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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 57, Street Food
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Being in Dondrian made Mizuki wonder why she’d been wasting her life in Pucklechurch.She had a good enough handle on her own ways of thinking to realize that this was probably a temporary opinion, the kind that she sometimes had when exposed to something new and interesting, but a bit of her mind was still frantically buzzing away, trying to think about what it wo...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 56, The Family Vault
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~There was no door to the family vault. Instead, you were just whisked there by someone who was keyed in, in this case, Alfric. Mizuki wanted to go first, so Verity waited.She had overheard bits and pieces of Alfric’s conversation with Mizuki regarding what ‘rich’ meant. While Verity’s family was rich, they were at a lower tier than the Overguards, and it was...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 55, Carving a Path to Dondrian
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Mizuki woke up early, or at least early for her. Hannah, Alfric, and Isra were already awake, and Hannah had made a quick breakfast, which Mizuki ate and made some never-to-be-given notes on. She had found, with Hannah doing the cooking, that there were certain things that Hannah just didn’t have the deftness for, and there were other things that Hannah did differ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 54, Hatching
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Isra’s time as keeper of the egg was coming to an end.The egg lived in its little glass jar, kept at exactly the right warmth by the ectads, breathing by virtue of the ectads, in conditions far more perfect than it would get in the wild. There were certain things that needed to be done as well, things that only Isra knew. In the hands of the Liberfell bastlekeeper...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 53, Siege Songs
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Singing for the party while they were elsewhere was just about as miserable as Verity had always thought it would be, but worse, it was nerve-wracking. There was a very real possibility that one of them would die while she was merrily singing away in the temple.By walls of white,and fields of green,the soldiers fight,and armors gleam.We wish them well,Pray for the t...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 52, Teamwork
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~It was almost painful to see everyone again, especially under the circumstances. If Lola was behind it, then this was a part of her plan in some way, but there were so many moving parts to the day that it was impossible for her to have planned it all. She could easily have released the creature, knowing what it did from earlier experimentation, but she wouldn’t ha...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 51, Mother
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Lola was responsible for the escape, obviously she was responsible, but for some reason no one wanted to talk about it, and worse, no one wanted Mizuki to talk about it. The dungeon escape was a part of some wretched scheme, one whose purpose wasn’t entirely clear yet. The worst part, by far, was that it was entirely possible that Lola had done this before, maybe ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 50, Escape!
Celebrating 50 chapters!Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~In times of trouble, the temple in Pucklechurch was to be used as a defensible rallying point, triage center, and command post. Hannah knew this, because when the plan had been for her to replace Lemmel, she’d gotten a bit of training in it, but for her whole time in Pucklechurch, nothing remotely worth worrying about had happened. Really, ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 49, Dungeon Drudgery
Normal TextEdit/Comment Text~~~~Whatever had happened during the time he’d been stone, it seemed to have rattled the team a bit. Alfric wasn’t sure whether it was just because he’d ‘nearly’ died or if it had been more about their topic of discussion, or perhaps the way he’d handled the tower, but things were a bit off, and he was hoping that they would run into something simple that wo...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 48, Dungeon Denizens
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The dungeons were terrifying, and Mizuki didn’t know how everyone else was handling it so well. For Alfric it was obvious, he was a dungeon freak, this was something he’d been training his whole life for. For Hannah, Mizuki could maybe see it too, she was a sturdy, no-nonsense kind of woman who had seen a lot of pain and suffering in her time training to be a cl...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 47, Down the Dungeon
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The trip to the third dungeon was much different than the trip to the second. The only thing required of them, early in the morning, was to head through the wardrobe to a hex which took its name from the small town there, Hie Point. This shortened the trip considerably. But another big difference was that unlike with Traeg’s Knob, or, in fact, Pucklechurch, the du...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 46, Both Sides
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkSpecial Note: There's a decent chance that TUTBAD will be going down to a twice-a-week schedule, mostly because I want to try writing something else simultaneous with it. I would need a bit more of a backlog built up for Project 2, but I think that's the direction I'm going, mostly because being able to bounce between two things should (in theory) allow me t...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 45, Visitors
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Mizuki wasn’t entirely sure where the idea of the double dungeon had come from, but she found herself getting excited by it. There was an element of gambling to going into dungeons, and Mizuki felt that the only reason she hadn’t lost enormous amounts of money gambling was that she hadn’t ever really had the opportunity. When she’d been in school, she’d ma...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 44, Care Package
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The worst thing about waiting for the other shoe to drop with Lola was that there was a good chance that it already had, in some undone timeline. Lola knew that they were in Pucklechurch, and once she got there, it would take her all of five minutes to get directions to the house, and at that point … well, she had options. She would talk with them, sus out their w...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 43, Temple Day
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~It was the plate sermon again, and Hannah did her best to sit through it and pay attention. That was only fair. Though she’d left the temple, she was still a cleric, and had a seat up front, facing the congregation. She was wearing her chasuble, embroidered with symmetrically pleasing designs. Beneath the chasuble, which was the most visible part of the getup, she...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 42, Singing Slow
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~When Cynthia broke the news, Verity was surprised how much it stung. The Fig and Gristle had found itself a new bard, one who was taking up Verity’s old room. It was made all the more awkward by Verity being informed of this when she’d shown up with her lute in hand, ready to sing for the night. There was a part of her that wondered, earlier, whether she would f...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 41, Meddling
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~There were some ways in which cooking for quite a few people was more work than cooking for one, but an aspect of it that Mizuki hadn’t considered was the work involved in transporting raw ingredients. Not buying them, since that was easy enough, but if she wanted to bring home enough food for the five of them for the next two or three days, the pounds really star...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 40, Post Mortem
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkSpecial note: This Used to be About Dungeons is now three months old! Hooray!~~~~Isra was envious of Mizuki’s cooking. The meals Isra had in Liberfell and at the Fig and Gristle had been quite good, but they had been prepared by someone whose job it was to do such things. A person who had devoted their life to cooking would naturally be a good cook, that was right and...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 39, Holy Numbers
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Alfric, having nothing better to do, came back into the room with Filera early. She was still standing there and looking at the wardrobe with her eyes narrowed. There was no longer any inspection of it, only a sharp gaze. Alfric found himself a chair and calmly waited.The party was getting along well, and he included himself in that assessment. Hopefully Lola would ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 38, Jockey
Normal LinkEdit/Comment LinkNote: Enjoy a slightly oversized chapter this time!~~~~“You know,” said Hannah as Alfric attached the floatstones to the wardrobe, “It’s quite likely that in another dungeon or two, we’ll have somethin’ that makes this wardrobe useless.”“You’re saying this is probably pointless?” asked Alfric. He grunted slightly as he strapped the floatstones down. ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 37, Cartier
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The prospect of a day with nothing going on had, at first, seemed like it would be nice and pleasant, a chance to work in the garden, perhaps, or laze about once the ritual practice was finished, but then, in the morning, the rain clouds had begun to hang heavy in the sky. Verity woke up too late to see the party off, but there was a note and a cold breakfast in the...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 36, E7 Report
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Party:Lola Underhill - alienist, chrononaut, E7Josen Park - wizard, E7Grig Tinsmith - bard, E7Mardin Longshore - cleric of Oeyr, E7Marsh - warlock, pyro (delayed service), E7My favorite tutor when I was growing up was my math teacher, who spent a month of our time talking about variance. Variance is important for chrononauts, part of our bread and butter, but I was ...
This Used to be About Dungeon, ch 35, Alumni of the Junior League
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~The Adventurer’s League was in charge of all matters related to the dungeons across Interim, and predated the actual conglomerate country by quite some time. It had originally started as a trade association, but through the many centuries it had been around, it had eventually come to be nationalized, and served as a semi-independent arm of the Interim government. ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 34, Woods Witch
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~“You’ve been keeping track of where we’re going, right?” asked Mizuki. It was becoming clear that if she was going to continue along with this profession, she was going to need better shoes. There was simply too much hiking involved.“No, I haven’t,” said Isra, not glancing back. “Why would I?”“Uh, so we don’t get lost?” asked Mizuki. It felt ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 33, Possibilities
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~As they stepped into the entad shop, Verity was contemplating what she was going to buy, if anything. A musical instrument wasn’t a must for a bard, but it could be helpful in many ways, and it was how she’d been trained, as well as being her preference. The problem was that entads didn’t tend to have the most convenient forms to them, and a dungeon was as lik...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 32, A Tree From A Stone
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Knowing that Lola was around in Liberfell put a bit of fear into Alfric.Being the only chrononaut made things simple. It was only him, and it was always the first time the day had been done. With a second chrononaut, he was put in the position of everyone else, which he had never found himself enjoying. Was this the first time through? Was it going to be wiped away ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 31, Delicate Arrangements
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~When Isra woke, she found that she and Verity had moved together at some point in the night, close enough that their legs were pressed against each other, and one of Verity’s hands was touching the bottom of Isra’s rib cage. Extraction from this situation took a fair bit of time, mostly because Isra was trying her hardest not to wake Verity up, but some of that ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 30, Noodles
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~They went down from the hotel room and out onto the streets of Liberfell, walking without much direction for a bit.“Do you like Kiromon cooking?” asked Mizuki.“I can’t say I’ve had it much,” said Hannah.“Noodle shop,” said Mizuki, pointing. “I’ve been there before, it’s very good, but very traditional. Or Plenarch traditional, meaning they use ...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 29, Historical Revisionism
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~That Alfric was a chrononaut was, in some sense, a surprise, but in another sense, made certain things fall into place. That was almost certainly what Filera had seen in him during their encounter at the temple, and it explained some of his rush to get things moving when they’d all started out. He’d wanted to do as much in a day as possible, because that way, if...
This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 28, It Takes Two
Normal LinkEdit/Comment Link~~~~Verity had finished her bath by the time Mizuki and Isra came back from whatever they were doing. The bath had been a proper bath, one with scented soaps that Mizuki apparently didn’t keep stocked at her house. Verity was going to have to spend some time in Liberfell buying a few things. She had gotten used to rather rough living at the Fig and Gristle, which had ...
