Here is part 2 of the pilot chapter, now renamed with the new story title. Once I'm sure there's not going to be a part 3, I'll delete this and the other one and combine them into one chapter. In the meantime, enjoy!
Commuting with only rubber sandals on was an expe...
2024-09-10 15:11:54 +0000 UTC View PostHey, everyone! Finally got the pilot chapter of Haunted House Flippers ready. I should be starting full-time writing of it soon, which means throwttling back on the Demesne snippets (another one this weekend, hopefully). I'd love to hear your reactions, comments and questions. Some qu...
2024-09-06 14:07:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"Hey, Umu. Let me help you with that."
"Oh, Rian! It's fine, I can carry it all by myself."
"Nonsense. I'm pretty sure I have clothes in there, so it's only fair I help you carry them."
"…thank you."
"No problem. We all have to help each other, after all. How are your sh...
2024-09-04 09:19:40 +0000 UTC View PostEven a small village needed a lot of metalwork done everyday. Not all of it was forging. There was a lot of honing and straightening, because someone was always hold something the wrong way and bending the blade or the edge. Knives and saws, they all needed to be sharpened, and it wasn't the sort...
2024-09-01 17:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostSet before chapter 417
"So, how's married life, Riz?" Mekari said as they worked on stripping the branches off the tree they were working on. "Still having fun?"
"Married life?" Riz said, bemused as she used her voro to hack at the branch she was work...
2024-08-29 16:03:11 +0000 UTC View PostRiz had been avoiding her family ever since she'd started sleeping with Rian—and Mikon and Umu technically, since they all shared the same bed. This wasn't out of any sort of dislike or personal issue, the way the Great Binder was always implying she had some sort of disagreement with her mothe...
2024-08-26 07:34:00 +0000 UTC View PostRiz woke up when she felt the bed shifting underneath her. For a moment, she was confused, since the pillow she was laying one was firmer than she was expecting, and surprisingly warm—
Oh.
Moving carefully so she wouldn't wakeup Mikon—she was still getting used to the idea she
There was nothing a doctor liked more than not having anything to do.
At least, not having anything to do as a doctor. All of them had little things to do when they were either waiting for people to come in or were off-shift. Many spun thread, then wove that thread to make gauze and bandage...
2024-08-19 10:57:41 +0000 UTC View PostSo, a short update everyone! The rewrites and slightly expanded segments of volume 1 are finished, so I just have to write some Amazon exclusive short segments and commission some artwork and then it's off to Amazon. As I have no idea how long it takes to commission art, this "We'll be home by Ch...
2024-08-17 10:15:47 +0000 UTC View PostI stood under one of the few trees near our village—I refused to call it 'Lori's Village' or anything like that—looking up at the branches above as I held open a sack, one of the canvas sacks that had gotten progressively more beat up as the year had gone on. The happyfruit tree was heavy wit...
2024-08-16 13:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post"Are you sure you want to do this? We've never really done this before…"
A hand slapped down, making a meaty sound. "Come on. I have years of militia debauchery I need to catch up on."
"Erzebed… you're shorter than me."
"Only by a few yustri. Now come on, it's your tur...
2024-08-14 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo, a minor note about the tech-levels in this story. I've come to hate how in some stories the isekai protagonist is always the ONLY person who somehow makes technology progress. Magic and technology have somehow remained stagnant for hundreds, sometimes thousands of years, then this guy comes a...
2024-08-12 14:38:02 +0000 UTC View PostBecause they had so much, the number of people in the demesne grew and grew. Even with plenty, the people of the demesne would not be content. They wanted more. Those who wanted more began to build metal boats, big enough to be cities and dungeons, with many levels so they could fill it with food...
2024-08-09 16:22:16 +0000 UTC View PostShasha, tell me a story…
What kind of story would you like?
Something boring. I can't sleep.
Well, as of today, all the meat we have in the cold rooms amounts to—
Not that kind of boring story! An interesting boring story!
Then how about I tell you about before t...
2024-08-07 14:16:21 +0000 UTC View PostThere were always some fruits left over, too bruised or ripe by the time they'd been picked. It wasn't a lot, and they were still perfectly edible. In times past, no one would have thought twice about eating a too-soft, bruised happyfruit as long as the skin was intact. If it wasn't some would ha...
2024-08-05 15:05:20 +0000 UTC View PostWhile Shanalorre knew practically nothing about Deadspeaking, becoming the Dungeon Binder of River's Fork had given her the ability to perceive all life in her demesne, in the same way that Lori was able to perceive as wisps in hers. Perception, memory, and a functional mind had allowed Shannalor...
2024-07-30 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days proved sufficient to relieve Lori of the urge to check her notes. The act of having to decipher and in some cases correct her own notes had made her stop wanting to do so, and while her hands were no longer injured, she didn't want to possibly burn them again. Perhaps in a few days. A we...
2024-07-28 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post"Don't you have something you need to be doing?" Lori said as she imbued the binding of lightwisps she'd formed. Technically, she already knew how to make piercing light. However, the one she'd learned only made a little red dot on walls, didn't go very far, and wasn't really useful for anything ...
2024-07-25 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View PostIt had been a very nice day. Everyone had played in the dungeon, climbed trees to get happyfruit that was growing fast thanks to Wiz Tae and Shana, they played in the river while Karina had gotten some of the boys to help her catch some seels, and there'd been some excitement when Wiz Lori had st...
2024-07-24 18:38:28 +0000 UTC View PostAfter literally days of being pressed, Lori's notes were finally mostly flat, although little lines from where they'd been curled or folded had become weak points on the sheets. She carefully separated the sheets from between the blank papers Rian had placed between them to keep the ink from tran...
2024-07-23 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"I'd like to apologize for what I said yesterday, and for being tardy with my apology. While I still believe my course of action was prudent at the time, despite later events, how I went about it was needlessly cruel and deliberately hurtful. While I don't expect you to forgive me, know that I de...
2024-07-21 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Abomination
Once they arrived in the dome of River's Fork, work began quickly. Yllian had met them with a large group of able-bodied men that had been sent yesterday to prepare for today, as well as—Lori checked the rocks in her belt pouch—Lidzuga. Kolinh a...
2024-07-20 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt turned out that Shanalorre could not, in fact, confirm that the abomination was dead, at least not this soon.
"While the abomination might technically be dead, most of the life in its body is still alive," she explained once she had set foot on land once more and given a moment to think ...
2024-07-18 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostWhen the typhon abomination moved, Lori expected the ground to shake and a vibration like a deep bass drum to spread with every footfall… which was silly, because such things were merely theater conventions meant to convey size and drama. That thought came later, and it took an embarrassingly l...
2024-07-16 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOnce they arrived in the dome of River's Fork, work began quickly. Yllian had met them with a large group of able-bodied men that had been sent yesterday to prepare for today, as well as—Lori checked the rocks in her belt pouch—Lidzuga. Kolinh and Yllian briefly spoke with one another as the ...
2024-07-14 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostNot Actually Trying To Procrastinate
As much as she wanted to, Lori wasn't able to test the enlarged lightning ball on a living subject. Trying to put a seel into the binding wouldn't be demonstrative of the results of the binding on a dry subject, and trying to pu...
2024-07-13 16:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostSo, a quick announcement. Looking on how much is left, this volume of demesne is likely to end this month or early to mid next month. At that point, I'm going to take a little break as I once more try to get a new cover for volume 1, write some bonus segments for it, and finally get it uploaded t...
2024-07-13 04:59:54 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Lori woke up the next day, she felt strangely miserable, and it had nothing to do with the loud knocking on her door. That was its own, separate misery.
A third misery was added as a loud voice called out, "Your Bindership, wake up! You told me not to let you sleep in, remember? It's t...
2024-07-11 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostLori hadn't stayed up late to work in a while. That period when she'd been taking notes didn’t count, as she barely remembered it as anything but a haze of tiredness. Most days, she'd just go straight to her bed after dinner, do one final check of the reduced number of bindings she now maintain...
2024-07-09 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post