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GLÅUGUST HAS PASSED AROUND THE SUN 

HELLO. LAST TIME I RAN GLÅUGUST, IT OUTPERFORMED MY EXPECTATIONS AND I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. THIS GAVE ME CAUSE TO SUPPOSE THAT MY SUPPOSITION ABOUT THE CAUSE OF THE -- I'LL CUT OFF THE RAMBLE.

IN SHORT, YEAH, AUGUST SEEMS TO WORK. HERE WE ARE AGAIN. 

CHALLENGES WORK LIKE THIS: THEY’RE 1d6 LISTS OF SHORT PROMPTS. YOU CAN ROLL 6d6 AND GET A SET OF SIX CHALLENGES TO COMPLETE. OR YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT THIS AND PICK ONE YOU’RE INTERESTED IN I GUESS.

CHALLENGE 1 (These prompts realised from cryptic hints in the histories by Phlox)   

1. Magic Amulets.
   
   
2. Review Another's Blogpost.
   
   
3. Spells of the Evil King.
   
   
4. Sequel to a Blogpost from Last Year (Yours, or others').
   
   
5. Primates.
   
   
6. Water Levels.

CHALLENGE 2 (These prompts seen by Prime, high in the strange heavens)

1. Deicide dungeon.
   
   
2. Frightening anachronisms.
   
   
3. Guest stars!
   
   
4. Breathing new life into an old post.
   
   
5. Books as treasure. No spellbooks.
   
   
6. Classic monsters as classes.

CHALLENGE 3 (These prompts reflected from the faceted gem held in the hand of Purple.) 

1. Resurrection magic.
   
   
2. Perpetual motion.
   
   
3. The many qualities of night air.
   
   
4. Futility of categorization.
   
   
5. Fractals and intricacy.
   
   
6. Dracula!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CHALLENGE 4 (These prompts retrieved by Semiurge from the demiplane of prompts.) 

1. Non-Lovecraftian cosmic horror.
   
   
2. An unusual crop.
   
   
3. Tree dungeon.
   
   
4. A lost spellbook, its contents, and the factions/individuals that vie for it.
   
   
5. Some roadfreaks for a passage that isn't a road - canalfreaks, hyperlanefreaks, portalfreaks, etc.
6. System for legal arguments in a court of law.

CHALLENGE 5 (These are Doc's Glåugust prompts, and she'll chose the movies.) 

1. Write a location where roughly 80% or more of the language is directly lifted from a single author or poet (they can't be a ttrpg writer, don't be dull). Like this.
   
   
2. Post a timeline of the near, far and distant future of one of your precious pet settings.  
   
   
3. Write the last post on your blog, which is also how one (or all) of your worlds will end. you can write other posts after this one! but whenever you hang up your hat, (or die), people can reread this post and know it was your last one.
   
   
4. Cottonmouth your pet system so it is synonymous with one of your settings. Here is what Cottonmouth is and here is one way you could do that.
   
   
5. Make like Garamondia and post a capsule game.
   
   
6. Introduce something to another blogger's setting that fundamentally alters it. They MUST incorporate this change, so get permission first and don't be a pill.

CHALLENGE 6 (These prompts blew out of the fairy forest and landed on my house.) 

1. A short class which is absolutely not a fighter, not a wizard, not a cleric and not a thief. 
   
   
2. You're heard of microclasses, right? What does a megaclass look like?
   
   
3. A short adventure about printing presses. 
   
   
4. A short class with four A templates, which can be taken in any order. 
   
   
5. Write about the effects of in-world fashion or clothing on your elfgame. 
   
   
6. Select an artistic movement, and make a dungeon in reference to the works or habits of that artistic movement. Painting, writing, music, all work. The only forbidden thing is referencing artistic movements from TTRPGs, because that is too easy. 

SPEEDRUN MODE: Do every challenge in 500 words or less.

If you complete all six challenges, link your six (or more!) posts in a comment, and I'll put you into a roundup post sometime in September!