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

A 100 word Location

"Compared to the scum I deal with as a cop, fighting you was a piece of cake!"

"How is he? Will my son ever recover from the bugs that turned his brain to mush?"

The doctor pointed to where the thirty-seven year old was playing with toys on the floor. "It's been five years now and he has the brain of a child, give it another five and we can start the basics of teaching him magic again. He knows who you are but...but he will never have the same personality again, and by the time he regains all his magic skills at their former levels he will be in his sixties."