The game was childishly simple, once explained. The players picked up stones and dropped them one at a time into each bowl spinwise, with added rules about if they could keep doing so or had to stop, and whether they could claim stones on the paired bowl opposite. Each player owned one of the bow...
2021-06-06 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 6
Of the 'deaths' he'd experienced so far, getting his head stepped on while exsanguinated was definitely the most undignified to date.
Having the rest of his body squashed like a bug under one of those hydrauli...
2021-06-06 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe Need More Houses
"What do you mean, we need more houses?" Lori asked.
"We, pronoun, meaning the speaker and at least one other person," Rian said. "Need, verb, to require something as essential or important. More, determiner, meaning an additional amount o...
2021-06-05 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostDepressingly, Lori realized she had to reduce the intensity of her nice, cooling breeze, because the wind was making the wall she was trying to raise buckle and bend. Wrapping herself in firewisps to draw off the heat just wasn't the same, somehow.
Still, it was predictable progress, once s...
2021-06-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLori thought having to build more houses would be irritating. Thankfully, the heat wasn't that much of a problem. Her demesne wasn't large enough for her to manipulate clouds unless the clouds were really low, but she had more than enough to control the wind, and she'd been having a nice...
2021-06-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"What do you mean, we need more houses?" Lori asked.
"We, pronoun, meaning the speaker and at least one other person," Rian said. "Need, verb, to require something as essential or important. More, determiner, meaning an additional amount of something. Houses, noun, plural form, a building f...
2021-05-30 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Next Level
Lori began constructing the next area of her Dungeon.
Technically, she'd already started by putting together a plan of what she intended to build rather than just digging out space and hoping for the best, so that there would be less risk of th...
2021-05-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostDue to IRL stuff, I'm afraid I will be unable to post a Nightmaerangers chapter tomorrow, as the chapter is yet incomplete. I'm very sorry about this. I'll try to definitely post next week. The current arc has gone on a little longer than I wanted, and we're technically still at the halfway point...
2021-05-29 08:58:40 +0000 UTC View PostLolilyuri had not been looking forward to this. Quite the opposite, in fact.
"I hate laundry day," she grumbled. She looked at Rian across the table blearily. "When are you doing your laundry? Maybe I can just mix my clothes in with yours and take care of it that way."
Rian, ...
2021-05-27 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostKarina woke with a yawn, rubbing her eyes. Outside, the world was still dark, save for the light glowing from the old dining hall and Binder Lori's Dungeon, where it was bright as day all the time.
Growing up, she remembered waking to the Iridescence right outside their window, how it would...
2021-05-26 14:05:53 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Lori had to expand her Dungeon, there were still other things she had to do to keep her demesne functioning. Doing maintenance on the wisps she'd bound, making minor repairs to the stone walls of the houses she'd made because the stonemasons had needed to gouge out a divot or something to f...
2021-05-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey! So, I was writing Demesne, realized something, and made a character relevant edit of one word to a single chapter and the Weekly Digest its in. If any of you ever reread this, and find the change, that's why.
This is technically a retcon, but since it's literally one word, I like...
2021-05-24 06:59:20 +0000 UTC View PostLori began constructing the next area of her Dungeon.
Technically, she'd already started by putting together a plan of what she intended to build rather than just digging out space and hoping for the best, so that there would be less risk of the ceiling collapsing, as well as refining her f...
2021-05-23 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 5
Sanny had once been surprised to learn that, despite the many multitude of different kinds of phobias, there wasn't actually a name for a fear of falling objects. There was term for a fear of falling (basiphobia), a fear of ...
2021-05-23 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostGrem's Sentence
Rian had had two of the jars of travel ration stew opened and heated, so when they got back, there was warm stew to dip the bread in, and along with more meat-and-vegetable filled pastries that had been sent to them courtesy of Binder Shanalorre – a different taste from wh...
2021-05-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post"I'm never, ever, ever, ever leaving my demesne again," Lori groaned as she laid her head down on the table, listening to the sounds of people settling for dinner. "For any reason!"
"That's what you say every time we go to River's Fork," Rian said with ann...
2021-05-20 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe trip back to Lori's Demesne, Lorian, was slowed by the fact they were traveling upriver, against the current. Lori had to carefully increase the output of the waterjet, and then imbue it since the greater speed and increased load on the boat was using up magic faster. Thankfully, with the ear...
2021-05-19 11:46:35 +0000 UTC View PostRian had had two of the jars of travel ration stew opened and heated, so when they got back, there was warm stew to dip the bread in, and along with more meat-and-vegetable filled pastries that had been sent to them courtesy of Binder Shanalorre – a different taste from what Binder Shanalorre's...
2021-05-16 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 4
The army, despite what media would have one believe, had actually fared well against the Gagambuhala. While small arms fire and even machine gun fire hadn't seemed to affect it (which was all sort of added bullshit, in Sanny...
2021-05-16 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe Binder of River's Fork
Lori had a wonderful breakfast, only occasionally marred by the doctor's impolitely unconcealed hostility and his insistence at arguing with his Binder and niece. The former was crass, the latter was suicidal, but this wasn't her demesne....
2021-05-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLolilyuri retired back to Lori's Boat, keeping it anchored but pushing it into the water so as not to damage it when she climbed on. She sat next to the water jet and began imbuing more magic into it for the trip back. Her raincoat's hood had been draped on the end of an oar and the oar ...
2021-05-13 17:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the waterskins in the hut still had a little water, and the two of them used it to wash their hands. Lori set down the bowl and, deciding they'd had enough sleep, began to clap her hands noisily. "All right, all of you, wake up," she said. "Get that dust off and wash out, or the colors wil...
2021-05-11 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLori had a wonderful breakfast, only occasionally marred by the doctor's impolitely unconcealed hostility and his insistence at arguing with his Binder and niece. The former was crass, the latter was suicidal, but this wasn't her demesne. The life expectancy of the people in it were not her probl...
2021-05-09 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 3
"It's… pretty big," Tammy noted as they stood on the roof of a building, looking out over the modified Makati skyline.
From the TV footage and the phrase 'building webs', Sanny had gotten the image of a giant spider ...
2021-05-09 00:00:12 +0000 UTC View PostRunaway
The day had been full and exciting, and by the end of it Lori felt gritty and unclean. Not the gritty and unclean feeling the Iridescence left, which felt like being covered in fine, needle-like sand that had managed to embed itself on your skin, slowly pen...
2021-05-08 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostRian and the others weren't awake yet by the time she got back, so she left the fruits on top of the pile of supplies next to them, resolving to eat the blueballs if she came back and they were still there.
Then, still with nothing better to do, she wandered out again.
She sighed regr...
2021-05-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone. So, just some advance warning. I might take a brief, burnout-prevention writing break sometime this month. Because of the release schedule, it won't really affect things until either the end of May or the beginning of June.
It won't be very long, but it will occasionally...
2021-05-06 16:08:45 +0000 UTC View PostLolilyuri waited. And waited. And waited.
Eventually, as the sun continued to rise and everyone continued to sleep with no sign of anyone bringing them food, she had to face the terrible truth.
No one was bringing them bread for breakfast.
How ungrateful this demesne was! She'd ...
2021-05-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe day had been full and exciting, and by the end of it Lori felt gritty and unclean. Not the gritty and unclean feeling the Iridescence left, which felt like being covered in fine, needle-like sand that had managed to embed itself on your skin, slowly penetrating inside you into your brain and ...
2021-05-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe Aunt and the Niece
Lori had never seen Rian so nervous. It hasn't a state she associated with her lord. He was confident, charming, kind, oblivious to other's advances, could easily be mistaken for making advances, annoyingly insightful, straightforward, theatr...
2021-05-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post