Splintered Light, Chapter 6.1: Koen Amih Ohn Rork
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Wolves' Legacy 3: Chapter 8
Fire to Fire "(Artios, we are ready)," said one of the hellhounds to the heavily augmented hellhound. Artios, a cyborg, led the ambush to Arbal, the same town where he managed to defeat his rival. His purpose there was the same. It was to...
The Lead Crown: Ch 9.3b, Shock and Awe
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The Lead Crown: Ch 8.5b, A Dozen 'Tails' Told
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The Clockwork Falcon - part 16: an Unlikely Rescue
"What am I doin' 'ere?" Tuck whispered to himself as he approached the gates to the Black Prison. But he knew his purpose. The last month had been a haze of agonizing guilt, and the hyena had tried everything to make it stop. Even his past thieving...
The Clockwork Falcon - part 10: Conspiracy?
"these machines would have to be fast, and i doubt they could use ornithopic propulsion with a steam engine.
Winterfall - Beyond The White
He tossed some snow against the steam hub to test its current temperature. it melted after a few seconds and dissipated into steam. still too warm. "they go out there all the time."
Prolegomenon
Far to the north of the world, it slept. In the cold and the dark; in a pit of frozen terrors. Five hundred feet beneath the permafrost of the Land of Baudheil lay the Black Gate of Xiviroth. The gate made from obsidian stone and the bones of eldritch...
Splintered Light, Ch 0: Prelude
Splintered light takes place in the high renaissance age of a steam punk world and focuses on the adventurers of a sea going vessel by christened "the wave rider".
Splintered Light, Chapter 7.1: Salvaging Rights and Salvaging Wrongs
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Fugitive's Trust Chapter 8 Part 1 of 2
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Upon the Chaos Dark
"says we're at full steam, captain. best we can do." the tiger looked from the pouring rain--illuminated every few seconds by lightning that seemed to be drawing closer--to the eerily luminescent waves. "i have the helm.