Tag: 2015
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The Death of the Bastard D’Uvel
by Dan DeFazio in Issue 47, December 2015 In terms of sheer debauchery, no festival rivaled that of the Night of Masks. After sunset the citizens of Dreadmoor flooded every quarter, forsaking their everyday faces and donning new ones, ranging from the comic, to the tragic, to the grotesque, to the obscene. To a stranger it might…
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Arbor
by Frank Martinicchio in Issue 47, December 2015 He came in the night and brought the rain with him. William watched from the cover of the stables, cuddling his cloak tightly into him, taking the little warmth it offered. A rider this late in the night can’t be good news, thought William. But he did his duty…
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The Gargoyle and the Nun
by Brynn MacNab in Issue 46, November 2015 At night the clouds parted a little and the thin moon, curving like a scythe, shone between them. The witch stood in the field, beyond the lights of the soldiers’ camp, and held the arrow she had plucked from the throat of her favorite and most eager…
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Last Stand at Wellworm’s Pass
by Nicholas Ozment in Issue 46, November 2015 Tamalin, one of the most feared and powerful mages in all of Rilsthorn—Tamalin, whose very name elicited awe! In disguise he often roamed the fog-shrouded streets of the Tallows district of Ment City, but on this treacherous night the cruel wizard had been unmasked. Now assassins and…
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A Fine Bounty
by Rob Francis in Issue 45, October 2015 “D’ya see him? D’ya see him?” Leos looked over at his partner, sprawled next to him in the dust of the gully ridge. Agris had little patience at the best of times, and these were certainly not the best of times. “Give me a moment, ‘Gris,” he…