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Challenge #05046-M297: Cursed Mistake

The elf was placed under two strong curses. They could not die no matter what, and any time they tried to meditate, they fell into a deep sleep, dreams and all. -- BKF

Immortality isn't always a blessing. It isn't an accident, either. On rare occasions, it is truly a curse.

Once upon a time, a mighty hero slayed a Dragon. This would normally be something welcomed as a legend in their own lifetime. Alas, this was the Dragon God of Equity. Thus, the very idea of it was lost for millennia.

There would not be a god for it for millennia more.

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Saturday: Clambering Back Up

I can still feel the morbs clinging to my back, but I'm getting back up there.

I brushed my hair for the first time in three days. I did some of my stretchies. I made breakfast. I'm about to take my meds, which I missed yesterday.

This is progress. It is slow and steady.

Progress is not linear but I am feeling better. Today.

I do know something that can help but it's terrible for my weight control - sugar.

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Challenge #05045-M296: Trade Secret

They were born a Hellkin. But they had unusual horns that grew in, in the fall as deer-like antlers that, when shed in the spring, turned to beautiful crystal. They turned these into wind chimes and sun-catchers, which sold well. -- BKF

There's a lot of mythos surrounding Hellkin. A huge volume of it is wrong. The one about vampires and witches breeding to make Hellkin is a complete canard. The one about their feet striking sparks and lighting fires on the

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Friday: Bad Brain Day

My alarm goes off at 4:30AM. When I should get up, see to my self-maintenance, do my exercises, then enter the proper world and begin my daily tasks.

No such luck.

I woke up weary. Exhausted and in pain when I should have been fresh and ready to go about my daily tasks. So I flopped back in bed and tried to catch some extra rest.

It felt like gravity was doing double duty. It took as much effort to roll

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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

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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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