Saturday Snippets: April 2023
With April in the rearview mirror, let’s look back at the month’s Saturday Snippets!
Tag: Humour
Dragon Slayers’ Guild: Hand of Fate, Book One
A dark elf ninja badass, silver-tongued human thief, and reluctant gnome mage take on the establishment… And a dragon.
Selene is a Sun Shadow, a dark elf of the desert tribes, exiled from her home to seek enlightenment. Her first step down that path: impart her own brand of justice on those deserving with swift fists and silent blades.
Solomon cares only for the money in his pocket and the girl on his arm. And he’d happily steal both from you when you’re not looking. A man with no friends, however, has no one to watch his back for plunging daggers.
Abbey is the new gnome in town with a clockwork familiar on one shoulder and a big chip on the other. She’s an intuitive sorcerer, talented artificer, and meticulous detective. But why should she save a city that looks down on her?
The city guard are under siege by a mysterious force they call a dragon. Meanwhile, the underworld is dangerously united to find a lost relic by any means necessary. And trapped in the middle? Three strangers who want nothing to do with any of them, or each other.
But when their entangled fates threaten to strangle them all, these outsiders have but two options: band together or die alone.
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It’s All About the Iterations, Baby: Till Death Do Us Party Draft 4.2 is Complete
After two and a half months and the passing of a furry family member, I’ve completed two more iterations of Till Death Do Us Party.
Saturday Snippets: March 2023
With March done, it’s time for our monthly look at some Saturday Snippets!
Proxima Bound
Humanity’s last hope rests with the colonists aboard the generational starship Attenborough. Bound for Proxima Centauri, a thousand years away. Catastrophe strikes when a reactor meltdown cuts off those in the ship’s front from the rear. Two factions must now struggle to survive.
With four hundred years still to travel, we join a plucky teenager, “Thief”. She’s found a way through the ventilation system, around the radioactive core of the ship and into the front sections. Thief brings back vital components that might help the rear-dwellers connect the ship’s computer. For the first time in hundreds of years, there is hope.
But people are disappearing without a trace, and the makeshift hospital is overflowing with cases of a new virus.
It’s up to Thief to embark on her toughest mission yet. To crawl through the bowels of the ship, the furthest she’s ever been, and find some answers, before there’s no-one left alive.
What she finds at the front of the ship, however, is terrifying.
Ravenous
The people are oppressed. The King is corrupt. A rebellion has ended in murder and mayhem. But never mind all that because everybody loves a royal wedding!
Evil Prince Erik has discovered the bride he needs to secure his grip on the throne. But the idea doesn’t grip his betrothed, peasant girl Jenny. Already in the shit, she doubles down with an escape through the castle’s sewers. Her trusty raven, Croak, is never far behind, ready to peck the eyes out of anyone harming his mistress. Unless they have shiny things.
Meanwhile, in Rosie’s Tavern, Leo the Licker indulges his voracious appetite for stew, ale, and lady parts. The men of the village discover who’s been pleasuring their wives, and all hell breaks loose. Enter Jenny, with Erik’s soldiers hot on her tail, under orders to bring her hot tail back to the castle. The unlikely couple find themselves flung together and on the run. Or in fat Leo’s case, on the fast walk.
Can Jenny ever escape the horny Prince? Will Leo stop eating and drinking long enough to help? And is there romance in the air, or is that just Leo’s dodgy tummy?
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