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Challenge #04693-L309: Combat Hypocrisy

If war is diplomacy by violence, then the currency of exchange is in the bodies of the youth. And so a General must make his bitter calculus, choosing which men to hurl at the enemy defenses in the grim hope that the righteous side is victorious. -- Deathshead419

The best kind of war, say many philosophers, is the one you don't have to fight. Many war hawks have ignored this wisdom and prefer to throw fighting youth at the enemy until one side or the other runs out. When it comes to the biggest army wins, only one has consistently won with a smaller number of soldiers. According to many, he cheated by being an assassin. According to many, he should have hired one like any decent lord of his era would do.

As for all the others, they were slow to learn the important difference between tactics and strategy.

One such example came in the repeated attempts to conquer the Wyldewood. A deep forest that was the realm of Wood Elves and Rock Elves, with hidden cravasses and sudden spikes of stone. There were whispers that they shaped strange beasts within the labyrinthine depths. Nightmares made flesh. Some whispered that they shaped the very land around luckless adventurers that stumbled into their territory. Nobody knew for sure because, once they went in, they never came out again.

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Wednesday, Rant Due and Other Shenanigans

I overspent again just making sure we had adequate supplies. Much though I'd love to pull my head in, we do run out of stuff.

And Mayhem has the Lurgi. It's so bad he's asked for "Shandy" - my horrible concoction of an omnicure. I made sure he also has a source of chicken soup.

In a few minutes, I shall begin making my offerings public. Starting with the storytime video. I have a co-op story to get on with, the rant

Challenge #04692-L308: There's Always a Catch

Below the waves is a shrine. Those who lay upon the alter join the sirens, gaining a new form and an enrapturing voice. And Arbin had best learn to use these new pipes, for the sacred duty of sirens is to ensure at least one is always singing a lullaby. For if the song ever falls silent, something lurking in the darkest depths may awaken at last…

Inspired by BKF's comment below this previous tale: https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04657-l273-uninhabited --

Tuesday, Patreon, Shopping, and Fiction

Not necessarily dealt with in that order. It's going to be a strain on our economy, but I will get us stocked up with bits and bobs, stuff and things, and things and stuff.

Costco will be open soon, so I'll be icing my ankle ere I launch for the Leyland's tour. Everything else will be happening after I return victorious with my haul.

Gotta line up the stuff for my Patrons. Gotta get a rattle on with the side projects. Gotta

Challenge #04691-L307: In the Hour of Greatest Need

An apprentice healer saves a mysterious stranger from a fever. The thankful stranger gives the healer a box, promising that when the time comes, the box will open and the debt will be repaid. -- Deathshead419

Devryq never knew the stranger's name. They were just a fellow traveler at the waystation-house. One in need, because they were deep in a fever. Deveryq hadn't thought of rewards, just of the need ze could see to.

It didn't matter that the stranger was a

Monday, Backup Reads and Ongoing PLNs

I have new glasses, and the weight of the new lenses is causing some pain in the nose stop area. Not at all helped by there being a firkin pimple on one side, right where it would be the biggest annoyance.

I got rid of that thing, but the area still hurts.

I have finally sorted which idea to use for this week's prompt - another one I didn't vote for. So I can work on that, the prompt from the Promptcast,

Challenge #04690-L306: Not Your Average Teen

The child thought they were human, until they began to enter their teen years and certain things began to manifest that showed they were not. Small scales, occasional flame, they were frightened. Then a kind hand reached out to them and stated "No you're not a freak, or a monster, but child, you are changing. It's time you learned your heritage." -- Anon Guest

Everyone knows that things can happen to a body growing into maturity. For Humans, the usual speech is

Sunday, And the Dummins Award Goes to...

This idiot who forgot that the streams are on TODAY. I am the diddle daddle dummins. FML

I wasted some of yesterday's hours waiting for a stream that was happening today.

At least I got bread done.

I'm hoping the streams go forth, and working on the prompts before I go forth and start on my regular offerings. In fact, I'm about to record the audio for Monday's video. Huzzah.

Onwards to my organised chaos.

Challenge #04689-L305: Lessons of History

Over the objections of his advisors, the youngest of seven princes makes friends with a warren of kobolds whose home was right under the estate he'd been given. That friendship pays off during a brutal rebellion, when he is able to get innocents hidden so they do not suffer. How did the alliance form? He almost paid his life to protect the warren from poachers trying to take eggs. -- Anon Guest

History easily becomes stories. Some of those stories transform in

Saturday, No Stream Slug Day

The Archhive is not reading anything today. Neither is the Promptcast. Because it's Halloween in the US. Where they are.

So I don't have a 4-6 hour distraction from my normal offerings.

I've signed up for QueryTracker at long blipping last, and I now have a fresh PLN for pitching my books. I can seek out agents willing to look at my stuff and go through them alphabetically. I can even use it to pitch.

Starting tomorrow.

I now have new glasses,

Challenge #04688-L304: Miracles For Midwinterfeast

"Greatfather Langeven is a childhood god. He only sees that which is good in the world, and so comes for the children who believe they have been good. Which is terribly unfair to those who've been told they're wicked their entire, brief lives. But that's a different story for a different time."

The youth had always been kind, had always done their best to help others, even though they, themselves, were constantly being told they were evil, wicked, and, sadly, thoroughly believing

Friday, Bread and New Eyes

I'm paying for the other half of my new glasses, today. As soon as the place is open. I'm also wrangling a double batch, today. Baking one set of dough, and making the next.

My videos are back in my work cycle, so that's going to be interesting to work back in to what passes for my routine.

The ankle needs a brace, today. My bad for pushing it too far after Physio. On the other hand, I had to test it

Challenge #04687-L303: The Price of Prophecy

Divine clues convince a town that a boy and his friends must complete a daring quest to avert world ending disaster. That may be true. But the Hero’s parent knows the children will face potent foes none could survive without aid. So the parent, willing to pay well, begs Wraithvine to watch over the young heroes from the shadows and keep them from harm without being seen. -- Deathsead419

Langdon was born with the blaze. Prophecy declared that the boy born

Thursday, Bread and Bothered

I have bread on, today. Can't really delay it without consequences. Alas for my plans, we are also out of cordial and that's going to need a dash up to the shops to get more.

Which means I have to wait until I have money 'cause I've currently run out. The joys of feeding a household when everything runs dry.

I think I shall wait until the account fills up before I sally forth. It'll give me time to get the bread

Challenge #04686-L302: The Fool's Choice

What’s better after a night barhopping than an impromptu car race on the rain-slick city streets? Why, doing so before seat-belt laws! -- Deathshead419

There was a time which had much more freedom, compared to the modern day. Less freedom when compared to certain other times. Like, say, the paleolithic era. But those had their own caveats. Rampant disease, early death, that sort of thing. But in this era, the age of rock and roll, or the sock hop, there was

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Challenge #04693-L309: Combat Hypocrisy

Wednesday, Rant Due and Other Shenanigans

Challenge #04692-L308: There's Always a Catch

Tuesday, Patreon, Shopping, and Fiction

Challenge #04691-L307: In the Hour of Greatest Need

Monday, Backup Reads and Ongoing PLNs

Challenge #04690-L306: Not Your Average Teen

Sunday, And the Dummins Award Goes to...

Challenge #04689-L305: Lessons of History

Saturday, No Stream Slug Day

Challenge #04688-L304: Miracles For Midwinterfeast

Friday, Bread and New Eyes

Challenge #04687-L303: The Price of Prophecy

Thursday, Bread and Bothered

Challenge #04686-L302: The Fool's Choice