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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 57, Street Food

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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 <...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 56, The Family Vault

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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.

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 55, Carving a Path to Dondrian

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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-g...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 54, Hatching

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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 ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 53, Siege Songs

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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 possib...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 52, Teamwork

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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 movi...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 51, Mother

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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...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 50, Escape!

Celebrating 50 chapters!

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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, ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 49, Dungeon Drudgery

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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 i...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 48, Dungeon Denizens

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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 ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 47, Down the Dungeon

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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 wh...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 46, Both Sides

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Special 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 bi...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 45, Visitors

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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 dun...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 44, Care Package

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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 Puc...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 43, Temple Day

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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...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 42, Singing Slow

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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 ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 41, Meddling

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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 tra...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 40, Post Mortem

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Special note: This Used to be About Dungeons is now three months old! Hooray!

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Isra was envious of Mizuki’s cooking. The meals Isra had in Liberfell and at the F...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 39, Holy Numbers

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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 lon...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 38, Jockey

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Note: Enjoy a slightly oversized chapter this time!

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“You know,” said Hannah as Alfric attached the floatstones to the wardrobe, “It’s quite likely that in another ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 37, Cartier

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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 prac...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 36, E7 Report

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Party:

Lola Underhill - alienist, chrononaut, E7
Josen Park - wizard, E7
Grig Tinsmith - bard, E7
Mardin Longshore - cleric of Oeyr, E7
Marsh - wa...

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This Used to be About Dungeon, ch 35, Alumni of the Junior League

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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...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 34, Woods Witch

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“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 ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 33, Possibilities

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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...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 32, A Tree From A Stone

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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 firs...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 31, Delicate Arrangements

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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 ...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 30, Noodles

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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.

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 29, Historical Revisionism

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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 dur...

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This Used to be About Dungeons, ch 28, It Takes Two

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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 ap...

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