Giraffe Call Early Wednesday Update

The Giraffe Call is Still Open (and on LJ)! It will stay open until this Friday evening, or until I've written one prompt to ever prompter, whichever comes first.

Monday morning we reached the $201 goal - our furnace bill is paid for! (also, there will be another single-setting Call near the end of the month) At $211, we are just $29 from reaching the next incentive level, where I will hold a chat session with characters!

Claim your words! If you have donated to this call, or to any call, you can ask for $x100 words continuation on any story posted here!

Back to writing!

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Planning Board Woes, a story of Dragons Next Door for the Giraffe Call

For kay_brooke's prompt

Dragons Next Door has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ

I do enjoy my consulting work, and not just because it gets me out of the house once in a while. Generally, I get to help smooth the interactions between humans and other races, and I almost always get a good story out of it in the process.

Like the situation just last week. I got a call from the City Planning and Zoning board, asking me to come help with a building that a non-human consortium had purchased. It seemed that they weren't keeping the streetfront up to code.

Because some of the races have strange opinions about aesthetics, it's generally a good idea to bring in a translator. The City has run into problems before - things like the ogres who used to live next door to us, for example. So now they call me in at the first sign of trouble.
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Breaking Ground, a story for the Giraffe Call (@Anke)

For anke's Prompt

The new hospital was going to be the best thing that had happened to the Cayuga Lake region in decades. Stuck in a hospital-dry zone, the state-of-the-art set of buildings would bring more jobs to the area, open up treatment options without having to drive two hours to the nearest bigger city, and, hopefuly, put the old I-wouldn't-send-my-dog-there hospital on the other side of the lake out of business. Georgie and Gene VanStatler were very proud of themselves for bringing it all together.

When they got the call, barely two days after the ground had first been broke, they didn't know what to expect. They had surveyed and studied all of the normal hazards of the region - there wasn't natural gas close to the surface. There were no records of Indian habitation right in this area, although the records were spotty. The bedrock had, in nearby constructions, proven to be far enough down. And it was not, unlike much in the area, a flood-prone zone.

"You've got to come down here," was all that Marty Townsend, the construction boss, would say. So down there they came, in the cold of early April, bundled up and muttering to each other the whole time about how it really couldn't be THAT bad.
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Author's note: Cayuga Lake is one of the Finger Lakes, in central New York State.

A Growing Plan, a story of the Planners 'Verse for the Giraffe Call

For skjam's prompt.

The Planners have a landing page here on DW and here on LJ

They had a plan when they moved in to the city.

Of course they did; they were the Planners. They had other names - the Seven Families, the Amalgamated Preparation Assembly, or just The Founders - but the one they called themselves, in their private meetings, was The Planners. And what they did was Prepare, Found, and, most of all, Plan.

They'd done this in several other cities already - move in, begin buying up unwanted, abandoned, cheap land in bad neighborhoods, empty warehouse space, anything they could get that was standing vacant. And then They would begin cleaning, stockpiling, restoring, and, in some cases, demolishing to make room for green space.
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Under Scrutiny, a story of Rin & Girey, a Giraffe Call continuation perk

From the poll for continuation story from December's Giraffe Call. This one ran short, so I will also write a bit of something to the runner-up.

This comes after:"Come to Bed" (LJ)
In Bed (LJ), after "Come to Bed" [Beta]
Morning After (LJ) [Access-list only]
Virginity/Celibacy (LJ), a drabble.

Reiassan has a landing page here on DW and here on LJ.

Arinya found the way her captive was gaping at her to be very strange. She’d known he’d have a reaction, of course, and even if he hadn’t been staring, the warmth of his hand on her hip was a clear giveaway.
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