Khenal

Peek: Old Staiven

Staiven happily moves around his alchemy lab, glad to finally be able to put it through its paces after what feels like decades.  Sure, he was able to shake the dust off when he tried to examine the so-called go-juice, but that didn't get him any interesting results.  This new concoctio...

Chapter One-Hundred Four

Is it Christmas morning?  Because it feels like Christmas morning.  I don’t see any presents, but I can still feel that kind of tension in the air.  I even make sure things are going smoothly for the two big potential problems, in case I’m reading this energy in the air wrong.<...

Chapter One Hundred Three

There’s something in the air today, but I can’t place what it is.  The bakery across the street isn’t making anything too special, as far as I can tell, though the delvers are of the opinion that everything there is special.  I wonder if the spiderkin are still wanting to...

Peek: Answers to Questions

Before I get started, I just want to take a quick moment to thank you all for reading and helping support me.  When I first started writing Dungeon Life, I wasn't even sure I'd post it anywhere.  Seeing the response has been almost overwhelming, and I hope to continue to tell the story ...

Chapter One-Hundred Two

I watch through Leo’s eyes as he explores the woods, looking for a good spot to set up his FOB.  It’s a bit of a grandiose name for what’s probably going to be a glorified hole in the ground.  There’s quite a few divots in the sides of hills, and hollows in some tree roots, but ...

Chapter One-Hundred One

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Leo

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Leo thinks as he prepares to go on his expedition.  This is the most important thing the Alpha has asked him to do, and is possibly the most important thing he’s asked any of his scions to do, and so the wolf want...

Nudge: Q and A

For next sunday, I think I'll try answering various smaller questions people have.  I've seen a lot of nudge suggestions that would be interesting to answer, but I don't know if I'd be able to write a full peek for.  I'll keep looking at the other Nudges, and will probably make a fresh ...

Peek: Violet

The young dungeon wonders if life is usually this eventful.  She didn't get to experience very much time before her mentor showed up, and showed her how complicated existence can be.

At first, her mentor terrified her.  Even that rat scion of his could have easily subsumed her for...

Chapter One Hundred

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Hullbreak Harbor, First Mate

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The great white prowls the waters, efficient movements seeming to be lazy with how easy they are for her.  She watches the Invader as it defiles her home and her Captain with its mere presence,...

Chapter Ninety-Nine

After they recover and get some people down to deal with the scythemaw body, it starts to feel like scythemaw mania is about finished.  Those three are considered pretty dang stronk and cautious, and if even they had to be bailed out of a hunt, it makes the other delver groups recon...

Peek: More Freddie

Freddie does his best to keep his nerves in check as the wolfkin leads him through the church.  It's made a bit easier by the curious and friendly looks of the various people going about their business.  Some are praying, some cleaning, there even seems to be a small group quietly chatt...

Chapter Ninety-Eight

Everyone stands around the dead scythemaw, trying to figure out the answer to Ragnar’s question: How will they get this thing out of here?  It’s too big and heavy for them to lift, and even if they manage to cut it into pieces, there’s still the matter of all the other scythem...

Chapter Ninety-Seven

I let the Trio enjoy their loot and look back at Aranya and the others.  They’re still waiting, with Yvonne giving a bit of a play-by-play of the shifting hierarchy among the scythemaws.

Most seem to be more or less settled into their spots, but there’s one that seems a prime candi...

Peek: Freddie

On a quiet night, a basket is left on the doorstep of the orphanage.  The larger orc considers if this is the right thing to do... and has to conclude it is.  The wrecked and raided caravan he found the baby in can't care for it, and he has no experience with trying to raise a child. &n...

Chapter Ninety-Six

Aranya, Yvonne, Ragnar, Aelara, and even Teemo are all for luring a scythemaw into Violet (who is also onboard, tentatively), but as they all sit down to plan, they realize something: how will they actually lure the scythe maw in?

“They dinna seem ta be hungry,” points out Ragnar as the...

Chapter Ninety-Five

Maybe a day after the dweller ceremony for the spiderkin, the scythemaws start leaving the water.  It looks like the ones in the underswamps are a bit ahead of the schedule of the ones in the aquifer, or the aquifer ones are a bit slow.  Either way: Happening level is raised to It’s.<...

Peek: It's a Living

In the hours before dawn, the tabby catkin enjoys a bit of quiet with a pipe and a book.  Berdol feels he has a pretty good gig, especially now that Fourdock has a proper dungeon for people to gather in, rather than having to make long trips out to the Southwood, or try to nab a few scraps f...

Chapter Ninety-Four

“Your minds are all made up, then?” asks Teemo of the aranea triumvirate, and the three spiderladies all nod.  Folarn speaks first.

“Not just ours, but all of us in this Enclave.  My fellow tarantulas are no stranger to difficult fights, and we understand the desire to prote...

Chapter Ninety-Three

With the route to Hullbreak being scouted, you’d think the home front would be nice and quiet.  Or at least I’d hope it’d be nice and quiet, but there are two things looking to ramp up.  Firstly: we’re starting to see more scythemaw activity.  None are wandering ou...

Peek: The Sewer Dungeon of Rest

Gather, and hear the tale of how Rest came to be, and how a strange dungeon helped that.  For you see, while many of the cities of the other races develop sewer dungeons after their founding, only Rest had a sewer dungeon before there was a city!

It all started so long ago.  While...

Chapter Ninety-Two

Tarl eventually calms down and heads home to recover.  A good cry, er… rain shower can take a lot out of someone, but it’s good to let it all out sometimes.  I can’t blame him for having complicated feelings about Hullbreak.  Honestly, when he started his story, I was making ...

Chapter Nintey-One

Leo’s been working with the tundra wolves to get them into shape to actually go and help the Southwood, and I’ve been slowly absorbing the information Tarl gave me on it, as well as everything else.  It takes time to properly process all that, and I’ve been busy trying to not freak out...

Bat, hammer, or wrench?

Coda thinks about his title as he flies around in the tunnels, constantly checking and rechecking as progress on the scythemaw bypass continues.  He probably spends more time considering his title than any of the other scions, with the possible exception of Honey.  She doesn't count, th...

Chapter Ninety

Teemo goes and gets Staiven so he and Queen can talk some shop.  I’ll leave them to it, too.  Queen knows what she should and shouldn’t relay, as does Teemo.  She’s tried to talk some with me about alchemy, but it’s a bit outside my wheelhouse.  I understand the concep...

Chapter Eighty-Nine

The new day brings a new delver, and thankfully not of the scythemaw variety.  It feels weird to have the old ratkin delving, but it sure looks like that’s what Old Staiven is planning to do.  Looks like he’s warming up by checking the herbs in the back yard first.

“What’s...

Thedeim Map First Draft

People have been asking for a map of Thedeim's territory for a while now, so I figured I should deliver something on that front.  The scale and perspective are quite a bit off, but it should give a good idea of where everything is.  Even if it's very difficult to map a 3D space in 2D, h...

Chapter Eighty-Eight

I’ve been trying to get Tiny to help narrow down the window for the scythemaws to do their thing, but the big guy can’t get much of a read on them.  He agrees that it’ll be soon, but he also says it seems like it won’t just start instantly.  So the best he can do is say it’s n...

Chapter Eighty-Seven

Aranya and Yvonne exchange a look when Teemo leads Tarl out, and it’s not difficult to tell what they’re thinking.  Something spooked him, and spooked him good.  I just can’t imagine what.  He was unhappy about the affinity broadening, but I think this is something well beyon...

New Nudge Post!

Title.

Ok, more detail than that, heh.  I jsut wanted to take a moment to thank everyone for their support, and to put up a fresh nudge for more peek suggestions.  It's been a while since the old one, so it's difficult to keep up to date with ideas and what y...

Peek: Under the Sea

It's been a long time since any outsiders came.  Only the adults remember what they look like in person.  The children, and the teens, only have tales to go on, and even those tales are whispered.  The Captain doesn't like talk of the outside... and the First Mate doesn't like when...