Captian's Log How to Return? 16 Jul 202413 Jul 2024 I searched through the night, through a lonely night, and never found new day. Deep into this necropolis I have fallen. What prodigy, what an awful world. The dead inhabit…
Captian's Log Pan’s Pipping Panic 15 Jul 202413 Jul 2024 The faun danced upon the stump, a strange shadow in the firelight. How he smiled, his grin, too big, his pipe, shrill and piercing, his cloven hooves stomping out a…
Captian's Log Miles to Go 12 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 The sewer waited, the porthole yawning like some black mouth ready to swallow me alive. Crossing myself, I squatted down and sent my legs over the hole's lip to find…
Captian's Log Through 11 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 And through the mist, the rain falling like waves upon the thickset canopy—that partial umbrella keeps some of the storm off as I climb—I see the end of my journey.…
Captian's Log Deadly Morning Dew 9 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 Morning was in the air, the waiting flavor of daylight, when the fog rolled in from the sea. It climbed up the beach with the deft silence of a burglar,…
Captian's Log Crystalman’s Mask 8 Jul 20246 Jul 2024 We stand in silent wonder, dreaming dreams we can't forget, all while the dragon passes o're dressed in grey and clouded mist. I think I am myself tonight, and so…
Captian's Log Quarry 5 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 I walked down the slope of an old quarry. It has long been abandoned, and the hole left, the shear cliff faces, the gradual pitch downward, and the silence of…
Captian's Log When Winter Ends 2 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 We filed through the snow, the winter air making each of us our own steam engine, our breaths rising in little, fading clouds over our heads. A train with only…
Captian's Log Re: Crescent Lake 1 Jul 202429 Jun 2024 Dear Inquirer, There are chapters in one's life best edited out of a public biography, or at least greatly abridged. My time, my dark period, as you are calling it,…
Captian's Log A Digression | Notes on the Differing Types of Undeath 30 Jun 202429 Jun 2024 There seem to me to be different types of undeath. In the basic conceit, undeath is best described by Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: Neither living nor dead. We…
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