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Window Home

by Tower Curator — “What is this? How… How did you manage—” Alyssa had only stayed a few days at the new monster settlement. More days than she had expected to spend, but less than she could have spent. The original plan had been to leave in the morning. Lueta’s presence changed that. Not just because Brakkt wanted to chat either. Alyssa stayed because she wanted to make sure that everything would go smoothly. No hiccups of any kind. Brakkt was still there, as was Kasita. Both agreed with Alyssa’s…
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Better with Friends

by Tower Curator — The few humans inside the outpost were, understandably, quite panicked by the sight of a massive snake completely encircling their small building. Less panicked now that Alyssa had arrived to help defuse the situation, but she could still see a bit of a jittery tension to their movements. They had known friendly monsters were on their way. More than one communication had gone out to them over the past week. The caravan had been expected. The snake had not. It was a good thing that no one at the…
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Hilltip Watchpost

by Tower Curator — A hundred monsters marched away from Illuna. The number didn’t represent absolutely every monster that had arrived at Illuna roughly a month ago. Some, like Iona, had decided to stay behind. Not many. Five, perhaps. Ones who had been treated well by the humans and found something worth sticking around for. Inversely, a few dozen humans went with the marching monsters, bolstering the number. The march was much more of an energetic thing now than it had been on the way to Illuna. Everyone was in much…
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Reflection

by Tower Curator — Irulon and Companion were not the same person. An important note to make. Sometimes, it was hard to tell. More than once, Alyssa had caught the two of them standing around in the exact same pose or shifting their weights at the exact same time despite them not facing each other. Frequently, they would both talk at the same time, saying the same words. It got especially strange when they would speak to each other, yet both would voice both halves of the conversation. Alyssa couldn’t say that it was the…
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Leave Your SoulLeave Your Body and Soul at the Door

by Tower Curator — “Again.” Alyssa grit her teeth, but nodded. She raised her hands without a word of complaint. In a brief flash of black-white light, a brand new mostly human body sat on a wide sheet of flat metal. The base form came from Irulon. It was roughly her height, weight, and had definite familial resemblance, especially in the face. With Irulon’s body having been the dragon’s home for more than a year, it felt that a body most similar to hers would fit best. Though the dragon had said that it would be…
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Touching Base

by Tower Curator — “Brakkt!” Alyssa gave a cheerful wave to what might be, at this exact moment in time, her more favored of the two royal siblings. After all, he wasn’t upset with her at the moment. And really, there was nothing to be upset about. During her cleaning, she had apparently skimmed off just a little too much of Irulon’s floor. Which Irulon had promptly tripped over while levitating a fresh body in to her examination chamber. The metal table that Alyssa had created to replace her old wooden one was…
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Corpse Removal Service

by Tower Curator — “What in Tenebrael’s name is that?” Volta asked, clamping a bit of her clothes around her mouth and nose. Alyssa knew from experience that doing so wouldn’t help. The stench that hung around was too powerful. Still, if it made Volta feel better, it wasn’t like it was hurting anything. She hadn’t really wanted to bring them to the cave, but it was much closer than Illuna. It had preserved food and water, which both Volta and Red needed. Really, Red should have eaten something before they had…
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Head of the Snake

by Tower Curator — Alyssa should have guessed that the brigands were being led by an arcanist. She had expected a conversation. A hostile one, yes, but at least a few words from the Chief. Instead, all she got were spell cards from him. Literal spell cards flying across the battlefield. She wasn’t sure what kind of magic he was using. The Chief flicked his cards like some kind of magician. They started glowing before they left his fingers and, once they struck something, a whole variety of effects popped up. The blue…
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Dervish

by Tower Curator — Useful information was hard to come by in the camp. Not that Alyssa really expected otherwise. The whole point behind hiring people to hire people to do dirty work was to keep the original’s nose clean. That wasn’t to say that she found absolutely nothing. Inside the same tent that the Chief had occupied, Alyssa found a ledger. It didn’t list names or dates, but it did list a price and the… ‘goods’ that were sold. Some entries were actually material goods. Wolf pelts, a crate of apples,…
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Sneakers

by Tower Curator — The prison tent was just that, effectively. A tent to hold a captive. It didn’t have a big wooden crate or even a metal cage, however. A wooden post had been driven into the ground right in the center of the tent. Alyssa poked her head in to find Volta sitting, chained to the post. Or, to be more accurate, Illuna’s court arcanist was chained to the post. The court arcanist had both arms in manacles. Someone had put a heavy iron collar around his neck. His arms and legs were covered in bruises. The…
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