adventure
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The Weight of Twenty
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that. The news scroll had been waiting on my workbench when I arrived at the Municipal Enchantment Workshop that morning, its official seal still warm from the courier’s urgent delivery. I unrolled the parchment with calloused fingers that Continue reading
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The Simplicity of Joy
List 30 things that make you happy. The letter had arrived with the morning post, its formal seal and academic parchment marking it as correspondence from the Lumenvale Institute of Philosophical Studies. Master Cornelius Brightquill had requested—with the polite insistence that scholarly institutions wielded like finely crafted weapons—that I contribute to their upcoming symposium on Continue reading
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The Ritual of Coming Home
The brass chimes above Matthias Brightforge’s workshop door sang their familiar farewell as he secured the last lock, their melodic notes carrying across the Artisan Quarter like a prayer of gratitude for work completed. Another day of coaxing magic into metal had passed, another collection of commissioned pieces awaited their destinies in the homes and Continue reading
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The Living Depths
Personal Research Log – Day 17 aboard Grandfather GraniteExpeditioner: Professor Cornelius Rockgnawer, Cave Diving Institute of Greater LumenvaleSubject: Preparatory observations for Deep Core Expedition The mountain’s heartbeat woke me again before dawn. Not the metaphorical pulse that poets write about, but an actual rhythmic thrum that travels through every stone surface, every carved chamber, every Continue reading
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When Stone Sings Mercy
Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. The storm had passed through the borderlands like a living thing, clawing at the earth with rain-lashed fingers that turned the trade routes into rivers of red mud. Gareth Stonewhisper urged his draft horse, Ironheart, along the ridge path that overlooked the main highway Continue reading
Chadwick Rye 