At breakfast the next day, Rian sat himself down heavily, the last to arrive. He looked terrible. He had that slightly unfocused look of a man on too little sleep, each blink slow and deliberate as...
2021-11-18 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLori wasn't able to start her tests right after breakfast. There was needful maintenance she needed to do after she ate, making sure everything in the demesne (and one thing out of it) that needed ...
2021-11-16 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe delivery of the next batch of miners, which was a bit larger than usual and required four trips, went without incident. Lori suspected they would not be put to much mining, since a lot of them ...
2021-11-14 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Statement Of Jaselle Alhambra, Part 4
Jaselle had always thought spiders were smooth. The small spiders she'd seen around the corners of the ho...
2021-11-14 00:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostJust Barely Not A Dragon Shelter Pa
2021-11-13 17:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostAfter Lori had sat down for a little while to recover from her completely understandable and appropriate surprise, and then resigned herself to not getting River's Fork's core this time, things had...
2021-11-11 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostImproved defenses needed more stone than they had right then, but Lori was at least able to rebuild the kitchen exhaust vents and build the 'water valve', as Rian put it. There was no need to make ...
2021-11-09 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThey didn't find whatever had eaten the bug abominations. Rian suspected that perhaps they had killed or eaten each other, while the dillians had swallowed the evidence. Certainly at least one of t...
2021-11-07 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Statement Of Jaselle Alhambra, Part 3
Jas stared at the little circle lying on the cement of the building's roof. A little pink cube, a small s...
2021-11-07 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, once Rian had rested to correct for the night shift and Lori had gotten back the sleep that had been interrupted, they prepared to move out in force out of the Dungeon. The former mil...
2021-11-04 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Lori woke up from a dreamless sleep, she discovered that in her bed she had not been turned into a dragonborn bug abomination.
Instinctively, she checked the dome above and sighed as she...
2021-11-02 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Statement Of Jaselle Alhambra, Part 2
"I really wish we could look more alike," Tammy sighed as Jas carefully folded up her blouse around her u...
2021-10-31 00:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTimekeeping
The Dungeon was different from the last time a dragon had passed. For one thing, it was lit now.
In the meantime, while that was being done, Lori f...
2021-10-30 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSo, short reminder, there will be no update on November first due to local holiday stuff. Next break will be the latter half of December, because Christmas and stuff. We we still be updating regula...
2021-10-29 12:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostLori managed to resist the urge to plunge the Dungeon into darkness again. She didn't need any more darkwisps, after all.
The militia and assorted people Rian had scheduled kept watch over th...
2021-10-28 17:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostAnother day of weaving, and Umu was tired. The bright, unchanging light of the Dungeon made one lose track of time, but there was always someone who called down the end of the day, or at least the ...
2021-10-28 09:28:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe brat had been given a bucket of water and admonished not to drink from it, another bucket to catch the water that dripped out, some stones to count how many times the waterclock had gone empty,...
2021-10-26 17:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe Dungeon was different from the last time a dragon had passed. For one thing, it was lit now.
In the meantime, while that was being done, Lori filled one of the pots with water for the mor...
2021-10-24 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Statement Of Jaselle Alhambra, Part 1
Jaselle Alhambra had always considered herself a heavy sleeper, even if she'd always woken up early so sh...
2021-10-24 00:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostPrepare As You Did The Last Time
The ice boat was… successful. For a given value of success, at any rate. It floated and, despite appearances, it wasn't actually t...
2021-10-23 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostLori didn't dream. It seemed like she'd barely closed her eyes before Rian was gently shaking her awake, the light on top of his head shining down on her. "It's here," he said, even as she felt it,...
2021-10-21 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostLori changed quickly, pulling on her clothes and rushing down the stairs from her room, barely remembering the seal the way behind her. It was still dark outside the dungeon, and Lori wondered how ...
2021-10-19 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe ice boat was… successful. For a given value of success, at any rate. It floated and, despite appearances, it wasn't actually that cold to the touch, and it didn't make your skin adhere to it ...
2021-10-17 17:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so trying to write The Apocalypse Survival Chronicle of a Magical Girl Mecha Pilot has been a bit of a failure. I made progress, but haven't actually managed to writ...
2021-10-15 10:16:29 +0000 UTC View PostBuilding the ice boat prototype did not, in fact, take all morning.
They needed a place they could use to assemble the ice and form the boat, and for ease Lori opted to use the area directly ...
2021-10-14 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe ice actually didn't break. With the binding in place, it was hard as stone, and seemingly as difficult to damage, especially with the binding reinforcing its physical properties beyond what it ...
2021-10-12 17:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostLori decided to finish the third bath house first before she went about altering the plumbing in the other two already in use.
Making the pipe from the river to the third bath house that woul...
2021-10-11 03:03:30 +0000 UTC View PostLori didn't want to get out of bed. She really, really didn't want to get out of bed. Her bedroll was thick and soft and warm, and despite what the fabric looked like, it was so very smoot...
2021-10-07 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post"—and the Um will be closed every fifth day for cleaning," Rian said cheerfully. "Let's all follow these rules so that we do not have any more unfortunate accidents, shall we?"
Rian was bei...
2021-10-05 17:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post