Today's promptling release is the above White Mineral!
Make sure to skip this teller’s interpretation below if you don't want yours to be influenced!
Sighting: White Mineral
For wood, woodworm. For mineral, mineralmaggots.
On the whole, mineralmaggots tend to be more savage, and the beetles they grow into more disastrous. Naturally just as mages and alchemists will cultivate regular woodworm, so too the mineralmaggot. It's quite prized for combining a more distinct living nature with metal, which while still alive is not as filled with vitality, especially the higher above ground you go.
For extermination fumigation may need to be a little more extreme, though smelting works for raw material, but the additional lives may have unexpected results.
What is Morning Menagerie?
Each morning, this teller will release a little critter, of varying colours, and either animal, vegetable, mineral or strange in composition out into the wilds of substack.
A little promptling, if you will. The prompt is the image above itself, it can be a little story, an ode or merely the kind of description you might find in a bestiary. There's a few different categories for this.
Sighting
Is either something like a haiku, a limerick or a wee story between 50-100 words
Encounter
A challenging battle (for the writer) of 800-1500 words.
Recapture
For this, words are optional, simply recreate the prompted critter in whatever medium you desire, crude doodles are acceptable. Even AI generated pictures are acceptable, but do state they are such, some critters should prove quite tricky to wrangle a program into recreating.
The Menagerie Display
Each Sunday, instead of a release, this teller will gather up one of each day’s release in a post for display. Consequently, UNTIL SUNDAY, you can do a piece for any of the released promptlings, not just that day’s. Note that this is merely for the Display. The prompt police aren't real and can't hurt you, so nobody can stop you from excavating a month old prompt from anywhere, shine on you crazy star!
On Restacking
This is merely a suggestion, but to make this a little more like a critter wandering the wilds, after the first post that restacks this post, try to restack others, but be sure to say its menagerie morning, and mention
if you want to try for the Sunday Display.Thanks for reading, this snowflake will melt soon! Subscribe for free to receive notifications of new posts and the ability to vote on Quest polls, subscribe paid to vote on an extra story and get to vote on events for the daily Quest!