Tonight the wine flows free and fast
Drunk and reeling, every ghoul and ghast
I’ll slip them holy water to swill at last
So their doom their quaffs shall carry
As they sadly recall lives gone and past
Lost times when they were merry

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 7, 2019

The blood it drips from dragon chin
Hungrily welcoming is her grin
And if the meal she desires to earn
Doth her gentle overtures spurn
There’s always the waiting fire within

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 7, 2019

Roused to dark passion, she
In tone of cold malignity
Quoth
“I am come to bring doom to thee.”

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2019

1)
[Chantratha drags the King down into the hole]
“How far should we go in, Wolf?”
“Around the first corner, then STOP. And sit down and wait patiently. This’ll take a while. I want to plunder ere I open the butler’s pantry door.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 7, 2019

2)
“Plunder I understand, but explain about the door.”
“When I open it, the source of the tentacles can get up into the Keep. Which will eventually take care of the invaders currently infesting it, but will leave the fortress 3)
…under the sway of the Great Tentacled Thing.”
“Who Is Not To Be Named?”
“I see you know the script, Lady. Indeed. When you speak their names, they can hear everything said near your utterance for the next little while.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 7, 2019

4)
“How smart are they?”
“It all depends on how you measure these things. About as smart as four peasants. Or thirty-two kings.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 7, 2019

1)
“Wolf, may I remind you that I’m sitting right here, and that I DO have functioning ears. And, despite your inferences to the contrary, a functioning brain.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 8, 2019

1)
“Er, Lord Wolf, isn’t the way back to the Lady Chantratha and the King THIS tunnel?”
“That’s the way we came, yes, but I want to see if the back way is still open.”
“I see. A Court secret?”
“Not particularly, but something I…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 9, 2019

2)
…left hidden in it is MY secret.”
“Magic?”
“Palonder, you think too much. That’ll get you killed some day. Possibly this day. That kills almost all courtiers who don’t get poisoned or battered to death in blind rages, first.” 3)
“So a fatal tendency to be avoided, or just deeply hidden?”
“Cess, but you ARE a courtier, already! Get in front of me, where I can watch you.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 9, 2019

1)
“Palonder, don’t use my clever verbal sallies against me. I don’t like it.”
“At the risk of seeming insolent, Lord: so?”
“So you have missed the underlying theme of and essential reason for life in Neverune, Palonder.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 10, 2019

2)
“Oh? And what is it?”
“Don’t piss Lord Wolf off. And do make his life more enjoyable and indolent by the moment. Entertain him. Bring him free food that won’t poison him. Guard him while he sleeps and pander when he wants sex.” 3)
“I doubt one man—even me—can accomplish all that, Lord.”
“Oh, you’re allowed to recruit everyone else in the world to help, Palonder. You just have to pay them all yourself. I can’t fund recruits at present.”
“I see. …#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 10, 2019

4)
…Are the King, the gods, and anyone else aware that everything in the world is supposed to be centered around your needs and wants, Lord?”
“Oh, no! Where would the fun in THAT be?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 10, 2019

1)
“No point, Sire. Wolf knows all those other ways out. Besides, I rather like Palonder. And DO like wine and decent food.”
“Mmm. So do I. Should I worry about the tentacle that’s just erupted from the ground over there?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2019

2)
“Upon due reflection, YES.”
“Does this count as a foe we should take cover from?”
“Oh, yes.”
“So…ah, where, then?”
“I was hoping you’d display some royal initiative.”
“A phrase, Lady, that in my vocabulary means: RUN.”#epicfantasy 3)
“Ah. Well, being as I see tentacles sprouting everywhere now, run WHERE?”
“Do I look like a tentacle expert?”
“I don’t know, I’ve never seen one before. Are kings expert in anything? Aside from wasteful hedonism?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2019

4)
“Isn’t that enough?”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 6, 2019

On great bat-wings monsters dive down from on high
And our wizard sears them to bones with many a spell-blast
Our cleric wrings hands and beseeches him save some spells by
Or none’ll be left when the unspeakable tentacled things come at last

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 29, 2019

O treasure bold, and treasure bright, treasure won by the fortunate few
Adventurers valorous, adventurers brave—what a villainous cutthroat crew

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 30, 2019

Long have I followed your bright career, and thrilled at the deeds you did
So tell me, now that I’m older and wiser far, all the dark secrets that from us you hid

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 30, 2019

1)
“Well, after YOU, Wolf!”
“Right, and let me tug and help you down in here, Lady! Palonder, kindly shove the King!”
“CESS! Wolf, he’s CRUSHING me!”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 30, 2019

2)
“Is that what you’re calling it, these days? Think of the realm—and your rank as courtier soaring. Palonder, get DOWN here! We’re going to need you whole, hale, and hearty! We’ve YEARS of drudge-work to get out of you yet!”#epic fantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 30, 2019