Category: Stories
Creative Writing Items
Index
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39 Finding a Groove
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38 The Wheels on the Bus
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37 Waiting Around
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36 Accidental Example
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35 Going Off
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34 It’s a big deal!
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33 Public Access
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32 Nirvana’s Prank
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31 Illiteracy and Education
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Markus, Hammer of the Earth
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Young Master Monkedil
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30 Miracles
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29 Bellboy or Butler?
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28 An Old Dog, A New Trick
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27 My Foot and the Gun
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26 Making a Scene
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25 Mending Fences
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24 Introspective Musings
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23 I’ve Got a Secret
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22 Willing Distraction
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21 Finding a Bed
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20 Getting Class
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19 Keeping a Secret
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18 Power Looting
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17 Shaken, not Stirred
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39 Finding a Groove
After watching Mark shift into his hybrid form, ‘American Werewolf in London’ style, we head into the graveyard. Forming up behind Jennifer, we move off the main path into the gravestones on the left side and head along the fence. Billy continued the lecture he started while we were in the wagon. “Again, we want
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38 The Wheels on the Bus
“All right, we’re done waiting on stragglers. Let’s get squads sorted out before we leave for the graveyard,” shouts Justin! We collect together, and there are close to 30 of us in his grinder group. Justin asks, “Are there any pairings? We’ll try to preserve them, but I’d like five squads if we can balance
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37 Waiting Around
I stomp out the front door and look around. Two groups are assembling here, and there is an obviously fancy hat. The short, maybe five feet tall, human has a tricorn that he is wearing backward just to make a peacock eye feather stick out straight behind his head by at least two feet. It’s
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36 Accidental Example
I walk out of the lab and see that my furniture was delivered, as expected, waiting for me to place it. I absorb it all into my inventory and then walk around putting it where I want. Fifteen minutes later, I finished furnishing the suite. Nothing has changed; I’m still pissed off. I flop down
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35 Going Off
I stay behind as they leave – I’m not a part of what they will be doing down there anyway. Standing on the balcony, I watch as the crowd begins to organize into those who want to seek a boon and those who only came to hear what is going on. ARC, tag the two
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34 It’s a big deal!
I finish looking around the island, and there is a little more time before I’m supposed to meet up with the others. I don’t have anything else I want to do, so I return to the balcony. I move past the golems and into the room before deactivating Peeping Tom mode. “I hate waiting.” Mason
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33 Public Access
Crap, that was a late night. Oh, yeah! ARC, Attributes. That’s a huge bump – I’m a superhero! Hey ARC, can you cast spells on my behalf? [No. I can change your attributes and the attributes of others and things. ‘Living things’ may eventually revert to their original values.] You can save particular coordinates to
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32 Nirvana’s Prank
I went upstairs and looted the sheets, pillows, and blankets from the spare rooms. Then I went to the vanity of the room I was in and cast another scry spell, targeting Auntie. As soon as the image appeared, Auntie looked up and waved at me. So I teleported to her. I looked around the
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31 Illiteracy and Education
It takes me longer to put everything away than it does to clean it – but it goes a lot faster as I figure out that I can put everything into my inventory and then go from cabinet to cabinet and take out whatever goes there. I am also pleased that I can use the
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Markus, Hammer of the Earth
[Shouting] Stop beating on my door! I already told you bastards… [Jerking the door open] Oh, sorry, your eminence, I thought you were those crusaders; here to pester me about their gear again. Come in, Come in. You look like you need a drink. Shit, I need one, and you haven’t even told me why
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Young Master Monkedil
The midwife gave me to the temple when I was only a few hours old, telling the monk that my parents refused to raise a cursed child. They didn’t know how right they were. There was something very different about me, even if I wasn’t cursed, and as I grew, it started to show. The
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30 Miracles
“Thanks, Lurch!” I separated from him to approach Evelyn at the reception desk. “I think it will do nicely, and you said one gold a year?” Evelyn nodded, “That’s correct, Sir.” I placed fifteen gold on the counter. “I’m committed; five gold deposit. What else needs to be done?” Ignoring my funds, she pulls a
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29 Bellboy or Butler?
It only took two times going through the song before I had it memorized, and while Greyson was teaching it to me, almost the entire wagon sang along. Our accompaniment kept their hands wide open or clasping something so they didn’t invoke the cantrip. I played along, knowing that I needed to help keep Nirvana’s
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28 An Old Dog, A New Trick
I’m walking back to the road where the bus carts are, and I realize I don’t need to. I could teleport back to the guild. Then I want to smack myself in the forehead at that stupidity. Then I smack myself in the forehead, saying, “I could have had a V8!” A cold can of
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27 My Foot and the Gun
Leaving William’s shop an hour later with my order placed, it was time to check on a couple of leads for training. Two of them were in the same general direction, so I started that way, looking for a decent-sized street to follow along. As I came upon an intersection, I saw something that made
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26 Making a Scene
Laughing, “That was awesome! I don’t know what you are going to do to attract attention Auntie; I am going to ride my light cycle over to the Explorer’s Association and then vanish! That should get tounges wagging and provide enough of a distraction for me to get my base settled and finish my other
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25 Mending Fences
Nobody is in the parlor when I come out this morning, so I head downstairs to the dining room. Auntie Emma is placing a platter of pancakes on the table. There are already some scrambled eggs and bacon out, and the explorers are chatting and eating. “Good morning, everyone.” Pleasantries are exchanged, with Auntie Emma
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24 Introspective Musings
Following the explorers upstairs, I find myself drifting into introspection mode… I can create enough wealth to buy anything I want. With that, I have everything I need to survive in the city and to live extravagantly if I want to. I could set myself up as a local power, but that would tie me
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23 I’ve Got a Secret
I look at the explorers and say, “You can keep eating. Nirvana is unlikely to join us for a while. If my guess is right, she’s going to wait until I prove something I’ve started to suspect unless I stumble into something else. Bring out both handbooks, and I’ll show you where to spend some
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22 Willing Distraction
The explorers looked at each other, smiled, and shouted, “Itadakimasu!” I laughed! “How awesome is it that particular Japanese custom has apparently become mainstream!” Auntie Emma replied, “It never carried a heavy religious connection and thus stuck when many western phrases dropped out of favor. The third drawer from the left, Jeb, has the serving
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21 Finding a Bed
“Ok, I promise not to do anything else I think will attract Nirvana’s attention today – let’s get to the obelisk, update, and find lodging.” Grumpy nods, “Let’s go. I’ll take us to a place where we may be able to get a suite of rooms with a common area.” He stops when he notices
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20 Getting Class
Just as we are coming up on the exit to the graveyard, a couple of adventurers decked out in clothes and equipment that screams, ‘THUG!’, step out from behind the pillars that the gate is attached to. “Well, well, it’s some of the big shots in the Explorer’s Association. What do you think, Billy? Do
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19 Keeping a Secret
“Let’s get out of here; adventurers are starting to gather for the nightly raids,” said Grumpy while pointing out some people coming down the main path from the gate. They were quite a ways out. “I agree. In fact, why don’t we head to the road? I’ll offer them my shovel, letting them know we
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18 Power Looting
When I look around, I see Grumpy looking at me. He shakes his head, “I don’t want to know.” Laughing at him, “Oh yes, yes you do, but it can wait. Have you picked from the vault?” “No,” he replies. “That’s fine. Take your time. I want to spend an hour here, then have a
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17 Shaken, not Stirred
After Gilden and Grumpy remove the locks and lift the gravestone out of the recess, Mason and I look in it. “This one is different – there is a palm reader here.” Kneeling, I place my palm on the reader, and a mechanical voice sounds out. “Your party is the first to access the James