It's a deadly dance that Primrose plays for vengeance. The lone daughter of a noble house that fell under assassins' blades, Primrose has suffered no end of indignities working as an exotic dancer under the vile Master Helganesh. All to find the three marked assassins who murdered her father. The dream of that horrible night... Continue Reading →
Octopath Traveler Diary Entry 05: The Sacred Flame (Ophelia, Chapter 01)
First / Previous / Next After much discussion, the scholar Cyrus managed to convince his fellows Tressa, Olberic and Therion to return with him to university to pick up a few tomes he'd misplaced. Much grumbling and several days later, the group ended up further north than they'd ever come together, in the town of... Continue Reading →
The Intentionally Unhelpful Villain #02: Acts of Villainy
Journal Entry The Third My brother, the big-time villain. Who does he think he is, smacking me around, placing chains of iron around MY person, threatening and cajoling me! I'll find his daughter, I will. The question is...where do I begin? ... I've been in a perpetual dream prison for years. The answer is obvious... Continue Reading →
Reader’s Diary #001: I got Hart, Yo!
I thought I'd write a wee diary. Not the 'Dear Diary, a madwoman in the bus told me they were listening in through my headphones!' kind, but a journal about what I read on a day-to-day basis. The sort of content I can put on my blog when I don't have enough time to put the work necessary... Continue Reading →
The Unintentionally Helpful Villain, Volume 11: Woodland Animus
Continued from here. Diary Entry #0180 Four days it took me. Four days, to learn of mine wife's mysterious ways; or need I say her body's? 'Tis a treacherous thing, this vessel; and much more besides. Now at least, I have learnt a most incongruous skill to transform mine body into that of a worm's. If... Continue Reading →
Ten Things I would do if I were a Scarred, Self-Proclaimed King
This is a continuation of the Dazzlingly Hot Prince in a Fantasy Realm! post. After the good fortunes that came to shine upon our Dazzlingly Hot new King, his successful spree came to a screeching halt, when a Dark Lord entered the lands. A short skirmish ensured, during which Lerik--the new King-- thought the battle his; that... Continue Reading →
The Unintentionally Helpful Villain, Volume 10 — Tamara
Diary Entry #0175 I find my Ex-Wife standing in the ruins of an ancient temple not far from the center of town. Mine Librarians have, by now, subjugated all local authorities, and have made their base unto the small library in town. 'Tis a pitiful reliquary of knowledge but it shall feed their hunger for... Continue Reading →
The Unintentionally Helpful Villain, Vol. 09 – Volunteers
Diary Entry #0170 Mine power sizzles and crackles with a terrible itch to be used. But I mustn't allow myself any distraction for the chase grows ever closer and more heated. Strange, this heat; unnatural, even. Almost does it remind me of...but no, it cannot be. Great challenges did we overcome since the foul princeling's... Continue Reading →
The Unintentionally Helpful Villain, Vol. 08 — No Patricide goes Unpunished
Read the previous Volume here. Diary Entry #0160 I am told that I have entered the first of many identical free human kingdoms. This one shares a border with mine lands. That is what makes it special. Bah, humans are strange folk. So glad am I that I no longer fill their ranks that I could incinerate a... Continue Reading →
Ten Things I’d do if I were a Vampire Lord!
The connection between a vampire and his progenitor is a sacred one, akin to that between a parent and a child. Naturally, I began plotting the murder of my maker in order to claim his influence and authority for myself as soon as I was turned...once I were to get my predatory instincts under control... Continue Reading →