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Challenge #04630-L246: Rebuking None

Wraithvine and hir companions come to a large clearing where a person and their small makeshift family consisting of multiple races are attempting to build an entire hospital by themselves. Aid is offered to ensure this place and dream of healing becomes reality. -- Anon Guest

A Druid, a Doctor and a Dedicat walked into a ruined Yggdrasi house-tree... there was also a devilborn stripling and assorted halfbreds, so it automatically lost potential for levity. Besides, that was three months ago. The band of misfits, no two the same species, saw the potential and had been doing what they could to fix it up.

Half of their work had been in regrowing the damage, the other half was in building essential workshops.

Which was how Wraithvine found them, trying to assist too many people who had been fleeing the catastrophe. There was simply not enough. Not enough helpers, not enough supplies, not enough shelter, though they certainly tried.

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Challenge #04629-L245: Fated Rest

A strange Inn where even Fate itself couldn't interfere. The place was simply called "Respite Rest". A place where fate-bound heroes, adventurers, and individuals like Wraithvine and Bibrid could take a nice, quiet, vacation, shop in the small stores attached for clothing or supplies, bathe in hot springs, and not worry about some major catastrophe. At least until they checked out of the Inn and returned to their travels. -- Anon Guest

The Inn had not been there moments before. It may

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Challenge #04628-L244: The Better Choice

They force their friend to sleep, because its that, or the friend is going to end up getting very sick and for all their grousing, the group love him as a brother. Then they agree to help find the adventurer, and find out a darker truth. That wasn't an adventurer, but their true parental. And baby brother wasn't dead. Nor was the one he thought was his father.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04518-l134-heroic-motivation -- Anon Guest

It took a potion, three

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Challenge #04627-L243: Money With Menaces

The Drunken Horns was a tongue in cheek name for an excellent eatery run by a family of Hellkin. And when members of the watch tried to harass them, the local royals, all human, happened to be there having dinner. It was their favorite place to unwind. Needless to say, the local watch soon learn that these royals do NOT like such behavior at all. -- Anon Guest

This is the restaurant Dzak built. This is the chef with the crumpled horn

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Challenge #04626-L242: Slow to Learn

She had been so very young, so very spoiled, when she was pulled out of the rubble. She tried to act like her family taught her to act, and she'd faced scolding for it, though she was never spanked. She tried to cry and stomp her feet like she'd seen some kids to do get their way, that didn't work either.

The day she started saying please, thank you, and helping others out of her own free will, she found people were

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Challenge #04625-L241: Just Like the Stories

I will take your Curse, but for a price. The price is THIS. You must make a decree making the mistreatment of anyone "unwanted" punishable by suffering the same fate they give to the "unwanted ones". None must ever be allowed again to go without at least basic health care, food, clean water, and at least basic, good shelter. Ever waver in this, and our pact ends and these flowers will return to you. Me? Don't worry, the universe provides me with

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Challenge #04624-L240: A Terrarium of Remedy

There are ways that are not cures, but it can ensure the lungs no longer fill. Though that does mean your chest is going to hurt like hell for quite some time while you heal. It's not 100%, true. But at least it'll no longer threaten to drown you. Though you may find you get ill more often at times.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04537-l153-please-dont-make-me-laugh -- Anon Guest

My room is so full of medical fog that I don't see the

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Challenge #04623-L239: With This Ring...

Unable to find a ring beautiful enough, he dedicated a lot of time to learning to smith jewelry. Using all he remembered of what the fae liked, though it seemed as though his hand was guided, he made a very unusual ring. When placed upon the hand, he learned that day, he had become wedded.

OOPS! Well, there were worse fates.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04566-l182-bonded-bargain -- Anon Guest

The bad news was that there was a fashion for ugly, clunky

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Challenge #04622-L238: A Tangled Thread Woven

Young Scruff finds a new family, a new caretaker, a new parental. Wraithvine learns why the child was so alone. The large city where they were found learns why their kind was so needed, when Wraithvine returns, to find the forest nearly overrunning the place.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04605-l221-murder-by-the-seaside -- Anon Guest

They say that no two Wudzgaad are made the same. They say that those particular Faekindred could communicate through the leyflow. They said that Faekindred are just born

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Challenge #04621-L237: An Honour-bound Quest

On that day, they lost something formerly important to them. But as they looked upon the peaceful city, then to their body, and the mage standing beside it, they smiled.

"Thank you, Wraithvine. You freed me. And in my next life, for I believe I will be allowed to keep these memories, I will be able to have the strength to to free others from the curse I once bore." -- Anon Guest

There's only so many things that will keep a

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Challenge #04620-L236: Lasting Impression

"Why didn't you kill him?"/That's your job, I'm not a killer.

"But you delivered him to me."/That was my job. Besides, I'd be too merciful, and after what he did....

"They will help all of you recover."/This lady with the kind eyes who gave me a hug with her tail already has helped a lot. -- The New Guy

[AN: This post has been edited to improve brevity]

You can call me what you like. It doesn't matter. Not

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Challenge #04619-L235: Spot of Rest

Wraithvine was meditating when a human child snuggled up near the ancient elf to nap. The parents was a little embarrassed, but as the elf's meditations didn't seem to be effected, quietly went along with setting up their encampment nearby, and when Wraithvine and hir friends were awake, were offered a meal and a ride to their next destination in the carriage, for thanks for letting the family settle here for the evening. -- Anon Guest

There's formal rest stops on long

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Challenge #04618-L234: Low Down by the River

Lord Brickhead was, INDEED, the job that needed to be done sooner than expected. Their decisions lead to a disaster. A disaster the Army of Mercy were more than capable of helping alleviate. Brickhead, pantaloons a'mess at seeing what they caused, turned over a new leaf. The place they ruled now offered freely as a home base for a segment of the Army. No lives were lost, the lord of the land learned a harsh, but fair, lesson, and the future was

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Challenge #04617-L233: Salvaged From Doom

They helped the being as they mourned. Helped find the last of the deceased, gave a gentle burial. Then, with magic, a ton of precautions in both spell and item, began to help clean up the "burning, glowing rock" that gave off such toxin, and help clean the land. Life would come back here one day. But right now, healing one so badly hurt, and helping this place heal from those ancient evils, was the priority.

https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04437-l053-the-buildings-left-intact

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Challenge #04616-L232: Disaster Relief

It was the summer harvest on a massive planet. The human colony was very small, but they had several Gyiik friends who were more than happy to help. After all, while some can be left to go to seed for the next year, it's all but a crime to let all that abundant good food go to waste. -- Anon Guest

What to do when the farm machines that had made everything easier were out of commission thanks to a rogue solar

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