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Challenge #04904-M155: Drastic Change Consultancy

A group go to the B'Nari to get new bodies. They wish to develop underwater cities, without needing domes for air, so they, and their friends, can finally live peacefully together. -- Anon Guest

[AN: The Alliance has LOADS of planets where people can live according to their personal moral alignment. Also I have a planet called Beach where Humans and Cetaceans have built a society together]

They were looking at a water planet with relatively shallow oceans. Kelp farming and fish husbandry were their main goals. But they also wished to live as merfolk. Anything spaceport related would be happening on the one island large enough for such a thing, and mostly run by the people with thalassophobia.

The rest of the islands were too tiny for dense habitation.

Though technology existed for the Humans settling there, they wanted something different. Really, disturbingly different. They wanted to become fully aquatic merfolk.

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Thursday, Progress PLNs

I have my iPad by my compy in case the urge to doodle overtakes me. I have bread dough in progress so that the trickiest day does not fall on Interview Day.

I have an online Interview with the Promptcast people in TWO DAYS and I have no idea how to sell tf out of that.

I am planning to post something today, tomorrow, and the day of. I don't know what the fuck it is, yet, but I will post something.

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Challenge #04903-M154: Scars on the Inside

A troop of marines had finally rotated home after a lot of... unpleasant experiences. Now, they planned to sit back, relax, enjoy their hard-earned retirements, and definitely enjoy the summer and all the fun that came with it. -- Anon Guest

After six months of trudging around in battle-ready armour, it was damned good to feel the air on hir skin. It felt even better to plunge into the open ocean and take the weight off hir feet and spine. Trooper Glyn

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Wednesday, Rant and Other Shenanigans

Which also include the Archive write-ins. I can at least help edit things there. I have been procrastinating too long on the photobashing. So I'm going to make my friends force me to do the thing.

Step One: Unearth assets
Step Two: Launch Krita
Step Three: Insert assets

I can do that much, I'm sure. It won't take that long. It's getting started that's the bugger.

Same issue with getting started on today's offerings. Helping people in the write-in is way more

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Challenge #04902-M153: Strictly By Chance

Wraithvine had two new adventurers to train. One, a person who is able, in small bursts, to stop time, one who was willing to risk their life to save hirs, and another, a terrified child who was alone in the forests and almost entirely feral. The immortals, Wraithvine and Birbid, and that fully immortal cat, Lilbit, were now a new adventuring party with these two young wonders. No prophecy, no destiny, just family. Which is nice for a change.

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Tuesday, Patreon, Promptcast, and Punchdrunk

What has two thumbs and got another rejection? This nerd. I might finish up the major edits for Destined Darkness before I throw it at anyone again. It needs a little buffing.

Today's focus, after I post on Patreon, is getting a majority of the story for the Promptcast done and dusted.

Following that, the day's tale.

THEN I do some jiggery-pokery on the next stage of the Ingram move. I can get one short done and then commence the rollout procedure

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Challenge #04901-M152: Pest Control

A ghoulish adventure unfolds, as Wraithvine discovers a message carved in runes upon a hanged man’s flesh which leads hir to a dread idol, a seer frightened to near madness from her own visions, and a lake which often turns red like blood… -- Deathshead419

It was shit like this that set Wraithvine on hir path. It was stuff like this that made hir take hir oath in the first place. The criminal in the gibbet had infernal runes appearing on

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Monday, Group Activity, Shopping, and Preparations

The Archive didn't have a lot of leftover stories this week. Apparently nine got read on stream. So that makes a total of twelve people writing for the Archive prompts. Kind of ominous for the Archive's future IMHO.

I'm trying not to let that get under my skin. I dunno how well that's working.

On my agenda:

  • Shopping
  • Cheap undercut trim
  • 10 more chapters transferred from ePub to newer version of First Anthology [It's how I stay sane doing this
  • One more
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Challenge #04900-M151: Big Truffle in Little River

Two villages, once best friends, were viciously warring. A seer came to town prophesizing doom as both villages were to "lose their names". The battles stopped. They lived in peace to fortify against the doom. The seer lied, and did not lie, the war stopped, they didn't die. -- Anon Guest

Swindon and Wallowdale had been battling over a pig. The exact circumstances differed depending on who you asked, but the broad strokes were thus: It was the other side who stole

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Sunday, Stream, Headache, and PLNs

So here's the dealio...

  • The ISBN's are bought and paid for
  • I am still using RTFM as a test case
  • I have a LOT of ePubs downloaded to extract, fix, and rejigger into the format that Ingram prefers
  • I am still waiting for RTFM to go through so I know all this horseshit works

Meanwhile, I'm going to try the ePub-to-ZIP trick and see if that streamlines what I am calling The Process. Because somewhere between Smashwords and Draft2Digital, the formatting of

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Challenge #04899-M150: Illusory Brilliance

There is a time of apogee, when things work and fame and fortune is yours. But it doesn't last, your body can't maintain the strain of peak performance. it comes sooner for some than others. Some teach, train or coach, keeping their love of their passion. Some trade on their fame, for good or ill. And some find another life no longer connected to that which drove them. -- Prompey

Nothing is permanent. Flowers wilt. Mountains erode. Oceans rise, as the wise

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Saturday, I Can't Catch a Break

SO. For those of you who missed my Tumblr meltdown about it, here's what's happening:

  • Beloved has purchased an account for me at Thorpe-Bowker. The ONLY place that actually sells legal ISBN's to anyone who needs them
  • She also purchased one hundred ISBN's for me
  • I freaked out about this
  • BUT I also tentatively tried one
  • A brownout caused my compy to shut down so I took my meltdown to bed
  • Shocking nobody, I woke up at fuckoff in the morning
  • Finished
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Challenge #04898-M149: What Rude Beast

It has been six summers since Prince Crevith fell into a stream. Though he lived, the prince could not be awakened no matter the medicine or magic tried. Until one storm-wracked night he awakens. His family is jubilant, until he acts belligerent in ways the prince never was, desperate to go east. -- Deathshead419

The Prince had been twelve when a terrible accident resulted in his almost being lost to the frigid, rushing waters. He was lucky to be pulled out alive.

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Friday, Wonderful Day For the Creative Spirit

I have commenced a process for moving my shit off of Draft2Digital and onto Ingram Spark. The caveat to this is that I need to buy "real" ISBNs for each book.

Given that I have 31 books out already, and I likely have more in me, that's going to cost a bit. Close to $600 dollarydoos. Ouch.

I have three bucks in the bank and a fraction of that in my Paypal. So I'm doing what I can. Shifting files off of

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Challenge #04897-M148: Epic Rap Battle For History

A trio of warrior lords quibble over who is to inherit a large swath of land, for the will was lost in the fire which killed the former ruler. To avoid a war, the three visit seeress, who leads them to a shine of Wothynn, with the foretelling that the one who is the best Poet shall be judged the rightful heir to the land -- Deathshead419

Things were done differently in the Northlands. Politics was often settled with the sword, when

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