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Challenge #04799-M050: It's a Start

I've killed so many. Teufel, Kobolds, Vampires, ... so many. Even a dragon. Yet, you... you let me live. But more important, you saved my family. I was taught to hate you, fear you.... never even tried to understand. Ye gods... what have I done? Even if I lived a thousand years.... I don't think I could ever atone for it all. -- Anon Guest

There's only so many careers that are obviously predestined when given the name Guy Stronginthearm. One was becoming a Monster Hunter. He'd done very well, being a hero to everyone he met. He'd defended the proper, upstanding citizens from every monster that could have threatened them.

Then he fell in a sinkhole, almost to his death.

Guy was pleasantly shocked to find himself breathing in the near-pitch gloom after the fall. Especially since his clothes were soaked with chill water. Well. He hoped it was water. He did not expect to see twin points of light watching him from a safe distance away.

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Thursday, Lent Initiated

People are giving up things for lent. People are trying to begin new habits. I'm one of the latter.

I have been neglecting my emotional and physical needs in favour of getting Output.

So this lent, I'm trying to look after myself. As gingerly as possible to start with because of the aforementioned financial embuggerance.

So that means taking time to chill in the evenings. A little gaming. A little television. Just... time to enjoy something for myself.

Today used to be

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Challenge #04798-M049: Using All Avenues

Another died of the 'plague' that leaves the body rake thin. Always recorded as an illness. The red king, the tax-collectors told them, demanded this tribute. She fled to stop the plague, stop the red king, if the lord wouldn't do it, she would.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04754-m005-the-better-decision -- Anon Guest

Famines were generally the product of administrative mismanagement. It was very rare for a famine to be the direct result of consecutive disasters. The lands of the Red King

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Wednesday, Rant and Stuff

I have some terror to talk out of my chest because five of my books are floating in the void.

I did have plns to continue the fanficcery, but I should probably go off about the whole "no pressure" thing.

All the better for my mental health. Which is a little frayed right now. Economic shiznit directly related to arseholes not paying Beloved is super fun to deal with.

...and something-something Beloved not telling me her only income was the business she

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Challenge #04797-M048: How to Wrangle a Toddler

"Hi, I'm Pib! As a kid, hell, as a TODDLER, I gained a... bit of a reputation. Sadly, it's not unusual for human toddlers to sometimes have a kill count it seems. Anyhow, I'm here to teach you how to handle human toddlers aboard your vessels. So if your human friends have kids, you know how to be safe, and make sure things are safe for the kids, too!" -- Anon Guest

Parenting, according to Humans, is the act of preventing the

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Tuesday, Patreon and Pitch Done

Five books sent away yesterday. Hooray. I have one promising to get back to me in two weeks. I have a bunch of interesting things to share with my patrons, a story to write, and maybe a game to play.

To that goal, I am turning on the binaural beats and locking in.

I need time to relax because I am holding off panic attacks from several different directions. One: Just submitted five books for rejections. Two: Insufficient funds.

So yeah. It's

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Challenge #04796-M047: Pathogen Paranoia

The pirates thought they'd caught the human napping, instead they caught a human sick with norovirus. While immunoflu stops most, it does not stop all, and this bug, while not fatal, really wrecked the tummy. Out of self-preservation, they quarantine the human and get hir to a doctor! -- Anon Guest

Pirates, being pirates, make their profits by attacking the weaker and more helpless vessels than themselves. They don't often pick on large cruisers unless they are bigger and have more crew.

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Monday, Mor Stream, Mor Issues

Today's the day I pitch! I have (I hope) everything prepared. I'm also modding the Promptcast's second stream, finishing off the story for that group, and the mandatory offerings.

And my Beloved has 'written' a book. She fed a solo-hosted AI all of her writing and gave it a premise and plot to get a novella in two days. I feel a bit offended, but I also understand that she doesn't have the time to spend on writing as she's desperately scrambling

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Challenge #04795-M046: Survived a Year

Humans everywhere love to celebrate new years. And to make sure their friends enjoy it, too, they have huge swarms of drones, and laser shows, rather than fireworks. -- Anon Guest

There was an alert on Companion Gorx's datareader. Human New Year's with further information based on locale as to what those crazed, balding apes were doing. It wasn't the celebration of one small planet's completed orbit, it was the celebration of every Human colony's new year.

Thanks to varying negotiations, the

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Sunday, Streaming Mod and STRESS

We're running a smidge dry. Existing on supplies and hoping that the next week comes through to apply relief to the budget zone.

In the meantime, I have readied all of my Query Letters and found Agents who might like them.

Tomorrow, I dial up my pitch kits and MASS PITCH.

With luck, I might get a bite.

All of them are getting five bites, though I may give more with the ones that haven't been shipped around as much as Adapting

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Challenge #04794-M045: Old or Bold

"I'm mean and tired. I break vainglory seekers and make them spit out regrets. So don't try me. I'm trying to get some actual rest now that I'm retired." -- Anon Guest

The trouble with being the best is all the egotistical neophytes trying to boost their way to the top of the mountain by besting the best. Which is tremendously annoying when that best person in question is trying to enjoy their retirement.

Hasryk the Kingslayer had learned this after a

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Challenge #04793-M044: Honourbound Duty

Fennel spent a few more months in the grove as her body adapted to its new heart and she recovered. The guardian taught her friends to be stronger, wiser, and more educated, and, when she was deemed strong enough, allowed to go with the guardian's blessing. To Bastion, they stated, "Remember, love is a rare flower, nurture it well." Then looked to Geesh. "Remember, not all treasures are the kind you can sell." To Halestaff, "Take care of this new little sapling,

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Challenge #04792-M043: Graceful Assistance

They lost their sight to illness, severe cataracts formed from high fever, and could barely see more than the occasional shadows in the grey haze of their world. They met Wraithvine and Bibrid by accidentally bumping into them. Fortunately, neither was offended when asked if they could be touched so the being could see them. -- Anon Guest

Red-rash fever had put his world into a permanent fog. Barin could see light, and if he was close enough, the vague shapes of

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Thursday, Continuing PLNs

I should have the time to do a Query Letter for Adapting. Assuming that I can focus on a thing for longer than five minutes.

I need a lot of luck for that, today. I have aches and pains that probably need medical intervention, and that will CO$$$T no doubt. On top of that, we have economical issues that means expensive shit will have to wait.

Alas, my painkillers work better on my cyclone migraines rather than said aches and pains.

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Challenge #04791-M042: Unfamiliar to Some

The human was kind to all, no matter who they were, or what they were. It was tradition in their family that went back generations. So when the badly wounded, nearly unconscious, and very skittish, Kormwind IX was found on the ground in the nearby wood, they brought him into their home, bandaged the wounds, treated fever with medicine, and asked for nothing more than the occasional game of chess or checkers in the evenings if he felt up to it. --

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