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38x04 Good morning! Meet you in the assigned spot? Lady be praised. Thank you! I’m on my way. ### After meeting up with Aeton that morning, the party agreed that another day spent in reconnaissance couldn’t hurt. After all, they had as many days as they wanted. Twiggy, in...

38x03 Arden saw her chance as the rest of the group grew distracted by the symbols they had found. Aeton was clearly enjoying his first taste of freedom in sixteen years (twice as long as I’ve been a slave, and never a new day) and was strolling at the back of the pack, eyes bounding happily...

38x02 After a few wrong turns and the dodging of a Sovereign patrol, they arrived at the northern pass and, not long afterward, saw a lonely figure toiling up the hill. When he saw them, he started running. Closer, he dumped his pack on the ground and ran faster. Grinning, he raced straight...

38x01 WAKE UP. It’s the new people. Meet us at the northern pass unless you have a better idea. Reply in twenty-five words or less. The words burst into Aeton’s sleeping mind like a clanging bell, charging him with adrenaline and sending him leaping to his feet before he fully understood what...

What, huh? It's been four months since we posted anything? I must've been in a time loop or something… Thank you, Falkus, for that generous compliment. Thank you, spyscribe, for reminding us to watch hummingbirds CLOSELY. And here comes a NEW UPDATE………!!

You have done both. Fajitas is not the only one... er... researching in the archives these days, although he may be the instigator. And it is REALLY AMAZING AND DELIGHTFUL to have those archives in searchable PDF form! THANK YOU!

35x05 The rest of the day’s research complicated matters. And not just because the Military Library’s filing system was, itself, ridiculously complicated. (The First Expedition records are under “F” for “first,” and the Second Expedition records are three floors down under “S” for “second”...

Yes, indeed they are in a larger sense! But the Sovereigns still think of the seasons as having the flavor of the various affiliated godlings: we celebrated "Ehkt's Judgment" with the Sovereigns in summertime, for example, when the Peninsula would be celebrating "Ehkt Ascendant." So if the...

35x04 Yutori, the palace’s protocol director, was quite possibly the most Sovereign Sovereign Twiggy had ever met. He was obsessed with nitpicky propriety, not to mention making sure that Akiko-san’s honored guests bathed before they attended her dinner. Naturally, Acorn deeply approved of...

35x03 Lady Akiko-san was nearing fifty years old, and she radiated vigor and intellect. She wore a simple Inquisitorial robe and a narrow, plain headdress that Nyoko nonetheless recognized instantly as the symbol of her office as heir to the Lord High Regent. Nyoko noticed all this in a...

35x01 As they stepped out of the teleport building in Overlook, a stray nighttime breeze fluttered Rose’s cloak. She grabbed the hood and pulled it more tightly forward around her face, her hand holding it clenched at her throat. Twiggy couldn’t see her expression at all. As they walked back...

34x04 The thorny branches of the thing that had been Orchid slammed into Tavi, Twiggy, and Kormick, throwing them aside into the rocks, creating a gap in the wall of protection around Rose. The ease and speed with which that gap appeared scared Mena to her core—So fast. Just like that, it...

34x03 Dark green vines blasted out of the ground, turning the cave’s floor into a tangle of undergrowth while twining tendrils curled inward, reaching for the party. Tavi stepped in front of Rose. “Don’t leave my side,” he told her—something between a request, an order, and a prayer to...

34x02 Silence. With Orchid’s mission stated baldly, none of them seemed quite able to find breath. “If the girl is killed by the wrong hand, it is the unmaking of all that has been made,” added Orchid. There was pleading buried beneath the calm resolution in her voice; Savina heard it and...

34x01 The day dragged past, the wind soughing in the pines outside the cave’s entrance, the party restlessly inventing and discarding plan after plan for negotiating with—or ambushing—their hoped-for visitor. Savina cast the ritual Banish Vermin just inside the mouth of the cave, blocking the...

I lack the words, emoticons, or animated gifs to adequately express how gleefully happy your comment makes me, Middle Snu. Thank YOU.

It's so great to be back! Thanks everyone for your patience; the break was needed but the return is sweet. Other than the party turning permanently into irrational tree-lemurs in the very next update due to some contaminated bites -- which does somewhat change the campaign's flavor (whoops...

Rughat -- You've nailed Arden's feelings just about precisely. Because of her background, the Questors, in particular, often make little sense to her at a gut level (not that this girl was necessarily a Questor). I believe there was a day in Pol Aego when she was all over bruises and sunburn...

Thank you so so much for these really kind words! As I've said before and will say again, I'm so glad I get to play in this game and share it here. I think it's safe to say that everyone in the group is either working in the TV/film industry or has had at least one industry-adjacent job at...

27x07 WEEK 13 | MONDAY Nyoko knocked softly on the unassuming, gray-painted door at the base of a tower on Cauldron's rim. She was here to visit the Twilight Sisters, to offer the Sedellans another assurance of the party's goodwill. That said, she had a private aim in mind, as well. The...