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Demesne 358 - The Ship
That night, after we'd loaded the Coldhold with most of the cargo that they'd bought from Emborin and Sons, I finally decided to indulge myself and went to have an early dinner at Engario's to have their highly recommended doughstrands.It was absolutely delicious. The doughstrands were b...
Demesne 357 - Looking For Deadspeakers
I felt better once we went back to Master Yhosed's workshop and collected our three walking sticks. There was just something about having a sturdy stick in hand that was reassuring. Very good for poking, swinging, hooking legs and arms… leaning on when my feet started aching……Why do my fee...
Demesne 356 - The Interview
Telref, I soon found, was a man barely holding himself together and constantly on the edge of despair. It was in the tired way he sat, the tone of his voice as he spoke, and the air of needing sleep. He seemed a worrier, probably worrying about his work, his wife, his son, whether they could afford ...
Weekly Digest 110 - (#353 - #355)
A Night Out In CoveholdCovehold Demesne was bright at night.Light shone from seemingly random locations high up on walls, just barely out of reach. The last time I was here, I'd learned that the demesne employed Whisperers as streetlighters, who spent all day imbuing a certain number of bindings...
Demesne 355 - Installments, Bound Tools And A Deadspeaker
When I finally got to talk to Ravia, the news was good. The materials we'd asked them to procure were coming in, albeit slowly. Honestly, I wanted to buy more things, but we also needed the space for those we'd be recruiting, especially if they had a family accompanying them. And while what ...
Demesne 354 - The Lawyer And The Letter
In the end, we still had to wake up early. Even with the bound tool for moving the air around to help cool the hold, we all still woke up sweaty. The water of the bay was not an option for bathing. Even if it didn't smell, all the demesne's liquid waste had to go somewhere, and I doubted the...
Demesne 353 - A Night Out In Covehold
Covehold Demesne was bright at night.Light shone from seemingly random locations high up on walls, just barely out of reach. The last time I was here, I'd learned that the demesne employed Whisperers as streetlighters, who spent all day imbuing a certain number of bindings of lightwisps. At dusk...
Weekly Digest 109 - (#350 - #352)
A Lorian Interlude: MikonAfter dinner, Mikon and Umu left the table so that Binder Lori could talk to Erzebed, the Lady Binder and Master Kolinh in relative privacy. While the dungeon wasn't hot, it also wasn't all that cool. After a day of many people being out in the hot sun, the dungeon f...
Super-Rush October Poll! This Weekend Only!
So, this isn't the usual poll. I want to leave this month's Patron Exclusive chapter open. However! I'm at something of a crossroads.As you all know since you've been reading Demesne, we're about to add to Deadspeakers to the cast. Now, I've committed a writing... well, not c...
Demesne 352 - Going Out Tonight
The man at the desk of the job-placement office rad over my bill before nodding. "All right. Where should I send applicants?" he asked, taking out a book.I blinked suddenly feeling stupid. "Oh… ah, we've just arrived, we don't… uh, can I come back later?"The man nodded, s...
Demesne 351 - A Little Bit Evil
As it turned out, counting the wispbeads happened faster than I had thought.We were in a small, nondescript room in the back of the merchant house's stockyard, next to what looked like barracks for their workers. At a glance, it looked like someone's office, presumably the manager of the sto...
Demesne 350 - A Lorian Interlude: Mikon
After dinner, Mikon and Umu left the table so that Binder Lori could talk to Erzebed, the Lady Binder and Master Kolinh in relative privacy. While the dungeon wasn't hot, it also wasn't all that cool. After a day of many people being out in the hot sun, the dungeon felt a little warm and sme...
9/29/23 Status
First things first, Happy Birthday to me!But now that this is out of the way, a little announcement. I went tot he dentist today, and one thing led to another, and to make things short I might have a few more dental appointments in my future. Because I write in advance, it will be a couple of weeks ...
Demesne Patron EX SS 29 – Fruit Picking
Karina glared up at their prize, despite the sun's best efforts to shine in her eyes. Light and shadows kept obstructing it from her view, making her squint, but that didn't matter. She knew where it was, and it wasn't going to escape her—!A hand that wasn’t as pale as it used to be ...
Weekly Digest 108 - (#347 - #349)
The Man Whose Name Was On The SignThe way Ravia stood up told me the man who entered was important, along with how he just interrupted this negotiation. If the guards at the door, the stairs and the hallway outside let him in…"Ah, father," Ravia said with a nod. "Endlew spoke to you, I...
Demesne 349 - Only Just Starting
“I thought you could reasonably promise only a hundred beads?” Ravia said.“From your tone, you know eleven thousand is an unreasonable number,” I said. “The only reason we have that many is because our Dungeon Binder spent a long time making those beads as we waited for the arrival of the ...
Demesne 348 - The Final Negotiations
As much as I wanted to eat at that place with the doughstrands, the men probably wouldn't enjoy it as much as I would. So once we were back out on the street, we asked the guards at the door if they knew any good places to eat. Fortunately, we were early since it was only the early parts of late...
Demesne 347 - The Man Whose Name Was On The Sign
The way Ravia stood up told me the man who entered was important, along with how he just interrupted this negotiation. If the guards at the door, the stairs and the hallway outside let him in…"Ah, father," Ravia said with a nod. "Endlew spoke to you, I take it? Master Rian, this is my ...
Relative Bead Values
Value is not only short handed by size but by type. Think the D&D copper-silver-gold-platinum standard. A large-sized copper coin would be of lesser value than a small-sized silver coin. Rian was originally asking for a large-sized bead of lower-middle/2nd tier, and instead got a small-sized bead up...
Weekly Digest 107 - (#344 - #346)
A Little WagerThe next day, we were back in Covehold bright and early to see the procession of small boats coming down the river and heading out of the bay towards the sea. While the sun was still on the horizon, individual boats were already coming in a steady stream from the river, most using oars...
Demesne 346 - Ravia’s Party Trick
We had a long walk following the carts through the streets later, where I found a much shorter and more direct way to get to Emborin and Sons than the one I’d taken yesterday. I talked to Ravia as we went, asking him his opinions on the local bars, eateries, bakeries, doctors, Deadspeakers, and an...
Demesne 345 - The Tour
Once all the furs and skins were moved, the salt came next, which would have been difficult if Ravia hadn't brought a Mentalist with him. Either he remembered the difficulty we'd had last time or he had something heavy to pick up later. The woman needed to have line of sight to the barrels t...
Demesne 344 - A Little Wager
The next day, we were back in Covehold bright and early to see the procession of small boats coming down the river and heading out of the bay towards the sea. While the sun was still on the horizon, individual boats were already coming in a steady stream from the river, most using oars and the curre...
Weekly Digest 108 - (#341 - #343)
Worth The PriceThe bound tool had been covered with a canvas sheet, and a bench was next to it, probably because it kept people from propping things up against it otherwise. Still, while the canvas had acquired the light dusting of sawdust everything does when carpentry is being done, when Master Yh...
September Patron Exclusive Poll
Sorry the poll is a little delayed.So... I haven't gotten around to reading Mother of Learning yet... but hey, it didn't' cause any delays from reading it, so yay!Another reminder that there will be no updates on the last week of this month. Updates will resume on October 2nd.Anyway, on ...
Demesne 343 - A Lorian Interlude: Karina
In the middle of the day, work ground to a halt, the heat too great for anyone to sweat through except perhaps the uncles and aunties working on the rebuilt outdoor mushroom farm where it was shady. And ever since Wiz Lori had put up a thingy to keep bugs from eating the mushrooms they were growing,...
Demesne 342 - Rian Is Betrayed
The sun was low in the sky by the time Multaw, Cyuw and I got back to the thoroughfare that faced the bay. It was high tide, and I could see that the cove was full of small boats. Many seemed to be making their way towards the river mouth, some moving surprisingly fast considering they had no sails ...
Demesne 341 - Worth The Price
The bound tool had been covered with a canvas sheet, and a bench was next to it, probably because it kept people from propping things up against it otherwise. Still, while the canvas had acquired the light dusting of sawdust everything does when carpentry is being done, when Master Yhosed pulled off...
Weekly Digest 107 - (#338 - #340)
The Streets of CoveholdWhen I'd first arrived in Covehold, fresh from a very long sea voyage in a tightly packed ship with food I'd rather not try to remember, the ship had come to rest on a solid stone dock that had been built along one of the encircling stone arms around the cove—the lef...
Demesne 340 - Back On The Streets Of Covehold
With the preliminary contract dry and secreted into my belt pouch, an address and name from Ravia, and plenty of daylight ahead, I had time to start working on trying to sell Lori's wispbeads.The problem, as I saw it, was deciding what the best way of doing so actually was.Ideally, we could sell...
