AN: It's been a while, but I'm updating this project again! This chapter's been in the works for way too long.
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The scanning device was impressive. It was an advanced one, for sure. Gravitometers, densitometry, material analysis, multi-s...
We sat in a room furnished with too much gold and red, with too-large windows letting in too much sunlight. With me was the Prince of Firsthold… and a Mirror Logician, one of the altmeri super-mages that lived in the Crystal Tower.
The Lan...
2025-06-29 01:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostAN: I wrote this while crying to Young Scrolls’ newest song, Amulet of Kings.
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The street was quiet. I could feel a web of magic, carefully layered into the stones. Illusion magic, warding people away. Everyone except for me, Gora...
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2025-04-22 21:50:16 +0000 UTC View PostThe first thing I noticed about Firsthold was how beautiful it was.
There were swooping, golden ramparts that served as bridges between the towers, for those that didn’t want to descend to the ground floor. The tallest towers were made wit...
2025-03-18 21:22:13 +0000 UTC View PostMy head pounded, and my mouth was dry. The sunlight periodically blinded me as the wind rustled through the trees.
Slowly, carefully, I sat up. I was sitting amongst the ruins of an elk- one of the shaggy, oversized ones that lived in the dr...
2025-02-27 04:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostOther people were looking for the Artifacts. That, I knew for sure. Not just Barrett. The Starborn- the Hunter- whoever he was or where he’d come from. He didn’t just want it, he knew I’d had it. He knew what it was, went out of his way to g...
2025-02-08 22:01:38 +0000 UTC View PostThe earth was alive. I could feel it shifting and moving, the trees pushing themselves aside as we moved. It was like a pocket of the Warp in the West was still warping. The terrain was alive. It was following the Witch’s will. She stepped throu...
2025-01-28 23:45:54 +0000 UTC View PostThe ancient ruins still trembled, the stones and dust falling from the ceiling. It hadn’t caved in entirely, and the alterations I’d made to the internal structure would mean it wouldn’t collapse, at least for now. We had blocked off some of...
2024-12-29 03:29:36 +0000 UTC View PostI ran. I sprinted as quickly as I could across the surface of Kreet, uphill, back toward my ship. Over the regolith and sharp rocks, through the thin atmosphere. I could hear the static from the Hunter’s radio, his panting voice joining mine as ...
2024-12-04 10:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostI could feel the thrumming magicka, the feel of the energy in the air. Dwemer spiders ambled around, little clay pots built into the mounts where soulgems once sat- and living nirnroot hummed as the spiders followed the sun shining in through the ...
2024-11-30 06:31:39 +0000 UTC View PostGravity drives- faster than light travel- involved more steps than just going from A to B. Technically speaking, you could just simply distort and invert space, giving the universe an aneurysm and a wedgie at the same time, effectively teleporting...
2024-11-03 10:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe Frontier- Barrett’s ship, an old Constellation craft- was a ship full of treasure. Loot of all sorts. Treasure maps to ancient digs full of alien technology. Deeds to so many credit accounts that Galbank would go bankrupt trying to cash it a...
2024-10-31 22:09:56 +0000 UTC View Post“That is quite an interesting sculpture,” my guest said. “I can tell it has quite some symbology, but not the cultural origin.”
It was an oddity, to be sure. Sitting in Tel Veyond’s sitting room, upon the mantle. The small sculptur...
2024-10-29 06:13:10 +0000 UTC View PostAs the airlock cycled, I heard an uncharacteristic hiss behind me. I turned- and the Constellation robot simply stared at me, sensors whirring.
“What are you doing?” I asked. Barrett certainly didn’t order him to follow me. So it must...
“You look like you’re in pretty good shape, all things considered. I’m not seeing any contusions or wounds. No swelling, no concussion.” Lin says. “You sure you smashed your head?”
“Pretty sure,” I said. “There was a ...
2024-10-07 03:41:06 +0000 UTC View PostI landed on my feet, somehow. My hand was resting on a chunk of rock to steady myself. I didn’t remember moving, at all, or the gravity returning to the moon’s normal.
The first thing I thought was that the pain was gone. My head wasn...
Pain.
My eyes opened, but that didn’t help me see much. Most of my view was dark, a few flickering lights. I was too woozy to see properly. The indicators on my helmet’s display were fuzzy, all yellow and flashing red lights. Very littl...
So.
That was it.
That was the missing piece. The Mystery I needed.
“... It’s KINMUNE all over again.” I said. “Thot-box. I’m the Thot. Lorkhan is the Box.”
“I’m afraid I don’t know what that means,” So...
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2024-08-24 04:58:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe winds of Oblivion howled around me. The gate was barely stable, the path rarely traveled. But I was starting to feel at home, in Oblivion. So many Shiftgates and Recall spells had given me good practice with magical transportation. The hum of ...
2024-08-03 10:06:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe ancient dunmer facility had seen better days. Of course, it also had seen worse days too. I could see members of House Dagoth sweeping ash away, setting up chimes. Some had bowls full of painted clay, gently painting the stronghold’s walls. ...
2024-07-01 02:01:46 +0000 UTC View PostA bottle of Mazte sat before me as I lounged back on the sofa, legs crossed. Sessalan was rummaging around, baking- his small, diverse bodies taking care of the tower as he had during my adventure.
“Sorry I couldn’t exactly bring you wi...
Shadowrend flapped along my back as I soared through the Shivering Isles. I twisted through the clouds, the disturbing, twisted shapes they were taking. Tendrils reached out from the clouds as if to grab me, and I could see echoes of castles- thin...
2024-04-16 22:25:25 +0000 UTC View PostI’d been wrong, from the very start.
I thought I was some kind of special badass, a human from earth. I’d gotten sick. My body was based off a wholly different kind of alchemy -a magicless chemistry- and I’d gone on a quest to fi...
2024-03-26 00:52:05 +0000 UTC View PostSheogorath had a champion running through the land, already. Someone that wasn’t Emylee, it turned out. The bosmer’s bags were full, plump with what looked like armor and weapons. He was panting, sweating- face bright red from his labor. I wat...
2024-01-30 06:41:57 +0000 UTC View PostI stared into the eyes of a demon. Of a god.
He smiled back. I saw the twinkle of amusement, of manic cheer and a delight in my pain. He still hadn’t wiped off his face- my blood still splattered over a portion of his fine suit.
I ...
The air felt strange here. Chaotic. My shadows reached further, twisted through strange angles and it made the world feel more slippery than I was used to. Shadowrend twisted through my hands, coalescing into a halberd just long enough for the Gat...
2023-12-30 04:21:43 +0000 UTC View PostEmperor Martin Septim and I sat out on one of the benches in Green Emperor Way. The birds were quite vigorously chirping around us, and they’d even started pecking and attacking at one of Martin’s bodyguards until he was forced to step away. T...
2023-12-01 07:52:39 +0000 UTC View PostTel Veyond stood. A shiftgate was wide open above it, an open portal to the Battlespire, raining magic down around us.
We were in the sitting room, relaxing- lounging- after our escapade. Eidoron’s Ward leaned against one of the walls, nex...
2023-10-21 02:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post