Originally posted on Crossroads of Dereth Tales Forum, Month Unknown 2000 This is another of my AC Darktide stories, one that I had forgotten about until a chance link from the TAO website lead me to find this and the “A Kiss Goodbye” story. I think I wrote this mostly to celebrate finally learning some [...]

Originally posted on Crossroads of Dereth Tales Forum, April 2000 The final part in the “creation” story for my Asheron’s Call character, Rhyssa Fireheart. Playing this character, and writing stories like this one (several of which I can no longer find, sadly), are a few of the reasons why I ended up “becoming” Rhyssa Fireheart, [...]

Originally posted on Crossroads of Dereth Tales Forum, March 2000 Part 2 of the “creation” story for my Asheron’s Call character, Rhyssa Fireheart. ——————————————————————————————— The portal seemed to last forever, but eventually she found herself staring at one of the twirling blue lifestones. Looking around, she didn’t recognize anything; this dry, desert land certainly wasn’t [...]

Originally posted on Crossroads of Dereth Tales Forum, February/March 2000 When my RL friends and I started playing Asheron’s Call retail back in December of 1999, we filled all our extra character slots with mules, and chained them together to form a tree. One of my characters was a mage that I named Rhyssa Fireheart. [...]