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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    “The ferryman was tall and slim as a cattail. He moved like a someone young and fit, but his hair was aged, icy silver. His clothes were woven of rough-spun cloth and dyed cool grays and somber greens. A patch covered one of his eyes, and a thick scarf hid much of the rest of his face.

    But the first thing the tinkerer noticed when they first met outside that inn was his scent; cold river water and ancient pines.

    His sudden appearance had been a lucky stroke for the tinkerer. His usual cartwoman had fallen unexpectedly ill, leaving him with no way to transport his latest game to the customer waiting in a town five miles away. When the ferryman approached and offered to transport it by river, the tinkerer hadn't even stopped to ask for the price.”

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    15 Dec 2024

  2. Public Bookmark 2

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    A brief exchange of emails between the Secret Keeper of Hermitopia and his chief enforcer, featuring a short look at some Doc Monster Nonsense

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    15 Dec 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 13

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    A ball of energy started to grow and take shape in front of Joel’s chest before floating down to the floor. As it grew it was definitely bigger than a dove or a cat. It was three feet tall by the time it was done, thin too. Joel was hoping for an eagle or maybe a swan, something menacing or regal.

    Instead, the creature that appeared before them was a goose.

    “You’ve got to be blooming kidding me,” Joel hissed, waving his hands in the direction of the goose, “Grian! What is this?”

    “Pretty sure that’s a goose,” Scar helpfully supplied.

    Or, Joel and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad misadventure for his soulmate.

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    12 Dec 2024

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    It’s strange. Only now, confronted with the very thing he came down here to find, is reality enforcing itself upon Bdubs.

    This is impossible. Maybe the blackbox of Etho’s AI could be retrieved, but at a depth of 36,000 feet his netherite-fibered body would have lasted six seconds at most before his lovely face pulverized. Whatever’s left might as well be a husk of radiation. He is not outside the submersible. No one is.

    And still. A knock on the door. One-two-three. Polite and patient.

     

    (At the bottom of the ocean, Bdubs studies microbes with the help of the CONCORP android Etho. They are not alone.)

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    10 Dec 2024

  5. Public Bookmark 21

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    Grian and Gem are so close to getting the right amount of credit hours to graduate. All they need is a trades internship. They'll take whatever they can find, which is how they wind up answering an ad in the paper for Phasmo Investigations, Inc. It's two guys and a van, which is weird. The two guys say their names are Impulse and Skizz, which is even weirder.

    But. Credit hours.

    So sure we'll take the job that's good and fun okay we'll spend a semester filing old newspaper clippings and cracking detective jokes and what do you mean ghosts did you just say ghosts?

    GHOSTS?

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    01 Dec 2024

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