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(The month of Innktober is upon us once more! There will be an art contest with prizes! Read this post for details!)       Something was wrong. If you couldn’t feel that…well, maybe it wasn’t obvious. But something was wrong. It kept the purple-scaled Drake up late at night, pacing, until he got growled […]

(A fellow author and friend of mine, Quill, is releasing a new story! Blood Eagle: Norse Progression Fantasy is out now on Royalroad! Consider giving it a read: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/91540/blood-eagle-norse-progression-fantasy)         Author’s Note: There’s a quote that I’ve always remembered from a Peanuts book I read once. I think it’s from Charles M. […]

(The author is on break until the 31st! I am muchly looking forwards to some time off to recharge.)     They fell for what felt like an age, compressed into a second. And as they fell, Mrsha heard a question in her head. It was in Rags’ eyes as the Goblin Chieftain leapt down, […]

For a Goblin, Rags realized that she possessed a fatal flaw: she was afraid of running away. Ever since she had become the leader of the Flooded Waters tribe, she could count the number of times she and her Goblins had quit a fight. Oh, escaped, survived overwhelming odds like Tyrion Veltras’ forced march to […]

Did you click ‘Slam’ on last chapter and find the other two parts? If you didn’t, go and do that. —pirateaba           The door closed, and the very last thing Mrsha saw was her own face wearing a look of disbelieving fear. Not great fear. Not terror. Just uncertainty and dismay. […]

Sometimes… Secrets were best left hidden. Open that box you found and you might have the truth. Or an answer. Or a chance. Fear the box. Sometimes, you fell. And fell, calling out without a voice, through the earth, through what felt like dead air, into a place you should not be. Straight into an […]

There was a reason for poetry and verse when speaking of the Tuatha Dé, the Fair Folk, the Farthest Travellers, the folk of myth and legends. The reason was simple: even for the mortals who had journeyed to their realms and back, describing the people and sights of that otherworldly land was unto the madness […]

It was not today. Rags sat there, in The Wandering Inn, and waited for the call. She knew she should have been at Goblinhome, but she couldn’t. She could neither pace about and alarm her tribe, looking to her for leadership, nor be in the presence of the Dragonlord of Flames. Nor the Wyvern Lord […]

“When you meet a truly ancient Dragon, count and parcel out each word. Waste no time, for each single syllable matters. Their memories stretch back to the dawn of this world, and their answers reveal the truth, so speak to them like a poet, with all the grace and authority and wisdom you can muster. […]

72%. Rags opened her eyes and knew. [Risk Calculation: Attack on Goblinhome]. She always checked. Sometimes, it triggered for a monster attack, but today, she knew. She only checked for serious attacks. [Risk Calculation] was an odd Skill. It returned percentages about everything if Rags asked it, but it could be vague; it could be […]

Fightipilota decided after four days of living at Nombernaught that she couldn’t enjoy Goblinhome the same way. No offense to Goblinhome; it was the best place made for Goblins, by Goblins, that Fightipilota had ever been to. Tremborag’s mountain had been bigger, yes, but far less pleasant. Part of that had been their dungeons. But […]

The Grand Design was learning about a world full of gods. Well, not that full. But there had been enough. A pantheon born out of the first solar system to house life—and the first minds who had turned their eyes up to the sky and believed. Interstellar wars. Entire planets who found their prayers were […]

Rags woke up to someone poking her in the face. Goblins didn’t do locked doors. They were a communal society. And besides, some Goblins took any lock as a personal challenge to hone their skills. “Chieftain. Chieftain. He back.” It was Gothica. Most Goblins were scared of annoying Chieftain Rags, who was notoriously grumpy at […]

She had about eighty miles of fuel in the tank, and she was headed down through a rocky canyon pass with the enemy on her six. Fightipilota overrode the warning sounds and forced her craft to down in an insane dive, flaring the wing flaps at the last moment to abort the dive from ‘death’ […]

One of the benefits of being short was the Unpunchability Principle. It was one of Rags’ theories on the world: tall people felt a bit bad about hitting you. This applied even if you were at war; enemies tended to seek out the big and imposing types first. If they did go for you, it […]

Gold-rank Adventurer Yrimen Sandworth spat, but the taste of foul death clung to his tongue. He rubbed a glove covered with mud in his ear. Trying to replace the sound of a voice pleading for mercy with mere filth. The crackling light filled the village with shadows as another house went up. A voice buzzed […]

Laken Godart, Emperor of the Unseen Empire, took a nap after his morning of chaos to receive two announcements. The first was gratifying, if worrying.   [Emperor of Farmlands Level 37!] [Skill – Empire: The Changing Citizenry obtained!]   “…Voluntarily, I would hope.” He had to assume that was what had led Mister Ram’s hair […]

(A reader of The Wandering Inn has started their own web serial! meowcats734 is writing Soulmage, a story about [Witches] and magic. Give it a read here:) https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/55501/soulmage   [Book 13 of The Wandering Inn, The Empress of Beasts, is up on pre-order now!] https://a.co/d/0891R9mp https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Empress-of-Beasts-Audiobook/B0D7F6BZBC         As there had been in […]

[Trigger warning for this chapter. Click here for details.]   <I am taking my monthly break! I will be back on the 29th!>   (The Witch of Webs, Book 12 of The Wandering Inn, is out now! The rewritten version with changes to the [Witch] arc should be up on the site soon!) https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Witch-of-Webs-Audiobook/B0CXFCNFKZ https://www.amazon.com/Witch-Webs-Book-Wandering-Inn-ebook/dp/B0CW1JYNM6 […]

(The Witch of Webs, Book 12 of The Wandering Inn, will be out on the June 11th for audio and e-book! It’s taken a long time, but I have rewritten the [Witch] arc to be a lot stronger hopefully! Look forwards to it soon!) https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Witch-of-Webs-Audiobook/B0CXFCNFKZ https://www.amazon.com/Witch-Webs-Book-Wandering-Inn-ebook/dp/B0CW1JYNM6   Click here to enable a secret in the […]