the hidden place and the other time

For those of you were were following Tiamat's Kittens: Do you have any unanswered questions? Anything you want to know? Any comments?

I'm not currently planning to return to this world for a while, but hey, there are a lot of stories in this world that haven't gotten told yet, so I'm not discounting the possibility of coming back.

[Ed. note: there are things that make better gaming than fiction, and vice versa. I've gone with a slightly different version of events than what happened in the actual session, because it makes a better story.]

( the final battle comes... )

[the first section should have gone at the end of the last recap, but I didn't get it done until a couple of days after the recap was posted, so it goes in the front here. One more session until we're done!]

( The squad goes to Pskov, and discovers that there is a price for using Bahomet's armor... )

[This was not nearly as NC-17 as it could have been. It's still PG-13. More than you probably wanted to know about dragon reproductive cycles. It was fun to write, though. Something finally goes really right for Palil. It's been a while.]

( Palil finally gets brave and confronts some of her feelings...and just in time, too! )

[note that gaming's on hiatus for three weeks, so updates will resume in October.]

( The squad learns exactly what they unleashed when they sprung Jezik from prison... )

[I could have sworn I posted this, but I guess I didn't. It takes place right between the last story and the recap posted yesterday. There are still some touchy places between Sondirra and Jordan, and this story's partially about one of them.]

( I was almost asleep, lying on my stomach with nothing but a shirt on... )

[I was not expecting to write this. It was supposed to be about ten paragraphs that was going to close out the recap. Once I got into it, I realized that Gannon was irritable and seriously wanting to speak his mind to Palil, and I was finally like, "Okay, go for it, she needs a good talking-to, and you're the only one who's going to give her this particular come-to-jesus speech." And then a couple of suggestions from Storm made things suddenly go where I really wasn't expecting them to. Poor Palil. What she really needs is some therapy, but I don't think there are dragon therapists. There probably ought to be, though.]

( There's that temper of Palil's again... )

[I think we started a war. Again.]


( The squad goes to a frozen hellhole, and discovers the dangers of springing unknown political prisoners... )