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Challenge #04650-L266: Not Fighting Words

"Hey there, you damn teuf!"/ Hey yourself filthy ape!

The two eyed each other, tension thick as treacle. Then a sudden laugh, the two hugged each other, the human grabbing his brothers head and giving the hellkin a noogie! "Stop being gone for so long and WRITE once in a while, you ass, I was worried!"/ Sorry, we were helping rebuild two temples the rockslide wrecked.

"C'mon, let's get a drink bro!" -- Anon Guest

As far as Hellkin went, Phil was remarkably easy-going. With the usual exception. If anyone called him 'Teuf', they were going to die. His adventuring crew were well used to that, and sided with him.

And then, to their mutual shock, someone called, "Oi! Don't write or anything ya damned teuf!"

They expected knives and blood. What they saw was a Human and Hellkin grappling and laughing until the Human had the Hellkin in a headlock. Vigorously grinding his knuckles between Phil's horns. "Get your hands off me you damned dirty ape," said Phil, but he said so... jovially?

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Challenge #04643-L259: Found Family Free Fuddlement

They adopted young Oakroot out of compassion, grew to love hir as family, though teaching the little to not steal was harder than it looked. The aftermath of the fight was to sooth the child, and teach the little thief some restraint, and let them know that, no matter what, they'll never NOT be loved as family.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04609-l225-unattended-children-will-be-stolen-by-adventurers -- Anon Guest

They knew that Oakroot was from a bad place when they dug him out of his

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Challenge #04642-L258: Books, Brains, or Boots

"What a tangled web you weave when first you choose to deceive."

The problem is, they got caught in their own web, and now had to come clean.

Fortunately, people were merciful. No magic use except for healing spells for a month, and having to be on dishes-duty for a month. Could've been a lot worse. -- Anon Guest

[AN: Nerd moment - the actual quote is "What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." And yes I

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Challenge #04641-L257: Industry Cottage

They had just graduated school and badly wanted to be a merchant. Seeing a traveling elf with the gnome friend riding on the back of a fluffy, happy, cat, they asked the three adventurers "You've traveled far and wide, adventurers, haven't you? What kind of shops are popular?" -- Anon Guest

[AN: Gnomes are small, but not that small. Something about Mundane-born species having real physical limits, shapeshifting into one means you have to look like one etc etc. TLDR: I'm not

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Challenge #04640-L256: Fall of the Empire

Within the parliament of the lavish Elven city a human commander grits her teeth in disgust. 18 months of fighting the black tide, watching her comrades fall, cutting down children and the elderly that had fallen to the corruption, and for what? Slammed doors and a spit on the face from these so called “higher races”.

The commander nearly shatter her communication crystal in her hate filled grip as she spoke: “All units, [Code: Black] negotiation has fallen. Grab every civilian and

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Challenge #04638-L254: Not What You Think it Means

The Warlock that had been pushing them so hard to get her, had a sinister motive. They're hesitating, can they figure out his motive before he talks these, his latest victims, into the unthinkable?

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04613-l229-adequate-warning-is-insufficient -- DaniAndShali

Three turned to face Zygo, who was panicking more than a little. "She promised me," he said. "She promised we would be safe when we went through."

"Your patron," said Ebberhandril, "the devil, made a promise."

"All right, all right,

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Challenge #04635-L251: Here Comes Trouble

The Stars begin to fall from the sky and shatter on the ground. Quick! Catch them! Surely something terrible will happen if they all break. -- Deathshead419

The Great Golden Dragon and the Great Silver Dragon were going to have a clutch, so they gathered together the firmament into solid shapes to make the perfect world for their children. It would have mountains and oceans, and plenty for all the dragons to eat. Caves and caverns for the ones who wanted to

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Challenge #04633-L249: The Price For the Prize

A conman infiltrates a convent to pilfer the coffers. What could go wrong? When the ladies cloistered inside harbor a dark secret, well, everything... -- Deathshead419

They had to be hiding vast treasures, based solely on the premise that it was expensive to look that plain and simple. It was an accumulation of little signs that pushed Teliff the Slick to investigate finding their treasure trove.

The sisters were well fed and kept fit. They were always so clean and neat. They

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Challenge #04628-L244: The Better Choice

They force their friend to sleep, because its that, or the friend is going to end up getting very sick and for all their grousing, the group love him as a brother. Then they agree to help find the adventurer, and find out a darker truth. That wasn't an adventurer, but their true parental. And baby brother wasn't dead. Nor was the one he thought was his father.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04518-l134-heroic-motivation -- Anon Guest

It took a potion, three

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Challenge #04627-L243: Money With Menaces

The Drunken Horns was a tongue in cheek name for an excellent eatery run by a family of Hellkin. And when members of the watch tried to harass them, the local royals, all human, happened to be there having dinner. It was their favorite place to unwind. Needless to say, the local watch soon learn that these royals do NOT like such behavior at all. -- Anon Guest

This is the restaurant Dzak built. This is the chef with the crumpled horn

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Challenge #04626-L242: Slow to Learn

She had been so very young, so very spoiled, when she was pulled out of the rubble. She tried to act like her family taught her to act, and she'd faced scolding for it, though she was never spanked. She tried to cry and stomp her feet like she'd seen some kids to do get their way, that didn't work either.

The day she started saying please, thank you, and helping others out of her own free will, she found people were

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Challenge #04625-L241: Just Like the Stories

I will take your Curse, but for a price. The price is THIS. You must make a decree making the mistreatment of anyone "unwanted" punishable by suffering the same fate they give to the "unwanted ones". None must ever be allowed again to go without at least basic health care, food, clean water, and at least basic, good shelter. Ever waver in this, and our pact ends and these flowers will return to you. Me? Don't worry, the universe provides me with

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Challenge #04624-L240: A Terrarium of Remedy

There are ways that are not cures, but it can ensure the lungs no longer fill. Though that does mean your chest is going to hurt like hell for quite some time while you heal. It's not 100%, true. But at least it'll no longer threaten to drown you. Though you may find you get ill more often at times.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04537-l153-please-dont-make-me-laugh -- Anon Guest

My room is so full of medical fog that I don't see the

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Challenge #04623-L239: With This Ring...

Unable to find a ring beautiful enough, he dedicated a lot of time to learning to smith jewelry. Using all he remembered of what the fae liked, though it seemed as though his hand was guided, he made a very unusual ring. When placed upon the hand, he learned that day, he had become wedded.

OOPS! Well, there were worse fates.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04566-l182-bonded-bargain -- Anon Guest

The bad news was that there was a fashion for ugly, clunky

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Challenge #04618-L234: Low Down by the River

Lord Brickhead was, INDEED, the job that needed to be done sooner than expected. Their decisions lead to a disaster. A disaster the Army of Mercy were more than capable of helping alleviate. Brickhead, pantaloons a'mess at seeing what they caused, turned over a new leaf. The place they ruled now offered freely as a home base for a segment of the Army. No lives were lost, the lord of the land learned a harsh, but fair, lesson, and the future was

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