Stories tagged “World of Hellmouth”

  • Part 1: Bartering Immortality

    The abandoned barn in the quiet Angland countryside smelled of hay and dust. Inside, a middle-aged man patted his sweat-beaded forehead with a silk handkerchief. Sir Thomas Legend placed a gold and lead artifact on the owliksir’s work table next to s...

  • Part 2: Bartering Immortality

    It stretched its two front talons across the table’s oak surface and dug into the wood. Its upper back arched downwards, its rump extended high, and its wings spread wide. Its body length was just over two feet, and for a moment it looked intimidatin...

  • Part 3: Bartering Immortality

    The item depicted two snakes, each swallowing the tail of the other. One snake was lead, the other was gold. “You believe this artifact to be of the same value as the answer you seek, Sir Thomas Legend of Port Liber?” Thomas began sweating. He wipe...

  • Part 4: Bartering Immortality

    “Albert was working on such a potion!” Thomas shouted. “This must be it!” Thomas lunged wildly across the work table swatting at the owliskir. The creature let out a hiss followed by a screech and leapt off the table, flying up toward the rafte...

  • Part 5: Bartering Immortality

    Thomas crumpled on to his side. “How—?” “You were the partner of Albert Mundi, philosopher and alchemist. You were also his murderer. I know because I gave him the Philosopher’s Stone in exchange for his potion’s formula. Both combined hold...