Sophia White
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It took me around five minutes or so to find Richter and coax some healing out of him. He had some… terse words for me. When I was capable of thinking straight, my mind immediately went to the events prior. I pulled the strange golden disc out of my pocket and looked it over. It was gorgeous, of So I hadn’t imagined it… I glanced back at the prompt I’d received. For defeating one of the eight Gods of Erd in a game, you have completed a Milestone. Please choose from one of the four following…-
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Rumbob was the first to fall. Mostly because I’d casually mentioned to everyone that he was the champion drinker of Minnova. Rumbob had given me a dirty look, and kept passing drinks my way, but I was better at the game than him, and it was 4v1. Even with all his drinking Abilities and high Vitality, he wasn’t able to keep up. With a groan he toppled like a tree. The crowd roared their approval as Kirk appeared like a ghost and dragged the rotund dwarf away. When the size of the bet had spread…
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The next month was a blur, not because we were busy – we were, but not that busy – no it was a blur because it was so I wrote everything in my beer journal though! With the floodgates open, we began trying absolutely everything, just to see what stuck to the wall. That included testing every different kind of hops I could get my hands on, and wasn’t our only hop distributor happy about that! I gave some to Joseph to see if he could grow them in the elven kingdoms and help drive down the prices.…
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It was a somber moment. The sounds of a funeral dirge echoed somberly through the Thirsty goat as the grumble of dwarves sang in unison. “Now you are the age you are, Your demise cannot be far. So raise your cup of bitter cheer It may be your final beer. Happy Birthday! Huah! Happy Birthday! Huah! There’s gritty beer and mutton meat, And while your beard had gone to gray It all fell out just yesterday. Happy Birthday! Huah! Happy Birthday! Huah! Your throwing arm is strong and…
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The two noble ladies sat in the drawing room of Bentley Manor. Tourmaline was in her usual disguise as Wreck, wearing a simple set of nondescript brown leather. Opal was dressed in a blue and silver hauberk that set off her white goatee nicely. A half-eaten platter of snacks lay on the table between them as they chatted. “I heard about the riot, but I hadn’t heard that they were censured by the guild.” Tourmaline said. “What happened next?” Opal shook her head. “From what Annie told me, they…
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Guildmaster Monk was nothing at all like Guildmaster Malt. Thankfully she was It still stung when she arched an eyebrow at us like we were petulant children. “Master Brewer Schist!” Her voice was wrinkly with age, and had the cultured tones of an Academy graduate. “What concerns me the most in all of this is An extremely short black-haired dwarf went to the front of the room and began writing Ordinances down on the board as he read them out. There were… quite a lot of them. “Sale of…
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“By a vote held by the council of Greybeards, Riverside Brewery and Thirsty Goat Brewery were found Health and Safety Auditors have determined that the aforementioned brews do not classify as a risk to the populace under normal circumstances, and the Thirsty Goat Brewery and Riverside Brewery may continue to sell them so long as a warning is properly affixed to Burning Brew’s label. Gods bless the King and Kinshasa.” Annie read the fancy letter, written on vellum and sealed with red wax, with a…
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Malt and I ran around a corner and smack dab into a grumble of angry dwarves. Their swollen red lips caused them to blubber and spit as they wrestled in the middle of the street. Thankfully, they were too busy fighting each other to pay us much mind. That didn’t stop a couple from taking swings at us as we passed, but a few ‘warning taps’ from my warhammer using took care of that. The market had been transformed from its earlier fun and cheer. Where before there’d been a long street of bazaars…
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Screams rang through the market, and the sounds of carnage filled my ears as another explosion rang out. A massive grumble of dwarves passed just down the road, axes in hand, their eyes burning a crimson red. Somewhere in the distance, I could hear Annie shouting a battlecry as she fought back the horde. Bodies littered the ground around me as I dragged myself beneath Whistlemop’s carriage. I kept an iron grip on the Goldstone warhammer, my one and only life line in this pit of the Nether. It’d served…
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The next two weeks were nearly the slowest since I’d arrived in Erd. I took Aqua’s advice seriously, and put extra effort into talking to the team about my past. About my family, and the home I’d left behind. Richter was by far the most interested, and fell in love with Earth science. He wanted to know more about concepts like relativity, dark matter, and the periodic table. I told him that Erd physics worked completely differently, but he still thought there were parallels that could be…
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