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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 19h

I don't go in for all that "writing my curse and burden" artsy stuff, because in this case, Shadows & Sorcery is a real curse placed on me by a real witch! I must write fantasy flash fiction for eternity, and you must read it.👁️👁️

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#Fantasy #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor

Shadows & Sorcery | Sean Hill | Substack

Weekly fantasy flash fiction right to your inbox. Click to read Shadows & Sorcery, by Sean Hill, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 22m

For context, the Mordai all look alike, with only extremely minor visual differences. They have a sense organ that takes the place of sight, sound, and smell that lets them recognize others individually. It's not perfect and so lets certain games like spy games work well.

Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 22m

#OctoberWorldbuilders
10. Mordai competitive games all use the dead, they literally do not play games themselves. They love duelling tournaments, storyteller-led mock battles, not-chess with life-sized pieces, and then a game where they perform fake espionage and house invasions for a prize.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 12h

Gold is RARE, how'd that become the colour you ascribe to magic?

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 12h

I appreciate the specifics!😂 I sometimes see poison as bright green, too

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 12h

White for magic is also extremely rare

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 12h

Yellow lightning gang rise up, can't believe it's so rare

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 16h

This answer interests me greatly because these colours in particular seem to be an extremely broad consensus and I'm wondering how exactly they came to be!

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 16h

White for lightning is a rare one!

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 23h

#OctoberWorldbuilders
9. What use have they for boardgames when they have countless corpses at their command as essentially extensions of themselves? Every game in this culture has full sized pieces, up to and including mock warfare, espionage, duelling tournaments, etc.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h

Rough around the edges is may be, stupid as hell in some areas, and it won't be winning any awards for conceptual originality, but its three factions have enough distinct flavour for roleplay and replay purposes, the combat has just enough sauce to feel fresh, and the areas are GOOD.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 18h

Restarted my Lords of the Fallen knight gear only playthrough with the actual knight class and having good fun

Of all the soulslikes I've played, this game really does come the closest to feeling like a souls game in its exploration-combat-loot gameplay loop, no others have scratched the itch

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 19h

I am conduction Important Research

With no context, in your head, what colour do you associate these three things with:

-poison
-lightning
-magic

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 19h

I don't go in for all that "writing my curse and burden" artsy stuff, because in this case, Shadows & Sorcery is a real curse placed on me by a real witch! I must write fantasy flash fiction for eternity, and you must read it.👁️👁️

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

#Fantasy #FlashFiction #IndieAuthor

Shadows & Sorcery | Sean Hill | Substack

Weekly fantasy flash fiction right to your inbox. Click to read Shadows & Sorcery, by Sean Hill, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 19h

You may ask, Seán how have you written so many stories? Is there something wrong with you? The answer is: yes! I'm a profoundly deranged hermit and Shadows & Sorcery is the result of my dark enlightenment. The best part is the stories are free!

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

#Fantasy #FlashFiction

Shadows & Sorcery | Sean Hill | Substack

Weekly fantasy flash fiction right to your inbox. Click to read Shadows & Sorcery, by Sean Hill, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 20h

Shadows & Sorcery is like it's own TBR pile and I keep adding to it every week, ensuring it cannot be completed. If this interests you in any way, subscribe (free!) and never be without anything to read again, for ever and ever and ever.

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#Fantasy #FlashFiction

Shadows & Sorcery | Sean Hill | Substack

Weekly fantasy flash fiction right to your inbox. Click to read Shadows & Sorcery, by Sean Hill, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

shadowsandsorcery.substack.com

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 20h

LONG...

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Elof Jorkelstrøm @jorkelstrom.bsky.social · 23h

Ogräslig TrollkarlsTorsdag

The wizard is weeding out the flowerbed one last time before winter. He is wearing protective earmuffs as he pulls a screaming mandrake out of the soil. Next to him is a cooler with a note saying "mandrakes" taped to it, and next to the cooler is a small pile of regular weeds.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 23h

#OctoberWorldbuilders
9. What use have they for boardgames when they have countless corpses at their command as essentially extensions of themselves? Every game in this culture has full sized pieces, up to and including mock warfare, espionage, duelling tournaments, etc.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

Unsurprising but miserable. Businesses really do have a funny way of treating artists like an infinite resource. We're a dime a dozen to them. So many people who do everything they can to not pay others. Professional weasels. Hope you get paid soon.

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

In this week's Shadows & Sorcery, the Demiurge world gets some fresh new worldbuilding as the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman of the Khurcham nomads to help banish a bad spirit...

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Shadows & Sorcery #184

This week, the red wizard Carloman meets with a shaman to work the Winds of Sorcery, we join a cursed woman who seeks to fulfil a Demon’s Dream, and a castle wizard quests for one who has fallen to th...

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

Vampires followed by Dark Souls tbh

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

I respect the audacity of the TTRPG account following me after posting this but I really don't think my loathsome ass is ever playing one🙏

Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of daydreaming wistfully about a TTRPG character I know I'll never play that has me ending up bitter and sad, I'm gonna swap out a letter, get mad, and write

Could be this flux of emotions does the trick and gets me on track for this week

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

The Phantasm theme keeps popping up in weird places, and the latest place I've located it is about 1min into this 1996 German black metal demo

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Gorbalrog - Das Zepter (Full Demo 1996)

YouTube video by Vlad Tepes

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Seán @wizardhill.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of daydreaming wistfully about a TTRPG character I know I'll never play that has me ending up bitter and sad, I'm gonna swap out a letter, get mad, and write

Could be this flux of emotions does the trick and gets me on track for this week

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