Niobee watched over King as he slept and used the night to check on her body. She found that she didn’t need to sleep as much these days, the Tower’s mana kept her in peak condition and she didn’t seem to accumulate fatigue. Only when she especially exerted herself would she need to undergo torpor, and even then she remained partially conscious of the Tower. So, instead, she kept watch over King during the nights.
In this case, she used the opportunity to manage her body’s chang...
2025-07-09 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar smiled as he watched the different queens zip around. Tea had proven very popular among them indeed. It was, however, time for the post-celebration council, so he recruited Niobee’s help in gathering them up. Belissar then took a deep breath.
“So, thanks to this latest purification, we can now select stronger daily purifications…but they would be small+, the same as previous expansions. Alternatively, I think we could fit in multiple weaker purifications within a single d...
2025-07-08 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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I'm happ-Bee to announce the second Bee Dungeon book's e-book, audiobook, and paperback are now available! Grab em today! Here's a preview of the audiobook version!
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2025-07-08 19:05:00 +0000 UTC
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The day wore on and the time came for the daily purification. Belissar encountered a surprise when he went to trigger the battle.
Please select a purification strength:
- Minor (Cooldown: 6 hours)
- Minor+ (Cooldown: 12 hours)
- Small (Cooldown: 18 hours)
- Small+ (Cooldown: 24 Hours)
Belissar blinked only for a moment before remembering that, yes, when the expansion purifications increased in strength, so too di...
2025-07-07 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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With the Tower Keeper’s meeting concluded, Chief Rohsuak made her way back to the karnuq’s settlement, followed by a line of chittering spiderkin. She chuckled and shook her head. She had lived a long time, she had seen and fought many things. But never in all her years did she imagine that she would be training a nest of spiderkin to fight alongside her people…and hives of monster bees and the mystical fey to boot. Life truly was strange at times.
She arrived at her destination, ...
2025-07-04 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Once Belissar had finished appreciating the room, he considered it as the Tower Keeper, and how he would utilize it. He now noticed a slight force on his body, the room seemed to be pulling him towards the edge of the plateau. The force was less than the mana around him might suggest, which he assumed was his Tower Keeper immunity at work. He glanced up at Niobee.
“Niobee, what do you think? Is this room safe for the bees?”
Niobee took off from his head and flew around for a b...
2025-07-03 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Belissar wrapped up making the choices and dismissed the council. He was about to start setting up the new room and feature when Henilett suddenly flew up to the group. She quietly hovered behind Captain Karpakynne and tapped her on the shoulder.
“Hello Captain, it pleases me to see that you’re alive.”
Captain Karpakynne began to sweat.
“Ah, Henilett, hello. Yes, of course, why wouldn’t I be?”
Henilett smiled but her gaze was cold.
“Her Majesty has ...
2025-07-02 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The Sixth Daughter of the First Queen of the First Dynasty of the Fifth Spawner, the second of her line, and the first and currently only gravity queen, hung around the back of the queen council, in the shadow of the big bumblebee queens. She, like all queens, was invited to the King’s council, where the King determined the course of the realm. Where he called upon powers from the queens of all things to strengthen the hive of hives, raised new bees, and even created entire new realms f...
2025-07-01 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Perpetual Mana Storm
- Type: Arcane, Variable, Trap, Spawner, Resource
- Mana Upkeep: 100
- Description: Wild mana rarely gathers together given its volatile nature. In the incredibly unlikely instances when it does, the mana storm is the result. A mana storm is a critical mass of wild, reactive, and uncontained mana that not only creates spontaneous magic, but that also affects the mana in its environment, creating more wild mana that fuels an...
2025-06-30 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar started evaluating the choices by reading out the perk descriptions for everyone.
Flammable Nonflammables
- Fires started by the dungeon or dungeon defenders can burn any material as fuel.
- Fire attacks and fire effects from the dungeon or dungeon defenders can negate fire resistance and immunity. The degree to which resistance is negated depends on the strength of the God of Fire’s blessing on the a...
2025-06-27 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Remaining Hostiles: 0. Wave 2 completed.
Remaining Waves: 0. All waves completed. Expansion successful.
Reward: Floor limit increased to 7. Receive one perk choice, and two random reward choices.
Belissar let out a light sigh and then smiled as the cleansing light of the Tower burned away the Hunger left within it before pushing out to the world outside. There was a lot of scrambling this time and they had suffered losses, but the expansion was a s...
2025-06-26 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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The Hunger surged at the entrance of Belissar’s Tower once more, as it did at the start of each purification. But this time, rather than being halted by the Tower’s power, it flowed along the trail of Hunger the swarm had left behind. It poured through the Dirt Tunnels, unhindered by Pit Traps or disabled Sticky Honey Traps. It rushed through the Lava Field, the mini-volcano now dark and silent. Before long, it arrived to the Bog, traveling the half of the room the ant swarm had covered b...
2025-06-25 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar did his best not to grimace. They had already lost two bees with several more injured, some grievously, and the main battle had not yet started. And yet, the Third of the Fourth did not seem disturbed, she even seemed proud and happy as she returned to the Orchard to join him and the queens. Belissar forced a smile onto his face as she approached.
“Good job, Third of the Fourth.”
The queen broke out into a happy dance, lifting Belissar’s mood just a bit. He would ne...
2025-06-24 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The Third of the Fourth took charge of the Lava Field forces as the Third of the Sixth withdrew to the Bog. Though, without the Third of the Sixth’s hive, the Lava Field forces were purely the Third of the Fourth’s children. With their numbers thus reduced and no blessing of the Queen of All Fire to boost them, they were no longer expected to hold this room.
But the Third of the Fourth would fight regardless. A battle in the Lava Field was precisely the reason she had evolved into a...
2025-06-23 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The swarm pressed on through the Dirt Tunnels as the defenders finish reorienting themselves. The Sticky Honey Traps hadn’t made much of a dent, but soon the shades approached some of the new defenses the fair folk had set up. Belissar held his breath as the shades reached the first one…
As the ant shades marched on, they left a trail of Hunger across the tunnels, disabling the traps they passed and preventing Belissar from changing those parts of the room. But as they did, a ward a...
2025-06-20 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Everyone in the Tower spent the next days training with the pixies and wardens or else preparing for the expansion purification. Soon enough, the day was upon them. The bee army and karnuq assembled in the Orchard, at which point Belissar ran into the first hurdle of the day.
The spiderkin all came rushing out of the Orchard, waving around nets and wooden spears. The First Spiderkin Queen ran up to him with a grin.
“King! Ready to fight! Ready to kill King’s enemies!”
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2025-06-19 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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The next morning, Finnakynne awoke wrapped in bumblebee fuzz. She stretched and yawn, then shook her head. A smile broke out on her face.
“Ok, ready to forage some flowers, girls?”
Finnakynne laughed as the bumblebee workers woke up and began running laps of the nest in response. The bumblebee queen herself crawled over and nuzzled the pixie and Finnakynne replied with many pets.
However, a moment later Finnakynne was furrowing her brow. There was a distinct lack of bein...
2025-06-18 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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After receiving Lomedys’ boon, Belissar left with a promise to teach the dungeon master about bloodsucking bees as well as to let him spill the blood of mortals should the opportunity arise. Belissar was more than happy to secure another defender against further Tower Lord or spiderkin attacks and so enthusiastically agreed. Hesfalle also promised to visit soon and help with his hunting room.
The day was growing long at that point, so Belissar headed back to Tarwantrad’s dungeon and...
2025-06-17 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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As the group made their way through the dusk elf settlement, Hesfalle walked up beside Belissar.
“How is your Death room coming along?”
Belissar furrowed his brow.
“I’m not sure, we’re hunting a lot of rabbits, but between the karnuq, the spiderkin, and the butcher and bloodsucking bees, we’re eating them all, so we’re not really hunting excessively anymore. I just got animal dens and added a few, but I haven’t seen any changes in the room yet.”
Hesfa...
2025-06-16 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar and company exited Lord Aratodel’s dungeon with Tarwantrad shaking her head.
“Again, I’m sorry for his attitude, Belissar. He’s that way with everyone.”
Belissar shrugged, smiled, and lifted up the box in his hand.
“He gave us flowers, so it’s fine.”
Tarwantrad returned his smile.
“You are wonderfully gracious, as the silver elves might say. Now then, how are you doing for time? There’s one more dungeon master I could introduce you to...
2025-06-13 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Tarwantrad skipped as she led Belissar up to the city. Belissar was excited at first…but the stares he got from as they approached the city dampened his enthusiasm. The fair folk would look at their group with curiosity and then shock once they either caught sight of Metsaitti or looked more closely at Belissar’s ears, after which their expressions morphed into suspicion, fear, and occasionally even anger. Fortunately, no one approached them, perhaps due to either Tarwantrad’s presence ...
2025-06-12 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Finnakynne flew to the pixie court once more. A ring of trees surrounded her mother’s throne with giggling pixies flying between the branches and boughs. Finnakynne was relieved Tarwantrad took Beely elsewhere, now, at least, she wouldn’t have to keep an eye on him.
Now there was nothing left but to face the pixie queen. She hardened her expression as best she could and flew between the trees. There, her queen mother sat upon her throne…and with a small smile on her face. Finnakyn...
2025-06-11 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Belissar had started his day only for Tarwantrad to come and invite him to the Compact. It was convenient timing, seeing as he needed to inform Queen Vanieskon of the expansion purification anyways. Princess Finnakynne then arrived and proclaimed that she would also accompany them. Belissar could tell from Tarwantrad’s reaction that the pixie was acting incredibly abnormally…but, well, it didn’t particularly affect him so he simply proceeded with preparations for the visit.
The be...
2025-06-10 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Finnakynne waved her hands over the field of flowers below, pulling nectar and pollen from the flowers and into balls orbiting around her. Being the pixie princess and a demigod to boot gave her an instinctual control of magic, though, so she could do this much in her sleep. As a result, the labor did nothing to distract her from her thoughts.
She…had grown attached to this dungeon. Not in the romantic sense, as Henilett implied, she had known Beely for like a week and was st...
2025-06-09 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Hi all,
Hope you're surviving Monday even with the egregious lack of bees. Maybe it'll help if you get to think about bees a bit? While editing, I've thought about two separate issues, figure this week is a good time to bring them up.
Firstly, a poll on spider(kin) anatomy. So, technically, the mouth piece/fang things our little spiderkin have are supposed to be called chelicera. I originally decided to call them mandibles anyways as a more recognizable term since chelicera is a ...
2025-06-03 00:09:21 +0000 UTC
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After wrapping things up with Henilett, Belissar received word the First of the Fifth had new bees to show him. He made his way to her Bee Apartment in the Apiary and was treated to three colorful workers hovering in front of the First of the Fifth. Belissar smiled.
“These are the new bees?”
The First of the Fifth danced a salute and Belissar leaned in to take a closer look. The first bee looked like a medicinal worker but with purple-tinted chitin.
Painkiller Monste...
2025-05-30 20:05:03 +0000 UTC
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The First of the Fifth would admit she had been…distracted of late. After all, the King could make drones. Drones! The queens had not much considered the implications of the King’s spell-bees before. The King had spawned all of them already, had he not? And besides, the spell-bees only lasted for a moment, a few minutes at best.
But this…this was different. The King had spawned all of them…but through the spawners. They came from Tower, not from the King himself. It might be mor...
2025-05-29 20:05:02 +0000 UTC
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Later that day, Henilett arrived as expected. Princess Finnakynne followed Belissar to meet with Henilett in the nexus door room.
“Ah, greetings, Princess Finnakynne. Will you be joining us today?”
Finnakynne gave a grin that didn’t reach her eyes.
“Yep! Why do you ask, Heny? Is there something you’d rather I not see, perhaps?”
Henilett met Finnakynne with a smile of her own.
“My, Princess Finnakynne! Are you taking an interest in negotiations with ...
2025-05-28 20:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Belissar invited Wardmaster Varilold and the sentries she had brought to the post-purification celebration meal. She gratefully accepted, to the delight of the sentries, all of which gushed praise for the bees’ honey. After that, the wardens set up a camp in the nexus door room. Belissar guessed they were staying there from now on.
The next day, Belissar came to the bumblebee room as part of his daily rounds. As usual, he was tackled and brushed by happy bumblebee queens. But as he pe...
2025-05-27 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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Belissar and the bees observed the wardens work until the day wore on. Belissar caught Wardmaster Varilold’s attention just as she finished up the ward she was working on.
“Thank you for showing us the wards, Wardmaster Varilold. It’s about time for the daily purification, so we’ll need to leave now.”
Wardmaster Varilold stood up from her kneeling position by the latest ring of mushrooms.
“Would you mind if I accompanied you? I would like to see your defenses in ...
2025-05-26 20:05:01 +0000 UTC
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