Dungeon Binder Lolilyuri—Lori to most because people tended to mangle her name by mispronouncing it ‘low-lai-lee–ooh-rai’ or ‘lowly-uh-ree’ or any of a number of ways that she’s had to stop from kicking people in the shin over the years—founder and ruler of Lorian Demesne, conqueror ruler of River’s Fork Demesne, looked upon th...
2025-02-09 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostAs it started to get dark, balls of light slowly started to appear around the camp. Some appeared above particular tents, ring-like and shining their light outward, no doubt over where one of the Whisperers was still eating. A few began to appear sequentially, coming to light every few paces above the walk between rows of tents. That was probabl...
2025-02-03 14:17:31 +0000 UTC View PostSo... due to Patreon policies and their lack of warning about when content has violated them, I've come to the realization that some later parts of Marlareign might need to be... ah, 'Realta Nua'd' when posted here. I realize this might be problematic for people who want to read the full story here, but... well, I have a story I want to tell. 2025-02-02 10:52:53 +0000 UTC View Post
One morning, as Marla awoke from pleasant and soothing dreams about blood and violence and bloody violence, she came fully to the realization that in her sleep over the past month she had been slowly recalling the memories of her past life.
It came as no great surprise. The recollection had been gradual, and at first she had thought the dr...
2025-01-31 15:19:32 +0000 UTC View PostYhal knew he didn’t have to worry about overseeing how the camp was being set up. While they were all retired from the militia now, habits were hard to break, and even if one was inclined to be a little sloppy, that wasn’t the sort of thing that survived a tour in the militia. The tents had been set up in neat lines, although the spacing had...
2025-01-26 17:10:01 +0000 UTC View PostPapa still wasn’t back.
The little girl stood outside of her house, watching the path leading towards their front door. Her cheeks were salted with dry tears, and the only reason she wasn’t crying was because there were no more tears left. There was a spot of honey on her chin from the honeyed bread that Mama had given her to eat befor...
2025-01-23 16:00:12 +0000 UTC View Post“Well…” Yhal said some time later, “I suppose that’s mildly impressive for a civie.” Making housing wasn’t difficult for a Whisperer as long as they had stone and enough time, excavating the ground was nothing special—it was just digging out rock, after all—nor were the dozens of other little projects that the woman had done, b...
2025-01-20 07:51:36 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lone Venator pushed open the tall doors at the peak of the nightmare-twisted Observation Ward. Behind them, they could hear the few misshapen patients still living—for a given value of ‘living’ in this perverse dreamland—crying, or calling for someone called ‘Countess Marla’ to offer them comfort. The strange deformities upon the...
2025-01-14 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post(A red-haired figure stands before a pair of wrought-iron gates, beyond which a large building can be seen)
The Academy of Reigncraft. The place where the nobility of the Kingdom of Solartis gifted with reign over the elements come to learn. This is where my adventure starts!
Swampsoftware 2025-01-14 13:55:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Announcing the latest game from Swampsoftware, creator of the genre-defining Devilborne, Darkborne, Darkborne II, and Darkborne III!
Presenting Arcane Amour! Set in the Academ...
2025-01-14 13:55:23 +0000 UTC View PostOtin raised an eyebrow. “We haven’t even met the woman yet. Why would she possibly think we want to kill her?”
“I know that and you know that, and that’s the reasonable thing to think, but Binder Lori… well, she believes otherwise.” Yllian shrugged as if he simply accepted that color-brained reasoning.
“Well, surely y...
2025-01-12 17:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post“Demesne in sight! Demesne in sight!”
Yhallisu—Yhal to most—looked up at the cry from the lead elements of the march. They had been walking for days now, three hundred people and livestock, and so far the trail they’d been washing through the Iridescence had seemed never ending. Their progress was slow since they had so many peop...
2024-12-31 17:00:19 +0000 UTC View PostThe movie was as funny as it had been before, satirizing the racism of the Lasablican western expansion as the payatin—sorry, Slenderkin—hero Burt made fools of the racist, incompetent villains trying drive people out of the town of Stonecliff so they could grab the land. It was so funny that Harmony took the whole movie to cut up t...
2024-12-29 19:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostMerry Christmas, everyone! Due to lacking anything to give you... have a list of names! I know people have been clamoring to have more names! After all, you certainly don't get any in Lori-cam.
Tafit: A Horotract of the Golden Sweetwood Company. Has big, poofy hair
Madsmif: A Horotract of the Golden Sweetwood Company...
2024-12-25 11:18:06 +0000 UTC View PostWhen Tammy had floated the idea of another teambuilding party, asking for ideas of what they could do, Sanny given her suggestion half-expecting the middle-schooler would say no. Instead, the Nightmæranger’s leader had happily taken the suggestion. Tammy had of course heard of the game, sometimes seen it depicted on TV or in movies, but she...
2024-12-19 15:06:50 +0000 UTC View PostWell, that's it for now everyone! I'm on my break so I can do Christmas stuff. See you on maybe New Year's week, but maybe not, and then I'm off on a family vacation so... I'm guaranteed to be back on January 13th, and Demesne will probably start again by then.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and I hope you're all well!
<... 2024-12-13 05:05:41 +0000 UTC View PostLoren was relieved to finally have enough of a reserve to be able to safely use magic again. He hadn’t realized exactly how much magic he’d had as a reserve until he’d burned through it all and then some. After fire-roasted for hours, he had a reserve again, and his broken arm was itching like crazy. It was something he remembered from the...
2024-12-12 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe next day, Loren had been feeling better when Harmony checked on him, or at least had gone from the piercing pain stage of his wounds to itching stage of his wounds as his body mended. He was also slowly putting on weight according to the bathroom scale, even as Auntie Marie muttered and sighed about eating so much fat being unhealthy. After ...
2024-12-10 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostAs Harmony had expected, Loren wasn’t really upset about waking up and finding that his parents had him brought home instead of to his apartment, although he was clearly a little agitated. It was the logical decision, given his state. He wouldn’t really be able to feed himself properly with his injury—not easily, at least—e...
2024-12-08 19:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostDue to having cleansed my palate and, uh, market forces... I'll be resuming working on Demesne soon, although the posts probably won't be up until next year. It might be once a week, twice a week at most (maybe) for a while until I hit my groove again. Might make it once a week anyway to give me some leeway to write other series too.
So, L...
2024-12-07 03:16:31 +0000 UTC View PostDisgustingly, the nurses didn’t know if the ward had been exorcised, or if there were any ghosts at all. Very irresponsible, really This was the kind of thing that could lead to medical complications, like a sudden heart attack from seeing a ghost in the middle of the night!
Fortunately, she was here to keep that from happening!
It...
2024-12-05 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostAs they neared Galugod, the traffic slowed considerably, bringing Harmony and Steve to a halt. That was a bad sign. She called Malory again, trying to ignore the hours the other woman could have called them about any change in circumstances and hadn’t.
“Hello?”
“Malory, we’re stuck in traffic, but we’re close. Is Loren al...
2024-12-03 19:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostFortunately for the vigilant who had been rendered unconscious, the ghost didn’t seem inclined to do anything to him. Instead, it’s attention was drawn to the Spiritualist as several thumb-sized spiritforms manifested around him before they flew at the ghost a high speed. They slammed into the ghost, and holes were torn through its body, spi...
2024-12-01 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostLoren could feel the strain of having sent out so many powerful blasts in rapid succession as he made some distance between himself and other large and heavy objects—like the table and the dish cabinets—that could be thrown at him. The Flames he’d used hadn’t emptied his reserves, but he could certainly feel the dent the blasts had made ...
2024-11-28 19:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostHis head hurt. There as something filthy on his face. His head hurt. And parts of him ached from being tossed and rolling on the hard ground.
Blearily, he tried to look around. He knew he’d been dragged—by his legs, ow—inside the house, but it hadn’t been that far in. It was surprisingly bright and not dark and gloomy like he’d e...
2024-11-26 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt was a perfectly ordinary day. The sun was shining, dogs were barking in the distance, the air was filled with the smell of house paint and Harmony wished Loren was here. Maybe she could have talked him into being a heat sink. Or barring that, they could have sent him to go up and paint the roof. It was about time he learned anyw...
2024-11-24 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt started innocently enough… and if he’d thought that at the time, it would probably have been a huge red flag. But unfortunately, most days started innocently. He’d been working for Happy Homes for four months at this point, and had received a semi-promotion as the driver of the pick-up truck. That meant in the morning’s he made his wa...
2024-11-22 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostSara was soon playing with the little squad of plastic robot tsukumogami. While she still needed to concentrate to lift them up, their spiritform meant she could touch them, or at least derive tactile sensation from doing so. And while it wasn’t much, the contact between her spiritform and theirs was able to convey just enough force that she c...
2024-11-19 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostOnce Loren had explained what tsukumogami—or hinnagami, in this case—were, and the plamo had helpfully demonstrated by walking around and moving… well, the two old hobbyists had looked absolutely fascinated and giddy. He supposed that no matter how old someone became, there was something inherently wondrous about something they loved becom...
2024-11-17 19:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostIn the days leading up to ‘adoption day’, a surprising number of people called Danny and expressed an interest in adopting parts of his late father’s collection. As expected, many of them were collectors that Mr. Halili previously knew, although there were a few curious people that had probably found out from the fliers he’d put up in th...
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