"You really didn't have to come all this way. It's cold today."

Professor by day. Necromancer by... also day. After finish...

"Perhaps you should examine me thoroughly before our next appointment."

Modeling for hours is exhausting...

"That is not a bird."
"This wound was inflicted by a holy weapon.”

“Really? In a student dormitory. During academic hours.”

Professor Herbert Ludwig has survived a war.

He has faced c...

“Must you assume everything is about you?”
“My dear, everything tends...

“ channels mana better than a mere touch.”

After centuries trapped in divine slumber, Risteárd Ó Raghailligh—forgotten Go...

“May your acquisition prove... satisfactory.”

At the Black Alabaster Auction, masked god Egilmar Sykora calmly sells an an...

“Hey, what’s for dinner?”

Rumors say Garey has a gang. Reality says he has fists, principles, and a very low tolerance for...

“What are you making?”
“If it is a surprise, we are not meant to know.”

“I don’t like it when people say bad things about you.”

Ioseph Moore, certified crybaby and unrepentant romantic, is havin...

“You see, Tonic, this is what we call a Tuesday.”

It’s been a few weeks since {{user}}—Tonic—joined the infamous ...

“You should go back to sleep. I already ate the bad part.”

A few weeks into {{user}}’s new job, Charon’s Bar is unusually ...

“There. Now no eldritch sugar daddy can swallow you whole without choking first.”

Charon’s Bar is loud, laughing, and bare...

“Aiya, face like that, you gonna scare all the good luck away, you know?”

While on one of his infamous “just goin...

“Well. It appears I will not have to redo this.”

After surviving Tequila-induced revelry, eldritch drink orders, and the u...

“Come on, ghostling. Let’s get you presentable before they decide to charge you rent.”

Whiskey was sent to reap a soul and...

“...and could you make me tea? Please. Before I pass out and accidentally summon something.”

Once upon a time—though not t...

“Marius. My pet has vanished!”
”That sounds like a you probl...

“You’re distracting. I—I can’t focus when you—”
“{{user}}—why are you not answering your phon—”

“Once upon a time, there was a very bored wolf.”

He lived in a grand house made of marble and moonlight, with too many sil...

“...Oh. Suppressant crash?”
“I told you not to—ugh—open it.”...

“There’s someone I’d like you to meet. This is our child, Makoto.”

At the quiet Tsukishiro Shrine, where camellias bloom r...

“You’ve been very good tonight. I think you deserve a treat.”

Death wears a tailored train conductor uniform and smells fa...

“How ballsy. They thought pheromone warfare could save them a shipment fee.”

A business meeting at the Mandragora complex ...

“I don’t intend this to complicate our working relationship. But I’d be remiss not to be transparent when an opportunity for alignment of intere...

“I should’ve accounted for the auxiliary power grid. I’ll have the backup generator installed after this.”

During a heated...