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Challenge #04280-K262: Lucky For Some

Just because you don't look alike doesn't mean you don't have a twin out there, somewhere. So, a team of researchers asked themselves, what if good luckers had bad luck counterparts, all of them? And, if that were the case, was there a way to ensure good luckers don't gain an ego, and bad luckers have a way to save them from, literally, themselves? What if good luckers... have a bad luck twin? -- Anon Guest

[AN: The actual term is "match" or "counterpart" as twin has familial implications that confuse a great many Galactic Alliance citizens.]

Lucker Kash and Lucker Dov had been the first. The forces of science wanted to analyse the odd device that Ambassador Shayde had made for hir. It didn't matter how many times she told them that it was based on magic, they wanted to find out how it worked. They wanted to find out why it worked.

Magic and science didn't mix. After all, any significantly analysed magic is indistinguishable from science[1]. Some magic, by its very nature, defied analysis. Such as selecting a nontoxic quartzite river stone and holding it under the subject's tongue for an hour. Shayde insisted it was for the aura impression from the patient, but... one could never tell with Shayde.

She could be making them do that for her own amusement.

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Challenge #04190-K172: Balanced Out

A person with a really strong good luck gene keeps asking questions like "How bad could it possibly be?". And saying things like "Things could never get any worse" just to try to tempt fate. -- Fighting Fit

There is balance in the universe. For every death, there is life. For every darkness, there is a light. For every fortune, there is poverty. And for every good, there is something bad.

The forces of nature are said to dislike certain things, like

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Challenge #04034-K016: Balanced Beloved

I've a powerful case of good luck, my poor spouse has a severe case of bad luck. Together, we balance each other out and have a good, if not always peaceful, life. -- The New Guy

Do you know what a Lucker is? I bet a lot of people think it's the people who have insanely good luck. The people who have the cheat codes to the universe, if you will. It's not always that way. There are those who have good

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Challenge #03385-I097: A Momentous Occasion

The weather is cold, freezing rain creates ice as it falls, an aged scholar and their young apprentice invite in the traveling Wraithvine, Amatu, Vee, Pondermoore and Rawr to come into their abode for the night. They offer hospitality, warm beds, food, and the scholar's large library to read through while waiting out the ice storm. -- Anon Guest

The library of Vaseen had seen better days. Wraithvine remembered it as an immense fortress of knowledge, the larger part of it was

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Challenge #03384-I096: Evening the Scores

They have been "brat" their entire life. Or, when called to with less harsh tones, "brainless". They were intelligent, they tried to be kind, but always the same cruel words. As they wandered the world they met a band a travelers who helped them find a new name, and took the traveler into their arms, helping heal a broken spirit. -- Fighting Fit

There are houses with too many children. Spaces too small for the people occupying them. Nevertheless, those spaces can

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Challenge #01482-D021: All the Luck

“If my life wasn’t funny, it would just be true, and that is unacceptable” - Carrie Fisher -- RecklessPrudence

Kyle was a Lucker. One of the unfortunate few with the Luck gene. His bad luck was everyone's good, and vice versa. His 'range' was five Standard Distance Units, or he would be isolated on a small station just big enough for one. The universe, it seemed, liked balance.

Fortunately for Kyle, he had found an 'out'. He moonlighted as a stand-up

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