Tag: 2016
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Cursed and Beloved
by James Lecky in Issue 57, October 2016 “Does his heart still beat, Brother Edric?” “Aye, my lord Abbot, the pulse is weak but there is still the spark of life in him.” “More than a spark, I think,” the Abbot said. He looked down at the man upon the narrow cot, at the slim yet muscular…
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Bluffing at Farbridge
by Jason A. Holt in Issue 56, September 2016 The Shatterstone Horn had been stolen, and Higomu had orders to get it back. There are only two ways to escape from the Redwood Valley with a stolen artifact. One can either board a boat and leave by sea, or one can take the Klindrel Road and…
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The Scroll of Jadugara
by Jeffery A. Sergent in Issue 56, September 2016 The bottom level, the ninth, was nothing more than a circular floor about thirty feet in diameter. The stairs led upward and away from the deep-set chamber in an ever-widening spiral which was lost in the darkness, and at each of the eight levels above, a…
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Ex Libris
by Dan J. DeFazio In Issue 55, August 2016 Of all the gambling houses in the City of Dreadmoor, the Silver Moon was by far the most exclusive. While the lower-classes rolled the bones and watched grub-fights in the Greased Goat and The Shrieking Wife, the well-born and well-paid preferred the ambiance of The Silver Moon’s wood-paneled chambers. Here, among powdered wigs…
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Tools of God and Magic
by S. Creany in Issue 55, August 2016 Solene walked back from the bar’s outhouse, her mouth worked into a frown and a bit of paper crumpled in her big fist, to find Brigh being prattled at by a young girl. There was a desperate look to the girl: sallow skin, rough brown hair, a cheap…