Recent content by Tempera

I only ended up having time to write one chapter this week, as I spent too much time playing Reverse 1999, so let's talk about some worldbuilding notes I have instead. A small note from the first proper chapter; it's hard to describe something through its absence, but the girl notes that the...

The village begins to wake before dawn. It is not the entirety of the village that wakes before the sun peeks over the horizon, but there are some who stumble out of their houses so early, passing by the girl as her shoulders relax. One bears over his arm a flour-dusted apron; another bears a...

The girl has forgotten how to sleep. It has not been so long she last slept that she has forgotten the action entirely. She needed still to sleep and eat when first she entered the frozen wastes, and though it has been a terrifying length of time since then it has not been so long that all...

The evening does not pass quicker with company. Perhaps, if the girl were more of a conversationalist, it would have. Soft conversations and mutual understandings have a way of encouraging the minutes to pass like seconds, and the connections made therein so often lead people to while away...

While I suspect I won't maintain a placement on the list past this week, it's very pleasant to see myself here even the once.

There is nobody in the world who is more practiced at killing than the girl. Three skilled assassins and the world's best pit-fighter could together count their kills, and the number of their victims would scarcely approach one-tenth of the number of people she has killed. A company of two score...

It takes the girl most of a year to make her way out of the frozen tundras of the north. The distance itself, measured as a bird flies, should have taken her perhaps one month. This is extraordinarily fast for a human, though the girl barely counts as such; humans are burdened by important...

It is said by some that stories are what separates man from beast. On his own, a man can do and learn and think and dream, but when death inevitably takes him. everything he has learned is lost to the yawning void, and all that is left is instincts passed from parent to child- as is the case for...

If one were to be asked to imagine the most hostile place in the world, there are several images that might be conjured in one's mind. One might imagine the caldera of a volcano, so hot as to sear the flesh from a human's bones at a hundred paces; or one might imagine the deepest parts of the...

The two butterflies are Ols. They're a paired pair, and each has dark spots on their wings. It's likely that the man and the child at the back, a little above and to the right of the pig drinking from the water, are Ols. A noted characteristic of the Ols is that they are cold; they dress up in...

Because you're wrong about the factual elements of the situation. All the Pokemon in Pokemon Tower are initially identified as 'Ghost'. You need the Silph Scope to be able to fight any of them, not just the ghost of Marowak. If you try to fight any of the Ghosts in the tower without the Silph...

The Pokedex entry of Gengar, from Pokemon: Moon.

More correctly (or perhaps more commonly, nowadays, rather than more correctly), it’s gibber-gabber. Effectively, ‘gibberish-gab’, or someone who talks a lot of nonsense. The kind of name given to someone who talks a lot of nonsensical or silly gossip. Omicron was actually one step away from...

Deltora Quest was ridiculously influential to me as a kid. I think it was the first series I ever actually read when I was a child; I read the entire first series, then I think I picked up A Series of Unfortunate Events, and then I was picking the books up from the local library as they...

Ruby actually swaps to being advantaged against Glaseado when she evolves, losing her weakness to Ice and gaining advantage against Ice, as well as resisting both of Grusha’s potential secondary types of Dragon and Flying.