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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 14:00:09 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   #writever Dorty

   There's nothing to it, you can have the finest air filters and the strictest particle traps, six months into a space travel, whatever you try, every surface of this bloody ship is dirty.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Homemade

     Wizards all use the same standard spells, efficient indeed, except against anyone who knows them too.

     Witches use homemade spells, all different, certainly less powerful, but efficient, as they are always unexpected.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Water

     R421 is a prototype, both mechanically and software-wise. In fact, it was it who decided to replace its passive radiators with water cooling. When asked about the danger to its circuits, it replies that it is a calculated risk.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 14:00:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Oil

     It was a spaceship, for outside, it was Space. But inside were walls of copper, leather door seals, wooden furniture... And in the great hall hung a majestic chandelier laden with more than a hundred oil lamps.

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

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     #writever Essentiel

     "what is essential is invisible to the eye…" enunciated the Foks' translator. "… Of Earthians. It is, however, very well perceived by our organs, which span the electromagnetic spectrum from low frequency radio waves to gamma rays."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Aug-2024 14:00:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Measured

     Fear the measured villain. He doesn't launch into a blind war. He doesn't shout his plans from the rooftops. He doesn't attack the highests in power. He places his pawns, one by one, until, in one move, the game is lost.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Aug-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #wirever Soda

     "Mummies are harmless," corrected the Professor. "Only, their bodies being preserved with Natron -- akin to the more kitchen-common soda ash -- they are dehydrated. Gve them water, That'll please them."

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

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     #writever Mix

     "Mistress! I did a big mix-up with all the vials!"

     "Never mind. I choose them at random anyway."

     "Huh? But..."

     "People believe in potions, but they don't actually do anything."

     "... Ah."

     "What really matters is the incantation."

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

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     #writever Patchouli

     "A ghost that does not speak, does not move things around, and only manifests itself with the smell of patchouli? That is the ghost of a plant."

     "Eh? But you need to have a soul to become a ghost!"

     "Yes. Your point being?"

     "... Ah."

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

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     Like all other carbon-based life forms, the Jems love to bond over intoxicating beverage. But you'd be well-advised to serve their drinks stirred, not shaken, unless of course you want the whole bar to explode.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 11-Aug-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Trace

     "I found no trace of Mordak the Terrifying!"

     "I did. I found the trace that he left after your Charring spell hit him in full force."

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

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     #writever Lye

     "We dissolved his flesh with lye, picked his skeleton apart, and had his bones encased in concrete, each one in a different country."

     "Good. That should slow him down a bit."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Aug-2024 14:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Measure

     "Things come together much better once you realize that everything has a measure. For example, that first bullet contained just enough silver to neutralize you without killing you. Now, are you more willing to talk?"

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

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     #writever Clean

     "R1572 has been reformatted, and his brain is now clean as a whistle."

     "No risk of a relapse, then?"

     "We can't see how that would happen."

     "Just like you couldn't see how it would happen the first time around?"

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 15-Aug-2024 14:00:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Dye

     "Our number-based names seemed difficult for humans to memorize," said R42. "So we chose to identify each of us with a specific dye. Apparently, half of humanity distinguishes six hues at best."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 17:00:50 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Mould

     "When I told you to take good care of the mould, I meant the container, not the dirt inside. Well, you took good care. We now have sixty kilos of roughly ape-shaped sentient fungus, with no assigned role in my Creation. Thank you, Lucifer."

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

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     #writever Cure

     "Is there no cure that could remove all this witchery that got inside her?"

     "No. She is not sick from having suddenly become a witch. She's cured of having long been prevented from being one.”
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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 18-Aug-2024 14:06:37 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Lavender

     “I asked you for an ointment that would give me every chance when facing the Dragon, Witch.”

     “The lavender oil I gave you didn't please the Dragon? It should have.”

     “Yes, it did. But…”

     “But what?”

     “… Would you have any more?”

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 19-Aug-2024 14:00:10 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Dry

     The common imagination sees the necromancer as a "dry magician": devoid of emotions, hermetic to pleasures, turned solely toward the death from which he derives his power. Hence, the gluttony of Ermaz the Excessive always came as a surprise.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Aug-2024 14:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Scrub

     "I saw R42 with your exfoliant, is that normal?"

     "Yes, it said his cooling microgrids seemed to be losing their effectiveness, and I suggested a scrub."

     "Makes sense."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Aug-2024 14:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Vanilla

     "In sorcery, the best is the enemy of the good. You'll learn seduction spells, powerful but with a *very* high cost; keep in mind that very often, a few judicious dabs of vanilla perfume already achieve satisfactory enough results."

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

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     #writever Patience

     "We werepeople know about patience."

     "Of course! You're used to waiting whole nights for the moon to set!"

     "Er, no. We're used to waiting for a whole four weeks for it to be full again. What do you think our *natural* state is?"

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

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     #writever Perfume

     "R42 invited me to spend the evening with it."

     "Ah. This explains why your choice of perfume is..."

     "... WD-40, yes."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 14:00:13 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Bubble

     The problem is not to learn that a quark is a bubble which contains a whole universe.

     It is not to learn that this bubble universe contains quarks, either.

     It is to learn that our own universe is inside a quark.

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

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     #writever Bar

     "You beat Mordak the Terrifying? But he was loaded with protections against about any spell!"

     "Oh, yes, indeed, I would have hard a hard time with magic. So I juste went with the old approach and a sturdy iron bar. Knock him out cold first time."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 14:20:14 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Bergamote

     "She faced a horde of Cimmeria barbarians and laid waste to them!"

     "She's had good training."

     "Where, by the Gods?"

     "School recesses."

     "Pardon?"

     "Her parents named her Bergamote."

     "... Ah."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 15:58:48 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Victor Gijsbers

     @victorgijsbers

     ... and less boy and probably less thoughtful parents. 😅

     (didn't know the song, just looked up the lyrics. Not many late sixties US ballads crossed the Atlantic, I'm afraid)

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     Victor Gijsbers (victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 15:58:50 JST Victor Gijsbers

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     @aaribaud This is A Boy Named Sue, except with more barbarians.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 02:34:30 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Claudia Caesaris 🏳️‍⚧️🥚

     @claudiacaesaris

     Lucky are you, then, that your name was not unusual enough to be a subject of mockery in schoolyards! (1)! Or if it was, that your found a less combative way to handle critics.

     Poor Bergamote was not so fortunate; and the rest, of course, is comical hyperbole, turning school ruckus....es? into epic battles.

     (1) Full disclaimer: my rather rare first name was occasionally mocked, but not as much as my last name, which is pronounced [like the well-known Haribo sweets maker.

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     Claudia Caesaris 🏳️‍⚧️🥚 (claudiacaesaris@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 02:34:31 JST Claudia Caesaris 🏳️‍⚧️🥚

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     @aaribaud I don't get it...?

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 03:21:21 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Claudia Caesaris 🏳️‍⚧️🥚

     @claudiacaesaris Ah! Non, there is not! At least, not that I know of. 😅

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     Claudia Caesaris 🏳️‍⚧️🥚 (claudiacaesaris@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 03:21:23 JST Claudia Caesaris 🏳️‍⚧️🥚

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     @aaribaud I thought there was something about that specific name I was missing, not just that it was a weird name.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Packed

     "Have you informed R42 of our company's plan to take it with us on our ambitious expedition to Epsilon Eridani?"

     'Yes. I did."

     "And what did it say?"

     "It said that it would be a good idea for you if you packed it in."

     "Great! Wait--"

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Aug-2024 14:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Hands

     "I devised a spell which allows me to throw *at the same time* one fireball from each of my hands!"

     "Yes, well, two fireballs won't achieve a lot..."

     "I also devised another spell which turns me into a giant millipede."

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Thursday, 29-Aug-2024 14:00:15 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Foam

     For the trip, R42 too will be in a cryogenic pod, inside polyurethane foam mold adapted toits body. But while the cold will suspend ours, *its* brain will keep running, even faster. Eight months alone in my head, I'd go nuts.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 14:00:12 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Wash

     Oh, so you *really* thought I'd come to wash away your sins *again*?

     Haha, very funny.

     Nah, I'm done turning the other cheek, it's over. Now is the time for a reckoning.

     #MastoArt #FlashFiction #SmallStory #TootFic #MicroFiction

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 31-Aug-2024 14:00:10 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     #writever Soap

     "Well?"

     "It's a golem. The hollow skull, the chem, the whole deal. But it's six inches tall. And she made it out of soap."

     "We absolutely must train this young lass."

     "From the looks of it, *she* should be training *us*."

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