Seasonal Skill Prompts - Winter, Year 21
01-03-2025, 09:27 AM
Seasonal Skill Prompts
Skill Prompts are a monthly feature that allow your character to gain skills in different ways. Each character can only complete ONE prompt per season, 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 solo posts, you must complete the entire prompt in one post. 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 group threads, the word count is cumulative and will be counted over all participants. However, participants must be ACTIVELY trying to complete the skill prompt for their words to count. Note that group threads have a maximum of 3 allowed participants unless otherwise specified.
Winter, Year 21 Seasonal Skill Prompts
Fighting
Slippery Slopes: Fighting on uneven slopes, slick with ice- or mud following a storm- requires strategy.
Goal: Engage in a fight on a snowy hillside, or a muddy slope.
Word Count: 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
Word Count: 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
1. Initiate or be forced into a fight on unstable, slippery terrain.
2. Describe the hazards faced during the fight. Are there slips or falls? Shifting snow/mud? Avalanches?
3. Adapt to the challenges. Can you find a way to use the environment to your advantage, or does it make the fight more difficult?
Reward: 30 Fighting Skill Points2. Describe the hazards faced during the fight. Are there slips or falls? Shifting snow/mud? Avalanches?
3. Adapt to the challenges. Can you find a way to use the environment to your advantage, or does it make the fight more difficult?
Hunting
Bogged Down: Hunt prey struggling to navigate waterlogged terrain or deep snowdrifts, taking advantage of their slowed movements.
Goal: Hunt a prey animal struggling to navigate either waterlogged terrain, or snowy terrain.
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
1. Spot weakened or stranded prey. Perhaps they're stuck in snowdrifts, struggling through mud, or slowed by flooding.
2. Navigate the difficult conditions yourself. Do you sink into mud, slip on ice, or wade through freezing water?
3. Use strategy and timing to close in for the kill, considering how the conditions impact the hunt, both from the prey's side as well as your own.
Reward: 30 Hunting Skill Points2. Navigate the difficult conditions yourself. Do you sink into mud, slip on ice, or wade through freezing water?
3. Use strategy and timing to close in for the kill, considering how the conditions impact the hunt, both from the prey's side as well as your own.
Healing
Waterlogged: Treat illness caused by exposure to either snow or rain.
Goal: Care for someone who's gotten sick after getting drenched in freezing rain or snow.
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
1. Encounter a character suffering from chills, coughing, or fever after prolonged exposure to wet conditions, whether snow or rain.
2. Gather herbs, create remedies, or come up with treatments to help their condition.
3. Reflect on the importance of preventing illness in harsh weather, as well as preparing for future emergencies.
Reward: 30 Healing Skill Points2. Gather herbs, create remedies, or come up with treatments to help their condition.
3. Reflect on the importance of preventing illness in harsh weather, as well as preparing for future emergencies.
Navigation
Trailblazer: Create a new path through untouched snow or flooded terrain.
Goal: Forge a trail through rough, uncharted terrain- whether to help others or yourself.
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
1. Start a journey through untouched snow or flooded muddy lands, making an effort to try to mark the route you take.
2. Describe the challenges of navigating such terrain, whether you're having to break through ice, plow through snow, climb slick slopes or wade through mud.
3. Reflect on the importance of leaving markers behind, whether to clear a path for someone else or yourself in the future!
Reward: 30 Navigation Skill Points2. Describe the challenges of navigating such terrain, whether you're having to break through ice, plow through snow, climb slick slopes or wade through mud.
3. Reflect on the importance of leaving markers behind, whether to clear a path for someone else or yourself in the future!
Intellect
Bridge the Gap: Construct a makeshift bridge or crossing to navigate rough terrain.
Goal: Build a temporary bridge or crossing to help navigate over flooded water, mud, snow or ice!
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
Word Count: 800 (Solo) or 1500 (Group)
Location: Anywhere
Tasks:
1. Identify an area that can’t be crossed easily- whether it be a flooded river, a field of snowdrifts, or a pit of mud- or something else!
2. Use materials you can find to construct a crossing. Maybe you use sticks, rocks, or something else.
3. Test your creation and see how it holds up.
Reward: 30 Intellect Skill Points2. Use materials you can find to construct a crossing. Maybe you use sticks, rocks, or something else.
3. Test your creation and see how it holds up.
Redeem prompts as usual in skill claims!