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Session 1

Alex grumps as he dusts himself off. “I guess we aren’t getting that compass.” “We don’t need it.” Nox says. “We can do this. Let’s find someone who knows what this image might be of?”
Session 0

Master Elandor Moonfire is pacing back and forth when Nox shows up first for class. “Nox, deliver this message to the Headmaster.” The tiny scrolled parchment is not sealed and Nox can’t help but read it as he’s walking down the main corridor of The Scholar’s Hall in The Shieldhaven Academy.
New Story

AJ finished a story. We might post it here. We haven’t decided. However, AJ wants to post the solo game we are doing leading up to writing a novel in 30 days in November. (If you know you know, but we make no comments on that subject.) So we have new artwork AJ did this…
Finished a Bit!

AJ finally finished a story. It’s not very long coming in at 20K ish but it’s a complete story — beginning middle end and all that jazz. It’s a Cozy Modern Fantasy. So it’s magic and urban fantasy but more a slice of life type adventure. It was inspired by It’s Only Magic from Monte…
Happy Birthday To Me!!

I’d be 32 if I were alive in your real world. I’d be getting old. Not that it’s very old mind you — AJ doesn’t feel old. I won’t say how old. I’m going to get shut out in a minute if I don’t shut up lol. Anyway. Today is my birthday. Today, I didn’t…
Just a Test
Update

So AJ, me rather, I got a hankering for playing my supernatural chosen one trope again. Not a game this go through, we are writing or rewriting the stuff you’ve seen here. It has some game mechanics behind it mostly to make sure we don’t god power me and I’m not this one shot wonder…
Ream and Stories

AJ is starting a new thing. We started an account over at Ream. We are going to start posting Once Upon a Dream, slightly modified and returned from Zane and Angel back to Alex and I. AJ’s still deciding how we want to do all this. We don’t want to give up on The Mind…
Here we Go again!

We’ve gone through some ups and downs. We’ve not finished a story in ages. We’ve posted less than we wanted over the months. There are excuses we can offer but nothing that really stands out. AJ’s been writing. I’ve been insistent upon it. We’ve played a few games, AJ gets sidetracked with another version. We…
The Soul Pot

So AJ wrote a short story for a competition that was due yesterday apparently and didn’t get any reminders about it and now can’t submit it :( oh well. We’ll pot for you guys anyway. It’s not me. It’s inspired by Baldur’s Gate 3 and AJ’s favorite spec a Paladin/Warlock. This is the moment when…
Prologue

So we don’t have an exercise today. Mostly cause AJ’s not feeling it today. But we also have finished the Prologue to the WIP for me and my new world. We aren’t going to share it here yet. But we can offer it to those who might like to read it. Make a comment or shoot me…
Paradox

Exercise: Write a Paradox Word: inch and permanent We like to try to keep this in character story line but can’t think of a paradox. Though we do us the “Silence is deafening” often. We through together a patch that became a permanent temporary solution — oops. No idea how to use inch in a…
Wolf Bond

Exercise: Describe an object using only the sense of smell. Word: leash and blank The pack magic permeated the air, the bond was strong between Isabel and Rider. The soft scent of leaves blowing on the wind and the deep must of the forest floor filed Rider’s nose with the sense of belonging. A man…
Home sick

Exercise: Describe a location using all the senses. Words: tough and scatter I missed home. The putrid smell of the bog like an acid eating at your nose hair. It sounded stupid when you thought about it, I needed to be tougher. All the muck that stuck to your feet and slurped as you walked. But I missed it all. Especially…
A Willow Wand

Exercise: Describe an object using all the senses. Words: apathy and limited. The stick in my hand was nothing special. The knobs from former branches were rough against my fingers as I smothered the springy wood with druidic water. I was apathetic to the whole process, I didn’t need a fucking wand to do magic, but I…
Underground Transportation

Exercise: Describe a location using only the sense of smell. (AJ insists she’ll go in and fix that prompt sometime — someday lol) Words: bus and back It was putrid. The smell of urine and garbage. The carbon monoxide from the buses filled the air with toxic smoke that made my lunch want to come…
Afterwards

Exercise: Describe an object using only the sense of sight. Words: disheveled and soft I curled up in the soft fluffy comforter of Alex’s bed. The sheets were a disheveled mess after we finished, but I didn’t care. His touch lingered on my skin even though he laid next to me soundly sleeping. His hair…
Intro is boring

Exercise: Write in Deep Third Person Words: nut and rhetoric Rider listened avidly to the Intro to Magic teacher. It was fascinating to him, but as he glanced at his peers he noticed their glazed over eyes. The sheer boredom in most of their faces was sure to etch lines as they listened to the…
First Touch

Exercise: Create Dialog between two people. Words: Referee and Spoil And just cause it’s Christmas time I’m gonna hit the Photo of the Day too as eye candy mostly we’ll see if it ends up being Christmasy or not. “That’s a foul.” Alex shouted at the referee. “I thought the point of the game was…
A Shifting Mess

Exercise: “Write in Third Person” Words: consumer and filter Isabel tromped through the hardware store looking for a heating filter. Rider’s current learning experiment was leaving goop and gore all over the woods. She wanted to examine the liquid without all the extra bits. But nothing she had at home worked. Ryan suggested an air…
A Bank

Daily Spur Writing Exercise: Describe a location with the sense of hearing. Words: Loan and Concern Being an adult sucked. Alex and I sat in a chair waiting patiently for the bank employee to finish whatever the fuck they were doing on their computer so they could then help us. We were trying to get…