Christopher Jackson
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This was a scouting mission of sorts. I wasn’t dumb enough to go intruding directly into a dragon’s lair, especially an Ancient dragon. Well, I was if I had a sufficiently strong party with me, but that lot was dungeon-delving down south under the Spire, and I didn’t need them to do this. I hadn’t even mentioned this to them, because they all wanted to see a true dragon up close, fight and kill it, and then see its hoard up even closer. It was unlikely to be a truly impressive hoard, as I doubted…-
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I started my hunt on May 14, in the midst of getting the Woodcarver Mastery improved. Doing so required that I head on down to the Hollow World, but given I had Lived-Lines going the whole way now, that was simple enough. I had taken other trips down there, of course. Some of the castaways and survivors wanted to come back home, and I brought them there, some of them leaving families behind. I wasn’t bringing any bunny-women to the surface to be gawked at and treated as sex toys. There were people who…
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Hank Blakhamar stepped up on a Disk, rising slowly up ten feet off the ground to look around. I’d given him a very, very accurate rendition of the landscape through my The Deadzone for the nearest Shroud was literally a quarter-mile away. This section of the coal mines was old and worked-out... and the tunnels connected with others far older down below, going down far, far deeper than the mine overseers had intended. They’d wisely blocked such tunnels up, but something clawed and untiring had worked…
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“Not to any individual. There are five hundred different blood samples in here. You try a single individual Binding a shoggoth, and it might work for a time... until it inverts the obedience effect into a compulsory kill effect, and you become everything it wants to destroy.” “ “No, but that’s why we are testing it now.” And in the future people would be able to deal with rampaging shoggoths, as long as there weren’t tons of them located in key areas. That’s what Levels and not giving…
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It wasn’t an unusual sight in Rio de Janeiro. A beautiful human woman and a handsome halvyr, dressed up beautifully, and obviously out for a night on the town. Eyes followed the darkly handsome halvyr, who was smiling encouragingly and in a friendly manner at everyone around, and other eyes followed the swaying hips and lovely legs of the woman on his arm, a wealthy young socialite known around town and pined after by a good portion of the populace for both her looks and her money. The halvyr was an…
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“Shvaughn took Freyalise?” I was rather surprised. “I thought she would Bind and Consume the erlking for certain!” “Shvaughn’s reasoning was that if another hamadryad popped up, she would likely be of Spring or Summer, and she would not be allowed to take them. However, erlkings by default are ravagers of civilization and killers of mortals looking to advance themselves, and she would certainly be allowed to take such.” There was a ripple, and suddenly golden hair became elegant golden…
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“I find myself in the unusual position of asking for advice from someone much younger than I am,” Master Tolkien admitted with a sigh. He had signed all three of my books with a flourish. I held up a hand to stop him, reaching out and grasping his hand to bring it to my lips. His lips rose towards his receding hairline as I kissed his hand, and then the Blessing materialized on it. He looked at me there in the Markspace, and trembled despite himself. He shook his head to stop himself from staring at…
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“Monarch Traveler Morningdark of The Jet and Silver, may I introduce to you Queen Sylvestris of the Faerie Courts,” Queen Huellia spoke up softly after taking a step forward, while the raven-winged figure fallen from the sky staggered to his feet after a 25d6 power-dive into the steely ice. “And her Consort, Hrafn Hjaldrim...” she added with remarkable composure. Just the slightest rippling, for the elven queen had not introduced them as I hovered there calmly for a long moment, while the…
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“You have not had an extra thousand years to establish a Level advantage on the other races. You only had a very slightly higher Limit, and that was truly minor. “You need to take a step away from whatever the Fey are whispering to you, and the tales and flights of fancy of those glorifying your magic and your beauty, and take a good, hard factual look at yourselves and your people. “You are very minor species of magic-wielders allowed to settle in a magical forest and land of your own because you…
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“Lords and Ladies of the Elves, you have put yourselves into positions of responsibility over your people. Let us leave aside the whole matter of new traditions and the like, and reflect on one thing... you have taken up a Duty and Responsibility that ever more elves will simply shirk... Large and radiant eyes in all hues blinked at me, while Master Tolkien frowned thoughtfully. “One can see this with rather more speed developing among the truly Deep Human Powered with some power. Elves have the…
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