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  1. TimBaril

    Save the Girl (and Get the World)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 22 - Raiders

    Dust and sand streamed off the ground and into the gormedon's mouth. If I stayed where I was, I might get sucked in too. I was terrified. My first instinct was to flee. But if I did that, the worm would simply chase me down. I wouldn't have a running start. I needed time. But even if I had time...
  2. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 24 - Dead End

    VANCE Vance was caught in a moment of indecision over whether or not he should take human lives for the first time. If the leader of this ragtag bunch had been a better fighter, maybe he would have noticed Vance's internal debate and chosen that moment to strike. But he only stood on the...
  3. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapter 25 - The Goblin Chieftain

    The Past OWD THE SURVIVOR A nameless goblin had been born to a random litter like any other. There was no record of how many littermates there'd been nor of what female had served as the mother. Green goblins weren't sentimental like that. They had no sense of family or even the concept...
  4. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 23 - Building a Community

    The next morning, the kobolds were up bright and early and ready to work. They seemed to be a very industrious group. Whatever their tragedies and losses, now that they had a place to build a new home, they were very enthusiastic about making the most of it as soon as possible. Perhaps it was an...
  5. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapter 24 - Hobs

    YAZ A hobgoblin burst forward, encouraged by cheers. He raised a woodcutter's axe overhead and aimed at Yaz's head. The hobgoblin was as tall as Yaz and much heavier. It wouldn't do to match blades with him. The relationship between force and mass meant that it would push the skeleton away...
  6. TimBaril

    Save the Girl (and Get the World)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 21 - What Lurks Beneath the Sand?

    My fingers tightened around the haft of the spear until they were white-knuckled. At the same time, I was pushing off the sand, getting my legs under me, and turning around. Above, the circular maw full of teeth plummeted and blotted out the night sky. I exploded from my position, but not away...
  7. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 22 - Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho

    Kai anxiously paced the Admin Room. He'd never been a pacer before in life, and, in fact, the idea seemed stupid, but here he was, doing it now. Or maybe it was more like a panicked storming around in random directions. He'd thought he'd been working hard to level the dungeon up. He'd thought he...
  8. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapter 23 - Crimson Eyes

    ARWIN Armed and with the guards dead, Arwin frantically tried to escape. But while the door had no lock, only a simple latch, the mechanism was out of reach to the side of the door. Only someone outside could let him out. He stabbed at the door itself, trying to work the knife into the...
  9. TimBaril

    Save the Girl (and Get the World)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 20 - Scouting the Desert

    My eyes stung, and I felt a pair of hot tears streak down my face. My emotions were a mess. Trying to fight them back, I growled at her, "I love her. I need to find her. Please, either help or let me be." Like a cat suddenly pretending it's bored, the genie's face turned blank again. She looked...
  10. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 21 - The Clock Starts Ticking

    KAI Kai was no longer alone in the Admin Room. A few paces away stood a figure, possibly a man, possibly a woman in a man's body, possibly a cosmic being that was completely without gender but whose form accidentally resembled what Kai thought of as a stuck-up male. He was mostly human in...
  11. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapter 22 - Goblin Slayer

    YAZ Night arrived, and the world plunged into darkness. Firelight reflected off the canopy of needled branches overhead and the massive, cinnamon-coloured trunks of the redwood trees that surrounded the gully. In another setting, it would be beautiful. But drums and chanting and the screech...
  12. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 20 - Should He Kill?

    Vance rode alone down the thin dirt road out of the village, the worn ground fading into a pair of wheel ruts in no time at all. Very few people came this way. The only traffic out of the tiny village would be hunters and wood gatherers, maybe teams of armed peasants or adventurer parties...
  13. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapter 21 - Yaz to the Rescue

    YAZ Despite his best and most frantic efforts, Yaz was unable to get out of the ropes that were binding him. As long minutes passed, his worry increased. When he heard the sounds of goblins attacking the nymph glade, his worry exploded into anxiousness. Yet he remained utterly helpless. The...
  14. TimBaril

    Save the Girl (and Get the World)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 19 - Me vs Genie

    For I don't know how long, my brain shut down. I could only stare at the page, the bloody ink. The message from my dead wife. Even in the dim starlight, I recognized her handwriting from grocery lists and birthday cards. She wasn't dead. She was alive in this world. That should have been...
  15. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 19 - Gearing the Minions

    Peckle eagerly added, "Yeah, man. I'm with him. I think we should just go north. There's plenty of potential trouble without getting in over our heads, you know? Triton and pirate raids from the sea. Bandits. Feral boars and giant sloths rooting up farms, dire wolves attacking sheep and...
  16. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapter 20 - Goblins

    ARWIN Foliage all around the edge of the glade suddenly rustled. Nymphly heads swivelled in all directions to see what was causing it. They frowned and looked wary. A few began to rise. Arwin was puzzled by their concern until he recalled Yaz talking about how well aware of their...
  17. TimBaril

    Save the Girl (and Get the World)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 18 - Flashback: A Wonderful Life

    FLASHBACK Late-morning sunlight playfully bounced around the tiny apartment kitchen, brightening the space and feeding the many decoratively potted plants and tilandsia growing on shelves and in corners. One red, heart-shaped mug sat on the counter next to the coffee machine while the other...
  18. TimBaril

    Dungeon Master: It's a Magical World
    Threadmarks: Chapter 18 - The Arch Nemesis Appears

    Vance Young, handsome, and rich, Vance Rondel was of the very wealthy Rondel family of merchants, who made their money shipping to the old world back overseas. He sat in comfort at a table in the mid-scale Black Bull Restaurant, dining on steak and eggs for lunch, with a large helping of...
  19. TimBaril

    Dude! Where's My Princess?
    Threadmarks: Chapater 19 - All Tied Up

    YAZ Meandering away from the glade, Yaz explored the local forest, looking for a quiet place to lie down and nap. Being undead, he didn't really need sleep and often went without it, but for some reason, it still refreshed him when he chose to indulge. Perhaps it was some kind of emotional...
  20. TimBaril

    Save the Girl (and Get the World)
    Threadmarks: Chapter 17 - Midpoint Twist

    I waited for [Do the Unlikely] to do…anything. And waited. I looked around. I didn't sense a skill being activated or mana being drained. "Nothing's happening." Maybe using the skill was situational. I sighed, resigned to experimenting later, and leaned back on my hands. My palm landed on a...
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