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Challenge #04854-M105: Call of the Favour

1: "You are aware, of course, that where you are going is more than far beyond us?"/ 2: "Yes. There's no horse that will be able to make the journey." 1: "Then how do you plan to get there?"/ 2: "We'll need something more than a simple horse." 1: "What do 'we' have in mind?" -- Anon Guest

"It's ten thousand leagues, and we have to get there in a handful of days. We don't have horses for all of us. We don't even have one horse." Scion Naeryn gripped their fists in their hair in anxiety. "Go adventuring, they said. You'll learn about the greater world from the ground up, they said. You'll understand the common throng they said. All the nobles are doing it... They just didn't mention anything about how to get back in a hurry when the evil vizier is plotting a Freja-cursed coup!"

"Breathe," said the Bard Calliope. "Nice deep breaths. We'll get there."

"We won't get there by huffing and puffing," protested Naeryn. "And we certainly won't get there in a week and three days."

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Wednesday, Rant, Physio, and Catching Up

I gotta take off for Physio soon. I got the weekly blog due today, and I aim to finish up the Promptcast thing.

Further updates after I get back.

Update:

The Chapter 13 disaster has struck the Physio, killing their theragun. All things considered, less than what I was bracing for. I was ready for compy implosions, power outages, and other cosmic disasters that would make it difficult to write things.

OK.

I shall get on with posting my weekly thing in

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Challenge #04853-M104: No Need to Fret

Let me tell you of a bard I once heard sing. The voice had a strength and depth that no magic in the world could recreate. I felt the desire to steal them away and keep them for myself, but I knew the world needed them more. And so I became their patron.

https://peakd.com/flashfiction/@internutter/challenge-04840-m091-fey-touched -- Anon Guest

Legends tell of a Bard who can charm savage beasts with the sound of hir voice. One who can make

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Tuesday: Vampires, Shopping, and Patreon

I checked the paperwork shortly after leaving the bedchamber this morning, and nothing indicates a fasting test or not. So I'm writing hungy this AM. As soon as I'm done with the vampires, I am GETTING some foods. Official cheat day. I declare it thus.

I'm also doing the Leyland's Tour, allegedly to save petrol. So I will likely be freaking tired when I come back home.

There shall at least be story, but I have no idea when that's happening.

Time,

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Challenge #04852-M103: Queen's Gambit

For 60 long years Queen Essarea has held her kingdom together through sheer force of will. But at long last her strength is flagging, old clans once subdued are preparing to open old feuds for power, and her heirs lack the careful combination of ruthlessness, charisma, and measured kindness which Essarea employed during her time on the throne. What will become of six decades of relative peace once her eyes close for the final time…? -- Deathshead419

It's not unprecedented, but there's

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Monday, Video Meets and Shenanigan

Just one shenanigan. Getting some voices with authority to encourage the Archive to review the rules. There's a snowballing situation with old rules and old procedures that could use a poke or three.

It's not looking that great to happen this week, though. Health issues.

Good news: Beloved has an income again!
Bad news: Not a great lot of it.

It will help pay for the foods, so that's a good thing. Can always use help paying for the foods.

...lord knows

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Challenge #04851-M102: With Adequate Reason

Trudy enters her awkward teenage years with a new obsession. Haunted by dreams, she begs and cajoles her parents until they bring her to a lake in the middle of a swampy waste. Here she finds the source of her begging dreams, a human prince who had been turned into a swan. Just the sort who’s magic curse would reach a girl who used to be a goose…

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04708-l324-from-menace-to-midwife -- Deathshead419

The Will o' the Wild

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Sunday, Streaming Shenanigans

I skip the Archive event streams, so I'm watching the Promptcast like a hawk.

In betwixt that, I'll be intermittently tapping away on today's tale. Chipping out words one letter at a time. Or something that feels like that.

Fingers crossed, the scuff shall be light to nonexistent. We can hope and pray.

I also have bread on, so I'm listening for the auto alarms. Just the usual juggling nonsense at any given minute. Same ol' same ol'.

Story whenever I can

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Challenge #04850-M101: Treasure Trouble

Menson V'lek has inherited a map where his father buried a pirate fortune. The story goes that after a shipwreck during a great sea chase, the old man buried the gold he could not carry and high tailed it out of there. But something doesn’t quite add up with the old man’s story or his map, leading Menson to travel to the isle to unravel the truth. -- Deathshead419

[AN: Had to change a little spelling because found a real

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Saturday, Goblin Day

I'm not self-maintaining today. I dunno if it's depression or some other variety of emotional disregulation. I just want to be a slob, today.

With good fortune, I'll be back on an even keel tomorrow.

B'Nar got rejected this morning. Unrelated to the Goblining going on. So that's another downer in my day. Huzzah.

I hope to lock in and get the story done soon, but I'm also wrangling bread, so there's some fun times going. I may or may not have

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Challenge #04849-M100: Stolen Mercy

Victoria Constance Emilia Stanford has become a goddess, enjoying her new form and her husband. Alas, it seems that some desperate folks from a drought stricken land would like to enjoy her powers, for they kidnap her from the shores in the dead of night whilst her husband and father in law slept.

This is unlikely to end well for anyone involved…

Sequel to: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04815-m066-bride-of-the-son-of-the-volcano-god -- Deathshead419

There was a new goddess, though few in Arunem could

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Challenge #04848-M099: Sorely in Need of...

You get to be the Avatar of the local Goddess/God for a year, you have a certain freedom of how you do that. But at the end of that year you are back to being mortal and have to face any consequences. So watch how you rule. -- Prompey

It's an odd little town, to say the least of it. For a start, there's a large temple to Zeb centrally located near all the other important public services. Devotees of the

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Friday, Technical Issues

I'm still trying to connect to the printer. My varying brute force attempts keep splattering against a brick wall where the tech just decides it doesn't like me.

I'm trying two 'attacks' - manually trying to connect via my compy's Bluetooth capability, and connecting the printer to the WiFi. Neither of them are working, but I'm trying.

Maybe my lovelies will have an answer about that. Maybe I'll have my ongoing pattern of luck with this shit.

So far, it's the latter.

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Thursday, Time of Ease?

I can hope I have some time to chillax. The Leyland's tour yesterday did horrible things to my left foot so I am taking things gently and getting around with my support staff.

A literal staff to support me. AKA a broom handle with a tennis ball added to the floor end.

I stayed up last night to finish reading Project Hail Mary and finished the review pretty darn close to midnight. It's a bloody miracle I woke up at my alarm

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Challenge #04847-M098: Mnemonic Intervention

Their plumage was red, black, and yellow. Beings thought they were either venomous, or poisonous. But they've never heard of the false coral snake, or other such pretenders. -- Anon Guest

"Red then yellow, kills a fellow. Red then black, venom lack." -- Terran Mnemonic.

It's rather shocking that truly dangerous creatures bear the same rough colour scheme. So it was no shock that the dangerous things became marked in a similar fashion... and then dangerous people. The code was well established

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