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Challenge #04681-L297: Sage's Advice

They begged the old hellkin to teach them to fight. True the apprentices were no masters and could teach as well, but he had been the first to actually be KIND to them. He didn't exactly teach them to fight.. as much as he did teach them how to accept life. -- Anon Guest

Everyone knew the daft old cheesemonger with a goat he called a dog. To be fair, the Hellkin's miniature goat certainly believed she was a dog and nothing would convince her otherwise. Everyone also knew that violent crime dropped like a rock wherever he was wont to wander. Mostly on account of the violent criminals coming down with a rash of broken arms or legs.

Skat knew this, too, but he was that hungry. And taking his life into his own hands by lifting a cruller from the basket hanging from the old man's elbow.

The goat barked at him after the old Hellkin's tail wrapped around both his ankles and snagged them tight together. When the old man turned, he had no anger in his glowing amber eyes. "I'm guessing you have not eaten, today, Kleiner."

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Friday, Results of a Sort

Well I FA'd and FO'd, but the results I found out are not that great.

Other folks have had the problem with Kdenlive, but there's no fix for it yet. Boo and hiss. I might have to find the dev's Discord and ask there.

That's going to take more digging. [tikka tikka noises] Digging done, made a post. Not holding my breath. They did have a Discord, but it looks like it's defunct.

Sigh.

The struggle continueth.

I shall get on with

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Challenge #04680-L296: Objection Lessons

There's a reason I'm called Patience. When someone calls me a 'teuf', I don't, normally, hurt them. And I will NEVER hurt a kid. However, I will teach why it's NOT a good idea to call one of my kind such. Sadly, some lessons do hurt, but I've never, happy to say, killed anyone. Though some wished I had before they finally learn. -- Lessons

Sometimes, they asked. "Why is it such a bad word? It's just the short form of a

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Thursday, Unbuggering Kdenlive

The PLN as it was was:

  1. Update everything
  2. Reload the saved video
  3. Hope it works

That didn't do buggerall.

I'm going to try rebuilding the video from extant files and see if that works. Then I go searching for solutions if that fails to do the thing.

But first, I go make my offerings. Then I do all the FAFO to try and get my videos back into operation.

Crossing my fingers and hoping for the best.

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Challenge #04679-L295: Just So, No Snow

The war against the Northern Kingdom has not gone well. Now the remnants of the Southern army ready themselves behind the walls of their final castle, hoping for a miracle to break the siege. -- Deathshead419

They had fallen for one of the classic blunders - never get involved in a land war in the Northlands. Their worst and cruellest general was the very winter itself. Freezing boiling soup before it reached the bowl. Freezing men in their tents. Freezing breath so

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Wednesday, Rant Due and STUFF

I gotta think up something to say this week. I gotta hit Kdenlive with a hammer. I gotta write a story and I gotta stay aware enough to catch Mayhem's Get-Me-Home message because I am totally daft at paying attention to that flavour of thing.

I'm trying something, and I shall see if it works.

I need to get more supplies, but I also need to wait for payday because all kinds of expensive shit has happened. Not-yay.

BUT at least I

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Challenge #04678-L294: Strange Submarine Staccato

Things have not been going well for Ludwig and U-634. An English depth charge knocked out the water pumps, the radio is on the fritz, pumping out static in strange, rhythmic bursts, and there are strange scratches and taps on the sub the Skipper swears is the hull scraping against ice. Yet the bizarre patterns, almost like arcane writing he finds when they surface for air, hints at something deeper, and those noises only grow more insistent by the hour… -- Deathshead419

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Tuesday, Optometrist, Patreon, and So On

I'm getting my eyes checked today, and I've already packed an old set of frames in case my lenses need an upgrade. Huzzah.

I owe some stuff to Patreon, though I still don't have a terrible lot. I should throw myself at making Kdenlive work again.

The experiment with the videos should get back online. It's just a matter of having the emotional and intellectual wherewithall to hit that shit with a hammer.

The current chapter of ADT is fighting me a

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Challenge #04677-L293: Nein to Nine

Every night for nine weeks a queen dreams of herself being surrounded by nine hooded figures she almost recognizes in the deepest sanctum of an abandoned castle. Each stabs her once until the ninth drives his blade through her heart. Terrified, she begs Wraithvine, and anyone ze might need to help, to find the truth of these nightmares haunting her sleep. -- Deathshead419

It had to be a portent. Every night for nine weeks, the Queen Chrysanthemum had the same dream. A

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Monday, Leyland's Embuggerance

I have Extra Shenanigans today. (sparkles manifest with the announcement)

Because just as I was settling to bed, there's an urgent phone call from MeMum. Her power's out and she's hyper-panicking about it. She needs the number for a specific electrical mob. Which I find and give to her.

Then she says, "If I don't call back, come get me."

That... is a very strange instruction. Normal people would say something like, "I'll call if I need you to come get me.

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Challenge #04676-L292: Deepest, Darkest Secret

An airplane vanished over the Amazon rainforest, never to be seen again. The authorities did a perfunctory search, but came up empty, declaring everyone dead. But one child of a businessman lost on the flight isn’t so sure. And so the child sets out alone to find the truth of the disappearance and, perhaps, a parent alive… -- Deathshead419

[AN: I misread this and instantly thought of this thing {Offensensitivity warning for flashing imagery} and now I have to divorce myself

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Sunday, Archive Reads and Alternate PLNs

As I type, I am listening to Antihero go through the chosen ones on stream. Soon enough, I shall have a story for y'all and I shall have the spare time to engage in chosen nonsense.

In between baking the second batch of bread. And icing my ankle.

I made it all the way through yesterday without needing a break. Today, I only made it a couple of hours.

Roses are red
Extinct is Opabinia
I must remind myself
Progress is not

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Challenge #04675-L291: Minding a Larger Flock

What a coincidence! Prince Philip has found a young shepherd boy who looks exactly like him living in the countryside. Even better, the young man is willing to trade places for a lark. With the talk of the cafes turning increasingly murderous with regards to Philip’s family, it would certainly be a good time to be a Shepherd Boy rather than a prince, though, the boy doesn’t need to know that… -- Deathshead419

Once upon a time, there was a

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Saturday, Some Improvement

I made it half the day without needing a bracer on my left ankle. My right ankle has decided to spit the dummy and demand a little coddling. So I put it in the lace-up brace and I'm hoping a day of babying makes it calm the fuck down.

Meanwhile, I have bread going on. Which involves a lot of walking back and forth. Not great for the rebellious legs.

Story very soon, followed by my freedom to slack off. Yay.

Well.

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Challenge #04674-L290: There Are Rules

A painter has been gifted with a wondrous, dangerous power: Everything this artist draws upon changes to match the image at dusk. Paintings come to life, stones become gold, hills cleanly vanish into valleys, even bodies shift shape.

The usual suspects are trying to steal this painter away to make weapons, fortunes, give assassins impossible disguises, ect. Perhaps Wraithvine can help hide this artist before those unscrupulous schemers use this human as a tool. -- Deathshead419

Whatever the gifted magic, it has

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