Given the size of the ejection port and the grip, the gun fell squarely into the territory of handcannons. Krahe wagered this thing could load the sizable thaumshot projectiles of reapers and have some room leftover, which was strange, because those were the largest-diameter bullets she’d encountered besides those used in ridiculous intimidati...
2025-04-09 00:00:45 +0000 UTC View PostIn the meanwhile, while Favonia fussed over her gun, Krahe finally took a moment to appraise the black-gold cigar.
[SEVEN-SIDED SPIRE RELIC CIGAR NO. 31]
[Status:]
Unparallelled Quality
Impeccable
[Details:]
Mental Clarification C1 2025-04-05 02:36:37 +0000 UTC View Post
A simple upgrade for the Prospector’s Eyes was one thing. It was entirely believable that Casus may have mentioned Krahe’s use of the artifact and its, by now, severely subpar specifications. Krahe had, after all, not mentioned her commissioning of upgraded lenses, and she had not met with Casus since she had picked up her order from the cra...
2025-04-04 03:32:02 +0000 UTC View Post“What is it?” Krahe questioned, turning the strange cigar over in her hand. It was much heavier than one might expect. Its scent reminded her of metal shavings, gunpowder, fusion reactor coolant. Heavy and industrial, yet it also had aromatic notes of perhaps some kind of incense or aromatic resin.
Rather than answer, Favonia smirked, ...
2025-04-02 02:43:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe next several hours of her time came down to more productive pursuits — refining the Schwarzfaust’s theurgic pattern, interspersed with short sessions of reading and absent-mindedly inspecting parts of the room to see if she could notice the concealment formation poking through anywhere else. Eventually, having laid a number of Schwarzfau...
2025-03-30 10:33:28 +0000 UTC View PostAs she made her way out of Garvesh’s pawnshop, walking through the back alley in the other direction than she had entered, she noticed two new things. The first was the presence of a stranger approaching from the direction she was headed. The second was that, amidst the posters and ads, old and new, she could make out Yao’s talisman patterns...
2025-03-28 20:28:48 +0000 UTC View Post“This one’s pretty old, but it’s pretty good,” Garvesh said as he plucked a memslate from somewhere under the counter. Its edges were worn. After skipping well past the halfway point, he let it play. The clashing of swords and din of gunshots spilled out as a meticulously choreographed battle between two thaumaturges ensued, one a sauria...
2025-03-24 06:09:57 +0000 UTC View Post“I’m the Wizard, I’m twelve thousand years old, of course I know everything,” the young man smirked. She noticed seams in his skin, starting at the corners of his mouth. “I was turning tower-dwelling savages inside-out before Igaria built the first spoke. This-”
He gestured about himself, perhaps at the Lost Sun Society, or per...
2025-03-18 05:14:55 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe allowed herself to give into the theatre of her involvement with the Lost Sun Society, making her way to the very firing range where she had demonstrated her ability as a theurge in order to gain entry. The giant, Moloch-esq target statue loomed behind a scene of smaller, much more reasonable targets, including human figures, steel plates,...
2025-03-18 05:12:13 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Edit: Truncated some of the dialogue that kind of just repeated earlier information. Chapter ends up being shorter than normal but next one will be longer to compensate.
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“Basic, in the sense of avoiding overdesign. A direct equivalent to this land’s Yellow At...
2025-03-17 04:34:16 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe deciced to undertake an exercise in creating a theurgic pattern usable by others. Yao’s scroll insisted that even if one didn’t plan to do so, it was a useful skill to have, and understanding the principles behind it was vital to having a solid foundation as both a theurge and a talisman-maker. It quickly became evident why — it just...
2025-03-15 03:45:07 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe stared at the mutilated form that laid across the room from her, hooked up to tubes and cables, hollow eye sockets covered by fresh gauze. She felt herself sink in place, her sight growing detached, merely pointed in that direction, but not truly focused. A strange grinding noise came from her mouth. Teeth on teeth. She could feel somethin...
2025-03-10 22:02:27 +0000 UTC View PostThe strongest piece of evidence in favour of Aldritch’s humanity, distorted and rotten though it may be, was Barzai — the eidolon awoke within Krahe, twisting and turning in his formless state, not unlike a dog might do upon the leash when presented with fresh meat. Could a truly hollow psychopath be so tormented by the knowledge of his impe...
2025-03-04 04:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostYazata followed Krahe’s lead, with one of the Red Hoods taking up a guard post at the front door. The inquisitor seemed somewhat perturbed by Juno, but Krahe got the impression that it wasn’t because of her physical state. Yazata quickly gave Krahe’s more refined report a once-over as the two made their way upstairs. Krahe then spent a few...
2025-03-04 04:04:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Currently only on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited, but the audiobook is in production and paperbacks will also come soon. We were aiming for a simultaneous release with the audiobook, but unfortunately our VA was struck by the California fires.
“...can you… can you carry me? Take me…” Juno spoke up, insomuch as the wheezing whisper she emitted could be considered speech. She stopped short of saying something, the start of the word “home” almost audible in its absence.
“I can take you to a grafter. Get you fixed up,” Krahe suggested.
Juno turned towards Krahe...
2025-02-24 00:51:48 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe didn’t bother with any elaborate torments. Instead, she simply dragged Aldritch off the wall, and before he could realize what she was doing, she dislocated his shoulder. He cried out, but… It wasn’t convincing. The pain was real, but the reaction wasn’t how it should’ve been. That alone was enough to tip her off — despite bein...
2025-02-24 00:50:55 +0000 UTC View PostThe moment Krahe broke through the door, Aldritch had already prepared himself, having already raised his barrier and letting loose several thaumaturgic blades aimed exactly at Krahe’s head the moment she was in his sight. He was already pointing a gun off to the side, and the moment it became clear his first salvo had not struck its target, h...
2025-02-12 06:25:56 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: Fairly severe content. One more chapter to come as promised.
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Within another fifteen minutes, she had arrived at the second location — in total, between following Ogura into his house and now, twenty-seven minutes had passed. Not so much as a squeak escaped the building. Aft...
2025-02-12 05:43:08 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: One more chapter is ready for tonight. I might be able to get out a third.
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After taking a moment to observe the aftermath of her unfinished creation, Krahe once more turned her attention to the miscreant before her, and any sense of satisfaction was washed away by the retur...
2025-02-12 03:28:46 +0000 UTC View PostGiving it a few moments for the sight of the Boar’s Head Insignia to sink in, Strake then began reciting none other than the oath of the Knights of the Boar, or at least a modified version of it. Graham didn’t know that it deviated from recorded versions, he only vaguely recognized it to begin with.
“By the might of the Boar, whose s...
2025-02-07 01:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostKrahe closed out day 2 of the investigation into this particular case with initial preparations for Barzai’s evolution ritual, followed by working out the beginnings of Wandrei Faust’s sibling theurgy. As she leaned back in her chair, crushing beetle-like beans between her molars and fiddling with her cigarette-roller, she inwardly questione...
2025-02-05 23:39:18 +0000 UTC View PostAs for actual customers, thankfully, her methods had worked as intended by filtering out, those she wished to avoid — for instance, a husband who just wanted someone to go stalk his wife to see if she was cheating.
It was somewhat disappointing that her first real customer under the Crow and Raven Agency didn’t walk into her f...
2025-02-05 23:34:57 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been her tutelage of Lucian, as well as the desire to be more capable to teach the other disciples, that had inspired her to push Carnifex as far as it could go in terms of shape variation. The young man’s growth had been incredibly promising. Time and time again, in defiance of his own glaringly lacking intelligence, he gleaned insight...
2025-01-21 02:07:46 +0000 UTC View PostEverything Krahe learned from securing her new office would also inevitably carry over to everything else that involved talisman-drawing, especially Theurgy. Besides just being able to produce working Wandrei Faust talismans faster and more consistently, the standard Wandrei Faust would inevitably be improved as well, as her improved understandi...
2025-01-21 01:25:00 +0000 UTC View PostA part of her wanted to speak, or even to fight them, just to see if she could take them. But there were five of them, and they weren’t worthless gangsters. Even if they weren’t exactly well-suited to subtly trailing a target, they had real skills. She decided against initiating a conversation, but her pursuers did it for her.
“Someh...
2025-01-16 00:54:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Estoras Family’s Seven Calamity Armaments were unique in being a truly independently-developed art, but to say they were entirely unrooted from Grekurian cultivation and martial arts would have been a lie. And these… Crovacus couldn’t articulate what a treasure this was if he tried. Despite only totaling three or perhaps four volumes a...
2025-01-08 05:54:31 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm not dead. Just wished I had been for the first half of december or so. And then christmas.
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A clandestine expeditionary force made its way through the countryside — six figures in dark cloaks, all riding steel beasts faster than any animal, closely followed by a similar...
2025-01-08 05:06:46 +0000 UTC View PostA/N: I'm not dead. Just wished I had been for the first half of december or so. And then christmas.
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Brizogia’s head twitched upon her neck in a manner that a human’s head absolutely shouldn’t, and it seemed that her anger had spilled over into confusion.
“Are you just… ...
2025-01-08 04:53:44 +0000 UTC View PostCut in half.
Burned and scattered.
Frozen and shattered.
Disassembled cell by cell, molecule by molecule.
Countless years passed, and I met with countless deaths, beneath countless skies. Each time, forgetting. Each time, coming to remember just as my next death approached.
But there, in the depths of Hedan’s Wall...
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