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Weekly Digest 22 - (#66 - #68)

Lori Goes To The Hospital

It was, by Lori estimation, more than a taum and a half away from the center of the demesne in a straight line, through uneven terrain and thick foliage. It was a long walk, made longer by the fact her legs throbbed, her side hurt, and her arm was bleeding. That latter she was able to restrain by binding the wisps to stay in her veins, which was basic Whisperer medicinal magic, but it still hurt, every step jarring her and making her a...

Demesne 68 - Oh, Rainbows

When Lori woke up, her initial confusion and almost panic at waking up in a strange place was detoured by the fact she hurt. Her right side throbbed and felt stiff, as if solidifying, and her right forearm… it didn't throb, it had been dipped in molten wax and someone had opened her veins to push that wax into her veins. It pulsed, keeping time like a painful heartbeat, and the bandages felt too tight. She also had a headache for some reason, and she was thirsty.

For a moment...

Demesne 67 - Wounded

Trying to manipulate the wisps in one's body aftera painful surgical operation had begun was an agonizing experience Lori never wanted to repeat again. It also revealed how little she actually knew about the interactions of lightningwisps and her body. The first painful lesson was that the ones that let her move her arm were distinct from the ones that let her feel her arm. She wasted a lot of time finding out the difference.

Even when she managed it, it was s...

Demesne 66 - Lori Goes To The Hospital

It was, by Lori estimation, more than a taum and a half away from the center of the demesne in a straight line, through uneven terrain and thick foliage. It was a long walk, made longer by the fact her legs throbbed, her side hurt, and her arm was bleeding. That latter she was able to restrain by binding the wisps to stay in her veins, which was basic Whisperer medicinal magic, but it still hurt, every step jarring her and making her aware there were earthwisps in her wounds that she couldn't...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers! #13

The House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 10

In his hand, the pink stone, with its sharp geometries and strange glow, began to vibrate. "You can talk?" The voice was small and panicky.

"Obviously," he said. "Can you please stop trying to eat us now? That you're doing is cannibalism." A thought occurred to him. "Wait, is THAT what you did to my corpse in Quezon Circle? That's disgusting!"

"I didn't… ! I thought…!"

"What's you...

Weekly Digest 21 - (#63 - #65)

The Laundry Area, Revised

"This is a laundry area?" Mikon said, looking around and seeming nervous and a bit confused. Her pink hair whipped about in the wind, longer than Lolilyuri thought was sensible, but then not everyone was as reasonable and intelligent as she was. And as soon as she could borrow some scissors again, her hair will reflect her reason and intelligence.

"That is the intention," Lori said. "As among those intended to use it, I need your...

Demesne 65 - Lori The Explorer

Lori walked into the unknown, armed with nothing but her map, her wits and her will, boldly going where no one had gone before, exploring the furthest reaches of the unknown!

"Put your clothes on properly and go do something productive," she said sternly to the two who been in the midst of… well. "And if I catch you two doing this again, I'm flogging you both. And take a bath!" At least they hadn't been completely naked, merely strategically moved aside certain… well.

As the y...

Demesne 64 - Lori Gets Ready To Explore

Lori hummed to herself as she laid out the map on the table while waiting for Rian to come back with breakfast. She had to admit, whoever had made this map had done good work. She recognized the bends in the river from the times she'd and Rian had needed to go to River's Fork, and could even point to the spot where the children liked to go seeling. With the map in front of her, she was able to put context to what she was feeling.

As she looked at the map, she let herself become aware of...

Demesne 63 - The Laundry Area, Revised

"This is a laundry area?" Mikon said, looking around and seeming nervous and a bit confused. Her pink hair whipped about in the wind, longer than Lolilyuri thought was sensible, but then not everyone was as reasonable and intelligent as she was. And as soon as she could borrow some scissors again, her hair will reflect her reason and intelligence.

"That is the intention," Lori said. "As among those intended to use it, I need your assessment as it whether it can be used conveniently as i...

Demesne Patron EX SS 5 - Shanalorre's Morning

Shana left the comforting abyss of empty, thoughtless sleep, and everything hurt all over again. Tota was dead. Tyatya was dead. Dyadya resented her, and was angry all the time. Mushka had grown cold and distant, and wouldn't let Yoshka play with her anymore. She was alone…

She lay curled up in bed, fighting back tears and taking deep, deliberate breaths as her hands shook. With each breath, she felt magic filling her, enriching the life within her, energizing her thoughts, even if sh...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers! #12

The House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 9

It felt good to fuck the square-cube law.

His wings flapped at a rate too fast for him to put a number to, but it was probably in the neighborhood of 'too-bullshit-fast' per second as he flew at the Blood Bug, a knife-like serrated tooth rapidly growing behind his wrist to extend over his hand. He'd… well, to be perfectly honest, he'd yet to use it in a way where it was actually useful,...

Weekly Digest 20 - (#60 - #62)

Priorities in Construction

The next day, Lori began excavating the mushroom farm.

She seemed to be doing a lot of excavating lately. Which, in hindsight, should have been obvious– most dungeon's, with rare exceptions like Treeshade Demesne and Skykeep Demesne, were underground– but she hadn't realized she'd be doing all the actual digging. Shouldn't she have minions and underlings doing this for her, sworn vassals who bowed to her will and us...

Demesne 62 - The Laundry Area

Lori had decided to take her lord's advice. Both pieces of it, really, but one after the other. First, she'd build a dedicated laundry area that would use the runoff water, since she could always build something for a water wheel later. Then, tomorrow, she'd go check the accuracy of the new map, which was now securely locked in her room.

So, after a good, hearty breakfast– actual amount of beast or seel heart in the stew unknown– she'd grabbed her stone-shaping tool, bound some of t...

Status Update 6/23/21

There might not be a Demesne side story short this month, as I'm blanking for a good worldbuilding idea that isn't too spoilery. Anything you guys want to read about that I can try? 

Demesne 61 - The Map

Lori tried to make the best of things while she built the shoddy, stupid, inelegant, awkward aqueduct that future generations will probably hate or use for tourism purposes, and will be equally inconvenient in either case. It was simply enough, in regards to construction. The stone pillar in the river was anchored to the bedrock, and had a hollow tube where waterwisps drew water up to the aqueduct, with bars made of stone to keep at least seels from getting in. Once drawn to the top, the wate...

Demesne 60 - Priorities in Construction

The next day, Lori began excavating the mushroom farm.

She seemed to be doing a lot of excavating lately. Which, in hindsight, should have been obvious—most Dungeons, with rare exceptions like Treeshade Demesne and Skykeep Demesne, were underground—but she hadn't realized she'd be doing all the actual digging. Shouldn't she have minions and underlings doing this for her, sworn vassals who bowed to her will and used their Whispering to—oh.

Rainbows.

Had her anc...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers! #11

The House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 8

Sanny threw himself into the hole the two girls fell into.

The first sign this might not have been a good idea was the hole going from thirty feet wide when he was above it, and the size of a fieldwhen he was in it. That did not pair well with the fact that even when it had been thirty feet wide, he hadn't been able to see the bottom. At first he'd though that was just his angle of view, but now h...

Weekly Digest 19 - (#57 - #59)

Minions Need Maintenance

Lori didn't even have time to bask in her victory against Rian in their game (yes! She won! She won, she won, she won! Ha!). The sore loser (she won!) had immediately run off to hide his shame at her victory and had gotten everyone to settle down for the meeting. One of the tables had been moved to the far wall, which Lori supposed was where Rian would put his notes and sit.

The meeting started after Rian finally stopped gesturing...

Demesne 59 - Post-Meeting Details

"Well, I think that went nicely," Rian said happily as he carried his various planks and rocks with notes on it down to one of the alcoves she'd made in the new level while people put the dining hall back to the way it usually was and people got started cooking lunch. So close to midday, with not enough time to get any substantive work done, people were taking a cue from the children and resting, enjoying the free time until they had to work in the afternoon. She would transcribe the notes on...

Demesne 58 - Material Restitution

There was a restlessness in the air as Rian finally got people to pay attention to the next item in whatever unknown list he was working through. Lori ignored the looks people were giving her as she sat back town and went back to being disinterested, even as she enviously eyed the children who could at least play games during this boring, pointless meeting.

"All right," Rian said, sounding reluctant. "As you know, but some people might need reminding because they don't care to pay atten...

Demesne 57 - Minions Need Maintenance

Lori didn't even have time to bask in her victory against Rian in their game (yes! She won! She won, she won, she won! Ha!). The sore loser (she won!) had immediately run off to hide his shame at her victory and had gotten everyone to settle down for the meeting. One of the tables had been moved to the far wall, which Lori supposed was where Rian would put his notes and sit.

The meeting started after Rian finally stopped gesturing at her, stood up and dragged her over to the table with ...

Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers! #10

The House With Pink In Its Walls, Part 7

"This feels rushed. This feels very rushed. This is going to go badly," Tammy said to him through the little offshoot he'd left with her. it was nestled somewhere in her branches, a little ball of shell that was basically full of ear, lungs and vocal chords for him to talk back to her with. As the one who was most mobile between them, it was likely any offshoot she gave him to talk through would just be dislodged.

...

Weekly Digest 18 - (#54 - #56)

Work and Play

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 claims stones on the paired bowl opposite. Each player owned one of the bowls on the ends of the board, and whoever had the most stones in their bowl when all the other bowls were empty won. A simple, childish game, which probably appealed to a certain k...

Demesne 56 - House Envy

Lolilyuri studiously ignored Rian as she considered her next move, the game before her taking up all her attention. This time she would be victorious!

"So, has she won against you yet?" Rian asked her opponent.

The brat shook her head, eating lunch from her bowl. She sat patiently as Lori studied the board, considering every possibility.

Finally, Rian sighed. "Lori, it's sunk, not chatrang. You literally have only one bowl left. Just make your move so you can call the game? ...

Demesne 55 - Adequate Ventilation

It wasn't long before more game boards started appearing on the other tables, cut from scraps of plank. With the building being done on the new houses, there were apparently a lot of scraps to work with. Some were copies of the sunk board, but most were the familiar grids of chatrang, lima, pincer, and even Iskadaliya's Conquest, or simply conquest. The pieces were simple, made of circular bits of wood cut from branches and either marked or lightly burned dark to show opposing sides. Apparent...