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Demesne 468 - The Great And Powerful Protagonist

Dungeon Binder Lolilyuri—Lori to most because people tended to mangle her name by mispronouncing it ‘low-lai-lee–ooh-rai’ or ‘lowly-uh-ree’ or any of a number of ways that she’s had to stop from kicking people in the shin over the years—founder and ruler of Lorian Demesne, conqueror ruler of River’s Fork Demesne, looked upon the first and most senior of her lords with narrowed yellow eyes and was displeased.

Normally, this wasn’t because of anything anyone had done. ...

Demesne 467 - The Wizards

As it started to get dark, balls of light slowly started to appear around the camp. Some appeared above particular tents, ring-like and shining their light outward, no doubt over where one of the Whisperers was still eating. A few began to appear sequentially, coming to light every few paces above the walk between rows of tents. That was probably Faith, she and her wife liked to walk together after dinner now that they had the space to walk. More and more balls began of light to appear as the...

2/2/2025 Update

So... due to Patreon policies and their lack of warning about when content has violated them, I've come to the realization that some later parts of Marlareign might need to be... ah, 'Realta Nua'd' when posted here. I realize this might be problematic for people who want to read the full story here, but... well, I have a story I want to tell.

This means that while Patrons will still get to read the chapters well in advance of other places, some chapters that have been Realta Nua'd will...

The Souls-like DLC Duel Boss You Need To Git Gud To Beat Is Reborn In A Fluffy Otome Game World! 001 - Character Creation - Origin: Troubled Childhood

One morning, as Marla awoke from pleasant and soothing dreams about blood and violence and bloody violence, she came fully to the realization that in her sleep over the past month she had been slowly recalling the memories of her past life.

It came as no great surprise. The recollection had been gradual, and at first she had thought the dreams had simply been nightmares borne of the distress resulting from her father’s disappearance and likely death. Over the days, the memories had co...

Demesne 466 - No Need For Spears

Yhal knew he didn’t have to worry about overseeing how the camp was being set up. While they were all retired from the militia now, habits were hard to break, and even if one was inclined to be a little sloppy, that wasn’t the sort of thing that survived a tour in the militia. The tents had been set up in neat lines, although the spacing had been a bit irregular because of the ground and trees. If they’d been planning to stay longer they’d have cleared those, but they would be staying...

The Souls-like DLC Duel Boss You Need To Git Gud To Beat Is Reborn In A Fluffy Otome Game World! - Prologue: Arcane Amour – Prepare To Live

Papa still wasn’t back.

The little girl stood outside of her house, watching the path leading towards their front door. Her cheeks were salted with dry tears, and the only reason she wasn’t crying was because there were no more tears left. There was a spot of honey on her chin from the honeyed bread that Mama had given her to eat before going to look for Papa. The little girl tried to ignore the feeling inside her—like spiders crawling on her neck—that whispered that Mama might ...

Demesne 465 - A Sweet Welcome

“Well…” Yhal said some time later, “I suppose that’s mildly impressive for a civie.” Making housing wasn’t difficult for a Whisperer as long as they had stone and enough time, excavating the ground was nothing special—it was just digging out rock, after all—nor were the dozens of other little projects that the woman had done, but actually building and maintaining all of them, and even maintaining a dragon shelter through not one but two dragons… even for someone in the mil...

The Souls-like DLC Duel Boss You Need To Git Gud To Beat Is Reborn In A Fluffy Otome Game World! - Prologue: ‘The First Venators’ DLC - The Youngest

The Lone Venator pushed open the tall doors at the peak of the nightmare-twisted Observation Ward. Behind them, they could hear the few misshapen patients still living—for a given value of ‘living’ in this perverse dreamland—crying, or calling for someone called ‘Countess Marla’ to offer them comfort. The strange deformities upon their bodies from the experiments the Chorus had conducted on them made the patients blind to the corpses the Lone Venator had left in their wake of the ...

The Souls-like DLC Duel Boss You Need To Git Gud To Beat Is Reborn In A Fluffy Otome Game World! - Story Trailer

(A red-haired figure stands before a pair of wrought-iron gates, beyond which a large building can be seen)

The Academy of Reigncraft. The place where the nobility of the Kingdom of Solartis gifted with reign over the elements come to learn. This is where my adventure starts!

Swampsoftware

&

ASN Entertainment

present

(The figure steps through the open gates, p...

The Souls-like DLC Duel Boss You Need To Git Gud To Beat Is Reborn In A Fluffy Otome Game World! - Story Blurb

Announcing the latest game from Swampsoftware, creator of the genre-defining Devilborne, Darkborne, Darkborne II, and Darkborne III!

Presenting Arcane Amour! Set in the Academy of Reigncraft in the Kingdom of Solartis, you play as Marla Craft, a commoner who has been invited to attend because she posses the rare magic of Ra...

Demesne 464 - The Civilian

Otin raised an eyebrow. “We haven’t even met the woman yet. Why would she possibly think we want to kill her?”

“I know that and you know that, and that’s the reasonable thing to think, but Binder Lori… well, she believes otherwise.” Yllian shrugged as if he simply accepted that color-brained reasoning.

“Well, surely you can explain that we harbor no such intention—why are you smiling like that?” Tsad said.

“Because I’m trying to stop myself from laugh...

Demesne 463 - How Had It Come to This? This Was Supposed To Be A Cushy Retirement!

“Demesne in sight! Demesne in sight!”

Yhallisu—Yhal to most—looked up at the cry from the lead elements of the march. They had been walking for days now, three hundred people and livestock, and so far the trail they’d been washing through the Iridescence had seemed never ending. Their progress was slow since they had so many people, many of them civilians unused to prolonged marching through the colors, but at least the river had been continuous. The barges that their carpente...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.31 - A Lazy Day

The movie was as funny as it had been before, satirizing the racism of the Lasablican western expansion as the payatin—sorry, Slenderkin—hero Burt made fools of the racist, incompetent villains trying drive people out of the town of Stonecliff so they could grab the land. It was so funny that Harmony took the whole movie to cut up the ingredients for the menudo… which was perfectly fair, he’d probably have done the same.

Loren didn’t know what the plamo squad thought ...

2024 Christmas... Gift?

Merry Christmas, everyone! Due to lacking anything to give you... have a list of names! I know people have been clamoring to have more names! After all, you certainly don't get any in Lori-cam.

• Tafit: A Horotract of the Golden Sweetwood Company. Has big, poofy hair

• Madsmif: A Horotract of the Golden Sweetwood Company. Has a large chin and cooks the strangest food

• Yhim: A Mentalist who left after his first tour of duty to become a farmer, the many fr...

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Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers! SS01: Nightmærangers Play A TTRPG!

When Tammy had floated the idea of another teambuilding party, asking for ideas of what they could do, Sanny given her suggestion half-expecting the middle-schooler would say no. Instead, the Nightmæranger’s leader had happily taken the suggestion. Tammy had of course heard of the game, sometimes seen it depicted on TV or in movies, but she’d never gotten the chance to play it before. She figured now was as good a time as any, and Ate Sanny seemingly decided to just roll with it.

H...

13/21/24 Update

Well, that's it for now everyone! I'm on my break so I can do Christmas stuff. See you on maybe New Year's week, but maybe not, and then I'm off on a family vacation so... I'm guaranteed to be back on January 13th, and Demesne will probably start again by then.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and I hope you're all well!

EDIT: So, I just saw the Elden Ring: Nightreign trailer, so in addition to continuing Demesne, I'm going to try to finally work on that 'MCotAC' ser...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.30 - Hey, Sara

Loren was relieved to finally have enough of a reserve to be able to safely use magic again. He hadn’t realized exactly how much magic he’d had as a reserve until he’d burned through it all and then some. After fire-roasted for hours, he had a reserve again, and his broken arm was itching like crazy. It was something he remembered from the last time he’d broken a bone, and was apparently a sign the bone was healing, ugh.

Channeling Life Flame through his arm didn�...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.29 - Barbeque

The next day, Loren had been feeling better when Harmony checked on him, or at least had gone from the piercing pain stage of his wounds to itching stage of his wounds as his body mended. He was also slowly putting on weight according to the bathroom scale, even as Auntie Marie muttered and sighed about eating so much fat being unhealthy. After her two days off, Harmony had to go back to work, leaving Loren to his own devices, both literally and figuratively. Fortunately, he’d never been th...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.28 - Homecoming

As Harmony had expected, Loren wasn’t really upset about waking up and finding that his parents had him brought home instead of to his apartment, although he was clearly a little agitated. It was the logical decision, given his state. He wouldn’t really be able to feed himself properly with his injury—not easily, at least—even when he’d gotten his energy back, so for the next few days it made sense for his parents to take care of him again. Knowing him as she did thoug...

12/7/24 Update

Due to having cleansed my palate and, uh, market forces... I'll be resuming working on Demesne soon, although the posts probably won't be up until next year. It might be once a week, twice a week at most (maybe) for a while until I hit my groove again. Might make it once a week anyway to give me some leeway to write other series too.

So, Lori will be back. Expect her to not give a damn about people suffering because they're not her people, and other people weighing the pros and cons for...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.27 - Aftercare

Disgustingly, the nurses didn’t know if the ward had been exorcised, or if there were any ghosts at all. Very irresponsible, really This was the kind of thing that could lead to medical complications, like a sudden heart attack from seeing a ghost in the middle of the night!

Fortunately, she was here to keep that from happening!

It took a little convincing on Harmony’s part, since the nurses had immediately trotted out that only family could stay overnight with the patient, bu...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.26 - Aftermath

As they neared Galugod, the traffic slowed considerably, bringing Harmony and Steve to a halt. That was a bad sign. She called Malory again, trying to ignore the hours the other woman could have called them about any change in circumstances and hadn’t.

“Hello?”

“Malory, we’re stuck in traffic, but we’re close. Is Loren all right?”

There was a pause, and Harmony could almost feel her cursed magic pulse, calling in time with her heart, asking for he...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.25 - Fuck It, Let’s Go

Fortunately for the vigilant who had been rendered unconscious, the ghost didn’t seem inclined to do anything to him. Instead, it’s attention was drawn to the Spiritualist as several thumb-sized spiritforms manifested around him before they flew at the ghost a high speed. They slammed into the ghost, and holes were torn through its body, spiritform spraying out of the ghost’s back like flesh.

The ghost vanished, the house suddenly becoming quiet, and Loren realized he’d held the...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.24 - Lost Time

Loren could feel the strain of having sent out so many powerful blasts in rapid succession as he made some distance between himself and other large and heavy objects—like the table and the dish cabinets—that could be thrown at him. The Flames he’d used hadn’t emptied his reserves, but he could certainly feel the dent the blasts had made in his capacity. Flame mages didn’t have a hard upper limit on how much magic they could hold, merely a limit on how much they produced naturally wi...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.23 - Inside The House

His head hurt. There as something filthy on his face. His head hurt. And parts of him ached from being tossed and rolling on the hard ground.

Blearily, he tried to look around. He knew he’d been dragged—by his legs, ow—inside the house, but it hadn’t been that far in. It was surprisingly bright and not dark and gloomy like he’d expected. The air smelled dusty, with a hint of leaves.

Even through the pain and disorientation, Loren found himself wishing that Harmony was th...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.22 - Horror Movie Scenario

It was a perfectly ordinary day. The sun was shining, dogs were barking in the distance, the air was filled with the smell of house paint and Harmony wished Loren was here. Maybe she could have talked him into being a heat sink. Or barring that, they could have sent him to go up and paint the roof. It was about time he learned anyway. He wouldn’t have minded the heat, and she could have worked on the ground!

Not that she was working on the roof at the moment. It was the ...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.21 - New Project

It started innocently enough… and if he’d thought that at the time, it would probably have been a huge red flag. But unfortunately, most days started innocently. He’d been working for Happy Homes for four months at this point, and had received a semi-promotion as the driver of the pick-up truck. That meant in the morning’s he made his way to Steve’s house, greeted Diwata, and picked up the company pickup truck to take to Mrs. Halili’s former house, picking up Malory, Loni and Harm...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.20 - Project Completion

Sara was soon playing with the little squad of plastic robot tsukumogami. While she still needed to concentrate to lift them up, their spiritform meant she could touch them, or at least derive tactile sensation from doing so. And while it wasn’t much, the contact between her spiritform and theirs was able to convey just enough force that she could get their attention and maybe tip them over if they were unbalanced and inattentive.

Loren heard her playing with the plamo a...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.19 - Adopted

Once Loren had explained what tsukumogami—or hinnagami, in this case—were, and the plamo had helpfully demonstrated by walking around and moving… well, the two old hobbyists had looked absolutely fascinated and giddy. He supposed that no matter how old someone became, there was something inherently wondrous about something they loved becoming self-aware and alive. It was probably like how talking dog movies were always popular because people liked the thought of their dogs being able to...

Flipping Haunted Houses For Fun And Profit! 1.18 - Adoption Day

In the days leading up to ‘adoption day’, a surprising number of people called Danny and expressed an interest in adopting parts of his late father’s collection. As expected, many of them were collectors that Mr. Halili previously knew, although there were a few curious people that had probably found out from the fliers he’d put up in the shrine and temple.

Of course, not all of his days was spent on legwork. After two days of making calls and contacting people on the list Danny...