Lori ate breakfast feeling half asleep. She had a feeling she'd stayed up fo far longer than had been advisable, but without some kind of clock in her room, she didn't exactly know how long she'd stayed up beyond her usual bedtime. All she knew was that she'd sent that time dragging up what gener...
2022-05-05 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a night of finally getting to sleep in her own bed, Lori woke feeling only the usual degree of wanting to curl back and sleep. As she finished putting on a new, clean set of clothes, she eyes her bedroll and the clothes in her pack, and debated whether she should keep putting off doing her ...
2022-05-03 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"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 storage spaces full of the ingots of copper she had sme...
2022-05-01 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostThings Left Unattended
"Lori, lunch time."
Lori blinked, looking up from the ice she had been working on. She immediately became aware of an ache in her neck, and winced, slipping her hand beneath her collar to rub at her nape. Ugh, she hadn't realized she'd ...
2022-04-30 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostNightmærangers returns! A new Arc next week for patrons, on the 22nd for everyone else!
Look forward to it!
2022-04-30 08:24:57 +0000 UTC View PostBeyond the Depths of Sleep
Depths.
Dark/deep.
Quiet.
Stillness.
Safe.
Rest.
Sleep.
Turbulence.
Far. 2022-04-30 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In retrospect, while using a perfect insulator as the material for a furnace was greatly advantageous, having a completely transparent material proved to be slightly problematic when the ore inside started to glow with heat. She'd needed to integrate a binding of lightwisps to the structure of th...
2022-04-28 16:00:10 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding a roof over her furnaces took Lori an annoyingly long time. Outside of her demesne, she no longer had the control over wisps that she had become used to, and so things she had taken for granted, like turning stone into a fluid, viscous consistency and having it flow to move the mass, wer...
2022-04-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone! Hope you're enjoying this month's chapters. Just a small announcement, I should be getting back to work on Nightmaerangers soon. A new chapter will hopefully come out this Sunday, or next week. Please be informed that the chapters might be shorter than they were before. This new a...
2022-04-25 12:46:58 +0000 UTC View Post"Lori, lunch time."
Lori blinked, looking up from the ice she had been working on. She immediately became aware of an ache in her neck, and winced, slipping her hand beneath her collar to rub at her nape. Ugh, she hadn't realized she'd been bent over that long… ack, and therewas ...
2022-04-24 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostOneshoda (Deck Technician, Senior Apprentice) woke up to the familiar swaying of her hammock on (Fifth Deck, Hallway Three, Cabin Seven, Station Twenty-Three) the Armada Fabrication Ship Orchard Forty, and took a moment to judge the sway, her eyes still closed. No pitch, no sounds beyond...
2022-04-23 16:22:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone! Thank's to finally getting on schedule, we'll have our Patron-exclusive chapter a little early this month. It's a worldbuilding chapter, with I character I hope to be able to use again in the future, featuring the Armada and Horotracting! Look forward to it appearing in the next day ...
2022-04-23 09:49:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe following morning, after a breakfast of stew that tasted very salty, with the tubers being hard and almost underdone—eh, she had eaten worse—Lori met with Shanalorre, in her office once more. Unlike yesterday, when they had both had militia with them, this morning it was just the...
2022-04-21 16:00:21 +0000 UTC View Post"Well?" Lori asked Rian later that day as she sat in her small room on the Coldhold, imbuing the light there as her lord leaned against the door frame. It was just past the afternoon, and lunch sat heavy in Lori's stomach..
"Well, on the one hand," Rian began, "They have r...
2022-04-19 16:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostPutting on the winter robe was of immense help in staying warm. Worn over her normal clothes and with her rain coat underneath as well, it was quite comfortable… save for the fact her face and hands were freezing. However, unlike other people, Lolilyuri was a Dungeon Binder! And more important,...
2022-04-17 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"Aren't you going to put on your winter robe?" Rian asked as he put the carefully wrapped bundle of Lori's bed roll into the special cargo box in the hold of the Coldhold. The bedroll had been wrapped up and secured by a pair of cords that Umu and Mikon had hurriedly stitched to the bedr...
2022-04-12 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLori was surprised at how day to day life seemed to remain largely the same, even when it finally started snowing.
Oh, there were changes. Their meals became more of a soup than a stew, becoming a bit more watery but warmer, and the addition of the salt was obvious. There also seemed to be ...
2022-04-10 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTired Of Stairs
While Lori did not develop a rhythm, since with every explosion she made slight adjustments to the configuration of the ice, stone and temperature, trying to create better rocks with each explosion of steam, she did become better a dealing with the ...
2022-04-09 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, a handy dandy guide to the in-universe units of measurement... with absolutely no clarification on exactly how long they are. :-D
I will only mention relative scale in comparison to others.
Length:
The coming of winter was somehow still a surprise.
Lolilyuri had simply woken up one morning thinking that everything seemed comfortably cool, and had gone about her morning ablutions, washing herself and changing her clothes—as a bit of an indulgence, she'd put on a pair of the new socks...
2022-04-07 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostLori soon developed a rhythm to breaking rocks. Taking a bit more time between explosions to allow Riz and the people with her—one of whom, to Lori's disgust, was Landoor and ARGH, why did she have to remember that idiot's name so clearly?—to gather the fragments and put them into a pile wasn...
2022-04-05 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Lori did not develop a rhythm, since with every explosion she made slight adjustments to the configuration of the ice, stone and temperature, trying to create better rocks with each explosion of steam, she did become better a dealing with the aftermath. Earthwisps reinforcing the stone stru...
2022-04-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostSalt, Fees, Anchorage, Heat
After breakfast, Lori set about heating her Dungeon. Clearly she didn't need it, but it was the principle of the thing. A Dungeon was at the heart of the demesne, fortress and seat of a Dungeon Binder's power, first and last bastion agai...
2022-04-02 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLori began preparing the third level for farming. Her biggest concern had originally been preparing the ground. After all, they couldn't just throw down dirt and call it a day. Well, they could, but according to the book without proper drainage their crops would fail and die from variety...
2022-04-02 11:34:38 +0000 UTC View PostDue to circumstances, there will be no update on April the 15th. This is due to IRL stuff that leaves me unable to work that day. We apologize for this, as we should have foreseen this sooner. Updates will resume as normal on Monday the 18th.
2022-04-02 11:31:41 +0000 UTC View Post"Uh, Lori…" Rian said hesitantly. "I'm not trying to question your decision making, which I'm sure are backed up by things that I'm simply ignorant of—"
"Spit it out, Rian."
"This seems a terrible place to store our boats in the event of a dragon," Rian said bluntly. "At least, in...
2022-03-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostRyan had few things from before he'd gotten isekai'd. The clothes on his back were long gone, worn out and replaced by things he'd bought. He'd had his phone, but that had quickly run out of power and had basically become a strange black mirror, and he'd needed to sell it for the glass and alumin...
2022-03-29 05:43:37 +0000 UTC View PostHello! So, for those who didn't see the note, this weekend I'm either putting up Nightmaerangers 'Interlude: Blue' or putting the series on break for a while. Very probably the latter, given how I'm feeling. I need to clear some schedule space and get my things in order,...
2022-03-28 03:11:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast, Lori set about heating her Dungeon. Clearly she didn't need it, but it was the principle of the thing. A Dungeon was at the heart of the demesne, fortress and seat of a Dungeon Binder's power, first and last bastion against dragons. It was rare but not unknown for a demesne to be...
2022-03-27 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post