SCM2814

Demesne 196 - Smarter, Not Harder

The storm continued into the next day. Lori could feel her demesne getting buried in more and more water, solidified as it was. She had thought she could need to be the one to clear the entryway of snow so that they'd continue to get air into the Dungeon, and was pleasantly surprised that wasn't ...

Demesne 195 - Application Complications

Some applicants were rejected, which annoyed Lori, because it took more time to establish they were being coerced by their parents because one had gotten the other pregnant.

"Your application is denied," Lori said. "Come back when you actually want to do this and not just because your paren...

Demesne 194 - Lori Officiates Marriages

"Rian, tell everyone we're doing the marriages after breakfast," Lori told him as she sat down for breakfast.

Outside, the snowstorm still howled, burying her demesne even more. From what she could discern from the wisps outside her Dungeon, the surface of the river had frozen, trapping the...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #47

The Nightmares That Came To Manila, Part 5

"Hey, Tammy!"

Tammy managed not to start as she realized that someone was talking to her, nudging her little drone. "Huh?" she said eruditely, trying to juggle controlling her main body, which was i...

5/6/22 Update

The latest chapter of Nightmaerangers is experiencing technical difficulties and will likely be delayed by several hours, possibly even until tomorrow. We apologize for the delay, but it has become unavoidable. 

Demesne will post on time on Monday. Hopefully, Nightmaerangers will by po...

Weekly Digest 60 - (#191 - #193)

Seasonal Hazards

The day started normally enough for Lori. Get up, wash her face to wake herself all the way, sit down on her bed and go down her list of reminders to imbue everything there—there was a mark on the water wheel in River's Fork since it didn't need ...

Demesne 193 - Taking A Rest

After the very late breakfast that some people kept mistakenly referring to as lunch—and the wonderfully warm, chewy, hot, succulent bread that annoyingly had to be rationed and didn't have any honey on it because was emergency rations that they were for energy instead of a celebratory sweet tr...

Demesne 192 - Fortunately, No One Asphyxiated

Rian was far too useful. Lori hoped other demesnes only had lords less than a tenth as useful as Rian, because if they were even half as useful, killing their binders would be far too difficult when she finally had to.

Once he had finally managed to get warm in the dungeon—after she'd agr...

Demesne 191 - Seasonal Hazards

The day started normally enough for Lori. Get up, wash her face to wake herself all the way, sit down on her bed and go down her list of reminders to imbue everything there—there was a mark on the water wheel in River's Fork since it didn't need to be run at the moment—go through the list aga...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #46

The Nightmares That Came To Manila, Part 4

It was really tempting to go rifling through these rich people's semi-abandoned houses for spare change, but Sanny grudgingly reminded himself that even though it was more accurate to call him a violent v...

Weekly Digest 59 - (#188 - #190)

And Bloody War Followed

After her experiment, Lori didn't feel any worse off than she usually did after expanding her demesne, which… wasn't bad, but neither was it good. Purely from the perspective of efficiency, it meant altering the concentration didn't affect...

27/5/22 Update

I would like to inform my readers that I will be taking the last week of June off, as a burnout-prevention measure, and so I can do some errands. There will be no updates starting on the 26th of that month onwards. Updates will resume on the first Monday of July. This shouldn't affect the monthly...

Demesne 190 - Theatricality In The Presentation

Making an oven was relatively simple. The stone used needed to have bubbles squeezed out of it so that no sections suddenly exploded due to trapped gasses expanding, but her awareness of wisps made that simpler for her than it would have been for an ordinary Whisperer. Really, the greatest diffic...

Demesne Patron EX SS 14 - Open Hand Demesne Mentalism Skills Tournament

The Open Hand Inter-Sect Mentalism Skills Tournament was a yearly joint venture between the Political Sciences Sect and the Tourism, Hospitality and Business Management Sect. No one was actually required to attend, but top winners of the various categories—physical only, no contact mag...

Demesne 189 - Matters of Marriage

When Rian got back from the edge of the demesne at about midmorning, he informed her that her demesne had grown by 44 yustri.

"That's barely anything!" he said, glaring at his plank as if it had insulted him as he walked next to her at the third level while she checked the bindings of light...

Demesne 188 - And Bloody War Followed

After her experiment, Lori didn't feel any worse off than she usually did after expanding her demesne, which… wasn't bad, but neither was it good. Purely from the perspective of efficiency, it meant altering the concentration didn't affect the difficulty of the expansion process, but that would...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #45

The Nightmares That Came To Manila, Part 3

Sanny woke up suddenly as pain lanced through him, coming from what felt like several gaping wounds all over his body, and from the back of his head there was an immediate explosive tangle of urges and em...

Weekly Digest 58 - (#185 - #187)

Schedule Optimization

After her carefully considered and needful afternoon's mental recuperation session—she most definitely didn’t fall asleep!—Lori was feeling refreshed enough to go down to dinner and eat instead of just trying to force food down her throa...

Demesne 187 - Experimenting With Expansion Variables

"Rian, what is this?"

'This' was a plank on her table, held up at an angle by smooth river rocks like some kind of signboard. Numbers were written on it in char.

"This is a little something I had made up to help you keep track of your progress and encourage you," Rian said brightly as...

Demesne 186 - Lori and Rian Wake Up Together

When Dungeon Binder Lolilyuri woke up from restless dreams, she found that in her sleep she had not become a monstrous, verminous bug. This meant that a dragon hadn't descended upon her demesne in the night, which was always to be hoped for.

She did wonder why she had woken slumped...

Demesne 185 - Schedule Optimization

After her carefully considered and needful afternoon's mental recuperation session—she most definitely didn’t fall asleep!—Lori was feeling refreshed enough to go down to dinner and eat instead of just trying to force food down her throat in defiance of her lethargy so that she wouldn't be ...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #44

The Nightmares That Came To Manila, Part 2

It was a short hop away from the house so that Magenta's family weren't outed as being related to a superhero. Or at the very least, related to an infamous public vigilante. While they had some positive r...

14/5/22 Update

The next chapter of Nightmærangers is experiencing some technical difficulties and will probably be slightly delayed, possibly as late as Monday or Tuesday. We apologize for this delay. 

Weekly Digest 57 - (#182 - #184)

Expansion

For a long time, Lori just lay there, half on and half off her bedroll, the stone cool on her face. Her head… she'd had headaches before. Studying too long, staying up too late, not drinking enough water, trying to keep her patience with her mothers as ...

Demense 184 - When It Rians It Floods

Her second time expanding her demesne went much like her first. In fact, it went as exactly like her first as she could manage it. After all, if she was going to experiment with ways to improve on the methods of expanding her demesne, then she had to be sure that consistent methods yielded consis...

Demesne 183 - The Rest Of Her Life

Rian stared at her. "Uh, forgive me if I sound stupid, but didn't we already go to the edge of the demesne yesterday?"

"Yes," Lori said. "Now I'm saying we're doing it again. I need to see the results of my test."

"What, already? Why didn't you tell me yesterday, then?" Rian said, the...

10/5/22 Update

So, I've decided that this month our special is going to be a Mentalist fight scene.  Mainly because this lets me go back to Open Hand Demesne and visit the Life Sciences Sect, and... all right, it's basically an excuse to make some more Xianxia jokes. =D

Also considering making more t...

Demesne 182 - Expansion

For a long time, Lori just lay there, half on and half off her bedroll, the stone cool on her face. Her head… she'd had headaches before. Studying too long, staying up too late, not drinking enough water, trying to keep her patience with her mothers as they kept lecturing her about nonsense…<...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #43

The Nightmares That Came To Manila, Part 1

As Tammy stripped off the clothes that Kuya Kim's sister Loretta had lent her, she was fairly certain they were all in over their heads.

In one day, the entire city had gone to hell in a way that…...

Weekly Digest 56 - (#179 - #181)

Time To Sit Down

"I'm never leaving my demesne again," Lori said tiredly.

She sat in her room on the Coldhold, curled up in the bed with her feet folded under her as the boat swayed, finally making its way up the river back to her demesne, its storag...