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This Used to Be About Dungeons, ch 87, Composition
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Verity played the new lute, stretching it to its limits and seeing what could be done with it. The lute that she’d used for concerts in Dondrian had been one of the best lutes in the world, and this certainly didn’t rival it, but there were a few similarities. That lute had been called the Full Orchestral Lute, and could produce the sounds of an entire symphony ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 86, The Unexpected Past
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Making regular trips to Liberfell was a new thing for Mizuki, and she was loving it. With the wardrobe, it was basically just down the road, assuming that they got their positioning more or less right and didn’t screw up the warp, and with the dagger, they could make a single trip back to Pucklechurch.They weren’t the only ones getting the benefits of being clos...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 85, Seeker
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~It was largely by chance that Isra was the one to answer the door. Mizuki was in the kitchen, preparing lunch, and Isra had just come down from using the upstairs bathroom. There was some question in Isra’s mind about whether it was appropriate for her to be answering the door, but she did almost live there, more nights than not, and it was likely to be someone th...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 84, The Spare Lute
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Visits from Marsh had become a daily thing, complicated only by the fact that he was living in a tent and she lived with four other people. They needed some place to be together, and eventually they had settled on an entad taken from his team’s stash, a blanket that allowed access to a very small little interior room. It was only just big enough for a bed, and cra...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 83, Oeyr's Hand
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkAlso Worth the Candle: Book 1 is now available as an ebook! Hooray!~~~~Mizuki visited the temple clerics, who were thankfully having a slow day.“I’ve never really understood why Oeyr got healing,” Mizuki said to Lin as the cleric checked her over. The wound on her leg had been healed by Hannah, but the wounds from the fall had been extensive enough that a cleric o...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 82, As Easy as Falling Down
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkAlso, the first book of Worth the Candle releases tomorrow, which I'm quite excited for. A (narrative) ad read will be posted tomorrow with the chapter on RoyalRoad, you can read it here.~~~~Pate Knob was an area of large hills, each of them covered in grass, like upside down bowls beneath a blanket. There were a few trees here and there, but the area was dominated ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 81, Beruchald's 6th
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Verity was in an unexpectedly good mood, which she couldn’t fully account for. She was electing not to question it too much, and to simply enjoy the day with just her and Isra together.Verity had never hunted anything, but she was eager to learn. She hadn’t actually ever killed anything either, though she was less eager for that. When she thought of rabbits, she...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 80, The Sunken House
This is the start of "Book 2", though in the actual split, the division will probably get massaged a bit.Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The excitement with Lola seemed to have come to its conclusion, and Isra was quite happy for that. The wound to her stomach felt completely fine, but Hannah had urged a plain diet, one without anything too sour or spicy, just so that her guts could have a...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 79, Sleepover
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Hannah hadn’t been intending to stay with Marsh. Her intent had been to use the wardrobe to get halfway to Liberfell, walk the rest of the way, check in, and then do a bit of shopping in the city. She’d called dibs on the dagger, which meant that it was really just the six miles from Traeg’s Knob to Liberfell that she’d have to walk. Marsh was staying at the...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 78, Law and Order
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkWorth the Candle: Book 1 is now available for pre-order on Amazon, and also available to pre-order as an audiobook. If you're interested, check it out, but there will be more on that when it launches March 1st.~~~~Mizuki went from being sound asleep to wide awake in a handful of seconds. Alfric’s hand was on her shoulder, nudging her out of her dreams, and she bli...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 77, The Day Of
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Alfric woke up in the middle of the night, as usual. There were no relevant guild messages, and he didn’t know what to make of that.Time priority was a fundamental concept for chrononauts, but it was largely opaque from the inside, and inconsequential unless two or more chrononauts were interacting with each other. If Alfric and Lola both attempted to reset the da...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 76, Misgivings
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkA few days ago I wrote the prologue to a (potential, untitled) dungeon core story, if you'd like, you can read that here. I don't know whether or not anything will be done with it, but as its own small piece of writing, I think it's fairly good.Also, Worth the Candle: Book 1 is available for pre-order on Audible!~~~~Hannah did enjoy being fretted over by Alf...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 75, Constrained
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkIt's my birthday today! The number has gone up! (The worst part of having a birthday on Groundhog's Day is that people will give you a gift and say "oh, this is for your birthday and Groundhog's Day".)~~~~It had been a bad dungeon. There was a term for a truly awful dungeon, one with horrible monsters and no loot, a selden dungeon, often with that wo...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 74, Off Tempo
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link(My decision to go down to two chapters a week was immediately vindicated, as the power supply in my computer died while I was in the middle of writing. I am now using a janky setup with my backup laptop, and grateful that I'm not staring down a deadline that I can just barely make. As always, thanks for the support.)~~~~Holding a song was like being a bird soaring ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 73, Corridor Squeeze
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~This was a strange and disorienting dungeon, and Isra didn’t like it. Gravity was something that a person was supposed to be able to take for granted. In this dungeon, her feet could be planted but her body unsteady, and the movements of the party around her were sometimes disorienting. They were there for the goods though, and the discomfort was temporary, so she...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 72, Frink Fruit
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Mizuki came to Moil Meadows early, with two goals in mind. The first was to meet up with a farmer there to do some work, while the second was to get some actual practice in.Countryside rarely had very much texture to the aether, though there were some exceptions, especially where magical plants or animals were involved. The forest around Mizuki’s house had a numbe...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 71, Hair of the Dog + Schedule Change
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Schedule change: TUTBAD will unfortunately be going down to two chapters a week, which will be Monday and Wednesday. When it originally started, it was two chapters a week, aiming for 3500-5000 words per chapter, but the backlog was ten chapters, which felt like a little bit too much, and I switched over to three chapters a week to whittle it down. It turns out that...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 70, Undone III
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~They had lunch at one of the most expensive restaurants in Liberfell, a fancy place with room for only twenty, and a lunch that was served in many courses. It was a combination of Kiromon and ‘Central Inter’ food, though the latter was a bit confusing to Alfric, given that Inter was made up of quite a few historical ethnicities and the food varied widely between...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 69, Undone II
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~They’d gone to Herson & Son first, mostly because it was close to the warp.“Mizuki!” said Rolaj. “What are you doing here?”“Business, not pleasure,” said Mizuki. “Just seeing whether you have anything in stock, and whether you have any leads on those entads I told you about.”“I’ll go look at the stock,” said Alfric.“It hasn’t been long si...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 68, Undone
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Alfric woke in the middle of the night, as was his habit. He checked for guild messages, and saw none, which was the best possible indication that he hadn’t missed the witching hour. Guild messages from the day before went through, all at once, just five minutes after the witching hour. The difference between those two times had been a topic of occasional discussi...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 67, Resolve
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~After the zoo there was shopping to do, and Mizuki was on her own for a bit, picking up a few things that she didn’t really need, along with a few that she did. Her funds were dwindling by the time she was called back to the Overguard house by party chat. There was some discussion about whether they would stay another day, and she seemed to be the only one who wan...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 66, Private Affairs
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Verity had been to the museum a number of times, but the time with Isra was by far her favorite.It was a combination of a few things. The biggest was that they were together, just the two of them. Isra was wild and untamed, which naturally held a strong appeal for Verity, but she’d found that when Isra was part of a group, their druid often faded into the backgrou...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 65, Lonesome
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The Garos Duomo had been a bit of a disappointment to Hannah. It was a pretty building, and yes, very symmetrical, but aside from the stunning feeling of vertigo that the floor induced, and the extremely large and rather long artwork, whoever had made the building concerned themselves more with history than actual practice. They seem to care about veneration of the ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 64, Outside Help
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Alfric had been to the Garos Duomo only once before, for his aunt’s wedding. It was a huge, grand building, a cathedral that served as a monument to one specific god, not quite incomparable, but the largest of its kind outside of the holy city of Garag. For regular church service, his parents had found it too crowded and too impersonal, and preferred to go to one ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 63, Curation
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The Metropolitan Museum of Qymmos was an immense building, taking up almost four city blocks, though it was divided into quadrants with walking streets going between them and arched bridges between the upper floors, so in some sense, it felt like it was four connected buildings rather than one. Qymmos was the god of Sets, of Categorization and Identification, and Is...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 62, A Night on the Town
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Mizuki found the fourth act of the opera absolutely stunning. If there had been a direction she’d been thinking it would go, following the third act, it wasn’t the outbreak of war. The whole set was on fire, and it looked like real fire, but she didn’t imagine that they would actually burn down the set, so it was either a clever illusion or an entad or somethi...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 61, Intermission
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~It seemed faintly ridiculous to Hannah that Mizuki should be keeping an eye on her. Perhaps the others hadn’t seen Mizuki’s moments of ‘spontaneity’, but Hannah could still very distinctly recall Mizuki calling over to the boys from Vertex at the noodle shop, and if anyone needed looking after, it was Mizuki. Of course, Mizuki hadn’t framed it as looking o...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 60, Opera
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkA reminder, no chapter on Friday. Happy holidays!~~~~Verity had seen Lerial and Marsc five times before, across two productions, but both had been in different locations by a different opera company. She knew it well enough that she was on the the lookout for deviations, though she’d been somewhat young for the first run, and the second run had been a few years ago no...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 59, Dressing
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkJust as a reminder, no Friday chapter this week or next week, mostly because I'll be busy during the holidays and don't want to burn my backlog down to nothing.~~~~Isra was finding the city to be both wonderful and bizarre. The strangeness of the place might have been a bit more unsettling if not for Mizuki, who seemed equally confused by the place, but delighte...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 58, Mixed Up Meals
Special note: We will be going down to two chapters a week over the holiday break, mostly because I'm going to be busy with family stuff and my son will be home from school. That means no chapters on the 24th and 31st of December. My apologies, but I'm already having some doubts about whether three chapters a week is sustainable for me, and don't want to be stressing about the dwindlin...
