Belissar was running low on available mana at that point, so he finished up his adjustments to the Tower for the day, at least until he could consult with Frelis on a venomous slime rose spawner.
At that point, Henilett stopped by and informed Belissar that the signatories were planning to meet once more the next day…which he was one of now, and thus was requested to attend. She did inform him that signatories were allowed to send a trusted representative in their stead, Quee...
2025-08-26 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The Third Queen of the Second Dynasty of the First Spawner, the first of her line, lay listlessly in her hive, her antennae drooping. The First of the Fifth’s First Daughter had learned in the course of her evolution how to share memories between the hive of hives. That alone was amazing and incredible, but it paled in comparison to whose memories she had then shared.
The First Dynasty. The First of the Fifth’s First Daughter had somehow come into contact with the queens of...
2025-08-25 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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With the Abyssal Trench now ready to crush anything that stepped inside of it, Belissar moved onto the monster nightshade summoner. He checked the spawner in different rooms, they could be place in nearly any room save the orchards and dirt tunnels. He could even put one in the Lava Field to his surprise, though he would have had to place it far away from any of the lava rivers. The spawner didn’t increase or decrease in cost in any of the rooms either, so Belissar could pick and choose whe...
2025-08-22 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar was about to call the meeting when one of the worker bees he asked to remember things began dancing.
“King! King wanted to fight more invaders since weaker?”
Belissar’s eyes widened for a second before he smiled.
“Ah, thank you. I almost forgot.”
He turned to the rest of the queens.
“Everyone, since we did a weaker purification, we can do more than one. Do you want to? The next one would be in six hours…so during the night, I guess?”
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2025-08-21 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Please select a monster:
- Hydra Mantrap Sprout (Rarity: Rare, Type: Flower, Nature)
- Monster Nightshade Summoner (Rarity: Rare, Type: Flower, Nature, Insect)
- Vortex Bladderwort (Rarity: Rare, Type: Flower, Nature, Water)
Tarwantrad’s eyes sparkled. Frelis began to perk up until the venomous slime rose wrapped a vine around her. Belissar launched right into the descriptions.
Hydra Mantrap Sprout
Vitality...
2025-08-20 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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All hostiles defeated. Purification successful.
Mission: Defeat a purification using primarily Flower-type monsters and features completed!
Reward: Rare Flower-type monster choice.
Belissar grinned…and laughed a bit at himself. The venomous slime flower, with Frelis’s support, had overwhelmingly dominated the minor purification’s small wolf shade. He supposed he worried a bit too much, he could have completed the God of Flowers’ mission as ...
2025-08-19 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar watched as the venomous slime rose dunked its roots and vines into trays of honey. Frelis reported that the flower monster would grow stronger if it could absorb additional toxins to mix into its own, so the hive of hives brought out every honey with a potentially detrimental effect they had. Toxic honey, maddening honey, sedative honey, even the elemental types like burning honey, though the slime rose didn’t seem to like that one. After drinking them up, the slime rose began wigg...
2025-08-18 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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The fair folk all scrambled about. Wardmaster Varilold immediately began arranging another scouting mission with the Royal Pixie Guard, while Nenavann and Queen Vanieskon rushed back to the Compact.
But…that didn’t have much to do with Belissar at this particular moment. Niobee had already informed the First of the Fifth’s First Daughter what was going on and she subsequently informed the bee army and the Fourth of the Seventh. The bees in question got in contact with Wardmaster V...
2025-08-15 20:07:22 +0000 UTC
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Belissar wore a peaceful smile as he gathered himself. To know that even the bees he had failed were taken care of lifted a weight off his shoulders he had carried since that fateful day. And beyond just the guilt of having let them die…he now knew that death was not the end for his bees.
That bore some reflection on his approach as Tower Keeper. If fallen bees would be taken care of by the God of Bees herself, then perhaps bee deaths were not such a terrible thing. Belissar would alw...
2025-08-14 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The Queen of All Bees happily danced about, for things were going well. A bunch of powerful gods were now working to protect her dungeon, the God of Light herself had even expressed her intention to preserve Belissar’s dungeon. Belissar had secured the assistance of the Compact and powerful allies among the fair, while the God of Fire was working on convincing the Conclave to back down. Additionally, one of Belissar’s bees had finally accepted the monster bee empress evolution, which woul...
2025-08-13 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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“Hi, hive of hives! Managed to evolve! And can make joint dance anytime!”
Belissar didn’t even need to use his Tower Sight to determine which bee had evolved…because the First of the Fifth’s First Daughter told him herself. Her mana spread across the Tower, sending her dance to everyone who had ever linked to her hive. Which apparently included Belissar, since she had helped him collaborate with the Fourth of the Seventh and the First of the Fifth’s Fourth and Seven...
2025-08-12 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar smiled. The negotiations with Aldatrad had gone perfectly smoothly given that her goals were completely aligned with his own, he very much looked forward to what the green elves could do for his flowers. Afterwards, he had a more casual conversation with Aldatrad before she took her leave, giving him and Tarwantrad a chance to speak on her new gardeners. It turned out Tarwantrad’s stingless queen had managed to evolve them by having workers work alongside the gardeners Belissar’s...
2025-08-11 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone, hope you all survived the week with an egregious lack of bees! As we prepare for the return of the bees, I've gone ahead and made a simple bee-nealogy as requested for your convenience. Check it out here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dEYW03bAy-8f2pMV9LQ7pK8QJPVCgXxhunbs7B0AQU0/edit?usp=sharing
Regular posting on schedule to resume o...
2025-08-09 23:42:38 +0000 UTC
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Tamosmed stepped away from the forge, taking a break from tutoring the karnuq smith. It was then he heard giggling…infuriating giggling.
“Go, Bumbly, go!”
He turned to see Princess Finnakynne, of all people, flying around the karnuq village. She was hovering over one of the big bumblebee soldiers, waving her hands to make a ball of grass and dirt spin around. The bumblebee soldier was using her front legs to roll the ball around while a bunch of karnuq children chased after ...
2025-08-01 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar’s day was going quite well so far. Tamosmed was finally free to visit his Tower again, so Belissar helped him check on the slime and thermal mining bees before Tamosmed returned to the karnuq settlement. After that, Belissar went ahead and planted the flowers he had received from the pixies in the Apothecary’s Hut, adding them to the mix. He had been happy to see one of the maddening queen’s daughters especially interested in the dancing columbine.
Once that was done, Bel...
2025-07-31 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The former queen of queens stared at the capped wax pot before her. She felt mana pulse as the bee within stirred. Now…now would be the moment of truth. Now would be the most decisive moment of her hive, more even than her first battle where her empire was born.
The past few weeks had been…trying. The newcomer, in the name of an empire called the hive of hives, gave tributes of honey not only to her, but to all her subject queens. And since she used her soldiers to...
2025-07-30 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Tamosmed grunted as he finally stepped through the nexus door once more. He had spent an entire day exchanging heated words with the Forgemaster, but he was once again a smith of the black elves. Sort of. He had been demoted back to a junior apprentice with the bare minimum concessions necessary to work with Belissar per his oath…and that only with many repeated reminders that the consensus of the signatories obligated the Forgemaster to permit that cooperation without obstruction.
Ta...
2025-07-29 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The First Queen of the First Dynasty of the Eighth Spawner, the first of her line, stared at a cell of her honey. It…was time for her to change.
Once upon a time, she held a unique and favored position within the Apiary. The First of the Fifth was the most productive among them, this no bee could dispute. The Second of the Sixth was the healer of the hive of hives, the one who tended to the hive of the fallen. But the First of the Eighth…the First of the Eighth had been the only of ...
2025-07-28 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Nenavann watched as Tower Keeper Belissar commanded his forces. He had been invited to stay and observe and gladly took up the offer. Wardmaster Varilold had reported her own observations but it was still good to see things with his own eyes.
After all, the Tower Keeper had taught the Circle and the Compact a nearly unbelievable amount of lessons in the very short time they had known him. His mere existence had overturned all of their assumptions on dungeons and their interactions with ...
2025-07-25 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Belissar received a visitor right away…but not from any of the signatories he had spoken with. Instead, Nenavann had arrived. Belissar had finished up his morning routine by then so went over to find out what was going on. Nenavann gave him a smile once Belissar approached him.
“Hello, Tower Keeper Belissar. I hope I am not intruding.”
Belissar shook his head.
“No, it’s fine…but, what’s going on? Is there something happening with the Compact, agai...
2025-07-24 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar finally made it home after a long day with the Compact. He went straight to the Apiary’s farmhouse, took one of the chairs outside, and plopped down where he could see the Bee Apartments. He spent a while just watching the Apiary bees come and go, buzzing and dancing as they delivered nectar and pollen to their homes. His fatigue washed away as a smile broke out on his face.
He was thus ready when it came time for the daily purification. He watched intently as the Hunger coal...
2025-07-23 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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“One more thing, will try evolve soon. Can’t do joint dance while evolving, sorry.”
The First of the Fifth’s First Daughter cut the link before the Firstborn could reply, so she gave orders to her communers to past on a message the slow way. The Firstborn wholeheartedly approved of the First Daughter attempting to evolve, she had stepped up to turn the hive of hives into material reality with her joint dances. There was no queen more deserving of an evolution than that....
2025-07-22 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The First Stingless Queen of the King’s Tower, the first of her line in the King’s realm. A name, a way to refer to her as apart from any similar queens, granted to her by the King’s hive of hives. Even her queen mother, the queen of queens of the Flower Tender’s Tower, had no such thing. Here, she had been granted one when she was little more than a captured invader.
And a name was not the only thing she had received since she surrendered to the hive of hives. The mana of the K...
2025-07-21 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Forgemaster Ughlarer scowled, but said nothing. Loremaster Anyadre let out a sigh.
“It seems…it seems this arbitration is at an end. The signatories of the Calwaskon Compact maintain their consensus…though it seems we cannot enforce it upon signatory Belissar. The joint signatories still implore signatory Belissar to acknowledge and respect signatory Ughlarer’s core interest in this matter…but…we acknowledge that signatory Belissar’s oath to his patron god is binding.”
2025-07-18 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Frelis and Juosiutik went on to show him a few more flower types. The toxic bees had managed to cross-pollinate vaporous hemlock and the Water mana flowers. Funnily enough, this resulted in a Water mana flower that created a non-toxic mist instead. Previously, Belissar might have wondered if that would be as useful as the toxic mist of the hemlock…but the latest expansion purification showed him the value of a simple fog, so he was instead well-pleased.
Alfalfa had been cross-pollinat...
2025-07-17 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The next day, Belissar was eager to place the new flowers, having had to delay the job for the purification. So, he carried out his morning routine as quickly as he could and then…
…was informed that Henilett had arrived with a message. Belissar held in a sigh as he headed on over. After all, the flowers had come from the pixies, maybe she even brought more? Belissar, therefore, considered it worthwhile to speak with her, even if he had to delay placing the new flowers. Or so he rep...
2025-07-16 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar held his breath as the Hunger coalesced, waiting to see which shade they would have to face this time. A heavy leg stepped out from the mass of the Hunger, digging deeply into the dirt, while a massive beak snapped at the air. Belissar narrowed his eyes.
They would be facing a turtle shade today…and not the small ones that always fell into pits. This was a full-sized turtle shade, the same one that had been immune to everything the bee army had thrown at it previously. The on...
2025-07-15 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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As Belissar turned his attention to the flowers, Henilett waved one of the pixies over. This one was a man in a simple tunic, with a little straw hat.
“This is Cembrukare, one of the Royal Pixie Gardeners. He will be able to assist you with cultivating any flowers we offer.”
Cembrukare nodded his head.
“Hey there, nice to meet you, Tower Keeper! Nice place you got here!”
Belissar greeted the pixie gardener in turn.
“Hi, I’m Tower Keeper Belissar, nice...
2025-07-14 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Once Queen Vanieskon and her scouting team headed off, Belissar gathered his council, with the First of the Fifth’s First Daughter acting as the queens’ representative so the others could continue their work. Henilett then presented the pixies’ offer. Rather than any one time payment, the pixies would offer regular tribute to Belissar for as long as they occupied a room within his Tower.
There were a bunch of terms and calculations regarding the exact amount, Belissar just underst...
2025-07-11 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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After checking the progress of his various mead experiments, Belissar took the tablet over to the human house and handed it over to Sehfitis. The old man blinked and muttered to himself as he looked over it.
“This is…unusual, Tower Keeper. From what I can make it out at a glance, it appears to be a routine assignment of new soldiers to an outpost. But…I’ve never seen a stone tablet like this used for such a mundane order of business. To my knowledge, the wicked kings of old pref...
2025-07-10 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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