Rian was the first out of the bathhouse, wearing a new set of clothes and holding a bundle of cloth that looked distinctly like a used set under one arm, the pack that he'd given Lori before he'd left over his shoulder. He headed to his house, putting the clothes and the pack on the table, sighin...
2022-02-17 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Erzebed!"
The name echoed in the air, and Lori winced. She'd forgotten to bind airwisps over her ears this time, and as a result they rang from the volume of binding of airwisps she had just used to call for her temporary assistant. Lori go up from where she'd been sitting while curing woo...
2022-02-15 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day after breakfast, Lori watched as people began laying out the bundles of stalks out into the sun. There was probably a farming technical name for them, but she didn’t care. The bundles were laid out on the fields they'd been harvested from, stacked together in long lines out in the ...
2022-02-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt was well after dinner and even the line of hopefuls at the Um had long dispersed, deciding they'd rather have sleep than sex. Riz had checked every room, have grown inured to the musky smells the people who used it left behind, to make sure no one was sleeping there overnight, leaving the door...
2022-02-13 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWaterborne, Part 4
Willy didn't leave immediately. Instead, she waited an hour, then watched another weather report and, after determining that the illustrated shape of the area of the rain had changed, compared it to the previous picture she'd ta...
2022-02-13 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDrying To Thresh
In the storage shed she had made to store the harvest, Lori examined the tops of the thick bundles of stalks from which hung the heads of vigas grain. The individual stalks were thick, just a little thinner than her little finger, and covered with ...
2022-02-12 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostNormally, Lori ate outside when they were having roasted beast. It made it easier to get second, third or fourth servings. However, today, instead of finding a nice, shady spot to set up a rock to sit on, she ate in her dungeon, in her usual table. Outside, the rhythmic, odious sounds of, ugh...
2022-02-10 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe stalk was gone by the time they got down to the second level, leaving Riz holding a handful of seeds that were put in her belt pouch as she grabbed four bundles and moved them to the empty space between the pillars Lori had indicated. To one side, the weavers sat, spinning ropeweed fibers int...
2022-02-08 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSo next week is the anniversary of this story, and I'll try to have a special chapter out to celebrate it. Any suggestions?
EDIT:Current top contender among the ideas I can write over the weekend is Lori's first day in wizard school. Or at least A day in wizard school.
2022-02-08 09:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostIn the storage shed she had made to store the harvest, Lori examined the tops of the thick bundles of stalks from which hung the heads of vigas grain. The individual stalks were thick, just a little thinner than her little finger, and covered with long leaves that Riz had warned her not to touch,...
2022-02-06 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWilly stood still, not moving as the tentacle continued to rest on her arm. Something very strange was going on. While the turbulence of the water was familiar… it was missing something. The fog and mists were gone, as were the narrow, focused currents and rare blood-warm bursts of hea...
2022-02-06 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostTo Keep Busy
"—and the smithy will be enclosed in the event of a dragon. Those are the improvements I'm making to the front of the Dungeon," Lori finished explaining. "Did you understand all that or do I have to repeat myself?" Riz had better be listening. Lori d...
2022-02-05 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe harvest took two days. Despite the rapid, almost unreasonable pace, they didn't finish on the first day. Lori had almost thought that Riz would ask her to bind lightwisps in the air so they could continue working in the dark, but that hadn't happened. Instead, people started carrying the bund...
2022-02-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, the opposite wall went up. It was slightly faster since it was just slightly shorter than the opposite wall, since she'd need to make the side passage towards the smithy and stairs to the… all right, it was basically a balcony. Since the opening of it didn't lead directly to her D...
2022-02-01 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post"—and the smithy will be enclosed in the event of a dragon. Those are the improvements I'm making to the front of the Dungeon," Lori finished explaining. "Did you understand all that or do I have to repeat myself?" Riz had better be listening. Lori did not want to repeat herself, espec...
2022-01-30 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostWaterborne, Part 2
No…
No…
Please, no…
Willy shook her cousin awake. She felt cold from the water, but didn't care. She could fix it later. "Tammy," she said, speaking in her normal speaking register, "wake up. You're sleep...
2022-01-30 00:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostMore Chimneys
As Lori dug for stone in what would become the third level, she wondered if there would be time to convert it into a farm like she wanted before winter. Farming, from what she could tell, was mainly throwing seeds at the dirt, making sure they were wa...
2022-01-29 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Erzebed," Lori said at dinner, "I will be making improvements to my Dungeon's front entrance tomorrow. Inform everyone that after breakfast, no one is to pass through my Dungeon's entrance, as I will be building and do not intend to be inconvenienced."
Riz had the look of someone who wante...
2022-01-27 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt was slightly annoying how quickly a house no one was living in needed to be cleaned.
"It's the windows," Mikon said as she wiped dust off the stone table that looked like the kind of altar heretical Dungeon worshippers used to sacrifice people to the core. "They're open all the time, so ...
2022-01-27 14:41:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt took several days to put fireplaces and chimneys on every house in her demesne. At some point, Riz started carrying around a little wooden stool instead of a stone one, probably freshly made by the carpenters. Lori had to admit, it was more comfortable to sit on since the seat was wider. Event...
2022-01-25 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs Lori dug for stone in what would become the third level, she wondered if there would be time to convert it into a farm like she wanted before winter. Farming, from what she could tell, was mainly throwing seeds at the dirt, making sure they were watered, and keeping verminous little beasts fro...
2022-01-23 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostWaterborne, Part 1
Wilhelmina Azul's eyes snapped open as the alarm on her phone rang. With practiced movements, she reached out to touch the screen and turn off the alarm so that Tammy wouldn't wake up. Then she lay back and folded her hands over...
2022-01-23 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostNeeding More Light And Heat
Lori eventually remembered she had to make a storage room for the grain that would be harvested. It didn't need to be a cold room, but it had to be some distance from the mushroom farm to prevent growths, and relatively dry. The latter, ...
2022-01-22 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast and another quick game of sunk with Mikon, Lori set off towards the housing at the top of the rise where the people who were previously from River's Fork lived, Riz in tow. In front of them, a mass of stone from the pile of excavated rock flowed, the binding of earthwisps Lori was...
2022-01-20 17:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"Erzebed, announce to everyone that I will be adding chimneys and fireplaces to everyone's houses in preparation for winter," Lori said as she set up the chatrang board for her game with Mikon.
"You will?" Riz exclaimed, clearly surprised.
"Of course I will. Why wouldn't I?"
"Yo...
2022-01-18 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLori eventually remembered she had to make a storage room for the grain that would be harvested. It didn't need to be a cold room, but it had to be some distance from the mushroom farm to prevent growths, and relatively dry. The latter, she could do with a binding, and with properly made containe...
2022-01-16 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Singer In Darkness
Tonight, she did not dream of hell.
She did not dream of a dark emptiness, cold and void, filled with inhuman sounds of countless agonies in voices no human could hear. She didn't dream of a burning fire w...
2022-01-16 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostCan't Bring Herself To Care
Lolilyuri woke up to a familiar stony ceiling, an old list of names right in her line of sight, written into the stone. She really should get around to erasing that one of these days, the names were no longer relevant, and she'd forgotte...
2022-01-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLori woke with the satisfaction of knowing all her laundry was done, her clothes all washed and folded away save for the sock that had a hole in it and its pair. People said it didn't matter, but socks came in pairs, and the rainbowed pairs mattered!
"Do you know how to sew a sock?" Lori as...
2022-01-13 17:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostLori was able to quickly finish excavating the mushroom farm's expansion after lunch. It wasn't all that difficult, after all. It was basically just moving rock, and making pillars and arches so that the ceiling wouldn't collapse. She even had Riz jump up and down on the first level to prove it w...
2022-01-11 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post