Phantasmal Party by Trey Myr

Author:Trey Myr [Myr, Trey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-21T22:00:00+00:00

A loud, insistent siren woke Ed up from sleep. The siren kept bleating during the long seconds it took Ed to disentangle himself from the half-awake Ingrid and Lucy, and persisted right up until he finally managed to grab the small wearable communication device given to him by the arms master's aide. Thumbing the 'receive' button, Ed caught the trail end of an announcement.

"…port to the guardhouse. I repeat, a horde has been seen approaching Antarctology. All battle ready armsmen with floor eleven access are to report to the portal room immediately. All others are to report to the guardhouse. I repeat…"

Ed pressed the proper button to acknowledge that he'd received the message, but a sleepy Lucy fumbled her own communicator, and the looping announcement still sounded from beneath the bed until she managed to grab it and acknowledge.

Ed started to get dressed while Ingrid, still naked, left the bedroom, coming back a couple of minutes later with a cup of instant coffee which she handed to Lucy. Slightly more awake now, Lucy managed to get dressed too, and left towards the guardhouse with Ed while Ingrid dressed and went to look for her mother or one of her uncles.

The guardhouse was nearly empty. In addition to Ed and Lucy, the arms master and her aide were there, as well as four other house Bjørnson armsmen. Two of the armsmen looked as new as Ed and Lucy. The first, a human wearing leather armor with an arming sword hanging from her hip, looked even younger than Ed, and appeared nervous at what must have been her first all-hands emergency. The second's age was harder to gauge, since his Dwarf Classshard came complete with a long bushy beard. He wore plain looking chainmail and had an axe slung across his back.

The other two armsmen were clearly more experienced, but were all recuperating from what looked like major injuries.

A beautiful greater naga wearing delicate looking silvery armor that Ed guessed was made of mithril had four hatchets hanging from her belt, each one made of a different metal, and each with a different gemstone on the base of its handle. She wouldn't be using all four in whatever conflict was coming, however, as two of her hands were bandaged and resting in slings, and she winced with pain every time they were jostled.

A two meter tall androyad stood next to the naga, bandages covering half of his head. Brown bark-like skin covered the tall male nymph, and a shillelagh rested on his shoulder.

"I am so glad you've decided to join us, Mister Fergusson and Miss Bradshaw," the three armed mantis said acerbically, and then checked something on a folding computer screen that came out of her artificial arm. "This appears to be everyone. As you know from the announcement, a monster horde is approaching our in-Labyrinth installation. For the newcomers among you, the Labyrinth hates it when a group of more than five people share the same location, and it repeatedly tries to expel it.

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