Tag: spoilers
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Dragon Age: The Cage and the Keepers
I’m posting a five-part series on Leif Surana and her time in the Circle at Kinloch Hold before the beginning of Dragon Age: Origins. These are all prompt fills from days gone by, finally assembled in chronological order. Leif always had a combative relationship with the Templars, and this shows through.
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Active Project: Encounters (Disco Elysium)
I’ve been updating the Disco Elysium Encounters continuity daily on AO3. After some thought I’ve started using one-shots in a series rather than one multi-chapter piece. More flexibility that way. So there’s a 26-chapter baseline and one-shot continuations. Did I call it Harry and his Physique? Yes. Because the customization for this Harry du Bois…
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[Weekly Blast from the Past] Elara’s Log
This week’s chapter, randomly selected from the archives: Elara Dorne, shortly after Balmorra in the SWTOR Trooper class line, meditates on the recent change in her commander, Vierce Savins. It contains spoilers throughout Overcoming Adviercity up through Balmorra. I don’t think it’s in Adviercity’s main text; it’s a bit of a supplement. This one is…
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Dialogues AU (SWTOR)
I always wanted to know what a Star Wars: The Old Republic Sith Warrior would say to a Jedi Knight. Well, what if she apprehended him for delivery to the Emperor, and their ship was set adrift? He has just a few precious weeks to talk his way out. To bring one more person back…
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Lodestone AU (SWTOR)
(art by kabeone) Ah, Lodestone. The original Ruth/Wynston AU. I didn’t lie about Ruth Means Compassion: in every continuity she starts Light Side, she befriends Wynston, she falls in love with and marries Malavai Quinn, and she parts on bitter terms with a son to remember her husband by. All of these are true in…
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XP Gained: Bard (Neverwinter Nights 2) 2019
Neverwinter Nights 2 starts slow and snowballs into a classic D&D 3.5 adventure with some truly glorious setpieces. Here began my bard, the original, pre-Veilguard Lynesse. I published a scattering of stories, and I’ll reprint one here. XP Gained on AO3 Lynesse felt her throat constricting when Bishop came into view. She was perched on…
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Captain, Cipher, Soldier, Spy (SWTOR)
The irreverent, episodic story was, for a long time, the canonical followup to Ruth Means Compassion. KotFE/ET changed that, but Captain, Cipher, Soldier, Spy, a loosely associated collection of short scenes with no particular endpoint, remains dear to my heart. The remainder of this description contains spoilers for the end of Ruth Means Compassion. Cut…
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No Identification (Planescape: Torment) 2018-2020
Planescape: Torment is a devilish setting to write for because the story is so tightly built, so thematically unified, that I feel like I’m sewing cheeky patches onto someone’s wedding dress. But I’m cheeky. No Identification Provided is a series of one-shots set during the game events of Planescape: Torment. They deal with the companions…
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Overcoming Adviercity (SWTOR) 2017
Vierce Savins, freedom fighter, naturalized citizen to the Galactic Republic, and hater of all things Imperial. This is the canonical Republic Trooper in my Star Wars: The Old Republic. And then he met Elara Dorne. Now, I met Dorne immediately after finishing the Sith Warrior line, and I hated Imps. I hated Imps so much.…