Desolation and grief can leave you floating, unable to find a new shape to your existence. Who knew that it was possible to be shocked out of the morass of sorrow by a well-timed push?! Madrik was reeling from the loss of his family and unable to find his way into the new reality. Then something happened that sent him further than he ever thought to travel. A new life, in a new dimension! This is a place where problems are solved, and life is continually changing. Come in, put your feet up, and join the crew that Madrik is collecting in this shared universe. Be amused and challenged, touched and enthralled. Welcome to the Badger Hole Bar!

Chaos and confusion. The tidal wave of tension before release. The Badger Hole Bar is having its Grand Opening. Madrik and his new team have been frantic. Trying to get everything ready in time is hard enough, but there are problems. Of course, it might help if the BHB would stop rearranging the architecture, or no new emergencies came up. Since that would be an impossible situation, they will just have to do what they can and leave the rest to fate, luck, or whatever. That just leaves one main worry... What if no one comes?

Picture a pocket dimension, floating in chaos and waiting... Waiting for some great need or challenging adventure. First comes the Badger Hole Bar and the Dirty Bucket Brewery. Of course! Those wandering adventurers need to eat and drink - right? Next comes... FASHION?!?!? Not your usual way of building a community. Not the same old situation at all. There is nothing wrong with needing clothes, and everyone wants form and function. But a Clothier? Apparently, the Badger Hole Bar has its own ideas on what is required. Because after all, clothes can make the man...

Even in the Badger Hold Bar, the gift of fashion is more than a shallow expression of regard. “How you feel about your place in the world and who you are is picked up immediately by others. Comfort in your clothing presents the persona that is important to you!” so said the Clothier to her newest client. Moving at her usual whirlwind pace, Genevieve is about to perform an Earth-shaking makeover! Will the new client survive? Or become a victim of fashion?

Life is messy. We take the information that we have at the moment, and we make decisions. Sometimes that choice results in loss and regret. Madrik and his crew are working on getting the BHB operational. Unfortunately, the day before the Grand Opening, the building with a mind of its own decides to add a new room. Brick walls and floors, smooth stones set in the walls. No one seems to have a clue what’s going on. Then people start wandering in. Some in sorrow, some in a celebration of life, they each want to leave something at the Remembrance Wall. Because who else can you trust to hold your treasured memories?

It is relaxation time at the Badger Hole Bar! The usual crowd is rolling in, and Madrik and his crew look forward to a night of convivial entertainment. When, for the first time that anyone can remember, all three of the doors to the BHB open simultaneously, the BHB’s Anchor knows that something weird will happen. However, nothing could have prepared him for what is going down! If it were a comedian’s joke, it would start something like this… “A soccer grandma, an ice maiden, and a cougar walked into a bar….” All is not fun and games when the tradition of In Memorium reminds everyone of the importance of acknowledging those that have sacrificed for us, paved the way, and woven intense memories of comfort and love into the fabric of our being.

The Clothier at the Badger Hole is just settling into her new routine while slowly healing from her previous life as an overstressed and abused dressmaker. The difference between before and now is so significant that she starts out every day grateful for the events that led her here. Genevieve is just getting used to being respected and included in the community, and she does not want to do anything that will endanger that. When nightmares started to haunt her nights, she and her partner, Doucet, search for ways to prevent the danger that she sees in her dreams. They are making some progress when a desperate plea for help comes charging through her studio door. When trying to help a friend puts her in the crosshairs of an ill-tempered and angry man, all of the man’s venom zeros in on her. Her solution is to combine the three problems and come up with a single answer. Can she balance her fears against what she knows needs to be done? Will she be able to stay true to her vision and focus on fashion?

The Badger Hole Clothier has a new project! The Badger Hole Mercenary Guild is trying to establish its reputation, but that is really difficult when you are starting out as a new organization because it is hard to build a reputation if you do not have one to reference, so people hire you. To get out of this situation, Dov the Guildmaster chooses to accept the difficult bodyguarding task.A long-running feud between two planets looks like it may be healing with the marriage of a Royal son and a daughter that is her father’s air. Unfortunately, factions on both sides would really like to scuttle this because it is in their interest to keep the war going.Unwilling to leave the security for the bride and groom in one planet’s control, the Badger Hole Mercenary Guild is contracted to safeguard the happy couple from the beginning of the pre-wedding festivities through the honeymoon. There are only a few problems.There is hundred page set of limitations on what the bodyguards can and cannot do, and the opposing parties to this union have no restriction on what dirty tricks they can use to push it off track.Obviously, the Guild is going to need help. Who else would they call for help? A specialty weapons maker, perhaps? Or even an accomplished armorer?Not if it is the Badger Hole! Then, they call for the Clothier.

Welcome to the Badger Hole Bar! Come in for a drink, and change your life! One of the things that are critical to the success of a bar is the quality of its drinks and the variety. The story, Cold Brew, introduces one of the leading players in the BHB, the Brewmaster of the Dirty Bucket Brewery, Rowan. From retirement in cold Alaska after twenty years in the Merchant Marine to a Magical bar outside of time, the journey for Rowan has been long and arduous. For the man who thought he had the rest of his life planned out, this was a trip that took him places that he never thought he would ever set foot. Spanning the two incarnations of the Badger Hole pocket dimension, the story gives you a unique glimpse into the forces that drive the Badger Hole and the remarkable beings that live there. Magical and intriguing, the first part of this journey will give you a flavor of the tasty surprises yet to come. View this as the first sip of the beer that only gets better the more you drink it!

Tetlock is a well-adapted and loyal member of the vRxa. He studies hard and focuses well on his logic studies and the other things that he needs to learn to contribute to his community. Unfortunately, he is concealing a bad flaw. It is one that would get him killed if anyone learned about it, and the pressure of that risk has formed much of his personality and driven his life in specific directions. When he is finally given his first independent department responsibility, he is thrilled but frightened. This will be the first time he has ever been away from the planet of his birth, so he is shaken by the looming advent of the unknown. The young engineer knows that if he just keeps working on his shortfalls, he will get better. So it was likely that things would have gone as expected except that something happens on the way to his duty station. Something that will forever change the trajectory of his life. Can a young, logic-driven entity ever truly be happy at the Badger Hole, or will his upbringing make him leave? Even with his deep dark secret, will he be able to adapt? Is it possible to find something good that came out of the accidental ambush?

A puppy is not old enough to cope with this!Limited in their overall experience, young of any species begin to build a treasure trove of joys and sorrows. Each one of those is carefully collected from the day-to-day experiences that the youngster adds to their life.A puppy’s life is filled with smells and textures. The comforting smell of mother, the softness of a sibling’s fur, all of these are early and long-lasting components to their universe. That domain slowly increases as they learn to see and move but is purposely controlled for slow growth when they are tiny and need protection.For many puppies, this is a time of learning new things one by one. They can decide which ones to treasure and which to avoid. For others, the introduction to strangeness and novelty is more violent.When a tiny puppy’s world is abruptly disrupted by violence, she is thrown out of her prior foundation. Slammed around from extreme to extreme, the puppy has nothing to cling to except herself.Without a consistent caretaker, how will this one canine grow? Will she develop to be a mass of fear and rage, snapping at every turn and startling sound? Or will she become something else?Only time will tell.