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IS: Images For Chapter Seventy-Three

Here we have the last batch of Images for Part One. Some of these turned out better than others. Morgan Hasek-Davion, for instance, is supposed to have a lighter shade of red for hair than this, almost orangish. Unfortunately, I am at the whim of the AI Generators, since I can't draw for shit, even digitally.

At any rate, this is the last bit for this part. The next part will open with a Summary of the intervening time between the end of Part One and the Opening of Part Two. It will als...

BBG: Images for Chapter Thirty-Nine

All right, here we have the Images for the last chapter, starting with the most important, Jaheira and Khalid. Honestly, Jaheira turned out a little more weathered than I wanted, and Khalid was a bit less clean-shaven, but I think they all worked out all right, especially given how the AI Art Generators tend to work.

At any rate, the next chapter will include the fight to aid Mei the Bhaalspawn and Imoen against the small warband of Hobgoblins, along with Robar's first meeting with both...

BBG: Chapter 39

Jaheira and Khalid were seated at a table between the bar and a trio of tables where people were dicing. The dicing drew my attention, as the games were being held by a Shou Man, a Kozakuran Man, and a Laothanese Man from Kara-Tur and Northeastern Malatra. The Shou man had three, six-sided dice and a bowl and was playing a game that I knew as Cee-Lo, while the Kozakuran had a pewter cup, two dice, and was playing a game I knew as Cho-Han. The last man, the Laothanese Man, was playing a game w...

F&L: Chapter 59

My first meeting with Magnus Gamp for the year was grueling. He put his all into making sure my dueling was up to snuff. I spent the first two hours of my training session getting kicked around the Hogwarts Training Grounds over and over again. Nothing I managed even approached winning me a single bout. Even some of my newer or go-to spells and abilities couldn't help me. Magnus Gamp seemed to have a counter for everything I tried. Various tactics were countered with practiced strategies and ...

OG: Images for Chapter Forty-One

Here we have the Images for the Last Chapter. Most of these turned out great, though I'm not super keen on some of the details. However, that's about as good as I can get them for now. For some reason, Warhammer Style Stuff just isn't something the AI Image Generators like doing. It is what it is, though.

At any rate, the next chapter will include the actual battle of the Alynda Turnip Field. We'll also finally get the lowdown on what exactly went down at Vimera. It wasn't a pretty sigh...

OG: MC Character Sheet as of Chapter Forty-One

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OG: Chapter 41

For two weeks, I did the best I could here at Alynda. Militarily, I spent time largely training my forces, augmenting them with Alchemy, and generally helping them get used to their new, upgraded equipment. Thankfully, between memory potions, my own personal abilities as a teacher, and the cadre system I had set up, I was looking to hit my targets for minimum standards earlier than expected. Which was good, because everything I had heard about how the war was going was not painting a great pi...

RM: Interlude: The Battle of the Wall Part One

Jon Snow growled low in his throat as he cut into the torso of a Hide-Armored Wilding as he mounted the wall, cutting the man open from shoulder to hip. The Wildling Warrior fell back off the top of the wall with a strangled scream, not quite bisected, but close enough as to make no difference. Nearby, Renly did the same to a Hornfoot in some sort of Wicker Armor with a leather shield, while Pyp parried a club strike from a Frozen Shore Wildling in Wooden Armor on his right-hand fighting blad...

BES: Chapter 12

As the meeting began, it swiftly became clear that there was no consensus on how to proceed with the actual invasion. Various different sub-commanders from the different parts of the Empire all had different priorities and orders from their Khans, some of which were even counterintuitive to the main goal of the War, which was to force Goryeo into compliance through strength of arms. This wasn't helped by the various Khans subordinate to the Great Khan all having different priorities and polit...

OG: Images for Chapter Forty

Here we have the Images for the last Chapter. Most of these are good, though I had a devil of a time getting something close to what I wanted with Elder Antonio. It was either a blacksmith's apron and no rings, or rings and no blacksmith's apron for some reason. The AI Generator wouldn't do both. I finally figured I would just take the one that was closest.

At any rate, the next chapter will include the meeting with the MC, Piers Van Rijn, and Anita De Roelef, involving getting more cle...

BES: Chapter 11

Over the course of the next three days, I took my Minghan to join Uriyangkidai and the other commanders as we ventured out of Zhending City at the head of the Army, heading northeast for Goryeo. I had inspected my own troops the previous night before we left and had found my single Minghan of One-Thousand Troops to have been largely drawn from Yan Orda. Six hundred were a mix of Jurchens, Manchus, and Mongols from Liaoning, while the rest were a mix of Han Chinese Infantry and Korean Archers ...

BES: Chapter 10

For the next four months, my lessons in strategy were tripled while my lessons in martial arts remained the same. This effectively meant that I had three days of Martial Arts Training, three Days of Strategy Training, and one day of free time. I chose to spend my free day learning how to sail on junks in the Baiyang Lake, which was only a few hours' ride east of Zhending City and the Palace of my father. In my old life, I had learned how to sail on modern rigged sloops and could even handle s...

BES: Chapter 9

The next two years passed by in a blur of training, only seldomly interspersed with moments of note and small breaks to rest. My instructors drilled me hard, the showing against Gongsun Ping having proven to my father, instructors, and the Great Khan, just what I could achieve when pushed hard enough. It helped that my adult memories and skills could help me cope, and future knowledge played a part more than once, but I ultimately was being pushed even harder than Dorji, the ostensible heir.<...

BES: Chapter 8

Immediately, Ping jabbed at me with the spear point of his ji, trying to get me to give ground and keep me at range. I parried the spear point with my dao only for Ping to twist his ji and catch my dao between the spear point and the crescent blade of his ji. He immediately twirled his ji in an arc while pivoting, trying to wrench my dao out of my grip and disarm me. Instead, I leaped forward, moving with the motion. Ping tried the same thing again, but when I leaped forward again, he disenga...

BES: Chapter 7

For the next week, I was drilled hard by Leung Shun in the Martial Arts of the Shaolin Temple. With my other classes canceled in order to get me up to snuff for the duel, Leung Shun was able to really focus his efforts on ensuring my survival. Conditioning, Hung Gar, and a new addition, Shaolin Dan Dao, were all trained, though some were trained for far less time than others, and some were altered in the new emergency curriculum

Conditioning the body to take hits was not the focus of th...

BES: Chapter 6

For another five weeks, my training continued apace while whispers and rumors developed in the background. The Gongsun Clan seemed to feel that my confrontation with their family members in public constituted a snub, even though I let Gongsun Chang and Gongsun Mei leave that interaction with a face-saving excuse. They had turned to backbiting and whispers to stir up the court against me and my family in lieu of doing anything substantial. I even met with Gongsun Ping, the heir to the Gongsun ...

BES: Chapter 5

I woke bright and early for lessons with my brother Dorji under the tutelage of the Hokkien Shipwright Liau Yong Cho. I dressed lightly for the occasion, as I was led to believe we would be taking lessons in his workshop, which had a forge in it, among other things. I wore blue cotton trousers, a yellow sash, and a blue vest with white and yellow highlights, forgoing the heavy terlig in case the heat was too sweltering. I also grabbed my rudimentary sketches for the Hwacha and tucked the pape...

BES: Chapter 4

Dorgon Donggo was a man of few, if any, words. He was more fond of actions, though his laconic manner of speech probably wasn't helped by his limited Mongolian. Instead of fluency in Mongolian, he spoke it with halting, accented words, though he was fluent in Manchu and Jurchen instead to make up for such things. I was fluent in Jurchen, but not Manchu, and would have to learn that as well as a bevy of other languages if I were to effectively command, including Khwarezmian, Korean, Turkic, Ha...

BES: Chapter 3

Uriyangkadai was a stern man of a similar age to my Uncle Mongke. He met me for lessons in one of the courtyards. The son of my Great-Grandfather's most famed and renowned general, the Strategist Subodai, I had known Uriyangkadai since I was little. He was a perennial fixture at court and was something of a favored Uncle to me. He and Dorji didn't get on so well, given Dorji's insistence on assimilating into the Han at every opportunity, but he always had time for both of us. I liked to think...

BES: Chapter 2

The next morning, I headed to my first lesson of this new curriculum meant to prepare me for life as a son of Kublai Khan. Leung Shun was waiting for me in a training hall that had been built for the purposes of training the family of Tolui in martial arts. It had not been used since the palace finished construction in twelve-thirty-seven, as even the youngest of my uncles was a man grown by the time it had finished, and the campaigns in Europe, Anatolia, Syria, Tibet, and elsewhere had kept ...

BES: Chapter 1

My childhood was short compared to what I was used to. My father, Kublai Khan, had taken one look at me and proclaimed that Tengri must have had a plan in mind for me. Not only were twins considered lucky, but my rare blue eyes were considered another omen on top of that. Accordingly, he ensured that both Dorji and I would begin training for our potential futures right away. We had until our seventh birthdays to be children, then the flood of tutors began.

At first, it wasn't anything t...

BES: Prologue

A bar fight had broken out at a bar I had been drinking in on my way back home from Indianapolis. I had been drinking at a dive bar just off Interstate Sixty-Five just north of Lafayette, Indiana when a group of rowdy bikers had come in and proceeded to annoy the everloving shit out of all the patrons. It had only taken one local farmer to get fed up and throw a punch for all Hell to break loose and a massive melee to ensue. Fortunately, nobody had pulled a gun yet or anything, but it was sti...

BBG: Robar the Red Level Four (New)

Class: Bard 2/ Swashbuckler Rogue 2

Race: Human (Northman)

Alignment: Neutral Good

STR-18

DEX-18

CON-18 (16)

INT-16

WIS-15

CHA-18

HP: 48

Fortitude: 5 (+9 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Reflex: 9 (+13 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

Will: 5 (+9 vs Bardic Performance, Sonic, and Language Dependent Effects)

BAB: +2

AC: 22

CMD: 19

CMB: +5

BBG: Images For Chapter Thirty-Eight

Here we have the Images for Chapter Thirty-Eight. Apologies that these are so late, but I still have two more days remaining on my trip to Ireland and Scotland, and so I can't write as much as I normally do. I'm mostly pleased with how these turned out, though. Tazok isn't ugly, but it's hard to get the AI Generators to do Ogres properly, but that's about it.

At any rate, the next chapter will involve Robar meeting up with Jaheira and Khalid at the Friendly Arms Inn. I'll also have a ch...

OG: MC Character Sheet as of Chapter Forty

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OG: Chapter 40

The rest of the week passed by in a flurry of creation and design work with asides for military drill and administration. Most of what I did on the creation and design work was a combination of Alchemy, cranking out vivifiers and other alchemical drugs that were mixed in with my Guards' Food Rations, effectively putting them on a regimen that enhanced them to a peak human level, and gunsmithing, designing and creating a twelve-pounder gun similar to the Napoleon Cannon of the American Civil W...

IS: Chapter 73

Katrina and I started off our reception not with food or a dance or any of the things that normal citizens did at their weddings. We weren't in a position that normal citizens were, after all. Instead, we started the reception off by doing the rounds, greeting various diplomats and generally trying to talk as much shop as we could at a public event while we had everyone here in one place. Of course, my footsteps took me right to the three power-brokers of the Rimward Federative Council. Presi...

F&L: Images For Chapter Fifty-Eight

Here we have the Images for Chapter Fifty-Eight. Once again, apologies for these being late. I'm still on my ten-day trip to Ireland and Scotland, and so have to put out updates when I can. I still have five days of this left, then I should be more or less back to my regular schedule. Thankfully, the only image the generators had problems with was the Thestral. Everything else worked perfectly.

At any rate, the next chapter will include the return of Magnus Gamp and the lowdown on what ...

OG: MC Character Sheet as of Chapter Thirty-Nine

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OG: Images For Chapter Thirty-Nine

Here we have the images for the last chapter. Sorry it took a couple days. I'm still in Ireland and Scotland for five more days, so it will take a bit for me to get things out still. I'm happy with how these ones turned out, though, especially the Throne and Streltsy Revolving Autorifle. Both are more or less exactly how I imagined them.

At any rate, the next chapter will be the meeting with the Strigany Elders of Clan Solomance. I'll also have a character sheet update out before then a...