Back to Work
"Well, you're in a good mood," Rian said as she arrived to breakfast the next day.
"Rest is over. Time to get back to work," Lori said as she sat down.
Rian nodded with a smile as Umu sat next to him, pressed up against his side. Lori analy...
2022-09-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, production of the rocks for making the farm plot drainage continued, this time in the third level. Lori began preparing it after breakfast. Snow had to be bound to not melt and brought down, to act as a protective coating on the rocks to keep them from sticking to each other. In fac...
2022-09-01 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Rian," Lori said as she deactivated the bindings on the air jet, "I need workers for a project."
Rian blinked, pausing in the middle of wiping his nose with his towel and ugh, that was disgusting, and he was going to wrap that thing back around his face too! "Er, sure. I'll ask ar...
2022-08-30 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post"Well, you're in a good mood," Rian said as she arrived to breakfast the next day.
"Rest is over. Time to get back to work," Lori said as she sat down.
Rian nodded with a smile as Umu sat next to him, pressed up against his side. Lori analyzed the smile, but it wasn't any of the permu...
2022-08-28 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostOne More Day
It soon became clear that trying to build a flood barrier in front of the passageway into her Dungeon would not be practical. The entrance, while wide enough to deal with the daily traffic of everyone in her demesne walking through it every day, would ...
2022-08-27 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSo, this is to inform everyone that I will be taking a break on the last week of September. There will be no updates from the 26th of September until the 3rd of October. This so I can take a break, go on errands, and other IRL stuff. Also, my birthday.
I'll still be posting the ...
2022-08-27 12:39:00 +0000 UTC View PostMikon was roused awake by the feeling of someone on the bed moving with jerking, repetitive movements. She could feel someone's leg moving rhythmically, and while the bed wasn't exactly shaking—it was very sturdily built, since it had originally been for Binder Lori—the weaver could feel the ...
2022-08-25 16:56:34 +0000 UTC View PostResting, Lori soon found, was boring.
How was that actually possible? She'd used to love her rest days, the times when she'd been too sick to go to school or work but not sick enough to need to be taken to a Deadspeaker or doctor! Just staying at home alone, the window open and a binding in...
2022-08-25 16:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostLori almost forgot that she agreed to rest today.
Almost.
She remembered partway through imbuing the bindings on the list she maintained, and for a moment felt both relieved and guilty. Relieved, treacherously relieved, that she had agreed not to work today, and irrationally ...
2022-08-23 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostIt soon became clear that trying to build a flood barrier in front of the passageway into her Dungeon would not be practical. The entrance, while wide enough to deal with the daily traffic of everyone in her demesne walking through it every day, would be hard pressed to continue to function if th...
2022-08-21 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostFinalizing Agreements
"While my demesne is ideally positioned to control your access to the ocean, and therefore to Covehold Demesne," Shanalorre said bluntly, "I have not done so, because it would not benefit us to bar your way. Purely for practical reasons, we ha...
2022-08-20 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostDue to a variety of reasons, scheduling problems, and real life just being terrible (but, fortunately, not 2020 terrible), I won't be able to update Nightmærangers tomorrow and the foreseeable future. Hopefully, this future will only encompass tomorrow and next week.
I'm just as frustrated...
2022-08-20 11:24:12 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after Binder Shanalorre had finally left to go back to her demesne—though probably not for very long, since there were more pregnancies due—Lori woke up with the firm intention of assessing the ability of the riverside infrastructure of her demesne to deal with the possibility of floo...
2022-08-18 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post"Good morning, Binder Lolilyuri."
"Good morning, Binder Shanalorre."
The two of them stared at each other for a moment. Then they both turned away and Lori took her usual seat in the middle of the table, Rian opposite her. Said lord was glancing between her and Shanalorre with another...
2022-08-16 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post"While my demesne is ideally positioned to control your access to the ocean, and therefore to Covehold Demesne," Shanalorre said bluntly, "I have not done so, because it would not benefit us to bar your way. Purely for practical reasons, we have no way of enforcing such a toll save your voluntary...
2022-08-14 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Baseco Horror, Part 2
As burning agony began to spread over his body like his nerves being set on fire, Sanny reflected that he should have realized sooner. When people talk about fungus, mushrooms are what come to mind. Those tall, usually ph...
2022-08-14 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostA Clear Hazard
After lunch, and binding the warming stones for Rian, Riz and whichever friend Riz had invited to join them for protection to put on, Lori went out to the edge, her test bowl in hand. She'd started carrying a kit with her whenever she went to make be...
2022-08-13 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis was a terrible position from which to negotiate.
When negotiating, one must never let the enemy know you intended to say yes to their demand. Even if they were the only source available, and had an absolute monopoly (sigh…!-!-!-!-!) on a valuable commodity, the position of b...
2022-08-11 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostLori repeated the test, just to confirm it had worked as intended. That included pressing down on the amalgamating bead with her finger to deform it. After that, she used the rest of the Iridescence in the jar as normally, forming beads of various sizes. It was at that point Lori realized that sh...
2022-08-09 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter lunch, and binding the warming stones for Rian, Riz and whichever friend Riz had invited to join them for protection to put on, Lori went out to the edge, her test bowl in hand. She'd started carrying a kit with her whenever she went to make beads at the edge. The jar for carrying beads, a ...
2022-08-07 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Baseco Horror, Part 1
Another line of light carved itself along the sky. It reflected off the clouds above, staining them white as it seemed to make night into day for a moment. A wave of heat came a moment later, hot as an open f...
2022-08-07 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostExpecting Visitors
When Lori woke up from empty dreams, she found that in her sleep someone had started banging loudly on her door to wake her up. After lying in bed trying to ignore it and go back to sleep, then debating whether to bury them in the snow for their ...
2022-08-06 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter recording the day's date on a stone tablet, Lori set about doing what chores she could from the safety and security of her own room. As she imbued the bindings around her demesne—she was still considering whether she should wire some more to her core using the copper they now had availabl...
2022-08-04 16:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostMade some small changes to Nightmærangers 52, mostly after Sanny's fight. It doesn't really change what happens in the chapter... but it does change what was happening with Tammy and the others at the time.
My second Shameful Retcon. Had to do it. For the story! 2022-08-04 14:43:52 +0000 UTC View Post
When Lori woke up, it seemed like an ordinary day like any other. She had a quick wash, breaking in the new bar of soap and setting aside what was left of the old one for her laundry. She should probably do her laundry soon.
Her boots were wet in a small puddle of water, and she took a mome...
2022-08-02 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Lori woke up from empty dreams, she found that in her sleep someone had started banging loudly on her door to wake her up. After lying in bed trying to ignore it and go back to sleep, then debating whether to bury them in the snow for their impertinence, she finally sighed—though it probab...
2022-07-31 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostIn Case of Pregnancy
At breakfast the next day, Lori was trying to find the connection between bound tools, glass and how bound tools function—all the bound tools she'd ever encountered had glass parts with wires from the bead receptacle leading into them—when ...
2022-07-30 16:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe resulting interest rate that was agreed upon left Lori dissatisfied, but since it also left Binder Shanalorre's lord whatever-his-name-was just as dissatisfied, Rian had cheerfully declared it a perfect compromise. Lori would have pushed, but Binder Shanalorre had finally overridden her lord ...
2022-07-28 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostDue to a sudden IRL thing, this week's Nightmaerangers will be delayed to next week. We apologize for the delay. We're fine, but sudden dental appointment is sudden. and prevents explosive pain.
Demesne will still come out on schedule. Again, we're sorry, but these things are sudden.<...
2022-07-28 14:42:16 +0000 UTC View PostShana left the comforting abyss of empty, thoughtless sleep, and everything was cold all over again, save for a very warm spot over her belly. Not very warm but firm, solid and steady arms held her, and a broad, solid back was in front of her. She could feel the tension of ninong Yllian holding h...
2022-07-28 06:26:07 +0000 UTC View Post