THE SKILL CENTRE
This is the list of skills, along with their associated "mini-quests" that you can achieve.
Lore: Acting
-- Requirements:
* During the span of two threads, pretend to be someone you know.
* During the span of one thread, make up a story about your past and make someone believe it
-- Upgradeable: Every two threads.
* Fake an emotion and make someone believe it
Lore: Astronomy
-- Requirements:
* In three threads, study the night sky and notice the movement of the stars and planets
--Upgradeable: Once every week
* Learn the name of a new heavenly body
Lore: Blacksmithing
-- Requirements:
* Acquire tools from an existing metalsmith
* Receive a lesson from Dragon's Throat Crafter
-- Upgradeable: Every other week
* Make a thread where you craft an item
Lore: Blind Fighting
-- Requirements:
* Participate in two spars with eyes closed
-- Upgradeable: Every other spar
Lore: Blocking
-- Requirements:
* Must block a stealth correctly in the stealth block, so the herd member cannot be stolen
OR
* Must reply to an attempted escape thread, thus blocking the escape
-- Upgradeable:
* Per everyone successful block either on the stealth board or in an escape thread
Lore: Botany
-- Requirements:
* Study ten different plants during the span of a season and learn the conditions for growth, pollination, seed-spreading, Set over a minimum of three threads.
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Discover and study two additional plants
Lore: Camouflage
-- Requirements:
* Hide yourself or an item from sight by blending into the landscape
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
Lore: Carpentry
-- Requirements:
* Learn from a crafter how to cut, split and shape wood
-- Upgradeable: Every week
* Make a thread where you craft an item
Lore: Cartography
-- Requirements:
* Visit a region and explore the landscape
* Measure the time it takes to travel from one location to another and draw it out onto a map
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Visit a new location and draw out a new feature
Lore: Carving
-- Requirements:
* Learn from three crafters how to carve in their respective materials
-- Upgradeable: Every week
* Write a thread where you carve an image
Lore: Climbing
-- Requirements:
* Climb up to the Heavenly Meadow and return back down
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Climb a mountain
Lore: Dance
-- Requirements:
* Create a dance and hold a performance
-- Upgradeable: Every week
* Hold a performance
Lore: Fighting
-- Requirements:
* Participate in one spars
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Participate in one spar
Lore: Food Preservation
-- Requirements:
* In two threads, study the effect of different plants as they wither and find out if they are still edible
-- Upgradeable: Every week
* Preserve a plant and see how long it lasts
Lore: Gardening
-- Requirements:
* Create a small garden and tend to it over two threads
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Manage the plants and harvest useful ingredients
Lore: Geography
-- Requirements:
* Visit three different regions
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Visit another region
or
* Learn about other lands and where they are located
Lore: Geology
-- Requirements:
* Visit three different sorts of terrain
or
* In two threads, study Helovia's Heart and make a connection between magma and mountains
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Reflect over the patterns of creation and destruction of nature
or
* Study rocks and gemstones
Lore: History
-- Requirements:
* Learn the history of a herdland from a Storyteller
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Learn the history of another herdland
or
* Find out the history of another horse
Lore: Herbalism
-- Requirements:
* Learn from a healer five different herbs and their uses
-- Upgradeable: Every other thread
* Discover two new herbs and their uses
Lore: Interrogation
-- Requirements:
* Make a stranger reveal five things about themselves
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Make someone tell you at least two things
Lore: Intimidation
-- Requirements:
* Make someone abandon a discussion by issuing a threat
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Make someone do as you want through intimidation
Lore: Investigation
-- Requirements:
* Discover the truth about two things you wonder about
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Discover the truth about one thing you want to know
Lore: Juggling
-- Requirements:
* Teach yourself how to juggle three rocks
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Juggle
or
* Hold a performance
Lore: Jumping
-- Requirements:
* Jump over three different obstacles of varying height, width and depth
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
Lore: Land Navigation
-- Requirements:
* Learn from someone three different landmarks of a region during night and day
-- Upgradeable:
* Discover a new landmark and make use of them
Lore: Leadership
-- Requirements:
* Take charge over a group of at least three and complete a task
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Make a decision or settle a dispute in a just and fair manner
Lore: Linguistics
-- Requirements:
* Learn about different languages and study how they change
* Create a new system for writing
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Learn something new
or
* Teach someone to speak and write your new language
Lore: Masonry
-- Requirements:
* Acquire tools to cut and shape stone
* Learn from a Mason about different types of stone and their uses
-- Upgradeable: Every week
* Write a thread where you make one item
Lore: Mathematics
-- Requirements:
* Learn from someone the basic tools of counting
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Make use of mathematics to solve a problem
Lore: Medicine
-- Requirements:
* Learn about five different illnesses and how to cure them
-- Upgradeable:
* Learn about a new illness or treatment
or
* Heal a patient
Lore: Memorization
-- Requirements:
* Listen to a story or instructions and learn it by heart
* Re-tell the story or instruction to someone else who also know it
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Remember something or someone
Lore: Negotiation
-- Requirements:
* Make a deal with someone or settle a dispute
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
Lore: Observasion
-- Requirements:
* In two threads, watch someone do something
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
Lore: Organization
-- Requirements:
* Organize an event or a meeting
or
* Create a system for something that is easy to understand
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
Lore: Painting
-- Requirements:
* Learn or discover how to use various plants or minerals to create paint
* Find or make tools to use for painting
-- Upgradeable: Every Thread
* Paint something
Lore: Papermaking
-- Requirements:
* Learn or discover how to create paper or parchment
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Practice or create more paper
Lore: Persuasion
-- Requirements:
* In two threads, persuade someone to do something.
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Persuade someone to do something
Lore: Philosophy
-- Requirements:
* In three threads, Discover and Discuss problems on matters such as existence, values, knowledge, reason, mind and similar
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Argue for or against a subject using rationalism and logic
Lore: Poison
-- Requirements:
* Discover three different poisonus substances and their effects
-- Upgradeable:
* Discover one poisonus substance and it's effect
or
* Create an antidote to a poison
Lore: Reading
-- Requirements:
* Learn the symbols of a language
-- Upgradeable: Every Thread
* Read something
Lore: Running
-- Requirements:
* Run from the northern part of Frostbreath steppe to the southernmost point of Dragon's Throat
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Run across different types of terrain
Lore: Sculpting
-- Requirements:
* Learn how different materials behave when shaped and mixed together
-- Upgradeable: Every week
* Make a thread where you create an item
Lore: Seduction
-- Requirements:
* Use your charm to make someone do something for you
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Make someone like you
Lore: Singing
-- Requirements:
* Learn a song and how to sing it
-- Upgradeable:
* compose and sing a song
or
* Learn a new song
Lore: Stealing
-- Requirements:
* Must have a successful stealth passed
* Must have made a thread to claim stolen prisoner
-- Upgradeable:
* Per every successful stealth passed
Lore: Stealth
-- Requirements:
* Move from one location to another without being spotted
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Make use of shadows and different terrain to remain unseen
Lore: Storytelling
-- Requirements:
* Listen to one story being told
* Tell a story you made up
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Learn of a new story or tell one yourself
Lore: Swimming
-- Requirements:
* Learn how to stay afloat in water
-- Upgradeable:
* Swim
Lore: Teaching
-- Requirements:
* Learn the basics of how to teach someone
or
* Teach someone something they didn't know
-- Upgradeable:
* Teach
Lore: Tracking
-- Requirements:
* Learn the footprints of three different animals
* Follow someone through their footprints
-- Upgradeable: Every other thread
* Learn two new animal prints or track someone
Lore: Trapping
-- Requirements:
* Learn how to set a trap and release it
-- Upgradeable:
* Use the trap
or
* teach someone how to do it
Lore: Weaponry
-- Requirements:
* Learn how to use a weapon
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Practice with weapon or use it in spar
Lore: Writing
-- Requirements:
* Learn how to write using horn or a tool
-- Upgradeable: Every thread
* Write a message and send to someone
or
* Write a poem
FAQ
Who is allowed to participate in this?
Anyone who is a member of the World's Edge!
Outcasts, and members of other herds, are
not allowed to participate (unless they join, of course!)
Do I have to do this?
No, certainly not. However, participating in this will help give you ideas on what direction you can take your character, it will encourage and promote activity, as well as allow your character to move up in the ranks of the herd. Many of the skills are very easy to obtain - you will find that you have completed many of them already just through regular roleplay!
Why do I need skills?
These skills are designed to give your character
more, more knowledge, more abilities that will help them survive the Helovian world. They are also designed to be a way to measure just how much credence and esteem your character has earned alongside its herdmates.
Earning skills will also give your character more chance of being noticed when Herd Leaders are discussing handing out the Seasonal Rewards!
What are skills, and how do I get one?
Skills are described above. They are essentially tokens of experience in different areas, that your character has earned through completion of various tasks.
To earn a skill you need to look up the area you wish to gain and complete the tasks listed under Requirements. This means you need to make your character actively perform the tasks, in order to learn IC.
What does it mean to upgrade a skill, and how do I do that?
Upgrading a skill means that you are learning more about the subject in question. The more you upgrade, the better you become at it.
Upgrading is done by using the skill you have learned in normal threads. This means that you can piece in a skill in any thread you like, and then hand it in for an upgrade once it meets the requirements mentioned in the Skill List.
How do I notify you that my character has earned a new skill? Who keeps track of my skills?
Easy! Just fill in this code, and post a new post with each update you make.
Code:
<B>Character Name:</B>
<B>Skill attempted:</B>
<B>Link to thread/s:</B> <a href=url>link</a>
When you have completed your threads you post a link to all of them and write what skill you have learned and any eventual number of Upgrades. Whit will then update the master list (below), next to your characters name. It is your responsibility to keep us up to date by posting a
new post each time you need something updated here.
Can I ask for help in completing a skill?
Of course! We encourage it. More than one member can complete a skill in one thread. For example, if two members were to work together in extracting 5 pieces of information about a stranger (as described in a Lore above), both members would achieve that skill.
How will skills affect the ranks?
As you gain skills and level up, your character will become eligible to move up the Tiers of ranks. The levels are:
Novice: 1-5 skills. [Eligible for Tier 5 ranks, Acolytes and general Citizens]
Competent: 6-10 skills. [Eligible for Tier 4 ranks]
Expert: 11-20 skills. [Eligible for Tier 3 ranks]
Master: 21+ [Eligible for Tier 2 ranks]
As you become eligible for a rank, you are then
permitted to challenge anyone in that Tier, and receive the benefits of that higher rank, whether that be rank magic, authority, etcetera.
My character is already in a high rank. Do I have to start from the bottom now?
Of course not, we wouldn't do that to you! Just be aware that as others gain skills and go up levels, they receive more recognition from their Leaders and are eligible to challenge you. There is no harm in keeping your skills sharp, after all, so why not work together to better each other?
I have already done many of these things IC. Can I claim past threads?
Yes you may, however, you can only claim a maximum of
5 skills using threads made before this was started.
Can I suggest an idea I have for a new skill?
Yes please! Any and all ideas are welcome! We are very open to seeing how this works, but it requires everyone to participate for it to be successful! Please use the code below when suggesting, to keep with the format:
Code:
Lore: ---
-- Requirements:
* ---
-- Upgradeable: ---
* ---
or
* ---
Also, feel free to suggest ideas for differents ways to both unlock and upgrade existing laws - there are many ways to skin a cat, so to speak, there are many ways to obtain a skill in a particular area, we don't want to make your characters feel limited - rather the opposite!
Got another question? Post it below!