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Challenge #05062-M313: Dread Prophecy

The darkest demons of the world have tried time and again to stop THIS demon from awakening from their enchanted slumber. A King, a loving kiss, a shadow that brings light. Another demon defeated in its attempt to claim the head of a demon who made a pact with the gods, the sleeping one waits for a pure soul to enhance and awaken more light.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04951-m202-the-only-end -- BKF

[AN: You can't know that the demon under the mountain(referenced in the linked tale) is covered in the entirety of A Devil's Tale, a (currently) six-book epic of adventure, prophecy, romance, and one cynical asshole who changes the world by living in it. No worries. I can make it work]

Demons crave power. Be it by souls dragged down to the Plane of Torment, favours owed to them, or power stolen from other Demons. Some of them have very, very long-term plans. Disrupting those is the jewel in the crown of the hells.

Thus, every supernatural power worth its metaphorical salt[1] was aiming for any corpus of Censurot.

Censurot, father of misery, had lured many Warlocks into a deal. He bet that one of them would swear an oath thrice and have reason to rampage across the world. Under each of their realms, he grew a body. Fueled by hate and misery. Feeding on spite, yet tied to the bloodline of the ruler above.

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Challenge #05061-M312: Take it and Leave!

The Archduke visits the elves. When the plants begin to go mad with growth, they are more than happy to send the person away with TWO seedlings, with the promise the person never, ever, visits again with a lot of warning so they can prepare in advance before giving permission for the visit.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04971-m222-an-ash-for-ashes -- BKF

Some Nobles were heralded by trumpets. Some by their entourage forming a parade. Many are announced by a person with the

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Challenge #05058-M309: Reasons Upon Reasons

"I was cold, the first snow was falling. Yet instead of hating me, you welcomed me by your fire. Thank you kind one. I wish more humans were like you." -- BKF

The household was already crowded with people. Most of them under the age of fifteen. Their mother had no true reason to call Plenty inside as they made their way along the otherwise lonely road. it may have been spare maternal instinct. It may have been pity.

Either way, Plenty

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Challenge #05057-M308: Gentle Reform

"I own no one, I don't need inherited slaves. But none of you know how to live free. So from this day forward, I'm going to live my life helping undo what my family did to you. You are hellkin, harukh'ai, and kobolds, true, but you're also people, not animals." -- BKF

It was not magic that ran my Unty's factory. It was Unwelcome People. Tethered with chains and contained by warding runes that would harm -even kill- if they set a

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Challenge #05054-M305: Please Take One

When I passed, I did so helping others, and begged the gods to let me continue. I am now an eternal, living, fireproof, self-repairing, house that can teleport to where I'm most needed. I can care for those within me, and expel those with cruelty and violence in their hearts. So, I'm content. -- BKF

Some Devilborn live with the names they're given. It's rare, but it happens. The rest of us choose names that match our demonic nature or fit an

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Challenge #05053-M304: Up to the Challenge

National delicacy. That includes Local favorites. -- Knitnan

Newcomers to the Everdark are always surprised to learn how easily beasts can become Dire down there. Most commonly, the slugs often become Dire in the deeper caves and caverns. There's bats, too. Amongst many other creatures not also common on the surface.

There's just something about the fungi the grows down there. It does things to animals. And bugs. And other invertebrates. Oddly, though, the intelligent creatures are immune.

It might be luck.

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Challenge #05052-M303: Underground Business

Being a human that moved into an underground city of teufellen and other races that other humans treat as unwanted, I thought I was going to be mistreated as they are above ground. But they have treated me more kindly, more humanely, than any of my own race ever have my entire life. -- BKF

[AN: Spelling corrected for one species]

Here, away from the sun, I am just a skilled crafter of fine objects. Silver, gold, copper... I will make things

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Challenge #05051-M302: From Rags...

No noble blood have I- no kin to the blue devils of Whitekeep. But still, I will be a knight, and act as one as nobly as I can. -- Weirdlet

Chivalry's earliest memory was watching the knights training. If ze was lucky, there'd be food ze could filch without coming to harm. They were magnificent. They were amazing. They were wealthy beyond young Chivalry's dreams... and ze was an orphan tolerated by the local roadhaus because ze cleaned up all the

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Challenge #05049-M300: Must Love Cats

The helpful fae of the house mourned when the elderly resident passed. They, however, had the three young cats that the person had deeply loved to take care of. And a house to tend. -- BKF

The house was as still and quiet as the dead. Which made sense, since the person who owned it had died, leaving it vacant. Well. Vacant if you didn't count her beloved cats. They slept on her bed, hunted the mice and pests, and were very

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Challenge #05048-M299: Following Misunderstanding

"Why didn't you kill me, I attacked you." You were under the influence of drink and whatever it was you were taking. You were not in your right mind, but now it's time you got cleaned up. -- BKF

It's nigh universally agreed that there are good and bad ways to return to consciousness. For example - it is very good to awaken in a comfortable bed with the company of one's choice and pleasant smells on the gentle breeze. On the

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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.

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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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Challenge #05034-M285: A Good Turn

They saved a young hellkin who had fallen into a pit-trap years ago. Now, they were sick and their farm was struggling, and a party of hellkin and halfbreds came and helped them. -- BKF

Fifteen years ago...

"Hey! Hey out there! Help! Please?" The voice was young, tearful, and on the very edge of utter despair. It was coming from a patch of weeds beyond the verge of the road.

It was because Naesel Dirgeye had been having a good day

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Challenge #05033-M284: Guidance of the Gods

Ereshkygal herself talked a young teen out of self-harm. -- BKF

It was a long way down. They said a lot of things about the heights of Pinnacle Peak's tallest towers. Some said that a copper coin tossed from the top could kill an innocent civilian below if it hit. Some said that if you jumped from the topmost parapet, you would be dead before you finished falling.

Tevan leaned on that parapet and stared down at the streets below. Further below

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Challenge #05032-M283: Small Moments

Small joys, the little things that lift your heart when all the world seems grey. -- Knitnan

Some people have all the luck. This is just as true as when that luck is only bad. A very unfortunate few get the kind of luck that is never enough. Enough bad luck would allow Hope to gain help. Enough good luck would mean that she would be managing well enough to not have a need.

Well, not many needs that could easily be

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