A
collaboration with the player and writer of Eredis Orill.
((We wrote this piece collaboratively over two years, e-mailing
it back and forth. Coincidentally, this work formed the beginning of our
relationship in person.))
Golden dawn light limned the sails and almost lent beauty to
the war-torn, ice-battered boat docked at the harbor at Valiance Keep. The dawn
light struggled in vain against the puffs of sooty steam from the ship’s main
power source, the coal fires banked while the ship sat at anchor. On the wooden
docks, activity bustled as quickly as if it were well after noon. Pairs of
deckhands carried large wooden crates between them from the ship’s hold to the
land end of the docks while a leather-skinned man with a...
This series of short stories has been written in response to in-game occurrences. A new mercenary company with hot-shot spies has cropped up to threaten Division Eighty-Four as the sole intelligence arm of the Knights of Menethil. (It was also meant as a demonstration to one of our Knights as to the dangers of meta-gaming knowing someone's description or slipping something into their pocket.)
"Do you know how loud a heartbeat is in a place that never has one?"
Grinning impudently, the petite woman in scuffed grey leathers dropped down off the stone ledge running about nine feet above the floor of the hallway in Acherus. Both her hands were clasped in front of her as she rocked back on her heels and bent at the...
Prompt: June 3, 2012 - Scribbled across a random piece of parchment is the following: Each to his grief, each to his loneliness and fidgety revenge. What does this mean to your character?
This entry should rightly be shown with the two preceding entries written by Redamous and Eredis for this Site Write topic. As neither is archiving in a place I can link to (other than the forums I seek to avoid "creep loss" from) at the moment, both posts are included here for reference.
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Redamous
Entry 28: Meaning, and Meaningless
"Each to his grief, each to his loneliness and fidgety revenge? What the bloody Fel is that supposed to mean?" Red grumbled to himself. "Is there just some holiday that's been goin' on for awhile or somethin'?...