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Challenge #05044-M295: A Hat to Tip

Wraithvine gives Scramble hir first wizard's hat. And Chance unexpectedly grows dragon-like wings that sorta match his adopted father's own. -- BKF

"The time has come," announced Wraithvine. "Prentice, you have the fundamentals of magic to a point where you can use them reliably and with intent. We... are making your hat."

"What?" said Scramble. "But I still suck at it."

"Nevertheless, the world must know that you are a Wizard. Since you've proven that you can learn and use magic, it is both a sign of your status and a warning to others." Wraithvine smiled. "It will begin as a simple form and, like its wearer, will become complicated as time passes." Ze gestured at hir own hat to indicate how complicated it could get. If there was a thread of original material remaining in its construction, it was crying because it was alone.

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Thursday: RAIN

It is absolutely BUCKETING over here in Sunny Queensland. I was woken by the thundering blatter on our roof. Further investigation revealed that Whenitrains Creek is not only running, but it has a pal by the Eastern fence. And the news that the rain is going to continue for the foreseeable future.

I'm calling it now. We're getting a second once-a-century flood inside of 20 years.

And people say that climate change isn't real.

With the shitty weather comes the threat of

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Challenge #05043-M294: A Day in From the Storm

Chance and Scramble learn to tend Waithvine's garden while the family waits out the rain storm. Chance is surprisingly deft at picking plants without harming the ones not ready for harvest, and Scramble learns they're really good at properly getting plants processed for storage in the pantries. -- BKF

Out in the proper world, the storm was threatening to erase everything above solid stone. In Wraithvine's portable tower, the garden was always in fine or gentle weather. The noise of the storm

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Wednesday: The Search For Spoons

I'm... struggling.

My knees are nominally operational again, but my right hip has taken it's turn, with my back, to make functioning in meatspace more than a little difficult.

I'm doing what I can to improve the situation, but I'm still on low-batt/minimal spoons today.

I have 1K left worth of words to put into my Promptcast thing and I have yet to reach the prompt I want to use. Soon.

My PLN is to plug in the last 1K and

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Challenge #05042-M293: Distracting Allure

A little lost havenworlder child runs up to Sensei Twii and flitters up to his shoulder to ask for help. They're scared and don't know where their parentals are. -- BKF

The fledgeling was able to lift off for short bursts. Almost typical for Avian Havenworlders. They lit from bench to benchtop to passing maintenance wagon before landing, panting, on Master Twii's shoulder. "Riri said... if I gotted lost," they managed, "I gotta find a Human. you look... human. Are you a

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Tuesday, SHENANIGANS!

Today is a fifty-steps-to-make-coffee day.

I did not rise from my bed before seven. I've been having emotional difficulty commencing my day by rising from my bed. Short version: Depression and Anxiety have synergised into making that my daily problem.

My steak, which I put in the fridge to thaw, had been shoved into a back area where it would remain partially frozen. Thus, I had to dawdle getting the rest of my breakfast and, long story short, It was HALF PAST

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Challenge #05041-M292: Vulnerability

The human over-ate on their favorite foods, and sequestered themselves in their habitat refusing to see anyone. When the companion comes in to see what's going on, their nose is assailed by the REASON the human asked to have a full day to themselves. -- BKF

Humans, amongst many other things, are prone to act unwisely when presented with a treat. They are also aware of this and have unique linguistics about them. Each Human has their own term for such things,

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Monday, Crowded Schedule

I got a promptcast to moderate, since the stories spilled over. I have shopping to do [fortunately a quick trip to the local shops] and a shrink meet today.

At some point, I will put in 500 words into the Promptcast entry for next week. And write the story du jour.

It's a busy day.

Now that my book is out, I can get back onto other money-scrimping shenanigans. Like working on the entire catalogue of comics I shall be selling off.

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Challenge #05040-M291: Now Get Them to Leave

You really want to see a human party? Fine, it's your funeral pal, proverbially speaking. I know you guys have a tropical world of a planet that is utterly harmless to them, I think it's what, only a level 1 deathworld at most? And you've expansive, warm, oceans. Tell them you'll foot the bill, and they'll throw a party like you've never seen before. Though they'll at least make it fun for you, too. They're nice like that. -- BKF

There's traditionally

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Challenge #05039-M290: Improvements Are Impossible

Beware the furballs of orange, for they are the most cunning. Oh who am I kidding? They're all sweethearts, just the orange furballs are usually the ones most apt to start mischief. -- BKF

[AN: Have you not heard of the mythical Orange Cat Braincell? All orange cats share one braincell. Who has it is a total mystery. Then again, they may start mischief because action and consequence refuse to be linked]

Earth's pets made it into Galactic Alliance space decades before

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Saturday, Whoopsy Doopsy

Don't expect a lot out of me, today.

  1. I managed to cut myself whilst futzing around with bread organisation, yesterday [Typos +5]
  2. After finishing my daily tale, I proceeded to play Dressmaker
  3. Until A QUARTER PAST MIDNIGHT
  4. For reasons unfathomable to me, I don't feel very well today.

I think I might write my tale and take a nap. [And probably play more Dressmaker when I wake up]

I might take a nap and then write the daily tale.

I might write

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Challenge #05038-M289: Mending Melancholy Moggy

They were sitting and softly crying. No real reason other than being overtired and homesick, first time traveling so far, even for work. Then a skitty crawled in their lap and began to purr, and they began to feel a little better. -- BKF

First-time Spacers are fine until they're suddenly not. It's all fun and games until the homesickness hits like an apophis-class asteroid. As Trainee Engineer Nauf just found out while staring at the stars.

Ze had just found the

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Friday, Onwards?

I could have a book page from Ingram, but it costs $7USD a month and I don't have that reliable an income yet [Still paper-chasing for the Disability Pension] so that one has to wait. Nevertheless, Not With a Bang is available in all good e-bookstores everywhere Ingram Spark chooses to advertise.

[Shown here: The cover of Not With a Bang featuring a man looking over a ruined flatiron building while the rest of New York is covered in Kudzu]

Look for

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Challenge #05037-M288: Toxin Replacement Scheme

The Havenworlder-safe confectionary competition! Complete with legumes that taste just like peanuts but are not, in fact, peanuts, and havenworlder-safe chocolate! -- BKF

[AN: Was prompted in relation to yesterday's story, but has wound up being in relation to Pistil-Packing Researcher ]

There are many Humans who are psychologically incapable of keeping a treat for themselves. They find joy in sharing. And it is a regrettable fact that some things are just too dangerous for Havenworlders to enjoy. Which, once Humanity realised that,

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