Recent content by Maxi Ardune

Maxi blinked. Oh. He hadn't considered that, that Ashara might have just been acting alone and, maybe, had made a mistake, leaving the amulet by accident in the room they had purchased yesterday night. Or maybe she dropped it? That would be awful. He had just assumed that someone else was...

Ah, yes, I did. Maxi's brows lifted, the bundle of snacks now in his hand paused. A somewhat muted response, but there. You see, when I saw the innkeeper... Maxi's expression relaxed in its meager amount of apprehensive tension and he accepted the piece of honeycomb from her and popped it...

Maxi slowly came to drag himself up from the prone mess that he had been and to sit on the edge of the bed—and certainly not with the best posture, all slouching shoulders and tilted head, this as if his neck could not yet bear to hold it upright yet. His tail hung over the side of the bed, only...

Sometimes he dreamed of the brothel, of his friends there, and the weird and unrealistic hijinks they would get up to only in a dream. Sometimes he dreamed of his brothers, maybe going on an adventure with them or just hanging around Annuakat and basking in the sunshine. Sometimes he dreamed of...

"Thanks, Masika," said Maxi. "You're a good person." He didn't think too much of Masika's slight hesitation, of her clearing her throat in order to speak. He just accepted the coin presented to him and returned the smile. Worries found no harbor for long in Maxi's mind. And as he turned to...

We both look like we just murdered someone. Well, I did just murder someone—these were the words poised right on the center of his tongue. He could almost feel their weight. He almost said them, those words, just as they were, but then Masika tittered and Maxi smiled amiably and he decided as...

Maxi felt a small pang of regret when Masika said yes. His mind in one corner already set about to working out some plan to steal back the anklet from the apothecary (and leaving that three gold he said he could get in its place), but this was something for a possible future. But a life saved...

So the collateral idea didn't work. Even Masika's little lie didn't work. And further still, Zekda the kobold suffered a bit from the wrath of the master by not taking coin up front. Seemed like he got burned on that a few times in the past. Burned hard enough to threaten both of them with a...

Suppose he didn't need to know what amazonite was. He certainly wasn't going to be buying any bracelet made of it, no matter how cheap, if he couldn't even afford what treatment he'd already been given. Three gold. And he had one silver and one copper. Not much. He did have an idea, maybe, one...

I am, ohh, how do you say... illiterate? "I'm not that good at reading and writing either," Maxi said. He vividly remembered pretending to read the contract Thurbin Hofnel had rolled out before him years ago. Some of it he understood, little fragments of written Common here and there, but not...

"Yeah, I'll pay you," Maxi said in his fading voice, backing up Masika's assertion to the same. "I don't like to have debts." That second part was certainly true. The problem was that the first part was doubtful enough to frustrate the efforts of the second part. He had all of two coins...

There was no comfort to be had in being lifted up and carried, aside from the assurance that his pain and plight would sooner be over once they found that apothecary. Maxi winced as his feet left the ground and his weight from being so carried on the woman's back shifted, but he made the effort...

Should be running. Yeah, the point of that was pretty clear: you don't have a lot of time, Maxi, and she can see that you don't have a lot of time. Even his ears were laying nearly limp against his hair, what with him putting everything he had into his legs and simply keeping upright. Somewhere...

"Yeah," Maxi wheezed, "there's a funny story about how it got there." All he could really see of the—girl? woman? he only knew from her voice—was vague shape against the background of badlands and sky, a fuzzy apparition which his weak and unfocused eyes couldn't bring any clear definition to...

Across the rugged and rocky badlands, north of the Baal-Duru River, they walked. Their reward awaited them in Annuakat. "I'm actually new at this myself," said Ashara Yonnel admitted, demurely rubbing the back of her neck as they went. Maxi just smiled. Looked back to her and said, "Ahhh...