Chapter 20 – The Workshop Halls
By the time Shrek and I woke up, Juniper was feeling much better about the whole Earl fiasco. She had been communing with the spirits who lingered on the level…
Chapter 19 – Earl
The floor boss was a Lesser Lich Foreman named Earl. Earl was everything you’d expect from a classic lich type – he was skeletal, his clothes were tattered and rotted,…
Chapter 18 – The Sunken Mines
“How did you know the entrance was trapped?” Juniper asked, kneeling down beside me as I examined the floor trap mechanism. “I have an ability…Environmental Mapping. It shows me nearby…
Chapter 17 – The Dungeon Entrance
The dungeon entrance was a mostly unremarkable depression in the side of the mountain range save for the runes which lined the gigantic door frame and the massive bronze door…
Chapter 16 – On the Road Again
“Wot I did, Master Rockland,” the squirrely young Eidolon with an inexplicable cockney accent explained, “was to take packages from their owners who were of a want to give those…
Chapter 15 – Brakk Furyborn
Brakk Furyborn had been in love with Jasmine Irontusk from the moment he laid eyes on her. She was a large woman, even by orc standards. Most orc women were…
Chapter 14 – Continuous Improvement
Shrek brought his practice sword down in a powerful overhead stroke in an attempt to cave in the top of my skull. I swung upward with the dagger, deflecting his…
Chapter 13 – Training Day
The blueprints I’d received from The System rewards turned out to be blank. In place of detailed plans for constructing anything specific, it offered a list of different types of…
Chapter 12 – You Break It, You Buy It
Watching the way the orc construction crew worked was fascinating. They combined system abilities, earth magic, and old world craftmanship to create something amazing in an unthinkably short amount of…
Chapter 11 – Family Drama
Jasmine, once again covered in her fur robe, stood in front of Vrk’shryk with her arms folded over her chest. The younger orc was fuming, pacing back and forth in…