Waterborne, Part 9
Willy had left a bit of herself near Tammy. A drone, a part of her she still controlled, to watch her cousin while she went away. When she turned her attention to it, she found i...
2022-03-27 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Mill Stone
After breakfast, and reluctantly putting away the almanac in her room so that it wouldn't be damaged by the rigors of a day's work, Lori met with the pair of stonemasons who would be needing her assis...
2022-03-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the harvest celebration, the taste of bread that had been salted with what Rian and those who had gone with him had managed to gather from the ocean, soaked in roasted tail meat fat, and dipped in stew still lingered on Lori’s tong...
2022-03-24 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe mill was completed by mid-morning of the following day.
It was… well, most people probably wouldn't call it beautiful. It was two round hunks of rock on top of each other, held together by a thick wooden rod, with a bowl-like hopper fo...
2022-03-22 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast, and reluctantly putting away the almanac in her room so that it wouldn't be damaged by the rigors of a day's work, Lori met with the pair of stonemasons who would be needing her assistance in making the mill stone so it would be d...
2022-03-20 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostVolume 1
Waterborne, Part 8
Willy met the wave of water head on, blasting out water from her front that reshaped into a vertical wedge that parted the waters, forcing it to go around her as geysers of water...
2022-03-20 08:51:31 +0000 UTC View PostReport On A Journey To Covehold
"All right," Lori said in Rian's house after breakfast. She sat on the little wooden stool, her new almanac on her lap. "You've had time. Report."
"Are you sure you don't want u...
2022-03-20 08:49:24 +0000 UTC View PostI must regretfully apologize and inform everyone that Nightmaerangers will be delayed again, thought hopefully only for a few hours and now a whole day. It's still yet incomplete, but close enough, but I really need to sleep now. With luck, it wil...
2022-03-19 18:13:32 +0000 UTC View PostLori allowed herself to be swayed by Rian's argument to not make copies of every illustration in the book right then, as it would be a waste of time. He argued that they should focus on the illustrations of edible plants that were still in season,...
2022-03-17 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"Lori, it's lunch time."
Lori jerked up from the page she was reading, staring at Rian standing at the doorway to her room. "How did you get up here?" she demanded.
He pointed back the way he'd come. "You forgot to seal the hallway," h...
2022-03-15 16:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post"All right," Lori said in Rian's house after breakfast. She sat on the little wooden stool, her new almanac on her lap. "You've had time. Report."
"Are you sure you don't want us to do this somewhere else?" Rian said. "The benches alcoves in...
2022-03-13 16:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostSo I figured I'd drop some what-ifs. As in, what powers would have developed if someone besides the person who did had gotten to devour X monster.
Plague Dog:
Waterborne, Part 7
Willy slammed into the back wall of the house, and she felt parts of her ice crack from the impact with the old, rough cement. The ice immediately fused together again as she tri...
2022-03-06 17:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostAgain, I must apologize. The Nightmaeranger chapter will again be delayed, hopefully only until late tomorrow. The fight in progress is actually harder to write than I thought, and choreographing it has been difficult.
We are very sorr...
2022-03-05 16:43:16 +0000 UTC View PostLori Reads An Almanac
After breakfast, Lori went to the sealed off alcoves where the cargo from the Coldhold was being kept. Rian had ordered all it be brought there rather than let people start carting away what th...
2022-03-05 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDuring lunch, Lori had to all but sit down on her new almanac to keep from reading it while she ate so she didn’t accidentally drip any of her food on it. Despite her excitement and enjoyment, she had glanced at the page listings, affir...
2022-03-03 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post"What were you expecting, exactly?" Rian asked, looking amused.
Lori wasn't sure, but she had imagined that there were things she would covet. At least, she had thought so… "All right, go down the list for me, what do we have?" Lori said.<...
2022-03-01 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostWaterborne, Part 6
There was a snap, Willy's head breaking clean off her shoulders as the rat bit and chewed, snapping her body to pieces and tearing her innards apart.
Her head was ice. Her ...
2022-03-01 13:21:38 +0000 UTC View PostAfter breakfast, Lori went to the sealed off alcoves where the cargo from the Coldhold was being kept. Rian had ordered all it be brought there rather than let people start carting away what they had asked for, supposedly because it had been mixed...
2022-02-27 16:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostTakes Place Immediately After 154
For a moment, absolutely silence reigned in Rian's house as her Bindership left, her ominous words hanging in the air. The windows on either side of the door were ...
2022-02-26 20:06:53 +0000 UTC View PostSo, the Patron Exclusive will be coming out soon, but Nightmaerangers will be delayed and come out late, or even until the next day. Sorry. This week has been... ugh.
Hopefully we can stay on schedule next week... And remember, the week afte...
2022-02-26 17:20:58 +0000 UTC View PostWe're Home
"We're home!" Rian declared from the bench he was standing where everyone in the space in front of her Dungeon could see him, raising a wooden cup in the air. This banal statement was followed by cheers. ...
2022-02-26 16:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe next morning, Lori expected to be eating alone with only, at best, Rian for company.
Not that she cared. She was used to eating alone. There were no inane expectations of conversation that way.
The dining hall of her Dungeon was qu...
2022-02-24 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSo... I went for a boost shot yesterday, and am feeling the side-effect reaction that I didn't the last two times.
This will certainly impact this week's productivity, and we might have not Nightmaeranger chapter this week, at the least. I m...
2022-02-24 03:12:51 +0000 UTC View Post"Thank you for the kind words," Mikon told Riz as Lori ate, ignoring them. "That wasn't necessary, but it was nice. But you really need to be more forward if you want to flirt with Rian properly. He's a bit dense."
Riz turned to give the oth...
2022-02-22 16:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post"We're home!" Rian declared from the bench he was standing where everyone in the space in front of her Dungeon could see him, raising a wooden cup in the air. This banal statement was followed by cheers. "We've finally had a hot bath!" Th...
2022-02-22 13:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostHuh, nice date...
Anyway, just to let you guys know, because of IRL circumstances, there will be no update on the second week of March for both Demesne and Nightmærangers. I was originally going to have my anti-burnout break at the end of m...
2022-02-22 12:58:11 +0000 UTC View PostWaterborne, Part 5
The gutters and storm drainage of the older parts of Metro Manila weren't the best, and after almost six hours of torrential rain, all low-lying streets were flooded. Willy skipp...
2022-02-20 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThreshing and Storage
The 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 bu...
2022-02-19 16:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post