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Challenge #04950-M201: Careful Gentle Lessons

The kids are getting cooking lessons from Wraithvine and Bibrid. -- BKF

Scramble and Chance had learned the most important things about living in the wilderness. How to make shelter if they had none of their own. How to make fire even when magic was unavailable. What plants and animals were reliably edible more than once.

Now they were learning how to cook it.

One thing that could very rarely fail was stew. Except one eager child was fireproof and heat-resistant. Chance was living evidence for how the Hellkin got all those rumours about them in the first place.

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Monday, Bills and Anticipation

I have fed, in order: the cats, my starter, the birds, and myself. I have just now paid the bills. Yay.

Tomorrow is when my lovelies return to organise, move, and rearrange shit. It may also be a prelude to Moving Day.

But it's also definitely Shopping Day because the fam needs supplies. Yay.

In local matters, the Magpie Mafia have learned that my whistle means food. At least three of them come calling. On the other hand, word has got out

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Challenge #04949-M200: Battle in the Bedroom

A small child has an imaginary friend, a favourite stuffed toy, and a puppy. The three do not get along — the puppy has tried to eat the toy many times, the toy endlessly needles the imaginary friend for not being real, and the imaginary friend has learned a piercing whistle to annoy the puppy. But now they must put aside their differences and work together… to defeat the monster that lives in their child’s closet. -- Tergon

Everyone who knows about

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Sunday, Stream Stuff and Nonsense

I have a couple of hours before the Promptcast begins their stream. I did actually get a story in there but if there's a case of spillover, I'll be drawn on Monday. Huzzah.

Honestly, I'm lucky I got anything done for them at all.

Attempting to keep an eye on my email so I don't offend MeMum by missing her email because Mod Duties. I can hope and pray that I catch something before I get distracted.

...and the distractions are so

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Challenge #04948-M199: Last Days of a Saint

A dying elderly woman's final wish. She had spent her entire life helping others. And while that life had made her very happy, a tiny little piece of her wishes she could be spoiled a little and treated like a queen. Just for one day, though. -- BKF

A Saint for Wraithvine had reached the point where she was no help to anyone. A lifetime of charitable action had worn her near to a whisper, but she was happy.

"It is our

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Saturday, A Slight Delay

Didn't mod the Promptcast's Creatives Interviews, but used it for mostly white noise whilst I saw an idea come to fruition that I had whilst I was in the midst of making coffee and breakfast. It's one of those inspiration particle incidents again. So I busted my hump to get that down and out to the crew before I did anything else.

Including my blog entry.

So I shall be rather delayed with today's tale.

The good news is that I'm feeling

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Challenge #04947-M198: A Most Useful Weed

An alchemist has been brewing a potion for three months, and after taking meticulous care, it’s finally ready for the final step: the addition of a locally grown, fresh-picked herb.

Unfortunately, a combination of overzealous weeding by locals and imperfect weather means that the usual crop is not available.

The alchemist now has forty-eight hours to find the missing ingredient, and is becoming increasingly unhinged. -- Tergon

Months of steeping, fermenting, careful additions of each ingredient according to the instructions. The

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Challenge #04946-M197: Controlled Substance

There is nothing more stubborn than a determined wizard, except, perhaps, a determined CAT! And when the plants are fully mature, Lilbit manages to get into the catnip, with rather amusing results.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04696-l312-important-gifts -- BKF

Wraithvine knew hir stuff. The wards did little more than add an unpleasant static charge to Lilbit's fur, but they kept her off the plants. The cat mint plants that kept drawing her back to a very unpleasant experience.

In an effort

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Thursday, Moving Day RSN

Good news - I was able to get some scotch fillet steak to help adjust my iron levels.

Bad news - Miss Chaos found the steak I was planning to have for breakfast and helped herself.

So my day was off to a fantastic start with having to thaw a frozen steak. Whilst also feeding the cats, helping my lovelies sort out stuff from the spare room days after I wanted the help.

On the other hand, the spare room is clean

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Challenge #04945-M196: The True Impediment

A hellkin runs a special school for those who are disabled, helping them learn how to overcome the prejudices and misconceptions people have of those who are not considered "normal". None of those there are treated as lesser, but instead, shown just how strong they can be. -- BKF

There were two entrances to the place, depending on what kind of parent wanted their child there. One side was bright, open, colourful and soft. The other side was stark, dark, and oppressive.

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Wednesday, No Mor Skip and a Leyland's Tour

The skip is about to leave and not have a replacement. Good thing we've already evicted ~98% of the garbage in my house.

(smol break while I did stuff and things)

I have successfully:

  • emptied out the bookshelf
  • gone to the physio
  • done a delivery run to Lifeline
  • picked up some meat and other supplies
  • dropped off borrowed school books [15ish years too late]
  • picked up some storage solutions
  • rounded out the supplies needed
  • got home and repackaged all of the supplies
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Challenge #04944-M195: Letter Campaign

A malicious letter writing campaign forces Lord Kormwind to implement a restrictive policy in regards to mail coming into Whitekeep. This has unforeseen consequences. -- Deathshead419

[AN: I can't easily imagine what might lead to such things in Whitekeep. Origins outside of Whitekeep can work]

A king of conquest is generally expected to encounter the need for more conquest. In such a way, empires are wont to grow. King Kormwind Arachis Felbourne Whitekeep, ninth of his name, stopped short of controlling enough

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Tuesday, Slower Progress

I filtered out most of the dishwashing from the "right wing" of the kitchen countertop. I've yet to filter out the useful stuff before literally sweeping up the rubbish and cleaning that space.

I may also be working on the "I dunno" pile in the spare room.

I have looked over the prompts for the Promptcast and not one of the winning prompts is tickling my muse's interest/

The prompts:

  1. Concept: A character receives a mysterious textbook with knowledge beyond the curriculum.
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Challenge #04943-M194: Something Wicked

The royal family are faced with a terrible burden. The boy that was their son has long since died. What was within the body was pure evil. Now came the most painful part. Casting out the evil, though it would mean having to bury their son. For the sake of many lives, there was no other course.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04898-m149-what-rude-beast -- BKF

The thing that inhabited Prince Crevith's body drove it relentlessly Eastward. To what goal, it did not

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Monday, Piecemeal Organisation Plan

So far today, I have catalogued some comics, cleaned a portion of the kitchen benchtop, and made progress on restoring the big stockpot to functionality.

On my agenda: Today's tale, perhaps some sorting of the "I dunno" pile in the spare room, and maybe unfucking a different wing of the benchtop.

Piece by piece. Bit by bit. Things will get done.

But first - I owe y'all some fiction.

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