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      <image:title>Blog - A Feast For Pan - IN THE WASTES, ALL ARE FODDER FOR PAN. In a return to the world of SOIL and Ashen Rider, Hromgir and Arvid of Clan Sparrow are on the run after a raid gone wrong. Braving the frozen wastes of the northern coast, they must reach the mountain pass to escape the Wystran riders close on their heels. Hiding from the riders, they take shelter in the depths of a strange cave, unearthing otherworldly horrors better left buried....</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Abhartach’s Castle - A trio of student witches head off on a dangerous adventure to obtain a powerful artifact—aiming to retrieve it and keep it out of the hands of sinister forces.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Unexpectedly they meet opposition in the form of a classmate they’d once all considered a friend, but who has become a most dangerous foe.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Into The Badlands - Rowan Grim’s world is one which is long on places you don’t want to travel to, and few people return from. But what is out there draws her, and she willingly embraces the challenges which have devoured so many others.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - The Stunning Conclusion… - Now returned to Nightfall Forest, and in the company of the fox bard Ashley, Pip finds the hamlet of Riveroak ablaze. The mouse knight, his war cat, and companion race to quench the fires and hunt the leader of the crow cult, intent on putting an end to her evil.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction for Month’s End - Direk, wielder of the magickal sword Retribution, has been dispatched to destroy an old enemy at the behest of his King. In his pursuit he encounters a newly awakened power which challenges his knowledge of the world, and threatens to up end all he knows to be true.</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.chainstorycore.com/blog/mouse-monday</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-19</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Mouse Monday! - As with all good heroes, Pip does not shrink from danger and adventure. Still, there are times when it would be good to relax at home. But Pip is far from home, and is searching for a powerful sorceress who can help him on his way.</image:title>
      <image:caption>To reach her, however, he’ll have to venture through the Chaos Realm and, as every true hero knows if you undertake that journey lightly, it will end quickly. But Pip has no choice, and therein our adventure begins.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-14</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction for   Deep Winter - Three boon companions escaping a perilous past run into a strange people worshipping a stranger god. An act of defiance interrupts a sacrifice, uncovering a hidden truth and earning terrible retribution.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-31</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction to  ease in the New Year - A forbidden ritual conducted in secret, bathed in blood and death enables a demon to grasp unimaginable power—the power to destroy all enemies and raise himself above all others.</image:title>
      <image:caption>A Samurai, whose duty calls for him to hunt down such a creature. A destiny he must pursue even as the world burns around him.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-24</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, for that break we’ll all need… - Pip Strongpaw and his war cat Darkmoor have dispatched a warlock, freeing a frozen village from sorcerous domination, but this has not put a stop to the endless blizzard. To accomplish this end, they're sent on a quest to a land of giants. There, they're forced to fight the forces of the undead and creatures Pip’s never dreamed of. But in this new foe, the Necromancer, he might face his greatest challenge ever.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-12-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Twelve - Forest Ranger Hazel Boncliff is a Green Speaker, a person with the magical ability to commune with plants. When the king summons Hazel and her assistant to the capital to heal the strange blight affecting his hunting grounds, she’s reluctant to help—least of all because he’s insisting his inexperienced secretary go along for the journey. But with a reward she can’t refuse and the blight’s effects more harrowing by the moment, she’ll take all the help she can get.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Eleven - A chance meeting in the dark forest. A tale of woe and injustice.</image:title>
      <image:caption>Pip Strongpaw, the last of the fabled Great Catriders, must once again wield the runed-sword Feathersbane, to end the chilling menace threatening to destroy the hamlet of Riveroak. A menace of sorcerous origins against which even the bravest of heroes may not prevail.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Ten - Chased into a swamp by homicidal cultists, Kellach and Serinna encounter a fire mage who saves their lives, and then leads them on an adventure that is sure to get them killed.</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Behind the Scenes - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-nine</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-15</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67d1d28afc9c6e05a972aad3/2a8eeee3-9553-4003-85b9-3ad63b48af7d/Cursed-cover2.jpg.webp</image:loc>
      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Nine - She came to them spinning a tale of woe. An army of undead lay siege to the Manor she called home. She had barely escaped and sough adventurers brave enough to free her people.</image:title>
      <image:caption>But to do that Birr Blackjaw and his companions would have to wrest an ancient artifact from the hands of a cult leader who had his own army, and a hellish pet none could hope to defeat.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Nine - Something drew the mage onward, always toward the northwest, through restless evenings and dark dreams of ill portent. Yet when Jareth’s traveling companion, the swordswoman Talin, asks him why, he has no idea.</image:title>
      <image:caption>And then they reached a tiny town at the edge of nowhere, wherein lurked an evil with roots sunk deep in times beyond remembering; an evil that has chosen their visit as a time to awaken.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2025-10-01</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free fiction, Round Eight - Shield Maiden and legendary sleuth Sister Agatha, accompanied by her faithful initiate, Brother Dominguez, sought to enjoy peace and quiet at the Monastery of St. Maryam. Despite their desires, they soon find themselves investigating twin murders. Murders which become all that much more bizarre when the name Tarru-Syn turns up, and their search leads them into the very bowels of the earth, to face a foe from beyond their reality.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-11-05</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free fiction, introducing Dancillius Hrekt, Monster Fighter - Dancillius Hrekt is fairly new to the world of Monster Fighting. All he wants to do is to make a good impression with his peers.</image:title>
      <image:caption>And all they want is for him and his best friend to die.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.chainstorycore.com/blog/free-fiction-round-six</loc>
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    <lastmod>2025-09-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Six - In this new Kavion adventure, our tormented knight clings to the last threads of family and sanity as he navigates the mysterious Village of Morvoss. Haunted by fractured memories, he must confront the darkness around him—and within.</image:title>
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    <lastmod>2025-08-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Blog - Free Fiction, Round Five - In this tale from the Chronicles of the Library of Sorcery, the sorcerers investigate a dangerous magical artifact of mysterious origin. Can the sorcerers uncover the truth? Sorcerer Serena is called to investigate an enormous, carnivorous plant. She finds that a mysterious magical artifact is behind the phenomenon. To find out where the artifact came from and what its properties might be, she consults the Library of Sorcery, where she uncovers the answers, but not on the Library shelves. Can the artifact be banished from the sorcerous regions before it becomes a more deathly threat?</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Thus Far in our Story… - Blade of the Storm Witch</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Thus Far in our Story… - Neryon: Death Grip</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Thus Far in our Story… - On Memories</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Thus Far in our Story… - Blood for the River</image:title>
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      <image:title>Blog - Thus Far in our Story… - Consequences</image:title>
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