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Challenge #04984-M235: Post Trauma Trauma Comfort

Sometimes you just need a teddy bear. -- Knitnan

Triage is a simple formula. Help is focused intensely on those whose condition could be improved by it. Those who would mend on their own and those who would fail no matter what were the ones left to bide. In triage, few are available to pick up or comfort a crying child.

Dar, youngest survivor of the Pelichant Incident, understood none of this. All they knew was that they were frightened and all the grownups were passing them by. They had only one way to express their fears, so all the rush was serenaded by one throat open in a continuous wail of woe. All that the adults could provide was a collection of passing apologies. None of them helped.

There were only so many useful hands versus too many in need. In the grand scale of lives in the balance, one wailing toddler was a mere annoyance.

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Sunday, Mor Stream, Mor Shenanigan

The Promptcast is reading stories, starting today. Maybe going on to tomorrow.

I've also fucked up my sleep cycle somehow and have been awake since 10PM. It's now almost 3AM.

So I'm going to just buckle down and try to write today's tale before the Promptcast launches. I might be asleep shortly after. Time, again, will tell.

Who knows? I may yet find a way to reset my internal alarm clock.

Onwards to the fiction.

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Challenge #04983-M234: Humble Little Sanctuary

She is only able to bear Hellkin despite being human. She doesn't care. She loves all of her children deeply and makes sure they know that, despite the prejudice far too many have toward them, they are innocent souls. And she, in turn, is very much loved by her children, both born and adopted. -- BKF

The nursery rhyme starts, There was an old woman who lived in a shoe... and it's nearly accurate. The 'shoe' was allegedly an ossified footbag that

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Saturday, Stream Stuff and Idle Days

Going to make sure I have money for next week, check how capable I am at having money the week after that... and tune in to the Promptcast's interview thing today.

One flash fiction and maybe some game time. It depends on how quickly I get the work done. I'm hoping to have some hours to make progress on BG3.

Hope is a wonderful gift, sometimes.

Time, as always, will tell.

I can do this. I used to be able to do

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Challenge #04982-M233: Redemption From Horror

Despite what the legends say, the boogeyman is very real. And instead of living underneath your bed or inside of your closet, this creature rests comfortably within your very own home. -- Luna

Superstition is very easily held in a world filled with magic. Especially when your species' default state is having none. Cross your fingers. Cross your heart. Hold your breath when passing the estates of the dead. Never step on cracks if you can help it. Be very careful with

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Friday, Angry at Corporate

There's a new 'feature' on Patreon, allegedly for safety. They need my legal name. They need it:

a) to avoid payout delays
b) to keep the community safe
c) to earn on the platform

They give all three of these as an excuse in the popup on Patreon. Fortunately, their security is pretty up there. I am still less than inclined to immediately trust the corporations.

They all piss me off.

I'm still keeping my government name as much out of the

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Challenge #04981-M232: Trade With Strangers

Odd comics with no words circulate on this polluted world. It shows people giving ones wearing colorful clothes of red, yellow, and black a wide birth, and yet give them aid when asked. The other images were of the ones with those colors, and people wearing more soothing tones, opening cage doors where people can run free. -- BKF

It had rained paper again. It had also rained rain, staining everything a muddy yellow. Muddier than the yellow of the clouds or

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Thursday, No PLNs

I might actually have nothing planned for today. Which means that I shall take what means I need to remedy my ailments [soup for the pre-lurgi scratch, rice for the intestinal issues] as well as taking my time with my daily tale.

But if I try to hurry it along, I have more time for de-stressing activities.

I'm up to coffee and pills, and it's half-past nine.

I think I might need some luck.

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Challenge #04980-M231: Something Snapped

they say you give away what was denied to you. It’s all in the name, really- Mercy, at your service. -- Weirdlet

[AN: In relation to Two Things Most Needed ]

Two hours had passed, and two Hellkin were into their cups. Of course, it was illegal for Hellkin to drink alcohol in Kahamkross. Thanks to some folks' interesting reactions to bread and pastry, it was not illegal for anyone to be drunk.

Both of them could honestly say that they'd only

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Wednesday, Shopping Again

I have fed the cats, my starter, and myself. Yay. Currently filling in the time until ten by going through my nonsense in order.

My lovelies are offski getting laundry sorted for the meanwhile. At some point in the future, there will be Wardrobe Filtering.

I have NO idea what we're doing for the looming Crimbus season. Hell, I've barely done anything for the short story cover.

Disorganised today, datorganised tomorrow.

The PLN, such as it is:

  • Attempt to write the daily
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Challenge #04979-M230: Unfamiliar Carer

Calm down, I won't hurt you. Yes I have horns, but I promise, I will help you get well, but you need to calm yourself with no stress. -- BKF

Tamasin didn't know if the battle was won or lost. They barely remembered the hit that took them down. One moment, they were fighting for the righteous cause, dimly aware that the line had broken. The next, they were staring at a roof made out of whatever happened to be closest to

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Challenge #04978-M229: Just Like Kids in a -- Oh Dear

A ship of pirates who think that human kids are easy to manage, figured just give them snacks, and they'd be calm. Except... they gave the kids lots of sugary snacks and learned a new word. Hyperactivity. -- BKF

It was a very simple plan with one minor flaw. See if you can spot it. First, conquer a scholastic transit vessel and send the adults off to their origin point with the ransom demand. Second, abscond to a secure location whilst keeping

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Monday, Last Moving Day

Beloved is shuttling things up in the TARDIS car while Adorable packs, shifts, and chucks relevant objects. So I am pretty much stuck where I am for the day.

On the plus side, I did finally get to make an attempt at Centaur Porridge. Without cloves, because my cloves got chucked.

When I go shopping (likely tomorrow) I shall pick up some cloves, as well as apples, to try perfecting the recipe. Maybe. I made way too much this time and I

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Challenge #04977-M228: New Dawn's Day

To celebrate the holy day of the Goddess of birth and renewal, people everywhere are called upon to show their children the way forward and share the day with them, teaching them, connecting with them.

The priests’ intention was a day of family bonding and learning for the next generation.

What they got was Bring-Your-Child-To-Work-Day for a fantasy setting. -- Tergon

[AN: Fun fact about Alfarell, the god of rebirth and sometimes fertility is Aurorus - the Dawn Lord...]

Some call the

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