Tag: September
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Guarantees in Three Silvers
by Jay Requard in Issue 128, September 2022 Chapter I: Conditions Galamzar dozed as dawn breached his tower’s windows, the city of Burq-Tinnin buzzing hundreds of feet below his spire. The smooth pillars holding up the dome, cut from the finest green marble veined in ocher, had lulled his attention away from the large book…
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At the Sign of the Prancing Pony, or, Is This the Place to Start Our Adventure
by G. W. Thomas in Issue 128, September 2022 Every fantasy role-playing adventure, many sword & sorcery tales, any number of heroic fantasy comics, all seem to begin in a tavern in an inn. It is one of the traditional tropes of heroic fantasy, right? I have to wonder where this traditional starting point originated.…
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The Mage of Castle Thunder
by Mike Adamson in Issue 116, September 2021 Since before the birth of writing, the sorcerer Malatulis, ancient and dreadful, had dominated all the lands of Tassamoraine. His grim tower of Caer Thunder rose from bleak cliffs by the Eastern Ocean and above that storm-wracked wilderness of breakers and wicked reefs he incanted vehemently to…
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The Orchestra of Syrak
by Rab Foster in Issue 116, September 2021 The shaft Bump was crawling down became so steep that he lost his hold on its stonework and slid forward, unable to stop himself. Worse, the faster he slid, the narrower the shaft became. But just when he feared he’d get irreversibly stuck in it, he shot…
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Flames Over Esk
by D. J. Tyrer in Issue 116, September 2021 The sky glowed a dull red from the flames, the light bleeding into the sanguine half-disc of the sun that slowly rose to fill the horizon. Smoke bruised the sky like rain clouds besmirching the dawn. There was a smell that was, unfortunately, pleasant, given the…