Tales of Ordinary, Completely Unremarkable Contractors
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"Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the mercenaries appeared."-Artur Xerxes, inA Century of Disappointment: Memoirs of a Travelling Dwarf
It's never too difficult to land contracts for a set very specialised skills in a continent teeming with werewolves, vampires, giant leopards, undead and, god forbid, elves.
The difficulty comes when these contractors find themselves suffocated in the dense atmosphere of this world's rigid - and mostly unfair - rules; death, suffering and misfortune await those unwilling to sacrifice to bend these in their favour.
In this non-linear plot, you will observe a scarred and deformed farm girl cashing her first bounty posters, a seemingly ordinary barmaid at a tavern in the bustling centre of a sprawling, corrupt city and an enigmatic leader of a firm specialising in dealings any other would consider suicidal.
Watch them all take everything to the next level at every available opportunity, and then feel dread at the thought that this still might not be enough to halt the physical embodiment of doom about to do what it does best
Please, feel free to review and comment! Any sort of feedback can help me become a better writer and write more engaging stories for you.
I used to update once every 3-5 days, but this rewrite is taking much too long...I do hope it will be worth it.
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- armok
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- Rating
- 4.8/ 5.0
- Followers
- 28
- Views
- 6,713
Chapters(11 total)
- 'Round Midnight: III [REWRITE]Sep 11, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: II [REWRITE]Jul 28, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: I [REWRITE]Jul 27, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: VI - For a Few Dollars MoreJul 7, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: V - Give It All You GotJul 2, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: IV - Vorkuta, LeningradJun 26, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: IIIJun 20, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: Interlude - I Didn't Know About YouJun 16, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: IIJun 15, 2019
- 'Round Midnight: IJun 13, 2019
- The Requiem - Introitus: IJun 13, 2019
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Community Reviews(1)
- Merly23@Royal Road★★★★ 4.0I read this story until chapter 4 so probably I won't be totally accurate the review. However I will keep reading this because it is nice.
First of this is purely my point of view, I may be mistaken but it's my opinion and I hope everyone respects it.
First of all, the style is very good, the combination, it is something I have seen but it is pretty well made. The combination of dialogue, narrative and descriptions is perfect.
Grammar falls flat, you see it on the dialogue and a bit on the narrative. If it had been just a few tiny sentences I would have ignored it but the mistakes are everywhere.
Story, it flows naturally and it isn't boring to read. The author knows how to enhance readers to explore and read more. Also it isn't cliche and starts off nice so I got no complains about it.
Characters flow naturally and each has his own personality without much twisting. However some of the descriptions and speeches don't connect well. For example when we have a gentlemen talking like a commoner.
All in all is a good story and people ought to read it!