Location: The Hedge Maze, Fubar Palace Grounds Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall There is a particular satisfaction in watching a creature of my own making corner himself on purpose, believing all the while that he holds every advantage in the exchange. I confess I did not expect to find myself rooting, in this particular... Continue Reading →
6.13 – The House of Horrors
Location: Kaoz's Villa, Outside Fubar Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall I have visited a great many houses of horror across the long, undignified span of my existence — I built a fair number of them myself, in fact, back in ages when my ambitions still required a proper stage to perform upon. Even so,... Continue Reading →
6.11 – The Hole in the World
Location: Barkla's Escape Tunnel, Beneath Fubar Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall There is a particular flavor of dread reserved for the moment a door closes behind you and you understand, all at once, that it will not open again from this side. I have caused that feeling in others more times than I could... Continue Reading →
6.10 – The Reckoning
Location: The Final Corridor, Fubar's Dungeons Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall The sound came first as a rumor beneath their boots — a tremor in the stone so faint that Nathily might have mistaken it for her own pulse, if her pulse hadn't already been hammering too hard to keep any rhythm at all.... Continue Reading →
6.9 – The Ninth Ward
Location: Level Eight and the Ninth Ward, Fubar's Dungeons Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall Whatever had silenced an entire level in a single breath did not reveal itself on the stair down to the eighth. Emcorae led with katana bared, Nathily a half-step behind with her falchia ready, both of them straining for that... Continue Reading →
6.7 – The Narrowing Room
Location: The Reading Room, Fubar Palace Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Summer Holms looked up from his chair with the particular expression of a man who has spent the last several minutes imagining every possible way his evening might end, and has just watched the worst of them come crashing through the door. His eyes... Continue Reading →
6.6 The Court of Ashes
Location: The Sewers and Royal Wing of Fubar Palace Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Summer Pressed flat against the tunnel wall, Nathily had gone somewhere past fear, into that narrow, airless country where the body simply refuses to move and calls it discipline instead. The stone at her back was slick and cold through her... Continue Reading →
6.5 – The Underbelly
Location: Beneath the Streets of Fubar Timeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall There is a particular kind of arrogance that only a doomed kingdom can afford, and I have always found it delicious to watch from a safe distance — preferably with a goblet of something red in hand. Fubar, in her final gasping act... Continue Reading →
6.4 The Dust of Fubar
Location: FubarTimeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall The sun hung low over the northern horizon, a swollen orb bleeding the last of its light into the grey haze of the wastes. For more than a tenday, Emcorae and Nathily had followed the Iron-Haul Trail deep into the fractured heart of Orkney — a land, that... Continue Reading →
6.3 The Iron-Haul Trail
Location: On the road to FubarTimeline: Sixth Age, 53rd Year, Fall The next day found Emcorae and Nathily safely away from Skarra Bree and little concerned about anyone catching them from behind - not with the elvish mares rode. Meanwhile The Iron Haul Trail lived up to its grim name—a rusted artery carved through the... Continue Reading →
The Apocrypha of Azazel 