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Flight from Darkwood

by Tower Curator — “—brought the monsters here!” “—heard they were after him—” “—attacked one of my own the day before.” “You see the company he keeps? No wonder monsters—” “The one with the eyes… you didn’t see the way it fought. Ripped apart anything that got near without even blinking.” “My advice? Hide until this blows over. Keep the kids indoors and…” “That ghast spoke. Said it would leave us alone if…” “Speaking ghasts? Nonsense.” “Doesn’t…
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Storm Delay

by Tower Curator — “We’re not leaving in that are we?” A flash of lightning illuminated three orcs and a human as they looked out the door of the Darkwood stayover. The low rumbles of the following thunder didn’t manage to overpower the heavy patter of pouring rain. “I said we would leave at first daylight,” Arkk said with a heavy frown, leading to the orcs grumbling under their breath. Arkk shook his head. Unfortunately, he agreed with them. “It doesn’t look like we’re getting daylight…
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Darkwood Burg

by Tower Curator — “Not the friendliest place, is it?” Dakka asked, eyes traveling over the muddy road and the few poor souls who had ventured out into the moderate rain. Arkk didn’t say anything as he pulled his heavy cloak a little tighter, but he agreed in full. Darkwood Burg wasn’t a particularly well-to-do settlement. Arkk would never compare a regular burg to an actual city like Cliff, but even compared to a backwater like Smilesville, Darkwood was lacking. The quality of the buildings wasn’t anywhere…
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Magical Experiments

by Tower Curator — Arkk placed a long list in front of Rekk’ar, then stepped back and waited for the orc to look over the notes. The first mercenary expedition had been a resounding success. It had been a simple task. A baron of a nearby village had been having trouble with wolves attacking his livestock. The dozen orcs Arkk had taken with him had been more than happy to hunt them down, culling the numbers. They even behaved themselves for the duration of a small feast in the village. The residents had been a bit…
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The Inquisition of the Light

by Tower Curator — Arkk sat on a bench outside the recovery ward of Cliff’s academy. He had run out to get help the moment the woman—Zullie, he had discovered—collapsed. A few students and instructors had come, picked her up, and carried her off to the recovery ward. He should have left while they were busy and not paying attention to him, but two things were keeping him at the academy. First, he hadn’t accomplished anything he had come here to do. All he had learned was one spell that he couldn’t remember after…
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Leaving Langleey

by Tower Curator — “And then they just left.” Arkk looked around the room, staring at the morose faces. Well, one morose face. Fortress Al-Mir had undergone some reorganization. The orcs had a whole village-sized section of the fortress to themselves. Heavy iron doors fabricated by the blacksmith wouldn’t let any of them cross over into a more secluded area for him, Ilya, and Vezta. He and Ilya even had private rooms, made using the same living area magic that allowed the orcs to create personalized homes for…
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The Barrows

by Tower Curator — “A barrow?” Arkk said with a scowl. There went his best plan. The horde had holed up in an old burial mound some distance south and east of Langleey Village. He had been hoping for a nice open field where Ilya would have had a clear shot at the summoner from afar. Even if she couldn’t get a shot, somewhere open would have been better. Arkk had never been inside the barrows here. He knew from stories of mercenaries hunting down the odd necromancer that they weren’t spacious areas. Tight…
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Aftermath of the Barrows

by Tower Curator — Ilya grasped at her side, teeth clenched tight. The ointment that Abbess Keena had slathered onto her wound helped to numb the pain, but only while sitting still. She tried not to move too much, but at the same time, she didn’t want to appear injured. The orc, Dakka, sported a similar wound. A deep gash right in her side nearly twice as long as Ilya’s wound. She wasn’t grimacing and limping around. The Abbess hadn’t even tended to the orc. Yet Dakka carried around her ridiculous shield riddled…
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The Chieftain

by Tower Curator — “She’s still down there. I can see movement.” “It’s too dark to make anything out. Did she bury the glowstone knowing we were watching or did they get buried in the rubble?” “Can she summon the demon without sacrifices?” “Don’t ask me how it works, human. You’re the spellcaster here.” “Does she have sacrifices?” “We saved the other humans.” “What if some goblins fell in with her, could she use those?” Arkk stared into the crystal ball, trying to…
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Plots and Plans

by Tower Curator — “This library is useless,” Ilya said, tossing a book into the trash pile. A pile that was growing much faster than the keep pile. Fortress Al-Mir’s library might have been an impressive collection of tomes and knowledge at one point in time, but that time had long since passed. If only time had been eating away at this room, there might have been some worth salvaging. Unfortunately, much like many other rooms in the fortress, there was a fissure in the ceiling. This one wasn’t as large as the…
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