Tyhgak shuffled his feet, pacing back and forth. He peeked across the camp. Noigakkuq was sitting on a log bench and holding her tray of maddening honey. He took a step forward, then shook his head and turned back. As he did, he heard a sigh.
“Could you stop? That’s getting annoying.”
He jumped and then slowly turned around to find Noigakkuq glaring at him.
“Well? If you have something to say, then say it. Otherwise, stop pacing around like that. It’s distracting....
2024-10-10 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Belissar made his way over to shortcut Orchard, carrying a peculiar beehouse he made after observing the carpenter bees for a bit. He set it down by the monster carpenter bee spawner, right amidst the apple trees. Rather than a box filled with trays, this one was just a solid block of wood with legs. Belissar had drilled a bunch of holes into the block, most about the size of the carpenter bees but he made some larger by varying degrees in case the carpenter bees grew. Since he ...
2024-10-09 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Belissar first met with Chief Rohsuak. He informed her about the new plants and asked for Juosiutik’s help with the rest, and then requested that the karnuq send someone to check out the ruins. Chief Rohsuak agreed and Belissar went ahead and added new flower nodes for the new herbs in both the karnuq’s Flower Meadow and in the Apiary. He also enabled alfalfa spawning in the Apiary and each of the Flower Meadows, Orchards, and Fairy Groves in the Tower to start boosting soil fertility, re...
2024-10-08 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Fourth of the Seventh zipped back through the King’s realm, leading soldier bees laden with plants of different kinds. She passed right through the shortcut by the entrance to emerge directly into her home room, making a quick turn to head towards the Orchard. The First of the Fifth’s First Daughter and her communer were already waiting for her.
“Fourth of the Seventh!”
“First of the Fifth’s First Daughter!”
The two queens met in the air and brush...
2024-10-07 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Going to take the rest of this week off. Sorry, fatigue seems to be suddenly catching up with me, might of pushed a bit hard recently trying to wrap up Terminate the Other World editing and all. Been a while since I took a break in hindsight, haha.
I feel the wisest and most efficient thing to do is take off now, and try to avoid suddenly taking a whole week off later on. Sorry for the short notice and the egregious lack of bees!
I might be just a silly non-bee...
2024-10-02 22:02:22 +0000 UTC
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The Second of the Sixth buzzed her wings as her workers reported to her. She stood in the midst of her Bee Apartment, filled to the brim not with yellow but bluish green as medicinal workers filled medicinal honeycombs with medicinal honey. One wall, however, had turned yellow with bits of color here and there as it displayed the interior of Beero’s growing Memorial Hive. Her workers flew in from the other hive to report now the status of their charges.
Yet another display of the King...
2024-10-02 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! So, at first I was going to make the God of Flowers green cause plants but then I remembered this is the God of Flowers, not the God of Plants, and flowers are generally distinctly not green. The problem being they're, like, every color, so I'm having trouble choosing.
Which means it's time for a little bee-mocracy!
For context, this color will be used in the Flower-Bee cross perks on Royal Road, similar to the Fire-Bee perks in 2024-10-01 20:07:00 +0000 UTC
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Belissar decided to first check out the cross-perks before making the final decision. He grinned as he opened the reward.
Select a cross-perk (Bee/Flower):
- Bee-caller Pheromones
- Symbiotic Foraging
- Empowering Pollination
Belissar nearly giggled from how giddy he felt. Even from just the names alone, he had a good feeling about these.
Bee-...
2024-10-01 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The gardener quickly put extraneous thoughts aside and focused. Now that she had a flower that might suit her purposes, she needed to ensure it grew healthy and strong. The plant was requesting additional water and her own mana agreed with that assessment. Now she needed to figure out the best way to bring it more.
But as she pondered, the shoot itself began to move. It dug itself out of the ground, revealing a bulbous, slight glowing section at the very bottom of the stem. Its roots sl...
2024-09-30 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Belissar watched with a smile as Paisijik handed out her honeycomb and then offered the remaining half of the tray to the God of Bees. He was only slightly surprised this time when the Shrine lit up. What work would the God of Bees approve of more than beekeeping, after all?
A challenger has been fully blessed.
Gained 20 DP.
A challenger has selected a blessing unique to your patron.
Gained additional 10 DP.
His smile grew, for...
2024-09-27 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Paisijik walked forward at a steady pace, holding a bowl with both hands. All eyes were on her, the other karnuq beekeepers ceased all their work to watch her. Two of the human prisoners were here, and even the Tower Keeper came to watch.
By now she had discarded most of her winter gear, with only a lighter fur coat draped loosely around her. Not only was the gear painfully unsuited for the Tower’s climate, but Paisijik also believed it to be unnecessary. If she had done this right, t...
2024-09-26 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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A couple of days passed. After handling maddening honey with no major ill-effects, Belissar tried every honey he had access to. Burning honey was the spiciest thing he had ever eaten but it hadn’t burned him like it had Metsaitti, so he managed to create burning spell-bees as well, along with sedating spell-bees and ground spell-bees that could “fly” through the ground. The Fourth of the Eighth even gave him a tray of shocking honey, which created all sorts of wonderful static shocks in...
2024-09-25 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar watched with his Tower sight as Metsaitti spoke to the man leaning against the wall. The third surviving soldier had finally come to and grown cognizant enough to speak, so Metsaitti was now interrogating him with Sehfitis’s help. Belissar didn’t actually have anything he wanted to ask the guy himself, having heard what he wanted from Sehfitis and Hirkolos, but Chief Rohsuak had come up with a good idea. They were having Sehfitis translate for Metsaitti while Belissar was watchin...
2024-09-24 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar nodded in approval as he watched the first karnuq beekeeper feed the bees and back off. Velebee’s lessons seemed to have worked, the First of the Ninth had been wary but not overly aggressive. Though, he wasn’t sure if that was due to Velebee’s teachings or the more cautious approach by the beekeeper, but either way she seemed to have a plan and it seemed to be working.
Satisfied he wouldn’t need to intervene, he moved to finish up Beero’s barracks.
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Th...
2024-09-23 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar spent the rest of the day gathering materials and working on the Memorial hive. Upon Beero’s request, he would build a second Bee Barracks like the first, positioned just before the Memorial. The Bee Barracks would be largely as the first, but Beero and Belissar did come up with some new ideas.
The karnuq helped him carry lumber and stone to the battle meadow. At first, Belissar wasn’t going to bother then seeing as they had wounded to take care of, but when he went to ask ...
2024-09-20 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar did as Juosiutik asked and created a shortcut between the Apothecary’s Hut and the Apiary, as close to the First of the Fifth’s Bee Apartment as he could manage. He thought briefly about trying to place said shortcut in the apartment itself but decided against it. This was Juosiutik, the dangerous one herself, that they were talking about so having a direct connection between her workspace and a hive full of mana honey might be…unwise.
He stepped through the shortc...
2024-09-19 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar and Chief Rohsuak made their way over to the karnuq’s settlement…at least until they heard a scream. The two ran over to find the first karnuq beekeeper running from a swarm of angry monster bees. They weren’t stinging her, but they were diving and buzzing as loud as they could. Belissar exchanged a concerned look with Chief Rohsuak.
“…I don’t want to keep Juosiutik waiting, but I need to handle that.”
Chief Rohsuak just nodded silently.
“I’ll go i...
2024-09-18 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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“AMAZING! INCREDIBLE! KING IS BEST KING!”
The First of the Fifth immediately began zipping around Belissar at maximum speed once he announced the choices. The rest of the monster bee queens soon followed suit, while the bumblebee queens tackled him and began grooming him all over. Belissar laughed and petted the bumblebees in response.
“I’m glad you all like it.”
He heard Chief Rohsuak chuckle to the side.
“They aren’t the only one. I suspect Juosiutik wi...
2024-09-17 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Behold! Terminate the Other World! Book 4: Heart of the Machine is coming out on December 10th! Pre-order for the audiobook, e-book, and print edition are all live now...and t...
2024-09-17 05:04:19 +0000 UTC
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Belissar glanced over at the bees, intending to ask their opinion. He found the First of the Fifth had landed on the ground. Her body was trembling, she kept beating her wings and twitching her antennae while starting and stopping the first steps of a dance. She paused when she noticed him watching her, and then began to dance with slow, deliberate steps.
“Honey?”
The other Apiary bees all burst into motion at this, zipping about as they danced their agreement. Belissar chuckl...
2024-09-16 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar grimaced as he arrived at the scene. The Second of the Sixth’s medicinal workers were swarming over the field, injecting healing compounds with their stingers, feeding healing honey to the wounded, and patching over bleeding injuries with wax and propolis. But…hers was but one hive, and there were many wounded to tend to.
The karnuq and the bumblebees presented a particular problem, in that they were much, much larger than the usual bees, and had each taken many wounds. The...
2024-09-13 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The salamander burst into the Flower Meadow. It growled as it saw the bee army flying in the air above it but the bees were already in motion. A squad of sprayers had already moved into position and launched their spray.
The salamander moved as well. It swung its tail up over its body. There was a hissing noise, like steam from the spout of a kettle, and then the spines on its tail shot out from its body.
Belissar’s eyes widened.
The sprayers got off their own attack but d...
2024-09-12 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar practiced his magic until it was time for the next purification. There were two small bird shades this time, but karnuq archers took down one in the tunnels and the bee army surrounded and dealt with the other when it reached the Flower Meadow.
The next morning Belissar practiced his magic again, seeing if he could replicate the healing herb honey without actually drinking said honey. It took him a couple of tries but eventually he got it right. Now, he’d be much more helpful...
2024-09-11 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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After greeting Velebee, Belissar walked over to the new beehouses the karnuq had built, with all his beekeeping students fidgeting about. He nodded at them.
“Ok, let’s see how you did.”
He sent a silent command over to the First of the Ninth. She flew into the area, flying above the beehouses. She crawled inside a few of them, spending about a minute inside each one before flying to the next. She crawled into one final one, spending a minute inside…and then another, and an...
2024-09-10 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The light of the sun filtered down the canopy of a warm forest. The canopies of the trees, the shrubs and the bushes, and the ground itself were all covered in flowers of every shape, size, and color. The air was filled with the singing of birds and the buzzing of bees. Bees, butterflies, and pollinators of every sort flew from flower to flower.
In the midst of it all, Tarwantrad stood before a beehouse, carefully carved from the finest wood with flower designs adorning the walls. She s...
2024-09-09 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Belissar found himself surrounded by beehouses. He walked through them, rubbing his chin. He looked through each and every one, pulling out a tray from each. They were all different shapes and sizes, mostly all rough around the edges. But still, Belissar nodded. He turned to face the karnuq beekeepers’ class, all of them staring at him silently.
He gave them a smile.
“This should do, at least as far as I’m concerned. The true test will be if the bees like them....
2024-09-06 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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“King! Everything ok?! King ok?! Hive of hives ok?!”
Belissar snapped out of his daze thanks to the First of the Fifth flying frantically before his face. He shook his head and then quickly gave her a smile.
“Everything’s fine! Better than fine, actually. Beero evolved and we have a new type of bee now. I’m going to go check on her, if that’s ok?”
The First of the Fifth slowed down.
“New bee? Amazing, incredible! King can do whatever King chooses!”
2024-09-05 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar fidgeted about as the First of the Fifth concluded her report. He may have…missed a few details here and there, but the general picture was that things were going well. The bees had reached begun foraging from all of the plants in the dungeon and were starting to produce several new types of honey as a result, while the gardeners believed some new Cross-Pollination results were just beyond the horizon. The one room that needed anything was the Fairy Grove and its lack of bees, but ...
2024-09-04 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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As Belissar spoke with the First of the Fifth, Niobee suddenly flew before him.
“King! Beero doing something dangerous again. Should go?”
Belissar nearly started walking towards the battle meadow shortcut before he caught himself. His face scrunched up and he crossed his arms. Eventually, he took a deep breath.
“…no, I’ll stay here. Let the Second of the Sixth know to go and wait on standby. You should go and help her if she needs it, if you need my permission like...
2024-09-03 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar turned to the two humans and narrowed his eyes.
“So…how do the Tower Lords train Tower Guards, especially that many…”
The augur tilted his head.
“Well, I suppose this may be a surprise for you, but the method is fairly simple. Once a recruit has been sufficiently trained in both mind and body, they are permitted entry into the Tower, where they challenge themselves against the monsters spawned within, as well as face their first battles with the Hunger in ...
2024-09-02 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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