KnightofTempest

Chapter 38

The smell of the Sea was thick in the air as I entered the harborside shop of Stogo of Ferenginar. It was a small place, wedged between two buildings that fronted onto the Old Port, a location that had long since stopped being the beating heart of the City. I supposed that when you could simply use the transporter to teleport goods across continents, sea trade stopped being a vital necessity of a modern economy and instead became a backward relic of another time. The Old Port of Marseille had...

Chapter 5

The Harborwarden Hall was a stone building on the edge of a long stretch of docks. It was effectively the only all-stone building in the less-well-to-do part of Caer Jannath. It contained three towers, two large near the front and one small near the back, from which to view the approaches by land or sea, along with a small beacon in the third tower for lighthouse duty. It was the main barracks for the Harborwardens that patrolled the less-well-to-do side of Caer Jannath and collected taxes an...

Chapter 78

Fuuma Yukimura was on the backfoot now that I was using a wooden staff instead of my usual weapons. Of course, the Kōton: Kōtetsu no Tai (Steel Release: Body of Steel) still gave Yukimura enough Steel to manipulate with his Gauntlets, but so long as I kept him at reach with the Staff, I was able to minimize the amount of magnetic bullshit he could pull to swing the fight in his favor.

He was bruised and battered, with a swollen right eye, split lip, and a busted nose from staff strike...

Jackie's Statistics/Bio as of March 1994

Bio

Name: Jackie Yuen

Job: Owner of the Elixirium Brewing Company

Age: 18

Sex: Male

Ethnicity: Half-Italian/Half-Chinese

Aliases: Yuen Bai, Black Tiger, Two-Face's Masked Henchman, Kid, Jackie Guzzo, Brother Drinky

Affiliation: Yuen Cultivation Family, Yuen Cultivation Bloc, Mystic Anti-Apokalips Task Force, Bat Family, Formerly Dai-Ichi-Doku


Abilities

Strength: Normal (Peak Human), Chi Boost...

Chapter 15

Jackie stood atop his brewery, just having come down from the literal mountain, only to be dropped right into this shit between him and Babs. He shoulda known this was coming, it ain't like it hadn't been on the horizon for a minute already. Jackie sighed, he'd hoped that he wouldn't've hadta deal with this so quick after coming back from Olympus, but since when'd life ever let him do shit on his terms? Shaking his head, Jackie turned to look at Babs.

She had a new costume, black and pu...

Chapter 8

Canens, it turned out, was a smaller woman, or at least her host was. It was difficult for me to think in terms of Symbiote and Host even now, after living as a Goa'uld for some time. Regardless, she was a smaller woman, perhaps five feet tall, maybe an inch or two above that. Her brown, hair was done in a loose braid that hung down to her shoulders, and she wore a white tank top and olive green pants. It was an ensemble more akin to that of an engineer than a planetary ruler, which made me c...

Chapter 48

As I gathered my council for the end-of-month Meeting, I was practically vibrating in my seat. This would be the last meeting I had before I was off to Rasalhague to press my claim to the Throne of the Principality in front of the Regentskapsråd. Hopefully, this wouldn't be anything more than an update on various ongoing projects and so on, but you never knew. I'd heard that the protests on Apsalar had broken out into something more violent a few days ago, so hopefully Minister Jonsson's Tea...

Chapter 93

Our advance through Cracklaw Point was aided by the arrival of Houses Hardy and Boggs, who both joined up with our host after hearing of the victory at Brownhollow. Lord Edmund Hardy and Lord Mathos Boggs each brought nine hundred men equipped in the fashion of Cracklaw Point, three hundred of which were Hobelars in chainmail mounted on light horses, with small shields, javelins, and spears for skirmishing. Six hundred of them were Gallowglass Heavy Infantry in brigandine over chainmail armor...

Chapter 21

We very swiftly found out that most of the direct attack spells we knew couldn't do much against the Trolls. They were simply too magic-resistant for such things to do more than annoy them, a reason why most Wizards who hunted them were adults, as a Child, and even most Teenagers, simply were not powerful enough to cause them much harm with spells.

Likewise, the various spells we tried, Diffindo, Telum Pugnus, Locomotor Wibbly, Coloshoo, Petrificus Totalus, Flipendo, and even Incendio s...

Interlude: Crete and the Sporades

Porphyrios, Admiral of the Epirote Fleet, watched on as the Athenian Fleet, heavy with Quinquiremes, a larger, slower, heavier warship than most of the Epirote Ships, was harried by his faster Quadrireremes. His plan was simple, engage the Athenian fleet in a triad of battles, get inside the decision-making process of their admiral, and force them to react. Then, he would force them to fight in a location of his choosing and annihilate them. It was a principle he had learned from watching his...

Chapter 4

Immediately, the Dwarven Pirate, Thorgrim, charged forward, shield first, slamming into Grimnir and knocking him back out of the rough formation we'd formed with a bull rush. As he stumbled, Grimnir caught an opportunistic blow from one of the other Pirates that had kept pace with Thorgrim, his opponent's longsword cutting a line of blood across Grimnir's thigh as the opening presented itself. Thorgrim sneered as Grimnir cried out in pain. I moved to help Grimnir out, cutting out with my own ...

Chapter 77

As I rushed the enemy Fuuma Clansman, he must have seen me coming amidst the chaos because he turned to parry the lunging right cross I sent his way with his forearm in a Karate-style Shuto-Uke, the knife hand block batting my fist away on the back of his forearm. Then the seals scribed on his right-hand gauntlet flashed white and suddenly, I couldn't move my arm from his block. The Fuuma Clansman sneered at me before slamming a punch into my ribs with his left hand. The seals on his left-han...

Chapter 22

The Khamdo Protectorate was an interesting case among the various colonies, protectorates and so on that formed a large part of the Fire Nation's dominion. Much like Lingchen, it had started its life as an Air Nomad Puppet Government, where the Serfs who worked the land for the Air Nomads but weren't Airbenders themselves formed a puppet government that owed fealty to the Fire Nation. Unlike Lingchen, Khamdo didn't get taken over by the Fire Nation Colonial Ministry.

The reason for this...

Images for Chapter 3

Here we have Janessa's Family, Plus all the Pirates of Note taking part in the attack on Caer Jannath and their Ships. Some of these guys are levels eight through ten, while others hover around levels five to seven. That's to say nothing of their Pirates, many of whom hover around the three to four level mark. Suffice it to say, Robar and Co aren't gonna get out of this one unscathed, though in fighting, they might manage to save more people than would have otherwise been saved.

Also, y...

Chapter 3

In the wee hours of the morning, an unnatural mist brewed up from the sea, shrouding the approach of four ships bent on pillage and destruction. One was a Northlander Longship, shallow of draft and oared. Another was a Calimshite Dhow, with lateen sails for easier maneuverability. A third was an Amnian Caravel powerful and steady, with sails red as blood. The last was the largest, a Sembian Carrack with room for a full company of soldiers aboard and Sea Green sails in the color of Umberlee. 2024-10-10 10:23:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Chapter 37

When I arrived on Star Trek Earth, I did so in the middle of what seemed to be a bunker Bunker or underground cavern of some time, I wasn't sure which because of the fact that I couldn't see. The air in here was stale, dry, and carried a musty, leathery smell with it. I didn't hear anything, nothing crawling around in the dark, no water dripping down from the ceiling, no machinery trying to work, nothing. Nor could I see anything, as the area was pitch dark. The only way for me to see was by ...

Chapter 14

As Jackie woke up, he found himself not on a marble slab or some kinda cot, but instead on an actual bed with actual pillows and shit. That was odd, last thing he remembered he was getting his ass handed to him by a giant-ass snake-thing and trying a last-ditch strategy with some sorta Cyclops sword to pull a win outta his ass. On the one hand, waking up in a bed like this seemed to say that he'd pulled it off. On the other, he had no clue how the rest of the fighting went. As he thought abou...

Chapter 7

The next month went smoothly enough, thankfully. My Fleet was repaired, thanks to the arrival of the Ensi-class Deployable Shipyard Sirrush. I now had three Ha'taks, the Xiaotian Quan, Opele, and the Chuāncì Jiàn, along with three Al'kesh, the Yuanyang, Danding He, and Lu Ci. The Chuāncì Jiàn also underwent the same modifications that the Opele and Xiaotian Quan did, making my ...

Interlude: The Wall and the Targaryens

Jon Snow looked out to the North. Word was that the Wildlings had tried to take the Advanced Defenses that had been set up near Craster's Keep, pushing south across the eastern tributaries of the Milkwater in small, coracle-like, boats of Aurochs-hide and reeds. They'd been forced back across the Milkwater by Ash-Skin Jamukka and his group, having taken heavy losses to the force of mixed Summer Islanders and Former Pirates. Word was, Mance Rayder wasn't too keen to try the same tactic again, ...

Chapter 20

We headed straight for the grand staircase from the Great Hall. Millie had locked herself in the Second Floor Girls' Bathroom, so that's where we were headed. Unfortunately, we got stalled on the moving stairs as we had to wait for one of them to come back around. It was only around a minute of waiting but that was too much when there were potential lives on the line. By the time we managed to make it to the Second Floor, and rushed to the Girl's Bathroom, we found it completely empty. There ...

Chapter 47

"So, now that we're all here, let's begin. I believe I promised Minister Kowalski that we would start with the issues to our Northern Border. What's going on with the expansion efforts there? You mentioned that Givrodat and Callinius were being problematic?" I questioned, opening the council meeting.

"Indeed, My Lord. Callinius flatly refused any entry into the Grand Duchy, while Givrodat is demanding that we finance certain improvements to their industry in order to agree." Informed Mi...

Images for Chapter 2

Here we have some new stuff for Chapter Two, mostly stuff pertaining to Castle Jannath. Coats of Arms, Forces, and the Throne Room.

I know it's AI Art and that's bad, but I suck at drawing myself and I don't want to monetize random pieces of art pulled off Deviantart because that's stuff from small-time creators and thus not good to do that with. So this is the only way you guys get visuals.

Chapter 2

As it turned out, the next few days were very profitable for our little ad-hoc group. First and foremost the return of Hrothgar's Locket to Lady Isolde Rourke in the more Well-to-do Part of Town not only netted us the Lady's Gratitude and a thousand Gold Danter reward but also netted us an invitation to the Court of Lord Cadfael. Apparently, Lady Isolde had become one of Lord Cadfael's advisors, and that opened doors for us with the Lord of Cadfael Island and Master of Caer Jannath.

The...

Chapter 21

Shi Hou charged into the rear ranks of the scrum of fighting Gang Members, striking out with Perfection taking the form of a Reaver Dailkave. His first cut took the legs off a Rat Beastman at the knees from behind. That stunned the Chain Shirt-clad Son of Sextes Jylis who had previously been fighting the downed Rat Beastman just long enough for Shi Hou to slip Perfection into his armpit, sinking it in deep into the Man's torso and killing him. On seeing that, a nearby Son of Sextes Jylis lash...

Chapter 79

The Pao Pao Cafe was part nightclub, part restaurant, and part bar with a heavy Caribbean meets East Asia sort of theme. The big stage was flanked by statues of Lung Dragons but was set up in a sort of circular fashion similar to a Brazilian Capoeira Roda. That was apparently exactly what it was too, because the owner and operator, Richard Meyer, was a former Capoeira Champion and often hosted Capoeira exhibitions to the amazement of various onlookers. Mind you, we hadn't come here during pea...

Important People of Lord Cadfael's Court

These are the important players in Lord Cadfael's Court in Jannath Castle. You're going to meet them next chapter, as Robar and Company will be summoned to meet with Lord Cadfael thanks to their efforts to get rid of the Bullywugs in the Old Sewers.

Interlude: Tartarus

Tartarus. Through the gates of Hades, through the Gloom of the Underworld, and down into the flaming depths lay the realm of eternal torment. Diana of Themyscira had traveled this way only once before and had not thought she would be doing so again. Unfortunately, Ares and Circe's mad grasp for ultimate power had compelled her to take that trip yet again. This time, at least, she was not alone, though her party was sorely pressed at each and every turn. Even with the likes of Sun Wukong, Erla...

Grimnir of Greystaad Level Four

Class: Fighter 4

Race: Human (Northman)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-17

DEX-14

CON-18

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-12

HP: 48

Fortitude: 9

Reflex: 5

Will: 6

AC: 20

BAB: +4

Equipment:

Battleaxe +1 (Equipped): +8 1d8 +5 Slashing

Throwing Axe (Equipped) +5 1d6 + 4 Slashing

Chainmail +1 (Equipped)

Masterwork Heavy Steel Shield (Equipped)

Sturdy Northern Outfit and B...

Janessa Goodharbor, Level Four

Class: Sorcerer 4

Race: Halfling (Lightfoot)

Alignment: True Neutral

STR-13

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-18

HP: 22

Fortitude: 5

Reflex: 6

Will: 7 (+9 vs Fear)

AC: 19

BAB: +2

Equipment:

Holy Sling +1 (Equipped): +6 1d4 (+2d6 vs Evil) +5 Bludgeoning

Shortsword +1 (Equipped): +6 1d6 +2 Piercing

Bracers of Armor +5 (Equipped): Grants +5 Armor Bonus when wor...

Robar the Red, Level Four

Class: Bard 2/ Swashbuckler Rogue 2

Race: Human (Northman)

Alignment: Neutral Good

STR-18

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-16

WIS-15

CHA-18

HP: 41

Fortitude: 5 (+9 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Reflex: 9 (+13 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Will: 5 (+9 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

BAB: +2

AC: 20

CMD: 19

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