He cold not look up. The weight on his head forced him to look forwards.
It was a hat, wide of brim with a circular glass tube filled with a heavy liquid he did not know the name of. Some sort of metal. The hat ensured he could not tilt his head up or down, but [...]
Evan stared out at the bleak expanse, the black half-mile high towers in the distance, twisting upwards and inwards like the ribcage of some extinct monstrosity.
The towers were hollow and home to many thousands of people, using mirrors and strange magicks to grow food without soil, enough to ensure that none of them would ever [...]
“David. David! David, get over here!”
David looked up from his work at the train tracks. He nodded, although the movement was more akin to the dipping of a scorned dog, before trotting over to his master.
“Now, David, I think it’s time we have a little meeting. You know, to talk about how this whole work [...]
This one might sort-of follow on from Mechanicattle. Or maybe not.
They rose first in the east.
Great lizards they were, not unlike slow worms or the salamanders one sees on occasion in traveling curiosities. But these things were huge and unnaturally proportioned.
Great teeth as long as swords they had, tough leathery hides, and each one was [...]
The cows were killed in a great plague, centuries ago. It ravaged the world of Korn from pole to pole, and seemed to strike species at random. One day we had all the cattle, the sheep, the horses we wanted. The next day, they were all dead.
It was a blow to the guilds, the tradesmen [...]
The Emperor needs his tea brewed in a particular way.
He is most insistent on this, and of course as a god the very existence of our nation depends on appeasing him.
And so the Korandoricandium was constructed. No, I don’t know what it means, neither does anyone else. The man who built it went mad soon [...]
Eegad, I’m sorry for yesterday guys – no excuses at this end, I just forgot it was a monday as I have a week of holiday this week. I’ll make it up with a special Saturday flash
July 14th, 1877
Rebus ‘Monkeysaw’ Reynolds hacked his way through the deep jungles Kunjiquanistan, desperately trying to [...]