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A War of Shadows...Part 1
2008-02-03 16:02:00 The Shadowland whizzed by in a blur of grey and black images as I slowed a move fast trot. It was proving difficult to move too quickly through this stretch of wilderness since thick, twisted and very substantial trees existed both in the Shadowland and in the real world. John had once told me that this only happed in the oldest of forests. ?As trees age, their spirits strengthen, expanding their presence beyond the world of light to the land of shadow. It is almost as if their essence transfers slowly from one world to the next once they reach the height of their majesty. In some places in the Shadowland there are majestic, towering trees where there is now nothing but fields or cement roads in the world of the living. But alas, over time, those forests fade away in the Shadowland as well once the living trees have been gone long enough.?My guess was that this stretch of Alaskan wilds hadn?t been significantly touched by Man for hundreds, if not thousands of years.The howling of my...
Anthraximander
2007-05-19 16:12:00 Well, I suppose it is time to wrap up the events on the tanker. You will have to pardon me if you find significant differences in the way that I tell this tale as opposed to how our dear Rusty would do so. He seems to have taken to this online journaling/writing business, while I write merely to convey information. The Bane?an old foe that I have known since our run-ins during the Bronze Age in Ancient Greece as Anthraximander?was caught entirely flat-footed by our maneuver. Anthraximander had anticipated that he would be able to create problems for Rusty because of all of the vestiges of the Drashe?en that remained within the poor lad, but he had not anticipated that Rusty would be willing to surrender his body to me. Before I could deal with my old foe, however, I had to regain control over the Drashe?en insurgency and put ?Ma Grendel? (that is a fabulous name for the old gal, if I don?t say so myself) back into place. It was easier for me that it was for Rusty simply because I am...
Brother Mine...Part 1
2007-05-03 02:34:00 After what seemed an eternity of floating over the turbulent maelstrom that was the ocean in this place I spotted the tanker. It rode through the inky black waves, cutting a path straight towards the mainland. The deck of the vessel shimmered with a green, sparkling light that swirled and moved in malevolent waves of its own, passing around the shadowy figures that I assumed were the Reavers. The Bane was nowhere to be seen.As I began to descend, I drew Excalibur and drew the Shadow close about so I could pass from this place to the mundane world. Just as I reached the edge of the strange sparkling light, I struck out with the blade. Excalibur glowed white hot as it cut into the spell that created that light and destroyed it in an explosion of light and force that blew me back with enough force to send me crashing against the rail of deck just as I transitioned between the two worlds.Somehow, I had been able to retain a grip on the sword even as I struggled to regain my balance and ...
Homeland Insecurity...Part 2
2007-04-06 04:13:00 Dear Agent Bones,The situation is critical and time is very short, so I will be brief. Approximately 2 weeks ago, the MV Horn of Africa, an independent supertanker flagged out of the Philippines, was hijacked by a small band of pirates in Indonesian waters. All radio communication with the crew of that ship was lost at that time.That tanker is now steaming at full speed toward the California coast, apparently heading towards Long Beach. At its present speed and course, it will reach that port in less than 24 hours. It does not respond to any of our radio transmissions to stop and be boarded. We have made two attempts to intercept this vessel in the last four hours. On the first such attempt, the tanker failed to alter course or slow down to be boarded. We attempted a high speed boarding maneuver with several smaller boats, but suffered several casualties in the attempt due to the weather and the uncooperative tanker swamping several of the boats before they could get into place.A se... |
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