charles dickey | June 6, 2009
Amid a sense-dulling miasma of cinnamon, cardamom, musk, myrrh, and the more common scents of coconut oil, grease, and fried goat cheese, a small bustard alighted on a crenellation of the wall dividing the Upper City of Katapesh from the Lower. Below this bird, the Nightstalls of the Lower City roiled with saturated, electric activity. Thrills, poisons, intoxicants, diseases, severed body parts of all kinds of beasts, even slaves and contracts with devils were all up for sale for those who knew where to look, (more…)
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charles dickey | June 6, 2009
The half-orc, hunkered down alone at a table, caught sight of his enemies at the door. The three of them together was something he’d never seen before. His anger rose quickly, a familiar raging ire, at the sight of them: Gazouq, that greasy gnoll, and her grungy half-breed friend, and the cheating thief Dhalhria, so recently returned from Gorum-knows-where, bearing herself around the Lower City as if she were a Pactmaster herself, when her hand should have been cut off years ago for all the merchandise she had lifted from Mol’s humble shop, and surely many other poor merchants peddling what wares they could acquire. (more…)
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