"Today the name Abydos belongs to a small town built on the edge of the deep desert, but this was not always so."
A response to Dragonlordmax's Freetext Friday. Specifically, Exotic Mounts.
Thanks to axlerowes for help fleshing out the details and helping me tie it in further with the rest of the setting.
“Space farming ain’t like jumping through hyperspace boy! You got have patience, lots of water and thousands of kilometers of tubing.”
A 100-word piece of Sci-fi minutia
A treacherous door to enter. Take a deep breath, focus your mind, and leap into the ice.
A small millstone, as far as millstones go, made by a wizard for his clerical friend to ensure he was always able to make fresh bread, wherever his travels took him.
If you had writing as bad as Corran's, you'd look for a way around it too.
30 books to be found within a steampunk setting. Manuals, tomes, and blueprints galore!
100 word magic item
The King always has the coolest form of transportation.
Combating any monster is often as simple as having the right tool for the job. The nightmarish lycanthrop is no exception.
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart... Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
Bucky Batteries: when you need batteries to last a long long long time
A 100 piece of sci-fi minutia
100 word pest
A coveted tree, 100 words
"Sivver is the common name given to crystalline parasites, which interact with the nervous systems of carbon based Chordate life forms."
Definition of the word Sivver provided by the Galactic Scouting Guild's Almanac
“The Sivvers are an alien weapon that turns people into murderous glass sweating zombies.”
Uwell Ofmobile, retired Galactic Scout
A 100-word piece of sci-fi minutia
A 100-word location, inspired by this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_stalactite) and a classic fairytale.
A 100-word religion
Downsit, you, you and you! Story tell of Koboldi rise to Island King!
So, Lord and Lady Brennan definitely must sit together, but not too close to either of the Fletchers. General Schneider will cause a scene if he gets stuck next to one of those "brownnosed royalists," but his wife will be upset if she isn't next to one of the king's confidantes. I think we'll have to do it this way....