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Challenge #04503-L119: So Long, and Thanks...

"If you're listening to this, I told the Last Lie. Please don't cry. You are all my family and you rescued me from a fate worse than whatever it is I faced before the end. Instead, remember me with joy, and tell people about me. So that, through you, I can keep living." -- Anon Guest

The eyescreen portion of his livesuit helmet told him his survival chances had dropped to a fraction of a percent. It also told him that the rest had got away safely. The black box would be telling any ship in the area where he was. Or rather, by the time they came looking, where his body was.

Breathable air estimate at twenty minutes, according to the specs.

"I lived way longer than I would have before you found me. For that, I'm grateful. You gave me days better than my entire life before. Thank you. This is fair payment. Live good. Tell stories about me. Keep my name alive."

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Tuesday, Patreon and Supply Run

I just finished the run-around for stuff and things. Overspent a little, but I won't need that much next week. I hope.

Or it could be the cost of living creeping slowly upwards. I hope not.

I have Patreon stuff to post, offerings to create, perhaps some time devoted to either (a) synopses or (b) Picking out flash fictions to read for the TubeTube shorts.

Best to get on with getting on with that.

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Challenge #04502-L118: Just a Passing Miracle

"Wraithvine? Yes I knew hir. Met 'em when I was a little. My favorite memory? Fixed my eyes so I got to see a rainbow." -- Anon Guest

Red-rash had taken my sight, but I had learned from the bats. I couldn't squeak as high as they could, but I could click. It took me a while, but I became used to a world of echoes. On noisy market days, I used the stick. People either tried to rob me or tried

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Monday, Backup Reads and Nefarious PLNs

The backup reads are going on, and I need to figure out various B-roll capture methods. Then figuring out what shorts I'm going to be reading for my PLN'd TubeTube shorts.

I can do this. I am going to do this.

The audio recording might have to be set aside for a time in which I can exile Chaos. Her zoomies and audio don't mix well for production values.

I will be using some time to figure out what I'm reading. I

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Challenge #04501-L117: Reward Greater Than Gold

An enchanted set of letters all put together to be shaped as a dove finds Wraithvine and Bribrid, batted into the elf's lap by the fluffy Lilbit. It was set of letters written by children. All thanking them. Some with drawings, some with words, some with little flowers. Their teachers helped send the gift. -- Anon Guest

It had been an exhausting slog of a rescue. Wraithvine used all hir spells and most of hir energy saving as many lives as possible.

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Sunday, Unfucked A Thing(tm)

So here's my day:

  1. Wait for Beloved to be awake
  2. Commence personal prep
  3. Get invited to morning markets for brekky
  4. Cart them all there for that thing and also get some noms
  5. Beloved drives here
  6. Adorable photographs the local mob [of kangaroos]
  7. The bad patch of the catio roof is removed as Adorable and I drag out the metal spandek
  8. Find out I got the wrong fucking size of spandek. I needed to get 2.4 meters, but I got 1.8
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Challenge #04500-L116: One Favour

(I wish to add to this lovely tale, if I may)

When asked what she would like in return for saving Wraithvine, and Bibrid she said she needed nothing. She was just glad she saved them, that was good enough. They, at least partially, refuse that idea. For her kindness, they help her find a good job where she can do what she loves best. Helping others.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04482-l098-one-good-turn -- Anon Guest

It was like a dream, some

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Saturday, Parkrun and PLNs For Later

Beloved and Adorable are unfucking servers, today. In order to get the Catio similarly unfucked, my mission tomorrow is to go forth, abduct Beloved, and haul her back to do the thing.

Tomorrow... all being well and sincerely unfucked... I also get material things unfucked over here. Yay.

Finally, the kitties can wander to the catio and enjoy the fresher air and the glimpses of the birds. And use the litter tray in a less constrained atmosphere.

My offerings are due and

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Challenge #04499-L115: Application For Adviser

They are poor, they are ragged, they are tired. They manage to sneak into the kitchens of whitekeep castle, steal some leftover soup and bread, and are found curled up on the floor by the fireplace fast asleep. -- Anon Guest

[AN: Whitekeep has laws to protect its citizens from that level of poverty. It's in the starting tenets of the realm. So... to make this work, it's A Whitekeep castle. Not THE Whitekeep castle. In this case, one of the freshly-conquered

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Friday, ANZAC Day and Commenced PLNs

Today's the day Australia and New Zealand remembers the fallen in war. Age shall not weary them and so forth.

This morning, after cats, self-maintenance, and foot stretchies, I started braiding jute twine for my new cane cord. I have figured out that I can leave it off my cane until it's nearly done.

I'm also reasonably sure I can braid the entire thing instead of braiding it partway and then making a thicker cord out of the extant cord. I know

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Challenge #04498-L114: Harder Heartstrings

They were young, but their heart was failing. One last adventure found a magic artifact that buried itself into their chest replacing the heart that had been damaged by long bouts of illness. However, unlike other artifacts similar to it, it did not try to change their usually kind, and gentle, nature. It simply acted as a replacement heart. -- Anon Guest

"One adventure," said Fennel. "All I need is to find a Hartsoke seed before it's too late." She was a

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Thursday, Bread and Physio

Here is my cunning PLN:

  1. Start one loaf off [X]
  2. Make offerings whilst loaf continues process
  3. Bake loaf
  4. Go to physio
  5. Go process the second loaf and do things for creativity purposes, huzzah

I can make a start on the new cord for my cane, but I can't get to the tricky part until I have the entire week to do it.

We'll see how I go.

Starting with today's offerings. Huzzah.

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Challenge #04497-L113: Tiny Teaching Moment

A small child once again tried to swipe Wraithvine's hat. A common enough occurrence. What was uncommon was how protective the tiny dragon that lived on hir hat with it's tiny 'hoard' of a single gold coin, got of the child. -- Anon Guest

[AN: Corrected Wraithvine's gender in this prompt]

Walking sticks and wizards' hats are irresistably attractive to small children. Many is the king or other holder of a crown who has had to shoo a tiny toddler off the

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Patreon Overdue

I got a notification this morning that a parcel had arrived at my AusPost locker. It was the cable I ordered sometime last week.

It's unriddled and plugged in before I turned my compy on and the tablet looks like it works. Huzzah! I shall be trying that out in the fullness of time.

Which will be much much much much much much later on today.

I have things to do first.

The daily offerings, the patreon stuff, and the rant that's

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Challenge #04496-L112: Little Friends

The large galactic laughed when the human told them about an eagle that was their best friend. A bird? A fluffy thing with no brains?

Then the person opened the carrier of the napping bird. It was a Harpy Eagle.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uK2eh7GOXz4 -- The New Guy

[AN: I am doing zero research into whether Harpy Eagles can be trained like falcons]

Horg was always amused by Humans and their pets. The dinky little Deathworlders had a knack for

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