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Module 2 is closed–with no entries. So, I guess I won?
Module 1 remains open. Module 3 will not begin this week.

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Whenever somebody’s pullin’ a fast one, it’s bound to fail unless someone’s ready to cover their tracks.
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Who gave their blood today?

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Maybe (?) Galactic Rescue And Interstellar Light-Soldiers. G.R.A.I.L.S. for heroes. My wife recommended The Rockettes or the Exterminatrixes. (?) Good luck.

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This one was fun.–Phone challenge. I titled this one “APPrehended.”

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Thank you, Weilyn. Laughter is the best goal I have.

This next was a departure for me. I don’t normally do redesigns of other peoples’ work. Okay. I don’t usually redo my OWN work, either. Too many ideas, too little time. But I was involved from the beginning on this thing. I judged it as an entry in the OPMC contest, I critiqued it on OCD, so I couldn’t help jumping in.

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Stealing and playing with your main squeeze’s underthings is a sure source of a squabble. On ANY planet. Some things translate really well.

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Not even an alien underwire joke can stand up to zypping. [sigh] Good work, NHA.
Would someone recommend a source for me on Carnivale-themes? Sometimes I need to rein in my imagination a bit . . . okay, sometimes I need a stranglehold.

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Thank you. When the time is limited and the skills aren’t there yet, you gotta go for content.

If Plato was right when he wrote about them, the Atlanteans were regular people who were natural catastrophe victims, so they should look like this:
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If they could have survived, by virtue of ‘little footprint’ knowledge, intellect, and adaptability, they would look like this:
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Our navy would never be the same.
But I really believe that Plato, were he alive today, would be one of us hm-ers, and that the Atlanteans would look like THIS:
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Do they make berry pickers too? Some people would say that a coffee machine prevents attacks — by non-morning people. One chai please? I gotta run.

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You’ve already done it with your ship. Splashing hooves create more fine splatter at different angles than waves against a ship. Try pushing water against the side of a bathtub and punching your fist one inch into the water as a comparison. Love the blue sky more–love that veil most.

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HEYY! Black Hole Guy turned out great. Now you could have him vacuuming up a crowd of other Something-Or-Other-Guys . . .

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Congrats to headless. I like these challenges and love the prize generosity I see here.

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Zoinks! This one just leapt out at me.
Suppose you’re having an otherwise ordinary day, and suddenly you find a dying alien. It obviously comes from somewhere of higher gravity and temperature because it’s suit is ready to burst and the poor thing is violently shivering.

Lucky for you your granddad had a sturdy, old-fashioned pressure cooker! So you go about saving the thing, wondering if it’s trying to tell you “thanks” or “more” or “lift me up.”

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[whistles casually] Suppose you’re having an otherwise ordinary day, and suddenly you find a dying alien. It obviously comes from somewhere of higher gravity and temperature because it’s suit is ready to burst and the poor thing is violently shivering.

Lucky for you your granddad had a sturdy, old-fashioned pressure cooker! So you go about saving the thing, wondering if it’s trying to tell you “thanks” or “more” or “lift me up.”

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This is a specimen of the Andromeda Consortium Gold Standard.
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Core of 12k gold. (50%, alloyed with iron, sulfur, nickel, and deuterium.) Luckily the pocket I had this in was the ration pocket of my suit. The core would melt here. Deuterium ice melts easily, even when mixed right.) You’ve heard of cold, hard cash, right?
Plated with gold and coated with a hardened plastic similar to clear acrylic.

The triumvirate of regulators aren’t always the same species. The coins ARE always made with the same language, however: Hairbrush Nebula Runic.

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*The above was for the Manga Archer Challenge. The next one was for the Tiles Challenge. Next block will be the Coin Challenge, to finish out the 5th page.

I actually won this one. Doesn’t happen often.
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I’ve always favored the modules that are open enough to allow multiple solutions and reward creative thinking.
–Sure, you could pull the curtain and slay the dragon. You could try to poison the living pit.
But what if you tiptoed in and pulled a fast one? If you didn’t wake the dragon, and found the ‘pointless’ cracks in the walls, other solutions come to mind.
Maybe a party member or two could shrink down and roll the coins out the back way? Maybe somebody has a spirit familiar or other such thing that can travel a passage a quarter-inch thick? Maybe the living pit’s tongue could be induced, by flooding something through the crack, or by hypnotism or something, to ‘save’ the gold by passing it across? Or to cram it in the crack, widening at least that end?

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