Raw, just finished, need a donut and coffee before I collapse. This will get some more work, as I'm sure there are errors or badly phrased areas of it. But here's the big fight. Feedback appreciated
H'Splat hissed and screamed at her host of arachnids. "Kill it! Kill it quickly! Sting and Claw, Bite and Slash! Fill it with poison or it will kill us all!" H'Spat had seen Cheese Fiends fig...
The day had been long, and the crew were tired but in high spirits. The light that trickled down from Skye and up from Fyre was fading. The crew ate their dinner, with several retellings of the fight on the Conquest and the other battles the crew had taken part in. A full flagon of rum for each crew member was poured out for the enjoyment of everyone.
The shake-down cruise of the...
2023-01-01 21:54:30 +0000 UTC View PostThe Splinter was under full sail, moving away from the graveyard of wrecked ships. Captain Woodrat ran the crew through drills, constantly calling for adjustments in the sails and moving the ship to a different course. The crew members were gaining more confidence in each other and sorting out the hundreds of small details that turned a group of individual sailors into a tight crew.
Ten students surrounded the machine Professor Arlothe was working on, holding tools, machine parts, and wire coils. The professor had declared that from now on, each day would be spent experimenting with new ways to generate electrical power and storm-aspected mana. And, of course, finding ways to unleash that power. The ten students had followed him down and out of the tower, standing nearby, ...
2022-12-29 21:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostI added several hundred words to the last chapter. If you already read it, scroll down to where I note the changes.
2022-12-29 19:16:49 +0000 UTC View PostNarwhale spotted the monster running across the caverns first. Most scavengers had a high perception and Look Out skill. Narwhale had spent days on end manning observation ports or crow's nests. "We got trouble coming. Load a shell, and I'll see how many legs I can blow off of it!"
Boom-Boom smiled at the thought of watching his new bride blowing things up but stopped Barracuda before sh...
The cheese Danish was truly delightful. Gilad was impressed with how quickly Rifkin was filling the shoes of his predecessor. One of his new apprentices had knocked on Gilad's door three times before entering his home and leaving the large tray of cheesy desserts on his table. Gilad recognized him from when he had been attending his classes. Blackfungus? Blacknose? Something like that.
Gi...
2022-12-24 18:38:35 +0000 UTC View PostThe current list of options Ozzy will get for tier 3. Note that in all cases he will have a Role to play in the town, and like all Roles that players accept, it comes with bonuses as well as minor drawbacks. The player gains a place in the game, might gain a home or business, but then spends time in the role. Currently, this includes running his butchershop, delivering meat to Jenny, the tavern...
2022-12-23 23:39:10 +0000 UTC View PostMilo had a very good understanding of what projectile weapons could do. Many dwarves had a fascination with them and would spend hours sipping beer and talking about their ideas for hand cannons while they tinkered with other projects. Some, like Boom-Boom, skipped the guns and went right to the heart of the matter by focusing on more powerful explosives.
From the sound, rate of fire, and...
2022-12-23 00:51:45 +0000 UTC View PostSat down, and this just poured out. Totally raw and will get a lot of editing for errors.
"Too late for that, my good Captain Woodrat. There is nowhere you can run from me. Not on my ship."
Lord Peerson stood on the main deck. His coat was tattered, and his hat was missing. Long white hair steamed behind his gaunt, black face. Other than that, he seemed unharmed. Thi...
"At them, my hearty crew! Lord Neddleson demands the head of the man who dared to make war upon the Queens and, worse, who damaged my ship! I'll suck his soul dry and mount his head on the bowsprit." Lord Neddleson was rapidly becoming a pain in the ass for Ozzy.
"Ok, we can slow down a little. We're keeping ahead of them easily. Hopefully, that strings them out, and we can start cutti...
As the spiders surged over the improvised barricades walls of earth and rock erupted from the floor, and the magical stone grew until it touched the ceiling. Not all mages spent their time in the Tower of Spite, studying advanced dueling and battle magics. Several of the miners were Earth Mages and had been moving rock around all of their lives.
Two narrow areas were left for spiders to m...
2022-12-19 19:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostSo now that confused you with heritage, let's talk about Ozzy. These are some chaotic thoughts on his heritage options.
Contract Workers in tier one could buy extra stats, up to 3 per stat. The cost was 2pts if you added them to your heritage, and 3 points if you didn't. Of course, no gamer is going to pay extra.
So Ozzy has a big chunk of his heritage in STR and CON. This is on...
The next day, Captain Woodrat took oaths from his new crew, and they set to work. There were many chores: Freeing the ship, lighting sails, finishing repairs, cleaning the hull, transporting and mounting the ballistae, and securing a supply of food.
So of course they started by rescuing the rum.
Woodrat pointed out that they had two strong mates who could each haul back a ship's ...
Heritage pops up almost immediately in the early chapters of Butcher of Gadobhra, and there are choices characters have made about it that influence them.
But what is it?
Normally, heritage would be something you're born with, passed down from parents, grandparents, and ancestors. It's already set, and you can't go backward and choose better ancestors.
In GENESIS, it's a l...
Mariah raced ahead, and Ozzy couldn't tell if her feet were touching the ground. Woodrat and Derrick were running as fast as they could, with Ozzy bringing up the rear. The ashy, top layer of the sargasso put up clouds of dust as they ran along and they could see similar being kicked up in the distance. As they ran further and further, Derrick began to slow down, and then Woodrat as well. They'...
2022-12-18 23:42:03 +0000 UTC View PostP'tashPak'r, the Exalted General of the 10th Host, beloved of the queens, and champion of the Many-Legged Army marched forward at the head of her army. Behind her came countless brave and deadly spider warriors. The noise of her army's passage was much less than normal. She had remarked on this and he second in command told he of the stealth training each of her warriors had undergone prior to ...
2022-12-15 18:10:21 +0000 UTC View PostThe Hollow was starting to wake up. Most everyone had slept well, with no bad dreams. And no good dreams. In fact, no dreams at all, just sleep. Things seemed so much clearer today. It was time to go to breakfast.
Milo saw most of the Hollow lining up at the mess hall for the morning meal. Most mornings breakfast was a long and staggered affair, with people showing up from fourth bell t...
Ozzy had told the story of his days adventure. Woodrat had laughed, especially when the mast had fallen over with Ozzy at the top. At the end he told them about having put one of the globes in the cargo hold along with the other things he'd found on various ships, prefaced by the information that it was already gone. Both Woodrat and Mariah had been horrified at the thought and what it could ha...
2022-12-12 02:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post(Small obvious spoilers.)
I need opinions and how people reacted to the last couple of chapters. Specifically the details about an obvious badguy turning two little girls into Cheese Fiends and training them to be murder machines used in battle.
Spoiler: Things work out better for the girls in the end, they don't get torn to pieces by dwarven cannon or have to fight Milo or Larry...
Saved from sudden death at the claws of some rat monster, TheBlueBIishop got to his feet and dusted himself off. Behind him was crater with the bodies of three players who had been unlucky enough to be in range of Narwhales first rocket. The garishly clad bishop had just lost most of his hearing, so he could be excused from not hearing the screams of injured players asking for his help. His per...
2022-12-11 17:20:25 +0000 UTC View PostGrackle had been a fiend tender all of his life. When they took over this little shit hole of a Hollow, he'd become its new Fiend Master. All his hard work would finally pay off!
His father had tended fiends for Wurchwitz Hollow and he had started teaching his oldest whelp his trade early in life. "Remember, they all look like monsters, but every fiend is different. They still have pieces...
2022-12-11 06:23:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe spell was cast, the animals looked up in panic and began to move about, their eyes turning from a placid pink to an angry red. The effect of the spell was an illusion that invoked fear. Against horses, sheep, or cattle it would cause a stampede. In the lizards' minds they saw and smelled their most feared predator stalking them. The result of the spell was more than Duskarrow had expected. ...
2022-12-10 03:27:38 +0000 UTC View PostStarting up a chunk of chapters to catch Milo up with Ozzy. I want to maintain five chapters ahead on each of the stories now. This one is a little short, but this was a logical stopping point
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Petey and Milo sat in the cave next to Smiley eating jellybeans. Petey checked on Smiley, took his pulse, turned him a bit and got him to swallow a couple of jelly beans and some water. "...
A little rough, needs some polish. But the main story won't change.
Before anything else happened, Ozzy carefully removed the glass spheres from the smoke, nestling them into the salad so they wouldn't roll around. It was stressful, being that close to so many fragile bombs. Which reminded him about the one he'd naively brought back to the Splinter. Hopefully his idea of how to ...
Ozzy was not a sprinter, but he also wasn't slow. This had surprised a couple of people before. The sculpted perk gave him a leaner body with little to no body fat. Right now, he needed every bit of help he could get. The smaller gators were running at him to close the circle. If even one of them got in a good bite, it would slow him down and it would be all over. The Imperator was still in its...
2022-12-08 07:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostAfter seeing to Derick and helping him get his heat under control, Ozzy got him a plate of sausages and made him eat. "We have plenty of food. Regulate your heat by making smoke. If you fill up on smoke, then get to work and use it up. It's hot out here, as I'm sure you noticed. Heat will kill you sure as no heat will." The boy nodded and a little later got to work making chain, a job he was sl...
2022-12-08 05:39:57 +0000 UTC View PostOzzie awoke and rolled over on the hard deck. It took a few seconds to remember why he slept out here and not in his hammock. After seeing how much of the deck he had destroyed because of bumping his head, it seemed like a good idea to sleep out here. He looked over at the mast where a chain ladder went from the deck up to the crow's nest at the top.
Grumbling some, he started working his...
2022-12-08 03:04:08 +0000 UTC View PostWritathon has been conquered. Starting the process of rebuilding my chapters here on Patreon.
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When asked about how the hell you ate the core of a shark, Woodrat had just smiled and said "Like you eat anything else. Just chew a couple of times and choke it down. No worse than the cooking on a lot of ships."
Ozzy was relaxing in his cabin, off duty for a fe...
Charlotte's strikes had been faster than Milo had been expecting, almost as fast as Gilad, but he'd been expecting her to try something since the first step she took towards him. The weird swaying thing she did were her tail and hips he didn't understand. Maybe something to distract him the way a cobra confused prey? In any case her stance gave away both the hidden dagger and the preparation fo...
2022-12-05 04:46:45 +0000 UTC View Post