Adobe huts, yurts and hide tents fashioned a modern city on the ruins. Neighbourhood markets bustled beneath wide, street-length awnings, filling the hot air with countless voices and the redolent aromas of cooking. Local tribes, those that followed their own war chief, Mathok - who held a position comparable to general in Sha'ik's command - mingled with Dogslayers, with motley bands of renegades from cities, with cut-throat bandits and freed criminals from countless Malazan garrison gaols. The army's camp followers were equally disparate, a bizarre self-contained tribe that seemed to wander a nomadic round within the makeshift city, driven to move at the behest of hidden vagaries no doubt political in nature. At the moment, some unseen defeat had them more furtive than usual - old whores leading scores of mostly naked, thin children, weapon smiths and tack menders and cooks and latrine diggers, widows and wives and a few husbands and fewer still fathers and mothers ... threads linked most of them to the warriors in Sha'ik's army, but they were tenuous at best, easily severed, often tangled into a web of adultery and bastardy.
The city was a microcosm of Seven Cities, in Heboric's opinion. Proof of all the ills the Malazan Empire had set out to cure as conquerors then occupiers. There seemed few virtues to the freedoms to which the ex-priest had been witness, here in this place. Yet he suspected he was alone in his traitorous thoughts. The empire sentenced me a criminal, yet I remain Malazan none the less. A child of the empire, a reawakened devotee to the old emperor's 'peace by the sword'. So, dear Tavore, lead your army to this heart of rebellion, and cut it dead. I'll not weep for the loss.
House of Chains, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #4)
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A little while ago I posted my first HoMM fic. It began when I and my bf were playing HoMM7 together, and then I finished the Necropolis campaign and absolutely loved it (it wrecked me). It's a story between a Necromancer and a Wizard during the War of the Broken Staff.
It's in Polish because I kinda want to support my home fandom, but if there's anyone who would like to read it in English, I could translate it, just let me know. There are chances I will continue this story in one form or another.
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Just spent the past some amount of hours putting all dimension 20 episodes (only including episodes where they are actively playing DnD) into an alphabetical list for the worst d20 watching experience possible!!!!
It starts with the first episode of acofaf and ends with the last episode of acofaf so maybe it's just the worst way to watch acofaf.
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Seven Cities (Original Atlantis Mix)
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every day i wake up and watch my emotional support millennials play insanely intricate dnd campaigns for hours on end and i am not ashamed of that
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poetry truly is the most painful & lifesaving of all art forms. like open-heart surgery
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Buck’s either the unluckiest mf in LA (where there are over 26k+ restaurants) or Eddie has been dressing in tactical gear and hiding behind trees with Marisol on his backpack like a ready made beard
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When the sands
Danced blind,
She emerged from the face
Of a raging goddess
Sha'ik
Bidithal
Deadhouse Gates, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #2)
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I've decided that I'm making Alex's very private love of theater and secret penchant for dramatics into a plot point. She's gonna have to act like her life depends on it (because it will.)
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Charity: amazing. I'm going to excuse myself and go see that your paperwork is being collected.
Antiope: I can work with Preston on it. You don't have to bother.
Brennan: she gets up and walks out of the room and gets on her phone and you can kind of see, like -- actually give me a perception check real quick.
Aabria! Yeah! *Rolls a nat 20*
Brennan: 😮
Aabria: let's go
Becca: don't offer it if you don't want it!
Aabria: let's goo!
Sephie: come on Brennan, what are you gonna do?
Brennan: so there was a thing I wanted to give you and then I'm gonna give you the thing I didn't want to give you
All: yay!
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Valentines happened a few days ago but timeliness is not a concept widely practiced here in Heresh
Wizards can live in peace (could, at least)
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