The core was where Shanalorre said it was.
Or rather, the pile of rocks and dirt that supposedly blocked the way to the core was where Shanalorre said it was, under the first steps of the spiraling stairs shaped into the trunk of the dome's central tree.
"I have to ask," Rian said as Lori slowly claimed the earthwisps of the obstructing rubble with her staff, breathing in evenly out of habit as she began to fuse all the rock into one mass so she could move it all out of the way, "...
2022-12-06 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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To try to mitigate the lack of proper update today, have a teaser for the 'What If' chapter.
At least her mothers would be happy. They'd always wanted her to find a nice girl to settle down and spend the rest of her life with, and as lady and Dungeon Binder, they were most certainly be doing that.
2022-12-05 05:36:37 +0000 UTC
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Uncovered Results
It was, indeed, a problem.
Normally, dealing with something like this was easily amended by adding in some firewisps to generate heat for the water to draw in when it changed state. And sure enough, when Lori added firewisps to her binding the next experiment worked as intended, with the area surrounding the binding no longer losing so much heat the water outside the tube started congealing into ice.
The resulting plume of steam wa...
2022-12-03 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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The trip to River's Fork was uneventful, save that Lori suddenly became cold when she passed through the border of her demesne and into the world outside. Argh, why did she keep forgetting about that? She hastily claimed some firewisp from her coalcharm and made a binding to keep herself farm. Fortunately, the little room retained heat very well since the bound ice around it was a pefect insulator, so it grew warm quickly, but it was still annoying to forget.
She spent part of the trip ...
2022-12-01 16:00:12 +0000 UTC
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More of the row of houses came closer to completion over the day Rian had asked for. There would probably be more work done on it as the new residences asked for help to modify it to suit them. Most would probably want to add a second floor, or at least an elevated platform to take advantage of the height. A few of the previous row of houses had such things, but they'd been limited by the height of the ceiling.
During this time, Lori made plans. Well, not just made plans. Since...
2022-11-29 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Due to IRL-related stuff messing with my schedule, there will unfortunately be only two posts next week on Wednesday and Friday. We apologize for this unfortunate lapse, but things have taken up some days I thought I would be free. Sorry.
With luck, I can get the 'What If' post up on the 9th. While the polls aren't closed yet, it looks like the winner will be 'What if Mikon was Lori's Lady?'
2022-11-29 09:42:00 +0000 UTC
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It was, indeed, a problem.
Normally, dealing with something like this was easily amended by adding in some firewisps to generate heat for the water to draw in when it changed state. And sure enough, when Lori added firewisps to her binding the next experiment worked as intended, with the area surrounding the binding no longer losing so much heat the water outside the tube started congealing into ice.
The resulting plume of steam was hot, long, consistent and forceful… but honest...
2022-11-27 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Getting The Boat Ready
When the water level of the river finally receded to close to normal levels a few days later, Lori decided it was safe to retrieve the Coldhold from where it was stored inside a stone cube next to the dock where it usually floated.
"There hasto be an easier way to do this," Rian muttered as he watched her carefully open the stone container, then slowly fill it with water to allow the boat float up the level of the ...
2022-11-26 16:00:05 +0000 UTC
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"Ah, Karina! There you are. Are you busy?"
Karina looked up from the planter of tubers she was tending to as she heard Lord Rian's voice, a bucket filled with water next to her. He looked as he always did most days: slightly sweaty and winded from going around finding people and talking to them, sometimes a bit more if he'd been helping with what they'd been doing. "How can I help you, Lord Rian?" she said as she stood up respectfully. Everyone was always respectful to Lord Rian, even t...
2022-11-24 16:19:49 +0000 UTC
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"Oh, grow up, Rian," Lori said as she finished using her syringe to extract blood. Some distance away, Rian was twitching, averting his eyes and shuddering far too energetically to be simple theatrics, especially since it was just the two of them. He really didn't like the sight of her syringe being used.
"You grow up," he returned rather childishly.
"Surely you can conceive of a wittier reply," she said as she reversed the flow of the syringe, filling the hastily-cleaned...
2022-11-24 16:00:06 +0000 UTC
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So, here's the poll for the 'What if' stories, which will also be once a month but not Patron exclusive, and will show up as a regular update. It's basically for getting the ideas out of me and to give me a change of pace. The results on this poll will be combined with the results of the poll on Royal Road, so if you want to rig the results, vote there too!
Feel free to give suggestions for other what ifs, and I might include them in future polls.
2022-11-23 03:13:34 +0000 UTC
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So, I've decided to change the format of the polls. The 'What If's' will no longer be part of the monthly exclusive. Instead, they'll be their own separate poll, and will show up as a regular update post, probably on a Wednesday. I'll post that poll next.
So, we have a bunch of old options, and some new ones. I'm going to present worldbuilding options again of the world outside Lori's demesne. As usual, you can pick multiple options, so pick whatever. If there's a tie, I'll pick o...
2022-11-23 02:51:23 +0000 UTC
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She found the article in the almanac that she had recalled, a way of removing scents by exposing an area to unseen light. It had taken a while to find it because it was an article on the uses of unseen light, not a flow diagram. While it had many suggestions for utilizing the various forms of the phenomenon, it also had a lengthy list of reminders of its deleterious effects on the human body, which presumably extended to other bodies as well, such as beasts, bugs and fursh. Some of them, like...
2022-11-22 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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So, I'm announcing in advance that I'll be taking a break on the latter half of December. The last story update of the year will be on the 16th, after which we will be going on break until January 4th.
Right now, I'd like to seel for what you'd all like for that's month's Patron Exclusive chapter. I'll also try to write a 'Christmas Special' chapter that will be available for everyone, which I can hopefully manage...
2022-11-22 11:00:15 +0000 UTC
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When the water level of the river finally receded to close to normal levels a few days later, Lori decided it was safe to retrieve the Coldhold from where it was stored inside a stone cube next to the dock where it usually floated.
"There hasto be an easier way to do this," Rian muttered as he watched her carefully open the stone container, then slowly fill it with water to allow the boat float up the level of the river. As the water within the container rose, the boat...
2022-11-20 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Spring Construction
2022-11-19 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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The river, which had risen up to so high that waves always seemed in danger of reaching the top of the flood barriers, was starting to recede. It had been interesting, occasionally climbing up to the watch platform and looking out over the water. The riverbank on the other side had disappeared, replaced by more water that extended under the trees on the shore beyond. It made the river seem like it went on forever, even if her awareness of wisps let her know that the water didn't go that
2022-11-17 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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So... I must report another shameful retcon. Demesne chapter 250 has been edited to include some new material that I thought was better placed there. It doesn't really change the chapter, but it... well, it makes things in later chapters flow better. Again, I'm very sorry for this.
EDIT: So... I screwed up some chapters and used the wrong word. I went back to edit them, and it should be noticable, but if you feel I used a certain word in a certain way before... that's why. My Sham...
2022-11-16 10:29:53 +0000 UTC
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"I thought of a way to deal with the problem of moisture getting in through the door when it's open," Rian said before breakfast the next day.
"Oh?" Lori said idly as she waited for Umu and Mikon to arrive with the food. Off to the side, Shanalorre listened curiously.
Rian nodded enthusiastically. "Instead of putting the door on the same wall as the air intake, why not put it opposite the air intake. That way, the intake is always pushing air, and when the door is open an...
2022-11-15 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Have some random Demesne Trivia!
Rian is basically the Help/Tutorial of a 'System' in the form of a human. He can be found in the Options Menu, under the Accessibility Tab. Just enable 'understand people'. For those who keep asking, Accessibility is not the same as an easy mode. Demesne will NEVER have an easy mode. Git gud.
Lori can be interpreted many ways. One of them is 'if Yunyun and Megumin were rolled into one person, as written by writer who doesn't get the point of Konosu...
2022-11-15 15:17:14 +0000 UTC
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The day after Lori had set the markers for the charcoal burner and the outdoor mushroom farm's leases, Lori decided to make the dehydration shed while she waited for the carpenters to finish the preparation for roofing the new row of houses. The sawyers and carpenters were hard at work at it, taking measurements and cutting planks and beams. She had been told it would take a week, perhaps longer, to get the material prepared, and until them she could only wait for them to finish before she ne...
2022-11-13 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Days passed. Work continued. The walls for the new row of houses started going up, and eventual placements of doors, windows and fireplaces were marked. They were intentionally taller than Lori thought was needed for structures that size, almost five and a half paces high, so that the large families that Rian was choosing could find a way to fit their members somehow, even if it was only when they were sleeping.
Shanalorre, having recovered from her blood loss, was assigned to accompany...
2022-11-10 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Lori woke up, as she usually did, to someone knocking—very loudly—on the door of her house.
"Lori! Wake up!" an irate, female voice called from outside. The words were barely audible though the single piece of Deadspoken wood artistically fused from several branches. The loud yelling was also usual.
Groaning, Lori pushed herself up from her bed. Not for the first time, she was thankful for the ingenious net of woven cords in place of slats. It was far more comfortable than lyi...
2022-11-08 16:05:23 +0000 UTC
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There was, really, not much adjustment needed for the integration of Shanalorre and the new residents into her demesne, beyond Shanalorre stationing herself at the hospital while she recovered from her blood loss. The militia who had accompanied her had been integrated into the workforce, assisting with the logging, sawing, farming, the rising need to keep chokers out of their farms while fences were being raised, and the clearing operations to prepare for expanding the agricultural fields. S...
2022-11-06 16:00:07 +0000 UTC
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Subordinates
The next day, the mood of the dining hall at breakfast was strangely subdued. Usually, people were quite loud and energetic the day after a holiday, filled with enthusiasm and and making a lot of noise. Today, however, many sat quietly and spoke in low murmurs. Some of them sounded confused.
"Rian, are people sick or something?" Lori said as she checked her notes for her announcement, which were inscribed into a stone tablet. "The Dungeon doe...
2022-11-05 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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The discussion went on as Rian asked for specifics on the known malcontents. Their names (what did that matter?), their families, their positions and skills, and the things they were known to have done.
"I think I remember some of these people," he mused, looking down at the list he'd made while Lori contemplated between laying her head on the table to nap or simply lying back across the whole bench. She was the only one sitting on her side, after all. "I honestly didn't think ...
2022-11-03 16:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Lori tried to listen as Shanalorre, Rian and… uh… the one whose name she was trying to learn and it was written on her notes, so it was fine if she couldn't really recall it now… discussed River's Fork's organization. With only between fifty and sixty residents—closer to fifty now since Shanalorre and her escorts were in her demesne—they apparently needed less organization than her demesne did, and had less specialization. Unfortunately, when they started mentioning names—as if th...
2022-11-01 17:28:13 +0000 UTC
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All right, here is this month's poll! We have some of the options from last month, and some new ones as well.
For a change of pace, I was thinking of writing some of the 'what if' ideas instead of a numbered chapter, because it seems fun. Tell you guys what, in the comments, tell me which of the what ifs you guys want me to write and I'll remove it from the poll and put it up next week. You guys have until Thursday to comment. It will also go into RR and SB (in 2 weeks), so for those re...
2022-10-31 08:44:33 +0000 UTC
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The next day, the mood of the dining hall at breakfast was strangely subdued. Usually, people were quite loud and energetic the day after a holiday, filled with enthusiasm and and making a lot of noise. Today, however, many sat quietly and spoke in low murmurs. Some of them sounded confused.
"Rian, are people sick or something?" Lori said as she checked her notes for her announcement, which were inscribed into a stone tablet. "The Dungeon doesn't sound right."
"That might have som...
2022-10-30 16:00:08 +0000 UTC
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So, we're having a series of nasty storms right now, which is affecting out power. The next three updates are locked in, but if we lose power too long in the coming week, week after that might be affected. I'll try to keep charged up tp avoid this, but unfortunately shit happens.
Will be putting up the pole for November's Patron Exclusive chapter soon.
2022-10-30 05:47:19 +0000 UTC
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