Word Count [1,471]
1063 | 19
The Esquilinium District lay quiet and still. Gone were the throngs of people filtering through on their way to or from the airship docks. Gone were the shopkeepers peddling souvenirs to wide-eyed tourists and familiar amenities to returners to the great...
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Character(s)
Eloquii Aequoris
Distantly, El is aware that he's collapsed. As he falls back into a soft blanket of unconsciousness, a pang of regret thrums through him; he's gone and left Keydis with yet another mess to clean up. But then...
Word Count - [2,075]
swaswj - Keydis Lysistrata
inks - Red
The capitol of the Pelagian Empire was a city of many layers and Aea-Famau was, quite literally, only its surface. The Aea was itself made up of numerous terraces, layering buildings over one another like lilies on a pond. It was...
[3,841]
Naevius Squalidus - swaswj
Perseus Artifex - Inks
The workshop stood dark, lit only by the twin moons and a streetlamp some ways down the street. Naevius stared up at the building with a wry grin. His thoughts churned, churned, churned, as he steadied the rucksack slung over his...
Word Count - [3,984]
Quaestor Laermont - [Moon]
Voxifer - [Inks]
For someone so large and made of a bio-metallic substance, Quaestor Laermont moved very quietly. He was tailing his target cautiously, keeping him in sight while managing not to be seen. The inspector had many years of...
Word count [4,713]
Ante et Retro
Eloquii jerked awake with the roar of waves and distant pounding of rain in his ears. He thrashed, caught up in the remnants of a dream, and tumbled to the floor in a tangle of limbs and sheets.
He threw himself upright, managed to free his head from his...
User name: Inks
Crawl
Once, when you were thirteen, one of your friends (Johnathan Brooks, his mother called him Johnny and everyone else called him Jon) double-dared you to climb the grand old oak tree in the center of Ridgeland Park. It was a stupid dare. For one, the oak wasn’t just a...
Word count [1,533]
«VII Sors
Eloquii Aequoris wasn’t sure what he was doing, lately.
When he’d agreed (sort of) to tail Keydis and Annora in their flight from Terminus, he’d been imagining an adventure. He’d also been imagining not ending up in a reinforced prison cell for the rest of his...
Word Count [1700]
His workshop stood dark, lit only by the twin moons and a streetlamp some ways down the street, when Perseus returned. He stared up at the building with apprehension. He felt a bit at a loss, but his thoughts churned, churned, churned. PIA was in pieces in a rucksack...
Word Count [ 7008 ]
Red (Inks)
Keydis (swaswj)
Hastam et Iecit
The day was hot, sunny, and thick with clouds, and Red woke feeling better than she had in months. The sunlight filtering through the glass of the inn window was pleasantly warm where it fell across her face, and awareness...
Word Count - [3,689]
Than as Fiora
Inks as Voxifer
The Fox and the Fish
An hour long trip north east of the Emerald Jewel was a rarely visited spot, a river which flowed freely through the chasm. In reality, the massive stone blocks guided water from the mountains to sustain the city...
Word Count - [1844]
I Vis
Vivi et Evigilans
Lambda drew in a deep, gasping breath, then choked on it. He startled to consciousness face-down and coughing up snow.
Wha--?
The spurii’s eyes shot open, and he instinctively shoved himself onto his side, sucking in a sharp, gasping breath...
Word Count -[2,614]
Perseus Artifex
Leidan Halbert
Equal Opportunity
Scarcely a week had passed since the incidents of the Nocte Nils festivities, many a folk still scared into their own homes by the looming threat of Astra Non Obligant. The Conexus presence had been...