Today is apparently Siblings Day. So, here’s the Sisters Darkstone and the Sisters Stonehelm.
Copyright J.B. Norman
This is the best day of Kat Darkstone’s life!
After years of idolising Carlotta Stonehelm, one of Realmgard’s most famous female adventurers, to the point of dressing up as her for four consecutive Heroes’ Eves, Kat now has the chance to adventure with Carlotta Darkstone.
This is how a kid would feel to meet Uncle Wintermorn.
Kat has already helped Carlotta’s younger sister Giulia several times and that experience led to Giulia recruiting Kat for a job the Sisters Stonehelm were working on together.
And Dunstana’s here, too…
“Wow,” Dunstana mutters, nodding in approval as she watches the two other sisters. “They must have some kind of crazy sibling kinesiology! Look how well they work together!”
Carlotta and Giulia are making short work of the roving band of marauding Goblins that Baron Goblinford hired the two pairs of sisters to deal with. As the most prominent Goblin in the gentry of the Free Mercantile City of Porthaven, the Baron takes particularly offence to Goblin brigands rampaging all over the place and giving all Goblins a bad name.
Despite her timid and awkward personality, Giulia is moving after the battlefield with the grace and certainty of a Turboshark in the shallows, blasting the Goblins with her magic and covering her sister’s advance across the battlefield as Carlotta’s sword flashes and dances in her hand.
“So,” Dunstana asks. “Should we help?”
“Quick!” one of the Goblins calls to the others. “Get those two before they start helping!”
“D’oh,” Dunstana groans.
“Yeah,” Kat says, reaching over her shoulder for an arrow. “We should probably start helping.”
Dunstana nods. “Right. You take half. I’ll take half.”
Kat sceptically raises an arrow at her sister as she losses her arrow.
“Okay,” Dunstana says, amending her previous statement. “You take all of them and I’ll shot at them as you do.”
“Wow,” Carlotta says, glancing over at Kat and Dunstana during a lull in the battle. “Look how well they work together.”
Giulia nods. “The harmony they exhibit working together is a perfect microcosm of the Music of the Spheres that governs the cosmos.” She adjusts her glasses slightly. “I could go on, but this is hardly the time or the place.”
She raises her hand and blasts a Goblin that thinks he’s being clever by trying to sneak-attack them.
“Should we help them?” Carlotta asks, pointing over to where the bulk of the Goblins have turned their attention to Kat and Dunstana.
“I suspect so,” Giulia says. “It would reflect badly on you if your interns got beaten up by Goblins.”
“They are not interns!” Carlotta protests. “I’m paying them more them I’m paying you!”
Kat blinks in surprise, her next arrow tumbling from her bowstring as the ground explodes and it starts raining Goblins.
“Run away!” the Goblins cry as they pick themselves up off the ground.
“Wow,” Kat mutters, briefly contemplating the seemingly-heretical idea that Giulia might just be the cooler of the two Sisters Stonehelm. “I wish my sister was that cool.”
“Hey!”
Once again, today’s header image was another real “Close Enough” moment. The two women in the image appear to be holding a string of those tiny electric lights, which don’t exist in Realmgard, but they do look like how Carlotta and Giulia are basically supposed to, except for not having glasses…
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