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Site-Wide Writing Challenge 2022

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RULES:

1. The thread and submissions must have been started after the date of this post.
2. You can meet more than one challenge in a single thread.
3. Please only original content for applicable entries. Using an old description of your home and copy pasting it into your new thread, while it's not something we'll be checking for, is a bit against the spirit of the challenges.
4. Each Player can enrol no more than 3 pcs in this Writing Challenge.
5. This contest will be running from this date, to the end of August 2022. Please have your submissions in by that time, if you wish to participate!
6. These challenges are to be completed by individual pcs, on a per pc basis.

Thread Challenge

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Write a thread that includes a box, a piece of chalk, and a spider.

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Give a nickname to another PC in-thread.

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Have a PC tell a story from their childhood to a PC.

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Get into a fight (Verbal or Physical) with another PC.

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Write a thread that includes a ribbon, an egg, and a rabbit.

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Have your PC fail at something they're very skilled at.

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Start a post with the line, "I didn't know it then, but I'd walked into a nightmare."

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Write a thread that references an Immortal your PC has never met.

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End a post with the line, "That's when they knew, they had no control."

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Write a thread that includes rainbows, a song (written with lyrics that are properly attributed if necessary or not original), and a reptile.

Character Challenge

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Increase a crafting skill from novice to expert.

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Earn 5 knowledge in a single skill in a thread.

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Identify your PC’s goal (seasonal or overarching) and write about it either in a storybook entry, a story/thread, a plot thread, or OOC discussion thread.

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Create a Storybook Entry for your character. Post it here.

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Describe your character's home in a thread or in your CS.

Development Challenge

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Submit a slang term or phrase to your city's development thread.

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Submit a Folktale to a city's development forum.

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Submit a holiday, ritual, or tradition to a city's development forum.

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Submit a Location to a city's development forum.

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Submit a Faction, complete with NPCs to a city's development forum.

[Pyrre Ej'qy]

Zarena Ravire

personal npc

Name: Zarena Ravire [Approved]

Race: Mixed-Blood (Aukari x Biqaj)

Date of Birth: 18 Vhalar 698

Origin: Etzos

Height: 5'9" [1.75m]

Languages:
Fluent: Common
Broken: Rakahi, Ith'ession

Relationship to PC: Travel Companion

Skills:
Deception: 30 / 100
Seduction: 30 / 100
Intelligence: 20 / 100
Appraisal: 5 / 100
Cosmetology: 5 / 100
Leadership: 5 / 100
Linguistics: 5 / 100

Appearance: Captivating in a way that many bright and dangerous things are, Zarena enjoys standing out and being noticed. Her whole visage burns and glows like a fire: long, straight hair a rich auburn red that shines a more vibrant hue under the light of the suns, tattooed skin a warm olive tan and shining amber eyes shifting in intensity with flickers of silver and gold. Yet any warmth seems to cease there as it is rare for her to not wear an expression of judgement and disdain. She isn't one to often hide her emotions unless the situation calls for deception and lets them play out on her face, opting to be as transparent as a shallow pool both in her expressions and thoughts. Although she tends to always appear clean and put together and favours anything colourful that she can get her hands on, there is a wilful, wild edge to her that can never be scrubbed away.

Concept: Zarena is a woman who knows what she wants and has the tendency to get obsessive about getting it, no matter how long it may take. Abandoned as a child due to her parentage, she learned early on how to rely on her wit and words to survive, only using her body when all else failed. However, time taught her that the latter could be equally powerful, especially when she found work in brothels, with clients letting slip innumerable secrets and information. Eventually, she secured a place as a courtesan for a foreign (and green) trader who had recently come into money, indulging him whenever he was in town and doing what was necessary to gain his confidence. He spoiled her with tales and trinkets from his travels, teased her with merchant and trade knowledge and rumours, and inadvertently helped her learn the art of appraisal and valuation. All this did was make her want more and she convinced him to take her with him as he travelled north to Rharne, but not before encouraging him to employ a guard for her. Stormer, a Lotharro she knew from her days at the Curly Hare (Tavern, Fence and Brothel), ended up filling the role.

Zarena is the sort to never be satisfied and to always be looking out for the next best thing. She craves advancement - whether through material gains, status or knowledge - and loves pushing the boundaries. She is forward and headstrong and rarely minces words when in trusted company, yet is capable of flipping a switch and playing a role when necessary to work her chosen targets or to get what she wants. She's opportunistic yet has a superiority complex and an inflated sense of self worth and confidence, leading to her viewing everyone as disposable. However, she is savvy and experienced enough to know that she cannot reach her ends alone and has a tendency to latch on to those she feels she can use and exploit, moving on whenever it suits her as her loyalty is to herself and herself only. She appreciates those with calculating minds and who can mentally challenge her but, with her inflated ego, she is also quick to view any excessive attempts to outplay her as a slight and will bite back accordingly.

Threads: TBA

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Ymbre Stormer

personal npc

Name: Ymbre Stormer [Approved]

Race: Lotharro

Date of Birth: 81 Ymiden 696

Origin: Etzos

Height: 6'10" [2.08m]

Languages:
Fluent: Common
Broken: Ith'ession

Relationship to PC: Travel Companion

Skills:
Combat - Unarmed: 30 / 100
Intimidation: 30 / 100
Endurance: 15 / 100
Deception: 10 / 100
Detection: 5 / 100
Intelligence: 5 / 100
Psychology: 5 / 100


Appearance: Like any Lotharro, Ymbre is a mountain of a man and innately intimidating as a result. He's thickly built, naturally solid with shoulders nearly as broad as an entryway, a belly like a keg and arms and legs to match. Unlike the Lotharen of Uthaldria and the wilds, he has only even lived within the city of Etzos and away from his people's culture and his appearance reflects this. He carries himself less like an animal and more like a soldier, with more measured movements and awareness of the space he takes up. His style is less rugged yet still very gritty, favouring non-descript yet practical and functional dress with a flair for more urban accessories. From his earrings, piercings, ring and necklaces choices to the specific style of the tattoos that cover him from neck to ankle, all reflect his time within the shadier circles of Etzos. And while he might boast a full beard and wild and wavy shoulder length, dark blond hair, the former is kept neat and tidy and the latter more-often-than-not kept tied back and out of the way. Despite nearly every inch of him looking imposing, there is an odd, unnerving warmth to him and wisdom and knowing in his soft brown eyes. His oval face has sharp features that are very expressive and he is quick to flash a reassuring smile or nod.

Concept: Ymbre, for all intents and purposes, comes off as the strong and silent type. As a born Lotharro who came to existence in Etzos, he stood out from the predominately Human population and endured the animosity that fear and hatred of something different bred. And when staying quiet and keeping his head down failed to earn him any peace, he learned to fight back. However, in doing so, he developed a code of sorts - he would not seek violence for the sake of it but, instead, only fight to defend himself and those to which his loyalties lied. His fighting style was shaped by this conviction, resulting in him aiming to only use force to incapacitate and diffuse threats rather than to kill or maim. He developed a bit of a reputation and, when paired with the physique his race blessed him with, he quickly found employment as a guard. However, he never forgot how poorly he had been treated by the people of Etzos and, with time, grew less receptive of working for those who only saw him as a dumb animal. He sought out the darker side of the city, the place were it didn't matter if you were a local or an outsider - all that mattered was what you brought to the table. And so his time working for the Fence of Eztos came to be, and with it, a whole new world. Although never heavily involved outside of acting as an enforcer or hired muscle, he learned much from simply observing how the tavern-cum-brothel-cum-fence operated. He learned to figure out people and to understand why they might act as they did. How to anticipate another's actions and motives. It was only once a former whore and acquaintance by the name of Zarena convinced her patron to hire him on as her personal guard that he saw an opportunity to begin employing all that he had learned.

Ymbre - or Stormer as he was called when working for the fence - has no problems playing the big dumb brute. He enjoys being underestimated and, like the mountain he resembles, remains resolute, his patience near endless. As expressive and expansive as he can be, he keeps his cards close to his chest. He's a man used to following others rather than carving out his own destiny but that isn't to say he's a mindless minion; what he lacks for in ambition he more than makes up for in conviction and will not waver from staying true to his beliefs. To get to know the true Ymbre is a difficult task as he is an inherently secretive individual and protective of his true motives and interests.

Threads: TBA