Weekend Challenge (6,7,8)

[Gossamer]

This week we are doing a weekend challenge involving Solos! It will start 9pm PST tonight and run through 9pm PST Monday Night giving you all of Sat, Sun, and Monday to get it done!

Solos must showcase your city's atmosphere! You must include at least one interaction with a city NPC and you must learn a new skill through the course of your solo adventures. You can post a singular solo, a series of solos, or even a whole chapter of solos. We will have various prizes to be decided based on the turnout.

Please post your interest in this thread to "Register" then post the link to your solo with a brief summary of what happened in it plus word count and what NPC(s) you utilized and what new skill(s) you learned.

PC Name:
Thread Title & Link:
Summary Of Thread:
NPCs Utilized & Why:
Word Count:
New Skill:

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Thanks! I hope everyone enjoys!

Goss

[Kynier]

PC Name: Kynier

Thread Title & Link: Shielding Ignorance

Summary Of Thread:
Only days after being possessed by a ghost, Kynier asks a Shielding Master how to protect an area from a ghost's intrusion.

NPCs Utilized & Why:

"Bashful" Doler: Is a Master Shielder and Kynier's employer.

Word Count: 2,628

New Skill: Research

[Ruvya]

PC Name: Ruvya Nighthoof
Thread Title & Link: The Ripple Network
Summary Of Thread: Ruvya begins her day as a ravasola driver with Bedivir, and her day gets tangled with a murder, intrigue and mystery. Jobthread and challenge solo rolled into one.

NPCs Utilized & Why:
Bedivir, an NPC ravosolaman who Ruya would likely encounter, and who has a way with the secrets of Ravok.

Word Count: 3,474 (I should probably split those posts down a bit!)
New Skill: Investigation/intelligence　

[Dovey]

PC Name: Dovey
Thread Title & Link: Fear or Believe
Summary Of Thread: While cleaning up the Drunken Fish, Dovey asks Cira the bartender to explain some of Sunberth's workings to her. Father Manowar sees the pair talking and is angry that they are not working, but Cira puts him off with a lie. Cira then attempts to teach Dovey a little about effective storytelling, so that in the future Dovey can help defuse things when Manowar catches them slacking off.
NPCs Utilized & Why:
Cira Palith - teaches Dovey about Sunberth rumors and effective storytelling
Father Manowar - Dovey's owner, grows angry when he sees her slacking off at work
Word Count: 2196 words

New Skill: Acting

[Kelski]

PC Name:

• Kelski

Thread Title & Link:

• A Deadly Art & A Deadly Connection I - 3181
• A Deadly Art & A Deadly Connection II - 2751
• A Deadly Art & A Deadly Connection III - 2846

Summary Of Thread:

• Kelski goes to the library seeking information on how to use her crossbow. She discovers Remmy wrote a journal on them and ends up meeting Remmy, borrowing the journal, and returning with questions. This thread ended up being a three part + series.

NPCs Utilized & Why:

• The Library's Remmy - A Vigilante Member

Word Count:

• 8,778

New Skill

• Crossbow

[Jomi]

PC Name: Jomi
Thread Title & Link: The art of betrayal.
Summary Of Thread: Jomi, growing uneasy with the power his mistress has over him, offers to sell her secrets to a rival spiritist in exchange for learning Flux.
NPCs Utilized & Why: Rothsam- Lhavit's resident spiritist
Word Count: 2,589
New Skill: Flux

[Tythos Everstorm]

PC Name: Tythos Everstorm

Thread Title & Link:

Summary Of Thread: Tythos learns why the Sun's Birth are both respected and feared while training at the Proving Grounds.

NPCs Utilized & Why:Iztel the Swift & Eleuia the Strong.

Iztel becomes Ty's trainer and mentor for the day, guiding him through learning how to use a Javelin while also teaching him about Sylir's Importance to the Sun's Birth.

Word Count:

New Skill:
Weapon: Javelin.

[Gossamer]

Hey Folks! The weekend challenge closes at the top of the hour. However, this kiddo is done for the day. I'm flat out wiped out so I'm heading to bed. Please get your posts in before 9pm and I'll post prizes sometime tomorrow!

[Duncan Rightstone]

PC Name: Duncan Rightstone
Thread Title & Link: What is one person's life worth.
Summary Of Thread: Duncan is drawn for some strange reason to the Slave Market. There he encounters a slimy slaver and purchases a Kelvic slave from him in order to free her from bondage.
NPCs Utilized & Why: Chester Wollhouse III, Slaver. I utilized him to act as a vessel for an interaction where Duncan would have to lower himself to the level of the dregs of Sunberth in order to save an innocent person.
Word Count: 2,643
New Skill: Negotiation

[Gossamer]

I'm sorry these were so delayed. But without further ado... here are your prizes from this long overdue contest! Like always, I've added these prizes to your SS threads. You can acquire them however you'd like in thread. I would suggest they be given to you by a trusted friend or inherited rather than 'stumbled upon'.

Please enjoy and I apologize for the delay.

Goss!

Kynier-

Your prize is a bottle of memory ink. This vial is 10 fluid ounces. Anything you write down in this ink on any paper with any sort of pen will be committed to your memory and you will not forget it. The ink is an odd shade as well. When a word is written the lettering will appear black with a glowing golden red aura. Anyone who read the writing thereafter will also commit what is written to their memory. If you want no one else to ever know what you yourself are committing to memory, you need to destroy what you write after you write it.

Ruvya-

Your prize is a Bracelet of Blending. This thick cuff of tarnished silver looks completely ordinary if in fact a bit cheap. However, once slipped onto the wrist, this bracelet will allow the wearer for a period of one bell a day to simply blend into the crowd. No one will take note of them being where they are or even remember a conversation with them after the fact. The bracelet has no keywords to activate. It simply is placed on the wrist and at that moment it is activated and will work for one bell. To reactivate it the next day it must be slipped off and placed back on.

Dovey-

The Storyteller’s Aid is your prize. This is necklace it’s a small silver book on a long silver chain. Once worn, it allows the wearer to easily assume various voices when telling a story. They can modify their own voices, making them deeper, higher, lower – whatever they desire - and distinct for each person in the story they are reciting. They can even, with practice, more easily mimic animal noises and soft background sounds like wind gusting through trees or running water.

Kelski-

Your prize is a Crossbow’s Talisman. This Talisman is a single silvery stone set in a ring (resembling a keychain) that can be affixed to a crossbow that acts to both silence the crossbow and augment its accuracy. When affixed as an ornament, the crossbow of choice becomes silent and gives the wielder a +10 to hit. It can be moved from crossbow to crossbow.

Jomi-

Your prize is a Dira’s Bloodstone. The Bloodstone is a very special bit of magic that is tied to your character specifically. They start out unimprinted, but once a ghost fines one of these gemstones and picks it up, they cannot get rid of it. Dira’s Bloodstone is a powerful gift – thought to be one of Dira’s actual drops of blood – which stays with the ghost affixed to its form somewhere – be it materialized or not – that glows a faint red. And once affixed (which happens when a ghost picks one up), they allow the ghost to appear absolutely lifelike when they materialize. Not even a powerful spiritist can tell the difference between a living person and a ghost with a Dira’s Bloodstone. This magic item also allows the ghost to materialize twice as long as it normally could at its skill level.

Tythos Everstorm-

Your prize is a Javlin of Lightening. This Javelin is a Magic Weapon. When you hurl it and speak its Command Word – crackle- it transforms into a bolt of lightning, forming a line 5 feet wide that extends out from you to a target within 120 feet. Each person in the line excluding you and the target must make a saving throw (1d100+relevant avoidance skill (acrobatics, etc) with target of 75 +) to avoid taking burn damage from the crackling lightening. The Lightning Bolt turns back into a Javelin when it reaches the target and does damage as normal.

Duncan –

Your prize is The Ring of The Deliberate Liar. When slipped onto your finger, this ring will noticeably warm when someone is speaking with you and purposely lying. The worse the lie the hotter the ring will burn. The heat of the ring will do no actual damage but indeed cause real pain. If the person speaking the lie believes it as truth, the ring will not react.