By ‘married’, Bethel apparently meant ‘I am going to irrevocably swallow him and our essential natures will merge’. There were a few equivalents across Aerb, species that would merge with each other and lose individual identity as part of pair-bonding, or who would take on parts of each other as part of the process, but […]
Worth the Candle, Ch 127: Full House
Gemma took the Egress, which apparently belonged to Pallida, but before she did, we took a few crates full of stuff out of it. “These are good times for renacim. We weathered the storm of the Second Empire far better than most,” she said as I helped her haul the crates up the hill to […]
Worth the Candle, Ch 126: Ever Onward
“I don’t really understand the distinction,” said Tiff. “The DM controls all of the characters.” “DMPC is Dungeon Master Player Character ,” said Arthur, putting emphasis on the last two words. “It’s true that the DM controls all the characters, but the DMPC occupies a role as a player character in a way that NPCs […]
Worth the Candle, Ch 125: The Remnants of the Past
Pallida showed up with Heshnel and Gemma right around dawn, the earliest that they could have come and still claimed to have waited a day like we’d wanted them to. Their metallic bean-ship came down in a field half a mile from Bethel, and I walked down the path a bit to go say hello. […]
Worth the Candle, Ch 124: Fight Club
“I wanted to talk about,” I began, before Amaryllis raised a hand. “Ten minutes,” she said. She’d led me to the room we’d been using as a time chamber, and had a brief conversation with Bethel along the way. Bethel understood the purpose of us going off together like this was so we could get […]
Worth the Candle, Ch 123: Medieval Stasis
“So what, precisely, will happen if we start shipping out televisions?” asked Amaryllis. She was pissed off, for a number of reasons. She was pissed off at Bethel, naturally, for both the foul play and the break in communication, especially against someone who was probably an ally. She was pissed off at me, for taking […]