The First and Last Tax Man in Thimblecross, Part 1
"Well, if there’s no… object of particular interest in town, I suppose I will simply have to do an appraisal. A very thorough appraisal."
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Fleta is fast—inhumanly fast. In a world that worships gifted champions, her speed earns her a place in the Proving: a sacred hunt where heroes are forged, broken, or devoured.
"Well, if there’s no… object of particular interest in town, I suppose I will simply have to do an appraisal. A very thorough appraisal."
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Did you think the story over, gentle reader? Or perhaps you and a few clever folks realized Ellie wasn’t telling the truth when she said that she left her
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Last week, dear reader, we introduced Hoddin Nutterlin's quest to retrieve Ellie Thatch's from a chest in the abandoned Harrow Castle. Let us discover this week,
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Sometimes, dear reader, the flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak. Such may be said for Hoddin Nutterlin. Hoddin the merchant has the kindest disposition of any man in
Read More →Last week, gentle reader, we skimmed through the dark and Harrowing history of Thimblecross, with the grand opening of Jasper Harrow's circus turning mysteriously becoming his final act.
Read More →Dear reader, this is not a history for the faint of heart. Nor is it a history for those who deal in certainties and questions with answers. This is the
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A visitor once asked Alric Vexley how he survived in his cabin in the woods, while everyone else huddles in Thimblecross under the watchful eye of Ellie Blythe's
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The crossroads by Thimblecross are often busy at dusk with traders, traveling entertainers, and vagabonds looking to make Goosefoot before sundown. Occasionally, one ends up in Tilly Greer's
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Everyone calls him a liar, yet Tumm the Beggar survives every winter, every famine, every curse that sweeps through Thimblecross. He's always by the inn, or by the
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I love a good deck-building RPG. I've spent way too many hours playing Slay the Spire. However, crude battles are not Jolly's style. Don't
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After Jolly finally manages a little out-of-the-box thinking and circus building, he discovers the locals don't appreciate his... artifice. Ever the optimist, he still hopes a little human
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The final version of the Proving of Champions is still scheduled for publication by the end of the year... but something unexpected, morbid, and entirely too jolly is taking over the Stitched Realms.
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