Welcome, my friends, to week fifty-one! There is no escape!

(of course, you might not enter the challenge, but you will take part in this week regardless, so long as you're breathing right now

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Your challenge this week is to
create a creature/race for your story-worldspecifics: a minimum of 300 words describing the creature's physical appearance/dimensions, habitat, diet, temperament, and offensive/defensive mechanisms. The alternative if you have no story-world is to
do the same thing for your real-world setting (just imagine what sort of whacky/creepy/awesome creature might go with your story. It'll get the creative juices roiling.)
(and...both of those goals count as the same, if you do them both, you only get bonus points as if you did one twice)
*wonders when Zoe will stop letting him 'help' by doing the goals for her once in awhile*

Remember,
in order to receive points for completing the weekly challenge, you MUST declare it by Monday at midnight.As always...
The Rules wrote:
1. All challenges must be declared completed by midnight Saturday in your timezone (please specify your timezone when you sign up).
2. All challenges (personal or weekly) must be declared by midnight Monday in your timezone.
3. Personal challenges cannot be repeated.
4. The organizer reserves the right to veto any challenges that seem too simple. (i.e. writing a sentence)
If this is your first time on one of these quests, you'll need to see the
initiation pamphlet.
Also, I would like to remind everyone that any weekly challenge pieces that are posted on the forum will be eligible to be featured in our newsletter. Please post a link in this thread if you would like it to be considered.
If you could write your sign-up post in a similar format to the following, it would be appreciated:
Goal: weekly challenge (or whatever you decide to do)
Timezone: PDT
Lycanis: (PDT)
Weekly challenge
COMPLETE x5 Personal goal: get back into world-building. Do at least 500 words of new material, and some revision.
COMPLETERenna: Finish that dratted short story I've been working on for weeks. XD (PDT)
Katharina: Edit at least one chapter of AMF, stay on track with the 30 in 30 challenge (CDT)
COMPLETEJuliet: (GMT)
Weekly goal.
COMPLETE Personal goal: rewrite letter.
COMPLETERaven: next chapter section of TKB, begin work on my present for HW's next birthday. (PDT)
COMPLETEAratrea: (EST)
Weekly Goal
Personal Goal: Edit 4 chapters of The Capstone
COMPLETELeandra: Weekly Goal
COMPLETE Personal Goal: writing up a paragraph or two about at least two creatures/races for one of my worlds?
COMPLETE