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Fading dreams

2 Aug 2020 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000

There is a place I sometimes go in my dreams. It's an island or a peninsula with a high mountain range running the length of it. It has kind of a Lovecraftian feel to it. In the middle of the range there is a stone fortress built on the cliff's edge...

Splinterlands Legendary Profile - Plado Emberstorm

1 Aug 2020 3 minute read 1 comment Chris Roberts

If you can't do it with your hand,Then use a better tool.If there isn't one around,Make one up, or you're a fool. Plado Emberstorm Splinter - The Burning Lands Set - Beta Class - Legendary Summoner Lifespan - Plado looks deceivingly young. In fact,...

Heading out (5 minute freewrite)

1 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000

The grizzled old sergeant rode off in the sunset. His snot-nosed lieutenant had accused him of atrocities in the field. But everyone else knew better. The lieutenant was trying to make a name for himself with the brass. He had just picked the wrong N...

Splinterlands Legendary Character Profile - Dragon Jumper

30 Jul 2020 5 minute read 4 comments Chris Roberts

Your Dragon's blood is deep beneathA fleshy mammal's shell.A mighty bite behind your teeth,A fire within each cell.Your tail is one of legends madeLeapt from a Dragon's spine,Your shimm'ring scales shall never fade,Your glory always shine. --Ceremoni...

Glacially (Part II)

25 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments Kull of Atlantis

The Sea Hag (Part I) The summer fog was dense and cold as the aged galley creaked atop the black water and slipped into the moody bay, plowing cautiously through small, choppy waves. Rough seas were ever-present obstacles in even those navigable qua...

Glacially (Part I)

24 Jul 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Kull of Atlantis

The Land of Glacia (Introduction) There exists today a planet so distant from our own that its life-giving sun can be glimpsed only dimly, a mere pin-prick of ancient light scarcely visible in even the darkest of night skies. So unremarkable is this...

The Savage Queen (Part II)

22 Jul 2020 8 minute read 0 comments Kull of Atlantis

The Black Throne I see it now, in my own mind, as clearly as a memory belonging to me. I see her slumbering deeply in a dim, subterranean hall, full figure stretched cat-like across an ink-black throne. Constructed in a forgotten epoch by hands unkn...

The Savage Queen (Part I)

22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Kull of Atlantis

Visions (Introduction) It was another world, the world of the Savage Queen. To you or I, it would be barely distinguishable from a dream, for so much like a dream it was, and so alien to our senses, so foreign to our comprehension it remains. It was...

Legendary Character Profile - Ruler of the Seas

17 Jul 2020 4 minute read 1 comment Chris Roberts

The seas are as deep as philosophers' dreamsAnd as dark as the night of the soul.Their Ruler has power beyond what it seems;No droplet beyond his control. Ruler of the Seas Splinter - ΛZMΛRÉ Class - Legendary Mage Size - 100-300 chickens. There ar...

The Story of the Orb | Episode 4 | Southern Vésper — ‘Room to be reborn’

16 Jul 2020 5 minute read 0 comments M. Jesus Victor

The fishing village on the island of Nana had grown in a disorderly, piggybacked manner alongside the canal, as though standing on tiptoe to take a peek at the sea. At a certain point, the canal proceeds by itself with its two mighty piers like a pai...