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The trouble is, we were, but we weren't necessarily interpreting the words in the same way. So, while someone heard "air," someone else perhaps heard "e'er" and someone else "heir"... Switching to a totally different topic, I/Arden had a remarkable run of good luck in this segment -- one of...

Happy actual birthday to Fajitas, and thanks to everyone who's commented here these last few days! I have been laughing and/or groaning aloud, as appropriate, at your responses. It was, indeed, a bleak Alirria Ascendant for us all. As I sat at the table realizing that Arden, Savina, Tavi...

10x01 The wind howled. Kormick slogged forward, periodically grabbing his brimmed hat as it attempted to take flight and tugging it back down as low as he could on his forehead. It was daytime, but it was dark. And cold. He spared a glance around at the group and wished he hadn't. The wind...

...and with that, we conclude the adventure of the derro warrens. We began this chronicle in the story hour back on August 6 ... and the last extended rest the party had took place during the update posted on July 23 ... so if we seem a wee bit tired and punchy, you know why.

8x07 "Help me!" came Savina's voice. "Tavi? I can't see anything!" "Me neither," said Tavi. Mena waved a hand in front of her own face. Nothing. The dark spores were like blinding smoke from a terrible fire … except there was no heat, and the smell was very different. Unpleasant in its...

8x06 The Alirrian priestess looked down and focused her gaze on Savina. "Why do you do this to us, Sister?" the shape demanded. Though the sight of the ghostly woman sent a shiver through her, Savina straightened her back and told herself again that this was her duty. She had to do her best...

Heavens, I had no idea we'd been so remiss! Let's remedy that right now, shall we? :D

As I recall, Savina, Tavi, and Twiggy's general consensus (based on religion and arcana checks) was that if they succeeded at laying the spirits to rest, there shouldn't be a fight. If they failed, sure, all those other corpses might wake up, zombie-style, and they'd be in trouble. (In other...

8x05 The sunlight coming through the door at the other end of the hall was pink-gold and rippling: the light of earliest dawn flickering amid forest leaves. Arden took one involuntary step forward and her hand came up to grasp a column. She gripped the stone so hard that her fingers hurt...

8x04 Happy holidays! This being the season of Kettenek, may all your celebrations be moderate, sober, cool-headed, and just. ;) Nyoko joined the group – more accurately, the crowd – as they walked out of the Alirrian chapel and turned right, in the opposite direction from the room where...

8x03 The zombie fight was over, and Tavi was tired. He hesitated to admit that to himself – and not for all the gold in Pol Aego was he admitting it to Phoebe – but it was true. His exhaustion nonetheless seemed insignificant as he watched Kormick flop onto one of the chapel's pews, lie...

If I may speak on behalf of the new parents, thanks for the good wishes! As I understand it, WisdomLikeFajitas assisted in editing this next update by napping helpfully in her dad's arms while he looked it over.

Thurran was awesome, and the fact that he threw his pick to kill the zombie leader was even more awesome. And the thing about Kormick and surprise is: that guy gives as good as he gets. Possibly better. He surprised us all but good when he walked into the ball halfway through the first...

8x02 Twiggy winced in sympathetic pain as the zombies mobbed Kormick. And continued to mob Kormick. Nothing seemed to distract them, even when Mena reached into the throng, grabbed one of the creatures, and hurled it to the ground so that Tavi could pierce its gut with his sword, killing it...

That's what happened to me when I went looking for the flashback, too. And I was trying to save myself time. :)

While we take a brief hiatus for Thanksgiving, and while Kormick contends with -- and Savina pities -- the zombies in the basement -- I offer you a flashback to the first Halmae campaign via spyscribe's illustrious story hour, Welcome to the Halmae. In this flashback, Lira -- who, years...

8x01 The Sovereign woman's tale of the derro's attack upon her caravan was cut short by Kormick's distant shout: "Hey, kids! Zombies!" Zap, thump. Thunk, clang, thwack. "Zombies!" Savina was startled to see Arden – who had spent Nyoko's recitation sitting hunched on a pile of scree...

7x04 Savina cradled Tavi's head in her lap and looked down at his closed eyes. She stroked his cheek, allowing what healing energy she had left to spill from her fingertips into him. His skin beneath her hand was rough, streaked with sweat and blood, and she thought he had never looked more...

5x04 Slap. "Wake up." Mena crouched over the unconscious derro woman she'd ordered Tavi to spare. Slap, slap. "I said wake up." The derro woman's eyes flew open and she spat a curse in broken Dwarven. Mena hurled a curse back. She sensed rather than saw Corani lunge forward, longing...

Quiz #2! The regular update will be delayed for one week due to a happy (but highly distracting) event within the group that deserves its own separate announcement. In the meantime, let's review (thanks to Baron Opal's inspiration) our Halmaean theology. This sidebar from the original Welcome...