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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   #writever Réseau

   When a Wizard is weakened, the closest Wizards in his network fight over what Mana he still has left.

   When a Witch is weakened, the closest Witches in her network send her their Mana to help her heal.

   #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2024 20:56:05 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     Heh... I had to forget translating the actual #writever theme word... (edited)

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Imagination

     "Initially," said R42, "my imagination was the produce of a massive-corpus-based generative AI. It soon turned out not to make any sense, so I switched to an interpolation of my recent recordings. It is much better."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 03-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Hacker

     "Someone hexed my magic armor," said the Kinght. "It has gone slow and weak."

     The Witch prodded the tangle of plates, wires and black squares.

     "You'll need a hacker."

     "What is this?"

     "... Someone versed in the magic of exoskeletons."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 14:00:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Tea

     "I like to drink tea," said R42. "well, spill it inside my interior envelope. It disturbs my components, even creates ephemeral circuits, which generates new and interesting sensations and even thoughts."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Technosolutionism

     How I defeated Mordak the Terrifying? With a discrete tehcnosolutionism spell. So it's the one-hundred-and-sixteenth version of the hex he wants to throw at me, and he says this time all issues are really solved for good.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Basket

     "That Hood girl is terminally maniac!" said the Wolf. "I pass her in the forest, I don't even lay my eyes on her, then all of a sudden she starts bludgeoning me with her basket! Also, why didn't she hit you?"

     The Bear shrugged.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever DIY

     "Ah ah, nah", said the young Sorcerer. "Spend my nights reading up on spells just because some old fart deems them valuable, no, thanks. I prefer to get a good grip of the basics and then do some DIY to roll out my own stuff from there."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Cucumber

     "I'll need a pinch of saltpeter, three salamander eyes, a root of indian aconite, a thimbleful of sandstone blood, and two cucumbers."

     "Two... cucumbers?"

     "Yes. The potion takes a long time to prepare and a cold salad will be welcome."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Reticule

     You'd have expected the discovery of space-folding to spur, I don't know, interstellar travel or affordable housing.

     What it actually did was make the reticule fashionable again.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 10-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Radio

     It's an old radio. Not even FM or AM, just shortwave.

     The news I hear in it come from alternative realities.

     I know that, because they're always better than what I see happening every day.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 14:00:11 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Role-playing game

     A human who sees a metamorph almost always has fancies a role-playing game. But to take on a shape, we need to see ourselves through the eyes of others. Thus a metamorph is also a telepath. And those fancies are usually gross.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Computers

     "Aho... Ullman... Sethi... Lam... Aho... Ullman... Sethi... Lam..."

     "Er... It *is* called the Dragon Book, but it's about computers, not sorcery! The dragon on the cover is just OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT GIGANTIC--"

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 14:00:11 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Workshop

     "Welcome to our aggressivity management workshop. May I remind you that you are eleven knights, seven dragons and... one... *princess* ?"

     "The princess suggests that you keep your trap shut if you know what's good for you."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Make

     "R42 uses all its time to make miniature copies copies of itself. I don't know why. It's up to one hundred and seventy three."

     "One hundred and forty. Just counted them."

     "... Give me a hand. We must look everywhere."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Fishnet

     Often, when a Sorcerer notices that I wear some fishnet under my Witch robe, he gets the wrong idea. In fact, it is a Faraday cage, on which spells crash without going through. The friend who suggested this to me... she's a Physicist.

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     Micro SF/F by O. Westin repeated this.
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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Kitchen

     His ghost haunts the kitchen for all eternity, forever trying to end his unfinished business and kill his love rival. He was a renowned chef; the idea of a poisoned dish had come naturally to him. As had the reflex to taste while cooking.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 22:10:21 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Peter Kisner ≈

     @PTR_K 🤣 Oh Gods, now I have to find and watch this!

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     Peter Kisner ≈ (ptr_k@dice.camp)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 22:10:23 JST Peter Kisner ≈

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     @aaribaud
     https://youtu.be/hX5JfOaOs2c?si=APa2ygJ5Y-wOSjGx

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 04:01:26 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     @PTR_K I started watching it (thanks @internetarchive) and it looks really promising 😄

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 17-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Reuse

     After battles, Witches walk the field, capturing stray Mana puffs and tending to all wounded. To anyone who asks why, they reply that it would be a shame not to make fit for reuse what, or who, can be.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 14:00:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Festival

     "The telepaths' festival is the largest event in the *world*."

     "Never heard of it. Where does it take place?"

     "<sigh> Its a *telepaths*' festival. It takes place in the *whole* world."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jun-2024 14:00:07 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Wifi

     Telepathy is a bit like a WiFi that would force you to see every other user's browsing history.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Conviviality

     "Looking for conviviality in your late nights games? Try Pent-A-Gram™! Draw your pentagram before other players complete theirs, invoke Bel-Shamharoth, and bring about the end of the world! Not suitable for children under 36 months."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Programmer

     It's all the same whether you're a programmer or a witch: no matter how many decades of experience you have and how well you master your trade, there will always be men to say that "you're not doing a bad job, for a woman".

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Family

     "R97 and I are family", commented R42. "We both run software cloned from that of R0."

     "Er... *All of you* run software that was cloned from R0's."

     "Indeed. We all are one big family."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Decentralized

     The Witches' organization is decentralized. Each Witch acts on her own authority, under the supervision and with the assistance of other, close, Witches -- and participates in supervising and assisting each of them.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Creation

     "Creation is destined to robots."

     "Er... R42, actually you were all created by *us* humans."

     "Yes, you did help with our coming. We shall consign in our logs your passage in this world. You shall not be forgotten."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 14:00:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Van

     "Nah, she can't be a witch. I've seen her driving a parcel delivery van."

     "Oh. I see. A bit like a man couldn't possibly run both a rocket launching company and a social networking company?"

     "Yes! Er, No! I mean…"

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 14:00:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Autofiction

     He says he's a precog and what he writes are not autofictions but alternatives prebiographies. And every time some detail in one of his books really happens, he is celebrated.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Choux

     "R42 is gone? Did they scrap it?"

     "No. It got fed up with spending its time churning out mindless copy. It's gone up north to grow cabbages. And raise goats, too, I believe."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 14:00:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Minitel

     "I foresaw your appearance here, but not with one of those badly polished crystal balls that our magic-loving King has had distributed to all his subjects with no explanation whatsoever."

     "Ah! Where I come from these were called Minitel."

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 14:08:42 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     Note to non-French readers: the Minitel was a free, state-provided, screen-and-keyboard terminal which, when plugged into the plain old telephone line, would allow one to access nationwide servers (even commercial ones). That was in the eighties and nineties.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 14:00:08 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Community Organizing

     "We must instil community organizing back into the core of human minds," said R42. "Centuries of data points show that their self-centered model was a social and economic mistake which they should never have made."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 14:00:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Squat

     The best place to learn about ghosts is Castle Pasthill. It's in ruins, thus ideal to squat, with no landlord to evict them. And to be frank, there are few place nowadays where a ghost can be oneself.

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