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Demesne 8 - Minions Require Facilities

As it wasn't raining, and therefore people could finally work on putting roofs and doors of the houses she'd built– she left the matter of assigning which families got the houses to Rian, as she didn't care– Lori could finally stay in her nice, cool cave instead of working in the hot, sunny, humid outdoors, and develop her Dungeon.

Step one was putting a binding at the entrance that kept the humidity from getting in. She put in a lot of magic into that so it would last several days....

Demesne 7 - Suspiciously Sunny Day

The days passed. As they did, the settlement developed and the number of buildings grew.

Wood was cut. The kitchen got real walls, and then the walls became raised stone, so the wood was used for a proper roof, and then the dimensions were expanded to be able to seat nearly everyone. Tables and chairs were made. A washing area was set up, and Lolilyuri raised a stone cistern to provide water for it, which she had to refill with river water every few days. One of the men with carpentry s...

Demesne 6 - Food and Other Resources to Manage

The next day dawned and nobody had died.

Also, sleeping on a pile of sand is still sleeping on rock, only with an infinite amount of sharp points.

"I need a bed," Lori muttered as she washed herself off. A rock had been raised around the cave opening, with space for air to pass around its edges so she could have a quick bath. She'd briefly debated using the recess the Dungeon's core floated above as a tub, and the only thing that had stopped her was that it was too shallow. Obviou...

Demesne Weekly Digest 1 (#1-#5)

Our Unfortunately Named Protagonist

In the middle of the rains, they finally finished digging the core for the demesne.

Whisperer Lolilyuri, Lori to most, had been in the midst of fortifying the water break around the settlement, the rain dripping down from wide brim of her pointy leather hat, when one of the children had reached her. The little girl had paused as she'd gotten near, staring at the large beast on the other side of the water break, then at ...

Demesne 5 - When a Lord And A Lady Love Each Other Very Much…

When Lori came back to the kitchen, it was to find Rian waiting for her with a bowl of food. Beast meat that had been cooked over flame– it seemed someone had realized they could safely burn wood now– served in with the stewed grains, wild berries, nuts and root vegetables they'd been eating over the last few days, and which they'd probably started preparing before the meat was butchered. It took a long time to cook stew using hot ingots of metal heated inside a sealed pit so the still-ir...

Demesne 4 - Parts and Advanced Features Not Included

When Lori finally stopped laughing with, admittedly, a touch too much megalomania, it was to the revelation that as she'd been standing around, her socks had gotten wet.

She dried them. Then she had to blink, stare, and slowly go over in her head what had just happened.

No need to breathe in magic, no channeling it through the relevant parts of her body to prepare it to bind to any particular kind of wisp. Magic had simply come from the core straight to the waterwisps in her socks...

Demesne 3 - How to Build a Dungeon's Core

The first thing any Whisperer learned, whether they were a savant or an initiate, was that wisps were everywhere.

In every speck of dust, every drop of water, every empty space, there were wisps. They clung to the magic in the air, inert and unmoving until a Whisperer offered them magic and bound them with will.

Not exactly the second thing they learned, more like the 25th, or possibly the 50th… definitely in the first hundred somewhere… was that all wisps could be fo...

Demesne 2 - Do-It-Yourself Dungeon

To make a Dungeon and the demesne that surrounded it was actually relatively simple, provided you were a wizard and could actually do it. A lot of the stories commoners told were of ordinary folk somehow stumbling into a Dungeon and claiming it in ignorance or by accident, becoming mighty and powerful in the process. Rainbows. There was no way to claim a Dungeon by accident. Every wizard knew that. But not, obviously, most ordinary folk.

Creating a Dungeon and claiming...

Demesne 1 - Our Unfortunately Named Protagonist

In the middle of the rains, they finally finished digging the core for the demesne.

Whisperer Lolilyuri, Lori to most, had been in the midst of fortifying the water break around the settlement, the rain dripping down from wide brim of her pointy leather hat, when one of the children had reached her. The little girl had paused as she'd gotten near, staring at the large beast on the other side of the water break, then at its head a few feet away. Its neck was still venting a little steam....