Seasonal Skill Prompts - Fall, Year 17

<div class=thead>Seasonal Skill Prompts - Fall, Year 17</div>

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Skill Prompts are a monthly feature that allow your character to gain skills in different ways. <b>Each <u>character</u> can only complete ONE prompt per season</b>, and can be completed either in a solo post or in a group thread. You cannot claim these posts for other skill points! Please note that as long as you complete the objectives, you're free to be creative with your posts and have some fun with these prompts!

For <b>solo posts</b>, you must complete the entire prompt in <b>one post</b>. Of course, you can use these posts as thread starters and continue the thread as usual, but no other skills may be claimed by you from that thread.

For <b>group threads</b>, the word count is <b>cumulative</b> and will be counted over all participants. However, participants must be ACTIVELY trying to complete the skill prompt for their words to count. <u>Note that group threads have a maximum of 3 allowed participants unless otherwise specified.</u>

<div class="thead">Fall, Year 17 Seasonal Skill Prompts</div>

<div class=tcat>Fighting</div>

<u>Stay Humble:</u> Maybe not all fights are meant to be won.
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<b>Goal</b>: Lose a fight to a large predator!
<b>Word Count</b>: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">
1. Encounter a large predator.
2. Assess the situation and likelihood of success in facing off with a large predator.
3. Lose! You can't win this time- do you end up injured or do you flee before things really get messy?

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Fighting Skill Points
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<div class=tcat>Hunting</div>

<u>Unconventional Lessons:</u> Learn to hunt something a little different!
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<b>Goal</b>: Give or receive a lesson in hunting unusual prey (something non-mammal).
<b>Word Count</b>: 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere
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1. Give OR receive a lesson in hunting unusual prey (anything that isn't a mammal).
2. Focus on tracking the prey as well as actually hunting it. How is it different than hunting a mammal?
3. Finish the hunt! Is it successful or not?

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Hunting Skill Points
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<div class=tcat>Healing</div>

<u>Laying Down Roots:</u> Sometimes it's nice to leave places a little nicer than you found them..
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<b>Goal</b>: Find a plant and successfully replant it somewhere else.
<b>Word Count</b>: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">
1. Find a plant (flower, herb, or otherwise) that you'd like to grow somewhere else.
2. Why are you replanting it? Is it so you can grow something where you live, or for another reason?
3. Get to work! Dig it up and replant it!

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Healing Skill Points
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<div class=tcat>Navigation</div>

<u>Spelunking:</u> With a rainy fall upon us, maybe it's time to take shelter below ground!
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<b>Goal</b>: Explore an underground land!
<b>Word Count</b>: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">
1. Seek shelter from the elements (whether rain, cold, or something else?).
2. Seek out an underground land to explore.
3. Explore!

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Navigation Skill Points</div>

<div class=tcat>Intellect</div>

<u>Game Time:</u> Doesn't a game night sound fun?
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<b>Goal</b>: Play a game!
<b>Word Count</b>: 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">
1. Find someone to play a game with (not a race, a hunt, or a fight!).
2. What are the rules? Is there a prize for the winner?
3. Game on!

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Intellect Skill Points
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<div class=tcat>BONUS PROMPT - FIGHTING / INTELLECT</div>

<center><b>Only one bonus prompt per PLAYER allowed each season. A character can only complete ONE prompt a season, whether it be a bonus prompt or a regular prompt, unless otherwise specified.</b></center>

<u>Adaptation:</u> Sometimes when you're in a fight, the situation might not be ideal, and you need to adapt and thing on your feet!
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<b>Goal</b>: Fight with some major disadvantage.
<b>Word Count</b>: 2500 (2 wolves), 3500 (3 wolves), 4500 (4 wolves)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">
1. You're at a personal disadvantage, for some reason (blindfolded, one leg tied to another - be creative!). Maybe it's an actual injury, or maybe it's just a lesson in adapting during fights.
2. Fight! How do you adapt to your circumstances? What do you need to do different? Do you have to rely on different senses than usual, or rethink everything you know about fighting?
3. Who wins?

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 points to FIGHTING and INTELLECT

<b>Redeem prompts as usual in skill claims!</b></center>
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