This fantasy short story by game developer Eric Lis, M.D., follows three bounty hunters on the track of a fugitive mage and, as they close in on him, reveals how they may have bitten off more than they are able to swallow. Because sometimes there really is such a thing as too much alcohol …

“Pateon Fnordseeker and the Day He Gave Up Drinking” includes illustrations by fantasy artists Phillippe St. Gerard and William T. Thrasher is available at the Skirmisher PDF Shop for 99¢. 

“Pateon Fnordseeker and the Day He Gave Up Drinking” takes place in the bestselling Swords of Kos Fantasy Campaign Setting, a swords-and-sorcery milieu set in a Dark Ages fantasy version of the Aegean and the lands surrounding it. A century after a Great Cataclysm destroyed the old world, plunged it into chaos, and reawakened magic and all form of ancient races and monsters, the agents of Gods and Titans struggle against each other, nations strive to survive or dominate one another, and adventurers descend into the ruins in search of wealth and lost technology.