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Weekly Digest 74- (#227 - #229)

Back to Work

"Well, you're in a good mood," Rian said as she arrived to breakfast the next day.

"Rest is over. Time to get back to work," Lori said as she sat down.

Rian nodded with a smile as Umu sat next to him, pressed up against his side. Lori analyzed the smile, but it wasn't any of the permutations she knew… not that she could really remember them very well unless they were right in front of her. But if they weren't coming to mind, then it w...

Demesne 229 - Building The Flood Barrier

The next day, production of the rocks for making the farm plot drainage continued, this time in the third level. Lori began preparing it after breakfast. Snow had to be bound to not melt and brought down, to act as a protective coating on the rocks to keep them from sticking to each other. In fact, they had enough volunteers that they could have people whose job was to keep the rocks from sticking to each other, and signal her when there were enough rocks that needed their binding removed. 2022-09-01 16:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post

Demesne 228 - Rolling Stones

"Rian," Lori said as she deactivated the bindings on the air jet, "I need workers for a project."

Rian blinked, pausing in the middle of wiping his nose with his towel and ugh, that was disgusting, and he was going to wrap that thing back around his face too! "Er, sure. I'll ask around."

Riz's friend immediately made herself scarce, just barely evading the hand Riz reached out to try and grab her.

Lori nodded. "I'll need two or three people, no particular skills bey...

Demesne 227 - Back to Work

"Well, you're in a good mood," Rian said as she arrived to breakfast the next day.

"Rest is over. Time to get back to work," Lori said as she sat down.

Rian nodded with a smile as Umu sat next to him, pressed up against his side. Lori analyzed the smile, but it wasn't any of the permutations she knew… not that she could really remember them very well unless they were right in front of her. But if they weren't coming to mind, then it wasn't any of them! Ugh, how do people do this...

Weekly Digest 73- (#224 - #226)

One More Day

It soon became clear that trying to build a flood barrier in front of the passageway into her Dungeon would not be practical. The entrance, while wide enough to deal with the daily traffic of everyone in her demesne walking through it every day, would be hard pressed to continue to function if there was a three pace high barrier in the way. The only way to navigate such a thing would be to build in ramps—which would be unreasonably steep or unrea...

27/8/22 Update

So, this is to inform everyone that I will be taking a break on the last week of September.  There will be no updates from the 26th of September until the 3rd of October. This so I can take a break, go on errands, and other IRL stuff. Also, my birthday. 

I'll still be posting the monthly exclusive. Last time the second most voted was a 'what if' scenario where Lori was a Mentalist instead of a Whisperer. If people still want that, we'll have it next month, but I figured I'd th...

Demesne Patron EX SS 17 – Rousing In The Morning

Mikon was roused awake by the feeling of someone on the bed moving with jerking, repetitive movements. She could feel someone's leg moving rhythmically, and while the bed wasn't exactly shaking—it was very sturdily built, since it had originally been for Binder Lori—the weaver could feel the movement.

She didn't get her hopes up. After all these weeks of sharing a bed with Rian—a bed that just barely managed to fit the four of them—she had a fairly good idea of what was causing ...

Demesne 226 - Sewing and Board Games

Resting, Lori soon found, was boring.

How was that actually possible? She'd used to love her rest days, the times when she'd been too sick to go to school or work but not sick enough to need to be taken to a Deadspeaker or doctor! Just staying at home alone, the window open and a binding in place to keep air circulating, like back on her bed with a nice book and—

Oh.

Rainbows.

To be fair, it wasn't like she was bereft of books. There was the almanac up in her room, a...

Demesne 225 - Lori's Rest Day

Lori almost forgot that she agreed to rest today.

Almost.

She remembered partway through imbuing the bindings on the list she maintained, and for a moment felt both relieved and guilty. Relieved, treacherously relieved, that she had agreed not to work today, and irrationally guilty that what she was doing was 'not resting'. Ridiculous. This was necessary maintenance, and besides, what could Rian do to her exactly? Make her rest for another day?

…

Anyway!

Demesne 224 - One More Day

It soon became clear that trying to build a flood barrier in front of the passageway into her Dungeon would not be practical. The entrance, while wide enough to deal with the daily traffic of everyone in her demesne walking through it every day, would be hard pressed to continue to function if there was a three pace high barrier in the way. The only way to navigate such a thing would be to build in ramps—which would be unreasonably steep or unreasonably long—or some kind of stairs. The le...

Weekly Digest 72- (#221 - #223)

Finalizing Agreements

"While my demesne is ideally positioned to control your access to the ocean, and therefore to Covehold Demesne," Shanalorre said bluntly, "I have not done so, because it would not benefit us to bar your way. Purely for practical reasons, we have no way of enforcing such a toll save your voluntary participation without an extensive building project that we currently have neither the manpower, materials nor ability to do. Additionally, unles...

20/8/22 Update

Due to a variety of reasons, scheduling problems, and real life just being terrible (but, fortunately, not 2020 terrible), I won't be able to update Nightmærangers tomorrow and the foreseeable future. Hopefully, this future will only encompass tomorrow and next week.

I'm just as frustrated by this as you three might be, because this is the climactic section and ARGH! However, I don't want to force this, and need time to do this right. Hence, this slight (shudder) hiatus. If it goes on ...

Demesne 223 - Infrastructure Assessment

The day after Binder Shanalorre had finally left to go back to her demesne—though probably not for very long, since there were more pregnancies due—Lori woke up with the firm intention of assessing the ability of the riverside infrastructure of her demesne to deal with the possibility of flooding. She'd left several bindings of airwisps anchored in place the night before to blow away snow in the areas she intended to work—finding place to anchor them that hadn't' been snow had taken a w...

Demesne 222 - Flood Preparations

"Good morning, Binder Lolilyuri."

"Good morning, Binder Shanalorre."

The two of them stared at each other for a moment. Then they both turned away and Lori took her usual seat in the middle of the table, Rian opposite her. Said lord was glancing between her and Shanalorre with another strange look on his face. Umu sat next to him, with the other two absent, so they were probably getting the food.

"Now, what's this about flooding?" Lori said.

Rian blinked at her for a m...

Demesne 221 - Finalizing Agreements

"While my demesne is ideally positioned to control your access to the ocean, and therefore to Covehold Demesne," Shanalorre said bluntly, "I have not done so, because it would not benefit us to bar your way. Purely for practical reasons, we have no way of enforcing such a toll save your voluntary participation without an extensive building project that we currently have neither the manpower, materials nor ability to do. Additionally, unless we are able to construct boats of our own, you are a...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #54

The Baseco Horror, Part 2

As burning agony began to spread over his body like his nerves being set on fire, Sanny reflected that he should have realized sooner. When people talk about fungus, mushrooms are what come to mind. Those tall, usually phallic-shaped growths that weren't trees or plants, as everyone who's had to endured elementary school sciences classes knows… except that was horribly, horribly wrong. Mushroom's weren't really the ...

Weekly Digest 71- (#218 - #220)

A Clear Hazard

After lunch, and binding the warming stones for Rian, Riz and whichever friend Riz had invited to join them for protection to put on, Lori went out to the edge, her test bowl in hand. She'd started carrying a kit with her whenever she went to make beads at the edge. The jar for carrying beads, a wooden spoon, her belt knife, and a new pair of copper tweezers. The smiths hadn't needed her assistance, but she'd found herself watching anyway as they...

Demesne 220 - Project Negotiations

This was a terrible position from which to negotiate.

When negotiating, one must never let the enemy know you intended to say yes to their demand. Even if they were the only source available, and had an absolute monopoly (sigh…!-!-!-!-!) on a valuable commodity, the position of being willing to not accept their deal and maintain your current position regarding resources, implying you didn't need what they had, gave you bargaining capital of a sort. She'd learned this from her...

Demesne 219 - An Outrageous Offer

Lori repeated the test, just to confirm it had worked as intended. That included pressing down on the amalgamating bead with her finger to deform it. After that, she used the rest of the Iridescence in the jar as normally, forming beads of various sizes. It was at that point Lori realized that she could prepare the bindings in advance inside her demesne and imbue them completely before taking them out and amalgamating them to the colors.

Stupid. She should have done that sooner! It woul...

Demesne 218 - A Clear Hazard

After lunch, and binding the warming stones for Rian, Riz and whichever friend Riz had invited to join them for protection to put on, Lori went out to the edge, her test bowl in hand. She'd started carrying a kit with her whenever she went to make beads at the edge. The jar for carrying beads, a wooden spoon, her belt knife, and a new pair of copper tweezers. The smiths hadn't needed her assistance, but she'd found herself watching anyway as they tempered it to be able to snap back into shape...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #53

The Baseco Horror, Part 1

Another line of light carved itself along the sky. It reflected off the clouds above, staining them white as it seemed to make night into day for a moment. A wave of heat came a moment later, hot as an open flame from far too close as the beam of plasma shot between the two monsters flying in the air. Both darted back from the beam, one moving in a sinuous, serpentine motion, the other just seeming to fad...