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Demesne 181 - Borders
Lori ate breakfast feeling half asleep. She had a feeling she'd stayed up fo far longer than had been advisable, but without some kind of clock in her room, she didn't exactly know how long she'd stayed up beyond her usual bedtime. All she knew was that she'd sent that time dragging ...
Demesne 180 - Most Definitely Not Procrastinating
After a night of finally getting to sleep in her own bed, Lori woke feeling only the usual degree of wanting to curl back and sleep. As she finished putting on a new, clean set of clothes, she eyes her bedroll and the clothes in her pack, and debated whether she should keep putting off doing her lau...
Demesne 179 - Time To Sit Down
"I'm never leaving my demesne again," Lori said tiredly.She sat in her room on the Coldhold, curled up in the bed with her feet folded under her as the boat swayed, finally making its way up the river back to her demesne, its storage spaces full of the ingots of copper she had smelted. A...
Weekly Digest 55 - (#176 - #178)
Things Left Unattended"Lori, lunch time."Lori blinked, looking up from the ice she had been working on. She immediately became aware of an ache in her neck, and winced, slipping her hand beneath her collar to rub at her nape. Ugh, she hadn't realized she'd been bent over that long…...
Nightmærangers Returns!
Nightmærangers returns! A new Arc next week for patrons, on the 22nd for everyone else!Look forward to it!
Ainōryoku Sentai Nightmærangers - Interlude: Blue
Beyond the Depths of SleepDepths.Dark/deep.Quiet.Stillness.Safe.Rest.Sleep.Turbulence.Far.Ignore.Sleep.SafeQuiet.Sleep.Sleep.Peace.Quiet.Sleep.Sleep.Sleep……wake…No!NO!NO!NO!Sleep!Sleep!Want!Sleep!Turbulence,Near.Loud.Many.Everywhere.Hide!Hide!Big.Big.Everything.Big.Loud.Loud!Hurt.Much!Much!Pai...
Demesne 178 - Smelting Copper
In retrospect, while using a perfect insulator as the material for a furnace was greatly advantageous, having a completely transparent material proved to be slightly problematic when the ore inside started to glow with heat. She'd needed to integrate a binding of lightwisps to the structure of t...
Demesne 177 - Preparing To Smelt
Building a roof over her furnaces took Lori an annoyingly long time. Outside of her demesne, she no longer had the control over wisps that she had become used to, and so things she had taken for granted, like turning stone into a fluid, viscous consistency and having it flow to move the mass, were f...
Update 25/4/22
Hello everyone! Hope you're enjoying this month's chapters. Just a small announcement, I should be getting back to work on Nightmaerangers soon. A new chapter will hopefully come out this Sunday, or next week. Please be informed that the chapters might be shorter than they were before. This ...
Demesne 176 - Things Left Unattended
"Lori, lunch time."Lori blinked, looking up from the ice she had been working on. She immediately became aware of an ache in her neck, and winced, slipping her hand beneath her collar to rub at her nape. Ugh, she hadn't realized she'd been bent over that long… ack, and therewas her...
Demesne Patron EX SS 13 - An Armada Horotract's Morning
Oneshoda (Deck Technician, Senior Apprentice) woke up to the familiar swaying of her hammock on (Fifth Deck, Hallway Three, Cabin Seven, Station Twenty-Three) the Armada Fabrication Ship Orchard Forty, and took a moment to judge the sway, her eyes still closed. No pitch, no sounds beyond the usual r...
Weekly Digest 54 - (#171 - #175)
Lori's Demesne In Winter
Update 23/4/22
Hi everyone! Thank's to finally getting on schedule, we'll have our Patron-exclusive chapter a little early this month. It's a worldbuilding chapter, with I character I hope to be able to use again in the future, featuring the Armada and Horotracting! Look forward to it appearing in the ...
Demesne 175 - An Accord
The following morning, after a breakfast of stew that tasted very salty, with the tubers being hard and almost underdone—eh, she had eaten worse—Lori met with Shanalorre, in her office once more. Unlike yesterday, when they had both had militia with them, this morning it was just them and their ...
Demesne 174 - Punitive Measures
"Well?" Lori asked Rian later that day as she sat in her small room on the Coldhold, imbuing the light there as her lord leaned against the door frame. It was just past the afternoon, and lunch sat heavy in Lori's stomach.."Well, on the one hand," Rian began, "They have recor...
Demesne 173 - River's Fork in Winter
Putting on the winter robe was of immense help in staying warm. Worn over her normal clothes and with her rain coat underneath as well, it was quite comfortable… save for the fact her face and hands were freezing. However, unlike other people, Lolilyuri was a Dungeon Binder! And more important, sh...
Demesne 172 - Traveling In Winter
"Aren't you going to put on your winter robe?" Rian asked as he put the carefully wrapped bundle of Lori's bed roll into the special cargo box in the hold of the Coldhold. The bedroll had been wrapped up and secured by a pair of cords that Umu and Mikon had hurriedly stitched to the ...
Demesne 171 - Lori's Demesne In Winter
Lori was surprised at how day to day life seemed to remain largely the same, even when it finally started snowing.Oh, there were changes. Their meals became more of a soup than a stew, becoming a bit more watery but warmer, and the addition of the salt was obvious. There also seemed to be a bit less...
Weekly Digest 53 - (#168 - #170)
Tired Of StairsWhile Lori did not develop a rhythm, since with every explosion she made slight adjustments to the configuration of the ice, stone and temperature, trying to create better rocks with each explosion of steam, she did become better a dealing with the aftermath. Earthwisps reinforcing th...
Demesne Measurement Guide
So, a handy dandy guide to the in-universe units of measurement... with absolutely no clarification on exactly how long they are. :-DI will only mention relative scale in comparison to others.Length: Taum - what the diameter of the demesne is measured in Pace - used for construction measurements. Lo...
Demesne 170 - Winter Is Co—Oh Wait, It's Already Here
The coming of winter was somehow still a surprise.Lolilyuri had simply woken up one morning thinking that everything seemed comfortably cool, and had gone about her morning ablutions, washing herself and changing her clothes—as a bit of an indulgence, she'd put on a pair of the new socks, ches...
Demesne 169 - The Dungeon Farm
Lori soon developed a rhythm to breaking rocks. Taking a bit more time between explosions to allow Riz and the people with her—one of whom, to Lori's disgust, was Landoor and ARGH, why did she have to remember that idiot's name so clearly?—to gather the fragments and put them into a pile...
Demesne 168 - Tired Of Stairs
While Lori did not develop a rhythm, since with every explosion she made slight adjustments to the configuration of the ice, stone and temperature, trying to create better rocks with each explosion of steam, she did become better a dealing with the aftermath. Earthwisps reinforcing the stone structu...
Weekly Digest 52 - (#165 - #167)
Salt, Fees, Anchorage, HeatAfter breakfast, Lori set about heating her Dungeon. Clearly she didn't need it, but it was the principle of the thing. A Dungeon was at the heart of the demesne, fortress and seat of a Dungeon Binder's power, first and last bastion against dragons. It was rare but...
Demesne 167 - Better Farming Through Explosions
Lori began preparing the third level for farming. Her biggest concern had originally been preparing the ground. After all, they couldn't just throw down dirt and call it a day. Well, they could, but according to the book without proper drainage their crops would fail and die from variety of reas...
Update 2/4/22
Due to circumstances, there will be no update on April the 15th. This is due to IRL stuff that leaves me unable to work that day. We apologize for this, as we should have foreseen this sooner. Updates will resume as normal on Monday the 18th.
Demesne 166 - Ship Sinking
"Uh, Lori…" Rian said hesitantly. "I'm not trying to question your decision making, which I'm sure are backed up by things that I'm simply ignorant of—""Spit it out, Rian.""This seems a terrible place to store our boats in the event of a dragon," Rian ...
Demesne Special - Ryan Is An Isekai Zeo! - April Fools 2022!
Ryan had few things from before he'd gotten isekai'd. The clothes on his back were long gone, worn out and replaced by things he'd bought. He'd had his phone, but that had quickly run out of power and had basically become a strange black mirror, and he'd needed to sell it for the...
28/3/22 Update
Hello! So, for those who didn't see the note, this weekend I'm either putting up Nightmaerangers 'Interlude: Blue' or putting the series on break for a while. Very probably the latter, given how I'm feeling. I need to clear some schedule space and get my things in order, get the ...
Demesne 165 - Salt, Fees, Anchorage, Heat
After breakfast, Lori set about heating her Dungeon. Clearly she didn't need it, but it was the principle of the thing. A Dungeon was at the heart of the demesne, fortress and seat of a Dungeon Binder's power, first and last bastion against dragons. It was rare but not unknown for a demesne ...
