OT 2016-2021
Original Timeline stories published from 2016 - 2021
Odds and Ends (Part 1)
Odds and Ends (Part 2)
Whisper (Chapters 40-42 + Epilogue)
A Tenuous Blade
Odds and Ends (Part 3)
Hank 2: So Shalt Thou Show Me Friendship
All the Kings Horses ...
Learning to Hunt
Kayda 8: The Best Days of Our Lives (Part 1)
A Good Man (Part 1)
Pomp and Conspiracy
Kayda 8: The Best Days of Our Lives (Part 2)
The Boys of Summer
Kayda 8: The Best Days of Our Lives (Part 3)
Diamonds Are a Vamp's Best Friend (Part 3)
Veni, Vidi, Cutie
Hank 3: One Woe Doth Tread Upon Another's Heel
Kayda 9 - Crying for a Dream
Hank 4: Life's But a Walking Shadow
A Good Man (part 2)
Ashes and Steel
Elle 1 - Dawn of the Aurora (Part 1)
Elle 1 - Dawn of the Aurora (Part 2)
Imp 4: A Teacher’s Tail (Part 1)
Kayda 10: There's No Place Like Poe (Part 1)
Imp 4: A Teacher’s Tail (Part 2)
The Boys of Summer (Part 2)
The Book of Darwin (Chapter 1)
Kayda 10 - There's No Place Like Poe (Part 2)
The Book of Darwin (Chapter 2)
Quick Imp-ressions
Round and Round (Part 1)
A Little R&R (Part 1)
Small Mercies
Murphy's Laws of Whateley
The Bear, The Bitch, And Everything (Part1)
Round and Round (Part 2)
Kayda 10: There's No Place Like Poe (Part 3)
The Bear, The Bitch and Everything (Part 2)
Out on a Tether
A Little R&R (Part 2)
Blood-Sister, Blood-Brother
Round and Round (Part 3)
A Little R&R (Part 3)
Kayda 10: There's No Place Like Poe (Part 4)
The Bear, the Bitch, and Everything (Part 3)
Imp 5: Head over Tail (Part 1)
Absinthe
Kayda 10: There's No Place Like Poe (Part 5)
Imp 5: Head over Tail (Part 2)
The Bear, The Bitch, And Everything (Part 4)
Soaring
Blast from the Past
Kayda 10: There's No Place Like Poe (Part 6)
Siblings & Savages (Chapter 1)
A Little R&R 2: Alyss in Wondercute Land (Part 1)
Imp 5: Head over Tail (Part 3)
Intervention
A Little R&R 2: Alyss in Wondercute Land (Part 2)
Siblings & Savages (Chapter2)
Hank 5: To the New Year!
Seeking Depth is Best
Siblings & Savages (Chapter 3)
Tea and Dagger
The Banshee's Tale
Mischief Managed
Danny 1 - What's New, Pussycat? (Part 1)
The Gates of the Garden
Absinthe 2: The Absinthe of Malice (Part 1)
Hank 6: To Companions, New and Old!
The Angel And Cecil Barrows
Danny 1 - What's New, Pussycat? (Part 2)
Imp 6: A Very Imp-ortant Date (Part 1)
Imp 6: A Very Imp-ortant Date (Part 2)
Absinthe 2: The Absinthe of Malice (Part 2)
Dague de L'esprit (Part 1)
Imp 6: A Very Imp-ortant Date (Part 3)
Absinthe 2: The Absinthe of Malice (Part 3)
A Little R&R 3 (Part 1)
Imp 6: A Very Imp-ortant Date (Part 4)
A Little R&R 3 (Part 2)
Absinthe 2: The Absinthe of Malice (Part 4)
Dague De L'esprit (Part 2)
Absinthe 2: The Absinthe of Malice (Part 5)
Shine 2 - My Fair 'Shine (Part 1)
Tales of Summer
Diamonds are a Vamp's Best Friend (Part 4)
The Evil That Men Do (Part 1)
Hank 7: And all who sail in her!
The Evil That Men Do (Part 2)
Fallen Angel - Warning
The Evil That Men Do (Part 3)
The Evil That Men Do (Part 4)
The Evil That Men Do (Part 5)
Amongst the Shadows
Brief Glimpses
To Seal Our Happiness (Part 1)
Shine 2: My Fair Shine (Part 2)
To Seal Our Happiness (Part 2)
Imp 7: Imp-ervious to Reason (Part 1)
To Seal Our Happiness (Part 3)
Imp 7: Imp-ervious to Reason (Part 2)
Imp 7: Imp-ervious to Reason (Part 3)
The Last Ride
Imp 7: Imp-ervious to Reason (Part 4)
Tea and Tears
Imp 7: Imp-ervious to Reason (Part 5)
Shenanigans
Mischief 3: The Remedy for Mischief
All Hallows Ball
The Garden of Good and Evil
Shine 2: My Fair Shine (Part 3)
Ribbon 2: All Knotted Up
All Hallows Ball (Part 2)
Roulette 2: Taking Another Spin
All Hallows Ball (Part 3)
Shine 2: My Fair Shine (Part 4)
Charge of the Light Vignettes: 1 - Targets of Opportunity
Out Foxing
The Porcelain Mask
Murphy's Laws of Spirit (Part One)
Shenanigans Too (Part 1)
Pillars of Foundation
You Don't Know Jak
Shenanigans Too (Part 2)
Imp 8: Imp-rints on an Aching Heart (part 1)
Imp 8: Imp-rints on an Aching Heart (part 2) 1
Knockoff 2 - Fight or Flight (part 1)
Scald-Crow 1: The Rocky Road to Whateley (Part 1)
Dissonance (Part 1)
Fox Tails (Part 1)
Scald-Crow 1: The Rocky Road to Whateley (Part 2)
Fox Tails (Part 2)
Scald-Crow 1: The Rocky Road to Whateley (Part 3)
Fox Tails (Part 3)
The Garden of Good and Evil: Song of the Dreamer
Knockoff 2: Fight or Flight (part 2)
Scald-Crow 2: Under Pressure (Part 1)
Inaba 1: Run rabbit, run.
Scald-Crow 2: Under Pressure (Part 2)
Smoke and Mirrors (Part 1)
Smoke and Mirrors (Part 2)
Smoke and Mirrors (Part 3)
Inaba 2: Sucks to be you
Brief Glimpses 2
Scald-Crow 2: Under Pressure (Part 3)
Raptor: An Eye on Campus
Fox Tails (Part 4) 1
You can Choose Your Friends ....
Inaba 3: And in the Darkness Shall You Flee 1
Diamonds are a Vamps Best Friend (Part 5) 4
A Good Man (Part 3)
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As Above, So Below
A Whateley Academy Tale April Fool's Day Prank!
As Above, So Below
by Kristin Darken
Elsewhere. Outside time.
The black cloud that represented the Dark Master stood across the Anvil of Service from its opposite, the shimmering energy that was the Holy Light. The Keeper's Hall in which it stood would have been recognizable to any player of the game GEO in any of the mortal realms with whom they maintained contact. The two spoke of the entities they had recently found, tested, and allowed to grow strong throughout the Faded Lands. It was a language of refracted images and body movement with a fluidity only truly possible by incorporeal beings. The complexity of perspective and emphasis would make true translation impossible; yet that was exactly the difficulty they faced in any encounter with physical sentient creatures.
Noblesse Oblige: Part 1
A Story in Elrod's MAU Universe
Noblesse Oblige
by Kristin Darken
My grandfather passed early in the Spring, sitting on his porch watching a rainstorm. I wasn't there, hadn't even been in the state for more than a decade as I pursued my career in places more heavily populated and far less inclined to be fascinated by the power of mother nature. That didn't stop me from picturing the smile that would have splashed across his face as lightning flickered and he counted out the distance to the thunder. One Mississippi. Two choc-late pudding. Three cans of Pringles. And so on.. every set of five silly second long phrases marking a mile's distance to the bolt of energy.