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Challenge #04992-M243: Noncogniscent Haptic Therapy

A great way to help a bunch of students preparing for Final Exams in school? Rooms full of cute and fluffy to cuddle with, talk to, and, in doing so, de-stress enough to handle Exams. -- BKF

Much has been done to improve education within the Alliance. Reduction of class sizes, multiple teaching methods, the reduction of varying crisis factors. Nevertheless, exam time ends up putting many students into a mental spiral where their best effort could be better, and doing it all is never enough.

They're being melodramatic, of course, but telling them never stops them.

What does work is the seasonal petting zoo and kitten/puppy adoption drive. Every exam season, petting zoos set up near education facilities with very cheap admission for students. The animal shelters do a similar thing, asking for people to help socialise the baby animals. And maybe give them a new home. And it works every time.

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Monday: Promptcast, Group Chat, and Other PLNs

Tomorrow, I get my liver scanned. Yay. Then I get a snack on the way to visit the local vampires to get my blood drawn. Huzzah.

That's tomorrow.

Today, I have to figure out what's happening for the Promptcast. I know one of the crew wants Trey Vector, Galactic Inspector, but I keep thinking of the chapters I needs must rewrite for ADT.

I'll spitball at my friends on that.

And there's the regular daily tale to wrangle. Plus paying the bills

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Challenge #04991-M242: Remember the Fairy Bread

Several of Sensei Twii's students plan a surprise birthday party for hir! -- BKF

"How old is ze anyway?" asked Lynn. "I tried searching, but nobody has an accurate number."

"I think there's a few one-way wormholes involved and temporal confusion[1] in there somewhere." Jem laid out all her research on her datareader. There was a lot of conflicting information. "We could ask, but... That would spoil the surprise."

"We couldn't get the small fire permit anyway," sighed Keit as he

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Challenge #04990-M241: For What Ails You

Poor Scramble catches a cold. -- BKF

Temporal magic can do a lot of things. It can help with so much in the everyday adventures of life. What it can't do is prevent illnesses. Scramble could be forewarned, and therefore fore-armed of events in hir immediate future. Ze could dodge any material missile thrown hir way, or catch it if it was food.

Nobody had thrown something at Scramble for months, but ze caught a cold nevertheless.

The best remedy, no matter

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Saturday, Stream Stuff

I'm moderating, so I'm not doing ankle nonsense while that's on. I just have to remember to get back on it once the stream's over.

On the plus side, I am making good progress on the book cover. Taking that win for what it is.

I did not have the time to play BG3 yesterday. I definitely won't today or tomorrow. Because stream stuff.

Best to get on with getting on with things. Including icing my stupid damn ankle every two firkin

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Challenge #04989-M240: Incorrect Theory in Practice

It's a beautiful evening, camping is going well. Nice fire, yummy food... now if only the mosquitoes weren't such a pain in the tail! Thank goodness for repellent! Need some? -- BKF

"I'd love just one that flakking works," grumbled Companion Xia. "I altered my diet to change the taste of my blood. I'm wearing the repellent bracelets, and the cream, and the spray." They sighed, swatting at a whine in the air. "And I'm still too delicious for my own good.

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Friday, Attempts Are Being Made

Editing my Promptcast entry took over a majority of the day and PK had enough interruptions on her side without dealing with me ducking out to see to my stupid fucking ankle.

By next week, I should have a swing on the situation and I'll be able to time things with grace and style.

You may laugh now.

I hope today that I shall have time to play some BG3. But I must be able to finish my story before the evening.

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Challenge #04988-M239: Trafficking Hazardous Materials

A coughing fit spreads throughout the ship. They find out a deregger smuggled in several pollinating plants instead of the seeds in stasis pods they said they had. -- BKF

It never would have happened if the scanners weren't down for maintenance. Later analysis would reveal that there was sabotage on them to manufacture a maintenance flaw.

It's amazing what malicious people can do with magnets, thumb drives, and a complete disregard for anyone's safety.

Slow Cruiser Vessel, the Idle Hours, took

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Thursday, Promptcast Sorted

Got the dang Promptcast thing edited, pronounciation guided, formatted, saved, and sent. Huzzah. I shall be working on the day's tale soonish.

There are quirks when transferring from Ellipsus to LibreOffice, but I'm learning them. Bullshit like italicised text being a different colour. I can live. It's a pain in the arse, but it's better than being scraped by Google.

I set up to ice my ankle every two hours, but editing took over my time and I'm in danger of forgetting

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Challenge #04987-M238: I Wanna Be Just Like You

"I want to be a Hellkin."

Why?

"Because they're the only ones who ever showed what real kindness is." -- BKF

Everyone thinks 'Hellkin' when they hear the phrase "Unwelcome People". The thing is, they're not the only Unwelcome People. It alters according to realm, politics, and local prejudice. But you can rely on Hellkin being among that number[1].

They accrete in ghettos or spend their years wandering from one locale to another. Trying for the most part to find somewhere

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Wednesday, Shaping PLNs

I did not wind up doing anything for Patreon this week. It's not looking great for Weird Writer Wednesday either. I can certainly try. But I also have Physio today and a bit for the Promptcast that needs a good going-over by two people.

I've caught one of them. Let's see how well I do with the other one.

And I have to figure out some kind of schedule so our economies and time windows intermesh.

After Physio.

I have a handful

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Challenge #04986-M237: Friendly Filter on Reality

They found a way to help a young who is dealing with severe social anxiety be able to get out a little at a time. A set of augmented reality goggles that gave everyone a friendly capybara look. And if crowds get too loud, it muted the noise to a soft muffle except, of course, for anything that might be dangerous. --BKF

When the demolition crews were carefully pulling the place to pieces, they called it Rabbit Warren Station. Not that it

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Tuesday, Shopping Expedition

I have half an hour before my self-assigned take-off time, and Adorable's Mum is coming with. Fun times ahead.

I'll have to make sure that everyone's updated when I finish up here.

Story happening when I get over the expedition. Who knows? I might also be able to resume posting my Patreon stuff.

Huzzah?

I am going to return to my expected output. Monitoring myself for burnout warning signs along the way, of course.

Best to go at least give the news.

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Challenge #04985-M236: De-Escalation Tactics

people often yearn for what they loathe. It makes for good business opportunities for the beloathed, but you have to watch your back- or have other unwelcome watch it for you. -- Weirdlet

They called her Passion, though her name for herself was Reprieve. A statuesque beauty, even though she was a Hellkin. Poems had been written about her hair. Odes dedicated to her singing voice. People who would rebuke and revile Hellkin like her leaped to grovel in mud lest she

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