Seasonal Skill Prompts - Winter, Year 18

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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">Winter, Year 18 Seasonal Skill Prompts</div>

<div class=tcat>Fighting</div>

<u>Food Scare:</u> It seems a pack of coyotes have spotted you and decided you’d make a nice meal!
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<b>Goal</b>: Fight off a pack of angry coyotes.
<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 pack of coyotes.
2. Fend off their attacks!
3. Are you successful in warding them off? What, if any, injuries do you get from this encounter?

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

<u>I Believe I Can Fly:</u> Sometimes when prey is scarce on the ground, you ought to turn your head to the sky...
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<b>Goal</b>: Hunt a flying prey animal!
<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. Track down a flying prey animal.
2. Hunt it down!
3. Note the difficulties in hunting an airborne prey animal. How might your tactics need to change?

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

<u>Needle in a Haystack:</u> Collect a rare, hard-to-find herb!
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<b>Goal</b>: Locate and collect a rare herb.
<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. Locate a rare herb (check the Herb Guide section of the Knowledge Base for ideas).
2. Note what it might be used for, or why you want to collect it.
3. Get to gathering!

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

<u>Pretty Lights:</u> The sky lights up late at night and blues and greens can be seen dancing across the sky. Where do they come from? Where do they go?
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<b>Goal</b>: Observe the northern lights (aurora borealis).
<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 the northern lights.
2. Observe them for a while! Are they bright or faint? What colors are they? How much space do they take up in the sky?
3. Speculate on their origin or what they might mean to you.

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

<div class=tcat>Intellect</div>

<u>Feeling Crafty:</u> Try your hand at making something new!
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<b>Goal</b>: Craft something unrelated to other skills that you've never crafted before.
<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. Think up something to craft that isn't related to the other four skills.
2. Collect the materials you need and get to crafting!
3. Admire your final product.

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

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<u>Dual Interests:</u> Maybe fighting and healing do go hand in hand!
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<b>Goal</b>: Participate in or give a lesson focusing on anatomy and fighting!
<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. Participate in a lesson led by someone with skills in both fighting and healing (or led by two wolves, one from each skill). Skill level of those leading the lesson doesn't matter! Teachers get the points for this too!
2. The lesson should have a strong focus on anatomy and its role in fighting.
3. Be as creative as you want! For example, maybe you're discussing how a cut tendon could disable an aggressor.

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Fighting skill points & 30 Healing skill points

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