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ARWIN
Arwin cautiously made his way out into the dungeon corridor. The beautiful witch strode down the spooky, dark hall, taking the globe of firelight with her. There was just enough illumination to see thousands of gleaming eyes lining the stone walls of the dungeon all around him. Fear...
Kai clapped his head and screamed, "Nooo!" He fell to his knees. Kicked from his own dungeon. It was…almost too much to grasp. How could he have let this happen?
Thump. The liar hadn't run off to confront the invaders; he'd somehow run to the Admin Room to boot Kai. But how had he gotten into...
Threadmarks: Chapter 35 - How to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon
ARWIN
Excited, he pushed out with his foot. Yes, the stone could move. But not downward. It would have to be pulled up. But how? He had nothing to dig with, no tools. What he needed was some kind of cartoon toilet plunger that he could stick onto the stone and pull up with. At least, he...
Kai
Kai jogged forward and tried to get around Thump, but Thump simply stepped in his way, using his bulk to block the archway between rooms. Kai tried to smile up at the large hobgoblin. "Hey. Sorry, just need to squeeze past." He tried to do just that.
But Thump wouldn't budge. "Where are...
ARWIN
Giant spiders pinned Arwin and Yaz in sitting positions up against the walls of separate dungeon cells. Then the arachnids webbed the prisoners' wrists to the cold, dark stone of the dank walls while a small host of black gremlins gleefully danced around. The devilish little monsters...
Vance
Vance, Feckle, and Peckle tromped through the forest…quietly. Nervously, one might say. On tiptoes and with a rather twitchy disposition, one might think.
Something snapped in the distance.
Vance's head whipped around, his eyes wild. He hissed, "Monster check!"
Feckle and Peckle...
ARWIN
Arwin felt trapped, and not just by his spidery chains. Did he really want to get into this kind of flirting talk with her? "Um..."
"Silly question. Of course, you do." She slid close. Her hand wrapped around the back of his head and she pulled herself up until their faces nearly...
At first, it was the thought of seeing Cerise again that had me too excited to fall asleep. But that didn't last long. I'd killed people. And I felt sick about it. Sure, I was also conflicted. They were not good people. And I hadn't meant to kill them. I still didn't understand these new powers...
As his eyes focused on an invisible screen in front of him, Thump made a satisfied nod. "Perfect." He pressed a button in the air, accepting the role of Manager. Tentatively, he pressed a hand to where the barrier across the doorway had been but encountered nothing. Smug, he stepped into the...
Threadmarks: Chapter 32 - Spiders Under the Moonlight
ARWIN
Arwin woke with his body tingling from poison and his head filled with the excruciating pounding of his pulse. His head felt like it was going to split apart at any moment. His leg, where the spider had bitten him, felt like it was stuck in a fire pit while also being eaten alive by...
Kai returned to the Admin Room alone to add the goblins to the dungeon roster. He was tremendously excited by the addition. He could have taken the secret exit on that floor, but instinctively went up the public stairs without thinking why. On the way up the stairs, he passed the two goblins...
Threadmarks: Chapter 31 - We're off to see the Dark Enchantress... (End of Book 1)
ARWIN
Arwin and Yaz camped that night in the now otherwise unoccupied nymph tree circle. It was just the two of them now. The nymphs were gone, vanished into the wilderness. The locals had allegedly been alerted to the goblin threat. They had a night's respite, and it was time to choose...
Relaxing, Thump looked around. "How about a tour? I'm really excited to see this place." With his confidence and quick adjustment to the situation, he exuded natural charisma.
Since Kai had a good feeling about the impressive goblin, he was excited to oblige. After all, their little dungeon was...
ARWIN
The meeting spot was a perfect, and likely unnatural, ring of trees growing so closely together that they formed a fence with openings too narrow for a body to go through. The outside of the ring was ringed with berry-filled shrubbery. At the nymph's command, giant tree roots...
Without slowing down, Kai chucked the baby like he was two-hand throwing a soccer ball into play from the sidelines, straight up into the owl bear's chest. "Catch!"
The owl bear jerked backward, blinking fast. It instinctively reached out to catch the flying baby, which gave out a startled...
YAZ
A flicker of motion at the edge of his vision. Yaz instinctively ducked and rolled away before he could pursue his foe to end the life of the dreaded goblin chieftain.
Blood splattered one side of his body.
He looked overhead. A long shaft of twisted black wood pierced the air where...
"I… Ok, sure. Where is this place? Is Cerise still there? Can you take me?"
He grew uncertain. "I'm sorry. I do not know if she is still there." He hesitated. "I owe you a great debt for saving my life, sir. But…" He wrung his clawed hands. "Please do not make me go back there. For the crime of...
Threadmarks: Chapter 27 - Peek-a-boo, You're so Cute!
KAI
Kai was excited! He was enlivened, exuberant, adrenalized, and, would you believe it, downright pumped. To be anything more, he'd need a thesaurus. He gushed out loud, "I can't believe it. We actually made contact with people, and they were willing to talk to us. In fact, they're willing...
Threadmarks: Chapter 28 - Undead Knight vs Goblin Chieftain
YAZ
Yaz absentmindedly twirled the knife in his bony fingers, his eye sockets roundly focused on the goblin chieftain.
The curved steel of the chieftain's weapon began wafting glowing orange vapours. Without warning, the chieftain went from an easy, standing position to lunging forward with...
The camoose, probably already very tired, couldn't turn that sharply. A leg came down wrong and snapped. The camoose plunged into the sand. Rider, chained passenger, and animal went down in a tumble.
That's all I saw because I was racing past, trying to slam on the brakes in loose sand as I...