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 pair...
2021-06-06 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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The 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 sq...
2021-06-06 00:01:00 +0000 UTC
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We 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...
2021-06-05 17:01:59 +0000 UTC
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Depressingly, 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...
2021-06-03 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Lori 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...
2021-06-01 17:00:07 +0000 UTC
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"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 ...
2021-05-30 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The 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 fo...
2021-05-29 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Due 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...
2021-05-29 08:58:40 +0000 UTC
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Lolilyuri 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...
2021-05-27 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Karina 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 Ir...
2021-05-26 14:05:53 +0000 UTC
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While 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...
2021-05-25 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey! 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...
2021-05-24 06:59:20 +0000 UTC
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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...
2021-05-23 17:01:00 +0000 UTC
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The 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 t...
2021-05-23 00:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Grem'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 ...
2021-05-22 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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"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 eve...
2021-05-20 17:01:02 +0000 UTC
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The 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 w...
2021-05-19 11:46:35 +0000 UTC
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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 ...
2021-05-16 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The 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 ...
2021-05-16 00:00:02 +0000 UTC
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The 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...
2021-05-15 17:01:01 +0000 UTC
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Lolilyuri 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...
2021-05-13 17:01:59 +0000 UTC
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One 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. ...
2021-05-11 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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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. The life...
2021-05-09 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The 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 we...
2021-05-09 00:00:12 +0000 UTC
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Runaway
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 ha...
2021-05-08 16:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Rian 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...
2021-05-06 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hey 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.
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2021-05-06 16:08:45 +0000 UTC
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Lolilyuri 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 breakf...
2021-05-04 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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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, ...
2021-05-02 17:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The 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 advanc...
2021-05-01 17:00:06 +0000 UTC
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