Hi, check out this story I've been writing with my cousin.
You can find it on both deviantart and wattpad
It's called Lost Artifacts and it's about a group of unlikely heroes, as they work to keep six magical artifacts, that have been hidden and divided across the realm, out of evils hands.
This story has magic, vampires, werewolves, found family, violence. All the things you're probably looking for in a story. But even if you don't end up liking Lost Artifacts, we have more stories we are in the process of writing that you might like, so keep an eye out for those.
It currently has three chapters posted, and we are planning on posting one chapter a week on Friday or Saturday. No specific time at the moment, but probably around night Eastern Standard Time.
This is where most of my art time has gone, so if you like my art you'll get to see it more frequently with this.
Once a normal human, now an entity closer to a demi-god in form. They never stay in one world but chose to set a home point in Twisted Wonderland for other adventurous or lost souls, while also claiming the title of Housewarden (Dormhead) of Ramshackle.
No, not about storage caches when prepping for the Apocalypse. Weâre talking Sealed Evil in a Can. Or Sealed Good. Or Lost Artifacts. Or any of a number of items and people that you want in your plot, but donât want your general population to know about or encounter until the appropriate story moment.
So they have to be out of casual sight, but someplace your hero (or villain, or both) can get to. Thereâs a couple of good ways to pull this off.
First, and most handwavy, the hidden thing or person has always been there, you just have to meet the exact right conditions to see it, access it, or wake it out of its thousand-year nap. A lot of Masquerade worlds rely on Invisible to Muggles to pull this off. While that may be convenient for the plot, it may not easily jibe with either the original folklore (where usually anyone could see monsters) or with audience suspension of disbelief that anyone would make something reliant on a once-every-thousand-years conjunction or Ancient Bamboo Technology to keep things sealed up or open them when you need to.
(And then thereâs the out-and-out ludicrousness of finding an artifact lost thousands of years ago depending on a glass bottle also locked away thousands of years ago that has to be placed in a statue... less than 1500 years old. Why yes, Iâm still salty about Aquaman, why do you ask?)
On the more realistic end of the scale, maybe whatever it is, is just very far away. And most people donât know about it because they donât travel halfway across the âknown universeâ. This is easier to pull off in stories where thereâs no reliable internet, but it can still work with one. Nobody knows every little nook and cranny of odd phenomena and odder people out there. How many people know about the Brown Mountain lights - and of those who do, how many would be able to draw a connection between them and Naga fireballs to figure out where a foreign monster might be hiding out?
In between, something hidden might not be that far away, but itâs difficult to find or get to unless you have very specific skills and info. In a shipwreck in the Caribbean. Part of a lost desert expedition (shades of The Mummy Returns). Or if you were trying to track down a specific note in an Italian soldierâs diary... when the last historical record of the man had him on mountain sentry duty on Mount Marmolada, 1916.
That would be a very hard guy to track down. Thereâs possibly 10,000 bodies up there no one ever found....
Which leaves open the possibility that (in fiction at least) not everyone on the fatality list was dead. Or that another, secret battle was concealed in the avalanches that day; the perfect plan to freeze a villain, or a hero, and provide your Sealed Evil/Good in a neat frozen package.
On that note - have Sabatonâs take on White Friday, that inspired this bit.
Reimagining History: Phillip Toledano's AI-Generated D-Day Project Inspired by Robert Capa
The Legacy of Robert Capaâs D-Day Photography Reimagined
On June 6, 1944, Robert Capa, one of the most renowned war photographers in history, immortalized the tumult and chaos of the D-Day landings with his Contax II camera. As waves of soldiers courageously stormed Omaha Beach amidst intense enemy fire, Capa documented what would become the largest seaborne assault in historyâand one of theâŠ
came back home from an absolutely gluttonous night out (people love giving candy to a fat witch on Halloween apparently) after a bag of candy, about 5 or 6 candy bars, 4 beers, a crunchwrap supreme, a triple burger, a big pumpkin milkshake, a chili melt, and jalapeno poppers and took pictures but i was way too fucked to take a good picture :(
