The Cost of Treatment
When Lori woke up, her initial confusion and almost panic at waking up in a strange place was detoured by the fact she no longer hurt.
Bewildered, she raised her right arm. The b...
2021-07-17 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThough the woman deserved it, Lori had initially been glad when Shanalorre had finally healed whatever-her-name's leg, so she didn't have to listen to the piteous moaning, crying, sobbing, wincing, hissing and groaning anymore. After that, Shanalo...
2021-07-15 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostRiver's Fork was different from how she'd left it last time. For one, there was a lot more traditional carpentry construction visible, rather than just buildings made from Deadspeaking. There were more people bustling about as well, carrying thing...
2021-07-13 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Lori woke up, her initial confusion and almost panic at waking up in a strange place was detoured by the fact she no longer hurt.
Bewildered, she raised her right arm. The bandage was gone, and there was only unmarred skin on h...
2021-07-11 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe shadows lengthen in Manila
The dream was always the same.
The dream was always different.
Sometimes he was running, two or four or six or eight or ten powerful...
2021-07-11 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostLori Goes To The Hospital
It was, by Lori estimation, more than a taum and a half away from the center of the demesne in a straight line, through uneven terrain and thick foliage. It was a long walk, made longer by ...
2021-07-10 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Lori woke up, her initial confusion and almost panic at waking up in a strange place was detoured by the fact she hurt. Her right side throbbed and felt stiff, as if solidifying, and her right forearm… it didn't throb, it had been ...
2021-07-08 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostTrying to manipulate the wisps in one's body aftera painful surgical operation had begun was an agonizing experience Lori never wanted to repeat again. It also revealed how little she actually knew about the interactions of light...
2021-07-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostIt was, by Lori estimation, more than a taum and a half away from the center of the demesne in a straight line, through uneven terrain and thick foliage. It was a long walk, made longer by the fact her legs throbbed, her side hurt, and her arm was...
2021-07-04 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 10
In his hand, the pink stone, with its sharp geometries and strange glow, began to vibrate. "You can talk?" The voice was small and panicky.
"Obviousl...
2021-07-04 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Laundry Area, Revised
"This is a laundry area?" Mikon said, looking around and seeming nervous and a bit confused. Her pink hair whipped about in the wind, longer than Lolilyuri thought was sensible, but then no...
2021-07-03 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLori walked into the unknown, armed with nothing but her map, her wits and her will, boldly going where no one had gone before, exploring the furthest reaches of the unknown!
"Put your clothes on properly and go do something productive," she...
2021-07-01 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLori hummed to herself as she laid out the map on the table while waiting for Rian to come back with breakfast. She had to admit, whoever had made this map had done good work. She recognized the bends in the river from the times she'd and Rian had...
2021-06-29 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post"This is a laundry area?" Mikon said, looking around and seeming nervous and a bit confused. Her pink hair whipped about in the wind, longer than Lolilyuri thought was sensible, but then not everyone was as reasonable and intelligent as she was. A...
2021-06-27 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostShana left the comforting abyss of empty, thoughtless sleep, and everything hurt all over again. Tota was dead. Tyatya was dead. Dyadya resented her, and was angry all the time. Mushka had grown cold and distant, and wouldn't let Yoshka play with ...
2021-06-27 03:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 9
It felt good to fuck the square-cube law.
His wings flapped at a rate too fast for him to put a number to, but it was probably in the neighbo...
2021-06-27 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostPriorities in Construction
The next day, Lori began excavating the mushroom farm.
She seemed to be doing a lot of excavating lately. Which, in hindsight, should have been obvious– most dungeon's, with rare e...
2021-06-26 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostLori had decided to take her lord's advice. Both pieces of it, really, but one after the other. First, she'd build a dedicated laundry area that would use the runoff water, since she could always build something for a water wheel later. Then, tomo...
2021-06-24 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThere might not be a Demesne side story short this month, as I'm blanking for a good worldbuilding idea that isn't too spoilery. Anything you guys want to read about that I can try?
2021-06-23 07:34:56 +0000 UTC View PostLori tried to make the best of things while she built the shoddy, stupid, inelegant, awkward aqueduct that future generations will probably hate or use for tourism purposes, and will be equally inconvenient in either case. It was simply enough, in...
2021-06-22 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Lori began excavating the mushroom farm.
She seemed to be doing a lot of excavating lately. Which, in hindsight, should have been obvious—most Dungeons, with rare exceptions like Treeshade Demesne and Skykeep Demesne, were un...
2021-06-20 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 8
Sanny threw himself into the hole the two girls fell into.
The first sign this might not have been a good idea was the hole going from thirty feet wide when he was abov...
2021-06-20 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostMinions Need Maintenance
Lori didn't even have time to bask in her victory against Rian in their game (yes! She won! She won, she won, she won! Ha!). The sore loser (she won!) had immediately run off to hide his sha...
2021-06-19 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post"Well, I think that went nicely," Rian said happily as he carried his various planks and rocks with notes on it down to one of the alcoves she'd made in the new level while people put the dining hall back to the way it usually was and people got s...
2021-06-17 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThere was a restlessness in the air as Rian finally got people to pay attention to the next item in whatever unknown list he was working through. Lori ignored the looks people were giving her as she sat back town and went back to being disinterest...
2021-06-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLori didn't even have time to bask in her victory against Rian in their game (yes! She won! She won, she won, she won! Ha!). The sore loser (she won!) had immediately run off to hide his shame at her victory and had gotten everyone to settle down ...
2021-06-13 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 7
"This feels rushed. This feels very rushed. This is going to go badly," Tammy said to him through the little offshoot he'd left with her. it was nestled somewhere in her bran...
2021-06-13 00:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostWork and Play
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 clai...
2021-06-12 17:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostLolilyuri studiously ignored Rian as she considered her next move, the game before her taking up all her attention. This time she would be victorious!
"So, has she won against you yet?" Rian asked her opponent.
The brat shook her head,...
2021-06-10 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt wasn't long before more game boards started appearing on the other tables, cut from scraps of plank. With the building being done on the new houses, there were apparently a lot of scraps to work with. Some were copies of the sunk board, but mos...
2021-06-08 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post