Seasonal Skill Prompts - Fall, Year 19

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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">Autumn, Year 19 Seasonal Skill Prompts</div>

<div class=tcat>Fighting</div>

<u>Hey, I'm walkin' here! :</u> Something seems to be agitating the local wildlife, animals of all types have been migrating in unusual ways, seemingly in a panic. Unfortunately for you, you happened to find yourself in the path of a fleeing predator and they don't seem inclined to ask you nicely to move.
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<b>Goal</b>: Face down an agitated 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. Be attacked by a fleeing predator
2. Defend yourself
3. Get out of there alive, do you win your fight or do you decide to get out of the way?

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

<u>Dinner to Go:</u> Something seems to be agitating the local wildlife, animals of all types have been migrating in unusual ways, seemingly in a panic. The local prey animals seem to be moving away from their usual territories, probably best to try and catch what you can before they're all gone!
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<b>Goal</b>: Try to catch something before it's gone
<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. Observe the strange migration of your prey
2. Decide on a plan of attack
3. Try to intercept your prey, does their unusual behaviour let them get away or do you bring home dinner tonight?

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

<u>Emergency Kit:</u> Word on the street is that something big is about to happen, but no one can seem to figure it out but it's your job to make sure you're as prepared as you can be for any emergency!
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<b>Goal</b>: Make sure you're prepared for an emergency
<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. Identify supplies it would be beneficial to have in an unknown emergency
2. Check your own supplies, do you have everything you need?
3. Make a plan to get anything you're missing

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

<u>Strange Phenomena:</u> You more than anyone else seem to be noticing something is off, there are strange lights appearing near the peaks of mountains, standing water levels seem to be fluctuating weirdly and rivers sometimes look like they're flowing in the wrong direction, parts of the ground seem to be tilting gently in ways you've never seen before, you hear a sort of muffled banging from beneath the ground and occasionally you even feel the earth move slightly under your paws, nothing strong enough to knock you over. What is happening here?
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<b>Goal</b>: Use your knowledge of the continent to note the changes around you
<b>Word Count</b>: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Anywhere in Boreas
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">1. Observe the strange weather phenomena around you.
2. Compare it to what you'd normally expect for this area
3. Speculate on what the cause could be, have you ever seen this before?

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

<div class=tcat>Intellect</div>

<u>Like the Tide:</u> Well that's strange... While walking near the coast you noticed something that catches your eye, the tide is out. That by itself wouldn't be worth noting but it's usually high tide right now and you've never seen the water pull back this far from the shore. Better investigate.
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<b>Goal</b>: Observe the strange behaviour of the sea
<b>Word Count</b>: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Any coast on Auster
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">1. Notice the usual tide
2. Investigate the shore for any signs of the cause
3. Use your knowledge to determine what this could mean, is it safe to stay here?

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Intellect Skill Points
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<div class=tcat>BONUS PROMPT- Healing / Navigation</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>High Risk, High Reward:</u> With all the strange phenomena setting everyone on edge you decide it might be worth taking a bit of a risk and trying to get a rare herb or two, the only problem is that it grows somewhere you really don't want to fall off of. Time to use your understanding of the lay of the land to your advantage, just don't look down!
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<b>Goal</b>: Climb up or down somewhere dangerous to get a rare herb
<b>Word Count</b>: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
<b>Location</b>: Any mountain, cliff or ravine.
<b>Tasks</b>: <div align="justify" style=" padding-left:20px; padding-right:20px;">1. Identify what rare herb you want to get and where it can be found
2. Navigate your way through the treacherous terrain to find your prize
3. Get to your destination, do you find your herb or did you break a leg getting there?

</div><b>Reward</b>: 30 Healing and 30 Navigation skill points!

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