Alfarell

Challenge #04804-M055: Seeds of Hope

They were wandering adventurers, lost, hungry, most of their equipment wrecked. A poor family that had little took them in and shared what meager rations they had. None got 'quite enough', but no one went to bed completely hungry. The adventurers arrived as an escort to their leader, a king. He helped the poor family get back on their feet again, not through lavish wealth, but humbler gifts of food, aid to fix their home, and seed that would actually grow in the poor soil. -- Anon Guest

A band of Adventurers can count as a natural disaster. As in, it's only natural that some Adventurers leave disaster in their wake. They have a habit of stealing anything that isn't nailed down, adopting creatures they shouldn't, and gathering unto themselves frightening amounts of power.

So it was quite a shock to the family of Ruffield Farm to meet a band of Adventurers who were mindful of their effect on the world.

It was a poor farm, and barely made enough to keep the family alive and the farm solvent. It did not need a pack of bedraggled Adventurers dragging themselves in from wherever they'd got roughed up. Nevertheless, they gave the crew shelter, and thinned down their stew for them. They shared their thin blankets and did what they could for the Adventurer's injuries.

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Challenge #04800-M051: Paradise is Imperfect

Dragons, Elves, Teufel, Halloblood, Humans, Kobolds, etc, all were welcome at this beautiful spa. Massages, haircuts, scrubbings to help the scales, manicures pedicures, the works. A plaque by the door, both in images and multiple languages read "Long hair trimmings will be made into wigs for those in need, short hair to bundles for bird to make nests. Scales, claws, and nails shed or trimmed shall be ground into fine powder, and mixed into the soil helping the free garden to grow

Challenge #04799-M050: It's a Start

I've killed so many. Teufel, Kobolds, Vampires, ... so many. Even a dragon. Yet, you... you let me live. But more important, you saved my family. I was taught to hate you, fear you.... never even tried to understand. Ye gods... what have I done? Even if I lived a thousand years.... I don't think I could ever atone for it all. -- Anon Guest

There's only so many careers that are obviously predestined when given the name Guy Stronginthearm. One was becoming

Challenge #04794-M045: Old or Bold

"I'm mean and tired. I break vainglory seekers and make them spit out regrets. So don't try me. I'm trying to get some actual rest now that I'm retired." -- Anon Guest

The trouble with being the best is all the egotistical neophytes trying to boost their way to the top of the mountain by besting the best. Which is tremendously annoying when that best person in question is trying to enjoy their retirement.

Hasryk the Kingslayer had learned this after a

Challenge #04793-M044: Honourbound Duty

Fennel spent a few more months in the grove as her body adapted to its new heart and she recovered. The guardian taught her friends to be stronger, wiser, and more educated, and, when she was deemed strong enough, allowed to go with the guardian's blessing. To Bastion, they stated, "Remember, love is a rare flower, nurture it well." Then looked to Geesh. "Remember, not all treasures are the kind you can sell." To Halestaff, "Take care of this new little sapling,

Challenge #04787-M038: Escape From Injustice

When everything goes wrong for our protagonist, he takes to the seas, hoping to find a new life far from home. But no one can ever really flee from one’s past. -- Deathshead419

"Oh lack-a-day lilly, got bit by the filly! The whole world is hating on me. And so I'm running off to sea!" -- Alfarell children's song.

Fairweather knew she had a stowaway. It wasn't as if there were a lot of hiding places on her old tub. Kid

Challenge #04785-M036: The Price of Paradise

A village was once plagued by constant storms, swarms of locusts, and bandits harrying the fringes. Now an idol in the heart of town wards away the old travails, bringing good harvests and peace. All it asks for is the heart of a child once a year… -- Deathshead419

They had taken to sheltering in the caves when the worst of the weather hit. Huddled close to each other with any animals that had also done so. What crops had survived the

Challenge #04779-M030: Those Were the Days

King Nydon is gone, and the jubilation from his fall was real. Yet now years have come and gone, allowing memories of how bad things were to fade, had leaving King Reginald to deal with a burgeoning nostalgia for his father’s reign.

[Follow up to: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04632-l248-better-than-perfection ] -- Deathshead419

King Reginald of Bevuran and his Prince-consort Connow ruled wisely and well for decades. Raising a junior niece as the intended heir to the crown. Bevuran was no

Challenge #04777-M028: Safety Inspection

This mine has an over 90% safety margin!/ "How in all the Holies you manage that??"

Meet the supervisors. /"These are Kobolds!"

Yep, best damn safety inspectors and supervisors we've ever had! -- The New Guy

Everyone knows that the world of Alfarell was made for Dragons and Dragonkind. Fortunately, after centuries of irreconcilable differences, the Dragons have deigned to share their world with smaller intelligent creatures. Fortunately for Dragonkind, the other intelligent creatures were willing to talk.

Unfortunately for the Kobolds,

Challenge #04776-M027: Words of Peace

They were an ordinary human, and loved to learn languages. They even learned the elven tongues, some fae language, the native tongue of kobolds, even voulspeak. Which allowed them to make quite a few friends, and helped otherwise distrustful to accept their kindness. -- Lessons

They should have been a Bard, and everyone said so. They insisted that Peony should sing... until she did. Unfortunately for Peony Black, they had the singing and musical instrument talent of a duck.

Peony's talent was

Challenge #04772-M023: Read the Instructions

The sign is easy to read, with pictures. No fee via coin. Just leave a bit of honey, or some wool fluff, or split some wood, etc, and the place welcomed you.

Refuse even a small kindness for thanks? You will pay another way. And it's humiliation. You'll live, but the mortification is horrible. -- Anon Guest

It looked like any other roadhaus. Neat, clean, and orderly. The little farm attached to it was enough to support many visitors. The beds were

Challenge #04770-M021: You'd Better Watch Out

While one spirit god gives gifts to all human children and other "welcomed" children, this spirit ensues all "unwelcome" children around the world also get gifts no matter who they are, or where they are. -- Anon Guest

Charity sighed and scooped up her child as ze came home crying. On one hand, the formalised schooling system allowed for a decent education, and allowed children to socialise with their peers. It also, unfortunately, enforced socialisation with bullies.

She wrapped up Wit in

Challenge #04766-M017: Luck Makes Itself

Respectfully touch a teufel horn, with their permission, your wish may just come true. Touch a horn that from a head has been shorn, death shall soon befall you. -- Anon Guest

They say a lot of things about the devilborn. Some of them are even true.

Touch a Teufel by the horn/ Making sure the head's not shorn/ Surely you will become bless'd/ If they tell you "be my guest".

Nobody knows exactly where it came from. Some suppose that the

Challenge #04765-M016: Artisinal Assistance

They were an inventor and creator, but also worked with magic. They made special limbs for those missing limbs, braces for those with injured backs and other joints, chairs for those that could not walk, and medicines to ease pain. Best part? These items, no matter how people tried to destroy them, simply repaired themselves, and always returned, undamaged, to the owner. And if the owner was a child? These items grew with the child or changed with the owner's needs. --

Challenge #04762-M013: Faekindred Family

Barthus noticed little things around the shop. Damaged items repaired, clothes sewn, better clothes for Makana, etc

The faerie folk cared for those that took care of their new young ones. And made life hard for those that made life harder for the caretakers.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04719-l335-newfound-family -- Anon Guest

Explaining the whole world a bit at a time was eye-opening. Barthus had never thought to question the things his new prentice/child did, but now the questions were

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Challenge #04804-M055: Seeds of Hope

Challenge #04800-M051: Paradise is Imperfect

Challenge #04799-M050: It's a Start

Challenge #04794-M045: Old or Bold

Challenge #04793-M044: Honourbound Duty

Challenge #04787-M038: Escape From Injustice

Challenge #04785-M036: The Price of Paradise

Challenge #04779-M030: Those Were the Days

Challenge #04777-M028: Safety Inspection

Challenge #04776-M027: Words of Peace

Challenge #04772-M023: Read the Instructions

Challenge #04770-M021: You'd Better Watch Out

Challenge #04766-M017: Luck Makes Itself

Challenge #04765-M016: Artisinal Assistance

Challenge #04762-M013: Faekindred Family