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Codeine Crazy – Issue 18 – Washed in the Power
Maxx walks with purpose, turning corners, dashing down long stone corridors, turning left, then left again, then right. The group following him keeps close on his heels, Pultine flying, Shini and Zacchaeus walking briskly. Pultine illuminates most of the maze they navigate through, but Maxx carries a torch. Not that he needs it, he is…
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Codeine Crazy – Issue 17 – The Pull of the Blight Maker
It is like perpetual day in Kútmómɛ. There is no nighttime, there is only the pale blue glow of Kútmómɛ that persists in the beings animated through it, in the structures that organize it. They are ghosts, the beings of Kútmómɛ, they are wraiths, spectres, echoes of something that was formed and tangible in the…
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Codeine Crazy – Issue 16 – The Quest for Blight Maker
“You must seal that,” Shini says, staring up at the rip in strange existence where he finds himself with Maxx. “We are in Kútmómɛ and I am not sure if that means we are dead, but random Fonlanders could fall in after us and I don’t want that to happen.” The place where Maxx and…
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Smiting Champs – 4 Warriors – 4 – Arriving to the Smiting Chamber
“You brought them here?” Yiri, the master craftsman, said with puzzlement on his face. “Why did you even come back here?” “I was hoping you could help me,” Djallon said, trying to speak privately with Yiri, though the other of the 4Warriors were in the master’s forge as well. “It’s like I told you, I…
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Codeine Crazy – Issue 15 – Maxx and the Death Witch Coven
“Maxx, please! C’mon man,” Zacchaeus said loudly, angrily into the darkness of the swamp that he marched through, lifting his knees to his chest with each step mostly because of the effort it took to dislodge his feet from the muddy bottom of the swamp. He walked through water up to his shins that were…
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Smiting Champs – 4 Warriors – 3 – The Beginning
“I can’t believe we did it!” Adofo said excitedly as they stood in voluminous Essence blue clouds. “We did it, Tinyeleti Warrior! We are in possession of an Inkanyamba, one enchanted that should emerge with more power than when it was sealed! This is amazing. And why, again, did we risk our very existence for…
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Codeine Crazy – Issue 14 – Kútmómɛ
Shini was once a powerful sorcerer of the Deep, the subterranean world that is an extension of the Disc of Agê underground. He is a son of the surface and the underground world; his mother was a yumbo and his father was a dark muthi. The muthi are an underground kin of Agê’s Disc who…
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Smiting Champs – 4 Warriors – 2 – A Less Than Ideal Assembly
“This armor will be a true prize if you walk it through Deads’ Town and emerge unscathed.” Djallon was angry and she stared at Yiri, the master craftsman, with indignation. The breeze moved the white cloth walls of the large workshop and despite the many lit forges in the space, it was cool. “I have…
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Codeine Crazy – Issue 13 – Mad Man
“He is not Maxx anymore,” Pultine, the aboatia, says gravely. Her arms are crossed at her chest and her wings reach up high at her back, toward the high red flame of Gu’s Disc. Zacchaeus Turner, the Earther from an Earth that is not in universe Prime 5, kneels close to Pultine’s feet where a…
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Smiting Champs – 4Warriors – 1 – Mulweri and Adofo and Nwa Wa and Djallon
Adofo sharpened his sepow knife against a large stone. He squatted in his golden armor without the arm and leg plates attached, knees bent, his forearms resting on his thighs as he held the knife steady with two hands while he moved the knife from side to side, back and forth. It made a soothing…