KnightofTempest

Images for Chapter 1

Here we have the images for Chapter 1, including the Sewers, the Temple of Valkur, and the various Bullywugs and Simeon.

Where possible, I have added levels to the captions, just to show you guys how tough an encounter that was. For reference, there were two of those Door Guards and fifteen of the Grunts, Combined with Simeon, the Priest, and the Chief, along with the two Dire Wharf Rats and all the traps? That's a total of three-thousand-seven-hundred-sixty-seven XP just from Combat an...

A Note on the Shinobi Forces In This World

So, the Ranking Systems and the Shinobi Forces of most of the Hidden Villages are generally structured in the same, though there are two major exceptions that cause the Villages to differ, and those are the difference between Major Villages and Minor Villages and the difference between Vassal Villages and Independent Villages.

In general, the Hidden Villages have Shinobi Programs that use an Academy, Have at least an Intelligence Department, Combat Ninja Department, Administrative Depar...

Chapter 19

Halloween dawned with shenanigans. Peeves was super-active today, something about the holiday riling him up something fierce. I skipped breakfast entirely to avoid him, as I'd had a vision whilst getting ready that he was divebombing people going to and from the great hall with buckets of orange and black paint. Indeed, as I made my way to Magnus Gamp's training, I passed by a number of groups of kids that still sported hints of orange and black on their robes. One kid had even been wrapped u...

Interlude: The Riverlands

It had begun with raids. Ser Amory Lorch had ravaged the Riverlands for a month leading up to the actual breakout of hostilities. He had largely led the Mountain's merry band of Cutthtoats and Brigands, while picking up a few of the less reputable sellswords and smaller outlaw bands, promising gold, pardons, and holdfasts to those who followed him into the Riverlands. In doing so, he'd amassed a sizable force of five thousand, who even now were being called the Blaggard's Army.

Of cours...

Chapter 1

Grimnir, it turned out, was a large, blonde, bearded mountain of a Northman from Greystaad in the Kingdom of Norheim, one of the many, many Kingdoms that made up the Moonshae Isles and one of the Northlander Kingdoms that refused to pay homage to the Ffolk High King in Caer Callidyrr. You might think that would make him surly and standoffish, especially given how the majority of the population of Caer Jannath, including the ruling Cadfael Family, were descendants of Ffolk who had fled the Moo...

The Initial Party Plus Caer Jannath and Jannath Castle

Yes, I know boo AI. It's the only way I have to put up images that isn't stealing from smaller artists though. I'm using it because of that.

Grimnir of Greystaad Character Sheet

Class: Fighter 2

Race: Human (Northman)

STR-16

DEX-14

CON-18

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-12

HP: 26

Fortitude: 7

Reflex: 4

Will: 5

AC: 17

Equipment:

Battleaxe (Equipped): +5 1d8 +4 Slashing

Throwing Axe (Equipped) +3 1d6 + 4 Slashing

Chainmail Shirt (Equipped)

Light Wooden Shield (Equipped)

Sturdy Northern Outfit and Boots (Equipped)

Feats:

Lightning Reflexe...

Janessa Goodharbor Character Sheet

Class: Sorcerer 1

Race: Halfling (Lightfoot)

STR-12

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-14

WIS-16

CHA-18

HP: 7

Fortitude: 4

Reflex: 5

Will: 4 (+6 vs Fear)

AC: 14

Equipment:

Sling (Equipped): +6 1d8 +5 Bludgeoning

Dagger (Equipped): +1 1d4 +1

Colorful Explorer's Outfit, Boots, and Hat (Equipped)

Sling Stones x40 (Equipped)

Pouch of Spell Components (Equipped)

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Robar the Red Character Sheet

Class: Bard 1/ Swashbuckler Rogue 1

STR-18

DEX-18

CON-16

INT-16

WIS-14

CHA-18

HP: 22

Fortitude: 5

Reflex: 7

Will: 4

AC: 17

CMD: 18

CMB: +4

Equipment:

Longsword (Equipped): +4 (5 on Attack of Opportunity) 1d8 +4 (+1d6 Sneak Attack) Slashing

Acoustic Guitar (Equipped)

Thieves Tools (Equipped)

Studded Leather Armor (Equipped)

Traveller's Cloak, Boots, and Outfit (Equipp...

Chapter 6

I didn't start with court right away, mind you. The Functionaries were only there as a welcoming committee. Actual court began the next day, after I had showered, eaten, and slept. It was considerate of the various minor Goa'uld who otherwise would no doubt demand I start solving problems so their workload could be lightened, signifying that my own minions were not quite as cruel or inconsiderate as the majority. That was likely why they had survived Lord Yu's purge. The less mustache-twirlin...

Prologue

I found myself in a smoky den. Beings of all sorts drank and smoked and caroused around me. In one corner, what looked like an Elven Warrior in a Sky Blue Cloak sat drinking wine out of a crystal goblet. At another table, a Halfling in a Green and Yellow Tunic with a Cornucopia Emblazoned on it sat near a Gnome smoking a pipe with a grand mustache and striped pantaloons. A leather-armored Dwarf was sitting at a bar counter as a gold bracer-clad arm lifted a Tankard of some kind of ale to lips...

Chapter 46

Our return from Apollo was less eventful than our arrival by far. For one thing, the Hasta wasn't suddenly swarmed by fighters on arrival, as everyone was expecting the arrival of the Mako-class Corvette. For another, there was only the usual traffic to and from New Ålborg rather than a bunch of dignitaries and nobles having their JumpShips crowding around the Planet.

Mind you, once we landed, I was immediately shanghaied by Minister Kowalski to discuss foreign affairs. I...

Interlude: Battle of the Sikyon Plains

Sparta had been on the march, defeating an Achaean Army near Argos in a crushing battle that forced the Achaean League on the defensive before seizing Argos by subterfuge. King Archidamus of Sparta having embedded agents in the city in the form of troops pretending to be stragglers from the army that had been defeated in battle. Those troops were allowed into the city a mere day before the Spartan Army arrived to lay siege. They then opened the gates of Argos in the night, allowing Archidamus...

Chapter 36

As I registered that I was in for another one of those conversations with the Jheri-Curled Asshole, I let out a sigh. The Beyonder gave me a smirk at that, which honestly felt like he was enjoying this a little too much. That was par for the course for the Omnipotent Disphsit, though. At least, it was par for the course for my interactions with him.

"So. You and She-Hulk. You know she's not going to be a long-term thing, right?" Prodded the Beyonder.

"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up, Assh...

Chapter 76

In my unconscious state, I dreamed troubled dreams. I was inside a monastery that was currently on fire, with a number of dead monks who had been mutilated. Moving through the Monastery, I came upon a scene in a large courtyard. A number of cloaked, robed, Shinobi stood near a massive pillar of oily black stone. I recognized only some of them, Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame were recognizable, as were Sasori of the Red Sands and Deidara. The others I had no clue about.

One of them, t...

Chapter 21

With the fighting now effectively over, it was time to reorganize the Waegu Archipelago into a proper territory. This was something that Bikki wouldn't be too involved in, outside of structuring the military forces of the protectorate. Indeed, he would wind up finishing this brief war with the rank of Colonel and structuring the forces of the Waegu Protectorate along the same lines as the Liason Troops he had commanded during the war.

The Waegu Protectorate could contribute nine thousa...

Chapter 13

Aoife charged forward, screaming like some kinda banshee, which Jackie guessed she kinda was. The sonic scream echoed across the street, throwing up all kindsa debris as it thundered at Jackie. Jackie dodged behind a statue of Herakles, taking cover behind the God of Strength. The sonic scream smashed Herakles' statue, causing cracks to spiderweb through the marble and causing a buncha rock shards to fly off it. Jackie darted around the statue using the Quicksilver Stepping Method to move fas...

Interlude: The Battle of Storms End

Stannis Baratheon had come ashore at Orangeport, a smaller port in the Lands of House Bolling just north of Shipbreaker Bay. One of the few ports in the Stormlands capable of taking large vessels and one of four that were currently under Stannis' Control, it was the closest port to Storm's End with the fastest route to his prize that Stannis could see. It took him only a single day to march down the dirt road from Orangeport to Storm's End with his forces and one other day to dig in around th...

Chapter 5

As the Xiaotian Quan and Opele made their way through Hyperspace to my new Domain of Taiji, I made myself busy first by supervising the modifications of the Opele via Vo'cume Projector, my hologram's supervision allowing the Jaffa there to make my modifications without any complications. That didn't take much time, however, and Goa'uld Hyperdrive technology was fairly slow, all things considered, which gave me an excuse to look up my new Domain and the status o...

Chapter 18

As October continued, I more or less kept going with my training, classes, and social interactions. In the case of classes, most of what I was learning from Magnus Gamp was lecture-based. Lectures on Yetis, Gnomes, Cornish Pixies, and Banshees during Defense while I learned about the properties of Rat Tails, Bat Spleens, Salamander Blood, and Griffin Claws in Potions. Practical Work was primarily in charms, though I also learned how to make the Swelling Solution and Burn Heal Salve in Potions...

Chapter 45

As I took a seat at one of the few tables scattered around the Mirror Room, I took a long sip from my Champagne Flute. I had to play this correctly because there was a fine line between giving licenses for technology that would help the LCAF and giving away my entire market share of high-tech equipment. I'd already figured out more or less what I could afford to part with in terms of licenses, but there would be the chance that Duchess Killa pressed for more.

"So, let's start with Duke ...

Chapter 35

As the Hood flung another blast of Hellfire at me, I dodged away, putting up a mystic shield to block the electric bolt the Hood flung my way mid-dodge. An Amber Spear formed in my hands and I flung it at the Hood overhand. The Hood's eyes widened as he leaped up into the air, dodging the spear by mere inches via climbing up into the air like going up stairs. The Amber Spear slammed into the exterior concrete wall, boring through it before bursting apart in the alleyway in an explosion of Ghu...

Chapter 78

South Town International Airport was busy, as it usually was. With so many people from so many different countries, all living and working in a single town, that was bound to be the case. South Town did, after all, have large communities from East Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America, with a smaller, but still notable, European Community. Accordingly, lots of airlines from foreign countries ran service to and from South Town. It might actually be one of the very few Airports in the United S...

Chapter 75

We'd just finished patching up what wounded we could and I'd downed one of two thermoses of Bala Matcha I still had in order to refill my Chakra Tank some since taking two soldier pills in one day would put me in the hospital for the next few days. The ball Matcha didn't heal any wounds, but it did refill my chakra to roughly a third of my full reserves and I'd only suffer a little bit from the mix of medicines between this and the soldier pill. That had finished up when the rumbling started....

Announcement: Slight Pause

I have IRL things involving my family until Sunday, so there will be a slight pause in updates until then. I might get a chapter or two out in the early morning hours between things, but that's only a maybe.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Interlude: Battle of Duskendale II

Brienne found herself in a sewer alongside Ser Barristan the Bold and a party of eight other men. Apparently, the sewers were one of the entry points that had been considered by Ser Barristan during the Defiance and discarded. That wasn't out of any consideration of feasibility, mind you, but out of expediency. Tywin Lannister had given him a time limit for rescuing Aerys via the ultimatum he'd given Lord Darklyn, after all. Were Ser Barristan forced to fight his way out of Duskendale in a ch...

Chapter 4

As the negotiations continued, it soon became apparent that agreeing that Olokun would stop attacking Longinus was the easy part. His fleet was in no shape to do so, after all, and after three defeats, he realized that trying to do so again wasn't going to go the way he wanted either. No, the difficult part was what came after. Lord Yu was pressing for concessions for the return of Orunmila. Olokun agreed in principle, but not to the specifics.

Lord Yu was pressing for the worlds of Ti...

Chapter 17

The next day had me focusing on saving Harry and Ron at least in my spare time, as I still had lessons with Magnus Gamp. During this class, he continued to drill me in Combat Magic and the Lecture portion of Second Year Defense via a pair of lectures on Trolls and Werewolves. I still was no closer to defeating him or even getting a draw on him, but I was inching closer and closer. I could already defeat all of my year mates in one-on-one duels, but I had no clue how I'd fair against a group. ...

Chapter 44

I handed Katrina her drink as she entered the ballroom. She took it with a grateful nod and immediately downed the entire flute of champagne in a single gulp. That caused me to cock an eyebrow at her questioningly, to which I only got a small shake of her head in response. That wasn't great, Katrina must have taken more of a bath in her negotiations than I'd anticipated. She only acted like this when things didn't go her way in a major regard.

"Want to talk about it?" I questioned.

Chapter 34

The Silver Lotus had a relatively bland interior for the best Chinese Food Place in the whole city. Tan walls lined with red paint, ordinary restaurant booths, and a few fake plants. About the only interesting bits of decor were the red paper lanterns that hung down at various points around the dining area, and those weren't even lit. Instead, light came from the buzzing of fluorescent lights in the ceiling. For a place visited by the Immortal Iron Fist, I was hoping for someplace that looked...