Traversing the seemingly endless city grounds had become increasingly dangerous. Now that there were no more creatures that would follow me I faced the problem of reality itself standing in my way. The confusing structures posed some danger if I got
Read more…I didn't expect that this city would have a sewer system. But there I was now, standing, still naked, amidst liquid, bodily waste. When I fell through the floor I fell for about two seconds before hitting the ground. To my surprise, however, I manage
Read more…It was terribly cold within the city premises. Not outright freezing but every gust of wind was chilling me to the bone. Naked and exposed, I never realised just how cold this world could be until I was without clothes. Inadvertently clinging to my g
Read more…Bendicia. The Black City. The crumbling jewel at the heart of the Painted World. When I came to, I found myself within its walls, the gates still sealed shut behind me. It took me a while to gather my thoughts and memories in order to remember how I
Read more…In the dim light of the flaming pillar we stood motionless under a starless night sky. A world so isolated from existence that not even the very semblance of a universe surrounding it exists. The darkness stretched out from above and for the first ti
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After the world stopped spinning, the sky dissolved into nothing, the light leaked out of tiny, but ever growing, cracks within reality itself until it collapsed entirely. Like an old, run-down house it crumbled around me. Every fibre of what I
Read more…XVI
The least I had expected was to be attacked by an ally. Out of nowhere, the dark silhouette whirred past me with stunning speed and hid in the shadows beyond. I briefly wondered what it was, for I could tell all the things it evidently was not, w
Read more…XI
"Chdla! Ldil, md!". Those were the first words I heard the scaly monstrosity regurgitate after it had slithered towards us. I can't even begin to emphasise how hideous this foul creature from the depths truly was. A bastard of man, fish and eel am
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There have been but few things in my time as head of the IID that burned themselves into my memory. I remember one such case of a pregnant, Imperial woman who had been hung naked from a tree like a fruit. Her unborn was forced outside to dangle ju
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Until the last, I had not known the tragedy that had befallen the kingdom that the three of us had trespassed upon. The reason behind all the rot and decay. I only knew that it stood in connexion to the seal of bone that Nephethys, Shthelith and I
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I turned around, ready to tell of my newfound revelation pertaining to the strange pages, only to find that most of the volumes that had been present fell to dust as Shthelith's relentless trying had transformed the shelves into small deserts of b
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The view was both a relief and a grave concern. "There is a good chance this place is infested with the undead scourge as well", I cautiously stated as I examined the grove before us.
"Thine assumption may be correct", Shthelith chimed in, hand o
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Neither in my dreams, nor in the waking world, could I have prognosticated the execrative flagrancy that I had up to this point already laid eyes upon - or the damnabilities I was yet to encounter in the future, up to my improbable escape from that
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