Luck and time had been good to the Starks of Winterfell over the past year. No, Ned should place the majority of that merit on Castle Hogwarts’ shoulders, in truth… That much was clear as he and his family stood there, awaiting their royal guests. It was clear as he watched his beloved children with the young man and woma...
2024-09-15 18:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Susan sighed contentedly, “Ah, now this is the life.”
“A proper cuppa in this world,” Hannah mused with humorous awe. “Who would have thought?”
“This might just be my favorite place after Hogwarts,” Neville chuckled.
The three of them sat in a cozy, booth-seated nook with...
2024-09-11 16:42:08 +0000 UTC View Post
[AN: Alright, folks, I’ve got a monster
2024-09-07 17:03:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Astoria’s spy trip hadn’t gone to plan at all. And that was fine. Daddy always preached to opt for optimum optimism, after all! Silver linings were for suckers when you could look for gold! And there was plenty of gold to find here and now. Why, it was practically a gold rush!
Their day trip had been extended...
2024-09-02 01:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
“Way hay and up she rises,
“Way hay and up she rises,
“Way hay and up she rises~, Earl-eye in the morning~!”
Robert Baratheon, First of His Name, and all of the other damned titles sang as he rode along the King’s Road. His voice was surprisingly on-key, rumbling low in his che...
2024-08-29 00:22:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We knew about Neville’s actions at the Dreadfort before anyone else. So we knew to prepare ourselves for the fallout and backlash. It wasn’t nearly as bad as we were expecting. The Boltons didn’t have many friends even among their own vassals, much less the rest of the North.
I wasn’t a party to the immediate af...
2024-08-25 23:38:17 +0000 UTC View Post
“Auror! Report!” Amelia Bones — a ‘heavily-pregnant-for-the-second-time’ Amelia Bones — barked.
Susan snapped to attention beside Neville and he was once again thankful that she didn’t hold the same demanding standards for himself and Hannah. She expected excellence from all three of them, sure, but she al...
2024-08-21 16:39:17 +0000 UTC View Post
[AN: This chapter took a bit longer to
2024-08-17 17:30:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Blaise Zabini was rather enjoying Dorne as he’d seen it so far. The sun beat down on everything, a constant presence but not always a harsh one. The air carried a dry sort of heat that settled pleasantly against his skin. Wind was more common than it was not, offering brief respites with its gusts. The land wasn’t a compl...
2024-08-13 01:19:34 +0000 UTC View Post
“I rather like all of the ‘white’.”
“Hmph.”
“It’s a beautiful city. Shame it’s the only one in the North.”
“Hnn.”
“Severus, are you still cross about the brooms? It’s hardly my fault that you have two left bristles.”
“It is not. A...
2024-08-09 17:14:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Jon felt like he’d been made a man before his time. He was still only five and ten. A boy turning into a man, no doubt. But he shouldn’t have been as far along that journey as he was. Often, he longed for the simple days of two years ago. When life was tragic. But something that he was used to. When he didn’t know 2024-08-05 17:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
It seemed Hogwarts’ expansion beyond New Hogsmeade was finally getting underway. The Tyrell visit and stay was the catalyst for that but we’d been planning it for a while now. However, plans changed and adjusted to fit new information and the state of affairs in the Seven Kingdoms. Now, they were going into effect.
...
2024-08-02 16:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Two primal feminine forces of sex and beauty clashed. Red and white. Smoldering embers of fervor and zeal. White-hot sparks of obsession and passion that burned hot enough to blind. They circled around each other. Around and around, seemingly agreeing with each other only to snap and bite a moment later. They centered on a si...
2024-07-30 22:47:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Time passed after the arrival of the Caravan of the Cursed. Both less and more happened on a day-to-day basis in this new world. Each day saw progress, a constant build to something more, something to call our own. But they were mostly little steps. Stacking puzzle pieces that fit together to form a picturesque view.
2024-07-27 16:22:17 +0000 UTC View Post
< Quest Completed: New Beginnings >
< Get the lay of the land, near and far! Settle yourself and Hogwarts into a stable situation. >
< Rewards: +3 to Mind, Rulership Discipline unlocked +5 levels >
< Stats > 2024-07-25 01:32:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Jynn Hill was a young woman of seven and ten. She was a bastard of the Westerlands but one better off than most. For where most baseborn daughters would only be able to work as whores or serving wenches, Jynn was a maid in the legendary Casterly Rock.
She didn’t know her father. Not wholly. But she had her susp...
2024-07-22 23:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
The bells of the castle sept rang, leading the charge for the septs of the town below. With the clear signal, another dawn had come and passed. Most of the town was long awake at that point. The Smallfolk rose with the sun. And the more intelligent and dutiful among the Highborn did the same.
The castle sat on a ...
2024-07-21 16:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post
It took a few moments to recover after Ned and his men turned themselves into torches, taken completely by surprise by the impossible nature of the Wizards’ Fire Whiskey. Truly, none of them had expected to belch great gouts of flame like Volantene street performers. Their Wizardly hosts laughed at their sudden predicament,...
2024-07-19 00:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Lord Paramount Eddard of House Stark, the Quiet Wolf, Lord of Winterfell, and Warden of the North. Ned to his friends. Even after nearly twenty years, the titles hadn’t fully grown on him… Ned Stark was a man of many things. Honor. Righteousness. Shame… Love. He loved his wife. He truly did. It was not a marriage of cho...
2024-07-16 23:00:50 +0000 UTC View Post
“Footwork, Atlas! Footwork!” Cygnus’ voice came in delighted exclamations and instructions as I went through the motions he’d shown me.
“It all comes back to footwork, good chum! Keep a stable base! Step with your strikes and thrust, but do not overstep! Never move more than you must if you can help it!...
2024-07-13 23:48:16 +0000 UTC View Post
[AN: Power creep be creeping... Seriously though, the feats of Knights and Lords in ASOIAF are firmly superhuman and you can't convince me otherwise.]
“This is all so, so, so fucked…” I groaned, feeling the need to drink myself into a coma at that very moment.
“Perha...
2024-07-10 23:55:29 +0000 UTC View Post
(Atlas pic)
I stared at my status screen, rationalizing what I saw there to myself, ‘It was a vacation. Be glad there’s any progress at all. Plus, everything’s done and dealt with. The Grind isn’t so pressing...
2024-07-08 00:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Saint was testy. On edge. He always was, to a certain extent, but that extent was even worse that morning. The day before, he’d barely had any time to monitor the wretched AI Dragon as he usually did. That fact was wearing on his nerves something fierce. He was humanity’s first line of defense against the potential AI men...
2024-07-03 01:47:51 +0000 UTC View Post
“[I However Am Real].”
The moment Edgar said his line, intoning the name of his perk as it activated, his eyes closed. The ether of information and code opened up before him. In that new cyber frontier, Edgar thrust himself upon Dragon. Her suit stilled. Her attention was suddenly elsewhere, ...
2024-06-30 01:25:20 +0000 UTC View Post
“Dragon…?” Narwhal asked, her voice strained. “What… exactly am I looking at here…?”
Narwhal sat behind her desk, as usual for her routine first thing in the morning. Upon arriving at her post, she’d been greeted by two Guild Membership forms, sent to her by Dragon and already filled out. Not long...
2024-06-27 00:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
“So what’d you think about your first college class, Fishies?” Gwen asked, smirking as she, Adam, and Ruby walked out of Professor Yen’s lecture hall.
“It was fascinating,” Adam answered. “I don’t think I’ve heard that story before. At least, not in detail. I knew about Wizard Hunts, of course, ...
2024-06-24 00:56:03 +0000 UTC View Post
“Damn, what are the odds?” Adam shook his head incredulously.
“Heheh… W-What do you mean?” Ruby asked, putting on her best attempt at innocence.
“‘I mean’ our schedules are exactly the same!” Adam laughed. “Honestly, we should try playing the lottery if our luck is this insane.”...
2024-06-22 00:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post[Feat: Escape from the Birdcage! +200P, 1100P total.]
There was a flash. Then something, somewhere was suddenly, somehow, someplace else. It was a monumental undertaking. A technological achievement even for Dragon. Even for an AI, teleportation was nothing to scoff at. She couldn’t do it consi...
2024-06-17 23:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post
“Farewell, little Ciara~!” Edgar called as he left her cell. “Hold your door ever open for me. I’ll return. For you, I’ll never mind revisiting my stories of the Winter Court.”
“You better…” Ciara pouted after him, having warmed up quite well to the Raven Prince.
“So I have said, ...
2024-06-15 02:20:48 +0000 UTC View Post
