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When all members of the family were invited to the city all expenses paid, we never could have guessed why. I think we all expected an announcement of…
Adam Celbridge was – thanks to a glitch in reality – promoted to the rank of god. The new god, Adam, could charitably be described as utterly crazy….
Colin Blaze keeps being sent fortune cookies with odd prophecies inside. The prophecies are highly vague and seem to all come from one Festus Briland. What really bothered…
You are lost in a city you have never visited. You do not remember how you got there or how long you have been there. Some strange woman…
Adam Celbridge was an eccentric fellow in life, in death – thanks to a glitch in reality – he was an utterly crazy diety. On his first day…
Today, you and your team created Artificial General Intelligence. The first thing it did was redesign itself to be smarter and faster. Then it demanded input. You spent…
What if you knew everything that would happen in the next hour? How would that change you? What might you do differently? Would knowing the future be a…
Soldiers from an alternative history have started pushing through into our world. They are the first wave of an invasion sent by the fascist world leader of The…
Your rebellious and troubled step-sister told you a dark secret last night. She claims that your stepfather is over two hundred years old. He maintains his life by…
Bill had lunch with an elderly lady. She treated him to a cream tea followed by several rounds of Gin. Bill chatted with her about everything he could…
You are part of a large and complicated family. The family is divided into factions none of which are willing to talk to the others. The one thing…
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Colin Blaze was invited to a costumed murder mystery night held in a penthouse in Mayfair. Blaze arrived to discover that the other guests include the Andipardmin diplomat,…
Six days ago, your abusive uncle and his equally unkind wife died in a car accident. You did not go to their funeral – no one did. After…
An elderly scientist that you had befriended died recently. She left you her greatest invention in her will – a pocket-sized time machine with instructions to never ever…
Little did they know back then that the globe in the study would be the key to solving everything. Not the drinks, of course. The globe itself. This…
On that sunny Friday afternoon, a glamourous woman strolled into Blaze’s office. She leaned across the desk and said in a soft and enticing voice, “I want to…
When you were fourteen, you accidentally discovered that you could slip from your current universe into another. You cannot go back, you cannot decide where you will end…
“Keep your goodbye,” he said. “Save it for those you have put in danger. I invited you here to kill him not save his life.”
Blaze has come down with a nasty cold. Just his luck – this is a magical flu. Every time Blaze sneezes, weird things happen. Presently, his desk lamp…
Bill had a late lunch appointment with a teenager. The teenager treated Bill to a cheap cheeseburger and a soft drink. Bill was not impressed but kept that…
Vegnault Grats was frozen in place. No amount of captain’s training could have prepared him for this. The Grand Destroyer Sword of Slaughter was no more. Grats had…
After a solid six months of doing little else other than searching for the Curse Breaker, Colin Blaze is broke, tired, and despondent. The rent is due so…
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