InterNutter

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Thursday, Freedom?

Well, kind'a sorta. The blockage is clear enough for the sinks to drain, though there's still bubbling coming up. I'm running sinks full of hot water down that thing on the daily in an effort to sluice any remaining blockage away.

Next sinkload is going to have some dish soap added just before I pull the plugs. Perhaps it can loosen a little more blockage.

Tried to get hold of the sleep study people. I even waited until the text said the place was open. I called outside of office hours. Tried to arrange an appointment. They advised I used their website. Their website said I need to call them.

So now I'm waiting for the sleep study people to call back and waiting to call my hormone medicos at their new digs.

...all while wrangling some fiction to fill in the time. And fill your desires for like five minutes' of escapism from the bullshit going on out in Arelle. Yeah I'm spelling RL like that now because I need whimsy.

Onwards to fiction.

Challenge #04868-M119: Tested Not in Vein

Legend holds of a harsh God, who’s marked have the blood drained from their bodies until expiring, this life force fueling the God’s power. The God has no use for the souls of those who are not devotees. So what happens when Elizabeth is dragged into the body of a ghoulish divine and accidentally invokes the right rite to bind her soul to her blood and become a simple blood cell inside the sepulcher halls of Godly flesh? -- Deathshead419

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Wednesday, Mor Shenanigans

Well, we managed to fix the toilet for slightly less than forty dollarydoos. Meanwhile, the hose, connectors, and bits to fix the kitchen sink are up to roughly two hundred dollarydoos even though we have to go back for a couple more parts.

It shouldn't cost more than twenty extra bucks and my own brief humilliation.

Note for future beans: Measure always. Don't assume that everything's standard and will automagically fit.

I have already mocked myself to the Promptcast crew, so take

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Challenge #04867-M118: The Seeds of Ghosts

Deep in the boggy fen country, a village where cremation is customary is haunted by specters of the burned dead. These ghosts encroach closer and closer to the realm of the living with each passing night. The Elders send a letter, pleading with Wraithvine for aid against their supernatural tormentors.

Wraithvine sets out sure that this is caused by some readily explainable phenomenon, either by man-made hoax or mundane magic or perhaps a scorned local God. The Truth is far stranger than

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Challenge #04866-M117: Dredging Up Blessings

Eons ago, a temple with ten divine statues sank into the sea and then were pulled into the mantle of the planet itself. Now they have come to life, trapped below the crust of the world. Only Nalani and Vykoria can plunge down a lava plume and guide these divines into the light, though a path no human has ever walked will be treacherous and full of dangers unknown to mankind.

Sequel to: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04849-m100-stolen-mercy -- Deathshead419

Vykoria

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Monday, Quack Visit and Public Holiday

It's a public holiday, so most of my PLNs are up in the air. Gotta see the quack about getting a sleep study done so that promises to be fun. Of a sort.

All to find out if I'm getting enough oxygen while I sleep.

I'm pretty sure I am getting enough oxygen, but eliminating the causes for the issue is what we're trying to do here.

In an hour and change, I shall be taking off to the doctor to deliver

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Challenge #04865-M116: End an Angry God

An ancient inscription upon a Stele has brought Wraithvine to another monument upon the shores of a primordial lake. Here ze finds an aged icon of a long forgotten god and the pronouncement upon his pedestal which has waited all this time… -- Deathshead419

Wraithvine should have become used to finding quests in museums. People left messages for hir to unriddle long-term problems, or seers put things in hir way. Ze could never tell. Either way, they were very good at leading

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Sunday, Stream Shenanigans

The Promptcast will be on air shortly, I'm baking the last of my bread in the midst.

The story shall happen sometime after that, but I have written a farewell to the Archive that I'll air in the next backup read.

I fully expect to get kicked off the server.

It'll hurt, but that's what clean breaks do.

And that's only slightly better than watching the Archive die of self-made starvation in the middle of a metaphorical food warehouse.

Or a slow

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Challenge #04864-M115: Always Welcome

Dex was taking a vacation from the palace with his family. Unfortunately, it becomes quite stormy. But, fortunately, his parents' place wasn't far, and it'd been quite a while since they'd visited the farm. -- Anon Guest

They had been on their way to Waelrin's capital and castle when the threatening storm started to beat their carriage around. The good news, for King Kormwind Arachis Felbourne Whitekeep, tenth of his name (Dex to his friends), was that they were close to Dromlynne.

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Saturday, I Need Stuff

Good news: I can potentially fix my plumbing issues myself.
Bad news: I need to get more shit from Bunnings.

With "on top of the groceries" added, I'm looking at a tight week.

Draft2Digital, in their infinite wisdom, have chosen to add fees and charges to their services. So I shall be migrating all my nonsense to Barnes and Noble self-publishing services. As soon as I figure out how to do that.

It's looking like that's my only option to sell my

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Challenge #04863 -M114: Love of Perfection

A skilled Sculptor has created a beauteous statue of a woman. It is so beauteous that the sculptor has fallen in love with her. And so the Sculptor implores the Gods to bring her to life so that she might become the Sculptor’s wife. Boons from the Gods always come with a price, especially ones reflecting love. And it may be that the Beauteous woman will wish to sculpt the Sculptor into her vision of an ideally aesthetic form… -- Deathshead419

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Friday, Messy Unfucking PLNs

I have bread on. I have A means to unfuck the kitchen drainage on my only. Well. On my only plus Mayhem plus an online Redneck.

There's also a telehealth shrink appointment at a later hour.

...and B'Nar got rejected within 24 hours of pitching.

...yay...

I get to pitch it again tomorrow.

And I have to announce here, and later Patreon, that I am no longer participating in the Archive.

Long story short, the group has had negative growth since its

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Challenge #04862-M113: Fearsome Hero Hunvug

In a Tavern on the outskirts of Pildile, four men gather around a table for drinking, dicing, and a night away from the troubles of the world. Only, all four saw a hero’s exploits first hand, yet, none of them have the same story of what really unfolded… -- Deathshead419

Three beers in, Vaelin muttered, "Bloody heroes..." He took another swig before taking his turn at the dice.

"Aye," rumbled Goran. "Breaking in where they don't barge in, sticking their noses

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Thursday, Last Prep

I have a submission ready to go to the Promptcast, it just needs a last pass to identify all the vocabulary words that need pronunciation guides. Then I go colour-code the singing and send that noise offski.

I have a character who singsongs to avoid stuttering, so giving a cue to the cold reader is helpful.

Good news: I am in the lead for the Promptcast wordcount tally.
Bad news: For all of the five minutes it takes for my "rival" to

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