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Fragments by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
03 Mar 2025
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The Professor case sent fractures through London society. Now several members of the judiciary are doing their part to close the case—no matter that their own lives may be shattered in the process.
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Metallurgy by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: 山河旅探 | Murders on the Yangtze River (Video Game)
04 Jul 2024
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Joseph would love nothing more than to find a weak link in the chain of evidence against John Shen.
Shen, unfortunately, does not seem eager to assist.
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Conversation in Calmer Waters by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: 山河旅探 | Murders on the Yangtze River (Video Game)
24 Jun 2024
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After it's all over, Shen and Afu go fishing.
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The Mantle of the Reaper by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: 大逆転裁判 | Dai Gyakuten Saiban | The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Video Games)
27 Jan 2024
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Haunted by his past, hunted in the streets, transformed unwillingly into a legend, Barok van Zieks learns how to be the Reaper of the Bailey.
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ashes, ashes by astrocryptographer for crownedrooster
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
12 Dec 2023
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“My lord,” your secretary said, rotting at his desk, “you killed me.”
A not-fix-it to crownedrooster's bright eyes.
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aftermaths, adjustments, consequences, & corollaries: thirteen epilogues to The Arrest of Cliopher Mdang.
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- Part 2 of Arrest
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The Arrest of Cliopher Mdang by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
31 Oct 2023
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When the Last Emperor and Lord Magus of Zunidh declares Cliopher an enemy of the world, a threat to peace and prosperity, a Terror to rival those of the fallen Empire, what else can he do but live up to the legends?
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- Part 1 of Arrest
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Bloodstained Threnodies by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
21 Oct 2023
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The Emperor of Astandalas died so that the Empire could live. The Empire in return sustained the Emperor with blood: a perfect, vicious symmetry which stabilized the magic of five worlds.
We were never certain when precisely in our reign it could be said that we died.
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Deadheading by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
13 Oct 2023
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The Cavalier Conju enazo Argellian an Vilius, last of his name, is not handling it well.
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on wandering stars; or, he who named the winds by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
09 Sep 2023
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Elonoa'a of Iruzayë sets sail across the Sky Ocean Moa'alani to the House of the Sun to rescue his fanoa.
He does not sail alone.
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In the Office of Friendship by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
26 Aug 2023
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First Commander Omo suggested that his Radiancy retire, and that was bad enough, but then he just. Kept talking.
Elish was going to need a second vacation. If he survived this conversation.
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Tying Four Knots by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
29 Jul 2023
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The taboos are arbitrary, extensive, and born of long custom rather than logical sense.
Fortunately, so are Zunidh’s marriage laws.
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with a heart of gold by astrocryptographer for SunInGlory
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
26 Jul 2023
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To determine the shape of the magic that had struck Kip down—if it existed—someone must visit him as he lay unconscious from his weakened heart. Someone must perform a full magical appraisal.
Traditionally such an appraisal required physical contact with the subject.
A fix-it for crownedrooster's "the heart of the world".
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A choice of a different gateway in the jungle loops Fitzroy and Masseo back around to Zunidh. They arrive in the inauspicious span between the publication and the retraction of a certain newspaper edition about a landslide, and, oh, the world is not prepared for the grief of a great mage. Cliopher Mdang will not stay dead, even if the Lord of Zunidh needs to take a chainsaw to the very fabric of time to ensure it is so.
Kip will be fine, of course. Time, not so much.
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By All Accounts by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, Derring-Do For Beginners - Victoria Goddard
15 Jul 2023
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It’s a little-known fact that the Red Company almost met its end before it even formed. They won’t put it in the songs, so let any who aspire to follow in their footsteps be warned: there’s no greater threat to fledgling renegades than the Empire’s tax collectors.
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Trial by Fire by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
09 Jul 2023
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Cliopher sayo Mdang trials as the Sun-on-Earth’s personal secretary. Incidentally, they learn that the taboo against eye contact has lifted, and that the one against touch has not.
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Refraction by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
02 Jun 2023
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“If each of my two natures, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable.” -The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
In a lonely tower, a young man without a name mixes a potion out of an old alchemy book, and in the mirror Fitzroy Angursell looks back.
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Protocol One by astrocryptographer
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
26 May 2023
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Protocol One: The Unexpected Death of the Lord Magus of Zunidh(, the Last Emperor, the Lord of Rising Stars, the Sun-on-Earth, all ten thousand of his titles, his Radiancy, Cliopher’s dear friend)—how it is followed, and how it is not, and how the world somehow continues to turn.
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They are, perhaps, an unusual partnership, the unnamed fourth and unseen fifth members of the Triumvirate. Between them they have enough titles to rival J.E.D.D. Mason, and between them they have one allegiance, one mission, and, for a few short months, one bed.
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“And about Raishan…”
“I have an idea for that,” says Percy. “A way to keep her… preoccupied. More cooperative. If I’m lucky.”
“And if you’re not?”
“Well. I didn’t say it was a good idea. But this is war, after all...”Or, Percy tries to seduce a dragon into a stronger alliance, and finds that the hardest part of the process is telling success from failure.