#skeeve/aahz

[ajasramek]

I am determined to force this fandom into proper existence.

[duxinteritio]

Small fandom that I love and refuse to not give love to.

[vintagerpg]

This is currently my favorite Role Aids sourcebook: Wizards (1983). Look at that cover! It’s recycled — Tim White originally painted it as the cover of John Brunner’s novel Out of My Mind, but it is so good as the cover of an RPG book about wizards. This book also debuts the Role Aids trade dress that persists for the majority of the line’s lifespan.

The structure here is similar to Dark Folk. We get eight profiles on prominent wizards from folklore (Gilgamesh, Circe, Merlin and Morgan le Fay) and fantasy fiction (Shadowjack, S. Carolinus, Aahz and Skeeve and Lythande, and, in an echo of Chaosium’s Thieves’ World, all written by their respective creators). Those profiles are each followed by an adventure introducing and involving their subjects (the exception being Carolinus, who is accompanied by a bestiary; further, Merlin and Morgan appear in the same adventure, naturally at odds with each other). The adventures are of dubious use for ongoing campaigns, but I think they are all pretty solid one-shots, especially for players already familiar with the characters.

I think the inclusion of Gilgamesh is particularly noteworthy, partly because the culture that produced Gilgamesh is so historically remote from us, partly because Gilgamesh also cuts against most of our current cultural preconceptions about what a wizard is (honestly, with the exception of Merlin, I think all the profiles in the book do this to a degree). I find that super refreshing.

Having Shadowjack in the mix is neat too, since Gary Gygax included the Zelazny novel in Appendix N. It’s cool to see him appear in D&D terms, even if he isn’t in an official D&D product.

[duckingwriting]

First Lines Tag Game

Tagged by @author-a-holmes 

This is my first time doing a first line tag so I’m super excited about it. I’ve got WIPs(those most recently updated) and finished stories(if finished they’re linked) all mixed in so...yeah.

How To Play:

Share the first sentence of your last ten stories. If you haven’t written ten stories, share as many first sentences as you have.

I’m tagging: @wildswrites @beacarline @ashen-crest @astorythatwritesitself​ 

1. “Second Chance” - Original WIP

Ambrose stared down at the small child.

A short story that @sapphicwitchstudio​ will hopefully be doing an illistration for at our local comicon later this year. I'm not sold on the tilte yet.

2. Untitled Sparrington Soulmate AU

James rubbed his temple as he watched the captain sway his way around the deck.

A WIP Jack Sparrow/James Norrington Soulmate AU that I honestly don’t know when I’ll get around to finishing it. It’ll be a one-shot when I do.

3. Tsu’tey/Jake ABO Untitled story

Tsu'tay traced his hand down his mate's side.

This one is getting closer and closer to being done and I still desperately need to name it.

4. Robin Hood but gay and western - Original WIP

"Our hearts are broken.“

One of my main WIPS. Really not that catchy is it?

5. Safe Home - Reader Insert Bi-Han from Mortal Kobat

You curled up on yourself, your arms wrapped tightly around your legs that were crushing against your chest.

Short little one off voice kink fic.

6. Soft Charles - Charthur short fluffy fic WIP

Arthur rubbed the back of his neck and looked around the forest for any sign of the other man.

My wife loves Red Dead Redemption 2, while I’ve never played and only watched her paly a bit here and there it floods my timeline. I know she loves this ship and I saw someone posting that Charles never gets to be the soft one so I’m working on it.

7. Untitled NSFW Dax/Worf - dirty fic WIP

Worf rubbed the back of his neck as he tipped his head back to stare at the bright lights running along the hall as he approached his room. .

Huh...this one or the above one may need a change in first line...That said my wife loves Startrek and this is one of her favorite ships. IDK anything about the show so this one is really slow going because there’s so much to read through so I don’t royally screw this up.

8. Tsu’tey Sees - HC Avatar part 1 series

Tsu'tey was adapting to life with Jake as Neytiri's mate.

I love head cannon posts and sometimes I just have to write for them. This Tsu’tey/Reader fic is the result of one. 

9. Pervect Relations - Aahz/Skeeve Fanfiction

"Hey, Kid, got a moment?" Aahz's voice drew Skeeve's attention from the paperwork that continuously seemed to pile up on his desk.

Cheating a bit, technically two sentences but whatever, this is for a fandom I don’t think many people even think about or know and the ship...I’m self indulging. 

10. “Better Alarm” - Original Shortstoy

Bast sat and stared down at the sleeping human.

Haven’t quite decided what I’m doing with this short story one way or another but it is technically done?

[ao3feed-lokitony]

Безумный альянс

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/qhpNmK0

by Aurus (Aurrus)

В корпорацию МИФ обращаются как правило с нестандартными просьбами, но ещё никогда не просили остановить войну нескольких измерений...

Words: 15987, Chapters: 6/6, Language: Русский

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Myth Adventures - Robert Asprin

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Loki (Marvel), Skeeve (Myth Adventures), Aahz (Myth Adventures), Tananda (Myth Adventures), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers, Massha (Myth Adventures)

Relationships: Loki/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: POV First Person, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, the MYTH team meets the Avengers

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/qhpNmK0

[winterroseposts]

Book 5 in the Myth Adventures series.

The Great Magician Skeeves' partner Aahz followed a group of fugitives into an unknown dimension and hasn't returned in days.

Searching for Aahz with half their motley crew in tow Skeeve finds him facing a murder charge in a dimension with vampires, werewolves and an atmosphere straight out of an old monster movie.

Well, this is another fine myth ....um mess they've gotten into.

SPOILERS

This is another fun and fast paced adventure. The vampire city was entertaining with vampires who are afraid of humans and werewolf activists.

It's an interesting idea that the Deeval dimensional experts at the Bazaar where Skeeve and his friends live made a house which stretches across two dimensions. Why didn't Aahz known which dimension the back door lead too? What can be seen through the windows?

Skeeve and his friends are as likeable as always. I didn't care for his insta-crush on Luanna.

4 stars

[holy-sciences]

If you think nobody else knows about Aahz and Skeeve, you are sadly mythtaken.

Y’all better witness how quickly I was taken out back and dispatched via pun, exactly as Robert Asprin would have wanted.

[rhetoricandlogic]

Weird Novels, Absolutely Priceless

I read them all at some point in time and they are all unforgettable for one reason or another. In their way, they are all excellent, although on different levels: some more on characters, some on humour, some on the messages they transport or all of the above. I loved all of them and they still have (some after years and several re-reads) my highest ratings. I’ll leave out the obvious choices like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (and that despite it holding the #1 place in my heart).

In order to be spoiler-free, I’ll not link reviews, just post the “official blurbs” below the title/author. All the blurbs I shall take from Goodreads.

Shelf Monkey - Corey Redekop

Thomas Friesen has three goals in life: get a job, make friends, and find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all three. All is not peaceable within the stacks, however, as discontent steadily rises, aimed squarely at talk show host Munroe Purvis, whose wildly popular book club is progressively lowering the IQ of North America. But the bookworms have a plan—plots are being hatched and the destruction of Munroe is all but assured. As Thomas finds himself swept along in the malstrom of insanity, he wonders if reading a book is all it's cracked up to be.

[My fav quote: “Literature is a virus.”]

Cosmic Banditos - A. C. Weisbecker

Mr. Quark is a down-on-his luck pot-smuggler hiding out in the mountains of Colombia with his dog, High Pockets, and a small band of banditos led by the irascible Jose. Only months before, these three and their fearless associates were rolling in millions in cash and high-grade marijuana, eluding prosecution on "ridiculously false" drug and terrorism charges. But times have quickly grown lean, and to liven up their exile, Jose decides to mug a family of American tourists. Among the spoils are physics texts, which launch Mr. Quark on a side-splitting, boisterous adventure north to California, where he confronts the owner of the books with his own theories on relativity, the nature of the universe, and looking for the meaning of life in all the wrong places....

[My fav quote: “Unfortunaltely, the evening did not go as planned ...”]

In Seach of Captain Zero - Allan Weisbecker

In 1996, Allan Weisbecker sold his home and his possessions, loaded his dog and surfboards into his truck, and set off in search of his long-time surfing companion, Patrick, who had vanished into the depths of Central America. In this rollicking memoir of his quest from Mexico to Costa Rica to unravel the circumstances of Patrick's disappearance, Weisbecker intimately describes the people he befriended, the bandits he evaded, the waves he caught and lost en route to finding his friend. In Search of Captain Zero is, according to Outside magazine, "A subtly affecting tale of friendship and duty. [It] deserves a spot on the microbus dashboard as a hell of a cautionary tale about finding paradise and smoking it away."In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road is a Booksense 76 Top Ten selection for  iiSeptember/October.

Theatre of The Gods - Matt Suddain

A space-opera, a philosophical quest, a steampunk adventure of epic proportions. This is the story of M. Francisco Fabrigas, explorer, philosopher, heretical physicist, who took a shipful of children on a frightening voyage to the next dimension, assisted by a teenaged Captain, a brave deaf boy, a cunning blind girl, and a sultry botanist, all the while pursued by the Pope of the universe and a well-dressed mesmerist. Dark plots, demonic cults, murderous jungles, quantum mayhem, the birth of creation, the death of time, and a creature called the Sweety: all this and more waits beyond the veil of reality.

Dixie Chicken - Frank Ronan

From the award-winning author of The Men who Loved Evelyn Cotton, this is a novel in which God plays narrator, death is the mystery and sex the possible key. When the successful and adored Rory Dixon's car goes over a cliff into the Irish Sea, his wife Helen is convinced he has been murdered.

A journey through a landscape that includes incest, adolescent despair, drug abuse, suicide fixation, sex killers, corrupt politicians, repulsive old lechers, necrophiliacs, unfrocked priests and corpses dripping blood through the drawing room ceiling into guests' wine glasses.

Another Fine Myth - Robert Lynn Asprin

There isn’t much blurb, it goes like this:

Skeeve was a magician's apprentice--until an assassin struck and his master was killed. Now, with a purple-tongued demon named Aahz as a companion, he's on a quest to get even.

The Myth-Adventures series is 19 books in all. I will admit, it get’s somewhat stale and old after #10 or so but I continued because I couldn’t leave the characters. W/e if you’re done with Skeeve and Aahz, switch to Phule’s company (this is more in the home-zone of those who like superhero-stories).

Recommended to all who loved Bartimaeus, because Aahz is a close match -even if in a completely different setting.

Do you know any weird and awesome books you’d love to recommend? 

[italkstuff]

NaNo Influences #19: The Myth-Adventures of Skeeve and Aahz

My parents had a huge bookshelf in their bedroom which was full of fantasy series, books by Piers Anthony, Alan Dean Foster, Robert Jordan, Mercedes Lackey, and many others. In particular, they liked fantasy that took a different spin on various fantasy tropes or stories, and fantasy that was a little bit silly. Robert Asprin’s Myth-Adventures series is both of these.

The series follows a young magician’s apprentice--and later magician--named Skeeve who, through a series of bizarre circumstances, becomes acquainted with a demon named Aahz, a magician who has lost his powers who takes on Skeeve as an apprentice after Skeeve’s former master dies. In this world, the term “demon” is short for “dimension traveler,” and Skeeve and Aahz go on a number of adventures throughout various dimensions. Each dimension plays host to a different species that has made its way into popular fantasy lore. So you have Imps from Imper, Deveels (Devils) from Deva, and various others. It’s a fun idea, and makes for some amusing characterizations.

As the series progresses, more and more characters join the team started by Skeeve and Aahz, and the series ends up being something of a team story, which are stories I always enjoy and ones that I’ve definitely taken influence in. In a lot of my stories, I like creating a team of characters, and having them interact and grow, both as individuals and as a group. In particular, I took influence from the book in the series called “M.Y.T.H. Inc Link.” This is the seventh book in the series, and the first one where Skeeve is not the sole narrator of the story. By this time, the team has been established, and at the end of the previous book, it was made official, a team of magical problem solvers known throughout the dimensions, headed by Skeeve and Aahz. Instead of one story, the book is divided into five mini-stories, each told from the point of view of one of the characters. What’s fun about this is that each character has a very distinctive voice, so the writing style is markedly different. And at the end, it’s revealed that there is actually a loose connection between the five stories. This goes back to my love for telling stories from multiple perspectives. I also like trying out different voices and dividing a longer story into little mini-stories which, eventually, turn out to be connected. This book really showcases the team as a character, and I love doing that in my own stories as well.

[shoppingfordeals]

Complete Set Series Lot of 17 Myth Adventures books by Robert Asprin Aahz Skeeve $101.99

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?ff3=2&toolid=10039&campid=5337702801&item=391416712453&vectorid=229466 Complete Set Series Lot of 17 Myth Adventures books …

[itunesbooks]

M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link - Robert Asprin

M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link Robert Asprin Genre: Fantasy Price: $5.99 Publish Date: April 30, 2014 Publisher: Event Horizon Publishing Group Seller: Event Horizon Publishing Group, LLC Multiple Myth-Perceptions! M.Y.T.H. Inc. is experiencing growing pains. Everyone is trying to contribute, and getting used to being partners instead of employees, but any time you fool around with business or magik, things can get dangerous. The Great Skeeve, the boss of the organization, has had many adventures with his scaly green demon mentor, Aahz,  but each of the partners has his or her own take on the operation, and each has a personal tale of Myth-Adventure to relate: Guido’s Tale Chumley’s Tale Massha’s Tale Aahz’s Tale Gleep’s Tale Review Quotes: “Give yourself the pleasure of working through the series. But not all at once; you’ll wear out your funny bone.” –The Washington Times “Asprin’s major achievement as a writer—brisk pacing, wit, and a keen satirical eye.” –Booklist “All the MYTH books are hysterically funny.” –Analog  “Breezy, pun-filled fantasy in the vein of Piers Anthony’s Xanth series … A hilarious bit of froth and frolic.” “Tension getting to you? Take an Asprin! … His humor is broad and grows out of thefantasy world or dimensions in which his characters operate.” –Fantasy Review “One of the finest blends of fantasy and humor ever written.” –Baryon Online http://dlvr.it/R3jTtD

[ao3feed-lokitony]

Безумный альянс

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/zuxAQ14

by Aurus (Aurrus)

В корпорацию МИФ обращаются как правило с нестандартными просьбами, но ещё никогда не просили остановить войну нескольких измерений...

Words: 15987, Chapters: 6/6, Language: Русский

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Myth Adventures - Robert Asprin

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Tony Stark, Loki (Marvel), Skeeve (Myth Adventures), Aahz (Myth Adventures), Tananda (Myth Adventures), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Steve Rogers, Massha (Myth Adventures)

Relationships: Loki/Tony Stark

Additional Tags: POV First Person, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, the MYTH team meets the Avengers

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/zuxAQ14

[winterroseposts]

The Great Skeeve -extradimensional magician, his business partner Aahz and their various assorted friends & allies are working for the mob at the Bazaar at Deva.

Just when things are going smoothly the mob brings a new proposal, a little IOU is causing big problems and the best card player in town challenges Skeeve to a game he has (almost) never played before.

SPOILERS

Book 6 in the Myth Adventures series

This is fun book with a likable protagonist in the shape of Skeeve. He's a mostly inept magician - are there any ept magicians? Skeeve's specialty is more people and making solid friendships.

The supporting cast is full of colourful characters and there's a twist at the end.

4 Stars