The End (For Good) “You don’t need her? You’re sure?” Tommy seemed a little bewildered. It was finally—again—time to vacate The Smiling...

Strange Days With a contented sigh, Bacchae was finally able to collapse onto his throne and breathe a little. Predictably, the party had...

Death, or, I Always Cry at the Curtain Call It was the most anticipated event that Discord had had in a very long time, and opinions were...

Ragnarok As soon as he saw the opportunity, Niko snuck out of the Smiling Goat. He felt bad about not telling anyone where he was going,...

End of Act Three For a long time, Doug just laid on the cold, stone floor where he’d landed. He had no idea how he’d actually managed to...

Raven Heart Part IV It had been a very long time since the two of them had met face to face. Since the end of the conflict with the...

The Cold, Hard Truth “Why are you here, Tommy? To call me the bad guy?” The crowd was still rioting outside, but Kei had largely left its...

The Hanged Man The Smiling Goat was all aflutter the next morning. Suitcases and other bags were piled on tables and chairs, and everyone...

First Stroke of Midnight Niko hadn’t worn a suit in a while. Okay, he supposed he technically wore a suit every day, but not a real,...

What, Were You Expecting a Punchline? Doug wasn’t quite asleep, but he was so zonked out of his gourd that he might as well have been....

A Clown Walks into a Clock Tower Kei didn’t know why she found herself at the clock tower of all places. She could have gone to a bar...

Raven Heart Part III Okin was cold without his jacket. This made waiting for the smith to finish his work all the more agonizing on the...

Raven Heart Part II Okin remembered having wings. He could recall the feeling of gliding through the purples and greens of the Other as...

Justice After that first afternoon of coming back to the Smiling Goat empty-handed, Tommy relinquished the idea of ever finding Kei....

Raven Heart Part I In an age very different from ours, back when the cosmos was still young, the boundaries between reality and the Other...

Niko Borozov and the Quest to Deal with this Supernatural Bullshit He wasn’t going to lie, Niko had gotten pretty fucked up from his...

Gilveidan the All-Knowing’s Answer to Magic, the Cosmos, and Everything Gilveidan pointedly waited until everyone else slowly cleared out...

A Reminder of Relevance Tommy hung up the phone. It was an old-fashioned rotary model, manufactured in a garish shade of mustard yellow,...

Multilayered Antagonism Kei was tired. Kei was always tired. The price for ambition, she supposed. It was just something she’d learned to...

Niko and Doug go on a Vision Quest Kei had been annoyed that they were bugging her again, but after a little more wheedling she’d...