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15x02 Their questions led them first to the keep's library, where the book called The Lady's Ways—the one that Lord Nishi cited as his source for the rite—was stored. Kawazu, the seneschal, took them there personally. Twiggy found the library faintly depressing from the moment she entered...

15x01 A warm, late-spring breeze danced around the carriage as it drew to a stop before the ironclad doors of Lord Nishi's keep. Mena ignored its playfulness. If the Twilight Goddess expected it to trick them, to put them at ease, Mena would have none of it. The stone walls rising before...

SO fun to read all the comments, everyone! Thanks!! I'll second what WisdomLikeSilence said... this was a particularly entertaining (and tense) fight largely because the emotional stakes felt so high for a number of the players. Even those of us with less of a direct character-based stake in...

Just a little postscript to the latest update: ellinor and I wish to be on the record that Mena's verbal riposte to Bagel Guy's "Is accident with fire" claim -- presented here just as it was improvised by Jenber with lightning speed at the gaming table -- was a moment of sheer Mena-tastic...

13x04 Arden paced behind Savina and Mena through Cauldron's main marketplace, losing an internal battle against impatience. After days of standing silently in the back of meetings (if she was admitted at all), she found herself restless to go back to Pol Henna. This afternoon, Savina had...

13x03 As Nyoko waited with her nervous companions outside the door of the Head Inquisitor, their guide – who also looked agitated, at this point – knocked for a third time. "Yes, yes, send them in already!" came a muffled voice. Their guide swung open the door and stepped aside. Inside...

13x02 "These are the earliest Chronicles of War," Lady Tomako said, and held out two pairs of white gloves. "You may not touch them directly. The oils from your skin would deteriorate the ancient –" Mena nodded at Twiggy, just once, but that faint sign of agreement with Twiggy's pleas was...

Sdcc Urf, so new updates are taking a little longer to pull together than we'd hoped, but there are several in the pipeline, so soon... soon... In the meantime, upstanding professional geeks that they are, Fajitas, spyscribe, and ellinor are all in San Diego at Comic-Con at this very moment...

13x01 Not long after the extravagant dinner had ended, bells across the city began to toll. It was midnight, Kettenek's time. Savina wearily accepted her cloak from Arden and followed the others out into the courtyard of the Adept House. In the darkness, warm winds of spring were gusting...

So... things are a little busy on our end. There are deadlines. Visitors. Traveling. People moving to town. People moving to new houses. Obviously this story hour is still our #1 priority in life, but, strangely, other people (colleagues, contractors, students, infants) don't always see it that...

That... is an excellent question. I don't remember. But someone will. (Help? Someone?) And many, many thanks, once again, for archiving the story hour. Seriously, it's so cool. :) There at least need to be cameos, right?? Surely, at least, some jovial Justicar with a kneebreaking gleam...

Fajitas had us make skill checks for the chopsticks. I rolled a 1 the first night. Then I rolled a 1 the second night... ...at which point we learned that Arden's fingers must've been broken in the past, leaving her with plenty of manual DEX for lockpicking but with insufferable stiffness in...

11x05 The next day, Savina awoke hopeful. She was sixteen, and it was a new day. She touched her short hair, and remembered its solemn symbolism, but still, she felt more optimistic than she had in weeks. Sure enough, not long after they set out walking, they saw the river, a shifting gleam...

11x04 Nyoko was looking forward not only to hot baths and a return her home, but also—at an admittedly more shallow level—to new clothes. Her current garments had so far survived the initial assault by the derro upon her caravan … enslavement in the mines … battle with the undead … and now...

Thanks for the comments, folks! Update follows...

11x03 Kormick hollered a warning, Savina shrieked, but it was too late: the rest of the party had walked into the quickrock, too, and everyone was sinking – slowly but inexorably. "Honored Justicar!" cried Nyoko, close behind Kormick. He twisted his body to see her balancing like a dancer...

11x02 Mena awoke at dawn to the sounds of Savina's prayers mingled with the groans of bound derro. Across the coals of the fire, Rose sat up from her bedroll, blurry-eyed. The girl looked like she was having trouble waking up – which meant, to Mena's scant relief, that at least she had slept...

April 1 Announcement So... you may have noticed that we've been a little sporadic about posting recently, and I'm sorry to announce that, due to creative differences, the story hour and the game have totally fallen apart. Here's what happened. Basically, we've all realized that D&D just isn't...

11x01 "That's it," concluded Twiggy softly. "It has to be." All of them, even Nyoko and Arden, pressed closer to the flimsy strips of paper laid out in orderly progression on the damp earth near the pond. By this point, after many minutes of discussion and debate about the proper arrangement...

Yay, babomb!! That would be it -- well done. This was a very fun puzzle. Fajitas had strips of paper ready for each of us revealing what we'd personally heard, and as soon as he handed them around, we were spreading them out as a group and working hard. Everyone stayed engaged throughout...