When Lori woke up, it was on her own cognizance. So unless she'd woken up, done things while half-asleep, and forgotten about them—not unlikely, given anecdotal evidence from her mothers—there hadn't been any emergencies she had needed to take care of during the night. And save for the way her back ached from sleeping on hard stone with only a layer of leather as cushioning, Lori felt refre...
2023-07-18 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostOnce a second bucket was placed to catch water, it was time to eat.
Lori made a little seat of stone extrude from the wall a little bit away from the sink and sat down, one hand on the tube to continue imbuing the binding. It was relatively simple, so she'd be able to form another one another if it ran out of imbuement and dissolved, but she'd rather she didn't have to. She'd have to alte...
2023-07-16 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo, it's that time of month again. No, not that, the other thing. Yes, it's the poll to find out what the patrons want to to read about on this month's Patron Exclusive chapter.
Oh, and my headache is finally gone. Hopefully it doesn't come back next year with the heat.
2023-07-16 09:50:57 +0000 UTC View PostTo Not Shirk Responsibilities
"Tah," Karina greeted her with a wide, welcoming smile as she arrived at the alcove. "Did you talk to Lord Rian?"
She returned Karina's greeting with a nod. "Yes. It was difficult, but I was able to convince him to rest. Ateh Mikon and Ateh Umu were very helpful in getting him to agree. I should have more than two hours to slee...
2023-07-15 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOnce the mine was sealed, Lori would have liked to just seal off her alcove and sleep. They were secure behind her defenses, the lightningwisps should be sufficient to keep bugs or bug-like abominations out, they had air, and the mine and its intakes was sufficiently elevated that most deadly gasses that dragons would likely to produce—egg gas came to mind—would likely pass them by.
U...
2023-07-13 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDinner was without incident, especially after Yoshka fully woke up to eat. Yrria and Tena finally relaxed during the meal, apparently taking comfort in the familiarity of the food. After dinner, she, Karina, Ateh Koyan and Ateh Kayas took the younger ones to the baths.
The dungeon's bath was much smaller than the bath houses outside the people regularly used. Most of the time it was unuse...
2023-07-11 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Tah," Karina greeted her with a wide, welcoming smile as she arrived at the alcove. "Did you talk to Lord Rian?"
She returned Karina's greeting with a nod. "Yes. It was difficult, but I was able to convince him to rest. Ateh Mikon and Ateh Umu were very helpful in getting him to agree. I should have more than two hours to sleep, by the water clock Lord Rian had filled, but knowing him, I...
2023-07-09 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dragon Arrives During Lunch
They were in the middle of having lunch when Karina began to hear a faint sound. It sounded vaguely like a distant dry branch being snapped, but it must be loud if they could hear it over the sounds of everyone talking and eating heartily over the long-delayed meal. Karina looked around in confusion, as did the other children aroun...
2023-07-01 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostDungeon Binder Shanalorre, Shana to some and Great Binder or Lady Binder to most, waited patiently as Lord Rian spoke to Kolinh about the organization of the all-but-militia volunteers for the duration of…. the duration.
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Shana found herself blinking, coming back to her senses as the disruptive emotions receded. After Karina and Yoshka had made their dissati...
2023-06-29 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostKarina led the other children back to Shana's alcove as her friend went to talk to Lord Rian. Everyone was full and a little sleepy, but that wouldn't last. She was ready for that, however.
"All right!" Karina declared cheerfully, the way Lord Rian did. She even put a bit smile on her face. "Now, when everyone's done resting after lunch, we're all going downstairs to take care of the tube...
2023-06-27 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey were in the middle of having lunch when Karina began to hear a faint sound. It sounded vaguely like a distant dry branch being snapped, but it must be loud if they could hear it over the sounds of everyone talking and eating heartily over the long-delayed meal. Karina looked around in confusion, as did the other children around her.
As she did, she noticed Shana was shaking. Her frie...
2023-06-25 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSealing The Dungeon
Each of the mine's doors were finally closed, wooden bars slid into place onto brackets to keep them from opening, blocks of stone stacked against the doors for emphasis, and stone pulled from the ground acting as backstops to secure the doors from swinging open at all. The stone around the first door had been reinforced with a binding of eart...
2023-06-24 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostKarina felt someone nudge her shoulder gently but insistently.
"Karina, time to wake up. I can see the boat."
She sat up, lifting her head from the tsinelas under her head. The stone of the dock has hard against her back. "…wasn't sleeping," she managed to get out as she stifled a yawn, breathing deeply through her nose as she kept her lips closed, even as her jaw opened as far as...
2023-06-22 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis was all that girl's fault! This was all that girl's fault! This was all that girl's fault! This was all that girl's fault!
This! Was! All! THAT! GIRL'S! FAULT!
The words kept repeating in Naineb's mind, a boiling anger beneath all the tiredness, cold, pain, hunger and frustration, giving her the strength to keep going.
It wa...
Slowly, the alcoves around them began to fill up with people. They were tired, sleepy and hungry, and many went straight to the alcoves their family had claimed to go to sleep and let someone else take care of the rest. Others were still bringing things down, carrying more beds into alcoves or other things down to the third level where they had the dungeon farm. Shana and Karina made sure the c...
2023-06-18 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostKarina stopped humming 'Sleep Without Colors' as her younger brothers and sisters all finally fell asleep. Cif, Jivoy, Malli and Siithia were lay on the bedrolls they'd put on the floor of the alcove her family had claimed. Normally it would be hard to get them down for a nap. However, they were all tired since they'd been woken up when it was still dark and had needed to carry all of their fam...
2023-06-15 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostEach of the mine's doors were finally closed, wooden bars slid into place onto brackets to keep them from opening, blocks of stone stacked against the doors for emphasis, and stone pulled from the ground acting as backstops to secure the doors from swinging open at all. The stone around the first door had been reinforced with a binding of earthwisps for a pace in all directions. The reinforceme...
2023-06-11 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostJust a fun, silly thing I posted where this story is available publicly.
Hello Internet friends and welcome back to our campaign! The new season is starting soon, and so as a refresher, I thought I'd give you all a treat and show you the stats of the characters we'll be playing with. Not the whole spread of course, we don’t have the time to go Adjective ...
2023-06-11 15:18:37 +0000 UTC View PostSo... due to IRL things, I will be stupidly busy on the first week of July. To that end, there will be no updates from the 3rd to the 7th. Regular updates SHOULD resume on the 10th. It sucks, but if I don't make time, my family will never let me forget it, and my brother will probably disown me, so... (shrug)
Yes, it's what you're probably guessing.
Since we've started back up...
2023-06-11 10:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostThe Summer Dragon Comes
When Dungeon Binder Lolilyuri, Lori to most, awoke that morning, it was by snapping violently awake knowing a dragon was coming.
"About time," she muttered to herself as she got out of bed. She reached out the bindings of lightwisps she had anchored to the corners of her room, checking their imbuement out of habit even as she activat...
2023-06-10 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostAfter the first time a dragon had passed over her demesne and caught her unawares, Lori had steadily started upgrading her Dungeon's defenses as well as its ability to house the people of her demesne for extended periods of time. More food storage, more water storage, more space for people, more space to bring in the demesne's resources, better defenses against dragon born abominations better a...
2023-06-08 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostThe uproar seemed to have started in full by the time Lori had cut through the dome and reached the hill that contained the demesne's only dragon shelter. The technically-still-functional but currently-inactive mine had a well-worn path to it nowadays, and someone had even taken the time to take some of the flattened river rocks and arrange them into steps at some points of the path. The entran...
2023-06-06 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSo, my headaches are still a thing, and try as I might, I have to slow down to deal with it. I'm sorry, but I must announce that for the next two weeks, until this damned thing goes away, I'll have to throttle things down to twice a week, Mondays and Fridays. Hopefully I won't lost for to long, but that's what I prayed last week.
2023-06-05 05:40:47 +0000 UTC View PostRian had put a lot of fruits in the sack. There was so many, in fact, that Lori couldn't finish it. Lori gave the sack to Riz to dispose of the rest of it before settling down to get some work done before they reached her destination. While Riz and the other four ate, they passed through the boundary between her demesne and the rest of the world.
The summer heat suddenly slammed into Lori...
2023-06-04 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Dungeon Binder Lolilyuri, Lori to most, awoke that morning, it was by snapping violently awake knowing a dragon was coming.
"About time," she muttered to herself as she got out of bed. She reached out the bindings of lightwisps she had anchored to the corners of her room, checking their imbuement out of habit even as she activate them. Light filled her room, making her wince at the s...
2023-06-01 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostSo, quick poll which will only last for a few hours! Vote on one of the names below. It will affect an upcoming chapter. Consider this a vote for a non-lori Best Girl!
Yes, you've seen this poll already, had to delete the previous one because a name there wasn't supposed to be.
EDIT: Well, the votes have it, and it seems Karina has won!
2023-05-31 08:29:28 +0000 UTC View PostDue to recent events---a headache that started on Wednesday and hasn't really gone away, just gotten weaker and stronger to no pattern i can recognize---I might have to delay updates by a week as I either get it to go away or learn to put up with it. I'll still put up a chapter on the 2nd, but depending on how things go, the next might be delayed until the 12th. Sorry guys.
UPDATE: after ...
2023-05-26 03:48:11 +0000 UTC View PostA bit belated, but yesterday I’ve started writing Volume 3. Expect it on June 2nd, my time.
Editting for all the written parts of the first volume is done. Realistically, I should give it one last read to check for typos (there‘s always another typo), so…. Anyway, I still have to write 3 new chapters, some scenes that need to be added because of the editing (mainly having to d...
2023-05-20 14:09:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's done! The editing of the 132 regular chapters of Demesne is officially done! Hopefully I caught all the typos on this pass now, because if not...
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Moving on!
So, I changed the ending of the first volume slightly. The original that I posted here ended like this:
Mikon reached over and patted Riz on the shoulder, instantly making the w...
2023-05-16 13:49:39 +0000 UTC View PostSo, while I have everyone here...
I'm like 70% finished with the edits for volume 1. No illustrations commissioned yet, which will be why publishing is being drawn out to June at the very least, but I'll get there. In the meantime, what sort of book-exclusive chapter to you guys want to see in Volume 1 (besides a map, yes, I know)?
So far, I'm thinking some kind of chapter with Lo...