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Update 23/4/22

Hi everyone! Thank's to finally getting on schedule, we'll have our Patron-exclusive chapter a little early this month. It's a worldbuilding chapter, with I character I hope to be able to use again in the future, featuring the Armada and Horotracting! Look forward to it appearing in the next day or so!

Demesne 175 - An Accord

The following morning, after a breakfast of stew that tasted very salty, with the tubers being hard and almost underdone—eh, she had eaten worse—Lori met with Shanalorre, in her office once more. Unlike yesterday, when they had both had militia with them, this morning it was just them and their lords. Shana's lord, whatever his name was, looked stern and impassive next to the smaller Dungeon Binder as he watched Rian and Lori, while Rian stood at her back, leaning against the wal...

Demesne 174 - Punitive Measures

"Well?" Lori asked Rian later that day as she sat in her small room on the Coldhold, imbuing the light there as her lord leaned against the door frame. It was just past the afternoon, and lunch sat heavy in Lori's stomach..

"Well, on the one hand," Rian began, "They have records at least, with entries that at least seem regular and consistent, and counting all the entries and factoring for the productivity lost because of the dragon and the delay in our checking if the...

Demesne 173 - River's Fork in Winter

Putting on the winter robe was of immense help in staying warm. Worn over her normal clothes and with her rain coat underneath as well, it was quite comfortable… save for the fact her face and hands were freezing. However, unlike other people, Lolilyuri was a Dungeon Binder! And more important, she was a Whisperer. Her soul could touch the world to alter it to her will beyond just the reach of her physical body! As such, she spent most of the trip from the border of her demesne to River's F...

Demesne 172 - Traveling In Winter

"Aren't you going to put on your winter robe?" Rian asked as he put the carefully wrapped bundle of Lori's bed roll into the special cargo box in the hold of the Coldhold. The bedroll had been wrapped up and secured by a pair of cords that Umu and Mikon had hurriedly stitched to the bedroll itself at Rian's suggestion, 'to keep them from being misplaced when they're needed'. Since it was on the nominal underside of the bed roll, Lori had just shrugged and left them to it. The bedroll...

Demesne 171 - Lori's Demesne In Winter

Lori was surprised at how day to day life seemed to remain largely the same, even when it finally started snowing.

Oh, there were changes. Their meals became more of a soup than a stew, becoming a bit more watery but warmer, and the addition of the salt was obvious. There also seemed to be a bit less meat and a bit more tubers, which wasn't an unpleasant change in Lori's opinion, and hers was the only opinion that mattered. She supposed it was in response to the cold, a more warming dis...

Weekly Digest 53 - (#168 - #170)

Tired Of Stairs

While Lori did not develop a rhythm, since with every explosion she made slight adjustments to the configuration of the ice, stone and temperature, trying to create better rocks with each explosion of steam, she did become better a dealing with the aftermath. Earthwisps reinforcing the stone structure of everything she didn't want to explode, which was everything else in the third level; gathering all the steam and condensing it back to...

Demesne Measurement Guide

So, a handy dandy guide to the in-universe units of measurement... with absolutely no clarification on exactly how long they are.  :-D

 I will only mention relative scale in comparison to others.

Length:

• Taum - what the diameter of the demesne is measured in
• Pace - used for construction measurements. Lori has markings on her staff that measure out one pace.
• Half-pace - a unit of measure that exists and is half a pace, and is apparently not u...
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Demesne 170 - Winter Is Co—Oh Wait, It's Already Here

The coming of winter was somehow still a surprise.

Lolilyuri had simply woken up one morning thinking that everything seemed comfortably cool, and had gone about her morning ablutions, washing herself and changing her clothes—as a bit of an indulgence, she'd put on a pair of the new socks, chest wraps and loin cloth and oh they had felt so thick and fluffy!—only to come down to the dining table carrying the sunk board to find Rian sitting at the table wrapped up in his blan...

Demesne 169 - The Dungeon Farm

Lori soon developed a rhythm to breaking rocks. Taking a bit more time between explosions to allow Riz and the people with her—one of whom, to Lori's disgust, was Landoor and ARGH, why did she have to remember that idiot's name so clearly?—to gather the fragments and put them into a pile wasn't difficult, and with hands besides her own, she was soon able to come to a method of breaking apart stone into rocks that was faster, resulted in the size of rocks she wanted and, most importantly, ...

Demesne 168 - Tired Of Stairs

While Lori did not develop a rhythm, since with every explosion she made slight adjustments to the configuration of the ice, stone and temperature, trying to create better rocks with each explosion of steam, she did become better a dealing with the aftermath. Earthwisps reinforcing the stone structure of everything she didn't want to explode, which was everything else in the third level; gathering all the steam and condensing it back to water and then ice so she could prepare of the ...

Weekly Digest 52 - (#165 - #167)

Salt, Fees, Anchorage, Heat

After breakfast, Lori set about heating her Dungeon. Clearly she didn't need it, but it was the principle of the thing. A Dungeon was at the heart of the demesne, fortress and seat of a Dungeon Binder's power, first and last bastion against dragons. It was rare but not unknown for a demesne to be ravaged by a dragon so thoroughly that those who had taken shelter in the Dungeon needed to repopulate the entire demesne... and the only r...

Demesne 167 - Better Farming Through Explosions

Lori began preparing the third level for farming. Her biggest concern had originally been preparing the ground. After all, they couldn't just throw down dirt and call it a day. Well, they could, but according to the book without proper drainage their crops would fail and die from variety of reasons like root rot, loss of minerals, or simply collapsing as the ground lost the solidity to support the plant. The almanac had provided a small example illustration and a brief passage about ...

Update 2/4/22

Due to circumstances, there will be no update on April the 15th.  This is due to IRL stuff that leaves me unable to work that day.  We apologize for this, as we should have foreseen this sooner.  Updates will resume as normal on Monday the 18th.

Demesne 166 - Ship Sinking

"Uh, Lori…" Rian said hesitantly. "I'm not trying to question your decision making, which I'm sure are backed up by things that I'm simply ignorant of—"

"Spit it out, Rian."

"This seems a terrible place to store our boats in the event of a dragon," Rian said bluntly. "At least, in my admittedly ignorant opinion. We'd basically be putting them in a shed, and none of our sheds have fared particularly well to dragons. Well, except the ones you buried, but even then, recovering it...

Demesne Special - Ryan Is An Isekai Zeo! - April Fools 2022!

Ryan had few things from before he'd gotten isekai'd. The clothes on his back were long gone, worn out and replaced by things he'd bought. He'd had his phone, but that had quickly run out of power and had basically become a strange black mirror, and he'd needed to sell it for the glass and aluminum content at one point when he'd needed money. If he'd been a half-way decent OP isekai protagonist, maybe he could have found a mad-scientist type scholar who could take one look at his phone, reali...

28/3/22 Update

Hello! So, for those who didn't see the note, this weekend I'm either putting up Nightmaerangers 'Interlude: Blue' or putting the series on break for a while. Very probably the latter, given how I'm feeling. I need to clear some schedule space and get my things in order, get the next arc, which will conclude Season 1, in order, things like that. The next arc will involve POVs from everyone, and each individual chapter my be shorter as a result. 

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