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Challenge #05007-M258: Handle With Extreme Care

The local wizards’ college is doing well enough, but a formal complaint has been lodged against them by the caretaking staff about garbage collection.

The students need a crash course. If it glows, buzzes, or moves, tell the staff before they pick it up… -- Tergon

Properly trained and educated, a Wizard is no threat unless they want to become one. Trained Wizards know what they're doing. It's the ones still in training that you have to watch out for.

They're lazy, lackadaisical, and every single one of them thinks the "old fogeys" need to get a grip and relax about things. Like, come on. It can't be that dangerous.

If they're lucky, they will survive to know that, yes. It can indeed be that dangerous.

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Challenge #05006-M257: Little Tricks

"The Eater of Socks" Blamed by Sir Terry but who or what steals socks, pens, the thing you had in your hand 5 seconds ago. -- Knitnan

There had been six socks in the washtub when Ygrun started hir laundry. Five remained to hang on the line. The chalk was missing from hir reminder-list slate, and ze swore ze had put it on the shelf by the door. Hir knitting was left on one needle, and the other was gone without a

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Challenge #05004-M255: The Shape of Fear

Sometimes, to change a world and save lives, you only have to LOOK scary. The rest does everything else on its own. -- BKF

The Xenophobia Wars rarely raged. They ebbed and flowed like the tides, if tides could wash randomly through polities at their own whims. The Elves fought the Dragons, D'varuv, Harukh'ai, Drakkonbred, and Dragonkindred alike. They fought the Gobellin, Gnomes, and when there were Humans, they fought the Humans too.

And when the Elves weren't fighting them, they were

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Challenge #05003-M254: Worthy Becoming

Find out who you are, and then do it on purpose -- Weirdlet

[AN: Hats off and respect to Dolly Parton, who lived by those words and is an example to us all]

There's no record of the first Halfbred. None know who they were, what their ancestry was, or how well they may have lived. Common conjecture posits that it was how Drakkonbred became a species, but some people will theorise anything.

In certain centuries, Halfbred folk were rare. It was

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Challenge #05001-M252: Circle of Kindness

A part of the boogey's bitterness was the people before, the ones who were driven out and the house slowly fell to state it was in, was they put POISON in the milk. The child had heard that much, and one of the gifts, thanks to her family's help, were little pouches of antidotes and treatments for symptoms that can last ages from such poisonings.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04982-m233-redemption-from-horror -- BKF

The special powder came in a small, waxed paper

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Challenge #04998-M249: Heart of the Hearth

On a cold, rainy, night, it's very peaceful to sit by the fire listening to the rain drum the roof, while your cat purrs contentedly in your lap. -- BKF

The weather outside was truly frightful. Cold rain that was almost sleeting. Blustery winds that turned said rain in varying slants that would render umbrellas nigh to useless.

A perfect evening for relaxing indoors.

Arelgi had set up a nest of blankets and pillows near the fireplace and, with dinner in her

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Challenge #04993-M244: All a Part of...

"You are a Healer, a doctor"/ Yes I am.

"Yet you are a devout follower of Mistress Dark"/ Yes I am

"But you fight Her constantly."/ No I don't.

"I don't understand."/ I do what I can to save my patients, alleviate pain, treat illness and injury. But when She comes, and there is no way back, I can at least give them comfort in knowing they do not journey to the next world alone. -- BKF

Hospitals do double duty as

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Challenge #04987-M238: I Wanna Be Just Like You

"I want to be a Hellkin."

Why?

"Because they're the only ones who ever showed what real kindness is." -- BKF

Everyone thinks 'Hellkin' when they hear the phrase "Unwelcome People". The thing is, they're not the only Unwelcome People. It alters according to realm, politics, and local prejudice. But you can rely on Hellkin being among that number[1].

They accrete in ghettos or spend their years wandering from one locale to another. Trying for the most part to find somewhere

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Challenge #04985-M236: De-Escalation Tactics

people often yearn for what they loathe. It makes for good business opportunities for the beloathed, but you have to watch your back- or have other unwelcome watch it for you. -- Weirdlet

They called her Passion, though her name for herself was Reprieve. A statuesque beauty, even though she was a Hellkin. Poems had been written about her hair. Odes dedicated to her singing voice. People who would rebuke and revile Hellkin like her leaped to grovel in mud lest she

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Challenge #04983-M234: Humble Little Sanctuary

She is only able to bear Hellkin despite being human. She doesn't care. She loves all of her children deeply and makes sure they know that, despite the prejudice far too many have toward them, they are innocent souls. And she, in turn, is very much loved by her children, both born and adopted. -- BKF

The nursery rhyme starts, There was an old woman who lived in a shoe... and it's nearly accurate. The 'shoe' was allegedly an ossified footbag that

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Challenge #04982-M233: Redemption From Horror

Despite what the legends say, the boogeyman is very real. And instead of living underneath your bed or inside of your closet, this creature rests comfortably within your very own home. -- Luna

Superstition is very easily held in a world filled with magic. Especially when your species' default state is having none. Cross your fingers. Cross your heart. Hold your breath when passing the estates of the dead. Never step on cracks if you can help it. Be very careful with

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Challenge #04980-M231: Something Snapped

they say you give away what was denied to you. It’s all in the name, really- Mercy, at your service. -- Weirdlet

[AN: In relation to Two Things Most Needed ]

Two hours had passed, and two Hellkin were into their cups. Of course, it was illegal for Hellkin to drink alcohol in Kahamkross. Thanks to some folks' interesting reactions to bread and pastry, it was not illegal for anyone to be drunk.

Both of them could honestly say that they'd only

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Challenge #04979-M230: Unfamiliar Carer

Calm down, I won't hurt you. Yes I have horns, but I promise, I will help you get well, but you need to calm yourself with no stress. -- BKF

Tamasin didn't know if the battle was won or lost. They barely remembered the hit that took them down. One moment, they were fighting for the righteous cause, dimly aware that the line had broken. The next, they were staring at a roof made out of whatever happened to be closest to

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Challenge #04977-M228: New Dawn's Day

To celebrate the holy day of the Goddess of birth and renewal, people everywhere are called upon to show their children the way forward and share the day with them, teaching them, connecting with them.

The priests’ intention was a day of family bonding and learning for the next generation.

What they got was Bring-Your-Child-To-Work-Day for a fantasy setting. -- Tergon

[AN: Fun fact about Alfarell, the god of rebirth and sometimes fertility is Aurorus - the Dawn Lord...]

Some call the

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Challenge #04976-M227: Two Things Most Needed

Justice (the paladin) getting to know Mercy -- Weirdlet

[AN: Calls back to Made With Feeling ]

A wandering Paladin is not entirely commonplace, but they are a possibility. Usually before they adopt a pack of Adventurers for reasons that quickly become obvious, the more you know about Adventurers. The same holds true for a wandering Hellkin.

A wandering Hellkin Paladin asks and answers a lot of questions. One that remains unanswered to many is, Why would a god welcome a Hellkin as

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