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Poor Wylan is going to have to learn Latin if he has any hope of continuing the ruse that he's an Ordained Priest by the Legate of Rome. (Much to Stephen's amusement)
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The rules of the crusade were, whoever flies their banner first over a city, rules. Darien is about to carve out a Kingdom along the coast that will control the flow of supplies to the crusade.
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I have conquered the FELL BEAST!
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Antioch had become a graveyard masquerading as a city. By the third week of July, the heat trapped within the Orontes valley had baked the mud of the streets into a cracked, pale crust that smelled perpetually of rot, stale incense, and desperate, starving men. The walls that had kept the Crusaders out for a year now kept them penned inside, stewing in a toxic broth of religious fanaticism and political venom. At the center of the city, Count Raymond of Toulouse paraded daily with his ruste
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I just wanted somewhere that wasn't the bulk standard loft, or apartment... something with a sense of character that would suit Flynn and his limpet-boyfriend. I just finished a second book to this one, and just enjoy the Poitr character, he's selfish, on track mind, totally self-serving and demanding, and yet somehow, he's really endearing. Like his brattiness is armor and Flynn's the one thing he loves more than himself. It shouldn't work, but somehow... it does.
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The Associates are a treat! Love them. Flynn's apartment is the right kind of weird, and happy which helps his condition.
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The drive back from Malibu should have taken forty-five minutes. It took two hours, because Poitr fell asleep somewhere around Santa Monica, and Flynn couldn't bring himself to wake him. The Mercedes purred along the Pacific Coast Highway, the top still down, the night air cool and salt-scrubbed. Poitr was curled in the passenger seat, his bare feet tucked under him, his head lolled against the headrest. He was snoring. Not delicately. The kind of snoring that rattled windows and offended
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Simon's just such a pleasing character to write. He's like a hug on a page and so well suited to Matt.
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I really enjoyed Chris's story. The prompt was gold! And I am glad to see he's written up a follow up/sequel/spin-off to it! Seriously, go give it a read, I can't rave about it hard enough, Best Cappy-story around!
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If he had taken the shot, the mob would have been unleashed and it would have been a disaster. The threat of it was enough to make a self-serving individual like Raymond back down. Raymond doesn't believe in the religious nonsense, he believes in himself and the fanaticism is his path to becoming King of Jerusalem over his rivals, Radoslav, Godfrey and Boehemond.
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At 1300 men, 1000 Infantry, 300 knights, with fresh Friezan Destriers, new armour, fed, watered, and rested. The Vanguard of the Silver Boar is the most effective army left in the Crusade. Arguably, when it comes to direct power, Darien is unmatched, and rising. Raymond, Arslan, and Baldwin are provoking the boar, and Boars kill kings.
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The dust of the ravine had not yet settled, but the Sultan’s pavilion was already rising amidst the slaughter. It was a massive, terrifying structure of black silk and spun gold, pitched directly over the blood-soaked earth where Count Baldwin’s mercenaries had died. The elite Ghulams of Kalijj Arslan moved with silent, absolute efficiency, clearing the Frankish corpses from the immediate vicinity, leaving only the sharp, metallic stench of fresh death hanging in the sweltering Syrian air.
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We all know Darien's opinion of unearned crowns. And there is coming a point where Kalijj Arslan will answer to his Grandsons.
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I tried to show Baron Haskal's legacy through carrying on through his Squires.
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Define survive. Because Radoslav has undergone massive changes along the road, it can be argued that he is no longer the same man he was at the start. Darien certainly isn't. And somehow VAL is still more of a man than Darien is
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I do finds Radoslav and Darien's bureoning friendship interesting. Radolsav's a dick in every sense of the word. But he respects Darien like he did Darien's Father and Baron Haskal (the product of two men he respects, and a direct result of Darien's competence) This continues through the next book as well. And the one after which I am still writing and have put down to do another project. (Needed a slight break from the Historical Fiction) (Don't get me wrong, I love writing about the Vanguard, and the Vexin region of France)
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Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
I think these laws should be standard in all AI today, no matter what. But that is just my opinion. The GN-2 Lukas, and his Construct Progeny are essentially AI/Robots just constructed out of synthetic organic matter. Now it does introduce yet another contradicting set of orders into Lukas. His Militsiya Protocols, the Combat Protocols, the Intimacy Protocols, Tripp's Bullshit, now the Asimov Laws are all contradicting each other in places, Lukas's brain is a mess of Error messages and conflicting code. But one thing overrides it all, Eriks. So on some basic level the boy that Lukas really is, beneath all the code, is breaking through. -
Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
Tripp is the one who updated D10's software, and has for years. D20 however, was overwritten by D10 without Tripp's input. -
You know Ashot is making Steffy wash under the hood because he's got rules!
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Ser Val, the best "Mom" ever
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It certainly seems to be the only way to quieten Ashot down... he gets... fidgety when he is attention deprived.
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Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
mmm love it when the pills kick in. Yes, Lukas has a terminal case of "the hots" for Eriks... I think Eriks needs a spray bottle to keep Lukas from climbing on top of him... he's created a monster by letting Lukas find out he's a top. -
Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
Topher Lydon commented on Topher Lydon's story chapter in Chapter 14: PORT HAVEN
Published this one a little early, because I am going to go lie down. Have a heat headache... it is too damn hot here.
