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4 mos ago
Current Wow three years since an update....well - I guess I've been busy. Finally getting back into real story writing instead of just editing and submitting old stuff.
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3 yrs ago
Responses didn't come like I meant them to. I'm working on being able to get to them this week. Thank you for your patience with me.
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3 yrs ago
Responses to those waiting to hear from me will come tomorrow. Apologies.
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4 yrs ago
Shit happens, responses slow. Working on it. Please be patient.
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I'm an adult with a family and responsibilities that take priority, as well as mental health issues that can cause me to not get on this site for periods of time. Just know I will get back to you within a few days. If I had something going with you at some point, and you're interested in either starting it back up or starting something fresh, just reach out.

I recently started working on getting published, and have self published one story so far. Check it out on Amazon - Into the Night by Alexia Wynd.

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There was a moment she thought she had made it. That she could have lost the stupid fox in the clouds by going too high and too fast for him to follow. If she could make it to the clouds, she could go anywhere. However he found her so quickly, which she was fairly certain was due to the keen senses from his animal counterpart, hopefully wouldn't help him with her going into the upper winds. It would scatter her scent - the logical way he'd tracked her so quickly - wide enough it would be hard to pinpoint where it was truly coming from.

Fuck. How did he get in front of me? Kali only had the time to think that much before he shot a static shock at her. She was caught too off-guard to actually ignite hot enough to dissipate the static. Instead she took the full force of the hit square in her chest. The fire around her went out, and she forgot how to even breathe for a second.

Without the fire, and with momentary shock of the electricity to her system, the fire mage fell back toward the forest below. Body slamming into branches, only to shatter them and continue falling, she landed in a crumbled heap, once again shorted of breath from the impact. It would be a few moments of regaining her bearings on the fact her heart was beating, and struggling to remember how to breathe involuntarily. A few moments the Firebird was fully vulnerable.



Wayne was crouched, restocking the shelf of glasses beneath the bar, when the door kicked open. But he wasn't in a rush to stand. Half the patrons of the place did shit like that. The other half were the proverbial 'heroes'. It had cost a pretty penny, but having the door outfitted to withstand shit like that was worth it.

When he finally stood, Wayne didn't hesitate to take a cup from the holder Evan placed onto the counter. "You're late." He didn't even look at the kid until after he'd popped the lid of the coffee and taken a sip. When he did, all he could do was chuckle. "Kid, Tankman is out there working a job all his own. It didn't come through here. So that's first of all. Second of all, that 'lumbering idiot' - as you called him - can actually manage to work a job without it going sideways."

"Face it; you want to be a villain and not play taxi for rich people that want to be seen with some vigilante, you gotta figure out how to make your power work for you. Until then -" he tossed a pre-loaded credit card at Evan - "be happy you can make money in some way. Or...I mean, you could revert back to your previous option."

Wayne shot Evan a knowing smirk before mixing up a virgin mojito. He put the glass in front of the kid. "So chin up. At least that idiot paid pretty well for a twenty minute drive."



It wasn't until she was a decent enough way outside of the town that Kali finally stopped running. That is to say, she finally decided it was safe enough to take flight. She hadn't looked behind her to verify, she just felt the static staying far enough back that she wasn't worried the tricky fox would catch up immediately. She had to be sure though - which meant taking flight now that she wouldn't be flashy enough to catch attention.

The air heated around her before flames licked around her body. At a thought, the flames appeared to spread wings and with the next step she took to the air to fly further east. Maybe a large port town would be better to hide in. If she could put enough distance between herself and that stupid fox she could maybe hide out somewhere no one would suspect to look for a fire mage.
Better late than never!

Edit: And I added nothing to the robbery scene.


Nothing like a standard day when you're pretending you can't do the things you can do, and that you are just...one normal person. Another morning spent doing standard inventory, verifying everything was set, serving the randoms that came in at seven in the morning to get drunk. At least it didn't include balancing books today, managing an actual business. A couple calls, a couple accepted jobs he just needed to help middle man to find the right person for. Eventually things would fall into place.

By noon, business "picked up" as much as it ever did for noon. Everyone was awake, at least everyone that mattered, and that meant he at least had help that he wasn't stuck running everything. Same usual riffraff was around, same standard shit.

"Barry, for the thousandth time. No one thinks you're badass. No one will ever think your badass," Wayne sighed as he slid a drink down the bar to the latest person to saddle up to it.

"You know, one of these days, you're going to come out from behind that bar..." The guy started, pointing a finger of the same hand holding his drink. "and you'll finally tussle with a real guy."

A few of the others laughed. Until Wayne put down the towel. He straightened up and the laughter died, and Barry sat back down. Wayne nodded, smirking to himself. "Unlike some people, I don't need powers to be dangerous." He shot the guy a smile, and a knowing look. "Now, just be the good drunkard you are and stop trying to impress anyone. No one wants to hear about that one time you did that one thing. Everyone's heard it before. Come up with something new."

In his ear, a police scanner chittered away. Some robbery. Nothing his group had been hired to help with - either robbing or preventing. Sounded like it would draw some gooders. Well, maybe something interesting would come up. Hell, maybe someone would get hurt. No one was hoping for injury, especially the backroom medic, but...a bit of blood always made shit interesting.
Apologies for not posting yet. Have just been busy with stuff. I'll get a post in tonight or tomorrow, hopefully.


Three days in the same inn, and Kali finally figured out the next stop on her road trip to redemption. She was sure by now Master Kendell had sent someone else. It'd been almost a week since she'd seen the last chump he'd managed to convince to come after her. At least...she assumed Master Kendell had sent someone else. One last try to bring in someone marked dangerous. If not...well that was why she was taking precautions to not raise suspicion with where she stayed or how she conducted herself. The perfect background person to the city. She couldn't risk a rune knight catching wind of her whereabouts and getting overeager to impress a supervisor.

A tingle in the air told her she'd waited too long to move on. How, she wasn't entirely sure, but damned it all if she hadn't realized who the last pathetic hunter they'd have sent after her would be. "Shit. That stupid fox..." At least she didn't have a lot of things to gather. She only had herself and the backpack she kept packed for quick moving. It was only a matter of paying up the last of the money owed before taking off - which shouldn't have been as daunting a prospect as it was. It only meant paying everything she had left on her.

"Let's just hope I can cover some distance before that putz catches up to me." Backpack over her shoulder, she took off running. It would have been faster to fly, but that would have required a bit of flashy send off. So she put heat to her feet and ran instead. It wasn't flashy, but it certainly gave her more speed than just trying to run. She hadn't tried to outrun the fox and his disk, but she certainly was going to give it a try. The last thing any of them needed was a crispy fox sent home on his disk and the Rune Knights or dark mage hunters coming after her.
I mean, I'm here but that's a given.

It's up to you guys want to start. I'm going to focus on finishing my character tonight (EST), but I can't exactly make promises. You can start now or later. Btw, I got an info dump I gotta put together for you, @BenG85.
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