Twin Cities by Night

Shaken by their brush with an uncanny hound in the dark, Sir Goliston and Baldrick finally ride into a strange, thriving borderland where wealth flows, war seems distant, and the Tower of the Sea rises over reclaimed waters. Welcomed with legendary wine and fine hospitality, Goliston struggles to balance courtesy, faith, and temptation in a hall where everyone seems just a little too content. When...

With his new heraldry claimed and Sir Amaran’s generous gifts swelling his status, Sir Goliston settles into life as a household knight—until restlessness and Sir Greor’s tales of distant wonders push him toward his first true quest. Charged to seek a fabled vintage and unravel the mystery of a captive countess in a strange land, Goliston rides west with young Baldrick at his side, eager to earn s...

Newly knighted and still finding his footing, Sir Goliston remains in Camelot to prove himself worthy of courtly life. When Queen Guinevere holds trials to select her personal knights, Goliston must navigate the unfamiliar world of romance, etiquette, and falconry under her direct scrutiny. Eager to honor his king, impress his queen, and live up to Sir Greor’s faith in him, Goliston steps into his...

In his second day at Camelot, Goliston steps from wide-eyed newcomer to a man poised on the threshold of knighthood. As he navigates the city’s glittering courts—testing his courtesy, studying heraldry, and witnessing the grandeur of Arthur’s household—he discovers that even the smallest gestures can catch the eye of powerful knights. A generous patron steps forward. A priest tests his faith. And...

A year after the Battle of Tara, Goliston spends a long winter taking stock of who he is and who he might become—gaining experience, weathering family omens, and quietly sharpening the skills that set him apart from his brothers. When spring finally breaks, he rides out at Sir Greor’s side with a larger entourage than he’s ever seen, bound for a place he’s only heard about in stories: Camelot. Alo...

In this second prelude, Goliston leaves the safety of character sheets and campfires behind and rides into his first true test of knighthood on the rain-soaked field of Tara. As King Arthur’s banners advance against the Irish host, Goliston serves in the reserve beside his aging lord, Sir Greor, tasked with keeping armor tight, lances ready, and fear well hidden. When the chaos of battle scatters...

Sir Goliston begins not as a famed champion of Camelot, but as the overlooked fifth son of a poor knightly family—burly, big-hearted, and very far from glory. In this prelude, we sit in on the early days of his story: choosing his homeland, culture, faith, and the passions that drive him, all against the backdrop of Arthur’s Britain in the Romance Period. As Craig walks Adam through King Arthur Pe...

Margaret returns to the Silver Dollar under her alias to quietly check on Lavender and confirm whether anyone else has been harmed. A slow night at the saloon brings more questions than answers—and an unexpected discovery that shakes her composure. Back at camp, tensions rise as she and Bjorn clash over secrets, responsibility, and what comes next. Meanwhile, Gregory wrestles with troubling news a...

With the body pulled from the river now shrouded and carried to the mission, the question shifts from what happened to who will do anything about it. Sister Margaret leans on her war-time medical experience to examine the stranger, narrowing down how long she’s been dead and confirming one unsettling detail: this is no weathered drifter or camp follower, but a woman of clear means whose absence sh...

As the first real chill of the season settles over Missouri Crossing, Bjorn throws himself into work and watchfulness—trying to balance providing for Johan with quietly gauging just how lawless this new town might become. Gregory, meanwhile, is finally back in his element at the forge, trading tools for furs and finding a small rhythm of normalcy in the constant clang of metal and flow of customer...

Inside the storm-lashed campus, everything converges on the old barn. As Alex fights to turn the security house into a last line of defense, Mike and Derek stagger through the chaos, blood on the snow and too many bodies behind them. Inside the barn, Wayne awakens to a gathering that feels less like a school and more like a shrine—where faith, fear, and something much older than either are all sta...

A violent eruption inside the Bismarck campus forces the group into a desperate fight for survival as the storm outside grows as fierce as the danger within. When the halls flood with chaos and the night turns predatory, every choice becomes a matter of seconds. Far from safety and cut off from one another, the only path left is forward—into the blizzard, into the unknown, and toward the heart of...

  What was supposed to be a quiet night of questions at Dakota Adventist Academy explodes into chaos as the boys of the school turn on Wayne, Alex, and the others. Separated in the dark, hunted through snow and hallways by knife-wielding students, the investigators are forced to abandon careful investigation for raw survival—and the academy’s cheerful motto starts to sound like a threat instead of...

A quiet walk back toward camp turns into an unexpected detour when Sister Margaret is swept into a surprise Sister Michael has prepared for her—one small, much-needed moment of comfort in a town that rarely offers any. But just as Margaret begins to relax, something jolts her back to reality: frightened voices, running footsteps, and a commotion gathering at the riverbank. When she rushes outside,...

Sister Margaret wakes to a late start, a guilty conscience, and a reminder that the church in Missouri Crossing is held together as much by quiet forgiveness as by canvas and nails. When Lavender arrives at the tent seeking help, Margaret does what she does best—patches wounds, offers comfort, and quietly takes note of how wrong this strange bite still feels. Determined to follow the faint trail o...

Tension has been building for Margaret ever since the settlers struck their uneasy bargains in Missouri Crossing. Convinced something in town isn’t right—and unwilling to wait for someone else to act—she slips into the Silver Dollar to see the truth for herself. What she finds is a crowded, complicated place where power, fear, and survival quietly mix beneath the surface. A risky attempt to blend...

With the centaur camp in ruins and the conductor’s broken plans echoing in their minds, Alex, Farö, and Morales are left with a single grim truth: the thing that came through the sky isn’t finished with them. Out on the open prairie, far from the safety of Douglas and with the night pressing close around their headlights, the trio are forced into one last, desperate gamble to keep the horror from...

Under a sky that still refuses to shine, Alex, Farö, and Morales finally come face-to-face with what was dragged in from beyond the lonely sky. In the flickering light of the centaurs’ camp, a misshapen creature tears its way into the world, and the fragile balance between mortal terror, divine will, and something utterly other collapses. With panicked centaurs caught between worship and survival...

Gregory’s work to secure land for the settlers leads him deeper into the heart of Missouri Crossing’s power structure. A quiet stare from a well-dressed gambler draws him into a tense card game with stakes far beyond money, while a meeting with the town’s shrewd land agent forces Gregory to negotiate hard just to give his people a fighting chance. Deals are struck, signatures promised, and the fou...

As Missouri Crossing stops being just a destination on the horizon and starts becoming home, Gregory finds himself pressed into a role he never really asked for: the man who chooses where everyone will live. Torn between land by the sawmill, space near the livery, and the shadow of the coal mine, he walks the edges of town to weigh safety, resources, and what it will take to keep his family—and th...

Following the chaos in Douglas, Alex, Farö, and Morales head west into the dark prairie, guided by Weston and the strange pull of a single star burning alone in the sky. What begins as a careful approach quickly turns into a tense crawl toward an isolated camp where ash-marked centaurs gather around a woman feverishly repeating symbols and snatches of music only she seems to understand. As the sci...

A quiet night in Douglas doesn’t stay quiet for long. As Alex, Farö, and Morales try to unwind after the long road north, strange rumors in the bar stir new questions—talk of centaurs acting unlike anything the locals have seen before, gathering in unusual numbers and growing bolder by the day. A tense atmosphere settles over the group, and just when it seems like nothing more than small-town unea...

On an almost empty Wyoming highway, three scions—Alex Hollinger, Farö Midand, and Blanca Morales—are hours deep into a road trip that was never really theirs to refuse. Frayed nerves, cramped seats, and clashing ideas of leadership are bad enough… until they realize the night sky above them is nearly empty of stars. A strange column of smoke on the horizon and a stampede of ash-marked centaurs for...

In Death Masks, Marco Giovanni returns to Rita’s secluded estate—where apology and devotion intertwine in chilling ritual. What begins as a confession unfolds into revelation, forcing Marco to face the truth about loyalty, power, and the family’s ancient expectations. Beneath the surface of civility lies ceremony older than Venice itself, and a descent that blurs where faith ends and the grave beg...

The night begins with blood, silence, and the weight of choices that cannot be undone. Marco Giovanni and Jamie find themselves deep in the consequences of survival, bound together by secrecy and necessity. What was meant to be a simple hunt spirals into something far more revealing—about Marco’s nature, his guilt, and the quiet, consuming hunger that drives him. As the pair retreat from the chaos...