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Syndra was desperate for any idea at this point. The past 5 years had been ones of unfathomable heartbreak. Her entire family murdered, and her husband too. So when she found a dusty old tome in a private library at the bottom of a forgotten ruin that told of ...

Ironhand 9877, An unknowable place Vordea gently held Eigengrau while she cried. Despite their disagreements, Eigengrau was truly her best friend, and had been for many trillions of years. To see Eigengrau like this, it hadn't been for at least 830 kalpas, wh...

Once she had learned from Lazarus on how to actually get to Hell as a living soul, it seemed so simple in retrospect. Arriving, she was surprised to find it looked nearly identical to the North, with the exception of the demons around her, and the various soul...

After Syndra finished the story, she was surprised to see Vordea smiling. She had expected her to be angry, or even annoyed, but she was happy? "You're happy?" Syndra asked. "Of course it was him. It's always Lazarus." Vordea said, laughing. "No, I understan...

Vordea and Syndra stepped through a crack in reality and arrived in front of the ruin. Syndra felt very nauseous from doing it, but was quite surprised that she didn't throw up. "How do you do that all the time?" Syndra asked, holding her stomach. "Or maybe i...

"What do you mean you don't want to be the fucking Emperor?" Tatiana shouted. "You'd be the most powerful man on Karand!" "I don't want that!" Niall yelled back. "You saw what it did to mother! Her paranoia consumed her!" "You don't have a fucking choice!" L...

Mira said nothing while they walked down the halls of the ruin, but one thing was for certain. This place wasn't just familiar, she recognized it. Realizing what that meant, she motioned for them to stop. "There's a problem, me. This place isn't familiar. I r...

Day One Clinging to some wood, he made it to the shore of this island. It was just his luck that the ship he booked passage on broke apart in a storm, he supposed. He spotted other debris on the beach, presumably also from the ship he was on, and considered h...

Day Ten In the office of a shipping company, an increasingly irate woman was continuing to yell at the hapless staff behind the counter. "What do you mean you don't know what happened to the ship?" She shouted. "All we know is it's failed to make port, ma'a...

Day Eighty While the boat building was coming along swimmingly, he somehow felt it was a fool's errand to be able to build a ship capable of crossing the Morinder Ocean. Maybe he should just wait for rescue? He seemed to be getting along with the birds well e...

Day Fifty It would take at least a couple days of preparations before the ship was ready to depart, so Amy Waters returned to Port Nautitus to collect a few things in the meantime, and to speak with her children. "How long will you be gone, ma'am?" The maid ...

Day One Hundred and Twenty-Seven "Look it's the ship the serpents told us about." A mermaid said to another, as they slowly followed the Kraken's Revenge from below. "The serpent said the woman looked so sad." The other mermaid continued, as they came up dir...

Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight They were still more than 2 weeks away from the island the Mermaids had pointed out on the maps, but they were completely sure they saw a recent construction on the island. For the first time in 3 months, Amy had hope in her he...

Edwin jumped off the rowboat before it was even more than 2/3 up the side of the ship, climbing the side of the ship and running for the stern, his hands covered in blue flame already. Amy was close behind, pulling bags of reagents out of her dress, tossing th...

Edwin bowed, and taking note of a lack of available chairs, opted to sit atop a chest. "You have my thanks, Captain Miller." Edwin said, breathing slowly. "Think nothing of it, Sir Waters." Miller answered. "We've been paid quite generously for this." "Amy ...

Year 801, Lichfield Amy was a bit nervous, she was being asked to demonstrate her latest discovery for the Ashen Empress herself! Selecting 3 fire mages including her husband Sir Edwin Waters, she was presently standing on the weapons test range in Lichfield....

Year 798 Amy wasn't quite sure what this gas she discovered was, exactly. At only 21, she hadn't even finished her university education yet, but her gut instinct was this needed to be tested. It readily killed the few animal test subjects she could get her ha...

Year 801 Princess Verka was slightly concerned, as Amy had missed her scheduled meeting with her today. It wasn't like Amy to miss appointments, no matter how engrossed she got in her work, so she took a few guards and went down to Amy's laboratory at the edg...