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Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #42

Waterborne, Part 9

Willy had left a bit of herself near Tammy. A drone, a part of her she still controlled, to watch her cousin while she went away. When she turned her attention to it, she found it still wrapped around her cousin like a thick, viscous slime. Willy asserted control over the water she had left behind, flowing off and almost sinking and joining the floodwater beneath her she turned her body to ice.

Around her, the garden w...

Weekly Digest 51 - (#162 - #164)

The Mill Stone

After breakfast, and reluctantly putting away the almanac in her room so that it wouldn't be damaged by the rigors of a day's work, Lori met with the pair of stonemasons who would be needing her assistance in making the mill stone so it would be done sooner as the rest of the threshing was being finished. Rian did the talking, introducing them to her—why did he do that? He knew she didn't care nor would she remember—in one of the alcoves on t...

Demesne 164 - Warm and Cold

The day after the harvest celebration, the taste of bread that had been salted with what Rian and those who had gone with him had managed to gather from the ocean, soaked in roasted tail meat fat, and dipped in stew still lingered on Lori’s tongue. She was bemusedly surprised to find that breakfast included little chunks of stale bread floating in her stew, growing soggy and mushy.

“Why do we have stale bread?” she asked.

“It happens,” Rian said. “Some people ...

Demesne 163 - The Milling Process

The mill was completed by mid-morning of the following day.

It was… well, most people probably wouldn't call it beautiful. It was two round hunks of rock on top of each other, held together by a thick wooden rod, with a bowl-like hopper for grain on to top stone, and a wide channel all around the bottom stone for flour to spill out onto, or so Lori gathered. The finish was rough instead of smooth and shiny, even after being washed to remove all the stone dust that had been knocked off...

Demesne 162 - The Mill Stone

After breakfast, and reluctantly putting away the almanac in her room so that it wouldn't be damaged by the rigors of a day's work, Lori met with the pair of stonemasons who would be needing her assistance in making the mill stone so it would be done sooner as the rest of the threshing was being finished. Rian did the talking, introducing them to her—why did he do that? He knew she didn't care nor would she remember—in one of the alcoves on the second level of the Dungeon as she inspected...

Demesne Patron Exclusives and Specials

Volume 1

Demesne Patron EX SS 1 - Little Lori Goes To The Library

Demesne Special - Ryan Is An Isekai! - April Fools 2022! (Not exclusive, but special!)

D...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #41

Waterborne, Part 8

Willy met the wave of water head on, blasting out water from her front that reshaped into a vertical wedge that parted the waters, forcing it to go around her as geysers of water shot out from the back of her wedge, giving her thrust to compensate for her lack of mass. For a moment, her wedge held against the onslaught of floodwater, fighting the current to stay in place.

"This is your fault!" the rainmaker was screami...

Weekly Digest 50 - (#159 - #161)

Report On A Journey To Covehold

"All right," Lori said in Rian's house after breakfast. She sat on the little wooden stool, her new almanac on her lap. "You've had time. Report."

"Are you sure you don't want us to do this somewhere else?" Rian said. "The benches in the alcoves in the second level would be a lot more comfortable. Sitting on that stool is probably going to hurt after a while." He was seated on his bed, his bedroll folded under him as a cush...

20/3/22 Status

I must regretfully apologize and inform everyone that Nightmaerangers will be delayed again, thought hopefully only for a few hours and now a whole day. It's still yet incomplete, but close enough, but I really need to sleep now. With luck, it will be up in the next 12 to 16 hours, and not a whole day. 

Again, I'm sorry. Writing this scene has been really difficult, as Willy just doesn't have as many writing options as the others, and I want to be true to her character.

Demesne 161 - The Importance Of Milling

Lori allowed herself to be swayed by Rian's argument to not make copies of every illustration in the book right then, as it would be a waste of time. He argued that they should focus on the illustrations of edible plants that were still in season, as otherwise there was no point. She supposed he had a point about that. And she'd need to be the one making the tablets for it, since the lightwisps would need to be bound to something else with wisps, and trying to bind it to airwisps wrapped arou...

Demesne 160 - Images Bound In Light

"Lori, it's lunch time."

Lori jerked up from the page she was reading, staring at Rian standing at the doorway to her room. "How did you get up here?" she demanded.

He pointed back the way he'd come. "You forgot to seal the hallway," he said. "I think you shouldn't read that during the day, it's very distracting. I mean, I understand, it's probably full of interesting and useful things, but… uh, I'll shut up now." Ah, he finally noticed her glare.

"I'll be down momentarily...

Demesne 159 - Report On A Journey To Covehold

"All right," Lori said in Rian's house after breakfast. She sat on the little wooden stool, her new almanac on her lap. "You've had time. Report."

"Are you sure you don't want us to do this somewhere else?" Rian said. "The benches alcoves in the second level would be a lot more comfortable. Sitting on that stool is probably going to hurt after a while." He was seated on his bed, his bedroll folded under him as a cushion.

She rolled her eyes. "They're still threshing there. It's lo...

Nightmærangers ‘What If…’ #1

So I figured I'd drop some what-ifs. As in, what powers would have developed if someone besides the person who did had gotten to devour X monster.

Plague Dog:

• if Tammy had gotten it, she would have gained the ability to make plants that cause violent allergies, even in people who are not normally allergic
• If WIlly had gotten it, instead of chemically pure water, she would be able to generate water that could act as breeding grounds for microorganisms

Blo...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #40

Waterborne, Part 7

Willy slammed into the back wall of the house, and she felt parts of her ice crack from the impact with the old, rough cement. The ice immediately fused together again as she tried to get some sort of leverage, but the water was still moving, and she couldn't get any traction with any part of her body. Water exploded from her, slamming into the floodwater and pushing it back a moment. Surrounded by her own water, she dissolv...

6/3/22 Status

Again, I must apologize. The Nightmaeranger chapter will again be delayed, hopefully only until late tomorrow. The fight in progress is actually harder to write than I thought, and choreographing it has been difficult. 

We are very sorry for the delay, especially since we already promised it would be on time today. But don't worry, the segment WILL be posted. 

Hopefully it will make sense. Damned eldritch fight scenes... 

Weekly Digest 49 - (#156 - #158)

Lori Reads An Almanac

After breakfast, Lori went to the sealed off alcoves where the cargo from the Coldhold was being kept. Rian had ordered all it be brought there rather than let people start carting away what they had asked for, supposedly because it had been mixed in with everything else and he didn't want accusations of things getting lost.

"We might as well do this at the same time," he said. "While you do your customs inspection, we can do invento...

Demesne 158 - All Was Right

During lunch, Lori had to all but sit down on her new almanac to keep from reading it while she ate so she didn’t accidentally drip any of her food on it. Despite her excitement and enjoyment, she had glanced at the page listings, affirming for herself what else it contained besides flow diagrams. It contained illustrations of plants and labeled whether it was edible or whether it had any use as a resource, or if it caused itching on contact and many other things.

She had a f...

Demesne 157 - Customs Inspection

"What were you expecting, exactly?" Rian asked, looking amused.

Lori wasn't sure, but she had imagined that there were things she would covet. At least, she had thought so… "All right, go down the list for me, what do we have?" Lori said.

Rian's smile became genuine for a moment, though no less amused. "All right. Well, over here we have some medicines. Some refined osiel extract and osiel nuts to plant and grow more, baler roots, a few dried quefo roots as well as a little sapl...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers #39

Waterborne, Part 6

There was a snap, Willy's head breaking clean off her shoulders as the rat bit and chewed, snapping her body to pieces and tearing her innards apart.

Her head was ice. Her body was ice. Her innards were clear, undifferentiated ice, and the rat tore chunks, chips and shavings from her, its monstrous forward incisors doing as they had evolved to do.

Willy didn't care, or at least, she normally wouldn't have. All sh...

Demesne 156 - Lori Reads An Almanac

After breakfast, Lori went to the sealed off alcoves where the cargo from the Coldhold was being kept. Rian had ordered all it be brought there rather than let people start carting away what they had asked for, supposedly because it had been mixed in with everything else and he didn't want accusations of things getting lost.

"We might as well do this at the same time," he said. "While you do your customs inspection, we can do inventory to make sure we didn't lose anything."

"How w...

Demesne Patron EX SS 12 - Talking About This

Takes Place Immediately After 154

For a moment, absolutely silence reigned in Rian's house as her Bindership left, her ominous words hanging in the air. The windows on either side of the door were absolutely black, and while she could still hear the sounds of people outside, nothing of them could be seen. Inside, the fire glowed warm, but light came from a stone on the shelf above the bed that glowed cold and bright and white, something that h...

27/2/22 Status

So, the Patron Exclusive will be coming out soon, but Nightmaerangers will be delayed and come out late, or even until the next day. Sorry. This week has been... ugh.

Hopefully we can stay on schedule next week... And remember, the week after next, I'll be on break. See you then!

EDIT: an update and further apologies. It looks like I won’t be able to post Nightaærangers today, and possibly not tomorrow because of a doctors appointment. For this, I’m truly sorry. At worst, it ...

Weekly Digest 48 - (#153 - #155)

We're Home

"We're home!" Rian declared from the bench he was standing where everyone in the space in front of her Dungeon could see him, raising a wooden cup in the air. This banal statement was followed by cheers. "We've finally had a hot bath!" This time the cheers were mainly from the men who'd left with him, but they cheered very loudly. "With soap!" More cheers of agreement. "Now let's eat and just stay in bed tomorrow! No having go get u...

Demesne 155 - First Morning Back

The next morning, Lori expected to be eating alone with only, at best, Rian for company.

Not that she cared. She was used to eating alone. There were no inane expectations of conversation that way.

The dining hall of her Dungeon was quiet that morning. There were the usual smells of food, but from what she could see not all the kitchen staff were there cooking, and there were only a few people sitting at the tables.

Lori walked to her table, stepping over the bench on her si...

24/2/22 Status

So... I went for a boost shot yesterday, and am feeling the side-effect reaction that I didn't the last two times.

This will certainly impact this week's productivity, and we might have not Nightmaeranger chapter this week, at the least. I might be reduced to twice a week updates of Demesne if I can't catch up. Sorry guys. 

Demesne 154 - Leaving The Silliness To Rian

"Thank you for the kind words," Mikon told Riz as Lori ate, ignoring them. "That wasn't necessary, but it was nice. But you really need to be more forward if you want to flirt with Rian properly. He's a bit dense."

Riz turned to give the other woman an incredulous look. "Are you actually giving me advice?"

Mikon shrugged. "I've been helping you so far, I see no reason to change that now."

"Does this mean you've given up on him?" Riz said hopefully.

"Why would ...

Demesne 153 - We're Home

"We're home!" Rian declared from the bench he was standing where everyone in the space in front of her Dungeon could see him, raising a wooden cup in the air. This banal statement was followed by cheers. "We've finally had a hot bath!" This time the cheers were mainly from the men who'd left with him, but they cheered very loudly. "With soap!" More cheers of agreement. "Now let's eat and just stay in bed tomorrow! No having go get up and get wet just to keep those stupid...