Carmen Loba that was just about halfway between my apartment and El Coyote Cojo when a car came speeding around the corner full of jacked-up Sixth Street Guys. They didn't stop for me as I was crossing the street, if anythi...

Annoucement: Monthly Schedule

So, as I have a bunch of stories I'm writing now, I figure I need a Schedule to get them going on a more regular time-frame than just write whichever one I feel like, whenever. It will also help me budget time for other things as the Holidays are coming up.

So starting this month, I will have a set number of updates for each story every month. That schedule will be as follows.

Chapter 39

As my fist slammed into the leftmost Nausicaan's bony temple, I had to be extremely careful to pull my blow. Augments weren't exactly something that was accepted in the Federation, and even Cybernetics were seen with suspicion. To that end, I made sure to pull my punch just enough for it to be something that a non-augmented Human might be able to do if they were hiding a Vulcan Grandparent. Vul...

Janessa Goodharbor Level Five

Class: Sorcerer 5

Race: Halfling (Lightfoot)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-13

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-18

HP: 29

Fortitude: 5

Reflex: 6

Will: 7 (+9 vs Fear)

AC: 24

BAB: +2

Equipment:

Holy Sling +1 (Equipped): +6 1d4 (+2d6 vs Evil) +5 Bludgeoning

Shortsword +1 ...

Robar the Red Level Five

Class: Bard 3/ Swashbuckler Rogue 2

Race: Human (Northman)

Alignment: Neutral Good

STR-18

DEX-18

CON-18

INT-16

WIS-15

CHA-18

HP: 52

Fortitude: 6 (+10 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Reflex: 9 (+13 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Will: 5 (+9 vs Bardic Perform...

Ernesto 'Big E' Manfredi

None of these Images are mine, but the AI Generator couldn't give me what I wanted, so you'll have to excuse me for using these. Some of them are right out of the Game Files, others I pulled from Google, and only one was from the AI Generator, so you know, disclaimer.

Composite them together and you effectively get a picture of what Big E looks like. Notably, his tattoo is the Mayan Calen...

OG: Perks as of Chapter Twenty

1000 Points on Credit

3000 Words Prologue

3217 Words Chapter One

3582 Word Chapter Two

4495 Word Chapter Three

4450 Word Chapter Four

3232 Word Chapter Five

4233 Word Chapter Six

3963 Word Chapter Seven

2883 Word Chapter Eight

3828 Word Chapter Nine

4618 Word Chapter Ten

3263 Word Chapter Eleven

4336 Word Chapter Twel...

Prologue

I jolted awake to the sound of clinking. Looking around, I was in some sort of cave. Clink, clink, clink. The last thing I remembered was going to sleep in my bedroom, how did I get here? Clink, Clink, Clink. It looked like the cave I was in had been carved out of the living rock of a mountain with a flourish. Clink, Clink, Clink. Fluted, Corinthian, Columns and semi-circular arches were carved...

Images of Erlang Shen, Company, and Items

Yes, I know. AI Art, boo. I'm not an artist, however, so this is the best you'll get from me in terms of images. At least without stealing from small-time artists on like, DeviantArt or something, and that's arguably worse than AI Art.

Here we see a few of the key players, technologies, and locations for Erlang Shen and his Efforts. I'm going for a more saucer-like vibe on the Long-class,...

Chapter 79

A week after we had officially returned to Konoha, I was summoned to the Hokage's Office. I had no idea what this was about, however, given the last few times I had been summoned to the Hokage's Office had involved a mission to retrieve Sasuke and the War with Oto respectively, I elected to take all my equipment with me in a few storage scrolls. Fortunately, it didn't wind up being anything bad...

Announcement: End of Autumn Road Part One

As Autumn Road Part One will be ending this week, and I will be waiting a bit before going into Part Two, I am planning a new story. I will be dusting off the Celestial Forge for use in a Jumpchain Story involving multiple Tabletop RPG settings, beginning in Cyberpunk and proceeding from there.

This one has a twist in that there will also be other jumpers, notably, one who I will be givin...

Chapter 94

Dyre Den was a well-fortified castle town on the Bay of Crabs. The Town Walls had been rebuilt of sturdy, thick, stone thanks to Littlefinger's Money, and the Castle Itself renovated by the same. Gone were the triad of crooked towers, replaced with a narrower enclosure, roughly in the shape of a figure eight, of much more well-fortified gates and towers. Really, while Brownhollow reminded me a ...

Chapter 22

As I followed Professor Sinistra through the halls of Hogwarts Castle, I had to reflect that this was a lot bigger than what had happened in the original timeline. In that, there had been only one troll. Here there had not only been a second troll, but other Magical Beasts let into the castle to rampage as well. That said bad things about just how cunning my opposition was this time around.

Interlude: Frederick Steiner

Bide his time, that was what Aldo had told him. Bide his time? As if the Witch's position as Archon weren't even more secure now than it had been when she'd deposed their uncle! It should have been him to lead the Commonwealth, but now that Victory had come with such benefits under the Witch's guidance, it seemed all but impossible.

When he'd consulted with Aldo, he'd been told much the s...

Chapter 80

Group Training the next day took place in Chin Gentsai's training hall adjacent to his apartment and the Ground Zero Arcade. I was eager to show my new teammates just what I could do, though obviously there was some tension between myself and Sie Kensou. The Guy had a major crush on Athena and seemed oblivious to the fact she didn't like him back like that. He also seemed to think I was attempt...

Chapter 22

It began with infiltration. A charm to bend the light and blend in with her surroundings, along with one to distract Evening Rabbit as she kept watch got Ma Xing within range to continue to the next part of her plan. Evening Rabbit was unfamiliar with Spirit Charms and so failed to properly gauge things until it was too late. By the time that she realized something was wrong, the next part of M...

More Images Up To the End of Chapter 5

Here's the last batch of images for Cadfael Island as a whole up until the end of Chapter Five. Until Robar and Company make a return to Cadfael Island, this is the last batch of images for it you guys are going to get. Expect the next batch to be of other things and locations, like Jannathstaad, or the crew of the Speedy Drake.

Again, I'm no artist, so you guys get AI Art. I know it's ba...