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OG: Chapter 39

It happened one morning just after I had finished my prototype Schematic for a revolving, lever-action, rifle that I was calling the Streltsy Revolving Autorifle thanks to its combination of ranged firepower and axehead under the barrel for melee fighting. I was making it out of a combination of advanced materials from my forge. It was very clearly a nineteenth century design, but the intermedi...

F&L: Chapter 58

When we arrived at Hogwarts after a largely uneventful trip on the Hogwarts Express, mostly, we played a few hands of Tarocco Siciliano, Exploding Snap, and so on, while taking occasional breaks to talk, eat snacks, and, in the case of Tracey and myself, play guitar. I'd been practicing over the summer, but I wasn't as good as Tracey, who still had a head start on me even after I had begun to u...

RM: Chapter 111

Ironmonger's Corner was a small town, rather than a large village. It even was bordering on becoming a moderate-sized town, though it hadn't been given a town charter, owing to the Riverlands' notable reticence to grant such things. The Riverlords almost never granted charters to their towns, preferring direct feudal oversight so the Smallfolk didn't get any ideas. For Ironmonger's Corner, thou...

BBG: Chapter 38

Lower Chionthar was a small fishing village on the River Chionthar, a great artery of water and trade that ran through the Western Heartlands, winding its way from its source in the Far Hills in the east of Sunset Vale before flowing into the Trackless Sea near Baldur's Gate. The unimaginatively-named Lower Chionthar was a small fishing village on the South Bank of the River Chionthar, just a f...

Announcement: Schedule Change

In twenty minutes, I will be leaving for the airport on a ten-day trip to Ireland and Scotland for a vacation with my family. My family insists on packing that time with activities, so I do not know if I will be able to get as much writing done as I normally do. Fortunately, it's a nine-hour flight or thereabouts, and I have been assured that the Plane has Wi-Fi, so you will at least get chapte...

OG: Images For Chapter Thirty-Eight

So here we have the images for the last chapter. I had a devil of a time getting the Port Right before I decided to try putting Portside Markets into the AI Generator Prompt, and I'm still not a hundred percent on the walls, either. The Keep and Guards turned out more or less exactly how I wanted, though, so I'm good with this.

At any rate, the next chapter will involve the meeting with P...

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OG: Chapter 38

As we waited outside, the silence was tense, and at least two of Piers' Bodyguards in Iron Hans and Gaspar the Blue were still glaring daggers at Anders and Martine, respectively. I frowned as I realized that this wasn't likely to end any time soon. Even if I tried to interject or do something to cut through some of the tension, it would likely wind up backfiring. I could only sigh and look ove...

OG: Images For Chapter Thirty-Seven

Here we have the images for the last chapter. A few of these didn't turn out the best. The Armory Room, in Particular, isn't exactly how I envisioned it, but that's the risk you take working with AI Image Generators. I'm just glad they got parts of it right instead of being all screwed up. Piers Van Rijn should also be a bit older than he looks, but I consider it close enough.

At any rate...

IS: Chapter 72

Rasalhague had been completely spruced up for the Wedding. Not only had the Streets of Reykjavik been cleaned, but banners lined the streets in alternating colors, the Red, White, and Green of My House stood side-by-side with the Blue and White of Katrina's House, and all around, bunting in Lyran Blue, New Ålborg Red, and Rasalhague Teal lined the streets. Speaking of the streets, barricades h...

JB: Interlude: Lex Takes A Trip to the Oblivion Bar

Lex Luthor did not like magic. The Discipline worked on arcane rules that seemed to entirely defy logic and science seemingly at random. Some things worked how you might expect them to, of course, but others, well, let's just say that the Higher Mysteries of Magic would always manage to confound him, as they would almost any man of Science. Some things simply made no real sense, and Lex had lon...

HL: Chapter 31

Jackie'd suited up as soon as he'd got the call about the situation at the Docks. Some douchebag'd blown up a cargo ship and decided to take a buncha hostages. Now he was leaping across the Gotham rooftops hoping to catch the asshole in time to avoid any more deaths. Unfortunately, the Guy was apparently a helluva lot stronger than the average Gotham Black Hat. Tim and Babs'd engaged him but ai...

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OG: Chapter 37

The Van Rijn Trade Post was one of, if not the, most sturdy buildings in all of Alynda. You could tell it had been built for someone with money based on the materials it was made of. Instead of cheaper bricks, wattle and daub, timber, or drystone, like the majority of buildings in town, the Van Rijn Trade Post was actually built of properly-mortared stone. Instead of a thatched roof or wooden s...

MM: Chapter 56

I stood atop the roof of a building in Riga's Old Town as the City of Riga crumbled around me under the onslaught of robotic assailants. I couldn't help but feel like it was just one thing after another. This was supposed to be a quick trip, damnit! How the Hell could I have forgotten about Ultron Unlimited? They only based the second damned Avengers Movie off it! In a flash, I had my various e...

BBG: Chapter 37

The battle began with Janessa chanting a mystic incantation before holding a small crystal cone up to her mouth and blowing on it. As soon as she did that, a mystical cone of Hoarfrost spread out from he mouth as the Cone of Cold spell slammed into the attacking Umberlant Troops. All ten of them froze on the spot, hoarfrost sticking to their bodies and sapping the heat from their limbs. Unfortu...

F&L: Chapter 57

Platform Nine and Three Quarters, where the Hogwarts Express sat, was, as usual, completely crowded with various kids and their parents. Even my early arrival hadn't changed that, as there were plenty of people who'd had the same idea. One of those people, unsurprisingly, was Hermione. She was standing next to a dark-haired woman who was either in her very late thirties or very early forties. T...

HPLN: Interlude: The Pieces Move. . .

For a bit over a year, an uneasy truce had been maintained between the Sons of Ptolemy I Soter. The lands of their father had been divided amongst them into three parts, with three of the Sons of Ptolemy I Soter and one Breakaway State having sundered the once-mighty Kingdom into Quarters. Peace had reigned, though all knew it for what it truly was, that being a truce rather than real peace. As...

OG: Images for Chapter Thirty-Six

Here we have the images for the last chapter. There was a heck of a lot of stuff to go through, and some of it I wound up having to amalgamate, like the various components of the Armor of Suleiman the Stout. Plus, I was running up against the hundred-forty-character limit for captions on some of these.

At any rate, the next chapter will involve negotiations with Piers Van Rijn about the v...

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OG: Chapter 36

The Corridor we tread down was likewise filled with mangled corpses, though these ones were better equipped than the ones that we had found in the Courtyard. Instead of a simple Sleeved Mail Coat and Scimitar, these had the whole blot. Sleeved Mail Coats, Mail Leggings, Plate Gauntlets, and Tall, Knightly Helms, plus Shortbows, Shields, and either a Horseman's Axe or Scimitar of their own. All ...

RM: Interlude: Naval Battle Off Runestone

Salhador Saan smirked as he saw the fleet that Baelish had blockading the Port of Runestone. The Port Town at the base of the cliff overlooking the sea, where the actual Castle of Runestone sat, was currently being blockaded by a fleet of ships flying the flags of various Houses and Towns under the control of, or in debt to, Baelish. These weren't just houses from the Vale either, but a few rem...

OG: Images for Chapter Thirty-Five

So here we have the images for this last chapter. Some of them I'm not a hundred percent cool with. For instance, a lot of the Skaven Images I've been generating don't have the right look for Skaven, insisting on making them cuter than they should be, like if they were IRL Rats. It's the best I could do for the time being, though.

At any rate, the next chapter will include the continued e...

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OG: Chapter 35

As the Skaven charged forward, time slowed down as I began to run the numbers and calculate angles using my enhanced intellect, powers, and implants. Unfortunately, it soon became clear that unless something drastic occurred, we weren't going to get out of this in one piece without being horrifically mangled. The Stormvermin were individually not worth a single one of us, and even three at a ti...

EV: Images for Chapter Twenty-Seven

Here we have the images for the last chapter. It's all stuff relating to the Saka-Descended Nomads of the Wusun Steppe that Erlang Shen just managed to get as his latest subjects and new cavalry force. Notably, both Pratatavah and Madava are names of Historical Scythian Kings from the early Iron Age who fought and beat the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The characters have no relation to the Historical F...

EV: Chapter 27

Touching down on the Steppes in a Tel'tac was interesting. For what seemed like miles around, there was nought but tall grass, steppe vegetation, and wide open sky. However, I knew for a fact that the Saka-Descended Nomads who made up Wusun's original settler population were nearby. The odd, deerlike creatures that they used as mounts instead of horses were milling about near the landing site a...

IS: Chapter 71

The HPG Network in New Ålborg had largely been enhanced with the use of QF-One-Seventy-Two Fifty-ton Hyperpulse Relay Satellites. These allowed the B-Class HPG on Oberon Six to send signals through the Relay Satellites to places all across New Ålborg, so that I could effectively use FTL Comms anywhere in the Grand Duchy. Of course, the whole system relied on daisy chains of Relay Satellites t...

OG: Images For Chapter Thirty-Four

Here we have the images for the last chapter. I'm not a hundred percent down with how some of these turned out. For example, none of the AI Image Generators I've been using can seemingly do a proper Warhammer Fantasy-style troll. It's the best I can do right now, though. Not without actually spending money to upgrade various accounts.

At any rate, the next chapter will include the fight w...

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