Story Starters

Situation: Meeting with a distinguished person
Denizen Type: Bad person
Outcome Direction: Unexpected advancement
Mundane Problem: You let others make your decisions too often
Theme Quote: ‘Gebratene Tauben, die einem im Maul fliegen? — Do pigeons fly ready-roasted into one’s mouth?’ German Proverb.

Situation: Conquest
Denizen Type: Someone beautiful
Outcome Direction: Success plus financial reward
Mundane Problem: Nothing is fun for you anymore
Theme Quote: ‘Music is the most immediate means possessed by the will for the manifestation of its inner impulses.’ A. R. Parsons.

Situation: Travels on the untrodden ways
Denizen Type: Great mother
Outcome Direction: Predestined
Mundane Problem: You have nothing to do at work
Theme Quote: ‘Blessed he who has a skin and tissues, so it be a living one, and the heart-pulse everywhere discernible through it.’ Carlyle.

Situation: Change your life
Denizen Type: Brainiac
Outcome Direction: Vicious
Mundane Problem: You start a relationship with the wrong person
Theme Quote: ‘Bescheiden freue dich des Ruhms, / So bist du 20wert des Heiligthums—If thou modestly enjoy thy fame, thou art not unworthy to rank with the holy.’ Goethe.

Situation: Trouble
Denizen Type: Dark witch
Outcome Direction: Is generally favorable
Mundane Problem: You dislike learning new skills and today is training day
Theme Quote: ‘You never long the greatest man to be.’ Goethe.

Situation: Trapped by enemies
Denizen Type: Rogue
Outcome Direction: Provides unexpected good fortune
Mundane Problem: Your feelings of privilege are causing issues
Theme Quote: ‘He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.’ Thomas à Kempis.

Situation: Pleasant memories
Denizen Type: Great person of authority
Outcome Direction: Tripped up by intoxication
Mundane Problem: You lost your phone
Theme Quote: ‘Dinna lift me before I fa’.’ Scotch. Proverb.

Situation: Serious quarrel
Denizen Type: Forest Folk
Outcome Direction: Doomed by difficulties
Mundane Problem: You forgot laundry in the washer
Theme Quote: ‘From glittering gains of learning.’ Lewis Morris.

If you want to join the Sisterhood of the Hat, the first step is finding the hat that fits your personality. Look at Edweeda’s hat — pure chaos.
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I once had an enchanted feather that created a new magic ritual every day. The ritual stayed written for twenty-three hours before disappearing.
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