Dungeon Crawlers
He could do nothing to get past the pawn, as the knights chased one another, leaping and dancing. it was an odd sensation for a snake to jump. "do we know what we are doing?" "no." "well damn." "take the king?" "take the king.
The Chosen One, Unwilling
Why not search and get somebody else to be your pawn? - only one soul of restoration can only exist within each era, that's how things have always been since time immemorial. - but what if things are different this time?
Gutpunch 11: Intrusive Bibliophilia and how to ruin date night
Agreeing to his proposition, skip had found him a comfy job at a pawn shop. at first raeder didn't find the job very exciting, but in a week or two, he had managed to get in the flow of things. there was a certain charm in working at a pawn shop.
Wages: Chapter Twelve
No longer was he able to whittle his chess pieces with the skill he had possessed, rather, his hand shook and caused his pawns to become disfigured mutants, his bishop's crosses to come out misshapen and twisted.
Concequences and Forgiveness
Three doors away, he thought about ending it because he had become that which he hated most, a military pawn. two doors left, and he contemplated injecting himself to end his life. because with him dead, the research died too.
Chapter 4: Desperate Measures
He could pawn them, perhaps. or risk being kicked out onto the streets by using his rent money, but, increasingly, the dungeon was starting to sound like a reasonable option.
Worlds Apart - Chapter Eight
Making him feel like a helpless pawn isn't advantageous." "i should manipulate him, you mean?" mal observed. "the way you do?" victus was caught off guard by this.
Join The Dance
"we're only pawns in its game." klein contorted his body to avoid having a floor shift make him walk into a punch. "take a lobster in a tank, for example," the crustacean said, "to take a completely random example i've made up off the top of my head."
Calm Before The Storm (A1, B1, C14)
"well, i was still a pawn to the system, but by the time i received my power, i was just one square away from being promoted to become a better chess piece.
Eternal Mortality: The Tutinian Civil War Part One
Puppets in their play and pawns in their games."_ _"why do you haunt me spirit? why me?"_ _"idiot! i've protected you all your life! i'm the very force that drives you! and you ignore my teachings time and time again!
No Light to be Seen: Chapter 9
I'm nothing more than a pawn to them that has a use. a move. before it gets taken and tossed aside like trash."
Murder at the Speed of Life #1
Now bernie estimated he could pawn it for thirty, maybe forty bucks down at _hock-o-bell_. "time for us to part." he plugged the lamp into the socket and turned the switch. the bulb flickered and a faint smell of ozone reached bernie's nostrils._crap!