The Adventure Squadron

Greetings and Salutations, friends and fans!

I have a message of vital importance for you this month:

The Adventure Squadron needs You!

I know what you're thinking:  But Tim, what IS this Adventure Squad-thingy that you speak of?  Well, I'm gonna tell ya!

This is a special organization devoted solely to the purpose of providing First Notice and Special Considerations to my Truly Ardent Supporters!  Sounds like a fan club, you say?  Fair enough, then join my fan club and you will receive my newsletter and Free Gifts!

That's right!  By joining The Adventure Squadron you will receive my newsletter: the Call To Adventure!  This will inform you whenever I release a new adventure or run a special offer or sale at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or DriveThru Fiction!  (This will appear most for the DriveThru store, as I have the most control there, and you can actually download a Kindle File or Nook File there as well as a PDF!)

But that's not all!

You also get a printable certificate confirming your acceptance!  Print it out wallet-size and be a card-carrying member, or print it on a full page--suitable for framing--and hang it on the wall of your office, den or study and display your affiliation with pride!

Our chiefest incentive is a growing library of FREE BOOKS!  The first of these is available right now!  It's called The Adventure Sampler and it's a collection of short stories previously published in an array of ezines and anthologies and a few that have NEVER BEEN PUBLISHED BEFORE!  

These include stories that helped influence some of my upcoming series!  Including an Aurivyn story (called "Wondara" at the time), Tales From the Triddian Sector, and The Phantom Sleuth! Plus several others!

There are more stories and surprises on the way, so don't delay...join today!  Otherwise, you could miss out on heart-pounding adventure, super-exclusive promotions, and a growing library of FREE books!  You don't want that to happen!  I don't want that to happen!  

So just click this link and type in your email address and before you know it...you, too, will will a part of The Adventure Squadron!

You have my solemn vow that your information will NEVER be sold nor traded and you are free to unsubscribe at any time!  Nor will you be spammed.  But you WILL receive the Call To Adventure newsletter whenever there is news of new stories for sale, special promotions at any of our storefronts, and of Free Gifts that become newly available to you! 

I know you don't want to miss out on that, so sign up today and listen for the Call!

Until then, I wish you all...

Good Adventuring!
Timothy A. Sayell

Interlude...

Greetings all you Trackers And Scouts!

I'm going to be perfectly honest with you, I don't really know what to talk about today.  I was going to talk about those old Saturday Matinee Cliffhanger Serials, but I'm not really in the mood, so I think I'll save that for another time.

I have been working on the Aurivyn stories about Darg and Maxalla...but not as much as I ought to be.

I think I'm going to blame this on the Coronavirus.  I am one of the many people who ended up losing their day job due to lockdowns, and with the limited re-openings, and now new shutdowns slowly being instituted...I'm a little worried about finances.  This is a terrible distraction for me at a time when I should be getting all sorts of writing work done.

A more pleasant distraction was the recent visit of my niece and nephew.  They wanted to play some Dungeons and Dragons, and so I rattled off a quick adventure mostly on the fly.  I have designed another adventure that we have not played yet, but I think it came out really well.  I am contemplating writing it up with the OGL Labyrinth Lord rules and offering it for sale on DriveThru RPG.

Well, I've got plenty of things I ought to be working on, so I'd better sign off.  Hopefully, I'll have more news to share next time!


Until then, I wish you all...

Good Adventuring!
Timothy A. Sayell

Heroes of Aurivyn

Hail and well met, you Truly Adventurous Souls!

In our last exciting episode, you remember that I shared with you the dubious beginnings of the Aurivyn line.  So today I thought it would be nice to start telling you about some of the heroes who live in that world!

First of all, there's Darg Demandrov.  He's a human, he's a warrior.  Pretty healthy, pretty strong, not too bright.  He lives in the Kingdom of Kordania, but comes a the native Vogadaran family.  When our story begins, he lives in the village of Ramalov in the easter side of the kingdom, and is a guard at the local Keep.  

He has only lived in Ramalov a few months, though.  His hometown was a village on the western side of the kingdom, which has been razed to the ground by a warband of hobgoblins less than a year ago.  Darg was actually found wandering the countryside, obviously the victim of some harrowing ordeal and suffering from a bout of amnesia.

Vlad Ludeski, Lord of Ramalov, treats him like an interesting brain teaser, and tries to help him peice together who he is, where he is from, and how he came to be in his current circumstances.  

Darg does not make this easy.  He is understandably frustrated, impatient, and has a strong abhorrence for the Trycadian immigrants and wizardry in almost any form.  

Secondly, there is Maxalla Trigostian.  She, too, is human.  With a Trycadian father and Vogaradan mother she is one of the "New Kordanians", a new generation uniting two disparate cultures into one.  She is a priestess devoted to the Holy Troika of the Church of Vogadara.  

She has lived in Ramalov her entire life, and has endured several attacks on her village by a pack of gnolls who wish to reclaim tribal lands which were once theirs eons ago before humans ever arrived.

Her Vogadaran mother was once under the thrall of a vampire, who induced her to deliver her own daughter to members of the Cult of Zolgon.  The Cultists planned to sacrifice the baby to their demon lord.  The mother-daughter duo was saved when they inadvertently led a band of priests and guardsmen to the Cultists' shrine.  Maxalla was only months old and has no memory of this, but this incident renewed her mother's faith, and she, in turn, pushed Maxalla into her service to the Church.

A dutiful young woman, she strives to live up to all that is expected of her.  Secretly, she harbors a doubt about her worthiness to serve the Church.  Is it the natural trepidation that plagues us all, or some residual taint placed upon her by the Cultists?  She does not know, but she fears what damage can be done to her loved ones and her neighbors if...or when...she fails.

These two, together, discover a wrinkle in reality caused by some Evil Entity that tried to free itself from the pocket dimension it was locked it long ago, and escape back into an unsuspecting world.

Can this unlikely pair stand fast or fall beneath the attack of some unspeakable Evil?  Follow their adventures and see if they can face "The Wrath of the Ancient Prisoner"!

Until then, I wish you all...

Good Adventuring!

Timothy A. Sayell