Month: December 2018

It was light inside the tent. Morn heard Acantha and Jade talk outside. The orc closed their eyes again. There had been a dream, but it was gone as soon as they had woken. Morn sighed and got up, taking their axe with them as they left the tent. Their tent stood on the edge of the mountains. Today they would have to venture through them towards the daemon. “But what ís it?” Acantha asked the elf, who held a bottle in her hand. Jade didn’t respond to Acantha, probably because she didn’t know the answer. Morn looked at the…

After what Acantha felt was an hour of running, the party saw some kind of translucent wall rising up in the distance. Acantha was still amazed by how easy it was to run. The ritual that Effy had performed gave her strength beyond her own. She felt blessed. The blessing had changed her appearance and physical abilities. But it hadn’t affected her mind, which was curious as always. “What’s that?” she asked, pointing up ahead. “A boundary,” Effy answered and as if the snake-lady felt Acantha’s second question emerging, she continued: “It’s a territorial border. Someone will be alerted once…

The hot summer sun shone brightly above a wide, outstretched field. The three clouds in the sky looked like they were playing an awfully slow game of tag in which two clouds drifted away from the third. Visible on the horizon in the east, was a large mountain range. Here in the field, the mountains seemed small, far away. It would take a day of walking to reach them. In the field stood an odd group. Four creatures that looked like they had nothing in common, stood on top of scattered leaves. The leaves seemed just as out of place…

Effy’s snake flew over the forest. Sunlight shone over the treetops and. From where Acantha was sitting it looked as if the snake was slithering through grass. This made it all the more disorientating, because her body felt that surely, they were flying. Looking down made her feel sick and she thought it best to focus on something else. “Where are we going?” she asked and focused her gaze on the horizon, which the sun was nearly touching. Acantha had expected Effy, who sat in front of her, to respond, but the answer came from behind her. “We’re going east.…