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Quick Update
After that leviathan of a chapter (i.e. Solomon VI), I wanted to drop a quick mention that I'll be getting the HP story out first. Meaning you can expect the first five chapters in the next few weeks.The College of Winterhold arc I want to add another chapter or two and some polish to so that I'll start dropping in the next year.
November Monthly Prompt
By popular request, a new prompt. I might also throw in some of the Spooktember prompts into next month's poll. There were a few that got some love.Wooing a Femme Fatale (Overwatch)He had been surprised when middle management asked him to sign on a mission with Widowmaker. As far as he knew, she usually worked alone.It paid very well, and considering Talon paid well in general, that was saying something. He took the job. The worst case scenario was always the same anyway, and getting shot by an angry femme fatale was probably one of the bes...
The Prophesized Hero of a Kingdom of Comically Evil Elves 2
Past the solid gold doors was a sprawling sunlit garden with a queen at its center.Her golden cat eyes stared into mine until I got the message, getting down on one knee like a knight of yore. Apparently shoes were optional here, her toenails peeking out from the white of her dress the same shade of gold as her eyes.“What is your name?”It should be fine to just give my first name, right? “Adam.”“Then you will put out of your head whatever foolishness my daughter has put in it, Adam. There shall be no war with your… people.”Right. ...
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers 47 (Eddard VIII & The Grand Maester)
EddardThe scar across his neck was an ugly thing, red and raw. It took an effort to refrain from scratching at it, only helped slightly by the bedamned poppy. Sunspear’s maester had begun weaning him off it, but it had only left him irritable.The rest of him had the look of a corpse freshly fished from a river.He stirred from the mirror with a tiresome sigh. What was it even worth? A shaky peace with the Dornish that might collapse ‘fore winter even fell on the Seven Kingdoms?It was all folly. He should be in the Vale, not watching a thousa...
Vibe Check
The next episode of comically evil elves will be dropping soon. Just about done with it. Already put in some work on the Resident Evil thang also. It's time I caught up on the backlog.I'm also going to start posting the rest of the College of Winterhold arc for A Dreamer in a Dream soon. I mentioned that I'd been plonking away at it. Then finally start Black Humours in December.Happy with the progress I've been making on A Song of Blackjack and Hookers at least. The red comet is almost upon us, which is when everything starts to...
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers 46 (Sansa IV & Cersei VIII)
SansaShe enjoyed another bite of the roast capon, having lost herself in the fare to escape the awkward airs. It was rich and buttery, with a slight hint of something sour to tickle the tongue.“It heartened me to hear the news from Dorne, my lady.”The words drew her back to the world, a gentle smile having taken the Heir of Highgarden opposite her.“You are kind to say so, my lord.” However tumultuous her thoughts were, there were certain courtesies expected of her.“Lord Eddard has even succeeded in brokering a peace with the Dornish. ...
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 45)
ArianneShe slid from the back of her red stallion, handing his reins to one of Sunspear’s stableboys. The knights she had returned with would soon do the same.Their procession continued into the Sandship, its halls smothered in shadows from the torches along its walls. It had been supplanted by the Tower of the Sun in the years after House Nymeros Martell had broken six crowns and become the unquestioned masters of Dorne, but the keep had remained.Viserys met them in its throne room, his silver hair gracefully touching his plum-purple silks. ...
October Monthly Prompt: Spooky Edition
Still working on ze next installment of comically evil elves, but...Seven Days (The Ring)The guy who gave him the videotape like it was still the 90s said it was cursed. He couldn't have found a bigger sucker. He had always been into that shit. So he played it.Seven days? Yeah, fuck that. Ghost girl didn't know what was coming her way.A Bigger Fish (Resident Evil)His flesh crawled as he stared out at that lonely village in bumfuck nowhere. The woman that lorded over it had spent a hundred years and accomplished nothing worth mentioning....
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 44)
JaimeThe Rock crested the horizon like a lion on its haunches, tall enough that the clouds appeared to crown its head. Jaime remembered how it would often shimmer from the heat in the flush of summer.Lannisport sprawled beneath it, a sea of red and gold ringed by walls high enough to weather a dozen Gardener kings. He was relieved not to find it burned, though as they sailed into the harbor, he spied the signs of a struggle on the dromonds his lordly father had seen laid down after the Greyjoy Rebellion.It seemed the ironborn had tested them an...
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 43)
DaenerysLady Tyene’s breath tickled her ear, but the words escaped her. Some moons ago she dreamed of a wolf with a snake coiling around its throat. She hadn’t thought much of it, for she also dreamed of stranger things. A dragon white as snow. A flayed man with a bloody smile. A rose with a face. A star black as night.None of it had made a thimble of sense to her until she watched the grim northern lord claw at his throat as the strangler stole the breath from him. If not for the lady brushing out the curls from her hair, the poison would ...
September Monthly Prompt Tiebreaker
Hello darkness deadlock, my old friend...I've come to reeeeee at you again...
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 42)
Asha“A storm is like to be the death of us if we sail in this condition,” Qarl mentioned, toying with a lock of sandy hair.“Storm,” Solomon’s uncanny gull repeated. It had somehow learned to speak.The wealth of a score merchant ships filled her Black Wind, and the gold price had seen her hoard swell further still. Grandfather had been right. The iron price was not without its uses, but to forsake the gold was folly.How much richer could the isles be if they leveraged all their thousand ships in trade as much as reaving?“What else do...
A Song of Blackjack and Hookers (chapter 41)
The Young WolfThe lords all wanted something. A few even demanded it outright than hide it behind snowy courtesies, as the Greatjon had. Likely the Lord of Last Hearth would have challenged him further had his lord father’s shadow not lingered over Winterfell.The great stone throne that once sat the Kings of Winter still hardly fit him, its immense armrests carved in snarling direwolves. If not for Grey Wind’s presence, his heart would not have beat half as calmly as it did now.All the banners of the north had gathered here. The sunburst of...
