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Challenge #04997-M248: Bred For Business

The crew of the research vessel learns from the human how to train canines properly so the animals can help carry light, for the animals, loads, and help protect the crew when the human is unable to. -- BKF

[AN: Surprise, I know jack shit about dog training! Nevertheless, I shall make an attempt]

In centuries past, on a Deathworld appropriately named Terra, the Humans looked at the wolf and said something like, "That looks friend-shaped." The descendants of those wolves were forever altered. As Companion Blyx stared at Human Lorn's pets, he could easily believe that these creatures had once been wolves. They still looked like wolves.

Looks, Blyx knew, were deceiving. Skitties, for example, generally looked like lazy orange lumps that slept all the time. They were also, pound for pound, the deadliest creatures at work in any station or ship. These wolf-like dogs were, according to Human Lorn, were "soppy ole softies."

They were very well trained, and Lorn insisted they could be useful. Not just as guards, but also haulers.

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Saturday, Promptcast, Patreon, and Organisation

I got the Patreon stuff posted! I wrote a thing for Weird Writer Wednesday! And that's why I'm writing this [and my subsequent story] in the afternoon.

I pln to get that tale done, eat some ice cream, and have time for entertainment. Read: Minecraft or BG3.

I'm still figuring out the new routine, but I will get there. Eventually.

Speaking of, I'd best get there with some fresh free fiction for y'all.

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Challenge #04996-M247: Informal Test

They had wooden knives with red dye, and were very stealthy on their feet. They came silently at the hellkin, but not to kill. This was merely a test of skill. -- BKF

Of all the truths known to the Martialist community, one is whispered amongst students: Only a Master can beat a Master.

It had rustled its way through the student accommodations in Hidden Cloud on the day that a seventeen-year-old Hellkin had defeated Master Bai in a duel. For weeks,

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Friday, Teh PLN

[To the tune of We're Off To See The Wizard] I'm off to see the vampires, to go get some samples of blood..

Fed self and felines, had breakfast. Today, after my lovelies get back from whatnot and I finish my breakfast... I am thence off.

When I come back, I am icing my stupid fucking ankle whilst working on my silly darn book cover for the thing I wrote LAST YEAR.

It's a bit procrastinate-y around here. NOT helped by the

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Challenge #04995-M246: Herd of Ranching?

Some Alliance members want to experience what it's like on a ranch. Riding, herding, and the foods that are enjoyed there. -- BKF

[AN: Farming doesn't have to be a tourist activity, no matter how advanced the civilisation]

It's not that cattle farming is extinct. It's just that tube-grown meat is cheaper and more economical in space stations and long-haul vessels. Since most of Alliance interactions occur in those environments, it's simple to presume that cattle farming is a bygone art.

Nothing

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Thursday, Shopping and a New Schedule

Obviously, there has to be a new regime. A new day for my Patreons. A new schedule for Weird Writer Wednesday. Basically, because I don't have the time schedules I used to.

So.

My pln for Weird Writer Wednesday is to write it ahead of time and press the Publish button on Wednesday.

I'll likely end up doing that on the same day I put the Patreon stuff to post. Which, given that everyone has money on Wednesday [as far as I

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Challenge #04994-M245: Complex Organic Processes

You have the answers you were seeking, but can you handle what you have learned? -- BKF

The pursuit of ethical food sources has to stop somewhere. There is a line that should not be crossed, no matter what. Unfortunately, Humans do not like lines, drawn in sand or otherwise. A barrier that must not be crossed is a challenge to their egos, or something of the sort.

So, when Humanity was told that there was no purely ethical nourishment, they established

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Wednesday, Back Onto Track?

I sincerely hope I can write something for this week's Weird Writer Wednesday. Alas, shenanigans with the Promptcast crew may be intervening. Just as I was about to get my entry edited, a fellow member had a crisis and the crew is helping them sort it out.

I am also among the crew.

Gotta help others so that others may help you.

I shall try nonetheless.

Story happening whenever it can be arranged.

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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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Tuesday, Well Fuck

We have EMBUGGERANCES! [Jazz hands]

So yesterday, Pip managed to corner Waif in a confined area. The cats currently do not get along, and there was much hissing and yowling. Adorable, in an effort to defuse the incipient fracas, stuck her hand in there.

And now Adorable's at the hospital with cat bite issues. She insists that the cat is not to blame.

I initially planned to take a cab to my appointment this morning and dawdle back home, but Beloved insists

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Challenge #04992-M243: Noncogniscent Haptic Therapy

A great way to help a bunch of students preparing for Final Exams in school? Rooms full of cute and fluffy to cuddle with, talk to, and, in doing so, de-stress enough to handle Exams. -- BKF

Much has been done to improve education within the Alliance. Reduction of class sizes, multiple teaching methods, the reduction of varying crisis factors. Nevertheless, exam time ends up putting many students into a mental spiral where their best effort could be better, and doing it

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Monday: Promptcast, Group Chat, and Other PLNs

Tomorrow, I get my liver scanned. Yay. Then I get a snack on the way to visit the local vampires to get my blood drawn. Huzzah.

That's tomorrow.

Today, I have to figure out what's happening for the Promptcast. I know one of the crew wants Trey Vector, Galactic Inspector, but I keep thinking of the chapters I needs must rewrite for ADT.

I'll spitball at my friends on that.

And there's the regular daily tale to wrangle. Plus paying the bills

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Challenge #04991-M242: Remember the Fairy Bread

Several of Sensei Twii's students plan a surprise birthday party for hir! -- BKF

"How old is ze anyway?" asked Lynn. "I tried searching, but nobody has an accurate number."

"I think there's a few one-way wormholes involved and temporal confusion[1] in there somewhere." Jem laid out all her research on her datareader. There was a lot of conflicting information. "We could ask, but... That would spoil the surprise."

"We couldn't get the small fire permit anyway," sighed Keit as he

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Challenge #04990-M241: For What Ails You

Poor Scramble catches a cold. -- BKF

Temporal magic can do a lot of things. It can help with so much in the everyday adventures of life. What it can't do is prevent illnesses. Scramble could be forewarned, and therefore fore-armed of events in hir immediate future. Ze could dodge any material missile thrown hir way, or catch it if it was food.

Nobody had thrown something at Scramble for months, but ze caught a cold nevertheless.

The best remedy, no matter

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