"This...I say...This Means War!!!"
2008-01-12 22:51:00 Jim, Ravyn and I stepped from the Shadow into the shadow of the enormous oak tree in the southwestern corner of Jim?s backyard. The night was dark, since the sliver of the waning moon was obscured by thick, low hanging clouds. It was a quiet, quaint neighborhood of faculty and administrator?s homes for the nearby college. A dog barked in the distance, but not at us.Jim looked pensive as peered through the night towards his darkened home. ?I don?t see any damage.? He was whispering as he leaned forward.Ravyn nodded, her hands clenching the cuffs of her sweatshirt to keep herself from calling fire out of habit. ?I doubt they were worried about the outside of your house, Jim.? She kept her voice to a low whisper as well.I reached out and touched each of them on the shoulders as I leaned towards them. ?I?ll pop inside to get a quick look around. I want you guys to stay here.? I looked directly to Ravyn. ?Keep a sharp eye out, but try to burn the neighborhood down, will ya??She gave me a...
Starting over...
2008-01-05 05:29:00 ?is never easy.The band of ORC?s that arrived in the Bat Cave was a tired, wounded, ragged bunch of shell-shocked survivors. The assault by El Diablito?s forces and An?girasii allies had come as a total surprise. Every ORC safe house, stronghold and academy across the United States had been hit in some way on the same night. All told, hundreds ORC members and students had been slain; dozens more were badly injured or missing. By the time the final tally of escapees and survivors was taken?several days later?fewer than three hundred full fledged members and associates of the ORC?s survived that deadly night. The last census prior to that deadly night had put the membership rolls at just over a thousand members and associates. Forty of those survivors came with me to the Bat Cave.After a close inspection by Cerrydwen, Ravyn or myself, I created a portal of Shadow that established a link between El Diablito?s dark tower in the Shadowland and another place of relative darkness?the entra...
Little Keep on the Borderlands... Epilogue
2007-11-02 18:51:00 Cerrydwen waved us forward. ?Come, let me take you to the others. I can explain things bit as we walk.?Despite the appearance that these two were who they seemed to be, I was more than a little nervous as we came up closer to them.Ravyn showed no such inhibitions and gave each of the women a big hug. She exchanged quiet, unheard words with each of them and seemed more than satisfied with the responses that each gave her.The Frau padded up and gave both Ravyn and Zenny a long sniff and single wet lick on the cheek. Jim took the more cautious approach of a small wave and a nod of acknowledgement to each.Cerrydwen turned and nodded back in the direction from which she had come. ?Well, let?s start our little tour of the mad man?s little tower of horrors.? The massive stone door grated open with a wave of her hand. ?This whole place is a tapestry of tightly wound spells that must have taken years to craft. This lower level is where he houses a small army of the trolls that you have seen ... |
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