Bronn and company had found a weak point in the Crag's newly repaired defenses to sneak through. A grate in the base of one of the walls that allowed a small mountain stream to trickle through from a spring bubbling up from the mountainside that the Crag was situated on top of. The Westerlings could have dammed the small stream up, but they chose to let it flow, as it would provide an extra sou...
2025-08-01 03:53:19 +0000 UTC
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So here we have the images for Chapter Forty-Five. Unfortunately, the AI image generator really wanted to fight me on this one. Like, there was a shitload of credits spent just getting things to this level, and I'm still not completely satisfied with some of these. I refuse to drop below one hundred credits unless I absolutely have to, though. Especially since that would mean that I would have ...
2025-07-31 01:52:36 +0000 UTC
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We headed out for Lower Chionthar in the Morning, as the sun crept up over the horizon. Bentley Mirrorshade waved goodbye to us as we left, as was fitting for an old friend of Gorion's and thus, a friend of Jaheira and Khalid's. As we headed North along the Coast Way toward Lower Chionthar, the Sun continued its journey across the sky. We had to go North along the Coast Way before turning west ...
2025-07-30 22:38:36 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the images for the last chapter. It's just Lieutenant Jacobi and the officers of his Flaming Fist Platoon. Unfortunately, the AI Art generators I use don't do robes and armor together well, so you'll just have to imagine that Brother Artan has a Chain Shirt on under his outer robe.
At any rate, the next chapter will be part one of the excursion to Lower Chionthar to deal with...
2025-07-30 18:45:22 +0000 UTC
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The next month and one week of classes proceeded more or less without incident, even in spite of my fears about Lockhart putting the mind whammy on people in the background. I trained with Magnus Gamp, went to class, participated in club activities, and basically did everything I normally did when at Hogwarts. In fact, I was starting to suspect shenanigans as September continued with no opening...
2025-07-29 06:19:41 +0000 UTC
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The Main Building of the New Hope Pharmaceutical Building was fairly trashed. Scorch marks adorned the walls where SKULL Troopers had fired their Red Ribbon Laser Weapons at them, leaving Carbon Scoring on the sleek metal walls. As I made my way into the Lobby, I idly wondered just what was with the DCU and all their Research and Development Firms going for metal walls. Then I realized that in ...
2025-07-28 23:13:20 +0000 UTC
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As the Battle of Antipyrgos began, it began with an exchange of missile fire. Bodkin-tipped Arrows fired from Nubian-style Longbows issued forth from our ranks, as the archers I had trained out of the Hunters that lived in the mountains of Epirus and Illyria fired the first shots. Arrows plunged down among the advancing Cyrenaicans, scything down men in their dozens. A second volley was fired a...
2025-07-28 21:00:13 +0000 UTC
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I had made my temporary lair in the sewers beneath Riga Castle, under the streets of the Old Town. I had managed to find a spot in the Sewers that I could connect to both the Vaulted Cellars of Riga Castle, as well as an old, abandoned bunker leftover from the Nazi Occupation during World War Two. The Vaults of Riga Castle weren't exactly a place I wanted to tunnel into, mind you. That would ha...
2025-07-27 04:00:08 +0000 UTC
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1000 Points on Credit
1000 Points From Winning Cyberpunk Jump
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 Wo...
2025-07-25 12:02:11 +0000 UTC
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Our attack on the Beastmen Forces began with a salvo of fire from the Gryphon Gun-Howitzers, towed here on carriages by horses. The evolution of Horse Artillery was one of the things I had worked hard to instill in my forces that were unique, after all. It proved its worth now, as it allowed our Gun Howitzers to be quickly towed into position and sighted down on the attacking Beastmen Horde. Wi...
2025-07-25 11:44:00 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the Images for the Last Chapter. I'm not super happy with how the armored vest turned out for Tsurara Kaede, but it seems that the AI Image Generators don't seem to understand what Lamellar Armor is, so this was the best I was going to get, apparently. Everything else turned out all right, though.
At any rate, the next chapter will be a training Chapter for Choji as he tries ...
2025-07-25 05:01:31 +0000 UTC
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As Tsurara Kaede dodged back away from me, I blazed forward, trying to keep pace with her as she dodged. I struck out with an Akimichi-Ryu Karate (Akimichi Style Karate) Mawashi Geri roundhouse kick, aiming for her neck as I did so. Tsurara Kaede ducked the kick, barely, and blasted through a trio of hand seals before slamming her hands down on the cavern floor. The Kōtta Tsumazuku no Jutsu (...
2025-07-25 04:45:58 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the Images for the last chapter. I rarely do images for this story because you guys all know what folks like Buffy, Akuma, and so on look like. However, as the Compass and Clock is my own creation for this story, I felt that doing images for this location and its various people was warranted here.
At any rate, the next chapter will involve part two of Ulysses and Company expl...
2025-07-25 01:24:00 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the Images for the last chapter. Kallisto is going to be decently important going forward as a Commander for Hellenic Jaffa captured during the offensive. Chen will be working on swaying her over to Erlang Shen's side in the background of the campaign. Expect to see her more in the future.
At any rate, the next chapter will involve the second phase of the plan for the Battle ...
2025-07-25 01:11:08 +0000 UTC
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All right, so here we see the Images for the last chapter. Been a while since I've done images for this story. It's probably been all the way since the Olympus Civil War, in fact. Maybe a bit afterward. I finally think I've got the hang of the AI Image Generators enough to do this sort of thing, though.
At any rate, the next chapter will involve an interlude back in Gotham with Bruce and ...
2025-07-25 00:59:10 +0000 UTC
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Jackie had only been in New York City a couple days when shit started up again for him. It'd started with a quick bite to eat. He'd just gotten done with a couple business meetings to buy a pair of factories for conversion into breweries. One'd been a former Matzah Factory out in Williamsburg, and the other'd been a former File Cabinet Factory out in Red Hook. He'd paid above market rate for bo...
2025-07-24 10:22:28 +0000 UTC
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Jinta City was built on a bend in the White River, where the course of the river turned north before heading up into the hills and mountains to its source. It was the only Han Settler Town that produced something besides Agricultural Products, Silk, and Porcelain, having Alluvial Gold and Trinium deposits that the populace panned for in the river using the Jinta Sluice Works, a fortified compou...
2025-07-24 03:04:06 +0000 UTC
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My Sister in Law is in Labor, so I'm waiting for my Nephew to be born at the Hospital today. Accordingly, there will likely not be a chapter out today as I deal with family stuff. If there is a Chapter out today, it will be shorter than usual, as I'll have to find time between family stuff to get it out.
Apologies in advance, and thank you for understanding. . .
2025-07-22 21:47:08 +0000 UTC
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The Compass and Clock turned out to look like your average Spanish Hacienda-style Cantina. The sort of place that was a dime a dozen in Southern California. The only real thing to mark it as anything out of the ordinary, if you weren't possessed of the same set of mystical skills as I was, would be the fact that it had shown up here on the outskirts of Sunnydale literally in an instant. It had ...
2025-07-21 17:54:28 +0000 UTC
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If any place in the Riverlands could truly be called a city instead of a town, it was Maidenpool. Town charter or no town charter, not only did seventy thousand people live here, but the port would be a major artery of Narrow Sea trade in peacetime, and the Castle, where the Mootons lived and administered from, was strong as hell. Honestly, it reminded me quite a bit of Dover Castle back in my ...
2025-07-21 09:03:23 +0000 UTC
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Lieutenant Jacobi turned out to be a relatively young man for a Paladin of Helm. He seemed only in his early twenties, which meant he had only just become a fully-fledged Paladin, having been anointed and graduated from being a squire fairly recently. Most such Paladins tended to stick closer to their attendant keeps or temples for the first few years of their duties, training more and learning...
2025-07-20 04:41:28 +0000 UTC
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The initial landings were brutal. King Gojong and the Ch'oe Regents were insistent on fighting for every scrap of ground, and the smaller, coastal bastions on Seodo Island weren't helping matters any. There was scarcely any good cavalry ground here, and what cavalry ground there was seemed sewn with caltrops. Fortunately, I had expected that sort of ploy and came ashore with the infantry first,...
2025-07-19 01:20:36 +0000 UTC
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Class: Rogue 3/ Sorcerer 2
Race: Human (Baldurian)
Alignment: Neutral Good
STR-12
DEX-18
CON-18
INT-16
WIS-14
CHA-16
HP: 53
Fortitude: 7
Reflex: 8
Will: 8
BAB: +3
AC: 19
Equipment:
Studded Leather Armor (Equipped)
Adamantine Dagger of Corrosive Burst +2 (Equipped): +9 1d4 +3 + 1d6 (+2d6 ...
2025-07-18 03:42:55 +0000 UTC
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Class: Ranger 3/ Sorcerer 2
Race: Human (Shou)
Alignment: Neutral Good
STR-18
DEX-16
CON-18 (16)
INT-16
WIS-16
CHA-18
HP: 56
Fortitude: 9
Reflex: 9
Will: 11
BAB: +4
AC: 20
Equipment:
Mithril Chain Shirt +1 (Equipped)
Blade of Thy-Dunag +1 (Equipped): +8 1d6 +5 19-20 x2 Piercing Silvered ...
2025-07-18 03:11:43 +0000 UTC
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Class: Fighter 5
Race: Half-Elf
Alignment: Neutral Good
STR-16
DEX-16
CON-18 (17)
INT-16
WIS-14
CHA-12
HP: 70
Fortitude: 8
Reflex: 6
Will: 6
BAB: +5
AC: 20 (23 When Fighting Defensively)
Equipment:
Splint Mail +1 (Equipped)
Buckley's Buckler +1 (Equipped) (Adds +1 Con as well as being a ...
2025-07-18 02:21:05 +0000 UTC
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Class: Druid 3/ Fighter 2
Race: Half-Elf
Alignment: True Neutral
STR-14
DEX-14
CON-18
INT-16
WIS-16
CHA-16
HP: 68
Fortitude: 8 (+10 vs Enchantment)
Reflex: 6 (+8 vs Enchantment)
Will: 6 (+8 vs Enchantment)
BAB: +4
AC: 22
Equipment:
Studded Leather +1 (Equipped)
Large Wood Shield +1 (Equi...
2025-07-18 01:56:12 +0000 UTC
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Class: Bard 3/ Swashbuckler Rogue 2
Race: Human (Northman)
Alignment: Neutral Good
STR-18
DEX-18
CON-18 (16)
INT-16
WIS-15
CHA-18
HP: 60
Fortitude: 8 (+12 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)
Reflex: 11 (+14 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)
Will: 7 (+11 vs Bardic Perform...
2025-07-18 00:39:55 +0000 UTC
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Here we have the Images for the Last Chapter. I realized I forgot to post what Imoen looks like in this story, so I've also added her to the batch of images as well. Tarnesh is a bit younger, and the Nimblewright isn't equipped correctly, but that can happen with AI Art Prompts. They're still very good resemblances.
At any rate, next up, I'll have Updated Character Sheets for the entire p...
2025-07-17 23:49:09 +0000 UTC
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Here are the images for the Eric Dahl Interlude. I'm not super happy with how the AI Art Generator tried to portray Pugno, but it was somehow the best I could get with the time and effort I put into it. Everything else is spot-on, though, so I can't really complain.
At any rate, the next chapter will be a return to the MC's POV for the Battle of Aldium. Then we'll be continuing the War wi...
2025-07-17 06:49:30 +0000 UTC
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1000 Points From Loki as a Gift
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 Ch...
2025-07-17 06:40:54 +0000 UTC
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